But as time went on and the level of familiarity with the actual teaching and practice of Islam grew in the West, the inherited models became harder to sustain. ... If Islam was seen as the Other of an orthodox and traditional Christian West, this also meant that Western..…

The Islamic State group has lost its caliphate Syria and Iraq, and in the forbidding mountains of northeastern Afghanistan the group is expanding its footprint, recruiting new fighters and plotting attacks in United States and other Western countries. ..…

But it was the spread of Islam that brought Arabic names to West Africa. ..…