A New Book
Critical of Islam
By B. A. Syed
Member
Union of Concerned Scientists
US
A new book disparaging Islam
and Prophet Muhammad has hit bookstores. It is
entitled
"The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the
World's Most Intolerant Religion" and has
been authored by Robert Spencer. The book has
been published by Regnery Publishing, Inc., Washington,
DC 2006 ISBN 1-59698-028-1
According to the description posted on the dust-jacket,
Robert Spencer is Director of Jihad Watch, a program
of David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is the author
of four other books:
The back dust-cover has endorsements from following
persons:
1. Michelle Malkin ( Author of Unhinged, In Defence
of Internment, and Invasion).
2. Daniel Pipes, Director of Middle East Forum
(author of Slave Soldiers and Islam)
3. Bat Ye'or (author of: Islam & Dhimmitude
and Eurabia)
Spencer claims that his writing is based on following
points:
* Truth about Muhammad's mutiple marriages
* Legal standards to prove rape in Muslim countries
* How Muslim's example justifies Jihad and terror
* The real Satanic "verses" incident
(not the Salman Rushdie version) that remains
scandal to Muslims
* How Muhammad's faulty knowledge of Judaism and
Christianity have influenced Islamic theology
and colored Muslim relations with Jews and Christians
of this day.
Reasons he didn't want to publish this book, but
eventually did:
* Danish cartoons in 2006
* Violence in Gaza
* Arab Interior Ministers meeting regarding Denmark
* Libya and Saudi Arabi recalling their Ambassadors
from Denmark
* Crippling boycott of "ARLA Foods,"
in the world
* Iraqi Foreign Minister's complaint and Fatwa.
* Murder of Van Gogh in Denmark.
Here is a list of the chapters of this book:
1. Why a biography of Muhsammad is relevannt today
2. In search of historic Muhammad
3. Muhammad becomes a Prophet
4. Muhammad's revelations and their sources
5. A warner in the face of a terrific punishment
6. Muhammad becomes a warlord
7. War is "deceit"
8. Casting terror into their hearts
9. Victorious through terror
10. Muhammad's legacy.
It is time that Muslims lodge a peaceful protest
against Barnes & Nobel, other major book stores,
the Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC, and the
New York Times (for making the book the best seller
on their list) a book which has only one objective:
To disseminate hatred against Islam and Muslims.
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