My buddy Dr. Andrew Bostom, Andy, as many of us who know him personally, call him is interviewed by Jamie Glazov in this FrontPage Magazine article about the subject of his latest book: “The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism.” Andy’s first volume, ‘The Legacy of Jihad’ set a standard for historiographic analysis of the Islamic Canon and the 1,400 years of Islamist tyranny in the world. This volume focuses on the core of Islamic hatred directed at Jews. Why? Because, as we have written in other posts, Jews were among the first to reject Muhammed, as the Prophet of Allah. They mocked him, and for that they ultimately paid the price in Arabia, driven out from the Oasis towns of Mecca and Medina, men slaughtered, their women raped and children enslaved. A century later, Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims were subjugated and forced to pay the jizya- poll tax or hush money so they could survive as fourth class residents. Arabia was cleansed of Jews, and Muslims went on to castigate them in the Qu’ran, the Hadiths, the alleged sayings and Sira or biography of Mohammed. Today, Islamic anti-Semitism is at the core of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The Arabs and Islamists simply want Jews gone from their midst. Now Ahmadinejad would like to accomplish this by proxy terrorist armies like Hezbollah or Hamas and failing that by perpetrating a nuclear holocaust, if he gets his way. In this interview Bostom lays out the contents of this book and the basic theme that permeates much of the original information and the bridge discussions that link these important documents.

Diana West had this to say about my buddy Andy in a TownHall.com article published today about the importance of Andy’s body of important work:

On Sept. 11, 2001, Andrew Bostom, an academic research physician at Rhode Island Hospital, did what many outraged and shocked Americans did. On his way home from work, he stopped at a bookstore and bought a book about Islam.

As he recalls, it was something by Karen Armstrong, who, he didn’t know at the time, is famous — infamous — for being a serial apologist for Islam. Reading parts of the book aloud that same night to his wife, also an academic, as they went about accounting for friends and family in their native New York City, he found the book “treacley” and superficial, lacking not only the scholarly heft he was used to in scientific research, but also a connection to unfolding events. Even a more extensive survey of readily available works on Islam yielded similar platitudes rooted less in Islamic theology and history than in the contemporary political dictates of multiculturalism. The scientist in him wanted to know more.

Thus marked the unexpected beginning of a rigorous and illuminating academic odyssey deep into the study of Islam — “this depressing obsession of mine,” as Bostom calls it. It has also acquainted the medical researcher with a global fraternity of Islamic scholars, which includes the two he calls his mentors: the Egyptian-born historian of dhimmitude, Bat Ye’or, and the Pakistani-born scholar of Islam and the West, Ibn Warraq.

So far, his studies have resulted in two meticulously researched and trail-blazing tomes of his own: “The Legacy of Jihad,” published in 2005, and “The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism,” which has just come out, garnering enthusiastic advance comment from academics (”a ground breaking event” said Steven T. Katz, director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University), historians (”It is magnificent,” said Martin Gilbert, official biographer of Winston Churchill), and experts (”One of the most important books of our time,” said Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author, “Infidel”).

Andy is currently on a book tour, sandwiched in between his professional medical research work.

On June 16th and 17th he will be in California. For those of you in the Los Angeles vicinity you will have two opportunities to hear him and perhaps pick up a copy of his latest book for him to autograph it.

On Monday, June 16th, Bostom will be speaking at the David Horowitz Freedom Center
Jihad Lecture Series 7:00 p.m. - Registration & reception 7:30 p.m. - Speech / Q&A / Booksigning

Luxe Hotel
11461 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90049

Speaker Series Members - No Charge
Non-members/Guests - $40

To Register:
Contact Stephanie Knudson at
stephanie@horowitzfreedomcenter.org or call (818) 849-3470 x 209.