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While the United States, and indeed most of the Western world, fights an active war against Islamic terrorism, we remain in deep denial about who truly is the enemy. Elites across North America and Europe fight to silence those who argue, compellingly, that the roots of terrorism are within Islam itself which has evolved into far more than a religion—it is a radical and dangerous political ideology which consciously, if often tacitly, places itself in opposition to democracy and basic human rights.
Robert Spencer, one of the world’s foremost critical scholars of Islam, has been labeled Public Enemy #1 by those who apologize for Islam and its violent excesses. He has been called a propagandist, a racist, and an “Islamophobe”—a term that he willingly embraces in this provocative and important book.
There needs to be a thoroughgoing and honest public discussion of the acceptable parameters of criticism of Islam in light of genuine interests not only of national security but of civilizational survival. Our lives, quite literally, could depend on it, as could those of our children and our children’s children. Confessions of an Islamophobe is an attempt to begin that discussion.
While the United States, and indeed most of the Western world, fights an active war against Islamic terrorism, we remain in deep denial about who truly is the enemy. Elites across North America and Europe fight to silence those who argue, compellingly, that the roots of terrorism are within Islam itself which has evolved into far more than a religion—it is a radical and dangerous political ideology which consciously, if often tacitly, places itself in opposition to democracy and basic human rights.
Robert Spencer, one of the world’s foremost critical scholars of Islam, has been labeled Public Enemy #1 by those who apologize for Islam and its violent excesses. He has been called a propagandist, a racist, and an “Islamophobe”—a term that he willingly embraces in this provocative and important book.
There needs to be a thoroughgoing and honest public discussion of the acceptable parameters of criticism of Islam in light of genuine interests not only of national security but of civilizational survival. Our lives, quite literally, could depend on it, as could those of our children and our children’s children. Confessions of an Islamophobe is an attempt to begin that discussion.
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First published November 28, 2017
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About the author
Robert Spencer
117 books329 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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October 30, 2023
As an Indian I could find this book very relatable. After reading this one would figure out that it's all the same tactics everywhere.
September 21, 2018
This book really catalogs the various dogma that those who practice radical forms of Islam are adherents to. The research is exhaustive and I really commend the author, Robert Spencer, for his in-depth work and commitment to spreading the word of the dangers of jihad and Sharia law. He approaches this sensitive subject from a place of non-judgement and actually backs up all of his statements with facts straight from the Koran itself.
May 22, 2024
SPENCER NOW STRONGLY EMBRACES THE TERM ‘ISLAMOPHOBE’
Robert Bruce Spencer (born 1962) is an American author and one of the key figures of the ‘counter-jihad’ movement. His website, ‘Jihad Watch,’ reports on purported ‘Islamic extremism.’ (He is also a Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and has written several politically conservative books.)
He wrote in the Preface to this 2017 book, “It was in college that I took a few courses on Islam, and first read the Qur’an…. Slowly, it began to dawn on me, as I … began to study the mainstream Islamic interpretations of the Qur’an, as well as the Hadith and the history of Islam, that I had… the answer to my childhood question: ‘Why were you exiled?’ … I began to see that I had the key to understanding why the Iranians took the hostages… This was an intellectual realization. The Qur’an had verses exhorting believers to wage war, and Islam had doctrines of warfare against unbelievers, and it looked to me as it these were playing out in world events, past and present. There are, in sort, very good reasons to be an Islamophobe, that is, to be concerned about Islam for the devastation that it brings into the lives of human beings both Muslim and non-Muslim. It is not hatred and bigotry to be the right kind of Islamophobe, that is, as opposed to one who attacks innocent Muslims, something that is never justified. Indeed, the only chance for the survival of free societies into the latter part of the twenty-first century may be if large numbers of people join me in becoming this kind of unrepentant Islamophobe.” (Pg. xvi-xvii)
He begins the first chapter with the statement, “I am an Islamophobe. It’s true. I’ve denied it for years. But now I admit it. Nor am I just any old Islamophobe. According to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), I am ‘one of the nation’s more notorious Islamophobes.’ The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) warns that I am one of the ‘most important propagandizing Islamophobes in the world… When I am invited to speak at universities, there are inevitably petition drives calling for me to get canceled and denouncing me in lurid terms… While I am accustomed to all this now, when it first began it came as a surprise. Indeed, for years I have rejected the claim that I am an ‘Islamophobe,’ with, to my mind, very good reason: although I am (according to the SPLC) an infamous ‘hate group leader,’ I don’t believe that any genuinely neutral reader will detect any hate in anything I have written.” (Pg. 1-2)
Later, he adds, “For years, I have denied the label ‘Islamophobe’ because it is most commonly used to refer to people who have an irrational bigotry or hatred toward Muslims. I don’t Now I will own the label. But I must add a crucial caveat: I am not an Islamophobe within the meaning of those who have affixed this label on me… I am not the ‘bad’ kind of Islamophobe who wants any innocent people, Muslim or non-Muslim, to e victimized. Instead I am … someone who is honest enough to call a problem a problem, even when the whole world wishes to ignore and deny its existence.” (Pg. 6)
He notes, “The situation in Europe today vividly illustrates the dangers of admitting tens of thousands of Muslim immigrants from mostly poor, socially backward countries into modern Western societies… if responsible steps are not taken, we are likely to have the same problems here in the U.S. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, keen to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Syria and the surrounding regions, opened Germany’s doors to the refugee influx of 2015. Other Western European countries did as well. Yet while there is no doubt that some of the refugees are grateful for the hospitality they have been shown, others clearly aren’t… Muslim migrants in Europe have… been responsible for an appalling epidemic of rape, sexual assault, theft, petty crime, and looting.” (Pg, 13)
He explains, “Many of the blanket characterizations about my work… ae false. I do not believe… that all Muslims are terrorists … I have never believed … that the United States was in danger of being taken over by Muslims and transformed into a caliphate governed by Sharia… There are too many patriotic, determined, and well-armed Americans for that to happen… What could happen, however… is that those Muslim Brotherhood organizations will continue to undermine our counterterror efforts. And as Muslim immigration into the U.S. continues, there will increasingly be the challenges to our way of life that we see in Europe” jihad massacres, assaults of women and gays, attacks on synagogues and individual Jews… and more. There are, in short, very good reasons to be an Islamophobe… to be concerned about Islam for the devastation that it brings into the lives of human beings both Muslim and non-Muslim.” (Pg. 18)
He outlines, “Let us therefore review the ways in which Islamic jihad and Sharia pose a danger … *Islam is a threat to women, because Islamic teachings allow the beating of women… as will as the downgrading of a woman’s testimony and inheritance rights… *Islam is a threat to gays, because it mandates a death penalty for homosexuals that is not… a dead letter today… *Islam is a threat to Jews, because in all too many Islamic teachings and traditions, Jews are the villains of the piece… *Islam is a threat to Christians, for it mandates that they must either convert to Islam, submit to Islamic hegemony… *Islam is a threat to secular liberals… because Islam really does have doctrines mandating the conquest and subjugation of non-Muslims… *Islam is a threat to secular Muslims, because... Islam… mandates a death penalty for someone who… leaves Islam voluntarily… [This] makes for untold numbers of silent apostates who live outwardly as Muslims while dissenting inwardly.” (Pg. 26-29)
He asserts, “the clash is inevitable: feminists will ultimately have to choose between women’s rights and Islam. Some have tried to head off this clash by taking refuge in the language of choice… some women choose to wear hijab, some do not… Very well. But what of the girls who were forced to undergo genital mutilation as children? What about the girls and women threatened, brutalized, and even killed for refusing to wear the hijab? Do they have rights as well?... The fear of charges of ‘Islamophobia’ seems to be able to quiet even the voices that are otherwise the most strident.” (Pg. 64)
He suggests, “The rise of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States… suggests that something more is going on than mere paranoid conspiracy theories… the situation was becoming precarious for Jews all over Europe not because of the ‘far right,’ but because of the increased Muslim presence there… if anyone has the idea that there is a problem of anti-Semitism among Muslims, it isn’t because of me, but because of the many Muslims who have violently attacked Jews.” (Pg. 97)
He argues, “What, then, can I say when someone reminds me that the Anti-Defamation Leave has me on its enemies list? Only that perhaps the ADL has not sufficiently appreciated the problem of Islamic anti-Semitism… I can only point out … the threat of Islamic anti-Semitism is very real. To ignore it, while defaming those who call attention to it, is not going to do anything to make it go away…” (Pg. 119-120)
He clarifies, “This is not to say that the United States is in imminent danger of being conquered and turned into a Islamic state. But if the teachings of conquest are part of Islam, and they manifestly are, then they will be preached in the U.S., and civil strife is likely to result.” (Pg. 159)
He states, “We are never all going to worship and same god, or all agree to set religion aside… There is no doubt that … a genuinely pluralistic society is full of minefields… The fractures in American society today can be largely attributed to vastly differing views of… individual rights, and what practices should therefore be legal or illegal. Even those fractures, however, testify to the Founding Fathers’ wisdom in placing competing religions on an equal plane…” (Pg. 177-178)
He points out, “Another indication of the growing threat to secular Muslims in the West is the rising pressure in Europe and North America upon those who have left Islam… There is an unknowable number of Muslims who are Muslims in name only, and who do only as much as they have to so as to stay out of danger. These people are essentially prisoners of Islam, and they are truly the most downtrodden people in the world, with no voice, no advocate, no support of any kind from any quarter. They deserve better.” (Pg. 193, 201)
He concludes, “I want free societies to continue and prosper. I don’t want to see future generations of American women subjugated, gays brutalized, Jews and Christians living in a harassed and precarious state… This goal has made me a hated ‘Islamophobe.’ Nonetheless… I’m willing to take risks… the entire political and media establishment has determined that my colleagues and I are way beyond the bounds of acceptable discourse, and must be stopped. But I can’t stop… And so, despite all the vilification, all the marginalization, all the peer pressure and all the shaming, this Islamophobe is no ashamed, and will never be ashamed, of sounding the alarm. Being a notorious ‘Islamophobe’ has been an exciting, exhilarating, horrifying, dangerous, and dispiriting experience. I have met some of the most heroic people in the world, and had experiences I never expected to come close to having, and would not wish on anyone… I am proud of my work. I have no regrets. How can I regret telling the truth?” (Pg. 230-235)
This book will appeal to those seeking critiques of Islam and Muslims (particularly Evangelicals), but will be strongly rejected by others.
Robert Bruce Spencer (born 1962) is an American author and one of the key figures of the ‘counter-jihad’ movement. His website, ‘Jihad Watch,’ reports on purported ‘Islamic extremism.’ (He is also a Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and has written several politically conservative books.)
He wrote in the Preface to this 2017 book, “It was in college that I took a few courses on Islam, and first read the Qur’an…. Slowly, it began to dawn on me, as I … began to study the mainstream Islamic interpretations of the Qur’an, as well as the Hadith and the history of Islam, that I had… the answer to my childhood question: ‘Why were you exiled?’ … I began to see that I had the key to understanding why the Iranians took the hostages… This was an intellectual realization. The Qur’an had verses exhorting believers to wage war, and Islam had doctrines of warfare against unbelievers, and it looked to me as it these were playing out in world events, past and present. There are, in sort, very good reasons to be an Islamophobe, that is, to be concerned about Islam for the devastation that it brings into the lives of human beings both Muslim and non-Muslim. It is not hatred and bigotry to be the right kind of Islamophobe, that is, as opposed to one who attacks innocent Muslims, something that is never justified. Indeed, the only chance for the survival of free societies into the latter part of the twenty-first century may be if large numbers of people join me in becoming this kind of unrepentant Islamophobe.” (Pg. xvi-xvii)
He begins the first chapter with the statement, “I am an Islamophobe. It’s true. I’ve denied it for years. But now I admit it. Nor am I just any old Islamophobe. According to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), I am ‘one of the nation’s more notorious Islamophobes.’ The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) warns that I am one of the ‘most important propagandizing Islamophobes in the world… When I am invited to speak at universities, there are inevitably petition drives calling for me to get canceled and denouncing me in lurid terms… While I am accustomed to all this now, when it first began it came as a surprise. Indeed, for years I have rejected the claim that I am an ‘Islamophobe,’ with, to my mind, very good reason: although I am (according to the SPLC) an infamous ‘hate group leader,’ I don’t believe that any genuinely neutral reader will detect any hate in anything I have written.” (Pg. 1-2)
Later, he adds, “For years, I have denied the label ‘Islamophobe’ because it is most commonly used to refer to people who have an irrational bigotry or hatred toward Muslims. I don’t Now I will own the label. But I must add a crucial caveat: I am not an Islamophobe within the meaning of those who have affixed this label on me… I am not the ‘bad’ kind of Islamophobe who wants any innocent people, Muslim or non-Muslim, to e victimized. Instead I am … someone who is honest enough to call a problem a problem, even when the whole world wishes to ignore and deny its existence.” (Pg. 6)
He notes, “The situation in Europe today vividly illustrates the dangers of admitting tens of thousands of Muslim immigrants from mostly poor, socially backward countries into modern Western societies… if responsible steps are not taken, we are likely to have the same problems here in the U.S. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, keen to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Syria and the surrounding regions, opened Germany’s doors to the refugee influx of 2015. Other Western European countries did as well. Yet while there is no doubt that some of the refugees are grateful for the hospitality they have been shown, others clearly aren’t… Muslim migrants in Europe have… been responsible for an appalling epidemic of rape, sexual assault, theft, petty crime, and looting.” (Pg, 13)
He explains, “Many of the blanket characterizations about my work… ae false. I do not believe… that all Muslims are terrorists … I have never believed … that the United States was in danger of being taken over by Muslims and transformed into a caliphate governed by Sharia… There are too many patriotic, determined, and well-armed Americans for that to happen… What could happen, however… is that those Muslim Brotherhood organizations will continue to undermine our counterterror efforts. And as Muslim immigration into the U.S. continues, there will increasingly be the challenges to our way of life that we see in Europe” jihad massacres, assaults of women and gays, attacks on synagogues and individual Jews… and more. There are, in short, very good reasons to be an Islamophobe… to be concerned about Islam for the devastation that it brings into the lives of human beings both Muslim and non-Muslim.” (Pg. 18)
He outlines, “Let us therefore review the ways in which Islamic jihad and Sharia pose a danger … *Islam is a threat to women, because Islamic teachings allow the beating of women… as will as the downgrading of a woman’s testimony and inheritance rights… *Islam is a threat to gays, because it mandates a death penalty for homosexuals that is not… a dead letter today… *Islam is a threat to Jews, because in all too many Islamic teachings and traditions, Jews are the villains of the piece… *Islam is a threat to Christians, for it mandates that they must either convert to Islam, submit to Islamic hegemony… *Islam is a threat to secular liberals… because Islam really does have doctrines mandating the conquest and subjugation of non-Muslims… *Islam is a threat to secular Muslims, because... Islam… mandates a death penalty for someone who… leaves Islam voluntarily… [This] makes for untold numbers of silent apostates who live outwardly as Muslims while dissenting inwardly.” (Pg. 26-29)
He asserts, “the clash is inevitable: feminists will ultimately have to choose between women’s rights and Islam. Some have tried to head off this clash by taking refuge in the language of choice… some women choose to wear hijab, some do not… Very well. But what of the girls who were forced to undergo genital mutilation as children? What about the girls and women threatened, brutalized, and even killed for refusing to wear the hijab? Do they have rights as well?... The fear of charges of ‘Islamophobia’ seems to be able to quiet even the voices that are otherwise the most strident.” (Pg. 64)
He suggests, “The rise of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States… suggests that something more is going on than mere paranoid conspiracy theories… the situation was becoming precarious for Jews all over Europe not because of the ‘far right,’ but because of the increased Muslim presence there… if anyone has the idea that there is a problem of anti-Semitism among Muslims, it isn’t because of me, but because of the many Muslims who have violently attacked Jews.” (Pg. 97)
He argues, “What, then, can I say when someone reminds me that the Anti-Defamation Leave has me on its enemies list? Only that perhaps the ADL has not sufficiently appreciated the problem of Islamic anti-Semitism… I can only point out … the threat of Islamic anti-Semitism is very real. To ignore it, while defaming those who call attention to it, is not going to do anything to make it go away…” (Pg. 119-120)
He clarifies, “This is not to say that the United States is in imminent danger of being conquered and turned into a Islamic state. But if the teachings of conquest are part of Islam, and they manifestly are, then they will be preached in the U.S., and civil strife is likely to result.” (Pg. 159)
He states, “We are never all going to worship and same god, or all agree to set religion aside… There is no doubt that … a genuinely pluralistic society is full of minefields… The fractures in American society today can be largely attributed to vastly differing views of… individual rights, and what practices should therefore be legal or illegal. Even those fractures, however, testify to the Founding Fathers’ wisdom in placing competing religions on an equal plane…” (Pg. 177-178)
He points out, “Another indication of the growing threat to secular Muslims in the West is the rising pressure in Europe and North America upon those who have left Islam… There is an unknowable number of Muslims who are Muslims in name only, and who do only as much as they have to so as to stay out of danger. These people are essentially prisoners of Islam, and they are truly the most downtrodden people in the world, with no voice, no advocate, no support of any kind from any quarter. They deserve better.” (Pg. 193, 201)
He concludes, “I want free societies to continue and prosper. I don’t want to see future generations of American women subjugated, gays brutalized, Jews and Christians living in a harassed and precarious state… This goal has made me a hated ‘Islamophobe.’ Nonetheless… I’m willing to take risks… the entire political and media establishment has determined that my colleagues and I are way beyond the bounds of acceptable discourse, and must be stopped. But I can’t stop… And so, despite all the vilification, all the marginalization, all the peer pressure and all the shaming, this Islamophobe is no ashamed, and will never be ashamed, of sounding the alarm. Being a notorious ‘Islamophobe’ has been an exciting, exhilarating, horrifying, dangerous, and dispiriting experience. I have met some of the most heroic people in the world, and had experiences I never expected to come close to having, and would not wish on anyone… I am proud of my work. I have no regrets. How can I regret telling the truth?” (Pg. 230-235)
This book will appeal to those seeking critiques of Islam and Muslims (particularly Evangelicals), but will be strongly rejected by others.
February 20, 2018
Good information for everyone.
June 11, 2020
And, predictably, these are not confessions, but virtue signaling of a small time racist.
October 14, 2018
I've been following Robert Spenser's blog, Jihad Watch, for a while. This was like reading a whole month's worth or more of blogs in one book.
July 27, 2021
An Important book if you want to learn about Islamophobia
July 3, 2018
This book was an eye-opener. I always knew that there was something off about Islam, but this book highlights many the atrocities by the Islamic community.
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