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The opening as it read in 2025
Andrew Gould Bostom (born 1955 or 1956) is an American author, physician and critic of Islam , who is a former associate professor of medicine and researcher at Brown University Medical School . Bostom has authored historical works such as The Legacy of Jihad and The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism , and has also been noted for his criticism of COVID-19 vaccinations and the public health establishment's mitigation efforts and narrative about the pandemic. "Twitter Files: Platform suppressed 'true but inconvenient' medical information during COVID pandemic" .
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Bostom ( MD , MS ) is an American author and Associate Professor of Medicine at Brown University Medical School. Andrew Bostom is the author of The Legacy of Jihad , a work which provides an analysis of Jihad based on an exegesis of translations of Islamic primary sources done by other polemicists on the topic. Bostom is perhaps best known for his compendium of secondary sources on the history and nature of Antisemitism in the Muslim world, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History . Bostom has appeared on FOXNews as a commentator on Islam .
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Bostom ( MD , MS ) is an American author and Associate Professor of Medicine at Brown University Medical School. Bostom is the author of The Legacy of Jihad (2005), a work which provides an analysis of Jihad based on an exegesis of translations of Islamic primary sources done by other writers on the topic, and the editor of 2008 anthology of primary sources and secondary studies on the theme of Muslim antisemitism, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History .In October 2012 Bostom published his third compendium Sharia versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism ( Prometheus Books )."Islam's history of anti-Semitism" , Washington Times , May 20, 2008 ."Sharia versus Freedom" , Andrew Bostom , October 16, 2012 .
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Bostom ( MD , MS ) is an American author who deals frequently with the subject of Islam .
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Bostom is an American author and medical doctor who writes about the subject of Islam .He is a retired associate professor of medicine at Brown University Medical School .
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