Adam says: Read this book
A brief interview with David Klinghoffer about my forthcoming book The Truth About Muhammad.
Robert Spencer: The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religionby David Klinghoffer, Religion BookLine -- 9/6/2006
A controversial scholar, director of Jihad Watch, and author of the bestselling Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) takes on the most sacred figure in Muslim history.
RBL: In your first chapter you note that, in writing a frank biography of Muhammad, you are “fully aware of the risks involved.” Are you afraid? What precautions can you and your publisher take for your safety?
Spencer: I am aware of the risk, but I’m not afraid. Everyone dies, no one knows when or how he will, and I would rather do what I think must be done rather than bow to intimidation in a bid to live longer. We are taking precautions, but of course if I detailed what they were, they’d be less effective.
RBL: What about a book tour?
Spencer: I don’t think this is planned—not because of the nature of this book in particular. Regnery has always preferred TV and radio interviews.
RBL: Did you consider including any amusing cartoons of your biographical subject in the book?
Spencer: No, although I respect the Danish cartoonists’ courage in defense of free speech. My intention is not to satirize, but to present solid evidence about Muhammad from Muslim sources.
RBL: Is there any recent precedent for an unapologetic bio of the prophet, or is yours the first modern one?
Spencer: There is a great deal that’s useful in books by Rodinson, Lings, and others. Other modern books are flawed in relying on sources Muslims do not consider authoritative. Mine is the first one I know of in many decades to rely solely on sources Muslims rely on most to show what they really say about Muhammad.
RBL: What, from a faithful Muslim’s perspective, might be the most provocative (or offensive) thing you report about Muhammad?
Spencer: Strictly speaking, a Muslim who accepts the authority of the siras Ibn Ishaq and Ibn Sa'd, and the hadith collections of Bukhari and Muslim—in other words, a knowledgeable traditional Muslim—should find nothing offensive about this book in what I report about Muhammad, because it is all from those sources and others just as authoritative. What may offend them is that I hold Muhammad to a moral standard other than the one he delineated for himself.
RBL: Will faithful Muslims be reading this book?
Spencer: I hope so. This is my sixth book; when I wrote my first I hoped it would lead to fruitful discussions with honest Muslims. Instead it was greeted with vitriol and invective. This has become a recurring pattern, but I still always hope.
RBL: How does understanding Muhammad better help us in the war on terror?
Spencer: Jihadists see themselves as following the example of Muhammad in word and deed. Most Western analysts assume they are doing things that would outrage Muhammad. Whether or not they are will reveal a great deal about the overall prospects for the democracy project in Iraq, the war on terror, and more.
RBL: Is Islamic fascism a departure from the main body of classical Islam?
Spencer: I show in this book that it is not a departure at all.
Look for a contrasting view of Muhammad and Islam in next week’s issue of RBL.
HEY! How come that scumbag Gaydahan got an advance copy and I didn't?
Robert:
If I were you I'd commission 12 new Muhammad cartoons to illustrate this Arabian con artist for your readers (joking)
Bohemond:
Sorry. He needs it more.
Cordially
Robert Spencer
I'm champing at the bit for this book. October is too far off.
Sorry. He needs it more.
Right Mr Spencer. He'll learn about some more of Mohammed's evil to emulate. Stuff he didn't know until your comprehensive expose of this charlatan
Dennis:
I did not write a book exhorting people to imitate Muhammad.
Cordially
Robert Spencer
"Instead it was greeted with vitriol and invective."
This and the article posted a few days ago on WND about alquada, Spencer and Pipes shows that you are an effective agent of truth.
They are afraid of the truth.
If the average guy on the street in the free world had any idea what sharia and jihad were all about they would be resisted by everybody and destroyed with all resources available.
ROBERT: "What may offend them is that I hold Muhammad to a moral standard other than the one he delineated for himself."
This, in a nutshell, is the battle for civilization.
robert we need you here in australia.
we havent got muslims here in large enough numbers to cause problems similar to londonistan YET so its not too late to ban this alleged religion but i believe time is of the essence.
i believe that we should ask all immigrants and visitors to sign a declaration that sharia is barbaric , failure to sign indicates you are "not of good character" and therefore are refused entry to our country.
cant wait to get your new book ..unfortunately i will have to get it imported though
Remember folks read it when you get it and share it. I buy them and start conversations with other travelers and give them away or just place a copy on a table in Airports when I travel. Anything to get the truth out. You can also leave copies in the USO or send them to the troops (hint)
OT:
U.S. Air Force Officer Missing in Kyrgyzstan
See Ny Times website.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/06/world/asia/07kirgyzcnd.html
Well done, mr. Spencer! Personally, I am hoping for a book tour.
And totally OT, my eldest is in university this year. He's already managed to find the student group responsible for bringing Mr. Spencer to his university a couple of years ago, and joined them. He's now campaigning for them to bring Mr. Spencer back. My fingers are crossed!
Dear Mr. Spencer,
You are doing such a wonderful service to this country. I liken you to a modern Paul Revere who is sounding the alarm for everyone to ready themselves for what's coming. May you stay safe.
After I get my issue I plan on sharing with friends and family as I do all of my books on this subject or similar ones.
I am glad Robert is once again focusing on the texts themselves, which is always more convincing to me than a journalist or scholar telling me what I should think without revealing the actual source.
And for that matter I wish most writers would follow his example of being simple and direct with language, like Jacques Barzun suggests.
It will be fascinating to find out whom The Times and The Post and The Daily Scream will decide to assign the task of reviewing this book on Muhammad. Let's apotropaically guess: on the "brave reformer" Khaled Abou El Fadl? Fawaz Gerges, the hysterical "islamochristian"? The polymath rock star of Beirut and Irvine, California, Mark LaVine? The Shambhala Press star Carl Ernst? Or Michael Sells, who never quite informs his students about the Sira of Muhammad, that Perfect Man, uswa hasana, al-insan al-kamil? Some "expert" in international relations, the kind who solemnly tells NPR's Tom Ashfrook that Osmaa bin Laden is "deranged" (the very adjective I heard todya on "On Point"), a most convenient way of rejecting the necessity of actually learning about what is in the Qur'an, Hadith, and figure of Muhammad, if those who so loyally follow the example of Muhammad, who are true to Qur'an and Sunnah, can blithely be dismissed (don't expect Tom Ashbrook to know a thing about Islam so that he might be capable of raising an objection -- he knows as little today as he knew four years ago, that is to say, nothing at all).
Who will review it? In "The Nation" will it be high-cheekboned Katerina van den Heuvel herself, or earnest Jonathan Schell, or some other well-protected product of the Upper East Side, the ones who hold on to their trust funds very carefully, or even manage, like Wallace Shawn, to find a way to blend so beautifully the theories of Lenin with the cultural practices of Swifty Lazar?
Who will review it in The Sunday Times has been in the habit of assigning books, without fear but plenty of favor, to the likes of James Bamford, the assigning editor -- Sam Tannenhaus -- apparently unaware that James Bamford has a history of making outrageous statements about Israel (he claimed in his book on the National Security Agency that the Israelis deliberately attacked the U.S.S. Liberty and did so in order to prevent the United States from finding out about Israeli soldiers massacring Egyptian prisoners -- a total fabrication, but the same viciousness about Israel can be detected in everything he writes). So if not Bamford, who of course knows nothing about Islam, who? Michael Scheuer, on the silly theory that since he was mentioned by Adam Gadahn, he must be someone of substance? Who will it be?
And at The Bandar Beacon why not the best of the locals? That's right -- why not John Espositio himself. Surely he's the man to review the book. He's the head of the Center of Muslim=Christian Understanding at Georgetown. He's taught there, and taught previously at another Jesuit school, Holy Cross. He wouldn't fool us, would he? He's got no reason to defend Muhammad, does he?
At the Boston Globe, will it be H.D.S. Greenway, who has spent the last 30 years at least, at Morrissey Boulevard, instructing us all, smoothly, about the perfidy of Israel and the misunderstood, and quite wonderful Arabs of the PLO, of Egypt, of Jordan, and everywhere in the Middle East that David Greenway chose to go. But Greenway never bothered, not even in all those years of bow-tied and chinese-vased demi-retirement in Needham, to actually begin to find out something about Islam. Why, it was just 2-3 years ago that, in one column, he with surprise noted the fears of the Copts in Egypt, and suggested that this was a "new" development, juset as some may thing that the promptings of Jihad are brand-new, without precedent, caused by that famous "conflict with modernity" we keep hearing about, when we are not hearing about "poverty" or "American foreign policy" or "Israeli behavior" as the supposed explanation for the behavior of Muslims from southern Thailand to northern Scandinavia to Cape Town, and on over to Dearborn, and all points in-between.
Who will review this book? And who will enjoy dismissing it, without ever coming to grips with the evidence it presents, not from the mouth of Robert Spencer, but from Ibn Ishaq and Ibn Sa'd and all the other authorities, all of them Muslims, who provide Muslims today with their life of that Perfect Man, Muhammad, an inspiration Now and Forever.
Perhaps you have some ideas about what your local paper will do with this book, what guide to misinformation will be assigned the task of dispatching this book, of preventing readers even from buying it to judge for themselves. Since the evidence presented as to what Muslims are taught about Muhammad comes entirely from the most authoritative Muslim sources, it will be hard to deal with this book, unless the usual litany of pejoratives is used to call the author's good faith, and sanity, into question.
One wonders if the press realizes how much damage it is inflicting on itself through its palpable inability to deal with the subject of Islam. The vast silence about the doctrines of Islam, doctrines never discussed in the Western press though they are hardly hidden from view, and besides, anyone can, through a few clicks on the computer's clavichord, or by looking at any of a number of websites, such as the scholarly www.dhimmitude.org, or such websites as www.answering-islam.org or that of ex-Muslims such as Ali Sina at www.faithfreedom.org, find out more in an afternoon than they have been given, in the past five years, by all the articles round and about the subject that have appeared in The New Duranty Times and The Bandar Beacon combined. And similarly, much can be discovered, on the Internet and by visits to the library, finding out about the practice of Islam over 1350 years, about Jihad-conquest and the subjugation of non-Muslims. We don't accept the nonsense of Bush about this, so why should we accept the nonsense of the editorial board of The Times or the Beacon or The Globe or The Post or The Scream?
Go ahead. Make suggestions below, offer us a list of potential reviewers. Don't be too silly. Don't suggest Charlie Sheen or Jacques Chirac or Pat Buchanan or Jimmy Carter or Kofi Annan. Be serious.
It is entirely possible, for example, that the portentous Zbigniew Brzezinski will be asked to put in his two cents, by someone indifferent to, or ignorant of, his role in the creation of the Islamic Republic of Iran. And one can imagine all those assorted indyks and rosses -- the people who have made their entire government careers, and even their post-government richly-endowed careers, on the basis of their belief that "negotiations" and "treaties" could have great significance, could bring to a permanent end the Arab Muslim opposition to the Infidel state of Israel. In other words, these peole have spent 30 years without understanding islam, and are prepared to spend the next ten or twenty in such ignorance. They have nothing to tell us, and have no business reviewing Spencer's book on Muhammad.
No tangible reward for the best entry or entries, but admiration from afar. That should do.
If someone needs an idea for a Thangsgiving or a Christmas present, It is this........
SpongeMom:
Not just your country. Mine too. And I expect there are others here in Britland and the rest of Europe feel the same.
And we already know from a post above that we can include Australia too.
If only one person in a country is enlightened by Mr Spencer, then he's serving that country too.
I don't think you comprehend quite how valuable JW is to people like me. I mean that. We Brits and Euros are not all the wussies some Americans make us out to be. Some of us would go to the wall for this war we're engaged in.
When I first started commenting on the al Ghurardian Sith threads, there were only three or four of us and we used to get an awful lot of stick - go now to those same Sith threads and you'll see that things are swinging our way.
We will win the war against this obnoxious ideology, just like we won the wars against the last two obnoxious ideologies that arose in this world of ours. People like Mr Spencer have a large part to play in it.
And so do we.
You know Robert, if wide dissemination of this material is your primary goal, you should have found a way to incorporate sex on the front cover.
Could you not have put a 9/10ths naked woman on the cover in some explicit pose with the title:
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sex (and a guy named Mohammad), But Were Afraid To Ask.
Sex sells. The muslims would get a lot more pissed off, make a much bigger stink, you would get more interviews, and sales would go through the roof. And by extension, therefore, educated more readers.
Robert, we are both assuming that he can read. Maybe his owner will read it to him.
Jihad this!
Posted: September 6, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
I no longer accept that we are only at war with Islamic fascists or Islamic fundamentalists or whatever the heck we're calling them this week. I believe that we in the West are at war with Islam, period.
I have heard any number of politicians, up to and including President Bush, claim, contrary to all reason and evidence, that Islam is a religion of peace. If you buy that load of malarkey, I've got a Brooklyn mosque I'd like to sell you.
This is the religion that was founded by the violence-prone Muhammad 1,400 years ago. It was he who established the practice of converting at the point of a sword; a short while ago, two journalists kidnapped by his followers were converted at the barrel of a gun. In 14 centuries, it seems only the technology has changed.
I have read that the current crop of terrorists and butchers only represent about 10 percent of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims. I don't know how they came by that figure, but that would still add up to 120 million cutthroats and fellow travelers. That figure is far greater than the number of Germans who were even alive when Hitler and his pagan hordes were marching across Europe, and far greater than the number of Russians who were Communist Party members during Stalin's reign of terror.
I have heard well-meaning people claim that, however we might feel about Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and the various tyrants heading up Syria, Iran and the rest of the Middle East, our own American Muslims are a breed apart. Sorry, but I don't buy it. We're all aware that long after their co-religionists attacked the U.S.S. Cole, blew up our embassies, attacked a Marine base and murdered 3,000 innocent people on 9/11, all in the name of Allah, these peace lovers were wiring contributions to our sworn enemies.
Moreover, we know that young American Muslims are not lining up to join our armed services and thus prove that their loyalty to this nation takes precedence over their religion.
In 1943, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team was formed. It consisted of young Japanese-American men. In spite of the fact that the Nisei faced widespread prejudice in America, and in spite of the fact that their own families had been imprisoned by the federal government at Manzinar and various other concentration camps, these volunteers became the most decorated combat unit of its size during World War II. It was thanks to their sacrificial efforts that over 200 members of the 36th Texas Division, the so-called Lost Division, were rescued from certain slaughter at the hands of the Germans. It was during this battle in France's Vosges mountains that 2nd Lt. Daniel K. Inouye, later to be elected to the U.S. Senate, lost his right arm and earned the Congressional Medal of Honor. Astonishingly, his was only one of 21 such medals won by the relatively small group. The unit became legendary, known as the "Go for Broke" guys who fought for their country and their honor, collecting nearly 10,000 Purple Hearts and a nation's gratitude along the way.
On the other hand, what do we hear from America's Muslims? Silence when it comes to military service, bellyaching when it comes to ridiculous claims of racial profiling.
Quite honestly, I suspect that the only way we could get the Quran crowd to go fight in the Middle East is if the United States declared war on Israel!
Hugh brings us an interesting problem. Who is qualified to review Roberts’s book? I for one rarely read book reviews. I rely mostly on word of mouth but I am far from a learned man. I have noticed many of those I challenged to read his earlier books are now helping convert others over to the light. I believe you should target your audiences, I love to give copies to active duty military. It might just be a drop in a big bucket but an important one. I have yet to have a book returned or have anyone complain or attempt to discredit it. I’m not rich but a few books at a time will not cause my rent to go unpaid. Some of you could easily fill a box and donate them to boys clubs, 4 h, local libraries, politicians, police departments, use your imaginations. I’m sure CAIR has a book case (ok, that was mean) but seriously buy several.
RE: potential reviewers for 'Muhammad'
My practical, unglamorous suggestion is to target conservative newspapers in large metropolitan areas that review books in the states of California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Indiana, Michigan, Virginia, Texas, Ohio and Maryland. All the above states have high Muslim populations- by reviewing the book, the newspapers would be appear to be serving the editorial needs of their Muslim readers. In actuality, they would be serving the needs of their non-Muslim populations by enlightening them on the true nature of Islam and their prophet.
It might also help to use words like sexy, provocative, and shocking in any news releases.
Robert,
You've got my email address. If ever you feel the need, for any reason, to escape to an undisclosed location, my home is your home.
Best regards,
Art
Robert,
It will be interesting how the reaction to your new book will be. Congratuations on speaking the truth.
Robert, do you think UNC will replace "Approaching the Quran" with "The Truth...?" That probably won't go over too well in Saunders Hall or the Pit. Prof Al-Ernst won't be available for comment.
I am looking forward to curling up and watching the Gitmo tribunals on CSPAN while perusing this newest infidel bestseller. This is like the Super Bowl of the infidel movement. With some pork rinds and cold beer in hand.
Hey Robert!
How do I get a signed copy????
Please, pretty please? -grin-
The Goobs
"I love to give copies to active duty military."
-- from a posting above
Very important. If the current generals and other high officersare too set in their mental ways, too unable to begin to learn about Islam, too unquestioning of the policy they believe they are not entitled to question, but merely must carry out, even if that policy cannot succeed (Iraq the Light Unto the Muslim Nations, now downgraded, like a hurricane in reverse, to Iraq the Okay or Semi-Okay) and, were it to succeed, would deprive the Infidels of a chance to exploit, merely by withdrawing, those sectarian and ethnic divisions which naturally tend to divide and demoralize and hence weaken the camp of Islam, and would furthermore serve not Muslims, but rather Infidels, as a Demonstraton Project of what Muslim polities, in their natural tendency to aggression and violence and irrationality and conspiracy theories of every type, naturally tend to, the way water seeks its own level.
And such books should be given both to those who those who have returned from Iraq (or Afhganistan, or other areas of Muslim agitation and unrest, as in the Horn of Africa), as they try to figure out, to puzzle out, what it was they were doing there, what it all meant, what explains what they observed, and the difference between what they observed and the official line of the Pentagon and the Administration as to what they were doing and why it was so useful. Once they find out more about the contents of the Islamic texts and with the figure of Muhammad, once they read about Jihad-conquest and the status of non-Muslims under Islam, and make the connection to the present-day world crisis, in London and Madrid and Amsterdam and Beslan and New York and Washington, as well as in the Sudan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and also, of course, in Iraq and Afghanistan, once they realize that Infidels have a stake not in Muslim well-being but in the natural tendency of Muslims to fight other Muslims when they are not given the chance to fight Infidels, many things will become clear. And without that clarity, they will remain, confused, and some of them more than confused -- demoralized, some of them bitter, a few of them vulnerable even to conpsiracy theories about why they were sent to Iraq. Ignorance of Islam, failure to properly identify the enemy and to fashion policies based on that identification, and a concomitant failure to understand that the sectarian split in Iraq became inevitable, was not avoidable, once Saddam Hussein's regime was removed, explain the the Administration's delay in getting out of Iraq, and once well away, with air-to-surface and air-to-subsurface ways and means, into the skies over malevolent Iran.
libbysmom:
Please tell your son he has my respect and admiration for standing up and getting involved in this way. He is among the largest group of his peers that he will ever be in contact with at one time, and I think young people in that atmosphere are open to new ideas. Cheers to him and the entire group for trying to make a difference in these difficult times.
I too am very eager for the book to come out. Once again, many thanks to Mr. Spencer and everyone at JW for all that you do.
Adam says: Read this book
There must be some satisfaction when you go out to dinner, knowing that Adam is picking up the bill.
LOL. LMAO...Way to go Mr Spencer. Use their tactics (photoshop - Lebanon) against them.
So much bad terminology in the Islamic War. So much.
Islamic fascist is the latest in a long line of counterproductive terms that leave Average Joe half asleep and laid wide open to destruction. Islamic fascist implies that an Islamic non-fascist is possible, and of course this is an impossiblity. You can add to that list such suicide-by-Islam classics as moderate Moslem, Islamic extremist, insurgent, radical Islam, and so many more hopeful-but-fantastic concepts too numerous to list here.
But this small diatribe wouldn't be complete without mentioning the Twin Towers of the Islamic War:
1) Islamist --- a murky word that appeared suddenly and without explaination that somehow comforts us about what really Moslems intend to do.
2) War on Terror --- an agitprop salve where by its very use non-Moslems tacitly admit to themselves that they are too afraid even to name their mortal enemy.
* 33:21 ** 33:21 * 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 *
Tiptoeing around a fatal problem wearing blindfolds and earplugs is a dangerous game.
Somewhat OT/
In the last 2 weeks, my significant other had occasion to discuss this website with several co-workers who became familiar with Mr. Spencer's work mainly due to his interview on C-SPAN and his book on islam for Catholics. Mr. Spencer's book and the C-SPAN interview proved to be real eye-openers to them.
When the truth of what islam is really about becomes known it is truly a shocking experience. However, at the same time I think the light bulb for goes on for anyone with an open mind because of the reality of what is happening throughout the world because of islam. It is abundantly clear that whatever islam is, it certainly isn't peaceful! This is very clear in Mr. Spencer's work, which is nothing like the nonsense we hear day in and day out from islamic apologists and know-nothings, and his use of islamic materials only bolsters his arguments.
Hugh said re giving copies of the book to those in the military:
"Very important. If the current generals and other high officersare too set in their mental ways, too unable to begin to learn about Islam..."
Hugh, it's beginning, at least from the bottom up. My son's ROTC recruiter is familiar with Robert's books, as are the instructors at the dept. of Military Science. It may take a while to reach the top, but if you consider all of the young men and women enrolling in ROTC in the various branches of the military, there will be a change. Hopefully for us all, it will be sooner rather than later.
Hugh said:
Hugh, I'm one of those "high officers" however, though a regular officer, alas I'm on the retired rolls and have been since Ronald Reagan's second year in office. But it was not always so, I started out a "ranker" as the Brits say (learned the term from Sharpe's (Rifles, Eagle, Challenge, Justice, Waterloo etc.. those books and BBC Series about super soldier Richard Sharpe of the Napoleonic Wars.)
Some insight, the military is cloistered, and of necessity and training (and brainwashing) patriotic, and blindly so...we are taught not to question orders, never, but to follow orders, even if the orders aren't clear. Early on in my career I was taught "The Message to Garcia".. Teddy Roosevelt hauled a young Captain (Rowen was his name as I recall, and that was taught me in 1957) before him, gave him a sealed message and told him to "take it to Garcia".. no other explanation. Garcia was a rebel fighting the Spanish in the Cuban Highlands, but an obscure man and no one knew his location, yet this young Captain, without asking questions of Teddy, on his own initiative figured out who Garcia was, and then set out, found him and delivered that message.
I spent a career in special operations, invading, parachuting into, infiltrating and exfiltrating quite a few countries, including Viet Nam, "Thrace" and behind the Iron Curtain..most of the time I knew nothing about the mission except what I needed to know to perform the mission.. and I never asked questions, nor did I think to ask questions and to disobey orders or question authority was not only inconceivable, but a courts martial offense and end of career (not to mention jail time).
Don't expect anything out of the military til they retire and learn to start thinking on their own, if they ever get that far.
I live in a military community and I think for the most part, they know what is up with Islam--especially if they have been to Iraq. They know that many of the same Iraqis that are smiling and waving at them are the same ones that just planted an IED on the roadside--or at least know who did it. As a matter of fact, it was in a MILITARY bookstore that I saw "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam." I saw somebody reading it and there were a few copies on the shelf. I went back a week later and they were all sold out. I had to buy my copy online.
Robert, what's it going to take in terms of dollars for JW and its new parent entity to be able to fund some television spots featuring some of Islam's finest moments and some biting JW commentaries? A nice start would be a Super Bowl spot with about a minute of condensed politically incorrect tidbits on our friends the ayatollahs, imams, and their followers. Now that you're linked up with Horowitz I imagine the fundraising reach is greatly expanded.
Publicize any financial goals JW has here and on frontpagemag and I know people will start mailing in the checks. We'll think of it as an anti-jizya.
I’d like to echo Hugh on this one. At any one time there are a hundred thousand plus military in the middle east. Over the last decade, millions have cycled through. I can't speak for the Brits to counter Nariz, but the guys I worked with were from MIT, Harvard, (and some real Universities in the mid-west). I've never seen a more cynical group. /scarcasm on/ I'd go as far as to call them 'cheeky' /scarcasm off/.
These Westerners have been exposed to Islamic societies and have made countless observations while they were there. At the time you are too busy worrying about your job and unit to think too much about larger political issues.
But once you’re back, you’ve had the experience, noted the data points, and won’t forget them. Did you know that those serving in Saudi Arabia are re-educated to say ‘Arabian Gulf’ (rather than ‘Persian’). You practice saying ‘Arabian Gulf’.
Many people in the military eventually rise to positions of power both in the military and in the civilian world. Robert’s books and the discussions here help to connect the dots. When I’m done with the book I’m reading, I’ll drop it off at the reserve center.
Rowan was the man who took the "Message to Garcia" and the prose piece was by Elbert Hubbard. It was not, in the main, about the military virtue of following orders, but about rather, the ability to carry out a mission, a duty, a task, without asking too many damn questions. Not really a tale of military virtue in the manner of "How They Brought the Good News from Aix" (or was it Ghent? I can't remember). In fact, the main point of the story was about the Good Employee who can do his job without direction, can look things up, get things done, even when the employer is away. One may detect a hint of social darwinism, of "Acres of Diamonds," of "Mr. Herbert Spencer's 'Social Statics'" to quote one of the two most famous lines of Justice Holmes, but that would be unfair to Elbert Hubbard and to his Roycroft Press, and to his many different activities and amusing views.
He (and his wife) went down with the Lusitania.
He said, and very well -- too bad that more people writing their solemn reflections on the Meaning of Life in the 35th or 40th or 45th or 50th Alumni Anniversary Report (whew, they all think to themselves -- at least thank god I'm not not here to read my name on the "In Memoriam" list at the end of the volume)-- several funny things.
"Life is just one damn thing after another."
That's by Elbert Hubbard.
Mr. Spencer,
"Plus ratio quam vis"
Congratulations on your appointment to the David Horowitz Freedom Center [sic]. I also have to say that I admire your courage and your passion in the cause of what is right and reasoned. I wish that I had your courage and your learning. Please keep yourself safe.
Dominic.
P.S.
To misquote Richard III "Islam is come, - false, fleeting, perjur'd Islam" but to quote the play real how about "An honest tale speeds best being plainly told." This latter quote more aptly sums up your writings in my opinion.
D.
My apologies.
"Plus ratio quam vis" translates, for those who have not the Latin (and no reason why you should), to 'Reason is worth more than power', or 'Through reason, not force'. One will find this motto engraved in the courtyard of the Collegium Maius in Krakow in Poland. The most famous alumnus of the college is probably Nicolas Copernicus (good old copperknickers).
Dominic.
Hugh/
But perhaps Mr. Hubbard puts us both in our places on this particular thread on JW, for was it not he who said:
"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
I stand, suitably chastened by genius, the mere mortal I am called
Dominic.
I am very excited to read The Truth About Muhammad. My own copy was ordered at Barnes & Nobles Bookstore a week ago. Mr. Spencer is a first rate scholar who can be trusted to tell the truth about Muhammad even if it hurts the very tender feelings of discontented Muslims whose theological beliefs about Muhammad are far from the truth.
The intellectual jihad is being waged throughout the world. Many people have already been duped into believing inaccurate historical accounts about Islam and Muhammad.
Fortunately, there are scholars such as Mr. Spencer who possesses the intellectual prowess and integrity to lead others to the truth about Islam's founder, Muhammad.
Muhammad is the most misunderstood figure in the world. It is true that his life was not charcterized by virtue or genuine holiness as is found in spiritual figures such as Jesus Christ. Yet billions of Muslims believe that he was the final prophet and revealer of God's truth.
The fact that billions of people around the world believe that Muhammad was a prophet and accept his misguided spiritual teachings simply astounds me.
I am convinced that Islam is a false religion that is causing billions of Muslims to maintain a belief system that is inherently dysfunction and humilating for the human spirit.
The world needs more courageous individuals like Mr. Spencer who have found the courage to stand up for the truth and aren't afraid of the consequences that could result by confronting the darkness of ignorance.
I really can't say anything that hasn't already been said...
Robert, the word you are spreading and the job you do is INVALUABLE.
I hope you recognize your importance to us all.
This book is REALLY going to cause an uproar when it hits the bookstore shelves.
It's so good to hear you've taken appropriate steps to safeguard yourself.
The fact that you use Islam's own words to tell the story of Muhammed is absolute genius ... there is no way they can twist or spin what you say because to do so would discredit their own teachings and beliefs. However, I'm sure we all expect Islam apologists and CAIR and the like to throw up their usual 'racist, untrue, islamophobic' rhetoric shield.
The job you do and JW and DW are SO important to The Fight, and I thank you for all the time, effort, and intellect you put into it and give us.
Where are the trolls?
Hope this book does as well as the p.i.g. to islam did...
Good to see Adam finally hawking for the right side. But how did he get the book in front of the dubbed text at the bottom of the screen? Something suggests the complicity of the Mossad; tricksy.
When's Rob getting back on radio? I had a nice chat with him a year or so back when he was out California way (I think it was there) filling in for someone who was on vacation.
I foresee it will be soon.
Prophet Geoff
Robert
I second HayItsMe's comments. There are a number of models where books are available online (see O'Reilly & Associates, for instance). As it is, there are a lot of countries where your book could risk getting banned if Muslims raise a huge hue and cry, but if you put it online, it would be easier to spread to Infidels outside the US and Europe.
Incidentally, have any of your books been translated?
Everyone -- consider preordering The Truth about Muhammad (if possible, several copies for friends and family) now at this page of amazon.com? Let's make the book a bestseller even before it's even out (though it will be out in a few weeks, I gather). Let's give it as much early explosive momentum as we can so it reaches its highest possible publishing orbit.
Just ordered to copies of Truth...
Oops, two copies...
That picture of Adam: I just want him to know, if he's reading this, that I think he is a particularly slimy, greasy looking man. Whenever I see these physically revolting thugs/terrorists it seems pretty obvious that part of their problem is their inability to deal with their desperate attractiveness (not helped by their outfits!!).
They need 'what not to wear'. Hint: turbans, straggly beards, nightshirts...
Robert,
first of all congratulations upon being noticed by Jihad Adam ;-) I love the Photoshop job in placing a copy of the book into Adam's hands.
Second, congratulations upon getting an honourable mention in Adam's little diatribe that was released, and ignored by the MSM.
You know, if it was not for the Internet I would not even know about all of these threats. That means that people are being lulled into a false sense of security. The bleeding hearts continue to harbour their false notions about Islam.
You are doing the right thing in using Muslim literature to expose Mohammed. It is one of the best ways of exposing Mohammed as a fraud and false prophet. Conversion by the sword does not make a religion of peace.
It is hard to understand how many in the west can be so foolish when it comes knowing the truth about Islam. People have taken leave of their senses, because the revisionists on Channel 4 have given their version of the Crusades, a version that coincides with the Islamic heretics.
Be not afraid about speaking out about the truth. It has to be done. To me it does not matter if my opponent is from Islam or is a Protestant (especially the Fundamentalist variety), if my opponent is speaking heresy then I believe in telling it straight. I believe in sticking with the facts and not getting carried away with the make believe.
Ah yes, I noticed that someone brought up the matter of statistics and the number of Muslims in the world. I doubt that there are 1.2 billion of them.
p.s. to those who think that all Muslims believe in Jihad, please remember that there really are secular Muslims who do not agree with the aims of these terrorist thugs. They are willing to speak out when speaking to Christians etc. but they are afraid to speak out in the company of other Muslims.
Dear Hay It's Me and Infidel Pride:
Re e-books: This is something over which I have no control. The publisher may decide to put out an e-book, but per the contract I signed with them, that is entirely up to them. If you want to see one, contact them.
Re translations: There is an Indonesian version of "Islam Unveiled," but that's all. A French version was abandoned after death threats. I received many offers to translate "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam," but this again is a decision of the publisher. I forwarded them all to them, but have heard nothing about any translations actually being published.
Cordially
Robert Spencer
Katerina van den Heuvel- ACK! she is THE WORST! How can someone be SO wrong. And still make it on to shows to give her opinion, over and over. I can feel my blood boiling as soon as I hear her name.
Its not Islamo-fascism or Islamo-anything. Its Islam!
AIG wrote: "How do we buy a copy?"
Right at the top to the article the books title links to it on amazon.com
I preordered there, I only hope they don't cancel it like they did with a recent Jihad Watch fundraiser. And if they do I will buy direct from the publishers site.
You can also check amazon.de, but in any event amazon.com should be able to ship to Germany.