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“This book shows that the foreign policy establishment of the West is on the wrong track, and has been for decades”

Jun 19, 2018 4:55 pm By Robert Spencer

I was recently interviewed by Saurav Dutt about my new book, The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which you can preorder here.

“Robert Spencer : The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS,” by Saurav Dutt, Medium, June 14, 2018:

I sat down to speak with Robert Spencer about his hard hitting new book ‘ The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS’ which is being released through Bombardier Books this August.

Robert Spencer is director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, where he is a Shillman Fellow. He is the author of eighteen books, including The New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. Spencer has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the FBI, the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), the Justice Department’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council, and the U.S. intelligence community. He has discussed jihad, Islam, and terrorism at a workshop sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the German Foreign Ministry. He is a consultant with the Center for Security Policy.

Robert, tell us a little about your new book and why there’s a compelling need for audiences out there to engage with it?

Thank you, Saurav. The book is entitled is The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. And it’s just that: the first and only comprehensive chronological narrative history of fourteen centuries of jihad worldwide. This is the first time that there has been a book-length chronological treatment of the entire history of jihad, not just the jihad against Europe, which has been the focus of several worthy books, but also the devastatingly bloody jihad against India — a story that is almost entirely unknown in the West. This is also the first book that I know of that situates the jihad against Israel within the context of the 1,400-year history of worldwide jihad and Islamic anti-Semitism. Along the way, it touches on numerous related matters, including chattel slavery and the sexual enslavement of infidel women, which wasn’t invented by ISIS but actually goes all the way back to the beginning of Islam. This book has important public policy implications, as it actually shows that the foreign policy establishment of the West and other non-Muslim nations is on the wrong track, and has been for decades.

Do you think the liberal intelligentsia is carefully replacing the description of ISIS with Daesh for a reason? Is the nomenclature important?

Yes, certainly. The nomenclature is very important. They’re trying to obscure the Islamic character of the group, as they attempt to do with all jihad terror groups. This in turn deforms our ability to deal with these groups: you can’t defeat an enemy you don’t understand. I believe, in contrast, in calling things by their right names.

Why do you think talking about and critiquing Islamism and Islamic terrorism is the ultimate no-no in this day and age?

It’s a very odd development given the fact that there have been well over 30,000 jihad attacks worldwide since 9/11. I can only ascribe it to the power of Saudi money and the skillfulness of Islamic advocacy groups in the West in appropriating the language of racism and civil rights: they claim any honest analysis of the motivating ideology behind jihad terror is “racism,” and the international left has happily fallen into line with this.

What would you say to someone who argues that the concept of ‘Creeping Sharia’ is hyperbole, unnecessary scaremongering and ignores the reality that many Muslims have sought to change, to embrace Western values and that it’s the minority who seek to destroy the infidel?

The Bolsheviks were always a minority in Russia, but they were an organized, energized, ruthless vanguard facing weak opposition. It doesn’t matter if Sharia supremacists are only a minority of Muslims in the West. They are at work, as is clear from ongoing and relentless efforts by CAIR and other groups to get counter-terror initiatives shut down and to secure special privileges for Muslims in workplaces and schools. Moderate Muslims are not stopping them….

Read the rest here.

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Comments

  1. Granddaddy says

    Jun 19, 2018 at 10:44 pm

    It sounds like a great read. It sounds like a book a lot of people should read.

  2. Mike says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 8:21 am

    Can someone tell me who is that SCOTT BENNETT that we can see regularly on Jason GOODMAN , now ? Every time he comes in , he tells us how peaceful Iranians are , how beautiful is this country , how tolerant are these peoples etc….

    If it is so , can he tells me why , every Friday since 1978 , we can hear: ” Death to Americans ” shouted in public spaces. This has been going for 40 years , now . For a peaceful nation, it seems quite much .

    Jason Goodman doesn’t seem to have problems with this propaganda . ( But sometimes , he is gullible : Queen Tut , John Collins & Edgar Hoover , George Webb( ???)……

  3. KJW says

    Jun 22, 2018 at 2:32 am

    There are plenty of Muslim politicians, groups and individual Muslims who have stated their goal is to force sharia law on non-Islamic countries, and not just Western ones but everywhere. These Muslims’ comments and goals have been clearly stated and are on record, besides actions displaying this and the religious tenet that Allah’s law should be followed.

    Those in the media who repeat the lie that Muslims wanting sharia has been “debunked” or called it scaremongering are simply dishonest propagandists. Those who think our Constitution magically protects us from that are not smart people or are also trying to give a false sense of security…any Constitution can be overthrown-ours difn’t just drop out of the sky, we fought a war to have it. I wonder how “journalists” feel to be constantly lying to keep their job.

    Looking forward to the book!

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