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Reader reviews of The History of Jihad: “Fascinating, outstanding and unprecedented” “A vital book”

Aug 28, 2018 7:41 pm By Robert Spencer

Reader reviews of my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which you can order here now, have been quite positive. Here are two good ones from Amazon:

William Garrison Jr.

A History of Modern Islamic Jihad theology
August 7, 2018

Spencer demonstrates clearly and convincingly that today’s Islamist, militant-jihad attacks throughout the world derive their suicide-bombing advocacy based not on the jihadists’ aberrant reading of Islamic texts, but are indeed well-founded on the clear teachings and practices of Islam’s patron saint: The Prophet Muhammad — Islam’s “The Perfect Man” [al-Insam al-Kamil].

Spencer’s new book provides an expansive, detailed look at the 1,400-year-long history of Islam’s jihad [militant struggle] war against the entire non-Muslim world — which didn’t stop upon his death [c. 632 AD]. As Spencer expertly shows, Muhammad’s followers used his jihad teachings to continue their warfare-based conquests against not just their local Arabian neighbors, but in their ever-expanding, Scimitar-sword slicing, proselytizing military campaigns throughout the Middle East, Northern Africa, northward into the Iberian Peninsula and France, and later eastward and eventually subjugating Persia and India. Spencer espouses that this Islamic-bred terrorism continues unabated today.

A brief look at some of the sub-titles to the various chapters highlight Muhammad’s anti-Jew proclivities:
“Killing Muhammad’s Enemies”
“Muhammad Against the Jews”
“Divine Terror Against the Jews”
“Massacring the Jews”

Least one think that Muhammad’s territorial conquests were just against the Arabian Jews, other sub-titles reveal the true worldwide terrorism of the enslaving Mohammedians:
“Prophecy of Conquest” (by Muslims)
“Jihad Against the Christians”
“Calling the World to Islam”

Many of Spencer’s earlier books analyzed the Quran and the ahadith to better understand the theological dreams of Muhammad, and how they led to his development of a united religious-political, polis-state: the ‘Daesh’ or ‘Dawla’ for the Muslim-domineering community: so beloved by ISIl/ISIS during the 2010s decade.

Spencer reveals that few Westerners are aware that the on-going India/Pakistan-Kashmir dispute evolved from the Muslim conquest of India, and Islam’s superior-attitude theology prevented Muslims from embracing a “Greater India” — a supremist thought that led many Muslims to demand that the “Islamic Republic of Pakistan” be separated from India in 1947.

Besides being merely a historical review of past battles, military campaigns and conquests by marauding Muslim soldiers, Spencer’s latest book reviews today’s current jihadist, militant attacks throughout Europe, Asia, Latin and North America. No need the recount all of the recent terrorist attacks, as they are well represented in Chapter Nine: “Resurgence.”

Sadly, Spencer notes in his concluding chapter “The West Loses the Will to Live” how many of the “politically correct” liberal politicians have chosen to ignore the burgeoning Islamic threat, as sustained by the recent waves of Muslim immigrants seeking the welfare-largesse in European countries – “refugees” who espouse their Islamic supremacy of seeking to impose their restrictive Islamic beliefs rather than assimilating into the more progressive and permissive Western civilization.

A thought-provoking book, a very vital book in revealing that the current Islamic-jihad threat is based on firm, Muhammadian theological principles.

And:

bubba1526
All I can say is…FANTASTIC!!!

I have various other books from Mr. Spencer and they are all great.

He says this one is the third in a kind of trilogy: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades, The Truth about Muhammad, and this current book.

This is history we’re never taught in our western leftist schools and universities. All we hear is how mean ol’ European Christians enslaved the world and were the only people to ever enacted slavery or made war. Pure BS. European history is not without blemish and it has its sins, but it has nothing on Islam.

Mr. Spencer shows the constant apologies for Islam and the mythical Golden Age are just that…mythical and unwarranted

When the first Islamic Arabs swarmed out of Arabia like locust, they conquered an area twice the size of the Roman Empire in less than 130 years. It took the Roman Empire 800 years to amass their empire, but the Umayyad Caliphate extended from Spain to India in less than 130 years. Within 25 years of Muhammad’s death, Islam had conquered an area from what is now Tunisia to Pakistan and up to Georgia…25 YEARS!!!!. How many have even heard of it?.

This is fascinating, outstanding and unprecedented, yet all we hear is how the German barbarians overrun and destroyed classical civilization…………MORE BULLCRAP!!!. Get this book and learn the truth.

Mr. Spencer goes into detail about a litany of battles most have never heard of, and what it was like to live under these various caliphates. What’s even better, he uses Muslim sources.

He goes into Saladin…was he the magnanimous warrior conventional history has made him out to be?.
He explains why the Crusades were really waged and why we should not be continually apologizing for them like self-loathing drips.
Did you know the first foreign war the young United States was engaged in after the Revolution was with Islamic Barbary pirates in Morocco, Algiers, and Libya?.
Did you know the Badge of Shame worn by Jews during WWII did not originate with the Nazis?.
How about al-Andalus, Muslim Spain we are told was a multi-cultural paradise?.
If it was such a paradise, then why did the Spanish spend nearly 800 years trying to expel them from Spain.

If you like historical truth and are fed up with the leftist pablum spoon fed us by self-loathing Western indoctrination camps known as public schools and colleges, then get this book.

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  1. mortimer says

    Aug 28, 2018 at 8:58 pm

    Superb book review by William Garrison Jr. !! I agree with all his comments based on my recent reading of the book. Robert Spencer lays out in smooth prose the 1400-year jihad program of Islam. Once one has read the FULL STORY of jihad, one can no longer accept the claim that Islamic terror is an aberration from true Islam, but one is persuaded that JIHAD TERROR is, in fact, NORMATIVE ISLAM and that Islam is no less than a MEAT-GRINDER.

    The comments of the blogger ‘Bubba’ are also superb: “This is history we’re never taught in our western leftist schools and universities … Mr. Spencer shows the constant apologies for Islam and the mythical Golden Age are just that…mythical and unwarranted.”

    Indeed so!

    The spontaneous and unread apologies for Islam from UNINFORMED LEFTISTS and GLOBALISTS are BALD-FACED and PSEUDO-INTELLECTUAL ‘NARRATIVES’ of DISINFORMATION and they truly INSULT OUR INTELLIGENCE. We can read the Islamic PRIMARY TEXTS for ourselves and more and more people are doing so.

    ‘THE HISTORY OF JIHAD’ by Robert Spencer is a minefield for the MENDACIOUS, LEFTARDED OPINIONS OF ISLAM that they try to SPREAD like fertilizers over the naïve toiling masses.

    Let’s give Robert Spencer a new title: MYTH-BUSTER!

    • gordon miller says

      Aug 29, 2018 at 8:20 am

      Yes, the book is outstanding.

  2. Guy Macher says

    Aug 28, 2018 at 9:16 pm

    Every Westerner, particularly those in power, must read this book. The West cannot win the War for Civilization without knowing the history of Islamic conquest. When my grandchildren ask me what I did during the invasion by Islam, I will say the first important thing was to read The History of Jihad.

    Thank you, Mr Spencer.

  3. gravenimage says

    Aug 28, 2018 at 9:35 pm

    Reader reviews of The History of Jihad: “Fascinating, outstanding and unprecedented” “A vital book”
    ………………..

    Excellent reviews!

  4. IanB says

    Aug 29, 2018 at 4:49 am

    This is my comment on the Amazon UK site:

    Top customer reviews
    Realist2018
    5.0 out of 5 starsEssential reading if you value your freedom.
    24 August 2018
    Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase
    This is a scholarly well-researched book by one of the foremost experts on Islam. It is rather tough going because of the huge amount of detail in the text necessary to cover the incessant rampage of jihad violence that has murdered or subjugated millions of people to Islam over 1400 years. The myth of Islam as a “religion of peace” is demolished by Robert Spencer’s history of jihad with facts from Islamic literary sources and historical records. The so-called prophet of Islam Mohammed is recorded by Islamic sources as saying “I have been made victorious through terror”. He was the first Muslim terrorist and his example has been followed from the 7th Century to the present day by followers of his supremacist theocratic ideology. This is a timely, essential book for all those who care about freedom, the future of civilisation and of their descendants.
    4 people found this helpful

  5. Trevor Bailey says

    Aug 29, 2018 at 7:46 am

    My copy arrived last week and have reached chapter five so far. I had not realised the extent of brutality India suffered (since Hindus are not people of the book). I feel like buying a copies and sending them to very major political leader in the UK. It’s tremendous work by Robert Spencer, rich in detail and facts derives from muslim sources so there is no room of counter any arguments. Islam is not a religion of peace to me it’s humanity greatest evil

  6. No Muzzies Here says

    Aug 29, 2018 at 8:12 am

    I’m halfway through the book now. It has a lot of history that I was unaware of. It gives details on the brutality and savagery that is inspired by the ideology of Islam. Contrary to denials, there was a genocide of the Armenians. Also, the book will fill you in about the Ottoman occupation of Greece.

  7. Rkkamk says

    Aug 29, 2018 at 9:19 am

    I wanted a hardcooy of The history of Jihad from Isis to Muhammed so that I could share with friends. I just ordered from Amazon and delivery will take 6 weeks! It must be selling like hotcakes, or Amazon is doing everything short of refusing to sell it to delay getting a cooy to you.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 29, 2018 at 11:28 pm

      The book is in its second printing now.

  8. Manalive says

    Aug 29, 2018 at 10:58 am

    Robert is pointing to actions Americans must make as in this example from Canada.
    LOCAL MAYOR REFUSES TO REMOVE PORK FROM SCHOOL CANTEEN MENU AND EXPLAINS WHY.
    Muslim parents have demanded the abolition of pork in all the school
    canteens of a Montreal suburb. It seems it is offensive to the Muslim
    families and shows much disrespect.
    The mayor of the Montreal suburb of Dorval, has refused, and the town
    clerk sent a note to all parents in the municipality to explain why.
    The following is what the note stated:
    “Muslims must understand that they have to adapt to Canada and
    Quebec, its customs, its traditions, its way of life, because that is
    where they chose to immigrate. They must understand that they have to
    integrate and learn to live in Quebec. They must understand that it is
    for them to change their lifestyle, not the Canadians who so
    generously welcomed them.”
    “They must understand that Canadians are neither racist nor
    xenophobic, they accepted many immigrants before Muslims (Whereas the
    reverse is not true, in that ALL Muslim states do not accept
    non-Muslim immigrants.).
    “They must also understand that, no more than other nations, Canadians
    are not willing to give up their identity nor their culture. And if
    Canada is a land of welcome, it is not just the Mayor of Dorval who
    welcomes foreigners, but the Canadian-Quebecois people as a whole. “
    “Finally, they must understand that in Canada (Quebec) with its
    Judeo-Christian roots, Christmas trees, churches and religious
    festivals, religion must remain in the private domain. Therefore, the
    municipality of Dorval was right to refuse any concessions to Islam
    and Sharia.”
    “For Muslims who disagree with secularism and do not feel comfortable
    in Canada, there are 57 beautiful Muslim countries in the world, most
    of them under-populated and ready to receive them with open halal arms
    in accordance with Sharia law. If you left your country for Canada,
    and not for other Muslim countries, it is because you have considered
    that life is better in Canada than elsewhere. So, ask yourself the
    question, just once, “Why is it better here in Canada than where you
    come from?”
    “A canteen with pork is part of the answer.”

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 29, 2018 at 11:30 pm

      Good for the mayor!

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