Don't forget to order your copy of Robert Spencer's new book, "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)" if you haven't already. In fact, get a couple of copies so as to have one on hand to loan to friends.
Don't forget to order your copy of Robert Spencer's new book, "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)" if you haven't already. In fact, get a couple of copies so as to have one on hand to loan to friends.
Now available on Amazon UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0895260131/qid=1122743535/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/026-8166557-4606830
delivery time 8/10 days. Hopefully in time for my holidays, along with the latest Fairport Convention re-release on CD. :-)
Rebecca, you aren't kidding about getting a couple of copies at a time! I have had to chase down my copy from my family several times since I received it last week!
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) is written in a very easy to read format. It's a quick read and incredibly informative.
Congratulations to Mr. Spencer. This is going to be a best seller.
Mr. Spencer, how about a free download from your web? Many books are given free as download, and one needs to pay only when getting a printed edition. A free download helps spread your message far and wide.
Free Download??
Well, sadly folks don't quite appreciate the real value of that which they get "free". Socialist hellholes around the world and the American-born America haters are ample testimony to this fact.
I'd rather Mr. Spencer offer a chapter or two as a free download. Enough to whet the appetite of truth-seekers, but not enough to quench the thirst.
If you are too tight, or too skint (what happened, spend the dole giro on zakat again did we...?) to fork out a tenner then you might find some free stuff of interest here.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/index.htm
Read the reviews...
There is only one truth about Islam. But trying to convey that truth may take many forms, and many repetitions. The truth is central and all it's explanations are like spokes in the wheel. Roberts works illuminate the hub by examining the spokes.
Not all of the spokes have equal strength, but still contribute to supporting the hub. This is where the negative "reviewers" get their ammunition. Trying to explain the unexplainable, or putting order to chaos, creates the risk of being off just a little, or percieved to be. Sometimes there are no adequate words to explain something, and you just have to do the best you can. If explaining Islam, with all it's 'in's' and 'out's', was easy, we would need no Islamic scholars...muslims or not. Some of the reviewer's
like themselves a lot. They have the 'My hunkadero's are bigger than your 'hunkadero's', syndrome. Bragging about how wonderful you are, in a review of anothers work, is just a big fat ego trip, and has no value other than pumping up an out of control ego...When the fault finders are at work, they will find fault...when the ego driven fault finders are at work, they will find lots of it, even if they have to make it up...
Other than those revelations, the reviews would encourage me to buy the book...
Mr. Spencer, how about a free download from your web? Many books are given free as download, and one needs to pay only when getting a printed edition. A free download helps spread your message far and wide.
Posted by: Mohideen Ibramsha at July 31, 2005 11:29 AM
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The book is worth its weight in gold. A free download? Nice try requesting for a free copy. If you want to spread your message far and wide, you can either preach it like most faith groups have (ie, Christians, Vaishnava Gaudiya Hindus and Buddhists), or you can spread it on the edge of a sword through rape and plunder and murdering children like the Muslims (Islam does not mean Peace, it literally means submission). If the Muslims were so tolerant, then why did they put millions of Buddhists and Hindus to death?
Instead of putting in a donatiion for the next terrorist strike, it would be better if Muslims purchase the book in mass quantities so that they can finally have an "Age of Awakening/Reason/Logic/Humanity" and break out of the savage Pedophile cult of Islam.
So go and PURCHASE the book.
Mohideen: "A free download helps spread your message far and wide".
I doubt you really want RS message spread far and wide...you just want to read it for free...
Mohideen, my best advice is, stay in school, learn something. Make something out of yourself.
Learn to do something usefull, like auto mechanics, or janitorial work...Allah really appriciates a good janitor...Someday you may marry and want to have little Mohideens, you will need steady work to support that.
The world needs more janitors, if you study hard and learn the craft, you can enter the rarified atmosphere of 'janitorial excellence'. It has been said that "cleanliness is next to Godliness". A career in The Janitorial Arts, is almost a guarantee of admission to Allahs gardens...Forget the conspiracy theories, forget the NWO stuff you advocated earlier, and go for janitorial. But graduate from high school first.
Allah knows best...
Sorry folks--
No free downloads. The publisher won't allow it.
Cordially
Robert Spencer
I ordered by copy from Amazon a few days ago I hope to have it in my hands soon.
A timely book given the recent Muslim terror bombings in London! Robert Spencer knows Muhammadanism better than most Muhammadans do. His knowledge of their so called holy Koran and Hadith is more extensive than many Muslims who slavishly rely on their Mullahs and preachers to interpret Koran for thew. All the while these preachers misleading their congregations about the evil and murderousness of Muhammad
Granny: Fairport Convention was about the best. How much England has changed since you had Sandy Denny. Richard Thompson is still going strong. Here's a photo of Roger McGuinn and Tony Blair. http://www.latin1960.org/photos/mcguinn.htm
Amazon Germany wrote that my copy has been shipped so I should be reading it within the next few days. I like the P.I.G.'s head on the cover, by the way. Very fitting! Keep up the good work, Robert.
Roxane ~ I hope you get it soon, too because you're not going to borrow mine! LOL. Here's why: went to Barnes & Nobles and let the guy in charge of CURRENT EVENTS, (he couldn't have been older than 25) tell me he's read all of Robert's books and why this is a good read and did I hear him host the Lori Roth show the night before (you'd swear this was his publicist in disguise)...so on and so on. I didn't know whether to burst his bubble or not and say my name was "JW Gal." I will leave you all in suspense, but suffice it to say, while he's preaching AT me, (and I went to him FOR the book) other stood around, till there for about 6 people. The friend who was with me, who would NEVER read anything like this, (but did pass out self-made biz cards w/ all the info on the book to all the patrons every where in the store and on their car windows) was SO impressed that when we got home, the book got snatched from my hands while they thumbed through it, saying, "hey, did you know this? and did you know that?" I wanted to finally scream "I KNOW - I KNOW, now give me my book!" Two hours later, after I nearly threw them out, myself and a pot of java sat down to read the book all night [like so many do the Harry Potter series]. Forget it! "The Politically Incorrect...." is a book to SAVOR - one cannot fully appreciate all of the information, accurate info, by the way, if tried to be read in one sitting, (well, maybe Hugh can)! Someone told me prior, it's written like the "...for dummies" series, (maybe that's why my friend got so interested in it)! So, moral of the story: Get your own, folks and then work with me on getting Robert this own daily radio show - his wisdom should not be contained to the {free} Internet. Who asked for a free copy? Shame! Shame!
OT: A POSSIBLE MUSLIM ASSASSINATION
A helicopter carrying John Garang, war leader of the outhern Sudanese Christians and newly nominated vice-President of Sudan, has mysteriously disappeared in northern Uganda. Given the fact that, merely by surviving and continuing his war, Garang had forced the jihadis of Khartoum to give up their campaign against his people, his sudden disappearance in the hour of his victory is highly suspicious. cui bono?
Free download?!!! C'mon. $14 at Amazon is half a tank of gas (in a Japanese car like mine). My only problem is that there are so many good books on this topic. Well, I'm glad I procrastinated. I think this is the right one.
I just received my overdue credit card in the mail. I plan on making my semi-annual gigantic Amazon purchase of library-dwelling books in the near future. Spencer's catalog will be on the list.
Robert
I don't know what Questia (online, pay, research service) does to put books online. I have searched for your books and come up empty. I would very much love for your catalog to come up when I do a Questia search on Islam.
Questia does have Ibn Warraq, Bat Ye'or, and some other quality books. However, their Islam section is loaded down with apologetics, Saidists, and outright ham-handed Islamic propaganda. I'm sure part of this is due to the availiability and academic acceptance of said crap.
It makes sense for older books to appear on Questia. The book under discussion has only just come out! Anyhow, for a great online overview of Muhammad and the origins of Jihad, see
http://www.peacewithrealism.org/jihad/jihad01.htm
If somebody asks me for a single link explaining the *real* meaning of jihad, I would point them here, until I find something better. Other sites provide pieces, but this gives a good overall picture, with documentation. This is for those who want something free and quick.
Granny and dennisw. --
Off topic I know, but there's a song by Fairport Convention that I've been trying to find the title to for years, maybe you can help. All I know about it is that
1) it was played on the radio a lot here (western USA) in the late 1980s
2) the lyrics had a refrain mentioning something about "rabbit stew"
Thanks
As G.I. Gurdjieff said:
NO ONE VALUES WHAT THEY DO NOT EARN, OR PAY FOR.
(Mohideen, just spring for the cash and buy Mr. Spencer's book... take it out of the pot from your 'ball bearings fund'... even though it will mean less shrapnel in the suicide vest... sigh)
metaxy-
The only 3 Fairport Convention songs I ever heard get real airplay in the U.S. were "Who Knows Where the Time Goes", "Matty Groves" and Tam Lin", and there's not a rabbit, stewed or otherwise, in the batch.
"Angel Delight"... from around that period... & has a lot mention of foods in it, but, again, no bunnies that I can recall.
The words go something like:
"I quite like a breast of chicken
And I'm crazy about aspic and quails
But the sight that makes my pulse quicken
Is a plateful of nice fat snails."
[I'll take a turkey burger with guacamole, myself.]
(Good luck finding the song! I know it can gnaw at the memory like a tongue on a chipped tooth until you locate the lyric. )
Great work again, Mr. S.!
"As G.I. Gurdjieff said..."
--- from a posting directly above
Gurdjieff? Ouspensky? The Way of the Pilgrim? Franny Glass? The Cloud of Unknowing? Madame Blavatsky? Yeats? Les Tables Tournantes of Victor Hugo, trying to reach his dead daughter....Omigod. This is the bestest website evah.
Big Sleep, Metaxy
Sorry I don't know the rabbit stew song. I used to love to read books about Gurdjieff. I never had the patience to read his own. He was quite a remarkable man. He inspired a lot of the New Age thinking in the 1970s. His most well known teaching is that 99.99% people go through life in a sleep walk. In a trance. On automatic.
Sort of ties in with the Mo'bots of Islam who never engage in self assessment, self examination. All blame being shifted onto the "enemies of Islam"
Thanks dennis (I once spent an hour Googling "Fairport Convention + rabbit stew" and got nothing...).
"[Gurdjieff's] most well known teaching is that 99.99% people go through life in a sleep walk. In a trance. On automatic.Sort of ties in with the Mo'bots of Islam who never engage in self assessment, self examination. All blame being shifted onto the "enemies of Islam"
Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that Gurdjieff's New Age Leftist descendants would never dream of accusing Muslims of "sleepwalking" through life, but would leap at the chance to accuse their own Western society of "sleepwalking"? They'd be right of course, but not in the way they think!
Love the book so much, I ordered additional copies as well as some of Robert Spencer's other titles.
Highly recommended.
dennisw-
The only readable book by G.I.G. I ever came across is his "Meetings With Remarkable Men" (and one woman) ...which you alluded to... -especially the concluding appendix on "The Material Question". The other books are more like exercises in an extremely untranslatable sense of humor (Beezelbub, etc.) that do not charm the way his less-didactic memoir does.
("Cartesian Meditations" by Edmund Husserl is a good, short continuation of his essential aims, done more formally/rigorously.)
ia666, as a supposed 'sufi' should read him, since G.I. reputedly studied with some dervishes and sufis -from Afghanistan to Turkey- in the early 1900's. But passed far beyond them with his central quip:
"Do not let your past become your future."
Islam, meanwhile, is ALL past.
(Like a fossilized skull that the 'brotherhood' insist we all cram our brains into, forever and ever, whether they fit inside the stony dome or not.)
NOT!
As far as the faux "Robert Spencer" question, I would be proud, like the characters in classic film "Spartacus", to stand and claim:
"I am Robert Spencer"
(-should a similar tactical need ever arise.)
I received the new book a few days ago. The day before it arrived, I went to my local library and politely suggested that Robert's new book be acquired, along with The Myth of Islamic Tolerance, books by Bat Ye'or, and Ibn Warraq's Why I am not a Muslim. (Two of Robert's other books, along with Leaving Islam, by Ibn Warraq, are already in the library's circulating catalog.) The librarian with whom I spoke, who is responsible for purchasing such books, was quite receptive, and I am hopeful that she will indeed make these purchases. I suggest that we all visit our local libraries and make such recommendations. We must all act at the local level; this is one fairly obvious way to help raise the level of awareness within our communities concerning the dangers posed by Islam.
Geez u guys r lucky...
Can anybdy plz lend me a copy... my dumass leftist mom wont let any thing remotely related to Hindutva in house...
"Do not let your past become your future."
"Islam, meanwhile, is ALL past. "
Actually, I'd say that Muslims are trying to murder the Present, so that the Future will become the Past.
Mohideen… Make something out of yourself.
The world needs more janitors… A career in The Janitorial Arts, is almost a guarantee of admission to Allahs gardens...
duh_swami at July 31, 2005 12:52 PM
Dear duh swami
Billions and billions of thanks. From http://www.answers.com/janitor&r=67 we find:
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WORD HISTORY A holiday for janitors ought to take place in January, for both words are linked. In Latin iānus was the word for “archway, gateway, or covered passage” and also for the god of gates, doorways, and beginnings in general. As many schoolchildren know, our month January—a month of beginnings—is named for the god. Latin iānitor, the source of our word janitor and ultimately also from iānus, meant “doorkeeper or gatekeeper.” Probably because iānitor was common in Latin records and documents, it was adopted into English, first being recorded in the sense “doorkeeper” around 1567 in a Scots text. In an early quotation Saint Peter is called “the Janitor of heaven.” The term can still mean “doorkeeper,” but in Scots usage janitor also referred to a minor school official. Apparently this position at times involved maintenance duties and doorkeeping, and the maintenance duties took over the more exalted tasks, giving us the position of janitor as we know it today.
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Thank you! There is no honor or derogation attached with any duty; it is how you do it. Thanks again.
Mohideen… Make something out of yourself.
The world needs more janitors… A career in The Janitorial Arts, is almost a guarantee of admission to Allahs gardens...
duh_swami at July 31, 2005 12:52 PM
Dear duh swami
Billions and billions of thanks. From http://www.answers.com/janitor&r=67 we find:
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WORD HISTORY A holiday for janitors ought to take place in January, for both words are linked. In Latin iānus was the word for “archway, gateway, or covered passage” and also for the god of gates, doorways, and beginnings in general. As many schoolchildren know, our month January—a month of beginnings—is named for the god. Latin iānitor, the source of our word janitor and ultimately also from iānus, meant “doorkeeper or gatekeeper.” Probably because iānitor was common in Latin records and documents, it was adopted into English, first being recorded in the sense “doorkeeper” around 1567 in a Scots text. In an early quotation Saint Peter is called “the Janitor of heaven.” The term can still mean “doorkeeper,” but in Scots usage janitor also referred to a minor school official. Apparently this position at times involved maintenance duties and doorkeeping, and the maintenance duties took over the more exalted tasks, giving us the position of janitor as we know it today.
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Thank you! There is no honor or derogation attached with any duty; it is how you do it. Thanks again.
Sorry for the repeated post. The computer did not respond quick enough!
Dear Mr. Spencer,
Thanks for your kind reply. God Almighty willing, I hope to pick up a copy from the nearest book store soon.
metaxy,
I googled "fairport convention" "rabbit stew", quotes, no "+" sign, and found a reference to a song titled "Rock and Roll Stew".
Good afternoon fellow music fans.
I have been out all day so have only just seen the comments about Fairport and the rabbit stew. I will do some research, which will probably involve playing the entire catalogue (such hardship). It may take me a few days to find the answer, if I can find it, then I will break into a thread OT and report.
Rock on.
Thanks jay and Granny,
I can't be sure that "Rock and Roll Stew" is the song until I hear it, or read the lyrics.
Another thing about the song I'm looking for -- the lyrics seemed to evoke life in the country and it was a folky song, not very electric.
Big sleep...
Thanks for the prod. I must reread "Meetings with Remarkable Men". Must be twenty years since I last read it
metaxy
does "Angels Delight" mean anything
but you can google Fairport Convention lyrics
If that doesnt help try Dave Swarbrick lyris
My favorite folk group from that long gone era was Pentangle
Dear all,
For what it is worth, I picked up my copy from the Borders shop at 18th Street NW at Washington, DC today. There are a few more copies in stock there.
Today I received a blast e-mail from Amazon.com alerting me that "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)" was now available in paperback, and that, based on my past purchases, I might be interested in buying it. I am very pleased to see that Amazon is helping to get the word about the book out. May it drive sales to new highs!
Keep up the good work, Robert!
Congrats! Your book is now #15 on Amazon's list. But :(( you are 107 on Barnes & Noble (I'm not sure how these ranks compare).