Hi, everybody. This is God's Ad for the Sad Truth. It's been a while since my last chat on the show because I've been traveling extensively. But today I have a guest that I've known of him for many years. And unfortunately, I had yet to invite him, but I have corrected this grave error by inviting Raymond Ibrahim on this show. How are you doing, sir?

Hello, Gad. Good to be with you. I look forward to our conversation because I think I told you

you're one of the most people who people always tell me I should talk with you. So I think there's a lot

of syncretism going on between us. Exactly. So I'm going to just introduce you first. Then I'm going to break

out some Arabic so that people know that you can't delegitimize us because we don't speak

Arabic and we're not from the region. We don't understand true Islam and so on. So you are the

Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, they do great work,

and the Judith Friedman Rosen Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

You have many books written.

I'll start with your most recent ones and work backwards.

You have a forthcoming book, The Two Swords of Christ, Five Centuries of War between Islam and

the Warrior Monks of Christendom,

coming in November, yes?

Correct.

Right?

Then we've got in 2022 Defenders of the West, the Christian heroes who stood against Islam.

And in 2018, sword and scimitar, which is a type of sword, 14 centuries of war between Islam and the West. Then in 2013,

crucified again, exposing Islam's new war on Christians, 2007, the Al-Qaeda reader. And then your

master's thesis, and there's actually a link between your master's thesis and yours truly,

you'll know in a second why

the battle of yarmouk which was a very important battle in this in early islam in the seventh century

an assessment of the immediate factors behind the Islamic conquests is there anything you'd like to add to this

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