Islam Didn't Change. The West Surrendered.

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:01]Ibrahim joins us from Budapest. Raymond, I know you're just back from Oxford. Do me a favor and just walk through your background and and all three of the books. One of them is out currently. And I want as many people as possible to buy, plus the other two. They're they're fantastic and they kind they kind of form a trilogy.

[00:00:20]Thank you very much, Steve. Yeah, to understand what we're talking about today, Islam and the West and all its different iterations, most recently what's happening with Iran, I've always believed that there's been a complete vacuum in your average American and Westerner in general's knowledge of history. And that's why so much of what we believe and accept and let get away it happens because we don't understand the full context of it. And we just think it's about, oh, you know, people people are being multicultural and open-minded and not bigoted towards Muslims, for example.

[00:00:54]But if you really look into the history, which is what I've been doing for about 25 years now, actually, including in those three books, which all summarize, if you look at the history, you'll understand that this battle has been going on from day one, literally. And it hasn't really changed in its manifestation, at least not from the Muslim side. The Muslims are still preaching jihad amongst each other.

[00:01:16]They're still practicing taqiyya amongst the infidel. And they're still engaged in all the various forms of jihad which they've articulated. Jihad, remember, just means to struggle. And sure, its primary expression historically has been physical military struggle, but it also has all these different forms which we're seeing now, including the baby jihad, which is a demographic overwhelming of the West, for example.

[00:01:41]The only discontinuity is from the Western side. So, whereas Muslims today are really, you know, lock, stock, and barrel with their their heritage, which comes out in all of these books, it's the West, and especially the Christians, who've completely lost touch with that long history.

[00:01:59]So in these books we will see for example in Sword and Scimitar, we look at this long history. That's that's the first book which comes out in 2018 came out in 2018. I really focus on eight pivotal battles that changed the world forever and they were between Christians and Muslims.

[00:02:14]And these battles you know, the first one or two saw the conquest of essentially three-quarters of what was once the Christian world which very few Westerners still understand at this point. They still think that countries like Egypt and Syria and Turkey and North Africa were just always Islamic somehow. They don't understand that they were actually more Christian than Europe. And they were violently annexed and so that there is a lesson that this could happen. There's a famous quote I always talk about from Theodore Teddy Roosevelt where he talks about if Christians did not fight constantly and he mentions virtually every century against the Muslims, they would have been eliminated completely.

[00:02:55]So I think that's what people are forgetting. So to from my vantage point or anyone who reads these books, what you'll see is that the Muslims have been doing what they're what they've been doing from day one.

[00:03:07]Nothing has changed. What has changed is the Western response. Okay, and that actually and the perfect you know, that's a good segue for my second book Defenders of the West the Christian heroes who stood against Islam where I look at another eight men this time not battles but actual men to see what drove them Christians Europeans against Islam. And you know, these these were guys who were really pious. It's unfortunate because they get dismissed as all these weren't true Christians probably probably because they're all Catholic because this is the pre-modern medieval era.

[00:03:39]So they had to of course be Catholic and some are Orthodox. But you know, they had no qualms about fighting fire with fire. They understood that you know, that they were not what I what I refer to as doormat Christians. They were quite the opposite. They were immensely militant, but they were also immensely pious and that comes up to the third book, the most recent one that just came out in November, the two swords of Christ, which deals with the military orders. And these were the creme de la creme of the defenders. These were men who were essentially monks who were engaged in such a rigorous form of essentially monasticism and at the same time there were ferocious warriors.

[00:04:17]Okay, so a very strange hybrid for the Western especially Christian minds to comprehend today, but they did it actually from scripture. So the title of the book, two swords of Christ, was one of the verses that they always would talk about that essentially justified their rationale. And that's the verse where in Luke Christ Jesus says sell your garment, buy a sword and they say look look Lord here are two swords and he says that is enough. That of course means absolutely nothing today to the doormat Christian mentality. It's just you know, more fuzzy talk. But to medieval Christians, what it really meant is there's there's two forms of warfare that Christians are engaged in.

[00:04:55]One of course is against spiritual forces and one is against secular material forces, humans. Okay, and both need a sword to be resisted. So that was the mentality of pre-modern Europe and that so now bringing it all forward to today and coalescing all that has been jettisoned, Christians as I argue have adopted the sort of doormat Christianity as I call it which means they believe their faith begins and ends with doing nothing but being passive, nice, forgiving, tolerant and turning the other cheek. All of which by the way are very easy. Those are a lot easier to do than to actually stand up with a sword like their predecessors did. Um but that's also why the Jihad after being stopped and on the retreat, basically that's what the colonial era was. This was finally the rise of a confident West and the demise of Islam. Um now we are it's reversing because the West has lost confidence, has lost the ability to resist, has lost its Christian rationale for just war essentially, and [snorts] Islam is still continuing to do what it did from day one.

[00:06:02]Raymond, hang on for [clears throat] 1 second. I'll get into why you were invited. Well, how did Oxford invite you? Cuz I got a couple of minutes I want to play the play it in its entirety. How did Oxford invite you?

[00:06:14]I'll I'm a currently a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute in Hungary and this particular event was sort of a joint conference by um uh it's the the Pusey House of Oxford as well as the Danube Institute. Um so it was in that context and the event itself Christian revival was definitely applicable to my themes.

[00:06:36]Bring back the fire.

[00:06:40]Bring back the Bring back the fire and the righteous name.