After a one-week hiatus, my book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) has for the week of November 20 once again made the New York Times Bestseller List (paperback nonfiction). It is at number 21 in its twelfth week on the list.
There have been no new reviews, and no major media appearances (although Fox News called today, but I was flying back to Secure Undisclosed Locationville after addressing a Marine Corps birthday celebration last night). I can only attribute the book's continuing success to the force of world events, and to the increasing popular perception that the conventional wisdom and official dogma on Islamic terrorism are false and misleading -- and dangerously so.
Robert,
Great news. Some people are waking up.
My local bookstore doesn't carry any of your books, naturally. I went in with no real hope. The guys that run it are aging hippies with ponytails, all-denim garb, and Hare Krishna sandals. On the shelf, a couple of translations of the Q. and several "mystical" apologetics, which basically say, Let's get away from the staid legalistic and ritualistic interpretations, and understand the "real" Islam.
The New Age shelves, instead, were fully loaded: Celtic lore, Egyptian occultism, Nordic gods, Kabbala (sp?)whatever.
I bought it 3 days ago without realizing that I knew you from the Blog world.
First off, the title. "Politically Incorrect" has come to mean "the blunt truth".
Second, it had some interesting stuff about the Crusades, even though I didn't agree with it. It was also well laid out, kind of like a Dummies book.
So there you go.
Better expedite your appearance on Fox before Prince Alwaleed finds out and makes his displeasure known to the producers.
In my bookstore (Borders) I wedged his book in front of the Quran.
My military base exchange can't keep it on the shelves! A lot of men and women in uniform buy it before deploying to Iraq.
I bought it for my Pop for his b-day. Read it myself before I gave it to him. I liked your methodology; you presented it in a manner that appealed to the neophyte. It fit the bill; my dad enjoyed it.
'Islam Unvieled' was how I discovered you 3 years ago. I thought you relied a bit too much on a particular source ('Reliance of a Traveler'), but it was otherwise a great book.
What really impresses me though Robert was your performance on Talk Radio. You hosted a program a few weeks back...and you had extended air time. It's one thing to do a 15 minute interview...quite another to host a 3 hour program. But so help me God you never became even remotely stale over that 3 hour period.
I'm a huge fan Robert...though I remain curious as to whether you agree with your Veep about a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq. If or when you're ready to share your thoughts on that issue, we'd all be very, very interested.
Bravo Hombre!
I try to give away as many copies as I can and use it as a tool to convert and educate as many people to the danger of the Jihad and Islam.
Given the many recent events and the continuing war on the world by Islam it is so timely.
God bless and hope you are well in "Secure Undisclosed Locationville"
Hello Robert,
I bought your book a few weeks ago and I read it every night. I was very pleased with your presentation of the Crusades and found that your depiction was what I had read on the subject when I studied it many years ago.
I get so sick of hearing about what the Christian knights did to all the poor "Moors". The thing that the deceit-mongers never mention is that the reason the Crusades happened in the first place was because aggressive Moslems were kidnapping Christians on pilgrimage to Jerusalem who were then carried off into slavery. When is the last time you heard anyone over at CAIR mention that little fact? There were also many Catholics involved in raising money to ransom those Christian captives and they were very successful in getting them released, but they paid a lot to do it. (I'm so glad that Islam is such a loving, considerate religion of peace.) I'm sure there were individual abuses and not all the Crusaders were on the up and up, but over all the news media have lied through their teeth to us on this subject.
When someone is whining a little too loudly about how abused they are, I always wonder if they might not have brought it, to some degree, on themselves. Me thinks they dost protest too much.
'Still praying that God will bless you and keep you safe.
Not only that Isabella, but the Muslims invaded the Levant and became Occupiers -- ironically, they did just what they criticize Bush for doing in invading Iraq (though of course Bush had much better reasons for invading), and the Christian Crusaders were the "insurgents" of their day, fighting a really evil occupation.
"It was also well laid out, kind of like a Dummies book. "
We may be dummies. We will not be dhimmis.
Meanwhile, let me again bore UK readers with my recommendation that they add to their library the book Islam in Britain - The report of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity which is an arm of the Barnabas Fund. http://www.barnabasfund.org/islaminbritain.htm
Only £5.99 +95p&p ! Cheap at twice the price.
Congratulations Robert!
The MSM seems to believe that ignoring it -like the French intifadah- might just make it fade away.
Meanwhile, France is burning:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=18208_France_Burning&only
l keep emialing to conservatives sites about your book, to people Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity.. l am sure they know of your book, and know the validity of it, but like a lot on the right are too sensitive of the lefts' and media's labelling them bigots, racists... l will keep emailing them about your book.. will not relent!
"My military base exchange can't keep it on the shelves! A lot of men and women in uniform buy it before deploying to Iraq."
-- from Delia's posting above
My God, that is the best news I have had all day, all week. I know that there is almost no useful information given officially, although unofficially some of those who have been hired to teach a bit of elementary spoken Arabic to the troops while they are over there have turned out to be Christians, and some of them (I am thinking of one in particular at FOB Danger, in Tikrit) have let loose in a way that Robert would never permit himself.
Anyone who has gone to Iraq and has not yet read the books of Spencer, Bat Ye'or (I'd give someone "The Dhimmi" first, then "Islam and Dhimmitude" and "The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam" and then, if they have made it through those, "Eurabia" which is the most difficult read of all), Ibn Warraq, and "The Legacy of Jihad" -- should. Give them one or more. Send them to the base libraries.
Let the civilians remain ignorant. Let the too-loyal generals get their potted reading lists, helpfully prepared by the likes of John Esposito and Peter Bechtold.
The officers and men of the regular army, the Reserves, the National Guard, can form a core, and in turn educate others.
That's the secret.
Knowledge.
And the other Secret behind Knowledge is Unity, a
rarer bird these days. And as a vetern myself of the Kuwait tacker flagging of 87/88, Desert Storm and Somalia, I am thrilled to know that these are being read by the folks in Uniform and as I spent almost two years total in the Persian Gulf countries
this is a book that would have helped me when I watched the some Shias in Bahrain marching down the street chanting death to America and Burning a US flag and fresh out off the farm in the midwest I didnt know the difference between a Shia and a Sunni, let alone the contents of the Koran. I learned real quick after that episode that things were not as they seem in that neck of the woods. Me and my partners got out real fast back to the Ship. This is good for people to read, for as much conterversary it may draw, is nothing to the hallmarks of the Islamists agenda that WE NO MATTER WHAT SIDE OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRAM ARE ON ARE GOING TO HAVE TO LOOK AT IT, and it has become topic to some of us in the cafes in the land of the Left I roam in(the Bay Area CA). Some are awkened, some are in denial, and some are just insane, but there are those that are aware of whats going on and are uniting to do something about it. The first is awareness, the second knowledge, the third is Unity, the fourth is Action.
Robert,
I had to order your book from the USA. A great read and confirmation of what I had mostly to collect from the web. I've now also read "Legacy of Jihad" by A. Bostom - a real true horror story of endless terror, massacre and destruction. Now I'm reading The "Rise of Early Modern Science, Islam, China and the West" by Toby E. Huff. Together these books give good information about a question which has been bugging me for a long while: Why seem moslims in the Middle East to almost literally have been dying out around the beginning of the nineteenth century, before Europe came in with modern science and medicine? Check the numbers! From Marocco to Persia an estimated seven million people are left, down from about 35 million around A.D. 750. It's as if a new unsuccesful subspecies of the Family of Man has developed. Homo sapiens islamicus asapiens would be my preferred name.
Muri