Andrew G. Bostom
Andrew G. Bostom is an American author and medical doctor who frequently writes about the subject of Islam. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Brown University Medical School.[1]
Profile and career
Bostom, a Jew, although "not particularly religious", grew up in New York City, lived in Queens most of his life and went to medical school in Brooklyn.[1] His attention to Islam was started with the September 11 attacks, after which he read "everything" ever written by Bat Ye'or.[1] He met Ye'or after a correspondence with Daniel Pipes, and thereafter brought her to Brown to give a guest lecture, following which she became a "very close" mentor to Bostom.[1] He began writing short essays within a year of 9/11, and wrote his first book with the encouragement of Ibn Warraq.[1]
Bostom, a polemicist according to C. Krogt (himself an Islam critic),[2] is the author of The Legacy of Jihad (2005), a work which provides an analysis of Jihad based on an exegesis of translations of Islamic primary sources done by other writers on the topic,[3] and the editor of 2008 anthology of primary sources and secondary studies on the theme of Muslim antisemitism, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History.[4] In October 2012, Bostom published his third compendium Sharia versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism (Prometheus Books). He has published articles in the New York Post, Washington Times, New York Daily News, National Review Online, American Thinker, Pajamas Media, and FrontPage Magazine.[5]
Bostom has stated that Islam and Islamism are "synonymous". This view is criticized by professor Bassam Tibi who states that most Muslims in the world are not Islamists.[6] Matt Carr writing in Race & Class, described Bostom as a "protégé" of Bat Ye’or, and described Bostom's perspective of Islam as reducing to the acronym "‘MPED’ – massacre, pillage, enslavement and deportation".[7] Bostom participated in the 2007 and 2008 international counter-jihad conferences,[8][9] and is regarded as part of the counter-jihad movement.[10]
References
- ^ a b c d e Johnson, A. (2008). "Islam and Antisemitism: An Interview with Dr Andrew Bostom" (PDF). Democratiya (1(15)): 145–146.
- ^ van der Krogt, Christopher (April 2010). "Jihad without apologetics". Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. 21 (2). Routledge: 127–142. doi:10.1080/09596411003619764. ISSN 0959-6410. S2CID 216149118 – via Academia.
- ^ Cosgrove-Mather, Bootie (December 14, 2005), "Going Medieval", CBS News.
- ^ "Islam's history of anti-Semitism", The Washington Times, May 20, 2008.
- ^ "Andrew G. Bostom". The Jewish Press. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
- ^ Bassam Tibi (22 May 2012). Islamism and Islam. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300160147.
- ^ Carr, M. (2006). "You are now entering Eurabia". Race & Class. 48: 1–22. doi:10.1177/0306396806066636. S2CID 145303405.
- ^ Hannus, Martha (2012). COUNTERJIHADRÖRELSEN– en del av den antimuslimska miljön. Expo Research. pp. 66 (5)-69 (8).
- ^ "Counter Jihad Brussels: 18-19 October 2007". International Civil Liberties Alliance. 20 October 2007. Archived from the original on 24 October 2022.
- ^ "Factsheet: COUNTER-JIHAD MOVEMENT". Bridge Initiative. September 17, 2020.
