We welcome back author and scholar Raymond Ibrahim to set the record straight on the Crusades and the spread of Islam through his new book, Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam. Why are stories of Christian heroism explained away, and is such heroism still possible today?

• Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam
  
• Today in History: Peasant Crusaders, Islamic Terrorists, and the Church Bells of Noon
  
• Lepanto - G.K. Chesterton
  
• What Catholics Need to Know About Islam