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This morning, I sent off the completed manuscript of my latest book, The Truth About Muhammad, to Regnery Publishing. It is scheduled to appear in bookstores October 9. This is an examination of the life of the Prophet of Islam, with particular emphasis on the elements of his words and deeds that give rise to fanaticism and violence.
I believe this is an important issue, despite the obvious risks involved in writing this book, because of the anomalous situation that both jihadists and self-proclaimed Islamic moderates invoke Muhammad and claim to be following his example. Most Western government and law enforcement officials still hew to the line that the jihadists have hijacked Islam; they thus assume that at its core Islam is peaceful and pluralistic. This question thus has important implications for policy on the war on terror, democratization, immigration, and more. And what better way to gain clarity on this issue than by examining the life of the founder of Islam himself?
Now I know, judging from the huge critical silence from both liberals and conservatives that greeted my last book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (which nevertheless spent four months on the New York Times Bestseller List), that reviewers are an extremely busy lot. Heck, I must confess myself to letting months go by without completing reviews of books that I have wanted to help get the word out about. So I've decided to provide a review of this book myself -- an adversarial one, free for use by any mainstream media reviewer who decides that this book cannot be ignored. If there are any such reviews of The Truth About Muhammad, here is what they will say:
The ignorant Islamophobe Spencer compounds his abysmal ignorance of Islam with his latest hysterical screed, The Truth About Muhammad. This frothing book-length rant draws exclusively on the earliest sources for the life of Muhammad (pbuh), particularly Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Sa'd, and the hadith collections of Bukhari and Muslim. As everyone knows, Ibn Ishaq has long since been discredited, and serious scholars of Islam snicker at the mention of his name. Ibn Sa'd? Bukhari? Muslim? Pshaw. If Spencer does manage to record anything accurately in this book, it is purely by accident, as he cherry-picks the worst incidents of Muhammad's life to paint a patently absurd picture of a warrior prophet.Why, Spencer doesn't even know Arabic -- or if he does, he's just trying vainly to impress us. What is he trying to do -- ignite a clash of civilizations?
There it is, yours for the taking. You don't even have to attribute it to me. (If any mainstream media sources actually do review the book, watch how closely they hew to the lines of this review.)
Anyway, for your information, Ibn Ishaq and the rest are used by Yahiya Emerick in his biography of Muhammad, which is endorsed by CAIR, as well as by Karen Armstrong and by serious biographers of Muhammad, such as Maxime Rodinson, Martin Lings, David S. Margoliouth, William Muir, and others. The sources I use can't really be impugned -- which of course won't stop anyone.
The point I am making, of course, is one I made the other day: The opposition is, from an argumentative standpoint, unarmed. They know that what we are saying about Islam, jihad, and terrorism is true -- if they really believed it wasn't, they would show their readers the exact ways in which we are wrong, but they don't do that, because they can't. But they know that a few well-placed sneers will scare away many people of good will -- and that is a game that they play expertly.
Watch for the book, and the sneers, in October.
Posted by Robert at July 26, 2006 4:47 PM
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Say, where'd you get that idea of reviewing your own book from the viewpoint of a hostile Muslim reviewer? I wish I'd thought of that.
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at July 26, 2006 5:27 PM
Cant wait to buy your book Robert..and some for friends and family too.Thank you for this forum.
Posted by: storagemanager at July 26, 2006 5:32 PM
I can hear the screams , cries, ululating of the women, cars being set on fire, babies crying, embassies being torched, males tearing their clothes, stones hitting.....whatever they throw them at, and normal wailing of the muslims now....
This will be called the Spencer vs. mo war. From an argumentative standpoint.
Posted by: freewoman at July 26, 2006 5:36 PM
Good luck with the book Robert, I look forward to it's release.
Keep up the good work!
Posted by: km at July 26, 2006 5:41 PM
This will do even better than the Guide, I predict. People love to read about personalities, especially perverted, maniacal, irrational, sanctimonious, delusional, violent types, who murder, maim, and even get the girls, as young as six.
Hollywood screenwriters could not dream of things more bizarre than earnest reporting in Ibn Ishaq, Sahih Bukhari, and Muslim.
Posted by: JTF at July 26, 2006 5:42 PM
Maybe, just maybe, this book will the one that cannot be ignored.
And maybe, just maybe, the truth about this evil man and the evil ideology he created, and the evil people who follow its evil message will spark thousands of minds to see it all clearly.
Islam must be banned. It must lose its protection as a "religion". It must be expelled from within our midst.
We in the West must seriously consider physically destroying Islam before it has the power to physically destroy us.
We must also push them out before they breed us into submission.
Posted by: Ethelred at July 26, 2006 5:43 PM
Nothing would be funnier than CAIR going on to denounce Ibn Ishaq.
Misinterpreter of Siras.
Posted by: Infidel Pride at July 26, 2006 5:49 PM
Well, i liked your book and made sure our public library had a copy.
Posted by: squire at July 26, 2006 5:55 PM
If you'd gotten at least the name right I might have given it a shot.
It's Mohammed.
at July 26, 2006 5:55 PM
Thank you Robert for your new book. Once again putting yourself on the line in more ways than one. As Edmund Burke said "all that is needed for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing". That's certainly not you.
Posted by: cathkins at July 26, 2006 5:57 PM
Kim Hartveld:
There is no universally accepted way to transliterate Arabic into English.
Actually it's not Muhammad or Mohammed, it's محمد.
Cordially,
Robert Spencer
at July 26, 2006 5:58 PM
I certainly hope Ken Hartveld is being sarcastic.
I have seen MANY spellings of its (pbuh) name.
Is it Hezbollah, Hezbullah, Hezballah or Hezb'allah or something else?
Don't be a twit.
E
Posted by: Ethelred at July 26, 2006 5:58 PM
Robert must write with an Arabic micro-quill!
Posted by: Ethelred at July 26, 2006 6:00 PM
I loved this part:
he cherry-picks the worst incidents of Muhammad's life to paint a patently absurd picture of a warrior prophet.
The very idea of a warrior prophet is an admission of terrorist nature of Islam and a refutation of the peaceful nature of Islam. Muhammed (shbuh) was a war criminal.
Posted by: fluviusneckar at July 26, 2006 6:02 PM
Hook 'em with the "free" review, and then offer an addendum listing the various international conspiracies and secret societies you've been alleged to be a member of... for a nominal fee.
Posted by: MarisolJW at July 26, 2006 6:02 PM
Dear Mr. Spencer:
I pre-ordered your book off Amazon just now. I look forward to reading it.
Keep up the good work. Hundreds of years from now, university students in the last remaining redoubts of Western civilization (i.e. the United States and Australia imo) may be reading you like Tacitus to figure out what happened to the West.
Life is very short. Rest assured that you are not wasting your time here.
As Gandalf told Frodo: "... all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Sincerely,
Mentat
Posted by: Mentat at July 26, 2006 6:04 PM
Robert,
You're beginning to sound a bit jaded. Who can blame you, all things considered.
Best of luck with the new book. When it comes out, I'll scarf up three or four copies for Xmas gifts.
at July 26, 2006 6:08 PM
Posted by: Mentat ...Life is very short. Rest assured that you are not wasting your time here.
I learned a great deal from Roberts books and then Jihad Watch....Then I read the Koran and more books on Islam...Because of Robert Spencer I have been able to warn family and friends about the danger of Islam...To us Robert Spencer and Charles Johnson of LGF's..as well as Hugh are American hero's...Thank You again.
Posted by: storagemanager at July 26, 2006 6:12 PM
Pre-order Amazon Link:
Posted by: Concerned Citizen at July 26, 2006 6:18 PM
Maybe D.T.Devaraux will let you use his loving portrait for the book cover.
http://thestudyofrevenge.blogspot.com/2006/01/portrait-of-prophet-muhammad.html
Kim Hartfeld, I prefer the spelling used by Servier, Hurgronje, and John Quincy Adams, but without the capital.
Posted by: Infidel33 at July 26, 2006 6:22 PM
Congratuations, Robert, and God Bless.
Posted by: bigcatgirl13106 at July 26, 2006 6:26 PM
"To us Robert Spencer and Charles Johnson of LGF's..as well as Hugh are American hero's...Thank You again."
(posted by storemanager above)
To us tiny minority of Europeans in a sea of Eurabians they are heroes too.
Thank you for your work. And thank you for not giving us up.
Posted by: Eisvogel at July 26, 2006 6:45 PM
Hi Robert
I am at the moment reading TPIGI and have finished reading the rage and the pride and londinistan - all great books - I am on a crash course on historic and contempoaray islamic history - do you know if your book will be translated to Spanish as I would like to buy quite a few copies to give to my extreemely PC spanish relatives .
Posted by: johnmac at July 26, 2006 7:43 PM
Chances are that, if the mainstream masses express hate, rage and fury over a book that is critical of Islam (even if it is "nice"), that means it is probably a very good book.
Posted by: RaggedyAnn at July 26, 2006 8:59 PM
Back in April, Mr. Spencer wrote:
This new book provides another opportunity to raise funds for bringing those plans to fruition.
Mr. Spencer, how about offering signed/autographed copies of this new book - direct through Regnery? - for a premium of course (similar to the offer at Honest Reporting - make a donation of $100, get a free copy of Obsession DVD).
As a regular reader of JW/DW, I would definitely pre-order/purchase a premium copy of this book for myself and don't forget, the book makes a great holiday gift.
at July 26, 2006 9:20 PM
Robert-
I just now pre-ordered your newly written book. I'm sure it will be a good read.
In TPIGTI I liked the cute little pig who looked a little nervous as he was reading 'books he was not supposed to read'. One of those books he was 'not supposed to read' was Ibn Warraq's Why I Am Not A Muslim. As I ordered Why I Am Not A Muslim I gazed at the nervous little fellow.
The little fellow just sent me the order conformation for your book. He doesn't back-down.
Order #: =============
Shipping Method: Standard Shipping
Shipping Preference: Group my items into as few shipments as possible
Subtotal of Items: $17.61
Shipping & Handling: $3.99
------
Total for this Order: $21.60
Shipping estimate for these items: October 10, 2006
Delivery estimate: October 12, 2006 - October 13, 2006 1 "The Truth About Muhammad: The Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion"
Robert Spencer; Hardcover; $17.61
Sold by:Amazon.com
at July 26, 2006 9:40 PM
I may be wrong, but, if Robert translates his work into Arabic, which he is truly capable of doing. Probably better than Arabs themselves. Would not 80 percent or so, of Muslims, not be able to read his work? How many Muslim's do you know that read Arabic? I know the true meaning of the Koran can not be understood unless you can speak or read Arabic. Yet there are many Muslims that can do neither. Leave it to a Zionist to give us all a free bus pass on the short bus of common sense.
Posted by: zooboomafoo at July 26, 2006 9:59 PM
Plus I thought that originaly Arabic was not a written language, and the, OK I must consult the elders at this point. I am still riding the short bus.
Posted by: zooboomafoo at July 26, 2006 10:03 PM
Oh, and can we cherry pick Jesus Christ, and his shortcomings? OK, tell me of all the evil shady doings of Jesus. Pick out only the bad, or the good. Oh, there is only good, imagine that, no self indulgent, body oriented tales of self indulgent behavior or conceited power shifts? Wars without end, constant internal struggles? I have never once heard of anyone, speaking in any language, tell me of the bad side and wrong doings of Jesus Christ. Selfless was he? Why? Because what he gave us whas not a road map to war and terror. Old or New, same boat, same goals. Or an instruction pamphlet on how to wage war and earn the right to paradise through physical means, and physical rewards.
Posted by: zooboomafoo at July 26, 2006 10:27 PM
33:21 makes this Bob Spencer's most important work. 33:21 is what makes it cool among young Moslems to pursue lives of hate, rape, and perpetual war against innocent folk trying to mind their own goddamned business.
33:21 33:21 33:21 33:21 33:21 33:21 33:21 33:21 33:21 33:21 33:21 33:21 33:21 33:21
Ye have indeed in the Messenger of Allah a beautiful pattern (of conduct) for any one whose hope is in Allah and the Final Day, and who engages much in the Praise of Allah.
--- God's commandment to be like Mohammed in 33:21 (Yusufali)
at July 26, 2006 11:02 PM
As a history major concentrating on East Asia many years ago I was not focused on Islam or Muhammad and so I read a few books that were readily available. Looking back at what was readily available then and what I took from those works, I am amazed at what a systematic whitewash those books were. Islamophile authors just never really mentioned all the many centuries of Muslim aggression, slaughter and conquest in any great detail, there was some fighting, sure, but somehow Islam just gained control of a good part of the Earth. It was never dhimmis kneeling to be slapped as they handed over their annual protection money, it was bejewelled rulers in perfumed gardens. It wasn't Muhammad ordering the assassination of rivals and the destruction of whole tribes of Jews, or his appetite for booty and female slaves, it was his lofty spiritual quest. Your books are needed correctives to these systematic and one-sided misrepresentations of Islam and Muhammad that have lulled us into the inattention that paved the way for 9/11.
Posted by: GaryK at July 26, 2006 11:50 PM
I just pre-ordered the book, and I honestly cannot remember ever spending $20.00 on something more important in my life.
Robert... I sincerely hope you aren't put on anyone's hit list cause of it.
The work you do and the truth you spread are far too important!
I try to spread the word... but so many are honestly AFRAID to hear the truth. It's quite sad, b/c it shows me that we'll have to have at least one more 9/11 before ppl start to recognize the problem.
I wish you all the best, and I THANK YOU for all the hard work and time you put into JW/DW and your well-written books.
Posted by: JenBee at July 26, 2006 11:50 PM
Ah, Robert,
Indeed, you have nothing to declare but your genius. I, too, shall order a copy. I look forward to reading it as much as I did to reading all your previous works. One day the world will listen - let us pray that it will not be too late. You sterling prose griskinates our varied and laborious comments.
Dominic.
at July 26, 2006 11:52 PM
I've been eagerly awaiting this and will be passing the word along to others about it.
Posted by: Mo at July 26, 2006 11:56 PM
Thank you Mr Spencer, for writing this book!
It will be an amazing success and great step forward in telling the world about the true nature of the "warrior prophet"
Good bless you for all that you are doing to save the West for Dhimmitude.
I plan to buy as many copies as I can!
Posted by: El Cid at July 27, 2006 1:03 AM
Even though our class read "Onward Muslim Soldier" for a grade, I'm hoping we can read "The Truth About Muhammad" for the spring semester (We could of for the fall semester if we rushed around, but we are already assigned to read "The Legacy of Jihad" by Dr. Bostom.
Posted by: Patriot_1/17 at July 27, 2006 1:07 AM
I can't wait to read your new book Robert.
I trust that your new book will tell us the truth about Muhammad and his misguided spiritual teachings that are somehow still with us into the 21st century.
Your courageous voice is desperately needed to demystify and dispel the "sacred teachings" of Muhammad.
I have an ancient quote from Homer's Iliad that I want to share with you because of its ability to inspire and captivate the human spirit.
As a courageous author who has made sacrifices and put his own life on the battlefront to lead others to the truth, it is a fitting tribute to your work as a scholar and teacher.
" Man hold by the vastness of eternity and so we ask ourselves......will our actions echo across the centuries.
Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercly we loved?"
at July 27, 2006 1:34 AM
Robert, It should be hard to beat the "sneeriness factor" of your own self-review, but I'm sure someone will try.
Please promise to reprint some of the contenders.
Posted by: Xero G at July 27, 2006 1:40 AM
Sorry Robert... for some reason my complete post did not completely get printed.
COND'T..............................................
I appreciate how fiercly you love your work as a scholar and teacher. You are a brave fighter for the truth. The west needs more people such as you to help us to face the threat of Islam that seeks to destroy the freedom and way of life that preserves and protects western society.
Posted by: Johnathan
at July 27, 2006 1:54 AM
Incredibly courageous of you,Robert.As the saying goes may Fortune favour only the righteous and brave!God Bless you!!
All the sane and normal people of the world are TIRED SICK of islam.
Posted by: Crows&Cows at July 27, 2006 2:33 AM
Incredibly courageous of you,Robert.As the saying goes may Fortune favour only the righteous and brave!God Bless you!!
All the sane and normal people of the world are TIRED SICK of islam.
Posted by: Crows&Cows at July 27, 2006 2:34 AM
Bill Rammell, UK's higher education minister, believes "that the quality of teaching of Islam that takes place in our universities needs to be improved"..read on:
http://education.independent.co.uk/higher/article1197785.ece
Rather than allowing the Taqqiya Masters to take over with their PC guides, UK will do well to broaden the syllabus and include books by Ibn Warraq, Ali Sina and Robert Spencer et al.
Posted by: Dunk at July 27, 2006 3:53 AM
Bill Rammell, UK's higher education minister, believes "that the quality of teaching of Islam that takes place in our universities needs to be improved"..read on:
http://education.independent.co.uk/higher/article1197785.ece
Rather than allowing the Taqqiya Masters to take over with their PC guides, UK will do well to broaden the syllabus and include books by Ali Sina and Robert Spencer.
Posted by: Dunk at July 27, 2006 3:53 AM
Ooops...sorry about that - the connection was playing up while I did my editing.
Posted by: Dunk at July 27, 2006 3:55 AM
Just went to the Amazon link "Concerned Citizen" provided above. I pre-ordered four copies of The Truth about Muhammad, Robert.
You're fast. I wonder what your next book will be...
How 'bout a screenplay on Muhammad's life? Even if no theater would dare show the resulting film, everyone could order the DVD. The actors would have to be disguised somehow -- heavy makeup or morphing technology, etc.
The visual dimension would give a huge advantage, not just because of the tremendous power of the medium, but also because Muslims won't dare make counter-biopics showing a whitewashed or any other version of Muhammad. That leaves the field wide open for touchdown after touchdown by those who prefer that Europe during the coming century not fall to totalitarian Islam and its demographic jihad.
Posted by: traeh at July 27, 2006 4:09 AM
Thanks for your book Mr. Spencer. The truth about Muhammed (Piss be upon him)is to be revealed and understood.People like you are in a select club of truth-tellers-come-what-may.
Though being the worst sufferers under Islam, the truth of Muhammed (Piss be upon him) is hardly a subject of worth for the Hindus - both surprising and sad. The Hindus make the further mistake of equating all religions as pathways to salvation, not realising that the Hindu scriptures equate tolerating evil as greater than the evil itself !
You have sounded the warning alert, let us hope the Hindus wake up from their slumber.
Posted by: rajagopalan at July 27, 2006 4:26 AM
Mr Spencer,
Hope you put in a few good things muhammad/mohammad/mohummad did along with hundreds of inhumane acts he did... :)
at July 27, 2006 4:27 AM
Patriot, I almost fell off my chair reading your post. Is this a public school you attend? How is it that such non-PC work is allowed?? (And how wonderful.)
Robert & Hugh, I echo all the sentiments posted to say thank you, and please keep up your important - oh, so important - work.
Posted by: Vee at July 27, 2006 9:05 AM
"How 'bout a screenplay on Muhammad's life?"
-- from a posting above
Such a movie was made in the early 1970s. Screenwriter: in-his-cups Harry Craig, of Rome. Financier: Saudi Arabia and possibly Libya. Started to be filmed first in Morocco, until the King got a telephone call from that other King, the Saudi one, telling him to kick the whole production out of the country. Can't remember where it then went.
The funniest book ever written about the making of a movie was that written by the late Richard Grenier about the making of this Muhammad movie. Get his book, read it -- it shows a greater understanding of Islam and of Muslim behavior and attitudes, than anything coming out of any chancery, any government, any think-tank around.
Name of book: "The Marrakech One-Two."
It ought to be reprinted, and reprinted, and reprinted.
Posted by: Hugh at July 27, 2006 9:05 AM
And now the Robert Spencer QUOTE OF THE DAY.
Robert, when asked on our local radio station whether he was worried about a Salman Rushdie-style reaction to this book:
"Well, it's been nice knowin' ya, but somebody had to do it."
Boldly put Robert and do try to keep an eye open at night just in case!
-XRDC
Posted by: XRDC at July 27, 2006 9:49 AM
What came of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's plans for a Life of Brian style Mo spoof? Was it shelved or abandoned after the Motoon rage? When her plans were announced, director Lars von Trier's producers would not rule out helping her with its production, nor would the board subsidizing movie production (yes, we do have such a board here) rule out supporting it financially.
All this was pre-Motoon. As "von" Trier and cohorts are firmly embedded in the Überdhimmi in-crowd, I'm absolutely positive they would have nothing to do with it now.
Wish that someone would film The Satanic Verses. That is one helluva funny book, and could, with the right people behind it, be a terrific movie.
I'm also eagerly awaiting your book, Robert.
Posted by: anti-uffe at July 27, 2006 10:12 AM
I will attempt to pre-emptively review the book here. Ahem...
Robert Spencer's latest virulently anti-Islamic book, The Truth About Muhammad, is even less grounded in reality than his previous paranoid rantings about the dangers of Islam. Spencer is the infamous director of the ultra right-wing hate site Jihad Watch, where he publishes his blatantly Islamophobic, racist and biased tantrums, egged on by a loyal following of white supremacists and zionists, along with Hugh Fitzgerald, another hate-spouting right-wing fanatic who has lost his grip on reality.
Spencer's new racist diatribe makes the preposterous assertion that Muhammad was a sadistic pedophile who led a life of murder, pillaging and looting, but predictably offers no evidence whatsoever to back it up. Spencer and his zionist right-wing Nazi collaborators make the mistake of confusing a few extremists (who are not even real Muslims) with the peaceful majority. Moderates like Ayman al-Zawahri and the secular CAIR would no doubt be greatly offended by this sickeningly biased, Islamophobic attempt at turning ignorant members of the public againts Islam.
The Mohammed cartoons, Cronulla riots, Israel's genocidal campaign of terror againts Palestinians and Spencer's books make it clear that freedom of expression must be monitored more closely, and Islamophobia must be fought vigorously.
Posted by: Jesus Christ Supercop at July 27, 2006 10:58 AM
I pre-ordered 4 copies of the new book and 3 more of the PIG. This new book is going to be a blockbuster,guys. Kind of like the cartoon crisis, but generated by our own venerated Robert Spencer, our Fearless Leader extraordinaire. I'm going to need copies to pass around without letting go of my own.
I recommend you buy as many as you can afford to share. The muslims will be so incensed that they'll also be contributing to book sales - ah, the exquisitely sweet irony of THAT ! ! !
Posted by: CGW at July 27, 2006 11:23 AM
I will, of course, add this latest book to my collection and advertise it on my blog.
Robert Spencer is a patriot and a scholar. ("Yes, Timmy, they really do still exist.")
Posted by: Foehammer at July 27, 2006 11:43 AM
JC Supercop, that was pretty funny, and probably closer to what real life reviews will be like than we'd like them to be.
Posted by: anti-uffe at July 27, 2006 12:33 PM
I once ordered a copy of Eurabia to be sent to Tony Blair at 10 Downing street. Would every UK reader here be willing to send a copy of this book to their MP?
Readers in other English speaking countries are of course welcome to do the same thing.
Posted by: Sebastien at July 27, 2006 12:34 PM
Sebastien, that was an inspired idea. However, what will happen is very likely that, 1) the MI5 will test it for toxicants or viruses, and then file it away, and 2) your file with Echelon and the national intelligence services will have this information added to it. Tony B? He is not in a position to try and change the wheel of history; rather, his ambition is more likely to see that Britannistan becomes the financial hub of Eurabia.
Posted by: anti-uffe at July 27, 2006 3:45 PM
A hagiographical screenplay,glorifying Mohammad's life using only primary sources would leave Muslims nothing to protest against while the rest of the world will flock to the cinemas and look on with horror at the role model and perfect man for a bilion and a half people.
Of course the irony would need to be so embedded as to be virtually undetectable and undemonstable.
I'd like to write the script myself.It would be a fascinating task and a dark epic.
I also think that Robert's book will be a major turning point,selling like hotcakes and waking the masses up to the true nature of Islam and its founder.
Yippee.....I can't wait.
at July 27, 2006 6:06 PM
What may be of some relevance is the similar book by Danish author Kaare Bluitgen that inspired Jyllands-Posten to commission the Motoons. Bluitgen also draws on the earliest available sources on MoFu's life. When confronted by a TV reporter on the subject of this book, imam Ahmad Akkari weaseled his way of of the fact that authentic, Muslim sources describing the evils of Mo were used by saying "maybe I have other sources." A standard escape when confronted with undeniable facts, IIRC Hugh or Robert also mentioned this tactic a few days ago.
Needless to say, the row made Bluitgen's book a national be$tseller.
Posted by: anti-uffe at July 27, 2006 7:17 PM
This new book is going to be a blockbuster...
For that to happen, Americans and other Infidels are gonna have to run off the plantation, CGW. Spencer's book will alternately be spun, misrepresented, reviled, misquoted, and worst of all, ignored.
With our Marxist friends in the MSM feeling so fuzzy towards Islam, it is up to the personal to overcome the suicidal ignorance that threatens us all.
I've made some converts. After feeding any number of Fitzgerald essays, Koran quotes, Hadith nuggets, Ishaq passages, al-Tarbari sentences, and Bostom pieces to a fellow from work, he started to ask questions. Concerned for him, I warned him to stop watching BBC on the PBS immediately, for fear that sooner or later he was bound to go over the edge.
Last night, it happened. He went off the deep end in front of his 50-inch TV showing a propaganda piece being intoned by a pompus BBC repjort, in front of his wife and mother-in-law who works for a major socialist think tank on a major Big10 campus.
A nasty argument ensued. He refused to turn PBS back on, left the TV dark in front of his DFL wife and socialist mother-in-law. Everybody got pissed.
As he walked out of his own house, he threatened the mother and daughter that his next move might be to quit his job and volunteer for the IDF, as a Swedish American no less.
610 * 623 * 732* 1066* 1215 * 1504 * 1526 * 1683 * 1928 * 1938 * 1948 * 1996 * 2001
God bless America.
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at July 27, 2006 9:09 PM
I said this on another thread, but I will say it again. The Islamofascists and their apologists always do this kind of sneering stunt at their critics. They are unable to discredit the message so they attempt to discredit the messenger with their sneers and lies. They will sneer at the author and they will lie. But, everyone must look past that and read the message.
LIES NASTY SNEERS LIES TAQIYYA
at July 28, 2006 1:10 PM
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