Robert Spencer - The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)

"May Allah rip out his spine from his back and split his brains in two, and then put them both back, and then do it over and over again, Amen." "praise" from the author of revivingislam.com The Politically Incorrect Guide to ISLAM (AND THE CRUSADES)

You think you know about Islam.

But did you know:

Islam teaches that Muslims must wage war to impose Islamic law on non-Muslim states American Muslim groups are engaged in a huge cover-up of Islamic doctrine and history Today's jihad terrorists have the same motives and goals as the Muslims who fought the Crusaders The Crusades were defensive conflicts

Muslim persecution of Christians has continued for 13 centuries and still goes on ROBERT SPENCER

Praise for The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)

"With a provocative and Irreverent style, Robert Spencer assails, with much erudition, the taboos imposed by the Politically Correct League. A daring tonic that teaches fundamental truths," Bat Ye'or, author, Eurabia end The Decline of Western Christianity Under Islam

"The jihad that the Western world faces today is identical in its motivations and goals to that which Europe managed to stave off almost a thousand years ago, thanks in large part to the Crusades of which the West is now ashamed. In this book, Robert Spencer tells the truth that few in the U.S. or Europe wish to face. Today's jihad, as Spencer illustrates here, is proceeding on two fronts: one of violence and terror, and another of cultural shaming and the rewriting of history. Here is a devastating riposte to that revisionism and a clarion call for the defense of the West, before it is too late." Ibn Warraq, author, Why Am Not A Muslim, and editor of Leaving Islam and What the Koran Really Says

"The value of Spencer's book is twofold. He reminds us of the consequences of our failure to come to grips with the message and implications of Islam. And he warns against the spirit of masochistic self-loathing that permeates the Western elite class. In a sane world, Spencer's recommendations notably that the upholders of sharia should be treated as political radicals and subjected to appropriate supervision would not be deemed

"politically incorrect" but eminently sensible. Serge Trifkovic, author, Sword of the Prophet

"With the 2005 Kingdom of Heaven movie trying to visualize the actual scenes that occurred between European Crusaders and Arab Muslim armies in the Middle Ages, the whole issue of the clash of civilizations came back to haunt politicians. Traditional historians used to relate facts. Politicized historians, such as Amine Maalouf, insisted that Western Crusaders were evil, and their enemies were righteous. Robert Spencer, an expert on historical jihad, responds with a "politically incorrect" but academically sound and challenging work. Spencer displays an enormous amount of well researched material. He throws the ball hack into the camp of Arabist historians." Dr.

Walid Phares author, Lebanese Christian Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of on Ethnic Resistance

"Sweeping away the politically correct myths about a tolerant, peaceful Islam brutalized by demonic Christian Crusaders, Robert Spencer in this powerful, important book lets the facts of history speak for themselves. The truth he recovers is simple: an aggressive, violent Islamic creed for fourteen centuries has waged war against the infidel West a scourge of conquest and persecution that roused the Crusaders to restore the Near East to the Christian and Hellenic culture devastated by the armies of Islam. Spencer's rousing, straight-talking book is a much needed antidote to the poisonous propaganda that compromises our current battle against jihadist murder."

Bruce S. Thornton, author, Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)

CONTENTS

The Battle of Badr

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Assassination and deceit

Revenge and pretexts

In victory and defeat, more Islam

PC Myth: We can negotiate with these people

Chapter 2: The Qur'an: Book of War

The Qur'an counsels war

PC Myth: The Qur'an teaches tolerance and peace

PC Myth: The Qur'an teaches believers to take up arms only in self-defense The Qur'an's tolerant verses: "canceled"

PC Myth: The Qur'an and the Bible are equally violent

PC Myth: Islam's war teachings are only a tiny element of the religion

Three choices

It's not just Muhammad's opinion. It's the law.

PC Myth: Islam is a religion of peace that has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists But what about moderate Muslims?

PC Myth: Islam is a tolerant faith

The dhimma

PC Myth: Historically the dhimma wasn't so bad

Taxpayer woes

Pushing too hard

PC Myth: Jews had it better in Muslim lands than in Christian Europe

PC Myth: Dhimmitude is a thing of the past

PC Myth: Islam values pre-Islamic cultures in Muslim countries

PC Myth: Islam respects and honors women

The great Islamic cover-up

Child marriage

Wife-beating

An offer they can't refuse

Don't go out alone

Temporary husbands

Prophetic license

Temporary wives

Rape: Four witnesses needed

Female circumcision

Long-term prospects? Dim

Chapter 6: Islamic Law: Lie, Steal, and Kill

Lying: It's wrong except when it isn't

Theft: It all depends on who you're stealing from

Murder: It all depends on whom you're killing

Universal moral values? Can't find them.

PC Myth: Islam forbids the killing of the innocent

What about art and music?

PC Myth: Islam was once the foundation of a great cultural and scientific flowering What happened to the Golden Age?

Allah kills science

But all is not lost: Some things for which we can thank Islam

Chapter 8: The Lure of Islamic Paradise

What's behind Door Number One

The joy of sex

How to gain entry into Paradise

The Assassins and the lure of Paradise

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Chapter 9: Islam Spread by the Sword? You Bet.

PC Myth: Early Muslims had no bellicose designs on neighboring lands

PC Myth: The native Christians of the Middle East and North Africa welcomed the Muslims as liberators PC Myth: Early jihad warriors were merely defending Muslim lands from their non-Muslim neighbors Not only West, but East

What did the Muslims want?

PC Myth: Christianity and Islam spread in pretty much the same way

Chapter 10: Why the Crusades Were Called

PC Myth: The Crusades were an unprovoked attack by Europe against the Islamic world PC Myth: The Crusades were an early example of the West's predatory imperialism PC Myth: The Crusades were fought by Westerners greedy for gain

PC Myth: The Crusades were fought to convert Muslims to Christianity by force Chapter 11: The Crusades: Myth and Reality

PC Myth: The Crusaders established European colonies in the Middle East

PC Myth: The capture of Jerusalem was unique in medieval history and caused Muslim mistrust of the West PC Myth: The Muslim leader Saladin was more merciful and magnanimous than the Crusaders PC Myth: Crusades were called against Jews in addition to Muslims

PC Myth: The Crusades were bloodier than the Islamic jihads

Did the pope apologize for the Crusades?

Chapter 12: What the Crusades Accomplished And What They Didn't