Last month, Dennis Prager and I had a wide-ranging and absorbing hour-long discussion on my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS and related issues. It starts on this audio file at 1:07:51.
You can order the book here. Prager had this to say after he read it:
Robert Spencer’s book on the history of jihad is disturbing – so much so that that mainstream media and academia will either ignore it or label it “Islamophobic.” But that evades the only important question: is the book historically sound or not? If it is not, someone will have to refute the extraordinary amount of evidence Spencer cites. But if it historically sound, this book is as troubling as it is important. That is to say very troubling and very important.
Sovereign Man says
Dennis Prager is a good man, and you keep up the good fight, Robert.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Number of Arabic Speakers in America Has Nearly Doubled Since 2000”
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Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“French no go zone stops selling gas due to Car-B-Ques”
gravenimage says
More and more bowing to Islam.
gregory says
This is a very good interview.
gravenimage says
+1
Gray says
I have taken note of Robert’s earlier comments, that the appearance of his book ‘A History of Jihad – from Muhammad to Isis,’ has generated a lot of hostility from the Islamic groups and leftists generally. So I thought I’d try an experiment, in my little corner of the world. Just after the book was published, I went to my local Public Library, and told the librarian I wanted to read the book. So could the library get in a copy of the book? The librarian took my details, and the details of Robert’s book. Then I went on my way, convince that this was the last I would ever hear of the matter. I’m delighted to relate that the library contacted me a week later, advising me that the library would indeed be purchasing a copy of Robert’s book. They must have realized the book was extremely popular, because the library also warned that it may take some time for the book to arrive. But, when ‘A History of Jihad from Muhammad to Isis’ does arrive, I’m first on the list of borrowers. I’m very glad my fears were proven wrong in this instance.
Ken Olson says
Follow up. Libraries tend to placate the public.
Scott says
Two great Americans… …Robert Spencer and Dennis Prager…
martin land says
Islamic terrorism is at least as old as the khilafat movement in British India and Afghanistan. This was the islamic reaction to the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate.(amongst deobandis who are not a less literalist sect than wahhabis) Though the Caliphate had been moribund for centuries after the great king of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth Jan Sobieski smashed the jihadist invaders at the gates of ViennaIslamic knowledge of it’s enemies was localised until the caliphate was abolished. That said Muslims were more amenable to reason and justice to non muslims, when clearly unable to succeed or survive when met by implacable opposition and superior technology. Moral ambivalence before islamic supremacism, and allowance of combative parity will lead sooner to hecatombs than peace.