Andrew G. Bostom

Andrew G. Bostom
Bostom in 2016
Born
Andrew Gould Bostom[1]

1955 or 1956 (age 68–69)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSUNY Downstate Health Sciences University (MD)
Occupations
  • Author
  • physician
  • blogger
Years active2002–present
Known forCriticism of Islam
Criticism of COVID-19 vaccinations and mitigation
Websiteandrewbostom.org

Andrew Gould Bostom (born 1955 or 1956)[2] is an American author, physician and critic of Islam, who is a retired[3][4] associate professor of medicine at Brown University Medical School.[5][6] 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.[7][8]

Biography

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Background and writings on Islam

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Bostom grew up in New York City, lived in Queens most of his early life and went to medical school in Brooklyn,[5] receiving his MD from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University College of Medicine in 1990.[2] He is Jewish, although "not particularly religious".[5] He became an associate professor of medicine at Brown University Medical School,[5] where he was an internal medicine specialist from 1997 to 2021.[9] His attention to Islam was started with the September 11 attacks in 2001, after which he read "everything" ever written by Bat Ye'or.[5] He met Ye'or after a correspondence with Daniel Pipes, and thereafter brought her to Brown to give a guest lecture, following which she became a "very close" mentor to Bostom.[5] He began writing short essays within a year of 9/11, and wrote his first book with the encouragement of Ibn Warraq.[5]

Bostom authored The Legacy of Jihad in 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,[10][11][12] 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.[13][14][15] He published his third compendium, Sharia versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism, in 2012.[16] He has additionally written articles in the New York Post, Washington Times, New York Daily News, National Review, American Thinker, Pajamas Media, FrontPage Magazine,[17] Blaze Media,[18] The Brownstone Institute,[19] and published his own blog.[20]

Alyssa A. Lappen in the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism found Bostom's first book "groundbreaking", and the second a "landmark book" that was both "extensive" and "scientific".[21] Bostom's view that Islam and Islamism are "synonymous" has been criticized by professor Bassam Tibi who states that most Muslims in the world are not Islamists.[22] Christopher van der Krogt has described Bostom as a polemicist.[23] Matt Carr writing in Race & Class, 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".[24] Bostom participated in the 2007 and 2008 international counter-jihad conferences,[25][26] and is regarded as part of the counter-jihad movement.[27][28]

On COVID-19

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Bostom has supported and signed the controversial Great Barrington Declaration, which opposed government COVID-19 mitigation measures such as mask wearing and lockdowns, in favor of shielding those considered to be at risk, while those not at risk could resume normal activities.[29] He has criticized COVID-19 vaccinations for the risks of myocarditis,[30] and mitigation measures for college students, arguing with having found zero hospitalizations from 26,000 positive COVID tests on 29 universities,[18] and stating that mask-wearing and quarantine mandates are "predicated on the disproven idea that there is asymptomatic transmission of the virus.", arguing from a lack of support from randomized control trials.[31] In 2021, he testified as an expert witness in epidemiology for litigants who sought to overturn mask requirements for Rhode Island schoolchildren in Superior Court.[32]

Bostom was suspended from Twitter after receiving five strikes for "misinformation", but, according to the Twitter Files, after his attorney contacted Twitter, Twitter's internal audit found that only one of his five violations had been valid.[7] The one tweet still considered to be in violation reportedly cited data that was found to be "legitimate but inconvenient to the public health establishment's narrative about the risks of flu versus Covid in children."[33] His account was later reinstated.[34]

Bibliography

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  • The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims. Prometheus. 2005. ISBN 978-1591026020.
  • The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History. Prometheus. 2008. ISBN 978-1591025542.
  • Sharia Versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism. Prometheus. 2012. ISBN 978-1616146665.
  • The Mufti's Islamic Jew-Hatred: What the Nazis Learned from the 'Muslim Pope'. CreateSpace. 2013. ISBN 978-1493721924.
  • Iran's Final Solution for Israel: The Legacy of Jihad and Shi'ite Islamic Jew-Hatred in Iran. CreateSpace. 2014. ISBN 978-1497362895.

References

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  1. ^ "Dr. Andrew Gould Bostom". Vitals. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Dr. Andrew Bostom, MD". Healthgrades. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
  3. ^ Arora, Rav (September 1, 2022). "Speech Reduction Act". City Journal.
  4. ^ Piper, Greg (January 9, 2023). "Harvard Med Research on mRNA Vax Spike Protein Undermines Fact-Checkers, COVID Censorship". The Tennessee Star.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Johnson, A. (2008). "Islam and Antisemitism: An Interview with Dr Andrew Bostom" (PDF). Democratiya. 1 (15): 145–146.
  6. ^ "The Researcher Brown University Doesn't Want You to Know About". GoLocalProv. October 26, 2021.
  7. ^ a b Mills, Ryan (December 26, 2022). "Twitter Files: Platform Suppressed Valid Information from Medical Experts about Covid-19". National Review.
  8. ^ Foley, Ryan (December 29, 2022). "Twitter Files: Platform suppressed 'true but inconvenient' medical information during COVID pandemic". The Christian Post.
  9. ^ Shelley, Susan (December 31, 2022). "The shameful suppression of pandemic public policy dissidents". Los Angeles Daily News.
  10. ^ Jansen, Johannes J. G. (2008). "The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims". Middle East Quarterly. 15 (1) (Winter 2008 ed.).
  11. ^ Barnett, Dean (January 30, 2006). "All Jihad All the Time". The Weekly Standard. Archived from the original on February 3, 2006.
  12. ^ Israeli, Raphael (September 17, 2005). "Jihad diagnosed". The Jerusalem Post.
  13. ^ Thornton, Bruce S. (August 8, 2008). "Islam Without Apologetics". City Journal.
  14. ^ Ibrahim, Raymond (May 20, 2008). "Islam's history of anti-Semitism". The Washington Times.
  15. ^ Israeli, Raphael (May 15, 2008). "Bostom's legacy". The Jerusalem Post.
  16. ^ Reilly, Robert R. (2013). "Arab Winter: A review of Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy, by Andrew C. McCarthy and Sharia versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism by Andrew G. Bostom". Claremont Review of Books. Vol. XIII, no. 3 (Summer 2013 ed.).
  17. ^ "Andrew G. Bostom". The Jewish Press. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
  18. ^ a b "Brown U. epidemiologist finds zero hospitalizations from 26,000 positive COVID tests for college students". The College Fix. September 8, 2020.
  19. ^ Andrew Bostom Brownstone Institute
  20. ^ Lewis, John David (April 14, 2008). "Defender of Civilization: Andrew Bostom". The Objective Standard.
  21. ^ Lappen, Alyssa A. (2009). "In Their Own Words: Andrew Bostom's The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History". Journal for the Study of Antisemitism. 1 (2): 293–297.
  22. ^ Bassam Tibi (2012). Islamism and Islam. Yale University. ISBN 978-0300160147.
  23. ^ van der Krogt, Christopher (April 2010). "Jihad without apologetics". Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. 21 (2). Routledge: 127–142. doi:10.1080/09596411003619764. ISSN 0959-6410. S2CID 216149118 – via Academia.
  24. ^ Carr, M. (2006). "You are now entering Eurabia". Race & Class. 48: 1–22. doi:10.1177/0306396806066636. S2CID 145303405.
  25. ^ Hannus, Martha (2012). Counterjihadrörelsen– en del av den antimuslimska miljön (in Swedish). Expo Research. pp. 66–69. Archived from the original on November 1, 2022.
  26. ^ "Counter Jihad Brussels: 18-19 October 2007". International Civil Liberties Alliance. 20 October 2007. Archived from the original on 24 October 2022.
  27. ^ Pertwee, Ed (October 2017). 'Green Crescent, Crimson Cross': The Transatlantic 'Counterjihad' and the New Political Theology (PDF). London School of Economics. p. 266.
  28. ^ "Factsheet: Counter-Jihad Movement". Bridge Initiative. Georgetown University. September 17, 2020.
  29. ^ @andrewbostom (October 6, 2020). "Just signed it: Great Barrington Declaration https://gbdeclaration.org" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  30. ^ Wise, Talia (January 11, 2023). "American Heart Association Publishes Study Confirming mRNA Vaccines 'May Contribute to Myocarditis'". CBN News.
  31. ^ Boston, Alexander Pease-Umass (December 1, 2020). "Ivy League epidemiologist says hard data don't convey COVID crisis on campus". The College Fix.
  32. ^ Reynolds, Mark (October 5, 2021). "Arguments over masking, and unmasking, of RI's schoolchildren are heard in Superior Court". The Providence Journal.
  33. ^ Wise, Talia (December 27, 2022). "'Twitter Files' Exposes White House Suppressed Information from Medical Experts About COVID-19". CBN News.
  34. ^ O'Neill, Jesse (December 26, 2022). "Biden admin pushed to bar Twitter users for COVID 'disinformation,' files show". New York Post.
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