Serge Trifkovic a journalist contends Islam is not "a religion of peace" but one of "violence and cruelty." He analyzes Islamic theology and practice set forth by teachings of the prophet Muhammad and the Koran to demonstrate the historical roots of jihad and Islamic militancy. ( )

Professor Serge Trifkovic is a European historian of broad learning, now the foreign affairs editor of Chronicles magazine. He examines the actual teachings of the Imams -- Mohammad wrote nothing -- and draws the historical record of the Rise of Islam from the documents and eye-witness accounts.

It is not pretty. Islam does not restrict such behaviors as theft, deceit, rape, murder, or enslavement; it promotes these as incentives for doing the 'will of Allah'. The name "Allah" is from the local Moon-god (hence the crescent moon as the symbol used today).

The 'golden age' of Islam was parasitic -- built upon the Christian, Manichaean, Jewish, Zoroastrian and Hindu peoples -- and it ended when it 'killed the host'. Arab scientists were often killed by Islamic mobs, and all of them had to hide their writings from various Sheikhs, Caliphs, and Imams.

The number of Hindus massacred in India is larger in sheer numbers than the Holocaust. The number of Jews forced out of Islamic countries is larger than the number of Arabs living in Greater Palestine.

In 1993, Saudi Arabia's supreme religious authority declared that the world is flat.

Like Communism, Islam fosters paternalist dependencies and discourages individual initiatives. It is reliant upon plunder and unearned wealth -- e.g. oil.