*A Book Review: The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, edited by Andrew G. Bostom

Bostom’s
new book shreds two myths that have become almost as entrenched among
the media/academic elite as man-made global warming:  that Islamic
anti-Semitism is a recent phenomenon learned from the Nazis and that
Islam is a religion tolerant of minorities, with Jews living safely
under Islam for many centuries, never more idyllically than during the
Golden Age of Muslim Spain.

Like Bostom’s earlier companion
volume "The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of
Non-Muslims", this is effectively two books: a lengthy overview, by
Bostom, followed by the “proof-texts:” relevant sections of the Koran,
the hadith (its authoritative exegesis) and the sira
(early biographical writing on Mohammed);  the statements of more
recent key Islamic jurists; and essays, some by experts, many of them
first hand, on the actual experience of minorities under Islam at
different times and places.