Jihad Watch reader Vince has alerted me to a review of my book The Truth About Muhammad by the respected blogger Gay Patriot. Vince has been kind enough to post my response there, but this review by “Average Gay Joe” was so curiously far from what the book actually says that I thought I’d post my response here also.
This reviewer seems to have read the book through thick lenses of his expectations. This is in no conceivable sense a work of “religious apologetics.” I do not argue for the falsehood of Islam or the truth of Christianity in it. I merely present the picture of Muhammad that is presented in the earliest Islamic sources about him, and show how modern-day terrorists invoke Muhammad to justify their actions. In the last chapter I advocate various measures to defend ourselves against and limit the power of political Islam, which threatens to overwhelm free and pluralistic societies in the West. To see this as some kind of call to return to medieval Christendom is to disregard entirely the words I actually wrote and to enter the realm of sheer fantasy. If “Average Gay Joe” would like to review what I actually wrote in The Truth About Muhammad, I would welcome that, but he does not do so here.
I might add that this book has been denounced by Hamas and Al-Arabiya, was banned in Pakistan, and got me numerous death threats. But amid all that none of those denouncing it ever took it to be a work of Christian apologetics. It took “Average Gay Joe” to imagine that.
