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Arab Winter Comes to America : The Truth about the War We're in
Robert Spencer explains the driving forces behind the jihadists operating now in the US: Their beliefs, their associations, and the international jihad network that is working for the same goals around the globe -- including in the Arab spring uprisings.
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First published March 1, 2014
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Robert Spencer
116 books327 followersROBERT SPENCER is the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of seventeen books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies). Coming in November 2017 is Confessions of an Islamophobe (Bombardier Books).
Spencer has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the FBI, the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), the Justice Department’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council and the U.S. intelligence community. He has discussed jihad, Islam, and terrorism at a workshop sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the German Foreign Ministry. He is a consultant with the Center for Security Policy.
Spencer is a weekly columnist for PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine, and has written many hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism. His articles on Islam and other topics have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Dallas Morning News, Fox News Opinion, National Review, The Hill, the Detroit News, TownHall.com, Real Clear Religion, the Daily Caller, the New Criterion, the Journal of International Security Affairs, the UK’s Guardian, Canada’s National Post, Middle East Quarterly, WorldNet Daily, First Things, Insight in the News, Aleteia, and many other journals. For nearly ten years Spencer wrote the weekly Jihad Watch column at Human Events. He has also served as a contributing writer to the Investigative Project on Terrorism and as an Adjunct Fellow with the Free Congress Foundation.
Spencer has appeared on the BBC, ABC News, CNN, FoxNews’s Tucker Carlson Show, the O’Reilly Factor, Megyn Kelly’s The Kelly File, the Sean Hannity Show, Geraldo Rivera Reports, the Glenn Beck Show, Fox and Friends, America’s News HQ and many other Fox programs, PBS, MSNBC, CNBC, C-Span, CTV News, Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News, France24, Voice of Russia and Croatia National Television (HTV), as well as on numerous radio programs including The Sean Hannity Show, Bill O’Reilly’s Radio Factor, The Mark Levin Show, The Laura Ingraham Show, The Herman Cain Show, The Joe Piscopo Show, The Howie Carr Show, The Curt Schilling Show, Bill Bennett’s Morning in America, Michael Savage’s Savage Nation, The Alan Colmes Show, The G. Gordon Liddy Show, The Neal Boortz Show, The Michael Medved Show, The Michael Reagan Show, The Rusty Humphries Show, The Larry Elder Show, The Peter Boyles Show, Vatican Radio, and many others.
Robert Spencer has been a featured speaker across the country and around the world and authored 17 books. Spencer’s books have been translated into many languages, including Spanish, Italian, German, Finnish, Korean, Polish and Bahasa Indonesia. His Qur’an commentary at Jihad Watch, Blogging the Qur’an, has been translated into Czech, Danish, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
Spencer (MA, Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) has been studying Islamic theology, law, and history in depth since 1980. His work has aroused the ire of the foes of freedom and their dupes: in October 2011, Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups wrote to Homeland Security Advisor (and current CIA director) John Brennan, demanding that Spencer be removed as a trainer for the FBI and military groups, which he taught about the belief system of Islamic jihadists; Brennan immediately complied as counter-terror training materials were scrubbed of all mention of Islam and jihad. Spencer has been banned by the British government from entering the United Kingdom for pointing out accurately that Islam has doctrines of violence against unbelievers. He has been invited by name to convert to Islam by a senior member of al-Qaeda.
Spencer has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the FBI, the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), the Justice Department’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council and the U.S. intelligence community. He has discussed jihad, Islam, and terrorism at a workshop sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the German Foreign Ministry. He is a consultant with the Center for Security Policy.
Spencer is a weekly columnist for PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine, and has written many hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism. His articles on Islam and other topics have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Dallas Morning News, Fox News Opinion, National Review, The Hill, the Detroit News, TownHall.com, Real Clear Religion, the Daily Caller, the New Criterion, the Journal of International Security Affairs, the UK’s Guardian, Canada’s National Post, Middle East Quarterly, WorldNet Daily, First Things, Insight in the News, Aleteia, and many other journals. For nearly ten years Spencer wrote the weekly Jihad Watch column at Human Events. He has also served as a contributing writer to the Investigative Project on Terrorism and as an Adjunct Fellow with the Free Congress Foundation.
Spencer has appeared on the BBC, ABC News, CNN, FoxNews’s Tucker Carlson Show, the O’Reilly Factor, Megyn Kelly’s The Kelly File, the Sean Hannity Show, Geraldo Rivera Reports, the Glenn Beck Show, Fox and Friends, America’s News HQ and many other Fox programs, PBS, MSNBC, CNBC, C-Span, CTV News, Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News, France24, Voice of Russia and Croatia National Television (HTV), as well as on numerous radio programs including The Sean Hannity Show, Bill O’Reilly’s Radio Factor, The Mark Levin Show, The Laura Ingraham Show, The Herman Cain Show, The Joe Piscopo Show, The Howie Carr Show, The Curt Schilling Show, Bill Bennett’s Morning in America, Michael Savage’s Savage Nation, The Alan Colmes Show, The G. Gordon Liddy Show, The Neal Boortz Show, The Michael Medved Show, The Michael Reagan Show, The Rusty Humphries Show, The Larry Elder Show, The Peter Boyles Show, Vatican Radio, and many others.
Robert Spencer has been a featured speaker across the country and around the world and authored 17 books. Spencer’s books have been translated into many languages, including Spanish, Italian, German, Finnish, Korean, Polish and Bahasa Indonesia. His Qur’an commentary at Jihad Watch, Blogging the Qur’an, has been translated into Czech, Danish, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
Spencer (MA, Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) has been studying Islamic theology, law, and history in depth since 1980. His work has aroused the ire of the foes of freedom and their dupes: in October 2011, Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups wrote to Homeland Security Advisor (and current CIA director) John Brennan, demanding that Spencer be removed as a trainer for the FBI and military groups, which he taught about the belief system of Islamic jihadists; Brennan immediately complied as counter-terror training materials were scrubbed of all mention of Islam and jihad. Spencer has been banned by the British government from entering the United Kingdom for pointing out accurately that Islam has doctrines of violence against unbelievers. He has been invited by name to convert to Islam by a senior member of al-Qaeda.
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August 20, 2014
I might call myself an Islamophobic, there are many things about Islam and its book that scare the hell out of me, I cannot deny that I am concerned about the future of the world if a religious lobby takes over an industrialized society, but I know enough not to put all Muslims in the same category. Jihadist are a very small minority among Muslims, although they might be the only ones that apply Islam as its original books dictate, but have you read the books of other Abrahamic religions? Islam should evolve and change just like all other religions, while fighting it and discriminating against all its followers because of radical minority among them would only increase the number of radicals.
The author says that Islamic organizations like CARE do nothing practical to condemn terrorism, but what he really wants to hear is a condemnation of Islam as a terrorist religion, not realizing -or worse; knowing- that this will only make things worse and label these organizations as hypocrites rather than reformers. Clearly these organizations should be always pushed, followed and asked to fulfill their responsibilities in guiding the reforms, otherwise they will remain idle as if there were nothing urgent for them to do.
Spencer didn't stop repeating that "Racism" is misused in the case of a discrimination against Islam, yet he chose a title for his book that reduces 1 billion muslims 300 million Arabs and reduces that Arab movements against tyranny to Jihadist groups!
You can't hope for a social change and demand the results overnight, you also cannot judge the movement in the Arab world by the current status, there has been similar cases that have led to another tyrannies but there has been worse cases that ended up bight and for the best.
The book has pointed to many urgent and important issues, but it was full of bullshit and didn't offer a solution other that violating democracy in the name of democracy and usurping the humans rights of others for the sake of his human rights.
The author says that Islamic organizations like CARE do nothing practical to condemn terrorism, but what he really wants to hear is a condemnation of Islam as a terrorist religion, not realizing -or worse; knowing- that this will only make things worse and label these organizations as hypocrites rather than reformers. Clearly these organizations should be always pushed, followed and asked to fulfill their responsibilities in guiding the reforms, otherwise they will remain idle as if there were nothing urgent for them to do.
Spencer didn't stop repeating that "Racism" is misused in the case of a discrimination against Islam, yet he chose a title for his book that reduces 1 billion muslims 300 million Arabs and reduces that Arab movements against tyranny to Jihadist groups!
You can't hope for a social change and demand the results overnight, you also cannot judge the movement in the Arab world by the current status, there has been similar cases that have led to another tyrannies but there has been worse cases that ended up bight and for the best.
The book has pointed to many urgent and important issues, but it was full of bullshit and didn't offer a solution other that violating democracy in the name of democracy and usurping the humans rights of others for the sake of his human rights.
June 3, 2014
An outstanding book by Robert Spencer
Robert Spencer is an outstanding scholar of Islam who has been reporting about the evil effects of Islamic terrorism for decades. This book reference the now infamous failed Arab Spring, but this is not about what went wrong in Egypt, Sudan and Tunisia, but focusses on what has gone wrong with the United States in terms of its policies for handling rising power of Islamists and Islamic sympathizers in this country. What has United State and other Western countries have done to minimize the growth and radicalization by Islam.
The Arab Spring cracked regimes that had sought a middle ground between the unfettered savagery of Islamic law and the modern world. The Arab Winter is trying to do the same in Western world. Current laws and political policies of Obama are designed to silence the critics of Sharia and blasphemy laws, and branding them as Islamophobia. The political and religious groups linked to Islamic terrorism silence scholars like Robert Spencer who would denounce them for what they are while using the threat of youth “radicalization” as blackmail. The author warns that the real struggle between Western civilization and the medieval terror theocracy (such as Sharia laws that enslave women, amputation, stoning-to-death, etc.) has left the deserts of Arabia and has firmly established in the Western World and it is here to stay for a long-hard fight for its supremacy. The Jihad attacks in Boston and New York by home grown jihadists is as bloody as the one in Pakistan, Egypt or Syria. Our future will be as bloody as these Islamic countries. The weather outside may carry the warmth of a balmy spring, but as long as a cold wind blows out of the desert where Islam was born, it will continue to freeze souls and minds and whenever a bomb goes off or a Muslim kills a non-Muslim in the name of Islam, a chilly strand of that wind blows through our minds and hearts, yet powerless to do much about it.
This is a highly readable book by an outstanding Islamic scholar knowledgeable about Islamic history; it is a very illuminating book. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in understanding the true nature of Islam and its ultimate goal in the Western World.
Robert Spencer is an outstanding scholar of Islam who has been reporting about the evil effects of Islamic terrorism for decades. This book reference the now infamous failed Arab Spring, but this is not about what went wrong in Egypt, Sudan and Tunisia, but focusses on what has gone wrong with the United States in terms of its policies for handling rising power of Islamists and Islamic sympathizers in this country. What has United State and other Western countries have done to minimize the growth and radicalization by Islam.
The Arab Spring cracked regimes that had sought a middle ground between the unfettered savagery of Islamic law and the modern world. The Arab Winter is trying to do the same in Western world. Current laws and political policies of Obama are designed to silence the critics of Sharia and blasphemy laws, and branding them as Islamophobia. The political and religious groups linked to Islamic terrorism silence scholars like Robert Spencer who would denounce them for what they are while using the threat of youth “radicalization” as blackmail. The author warns that the real struggle between Western civilization and the medieval terror theocracy (such as Sharia laws that enslave women, amputation, stoning-to-death, etc.) has left the deserts of Arabia and has firmly established in the Western World and it is here to stay for a long-hard fight for its supremacy. The Jihad attacks in Boston and New York by home grown jihadists is as bloody as the one in Pakistan, Egypt or Syria. Our future will be as bloody as these Islamic countries. The weather outside may carry the warmth of a balmy spring, but as long as a cold wind blows out of the desert where Islam was born, it will continue to freeze souls and minds and whenever a bomb goes off or a Muslim kills a non-Muslim in the name of Islam, a chilly strand of that wind blows through our minds and hearts, yet powerless to do much about it.
This is a highly readable book by an outstanding Islamic scholar knowledgeable about Islamic history; it is a very illuminating book. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in understanding the true nature of Islam and its ultimate goal in the Western World.
July 17, 2014
A very concise portrayal of the danger we face in the west from Islam....why Muslims are required to Islamize and subdue the earth....Why this religion is such a danger to freedom and our way of life.
The "religion of peace" is anything but peaceful. It is a supremacist ideology that seeks to subjugate women, Christians, and Jews, "infidels".
Robert Spencer is an expert in the field of Islamic terrorism and jihad. He documents and explains how any criticism of Islam is labeled "Islamaphobia" and bigoted hate speech.
How the Quran requires it followers to wage armed jihad (war) against unbelievers. Much is discussed on how political correctness and ignorance is fueling radical Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood's plan to destroy America from within.
Most importantly; it's not what Mr. Spencer says....it's the words of the Quran itself that bears this out!
The "religion of peace" is anything but peaceful. It is a supremacist ideology that seeks to subjugate women, Christians, and Jews, "infidels".
Robert Spencer is an expert in the field of Islamic terrorism and jihad. He documents and explains how any criticism of Islam is labeled "Islamaphobia" and bigoted hate speech.
How the Quran requires it followers to wage armed jihad (war) against unbelievers. Much is discussed on how political correctness and ignorance is fueling radical Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood's plan to destroy America from within.
Most importantly; it's not what Mr. Spencer says....it's the words of the Quran itself that bears this out!
September 25, 2021
I really wish I could give this book a higher rating. As usual, Robert Spencer has done an excellent with his research and also the presentation of what the Quran and the Hadiths really portray. I've read the Tao Te Ching. I have read the Upanishad and Ramayana. I've read the Book of Mormon. I've read the Confucian Analects. I am sure there are others I am not thinking of at the moment. I've read the Old and New Testaments more than seventy times and an English translation of the Quran three times. There is no comparison. When people complain that the Quran is accused of being "hate-filled" they say that there are other verses from other religious texts that can also be seen that way. This is garbage. There is no comparison. The Quran has much more in common with Hitler's Mein Kompf than any other major religious texts I have read. Islam is a religion of hate. Fortunately, most people who call themselves Muslim have no idea what their religious texts really say and are good, kind, decent people.
Enough of a rabbit trail. Robert Spencer does an excellent job of showing how dangerous it can be to ignore the hate in those texts, overlook the potential for radicalization, and the pandering of the media towards Islam. In our fear of being tarnished "Islamophobic," we do our best to ignore the facts even when it is staring us right in the face. He brings up many examples like Major Nidal Hasan and the Boston Marathon bombing. These were both avoidable and also the handling of them in the media, the sweeping under the rug of religious motivations, almost guarantees that more events like these (and many other similar events) will be repeated. In portraying this, Robert Spencer is at his best.
Unfortunately, there are three major faults that make it almost certain those who need to hear will refuse to listen. The first two are his caustic commentary and his constant need to portray himself as a victim. Both of these are certain to alienate nearly all of his readers. The only people who it won't are the ones who already agree with him. The third fault is his "look ahead" chapter. This book is now eight years old and so it is easy to see how insane his "vision" of what the future might look like did not come even close to reality. However, I cannot help but think even back in 2013, nobody would have taken this look ahead as anything but silly fear-mongering.
So in all, this is a good book that could have been great if only Robert Spencer had followed Joe Friday's advice...
Enough of a rabbit trail. Robert Spencer does an excellent job of showing how dangerous it can be to ignore the hate in those texts, overlook the potential for radicalization, and the pandering of the media towards Islam. In our fear of being tarnished "Islamophobic," we do our best to ignore the facts even when it is staring us right in the face. He brings up many examples like Major Nidal Hasan and the Boston Marathon bombing. These were both avoidable and also the handling of them in the media, the sweeping under the rug of religious motivations, almost guarantees that more events like these (and many other similar events) will be repeated. In portraying this, Robert Spencer is at his best.
Unfortunately, there are three major faults that make it almost certain those who need to hear will refuse to listen. The first two are his caustic commentary and his constant need to portray himself as a victim. Both of these are certain to alienate nearly all of his readers. The only people who it won't are the ones who already agree with him. The third fault is his "look ahead" chapter. This book is now eight years old and so it is easy to see how insane his "vision" of what the future might look like did not come even close to reality. However, I cannot help but think even back in 2013, nobody would have taken this look ahead as anything but silly fear-mongering.
So in all, this is a good book that could have been great if only Robert Spencer had followed Joe Friday's advice...
February 20, 2019
I have read several books by Robert Spencer and am impressed by the thoroughness of his research as well as how he logically explains things. This book, Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About the War We're In, is more of the same as he tries to warn us about the dangerous path we are on mainly due to political correctness and anti-American propaganda from the Main Stream Media, academia, and strategies pushed by many proxy groups for the Muslim Brotherhood. Is it already too late for the America we know? The author doesn't think so and lays out things the general public, elected officials, and others can still do to prevent what he says is developing. Great read for anyone cancerned about freedom and independence in America and the world!
February 23, 2024
Excellent and well researched book. How America in particular and the west in general is turning a blind eye to radical Islamism growing in their own countries.
November 22, 2020
A great read and understanding of world situations and geopolitics and economics.
October 30, 2014
I was predisposed to like this book because I was already in basic agreement with the author's thesis. I will say, I did learn a lot as Spencer goes into great depth to prove his points.
Here's a tidbit I found interesting. We all know the first foreign leader Obama contacted after his election was the PM of Turkey, Ertogan. I always wondered why he did that. This book suggests an answer. The Brits fought the Ottomans, and Kemal Ataturk abolished the Ottoman Empire (the caliphate) in 1924. The Muslim Brotherhood was created in 1928 to reestablish the caliphate. Ertogan wants to de-secularize Turkey and have Turkey once again be the center of Islamic influence. Maybe Obama is down with this idea, and that's why he wanted to hook up with Ertogan early on? It would also give additional justification for Obama's behavior toward Britain when he first took office (returning the Churchill bust). And it could explain Obama's lack of response to ISIS/ISIL: he doesn't mind seeing the caliphate reestablished.
At any rate, this book gives a pretty clear view of the nature of the militant Islamic threat to Western societies. Frankly, many recent world events don't make sense unless you apply this analysis: the hatchet-wielding New Yorker, the attack in Ottawa, the automobile attack in Montreal, the Boston massacre, the Fort Hood shootings, the Little Rock shooting, the Hamas rocket attacks, the massacre in Norway, the expunging of references to Islamic terrorism in FBI and CIA training materials, and on and on and on.
I thought the final chapter was weak. It predicts the direction this country might take over the next few of years. It assumes that Americans will just roll over and accept the imposition of Qu'ranic values throughout society. It some quarters, that might happen. But overall, I think resistance is building to having our values compromised.
Some people no doubt will hate this book. But will they demonstrate where it is wrong, or will their counter arguments just be emotional and scurrilous? We'll see. I have an open mind. Do they?
Here's a tidbit I found interesting. We all know the first foreign leader Obama contacted after his election was the PM of Turkey, Ertogan. I always wondered why he did that. This book suggests an answer. The Brits fought the Ottomans, and Kemal Ataturk abolished the Ottoman Empire (the caliphate) in 1924. The Muslim Brotherhood was created in 1928 to reestablish the caliphate. Ertogan wants to de-secularize Turkey and have Turkey once again be the center of Islamic influence. Maybe Obama is down with this idea, and that's why he wanted to hook up with Ertogan early on? It would also give additional justification for Obama's behavior toward Britain when he first took office (returning the Churchill bust). And it could explain Obama's lack of response to ISIS/ISIL: he doesn't mind seeing the caliphate reestablished.
At any rate, this book gives a pretty clear view of the nature of the militant Islamic threat to Western societies. Frankly, many recent world events don't make sense unless you apply this analysis: the hatchet-wielding New Yorker, the attack in Ottawa, the automobile attack in Montreal, the Boston massacre, the Fort Hood shootings, the Little Rock shooting, the Hamas rocket attacks, the massacre in Norway, the expunging of references to Islamic terrorism in FBI and CIA training materials, and on and on and on.
I thought the final chapter was weak. It predicts the direction this country might take over the next few of years. It assumes that Americans will just roll over and accept the imposition of Qu'ranic values throughout society. It some quarters, that might happen. But overall, I think resistance is building to having our values compromised.
Some people no doubt will hate this book. But will they demonstrate where it is wrong, or will their counter arguments just be emotional and scurrilous? We'll see. I have an open mind. Do they?
October 6, 2014
This book was very informative and I thank and applaud this author for telling an unpopular and uncomfortable truth.
June 19, 2017
The most fact twisting book I've ever read. Especially the chapter 15 "Where we are headed", which is nothing but fear mongering, pure and simple.
June 24, 2020
A troubled look at Muslim jihad possibly coming to America and how the country has allowed it to happen.
September 18, 2024
Author’s point: Islam is not only driven to conquer the world militarily, but there are numerous examples of Muslims doing this through terror.
My evaluation: He’s right.
Audio.
My evaluation: He’s right.
Audio.
December 29, 2014
Robert Spencer has truly shown himself to be a great scholar in writing this book.
Fully cognizant that what he is writing is deemed controversial by the current dominant narrative in America, Spencer goes to great lengths in citing everything he claims in the book whether that be Qur'an, hadith, Muslim leaders, commentators, etc. I marveled at all of the work that apparently went into having to fully back up every iota of every assertion he made.
One area in which Spencer showed immense integrity is the way in which he was inclusive of a wide range of Islamic schools of thought so as to avoid the criticism that Tariq Rammadan always makes, "You're taking it out of context." I spend hours watching debates on YouTube and Tariq Rammadan's basic premise to any comment that makes Islam look bad is that it's "out of context" or "too simple" or "painting Islam with a wide brush, you get the idea. Well, Rammadan would have difficulty leveling that accusation at Spencer given the wide girth that this book encompasses.
Another area of note is that Spencer defends himself in the face of his accusers. I was enormously happy to read the pages in which Spencer lists these perceived "sins" and addresses each and every one of them. Being that he is constantly jabbed and assaulted with the standard, mindless accusations of 'racist, Islamophobic, bigot', it is important that he clear the air. Spencer provides the appropriate and erudite responses to this form of character assassination.
As an educator, I find the spread of lies and deceit loathsome and applaud those who address these deceptions. For example, every time Spencer quotes a person claiming that such and so person is a racist for criticizing Islam, he notes that Islam is not a race. It is important to stop people in their tracks each and every time this ridiculous assertion is made. I know lots of Muslims, some are Caucasian, some are Asians from the Phillipines, some are black, and some are brown Middle Easterners. When someone claims that speaking against Islam is 'racist' either that person is manifestly ignorant of Islam or is being deliberately manipulative.
The section on marginalization was likewise crucial to his argument. I see this everywhere, if you disagree with the mainstream, liberal media outlets you are simply marginalized by any number of baseless fits of name-calling. Sadly, Spencer is listed all over the internet with appellations such as 'racist, Islamophobic, bigot.' The political Left aids and abets the spread of radical Islam and they are experts at twisting facts to make anybody who criticizes Islam the bad guy. My progressive friends are very keen to criticize Christians and Jews at will but will defend Islam with tooth and nail.
Spencer also addresses the deafening silence of American feminists. Great! One has to wonder about the motivations of American feminists who will write entire essays in Op-Ed sections of the New York Times and other national newspapers concerning the use of the pronoun 'he' and omission of 'she' yet turn a blind eye to female genital mutilation practiced in the U.S. by Muslim immigrants and even American born Muslims. Obviously their priorities are in chaos and they have lost their way.
Mr. Spencer, I applaud you.
We are definitely fortunate to have brilliant, principled public intellectuals like you!!
Fully cognizant that what he is writing is deemed controversial by the current dominant narrative in America, Spencer goes to great lengths in citing everything he claims in the book whether that be Qur'an, hadith, Muslim leaders, commentators, etc. I marveled at all of the work that apparently went into having to fully back up every iota of every assertion he made.
One area in which Spencer showed immense integrity is the way in which he was inclusive of a wide range of Islamic schools of thought so as to avoid the criticism that Tariq Rammadan always makes, "You're taking it out of context." I spend hours watching debates on YouTube and Tariq Rammadan's basic premise to any comment that makes Islam look bad is that it's "out of context" or "too simple" or "painting Islam with a wide brush, you get the idea. Well, Rammadan would have difficulty leveling that accusation at Spencer given the wide girth that this book encompasses.
Another area of note is that Spencer defends himself in the face of his accusers. I was enormously happy to read the pages in which Spencer lists these perceived "sins" and addresses each and every one of them. Being that he is constantly jabbed and assaulted with the standard, mindless accusations of 'racist, Islamophobic, bigot', it is important that he clear the air. Spencer provides the appropriate and erudite responses to this form of character assassination.
As an educator, I find the spread of lies and deceit loathsome and applaud those who address these deceptions. For example, every time Spencer quotes a person claiming that such and so person is a racist for criticizing Islam, he notes that Islam is not a race. It is important to stop people in their tracks each and every time this ridiculous assertion is made. I know lots of Muslims, some are Caucasian, some are Asians from the Phillipines, some are black, and some are brown Middle Easterners. When someone claims that speaking against Islam is 'racist' either that person is manifestly ignorant of Islam or is being deliberately manipulative.
The section on marginalization was likewise crucial to his argument. I see this everywhere, if you disagree with the mainstream, liberal media outlets you are simply marginalized by any number of baseless fits of name-calling. Sadly, Spencer is listed all over the internet with appellations such as 'racist, Islamophobic, bigot.' The political Left aids and abets the spread of radical Islam and they are experts at twisting facts to make anybody who criticizes Islam the bad guy. My progressive friends are very keen to criticize Christians and Jews at will but will defend Islam with tooth and nail.
Spencer also addresses the deafening silence of American feminists. Great! One has to wonder about the motivations of American feminists who will write entire essays in Op-Ed sections of the New York Times and other national newspapers concerning the use of the pronoun 'he' and omission of 'she' yet turn a blind eye to female genital mutilation practiced in the U.S. by Muslim immigrants and even American born Muslims. Obviously their priorities are in chaos and they have lost their way.
Mr. Spencer, I applaud you.
We are definitely fortunate to have brilliant, principled public intellectuals like you!!
September 9, 2016
On the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, I am glad I finished this read. As a lover of history, I remember shouting at my tv after 9/11, that's a lie when George Bush made the claim Islam was a peace loving religion! Arab winter comes to America: the truth about the war we're in is an attempt to break this denial of historical facts. I am glad I read the book; I am Mala the girl the Taliban shot because in this book I truly entered the mind of a moderate Muslim. These two books enabled me to gain an extreme and moderate view of Islam. Spencer overstates his case and at points uses bombastic rhetoric, to make the point Islam, is not a peace-loving faith. He does this I believe in attempting to break our denial of facts. If you want a different view that we are spoon fed by politicians and the media, this book needs read.
June 7, 2014
An extremist look at Islam/Jihad and the threat to America. Through the book, the author reveals his bias through bad mouthing the "main stream media" and the "democrat" party. The later parts of the book get into (lots of) selective quoting from the Quran. This could be an interesting exploration of the topic and exploration of the tension between religion and civil society, but instead is a screed of Islam and left/liberal bashing. With a strong topping of egotism and victimhood (from the author). The final chapter is a worst-case (or unrealistic-case) extrapolation of just how bad this is all going to be as America gives in to this. There are some strange bedfellows with the author, but the biggest "heroes" include Michelle Bachman.
August 25, 2014
Homeland Security Does Its "Best" Pertain Federal Law Section 23:85!
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November 17, 2014
Absolutely terrifying read.
November 22, 2014
Finally, someone wrote this book! Good job for the author.
September 8, 2015
Really well laid out history of Islamo-fascism in America and how it is growing.
Scary.
Scary.
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