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Article: House of War.(The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims)(Book Review)
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- December 31, 2005
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The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims, edited by Andrew G. Bostom (Prometheus, 759 pp., $28)
HISTORIAN Robert Conquest recently pondered why so many of his fellow scholars had been for so long incapable of grasping the true nature of the Soviet regime. He concluded by blaming "a clerisy that has hardly heard of opinions other than those appearing to be . . . the acceptable expression of concern for humanity" and that has demonstrated "a strong tendency to silence those who disagree with one or another of the accepted beliefs."
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