““In a major encyclopedia one reads phrases such as: ‘Islam expanded in the eighth or ninth centuries…’; ‘This or that country passed into Muslim hands…’ But care is taken not to say how Islam expanded, how countries ‘passed into (Muslim) hands.’ Indeed, it would seem as if events happened by themselves, through a miraculous or amicable operation…Regarding this expansion, little is said about Jihad. And yet it all happened through war!” (The Legacy of Jihad, Prometheus Books, 2005).””