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.

Profile and career

Bostom, who is Jewish, although "not particularly religious", grew up in

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, lived in

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most of his life and went to medical school in

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. His attention to Islam was started with the

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, after which he read "everything" ever written by

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. He met Ye'or after a correspondence with

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, and thereafter brought her to Brown to give a guest lecture, following which she became a "very close" mentor to Bostom. He began writing short essays within a year of 9/11, and wrote his first book with the encouragement of

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. A polemicist according to C. Krogt (himself an Islam critic), Bostom authored '' The Legacy of Jihad'' in 2005, a work which provides an analysis of Jihad based on an

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of translations of Islamic

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s done by other writers on the topic, and was the editor of the 2008 anthology of primary sources and secondary studies on the theme of Muslim antisemitism, '' The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism''. In October 2012, Bostom published his third compendium ''Sharia versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism'' ( Prometheus Books). He has published articles in the ''

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'', ''

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'', '' New York Daily News'', '' National Review Online'', ''

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'', Pajamas Media, and ''

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''. Bostom has stated that Islam and Islamism are "synonymous". This view is criticized by professor

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who states that most Muslims in the world are not Islamists. Matt Carr writing in ''

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'', 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". Bostom participated in the 2007 and 2008 international

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conferences, and is regarded as part of the counter-jihad movement.

References

External links

Andrew G. Bostom's web site
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21/05/2008, Hudson Institute, Washington DC, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism16/11/2016, Capitol Hill, Sharia Vs Freedom09/02/2006, Legacy of Jihad
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bostom, Andrew G. Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American non-fiction writers Brown University faculty American critics of Islam Counter-jihad activists