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"Few westerners know more about Islam and jihad than Robert Spencer. Fewer still write with greater honesty, or more fearlessly. A concise but essential account of a millennium-old war on human freedom and dignity." -- David Pietrusza, author of "Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series" and "1920: The Year of Six Presidents"
"Robert Spencer is one of my heroes. He has once again produced an invaluable and much-needed book. Want to read the truth about Islam? Read this book. It depicts the terrible fate of the hundreds of millions of men, women, and children who, from the 7th century until today, were massacred or enslaved by Islam. It is a fate that awaits us all if we are not vigilant." -- Geert Wilders, member of Parliament in the Netherlands and leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV)
"From the first Arab-Islamic empire of the mid-seventh century to the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the story of Islam has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less importantly, of never quiescent imperialist dreams. In this tour de force, Robert Spencer narrates the transformation of the concept of jihad, 'exertion in the path of Allah,' from a rallying cry from the prophet Muhammad's followers into a supreme religious duty and the primary vehicle for the expansion of Islam throughout the ages. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the roots of the Manichean struggle between East and West and the nature of the threat confronted by the West today." -- Efraim Karsh, author of Islamic Imperialism: A History
"Spencer argues, in brief, 'There has always been, with virtually no interruption, jihad.' Painstakingly, he documents in this important study how aggressive war on behalf of Islam has, for fourteen centuries and still now, befouled Muslim life. He hopes his study will awaken potential victims of jihad, but will they—will we—listen to his warning? Much hangs in the balance." -- Daniel Pipes, president, Middle east forum and author of Slave Soldiers and Islam: The Genesis of a Military System
"Robert Spencer, one of our foremost analysts of Islamic jihad, has now written a historical survey of the doctrine and practice of Islamic sanctified violence. With crystal clarity and rigorous argument, he relentlessly marshals the facts that put the lie to the sophistries of apologists and the delusions of Western appeasers. To fight the enemy we must know the enemy, and Robert Spencer's page-turner is the place to start." -- Bruce Thornton, Research Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and Professor of Classics ad Humanities at the California State University
"The most important book you will read about the fourteen-hundred-year war that Islamic jihadists have waged on us. Spencer's brilliant book is also the only book you can read on this history, since appeasers of Islamic bigotry and bloodthirstiness have worked so diligently to suppress it." -- David Horowitz, founding president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and author of Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey
"For those who still think—and alas, there remain many—that Islamic Terrorism has emerged only in the last forty years or so, Robert Spencer's carefully researched work on Jihad from the beginning of Muhammad's political and prophetical career to the acts of terrorism of September 11, 2001, will be a salutary shock. It will not be at all easy to refute Spencer's account since he, for the first three Islamic centuries, relies almost entirely on the Arabic sources, that Muslim historians and scholars, such as Ibn Ishaq, Al-Tabari, Ibn Sa'd, Bukhari, Tirmidhi, and Muslim, who paint a grim picture of the early Islamic conquests. For the later Middle Ages, Spencer has also diligently consulted the primary sources where possible and has relied upon recognized modern scholars such as Ignaz Goldziher, Bernard Lewis, Bat Ye'or, and Steven Runciman, among others. Spanning centuries and continents, from the seventh to the twentieth century, from Spain to India, Spencer takes us on a tour of the global jihad that is Islamic history. Along the way, he shatters many myths, such as the myth of the Golden Age of Spain, a putative period of ecumenical harmony, a kind of perpetual medieval Woodstock Summer of love. He also puts the Crusades into perspective and reminds us that the Crusades were a belated response to years and years of jihad, and persecution of Christians. Spencer brings the story up to modern times, not forgetting the Armenian genocides perpeturated by the Turks between 1915 and 1923.
Robert Spencer's work is essential reading for all of us, for all those who want to defend our values from the relentless jihad that has not ceased for fourteen centuries. We must heed Spencer's final words, if we are to succeed in saving Western Civilization:
'In the twenty-first century, the leaders of Europe, as well as many in North America, having brought almost certain doom on their countries no less unmistakable than that which befell Constantinople on May 29, 1453. Yet instead of taking responsibility for what they have done, they have stayed their course, and would have denounced the doomed Emperor Constantine XI, like his predecessor, Manuel II, as "Islamophobic," and his exhortation to defend Constantinople to the death as "militaristic" and "xenophobic." In the twenty-first century, as the 1,400-year Islamic jihad against the free world continued to advance, the best allies the warriors of jihad were the very people they had in their sights.'" -- Ibn Warraq, author of "The Origins of the Koran" and "The Quest for the Historical Muhammad"
"Jihad is not mere terrorism. Ironic as it may seem, that is Western wishful thinking. From its inception, as Robert Spencer incontestably illustrates, jihad has been the outward, aggressive expression of a conquest ideology. The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS is as relentless in relating unvarnished truth as is the phenomenon it tracks in seeking domination—and never being satisfied with less, however long it takes. Those who care to preserve Western rationalism, civil liberties, and free societies must confront this history, and its implications, with eyes opened." -- Andrew C. McCarthy, bestselling author, former federal prosecutor, and National Review contributing editor
"In a time of cowardice and deliberate falsehood, the courageous and scholarly exposure of the greatest challenges and dangers of our time by Robert Spencer is priceless." -- Bat Ye'or, author of The Dhimmi and The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam --This text refers to the hardcover edition.
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- ASIN : B07D6X3TRT
- Publisher : Bombardier Books (August 7, 2018)
- Publication date : August 7, 2018
- Language: : English
- File size : 2071 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
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- Print length : 420 pages
- Lending : Enabled
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Spencer demonstrates clearly and convincingly that today's Islamist, militant-jihad attacks throughout the world derive their suicide-bombing advocacy based not on the jihadists' aberrant reading of Islamic texts, but are indeed well-founded on the clear teachings and practices of Islam's patron saint: The Prophet Muhammad -- Islam's "The Perfect Man" [al-Insam al-Kamil].
Spencer's new book provides an expansive, detailed look at the 1,400-year-long history of Islam's jihad [militant struggle] war against the entire non-Muslim world -- which didn't stop upon his death [c. 632 AD]. As Spencer expertly shows, Muhammad's followers used his jihad teachings to continue their warfare-based conquests against not just their local Arabian neighbors, but in their ever-expanding, Scimitar-sword slicing, proselytizing military campaigns throughout the Middle East, Northern Africa, northward into the Iberian Peninsula and France, and later eastward and eventually subjugating Persia and India. Spencer espouses that this Islamic-bred terrorism continues unabated today.
A brief look at some of the sub-titles to the various chapters highlight Muhammad's anti-Jew proclivities:
"Killing Muhammad's Enemies"
"Muhammad Against the Jews"
"Divine Terror Against the Jews"
"Massacring the Jews"
Least one think that Muhammad's territorial conquests were just against the Arabian Jews, other sub-titles reveal the true worldwide terrorism of the enslaving Mohammedians:
"Prophecy of Conquest" (by Muslims)
"Jihad Against the Christians"
"Calling the World to Islam"
Many of Spencer's earlier books analyzed the Quran and the ahadith to better understand the theological dreams of Muhammad, and how they led to his development of a united religious-political, polis-state: the 'Daesh' or 'Dawla' for the Muslim-domineering community: so beloved by ISIl/ISIS during the 2010s decade.
Spencer reveals that few Westerners are aware that the on-going India/Pakistan-Kashmir dispute evolved from the Muslim conquest of India, and Islam's superior-attitude theology prevented Muslims from embracing a "Greater India" -- a supremist thought that led many Muslims to demand that the "Islamic Republic of Pakistan" be separated from India in 1947.
Besides being merely a historical review of past battles, military campaigns and conquests by marauding Muslim soldiers, Spencer's latest book reviews today's current jihadist, militant attacks throughout Europe, Asia, Latin and North America. No need the recount all of the recent terrorist attacks, as they are well represented in Chapter Nine: "Resurgence."
Sadly, Spencer notes in his concluding chapter "The West Loses the Will to Live" how many of the "politically correct" liberal politicians have chosen to ignore the burgeoning Islamic threat, as sustained by the recent waves of Muslim immigrants seeking the welfare-largesse in European countries - "refugees" who espouse their Islamic supremacy of seeking to impose their restrictive Islamic beliefs rather than assimilating into the more progressive and permissive Western civilization.
A thought-provoking book, a very vital book in revealing that the current Islamic-jihad threat is based on firm, Muhammadian theological principles.
He says this one is the third in a kind of trilogy: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades, The Truth about Muhammad, and this current book.
This is history we're never taught in our western leftist schools and universities. All we hear is how mean ol' European Christians enslaved the world and were the only people to ever enacted slavery or made war. Pure BS. European history is not without blemish and it has its sins, but it has nothing on Islam.
Mr. Spencer shows the constant apologies for Islam and the mythical Golden Age are just that...mythical and unwarranted
When the first Islamic Arabs swarmed out of Arabia like locust, they conquered an area twice the size of the Roman Empire in less than 130 years. It took the Roman Empire 800 years to amass their empire, but the Umayyad Caliphate extended from Spain to India in less than 130 years. Within 25 years of Muhammad's death, Islam had conquered an area from what is now Tunisia to Pakistan and up to Georgia...25 YEARS!!!!. How many have even heard of it?.
This is fascinating, outstanding and unprecedented, yet all we hear is how the German barbarians overrun and destroyed classical civilization............MORE BULLCRAP!!!. Get this book and learn the truth.
Mr. Spencer goes into detail about a litany of battles most have never heard of, and what it was like to live under these various caliphates. What's even better, he uses Muslim sources.
He goes into Saladin...was he the magnanimous warrior conventional history has made him out to be?.
He explains why the Crusades were really waged and why we should not be continually apologizing for them like self-loathing drips.
Did you know the first foreign war the young United States was engaged in after the Revolution was with Islamic Barbary pirates in Morocco, Algiers, and Libya?.
Did you know the Badge of Shame worn by Jews during WWII did not originate with the Nazis?.
How about al-Andalus, Muslim Spain we are told was a multi-cultural paradise?.
If it was such a paradise, then why did the Spanish spend nearly 800 years trying to expel them from Spain.
If you like historical truth and are fed up with the leftist pablum spoon fed us by self-loathing Western indoctrination camps known as public schools and colleges, then get this book.
The most demented, sadistic mind could not fabricate the horrors revealed.
Yet it is as clinical and passionless as an autopsy report in a criminal trial.
The documentation trail back to historic sources for every fact, is as rigorous and exhaustive as any work of history to come out of an ivy league University Press; and I have read a few.
This book was a generation overdue.
It will be dismissed as hate speech.
Because at no time in human history has the truth been so dangerous, or the stakes so high, or those opposed to truth so entrenched and organized and determined.
They sense the End Game, and this book stands in their way.
Read this book. Ignorance on this issue is no longer an option for any free people.
This is not a book of hyperbole, or political bias, or a 'narrative'.
It is simply a brutal revelation of historical fact that most have turned away from for its sheer horror.
Until now.
After carefully studying my way [I ran down many of the references provided] through this book I highly recommend it to anyone wishing to have a fully referenced concise account of the history of jihad.
The time is late ... wake up America!!
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