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Fitzgerald: From the Marketing Department

Aug 27, 2005 9:21 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

Despite a continuing blackout from most major media outlets (both “Left” and “Right”), The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) is once again on the New York Times Bestseller List for the coming week, again at number 17.

Meanwhile, I have received this note from Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald, referring to a review posted at Amazon:

From the Marketing Department

Dear Robert,

While scrolling down through reviews of your “Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam” the other day, I found this review:

Islam Was a destroer of the sience ???

I lived in Saudi for 10 years .I embrased islam becuse of it’s rationality. Islam is wages jihad agenst enemies, that true, but never in the whole history of islam i’d heard that muslims that obide by qoran and sunna would harm an inosent, a defited enemy was never masaqured , Salahudin is one of the thousand muslims who did as the islam teaches. Islam is the first religion that separated civilians from militants.

Cristianity sure was destroer of the sience you got dark ages right after crictianity came in power 6th century. How many people were killed in the name of cristianity , inquisition , crusades.
Because of the muslims , right now you got all the sience you have . You think that renosans of the 13 century just started by itsef? Crusades have gone in the muslim lands and saw totaly diferent life ( why so many of them stayed and exepted islam? )

Cristians useto not take bath for weeks , muslims thaut them of hygene , sope and teeth brush. The idea of hospitals came from muslims , a banking sistem that we know of as well the arabic word for money order {sheck} became english chek .
Algebra , chimestry are arabic wordss .

Muslims are the onese that brought paper from china and used it for the books . While monastery would have 5 maybe six books muslims had streets where they were selling thousands of books .

Works of Aristotel by the church were called hipocrocy and burned, they were preserved only in arabic language. Read history when Chingis khan came to Bagdad he burned and throw to the river seven milion books . Alexandrinian library had only 150 thousand.

In the 9th century muslim scolars proved saying in the qoran that earth is round . Why dont you watch { Islam empire of faith } made by PBS, not by some IDIOT who wants to make profit.

In the muslim citys there were public bathrums , public librarys ,public hospitals , consultation centers. There were no racizm . Women had rights to work and education from the wery begining of islam. At that time europe had nothing , they lived in chaos.

People shoud study history frome real historians not some pimps.Why is that islam is the fastest growing religion in US and europe? Check guenes book islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. 40 percent of muslims in USA are converts .What is more funny women coming to islam in ratio 3 to 1 men.

If you want to prove me wrong get some evidense first , from real historians or from real muslim scolars. This guy is a joke.Paid joke by the way. Chek on the net how many anti-islamic books this guy wrote , he sure dose have somthing against islam. His saying – Era of peace begins in Israel-… now we know who dose he work for ….

You see israel trying to destroy palestinians to get they land , thats part of they religion. To justefy they actions of violence they controling the midia , they paying milions of dollars to writers like Robert Spencer and you being blind folded by the church alredy beliving in all this. Ofcourese many muslims are uneducated and easy to manipulate by some friks so it dose throws a gasolin in to the fire of hatred of islam.

And please for God’s sake stop missuse verses of the Quran by taking them out of contest

002.191 ( the Cow 191 )And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. Every anti-islamist bringing this verse what about verse before that ?

002.190 Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo! Allah loveth not aggressors.
Our prophet (pbuh) said -those hwo dose not show mersy to the others , Allah will not show mercy to them.-By others ment all, non muslims including.

And all those scolars that Robert brings it’s all misquotation
and bluff.Justa game of words.

Learn from real historians , and leave this nonsens to fools i meant easy to manipulate fools , you are not one of them aren’t you ?

Was this review helpful to you? [Yes] [No]

In answer to that last question, I can truthfully answer that “this review” was “helpful” to me, not so much in understanding the book, but as one more example of a Mind on Islam.

Despite the best efforts of The New York Review of Books, The New Duranty Times Sunday Book Review, The Bandar Beacon Books Section, Kirkus Reviews, the Library Journal, and all the industrial-strength collections of reviews intended for the book selectors at our public and academic libraries, “PIG to Islam” remains among the 25 best sellers.

On the top of the front cover the publisher chose to reprint a blood-curdling threat posted at a Muslim website. That undoubtedly increased sales. In the same spirit, the spirit of the late Edward Bernays, I suggest that the above Amazon review appear, without a word missing, on the back cover of any new printing…Professors of marketing may lecture their dutiful students — the ones typing every word directly into their laptops — on the need for good buzz. But good buzz, bad buzz, in this new world, sometimes the latter is the former. Pollice verso reviews from some quarters can become dialing for dollars at the cash register.

On that note, allow Fred Astaire, or Fats Waller, to say a few words:

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus

When he said the world was round.

They all laughed when Edison recorded sound.

Who’s got the last laugh now?

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