The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam - Robert Spencer (3 of 4)

Robert Spencer is a scholar of Islamic history, theology, and law. He is the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of eight books on Islam and jihad. Spencer is a weekly columnist for Human Events and the website Front-Page Magazine, and has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the U.S. intelligence community.

Robert Spencer is the author of two New York Times bestsellers: The Truth about Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion (Regnery) and The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Islam (and the Crusades) (Regnery), as well as four other books on Islam and terrorism, including Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions about the World's Fastest Growing Faith (Encounter), and Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West (Regnery), as well as eight monographs and hundreds of articles. He lives in a secure, undisclosed location.

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FP: Throughout my life in academia, myriad volumes have passed before me that contained criticisms of Christianity, within which there were various mocking and ridiculing portrayals of its tenets and values etc. Your book doesnt mock anything, but just quotes Islamic sources and lets them speak for themselves. I think that it would be essential to have this book as a must-read in the curriculum for every introductory course for first-year students in the Arts in university. Why is it that it is a given that this would never happen? For instance, in many courses where the topic of 9/11 is raised, all kinds of readings are given out that blame the U.S. for being the victim in this terrorist attack. Why wouldnt they at least offer this book as an alternative explanation?

It is a given, of course, that this book would never make it on any curricula readings in academia, even in courses on Islam which profess to give all sides of the picture. Why?

Robert Spencer: Because the academic establishment the Middle East Studies Association is not interested in really giving all sides of the picture. Since the 1970s it has been dominated by Edward Saids view that any critical look at Islam or the Muslim world by Westerners was ipso facto racist and imperialist. This idea has coalesced nicely, of course, with the multiculturalist dogma that the Judeo-Christian West is responsible for all the evils in the world, and that those outside of and set against Western civilization can only be victims, never perpetrators...

Also, it is not unheard-of for outright Islamic apologists to occupy academic positions in American universities, and to present Islamic proselytizing material in academic settings. This is in part a manifestation of the general American ignorance of Islam. Universities hire Muslim professors in order to teach about Islam and the Middle East, and the other professors know so little about the subject that they cannot perform adequate peer review even if their world view would allow them to do so in the first place. The academic establishment has become so politicized that many professors of Middle East Studies are presenting as fact highly tendentious and apologetically motivated assertions about Islamic teachings and history, and their peers either dont know or dont care, or both.

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[westernvaluesdefense]

Islam =TERRORISM. QURAN= THE BOOK OF ISLAMONAZISM

Sura (8:12) - "I will cast TERROR ( terror is mentioned many times in the quran) into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them" STRIKE OFF THEIR HEADS MEANS BEHEAD !!!

Sura (3:151) - "Soon shall We cast TERROR into the hearts of the Unbelievers, for that they joined companions with Allah, for which He had sent no authority".

[CivilusDefendus]

There is one islam, that of the koran, sira and hadith (the islamic trilogy). Islam and sharia condemn liberty (speech, religion, expression), forbid equality (men-women, muslims-others) and call for conversions, subjugation or jihad. Do not fall victim to apology, appeasement, accomodation or hopeful assimilation. Read broadly of history (avoiding apologist and dhimmis) and read the trilogy. Do not hold opinions you cannot justify about islam. To do so invites dhimmitude and disaster.

[MilSimGuy]

@MilSimGuy *taken for a ride

[MilSimGuy]

@happpiness12 Breivik did what he did because he'd be shouted down for his views, the Politically correct doctrine imposed in Norway means there's no public discussion about the threat of Islam, when you can't be heard - make a bang! Which is what he did.

It saddens me that you being Swedish, would defend Islam in such a way, I have been to and love Sweden, but you people are been taking a ride by Muslims. Want to see some hatred? Go into Malmö wearing a kippah - then run from the Muslim mob.

[pdxeddie1111]

@lovellespice In Louis Lamour's book the "walking Drum" the hero could get away with saying what he liked in Christian countries simply by stating he was a pagan and therefore not a heretic. When he traveled into Muslim countries he bought a prayer rug. Now Louis didnt have a bone to pick with Muslims as far as I know but it's funny that his character felt he needed to pretend to be a believer in those countries. collectivists im guessing

[lovellespice]

@pdxeddie1111 there are two classes of atheists, the individualist and the collectivist.. guess which one supports totalitarianism thereby allying themselves with islam?

[svartekaptenen]

@happpiness12 This statement is one of the more stupider things I have read, according to you

no one can ever say anything even remotely offensive because some idiot will take this to heart and

start killing people.

[happpiness12]

I hope that all of you are aware that this is the kind of propaganda that fuelled Anders Behring Breivik. PLEASE STOP THE HATRED ON INTERNET!

[Serpico261]

great speech robert!!!

[cesar1963able]

@pdxeddie1111 No atheist should worry about a religion. "Chrisitan countries" have waged a lot of wars, but that says nothing about the life of Christ. As a Christian, I cannot understand how you could kill a person for not being Christian. That, of course, has been misinterpreted over time--Crusades, Inquisition, witch trials, etc. were "Christians" in "control". The Catholic Chatechism demands that all Catholics respect all people regardless of religion--and atheism. Quran says FIGHT.

[pdxeddie1111]

so do atheists have any worries about Islam?

[thelordofassholes]

@svartekaptenen Would you nuke your own country?