The Tragedy of Islam: Failure and Excuses

Islam fails both individuals and societies, yet non-Muslims keep making excuses for it.

As a set of ideas for the ordering of the lives of individuals and societies, Islam has proven to be a singular failure. Aside from the accident of geology that has provided them with oil wealth, Islamic states are generally economic basket cases and serial violators of human rights. All too many converts to Islam end up turning to terrorism.

Yet in the face of these truths, which historian and Islam expe...