Journalist – Historian – Speaker
Trump likes to compare ISIS to medieval times. Here’s a transcript of the latest debate, and some video. COOPER: You bragged that you have sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that? TRUMP: No, I didn’t say that at all. I don’t think you understood what was — this was locker room talk. I’m not proud …
This Facebook post from Mosul Eye, a source that I’m told has some track record of reliability, shows a video of disabled children (just hanging out, really), then claims the following: Through monitoring and following the death incidents of children with Down’s Syndrome and congenital deformities, we were able to learn that the Shar’i Board …
Thomas Madden, one of my mentors, has a new piece in the Washington Post on ISIS and the Crusades. In it, he rehearses the ways in which the memory of the Crusades was carried by Western European people into the colonial era and thus brought the European ideas about the Crusades into the Islamic world. Modern …