Ali Sina - Understanding Muhammad and Muslims

A blisteringly honest, thoroughly documented, and piercingly insightful investigation of the root causes within Islam of the fanaticism and violence that today threatens the entire world. Should be required reading at the State Department and the White House. Robert Spencer , director of Jihad Watch and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades (Regnery)

To understand Muhammad and the malignant religion he created, I would recommend that you read Ali Sinas Understanding Muhammad and Muslims . It is a masterful, scholarly work that examines the life of Muhammad and reveals him in ways that demonstrate how he created a cult around himself. It was an ugly, violent, narcissistic life and one that now holds more than a billion people around the world in its grasp. Bookviews by Alan Caruba, a charter member of the National Book Critics.

With great courage, perspicacity, and trenchant wit, Ali Sina demolishes a host of politically correct myths about Islam, and its founder. One wishes policymaking elites would avail themselves of his insights which shatter the dangerous delusions of their own invented Islam. Andrew G. Bostom , MD, author of The Legacy of Jihad

The war against jihad can and must be won, in spite of the Western elite class that is instinctively prone to appeasement and betrayal. The first task is to analyze frankly the identity and character of the enemy and the nature of the threat. It is essential to discard the taboos and to discuss Islam without fear or guilt, or the shackles of mandated thinking. Ali Sinas new book makes an important contribution to that objective . Dr. S. Trifkovic , Foreign Affairs Editor CHRONICLES

A powerful, no holds barred look at an ideology of hate and what must be done to eradicate it. This book pulls no punches. A must read for anyone seeking to understand Islamist terrorism. Professor Kim Ezra Shienbaum, Ph.D Dept. of Political Science, Rutgers University Camden, NJ. Chief Editor of Beyond Jihad.

Half a century ago Whittaker Chambers in his book Witness, warned us about the deadly danger of Communism. Now Ali Sina issues this clarion call regarding the threat of Islam. Witness could only have been written by one who knew Communism from within; the same can be said of The Islam Threat that is written from a perspective of one who knew Islam intimately from within. Islam is more dangerous than communism because it is camouflaged as religion. Jacob Thomas, Consultant on Middle Eastern affairs / Columnist

Preface

By Ibn Warraq

Ali Sina was born in Iran. Like most educated Iranians he believed that Islam was a humanistic religion that respected human rights. But Mr. Sina was also blessed with an enquiring mind, a rationalistic spirit that questioned, probed, and looked at the evidence unflinchingly. What he slowly discovered about the real Islam shook him morally and intellectually, and what is more, made him realize, long before September 11, 2001, that unless someone spoke the truth about the faith he was born into, the world would be faced with a system of thought and belief that would destroy not just the West, but civilization as a whole. Since his epiphanous moment when he discovered the inhuman nature of this religion, Mr. Sina has dedicated his life to discussing, criticizing, exposing the unacceptable aspects of Islam on his widely quoted website Faith Freedom International.

The West can make use of defectors, like Mr. Sina, from Islam (apostates) in the way the West used defectors from communism .

As I wrote in Leaving Islam, and Bertrand Russell have pointed out between the mindset of the communists of the 1930s and the Islamists of the 1990s and 21st century. As Russell said, Among religions, Bolshevism [Communism] is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation.

Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of this world.

Communism has been defeated, at least for the moment, Islamism has not, and perhaps the final battle will be between Islam and Western Democracy. And these ex-Muslims, to echo Koestlers words, on the side of Western Democracy, are the only ones who know what its all about, and we would do well to listen to their Cassandra cries.

We who live in the free West and enjoy freedom of expression and scientific inquiry should encourage a rational look at Islam, should encourage Quranic criticism. Only Quranic criticism can help Muslims to look at their Holy Scripture in a more rational and objective way, and prevent young Muslims from being fanaticized by the Qurans less tolerant verses. It is the civic duty of all individuals living in the West to inform themselves about Islam. But if they would only consult the works available in the megastores, they will find apologists of Islam. It is only by going through the meticulously documented and impeccably argued website of Mr. Sina and his team of writers that we would be able to obtain a more just appraisal of Islam. Now, of course, we have Ali Sinas book which I urge all responsible citizens whose critical faculties have not been lulled into confusion and befuddlement by oft-repeated slogans about Islam being a religion of peace to read carefully. Thanks to the courageous efforts of independent scholars like Ali Sina, there can no longer be any excuse for remaining ignorant about a religion that may annihilate all that you cherish and hold worth defending.

Ibn Warraq is the author of Leaving Islam , What the Koran Really Says, The Quest for the Historical Muhammad, The Origins of the Koran and Why I Am Not a Muslim , the book that inspired many Muslims to awake and question their cherished faith.