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 jiha...
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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I asked u for a definition of truth but unable to offer it u ask me about hadith. I put it to u that every single intepretation this man has given is PURPOSELY taken out of context, he has gone as far as creating websites where he has blatantly made things up. Instead of asking me to give u precise hadiths, I suggest u get a copy of the books and check them out urself. Otherwise I would have to write numerous pages of text. For u ignorance may be bliss but the stupidity which is included is not
@dont1tread7on7me6 Look the japanese got the message when the bombs fell on hiroshima and nagasaki. But muslims won't ever get the message. If we defend our freedom then we are to blame that they keep on coming back.
When is the world finally gonna get rid of islam like it got rid of the god hirohito.....
@dont1tread7on7me6 Read micah 5 where the scriptures talk about seven rightious shepherds. Those are we, the (christian) west. We will kick your frikking ass if you attack israel!
@dont1tread7on7me6 Yeah, the jews blew themselves up all over arabia when they were ethnically cleansed (NOT). The world condemned the arab world for expelling them with no place to go but their own land israel(NOT). The arabs have learned from the holocaust(NOT). Yes the jews really are a terrorist state(NOT).
Really david will kick goliaths butt again! And believe me there will be many rightious nations who support and defend israel against whichever nation wants to harm them.
@jatt440 Look dilluted person. Robert spencer has spoken the truth and continues to educate people against this false prophet muhammad. Uncovering islam to those who deem any religion to teach love and charitability. Teaching them why islam is a war religion and why the heinous acts of barbarism are comitted in the name of the satanic allah. and their pedophile prophet muhammad.
@jatt440 Robert spencer isn't peddling fear and even if some people are afraid of islam, should that stop the truth from being told? There is a death cult which has flourished for 1400 years on misconceptions and false pretentions of being a religion which teaches love and universal benevolence. That deceptive religion is called islam. YEs, it's true many children of god are loving. But 'they'r trapped in that satanic religion which teaches them satanic views and acts.
@jatt440 What?? Your a bigot and a racist and a hate monger. Calling people who know the truth about islam people of little education! You call people who see the truth that islam is a racist religion that demands the destruction of the jews people of "little" education?? 1400 years has islam been around it's so called holy texts have been translated in many languages and you call the people who read them people of "little" understanding? It's the nazi's calling the jews fascists again???
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What hadith or section of the Koran has he misquoted?
Of course you can't, because he is quoting these things accurately.
When is the world finally gonna get rid of islam like it got rid of the god hirohito.....
Really david will kick goliaths butt again!
And believe me there will be many rightious nations who support and defend israel against whichever nation wants to harm them.