Even as unreality about Islam and Islamic terror surrounds us everywhere, some Americans are beginning to wake up: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) is on the New York Times Bestseller List at number 17.
You will note -- without, I trust, a glimmer of surprise -- that on this list of 35 books my book is one of only six without a link to a New York Times review. For the Times, of course, this book does not really exist. For the State Department, the truths it contains do not exist.
But at least some Americans are beginning to realize just how severely we have been misled, and how drastically wrongheaded public policy has been as a result. To those people, I say thank you. And I salute you.
I am reading your book now. You don't pull any punches and that's very refreshing. Count me one of those who's waking up.
I own this book as well. And Redhand is exactly right, no punches are pulled by Robert Spencer. He has stood up to the Muslim fanatics and with this book, he has let them know that their game is up and it has been exposed.
It's time for those in denial of the Islamic agenda to pick this book up and become enlightened.
No one realizes how much these people actually lie to non-Muslims until they read a book like this one.....it's in a class all by itself.
Robert, you ought to offer a deluxe edition covered in pigskin for those of us who would like a leather bound copy. Congratulations on making the list. No better way to rub it in their faces.
Don't go blaming the NYT for not reviewing. They needed to cover the really important books like one about murder at the Chicago World's Fair of 18 (expeltive deleted) 93.
I'll bet CAIR is having a stroke. Good!
Robert takes the pulse of our country on this issue much better than any other writer today. I am incredibly proud and honored to be a small part of the Jihad Watch organization.
Robert, didn't I tell you?
Rebecca
Kudos!
(Already lent one of my brothers one of my copies... before it goes to the local library for further readers to enjoy.)
Can the NYT continue to NOT review it if/when the work hits Number 1?
Let's hope we find out soon.
(Perfectly Impressive Gadfly! )
I have gone to three of the Borders in my area just this weekend and have bought the single copies available. The copies are found in D-01 - under Renaissance and Middle Ages - and not with the books on Religion or on Islam.
I have also noticed that in two of the three Borders I visited that the Qurans are placed on the highest shelf although the section on Islam is several shelves below. I place the Qurans in the Islam section - which does not begin on the highest shelf.
My feeling is that if the Quran has to be placed on the highest shelf in the section, then all holy scriptures should be placed on the highest shelf - not just the Quran.
Today when buying the PIG to Islam, the cashier named Tarik read the title with disgust in his voice and certainly did not like having to touch the book or having to deal with me!
In total I have bought 5 copies of this book, one for my personal use, and the other 4 to give to others.
Of course now taht I think of it if they are only now getting around to the Chicago World's Fair, mayyyybe in a few years they will get to the Ukrainian genocide. Perhaps they are just behind the times
Dear Peri:
What disgusts me is the cashier's attitude is typical of people like that who want to believe in "wishful thinking" instead of the "facts".
I have been trying to enlighten people I know about Islam and now I can carry my "reference book" with me (Politically Incorrect Guide To Islam).
A grassroots effort needs to be created to get the "message" out.
Any suggestions!
It's good to hear that a rational and informed book on the less savory aspects of Islam has made it to the NYT bestseller list. Of course, if they do publish a review of it, they might publish one by John Esposito or one of the glib CAIR spokesmen like Hooper. I remember hearing Esposito's mentor, Prof. Ismail el-Farouqi, giving a lecture at Temple U in Philadelphia in --I believe-- 1969, after about a dozen Iraqi Jews and a few other Iraqis had been publicly hanged in Baghdad for allegedly spying for Israel. In response to a question, Farouqi answered that: "We could have wiped you [Jews] out in the time of Muhammad, if we had wanted to." This was to demonstrate Islamic liberalism.
I am now reading a book in Italian by Carlo Pannella, an expert on Islam. It is called "Il Complotto Ebraico." Pannella demonstrates that Islam has its own tradition of a Jewish conspiracy prejudice going back --ostensibly-- to the very beginnings of Islamic history. Muslims point out that Muhammad's rule of Medina was opposed by several Jewish tribes living there, and one of these tribes was massacred [the Banu Qureyza]. That opposition in Medina was the first allegedly Jewish plot, while the second was the alleged poisoning of Muhammad by a Jewish woman --whose father and husband had been slaughtered by the Muslims-- at the oasis of Khaybar. I recommend Pannella's book to those who know Italian. It demolishes the juvenile claim that Islam always treated the dhimmis well, etc. Nowadays, the apologists for Islamic jihad claim that Islamic terrorism is a protest about Iraq, Israel, the control of oil, etc. How do these people explain the Armenian massacres of the First World War when there was no Israel, no US control of Iraq [the British conquered Iraq only AFTER the Armenian massacres had begun. Then again, if Iraq is such a concern to them, why are most of the victims there Iraqi Muslim Arabs, not foreign troops? How come Algerian Islamist fanatics have slaughtered fellow Arab Muslims in the estimated amount of 140,000 over the last fifteen years? What do these murders have to do with Israel or the USA in Iraq? And why are Sunnis slaughtering Shi`is in Pakistan? [these terrorist attacks get little media attention, it seems to me]
Peri:
Your clerk no doubt heartily applauds the sales of books by Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky and anything that dumps on George Bush or Israel.