Slavery, Terrorism and Islam

by Peter Hammond

This is a fascinating, well illustrated and thoroughly documented response to the relentless anti-Christian propaganda that has been generated by Muslin and Marxist groups and by Hollywood film makers. As Karl Marx "The first battlefield is the re-writing of History!" "Peter knows first hand the nature of the enemy the West is facing and exposes it brilliantly in this book on Islam. He begins by documenting the close relationship between Islam and slavery and then chapter by chapter reveals the terrible cost of thirteen centuries of Islamic invasion, conquest and brutalisation. This is a book that every Christian should read and pass along to friends; and one that every home-schooling family should require as part of their children's curriculum." Dr. Brian M. Abshire "Dr. Peter Hammond cuts through layers of misinformation and uncovers astonishing historical facts and details long buried by Islamic revisionists. You'll find out their real agenda for tomorrow by discovering what they actually did yesterday - plus a field-tested plan of how to win Muslims to Christ." Rev. Bill Bathman "For the sake of this generation, and coming ones, someone had to do what Dr. Peter Hammond has just done; setting the record straight on the different role players in the slave trade." Rev. Fano Sibisi "Slavery, Terrorism & Islam, is must reading to all those who want to find out the roots of the Terrorism that is threatening global security." Rev. Jeffreys Kayanga

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Islam, Politics, Religion, Muslims

290 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 2008

Reviews

[Jim Tucker · Rating 4 out of 5]

If the facts presented by Hammond in this book are true, then we (Americans) have been living a delusion. The book is admittedly biased toward a Christian evangelical perspective, and as such it is true to its bias. But having admitted that, the author challenges one and all to find fault with any of the facts presented, and he provides the literature references from which he has derived his facts, so from a scholarship perspective, the book appears to be well-researched and factually presented, even if from a very biased point of view. That said, and, again, assuming the facts are correct, Hammond's revelations are, at least for this reader, eye-opening relative to history and frightening relative to the present and future.

[Christopher Kanas · Rating 3 out of 5]

First off, the book's much more interesting than the 3 star review. 3 stars does not reflect the content interest but rather the style in which the book is presented. The book is a compilation of obvious power-point lecture presentations and while I can imagine the lectures individually were quite impactful, when they are just all compiled into a book without any further editing for a more smoother flow of reading, it suffers from repeated points, repeated facts, clunky transitions, and hard breaks from chapter to chapter. Ok, rant over regarding the composition of literary style.

That being said, the book is best served as a springboard for setting the reader up for their own further investigation in a lot of areas and that, I feel, is a great positive for this book. It introduces many subjects that, unless a reader is already knowledgable, will certainly broaden their learning in the history and roots of Islam, as the subtitle thus suggests. It follows the beginnings of Muhammed and the Caliphs, Mecca and Medina, where the breakdown of Sunni and Shia occurred, the Crusades, King Richard the Lionheart and Saladin, the Reformers response to Islam, Sharia towards non-Muslims, and Jihad both in history and modern times. Again, all of these subjects are given a great introductory review and leave the reader wanting to pursue more into the subjects.

Perhaps the most interesting to me was the slavery aspect of Islam, particularly it's penetration into India, which by and large, is completely ignored in the west. While America obviously has had it's own stain with slavery, it has also left it. Not so in some Islamic countries, where it continues today, and slaves under Islamic control are often under conditions that are the worst humanity could do upon another human.

This is information that should be required reading as we globally are entering a new age of multiculturalism. There's a tendency to over-virtueize and naively entertain the dream of a peaceful multi-cultural utopia by a lot of westerners who remain ignorant of the mission of strict Islamists who want no such thought of Multi-culturalism. Unless we want a world that looks like Saudi Arabia where there is Islam, and only Islam, upon the threat of death, Europe and America had better open their eyes to what is happening around them. Sharia is only peaceful if you obey Sharia, all others are subject to death and/or servitude, particularly women and gays.

Read it, know it, learn it or you will live it.

[Jan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great info on the Islamic slave trade compared to the Atlantic slave trade. Puts the Crusades in the light of 100s of years of Muslim expansion and destruction of Greek and Christian civilizations. Down side - the book is very repetitive. I think it is more a collection of lectures than a book, though it is not labeled as such.

[Clara Roberts · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book covered the history of slavery. It pointed out that the word slave was derived from the word slav. The European Slavs were slaves of the Romans. The number of slaves is mind bogling, both European and African. The number of children and people captued in war that were sold was amazing. The Arab practice of killing all of the men and castrating the boys was interesting. The book included a vivid description of just how boys were castrated. I knew that the Arabs had whole armies of eunuchs I just did not know the extent of this practice. The chapters on terroism were a summary of many events any student of history would be familiar with. The chapters on Islam reminded the reader that Islam spread at the tip of the sword. Where ever Islam spread there was great misery and loss of life. The author quotes an Arabic scholar as saying that every 5th sentence in the Quoran is incoherent or contridicory of something just stated. His comparisons of Islam and Christianity were instructive.

[Douglas Wilson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good.

[Kevin Estabrook]

Fascinating.

[Jaime · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first half of the first chapter of the book is unwieldy and hard to get into. But around page 24, the author the focus is on the history of the slave trade and its close ties with Islam throughout history. The author peppers the book with a contrast to Christianity while keeping a spotlight on the rise of Islam, (the prophet) Muhammad, and various historical truths about the religion. Truthfully, some will be offended at the truths cited here but it is a fact that violence and (jihad) warfare were a part of the religion. Throughout the book, Peter Hammond does cite issues with assumptions made by Quran and its followers. Chiefly, he makes it clear that Christianity (and Judaism) is slighted, diminished, attacked and reviled by Islam. Midway through the book, the author makes it clear that the truth and liberal worldly view differ, especially in areas concerning other faiths, women, and world rule,. In the section on women, the author paints a picture that women are downgraded and mistreated by strict followers of the faith. This section is quite graphic and will touch your humanity.

The author paints a bleak picture of the nature of this radical religion and of the extremist followers of it down through history to the present. He spends considerable time on the brutality of the early jihad action in the Middle East and India during the pre-Crusades period (8th-11th centuries). The Crusades are also dissected and examined as to the brutality of the Islamic armies against non-combatants. In truth, the picture is not pretty but supported by facts and testimony from Islamic and Christian eyewitnesses.

The latter portion of the book talks about the major negative issues about Islamic fanaticism and the non-Islamic world's reaction. Dr. Hammond presents theories and reveals the strategy of fanatics bent on making the world an Islamic world. The topic of tolerance and hypocrisy are also tackled in regards to freedom of speech by scholars discussing truths about militant action by the aforementioned fanatics.

In truth, this book will not be well-received by all but it does present some interesting historical facts.