Historian Bruce Thornton, a Research Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and Professor of Classics and Humanities at the California State University, and author of Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization; Democracy’s Dangers & Discontents: The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama, as well as The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Obama’s America, read an advance copy of my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, and this was his verdict:
Robert Spencer, one of our foremost analysts of Islamic jihad, has now written a historical survey of the doctrine and practice of Islamic sanctified violence. With crystal clarity and rigorous argument, he relentlessly marshals the facts that put the lie to the sophistries of apologists and the delusions of Western appeasers. To fight the enemy we must know the enemy, and Robert Spencer’s page-turner is the place to start.
Have you ordered the book yet? It’s the first and only comprehensive history of the entire phenomenon of jihad, from Spain to India and many, many other places — with massive implications for public policy, both foreign and domestic. Order it here now.

gravenimage says
Historian reads Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad. Verdict: “A page-turner!”
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Good stuff from Bruce Thornton.
Warble Gloaming says
Also Professor of Classics was Enoch Powell. He was quoting Virgil (in translation) when he said:
“I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with blood”.
Some Professors of Classics are very perspicacious.
Michael Copeland says
A ringing endorsement.
Roll on publication day.
mortimer says
Yes, Mike, a ringing endorsement from a TOP A-1 scholar.
THE HISTORY OF JIHAD will be a world-changing book.
Carol the 1st says
Stefan Molyneux has seen the beast up close and personal during his recent travels to Australia and New Zealand and he is absolutely shocked and urges us all to do all that we can:
A Critical Message From Stefan Molyneux
overman says
Yes, his Melbourne one with lauren southern was good.
mortimer says
Scholar Bruce Thornton has brought luster to Stanford’s Hoover Institution and Cal State with this sentence about Robert Spencer … “With crystal clarity and rigorous argument, he relentlessly marshals the facts that put the lie to the sophistries of apologists and the delusions of Western appeasers.”
Western appeasers will soon have the rug pulled from under their SOOTHING FALSEHOODS.
b.a. freeman says
sady, mortimer, the appeasers *won’t* have the rug pulled out from under them, because their lying compatriots in the media won’t mention either mr. spencer, his book, or the evil that emanates from islam. furthermore, social media will ban anybody saying anything about it, and anybody who dares to get something out there will be attacked as a racist, a bigot, and a nazi.
right now, i’m trying something different, when i can get my anger at the hard-core leftist traitors and their uneducated leftist followers in hand; instead of confrontation, which i mostly gave up, or even telling the truth, i simply mention that i’m pretty sure that islam is *not* what they think, and challenge them to find out for themselves. i try hard to keep it down to a sentence or 2, and keep the wording innocuous as well as tuned to their posts, so that their interest might be tweaked enough to check. the traitors will smear me anyway once they realize that i am not a drooling idiotic non-thinker of the left, but those who are only nominally leftist may actually check islam out.
mortimer says
freeman, I always ask people like that: “Do you know that for a fact or are you merely guessing? Have you read the primary source texts? No? Then you cannot understand Islam, a very complex topic. The primary source literature is voluminous. There is also the canonical commentaries and manuals of Sharia law. If you have not read them, then you are guessing. I have read them and studied and written about them and I AM NOT GUESSING.”
Joe D says
Robert, I do hope you send a few complimentary copies to key Trump administration members, and of course to the president himself.
Rarely says
Testing
Rarely says
Test #2
gravenimage says
There have been real problems with Jihad Watch the last two days. First, not being about to stay logged in (still a problem).
Jihad Watch tech guy Mark Louis said that WordPress had updated yesterday, and this was likely a bug.
Then things got worse–not being able to post at all, but getting an error message. Then, the whole site being down, just getting a “WordPress” page.
Now we seem to be back up–save with no stories or comments from earlier today.
Also, I am not seeing the “JW” logo in the header, but some “G” logo that I do not recognize at all. I don’t know if this post is going to stay up, either.
Is this what other readers here have been getting?
Gray says
Earlier today (Sunday, on this side of the world) I tried several times to log onto Jihad Watch, and kept being diverted to another site. I started to panic. I tried again, later in the afternoon, and was able to log on to the Jihad Watch site, finally. However the layout seemed slightly different, and very recent postings had disappeared. I also now have to re-enter my details to make a comment. I hope and pray all is well again with Jihad Watch. Don’t disappear from my life Robert. I need you! I get information from your site that I don’t get anywhere else. Stay safe!
simpleton1 says
No jihadwatch earlier,
Now just an older series of posts, this being the latest.
The moving banner part is also gone.
trust that it can be overcome with out too much trouble,
And thanks to the people working on the problem and to Robert Spencer, posters and commentators.
simpleton1 says
it was showing earlier “502 Bad Gateway nginx”
gravenimage says
Thanks, Jay Boo and Simpleton, I’ve had all the same issues.
Westman says
Has SECURI or Jihadwatch been hacked? Securi is placing a white google G on a black background for the logo, and the Contact Us messsge form is missing text and lines.
simpleton1 says
Yes Westman, I noticed that change of logo as well.
What I do not like is putting in an email address, every time to comment.!
That change and problems are not good signs.
It causes me to doubt the security, and whether that address I give is going to be secure?.
What happened to some of the later posts?
I would have thought that at some stage some new mention of the problems, and perhaps some new posts?
A special mention of the problem by RS if possible about the ongoing problem?
simpleton1 says
No sooner than I posted, and then after RS had probably already posted the reason why there was a problem.
Thanks RS. and good to know this “ship is safe and sound”.
Carol the 1st says
Similar problems up here in Canadistan, and to top it off I did not get my daily dose of JW today (it usually arrives in the wee hours).
Dr. G, de Porras says
Teniendo en cuenta que el español es unos de los mas importantes y usados en este mundo, a muchos nos encantaría que libros como “Historia del Yihad” y similares se tradujesen al español, ya que en general la carencia de este tipo de publicaciones permite que , en general muchas personas sigan sin enterarse o tener información del terrible problema con el que tenemos ante el Islam. ¿ Habrá quien los traduzca ?