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Why I Am Not a Muslim Kindle Edition

by Ibn Warraq (Author)

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Those who practice the Muslim faith have resisted examinations of their religion. They are extremely guarded about their religion, and what they consider blasphemous acts by skeptical Muslims and non-Muslims alike has only served to pique the world's curiosity. This critical examination reveals an unflattering picture of the faith and its practitioners. Nevertheless, it is the truth, something that has either been deliberately concealed by modern scholars or buried in obscure journals accessible only to a select few.

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File Size: 1413 KB
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Publisher: Prometheus Books; Reprint edition (September 30, 2010)
Publication Date: September 30, 2010
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Language: English
ASIN: B00C4B2JRA
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More relevant today than when it was written

January 4, 2015

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Ibn Warraq’s book has something to offend every theist. It is meticulously researched, and asks questions more relevant than when the book was written some 20 years ago.

While Warraq grapples for answers to the fatwa on Salman Rushdie, more horrific events in recent times have overtaken this issue.
Why are our leaders still scratching their heads and asking “why” Europe is fast becoming a large Islamic ghetto? Why are we questioning whether the Islamic State on a murderous rampage across the Middle East has anything to do with Islam? The answers are in this book.

My own interest in Islam was kindled 10 years ago when I narrowly missed becoming collateral damage in the jihad bombing of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta in September 2004. At the time I could not understand why the nice people amongst whom I had lived for more than a decade would do such a thing.

“Why I am not a Muslim” is the most detailed dissection of the scourge that is the Killer Cult. Warraq examines all aspects of Islam from origins to present day in painstaking detail. It is the most comprehensive book on the subject of Islam and the fate of the modern world that I have read.

It should be compulsory reading for every school student and political leader in the free world, before it is too late.

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Charles R. McCormick, MD

Compelling and very well documented

November 27, 2015

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After reading Edward Said's book, "Orientalism", this was a breath of fresh air. I found this title in the bibliography of Sam Harris' published dialogue on tolerance in Islam. Because "Why I Am Not a Muslim" is an overt polemic against Islam and Middle Eastern Islamic culture, Ibn Warraq is a pen-name used to avoid a potentially fatal fatwa such as that which threatened Salman Rushdie for many years.

The contents of the book are organized in a comprehensible fashion and draw extensively on documented history. Warraq makes no attempt to pull any punches and his agenda is absolutely clear, so the reader can reasonably assume that in many instances there will be alternative views held by those with different agendas. The shear mass of the historical data presented was both impressive and at times bordering on the tedious. The bottom line is that Warraq shows how Islam as a religio-cultural political system with its many national permutations has put the brakes on Islamic societal progress in a great many ways in the Middle East and has ultimately brought it into conflict with the western world. If what is presented in the book is even half right, I can see that any person who accepts the Koranic premise that what is written therein is the absolute and final word of God will crash violently into the beliefs and practices of Westerners, and this explains a lot of the intolerant craziness we see in the Middle East today. This also explains the relative dearth of institutes of higher learning in the Middle East, the significant absence of scientific innovation and the near absence of literary critique such as Rushdie's "Satanic Verses".

I think it would be a mistake to take this book as the complete and simplistic truth about Islam. That being said, what I have learned from reading it has helped me a great deal in understanding the driving forces that have lead to the insanity going on in the war-torn Middle East. I heartily recommend it to the person who is interested, as I am, in gaining an understanding of the roots of the turmoil we experience in our world today.

Charles R. McCormick, MD

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California Marmot

Much-needed, enclycopedic in scope and thorough

April 22, 2015

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There's really no other book like this (about Islam, anyway). The only reason for giving less than one star is that--and this is by the author's own admission--the book is more like a lengthy annotated bibliography than a book. This isn't necessarily bad; it just means it's more like a thick reference book (and a very thorough one) than a fun and easy to read book. He wrote it not because he thought he could write the most jazzy and thrilling book that everyone would find a breeze to read, but because it needed to be done, and because he cared, and because he wanted to be careful and thorough and accurate. And he did such a great job of accomplishing this that I think this will be an essential secularist reading for years to come. Reading it, I learned SO many details about the Quran and hadiths, Islam and history that I did know anything about before, even as a well-read secularist and someone who had read the Quran (but none of the hadiths; it still confuses me how that works, in fact).

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When I bought this book, judging from the title I thought it would be mostly a personal testimonial. I am pleased to report that it is much better than I expected, being a scholarly critique of the history and theology of Islam, from a person who was born a Muslim. Contrary to some reviewers, I did not find it difficult or too long. Indeed, I was fascinating by the entire, informative book.

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