Protocol 30: Infidel Awareness Month With Guest Richard Landes

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Historian Richard Landes joins Judah and Guy for a conversation that reframes the last twenty five years of Western weakness in the face of jihad (00:13). Landes, a medievalist turned scholar of millennial movements, lays out the caliphater ideology driving the push to convert Dar al Harb into Dar al Islam, and the two hosts dig into why messaging on the right has failed to keep pace (02:39). The conversation turns to Islamophobia as a manufactured term built to shield the religion most in need of scrutiny from any scrutiny at all, and to the insecurity underneath religious supremacism (04:57). Landes explains the origin of his term Pollywood and the case for reforming legacy media rather…