Samuel Huntington?  Montgomery Watt?  Charles Emmanuel Dufourcq? Andrew Bostom?  Are you looking for the most perspicacious source on historical Islam?  Forget about ‘em.  Turn to Max and Dave Fleischer, two Manhattan cartoonists from the 1930's and their monumental analysis of The Jihad:Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (1937)Denied a place at the Disney table (it was reputed that Signor Disney cared little for followers of the Mosaic Persuasion), the Frères Fleischer started King Features Syndicate during the depression, featuring the intrepid mariner who would prove to be Mickey Mouse's chief rival for the next two decades.  Popeye the Sailor Man was born to Midwesterner Elzie Segar (pronounced like the proverbial 5 cent CEE-gar) in the late 1920's.  His entourage, brilliantly assembled to resemble the eccentricities that were the stuff of an American cultural stew that consisted of an anorexic girlfriend, a mooching,...(Read Full Post)