I wrote The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS as a challenge to the elites’ narrative about jihad and Islam. And it’s clearer every day now that the elites are brooking no challenges to their narrative, and are moving as fast as they can to muzzle the people who refute their lies and distortions.
I’ve now been banned from Patreon, at the behest of MasterCard, and from GoFundMe. Muslim Brotherhood-linked Congressman Keith Ellison has demanded that Amazon stop stocking books by people who are smeared and blacklisted by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and I am one of the foremost among them.
So order the book while you still can (it’s out of stock at Amazon due to unexpectedly high demand, but if you order it, your order should be filled soon), and find out what has the Leftist establishment so afraid. When you do, you’ll be in good company:
“Robert Spencer’s book on the history of jihad is disturbing—so much so 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 is historically sound, this book is as troubling as it is important. That is to say very troubling and very important.” (Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated radio show host, author of nine books, most recently the number one non-fiction bestseller, “The Rational Bible,” and the founder of the website Prager University)
“Few westerners know more about Islam and jihad than Robert Spencer. Fewer still write with greater honesty, or more fearlessly. A concise but essential account of a millennium-old war on human freedom and dignity.” (David Pietrusza, author of “Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series” and “1920: The Year of Six Presidents”)
“Robert Spencer is one of my heroes. He has once again produced an invaluable and much-needed book. Want to read the truth about Islam? Read this book. It depicts the terrible fate of the hundreds of millions of men, women, and children who, from the 7th century until today, were massacred or enslaved by Islam. It is a fate that awaits us all if we are not vigilant.” (Geert Wilders, member of Parliament in the Netherlands and leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV))
“From the first Arab-Islamic empire of the mid-seventh century to the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the story of Islam has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less importantly, of never quiescent imperialist dreams. In this tour de force, Robert Spencer narrates the transformation of the concept of jihad, ‘exertion in the path of Allah,’ from a rallying cry from the prophet Muhammad’s followers into a supreme religious duty and the primary vehicle for the expansion of Islam throughout the ages. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the roots of the Manichean struggle between East and West and the nature of the threat confronted by the West today.” (Efraim Karsh, author of Islamic Imperialism: A History)
“Spencer argues, in brief, ‘There has always been, with virtually no interruption, jihad.’ Painstakingly, he documents in this important study how aggressive war on behalf of Islam has, for fourteen centuries and still now, befouled Muslim life. He hopes his study will awaken potential victims of jihad, but will they—will we—listen to his warning? Much hangs in the balance.” (Daniel Pipes, president, Middle east forum and author of Slave Soldiers and Islam: The Genesis of a Military System)
“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.” (Bruce Thornton, Research Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and Professor of Classics ad Humanities at the California State University)
“The most important book you will read about the fourteen-hundred-year war that Islamic jihadists have waged on us. Spencer’s brilliant book is also the only book you can read on this history, since appeasers of Islamic bigotry and bloodthirstiness have worked so diligently to suppress it.” (David Horowitz, founding president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and author of Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey)
“For those who still think—and alas, there remain many—that Islamic Terrorism has emerged only in the last forty years or so, Robert Spencer’s carefully researched work on Jihad from the beginning of Muhammad’s political and prophetical career to the acts of terrorism of September 11, 2001, will be a salutary shock. It will not be at all easy to refute Spencer’s account since he, for the first three Islamic centuries, relies almost entirely on the Arabic sources, that Muslim historians and scholars, such as Ibn Ishaq, Al-Tabari, Ibn Sa’d, Bukhari, Tirmidhi, and Muslim, who paint a grim picture of the early Islamic conquests. For the later Middle Ages, Spencer has also diligently consulted the primary sources where possible and has relied upon recognized modern scholars such as Ignaz Goldziher, Bernard Lewis, Bat Ye’or, and Steven Runciman, among others. Spanning centuries and continents, from the seventh to the twentieth century, from Spain to India, Spencer takes us on a tour of the global jihad that is Islamic history. Along the way, he shatters many myths, such as the myth of the Golden Age of Spain, a putative period of ecumenical harmony, a kind of perpetual medieval Woodstock Summer of love. He also puts the Crusades into perspective and reminds us that the Crusades were a belated response to years and years of jihad, and persecution of Christians. Spencer brings the story up to modern times, not forgetting the Armenian genocides perpeturated by the Turks between 1915 and 1923.
Robert Spencer’s work is essential reading for all of us, for all those who want to defend our values from the relentless jihad that has not ceased for fourteen centuries. We must heed Spencer’s final words, if we are to succeed in saving Western Civilization:
‘In the twenty-first century, the leaders of Europe, as well as many in North America, having brought almost certain doom on their countries no less unmistakable than that which befell Constantinople on May 29, 1453. Yet instead of taking responsibility for what they have done, they have stayed their course, and would have denounced the doomed Emperor Constantine XI, like his predecessor, Manuel II, as “Islamophobic,” and his exhortation to defend Constantinople to the death as “militaristic” and “xenophobic.” In the twenty-first century, as the 1,400-year Islamic jihad against the free world continued to advance, the best allies the warriors of jihad were the very people they had in their sights.'” (Ibn Warraq, author of “The Origins of the Koran” and “The Quest for the Historical Muhammad”)
“Jihad is not mere terrorism. Ironic as it may seem, that is Western wishful thinking. From its inception, as Robert Spencer incontestably illustrates, jihad has been the outward, aggressive expression of a conquest ideology. The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS is as relentless in relating unvarnished truth as is the phenomenon it tracks in seeking domination—and never being satisfied with less, however long it takes. Those who care to preserve Western rationalism, civil liberties, and free societies must confront this history, and its implications, with eyes opened.” (Andrew C. McCarthy, bestselling author, former federal prosecutor, and National Review contributing editor)
“In a time of cowardice and deliberate falsehood, the courageous and scholarly exposure of the greatest challenges and dangers of our time by Robert Spencer is priceless.” (Bat Ye’or, author of The Dhimmi and The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam)
Wellington says
Just got my copy a few days ago and my chief impression of it, having read about a third of it so far, is that you eventually get blurry-eyed reading page after page after page about the unremitting slaughter and degradation of human life which this work by Robert Spencer recounts in substantial and substantiated detail. After a while, you just have to put the book down for the time being because there is a limit to how many killings, repressions, mutilations, rapes, enslavements, self-serving actions, et al. that Muslims have engaged in from Mo onwards.
My God, what a piss-poor excuse for a religion Islam is. No one of sense and knowledge can defend it and I would strongly encourage anyone to dismiss anyone who defends it because Islam is totally indefensible. In fact, it is an insult to humanity to defend this heinous and immensely bogus creed. Shame on everyone who does.
Andy says
I have got my copy as well, Great stuff! Thank RS..
SJWs call Australian cartoonist “racist”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCi2a_v74uQ
mortimer says
Well done, Wellington. You make dull people think. When you have finished the book, you will be filled with amazement that people do not know this historical truth and that they have resisted it so earnestly and arrogantly.
I am reading The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer for the second time and will read it again and I will give copies to leaders who should read it.
revereridesagain says
It truly is exhausting to read page after page, chapter after chapter, of such unrelenting, unmitigated evil. But this is knowledge we must have and must pass along to others. Buy this book for someone you know will read it and understand what this history means for all of us in the West.
Also, search up Robert Spencer’s recent interview with Glenn Beck. Link it to everyone you think will listen. Nag the rest until they do. It is comprehensive and downright awesome.
J D S says
I have not got the book yet, but of course i will get it, but even without the book, that has condensed the atrocities in Islam from way back when, I have spent much time researching Islam and have found so many atrocious acts that it makes one sick to the point of tears…Robert Spencer, with all of his authoritative outlets has done the world a great favor in spending such an effort in giving us, at our finger tips, information that would take the layman years to research but even so, we all, on our own initiative, and that includes the elites, should delve into just what Islam brings to the world and especially the terrorism (jihad) and jihad as it is called, is nothing but terrorism..No other religion (If one can really call Islam a religion…IT SURELY IS NOT A GOD BASED, JESUS COVENANT, RELIGION) calls upon its adherents to perform such atrocious acts of violence as does islam.
Even if for no other reason than the terrorism they call jihad, Religious laws pertaining to our religious freedoms should be rewritten…. Here for instance, among many, is one area in our laws that should be addressed..THE WORKPLACE….No Employer should be forced to adhere to any religions requirement that disrupts, in any way, his business. Employees should be required to sign a lawful statement that their religious acts will not interfere, in any way, with their work requirements. There are law suits presently in courts and some already acted upon in favor of Muslims, that address this very thing and the WORKPLACE is just one area that needs addressing with rewritten laws…I have stated many times that ENFORCEMENT of laws already on the books and New laws passed to address Islam is the only way to rid the world if this scourge. Get on the backs of our lazy elected officials and demand action and if a particular person or party will not act… work with just as much fervour as one would work to elect them…… to REPLACE THEM!!!!!
revereridesagain says
Serena’s taking postpartum depression to a whole new level. When she calms down she might just be as embarrassed at herself as the rest of us were at watching this display.
Elisha says
Irrelevant, as usual, Andy.
Andy says
This is relevant in our world. At one time people used to have jokes and cartoons about any subject and anyone.
What happened??
We don’t need political police anymore, We need FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION!
6 Reasons Why The Left Is Losing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfbzhuqA6e4
Tricia Stuercke says
AMEN! Thank you, Mortimer!
and
Thank you, Robert Spencer!
Tricia Stuercke says
Brilliant Wellington!
and
BRILLIANT, Mr. Robert Spencer!
DHazard says
Don’t read Robert Spencer’s book….Nazi…..White Supremacist……..Alt…….Right………Extremist………Racist……..Islamophobe………Ban……..Deplatform……..Silence……repeat…repeat……..stop thinking……….stay away…….Islamophobe….Racist………Alt Right………Questions are hard………..Don’t ask……………………sleep…
“If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.”
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s top liar.
So who’s acting like a Nazi? Who’s lying? Who’s the racist? Who secretly thinks Islam is stupid?
b.a. freeman says
i, for one, don’t think islam is stupid, D; it is, if anything, ingenious. it promises that if U want to rob, rape, loot, or murder, U have divine sanction, especially if done in the fake god’s name; furthermore, if the muslim happens to croak while robbing, raping, stealing, and killing, he is *guaranteed* oodles of sex and booze (rivers of wine) in jannah (paradise). *not* dying while being depraved in allah’s name means that allah might not let the muslim into paradise, which also encourages the muslim to die in battle for islam.
the psychopath who invented islam was an evil genius, but the current success of the cult is not as much due to his evil as it is to the duplicity and treason of the liars who protect this filthy cult in modern republics, and cover for it so that it can continue damaging society. i refuse to believe that *anybody* who is intelligent enough to work free people in order to win elections is so stupid that he does not bother to confirm the safety of the cult. and if these people are not stupid, there is only one other choice: they are traitors.
Tricia Stuercke says
That evil genius has a name… many, in fact. According to prophecy, that evil genius is Satan himself. According to our Border Patrol, confirmed by Judicial Watch, Satan’s army is gathering in numbers & training just south of our still-wide-open border, in at least 2 makeshift training camps outside Juarez. Between a great escalation in natural disasters & a horrific invasion & multi-faceted attack by Islam, the U.S. is in for a rough time ahead. Not trying to fear-monger & know I sound like a headcase, but I assure you I’m neither. Just a woman who went overnight 23yrs ago from being a professional dancer touring the world, to losing my ability to function in most ways. I was “compelled” to study Biblical Truths & Prophecies for 10+ bedridden yrs, then things began “appearing” on my computer screen, unsearched & unrelated to anything I’d been doing. The prophecies I’ve been made aware of have been & are still being “hidden” by “Francis”, the so-called “pope”…the 1st pope in over 500yrs charged with an official “Filial Correction” for multiple Heresies! The prophetic messages, which have foretold ALL VOLCANIC ACTIVITY, IN ORDER, BY NAME, & countless other occurrences, are available to read, pray on, & discern. Compelling indeed!
revelacionesmarianas.com
SJ says
Again…ISLAMIC SUPREMISTS. THEY ARE ILLEGAL OCCUPIERS OF THE WORLD AND HITLER WAS THEIR ALLY.
ISLAMIC SUPREMISTS MURDER, RAPE AND KILL SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THEIR TIME. STOP THE HAREFUL.ISLAMIC OPPRESSORS IN THEIR TRACKS. NO MORE KILLING BY THESE HATEFUL PEOPLE. IT MUST END NOW!!!
eduardo odraude says
This is an indispensable book about one of the core threads of human history. This is one of the threads that one surely must know to be able to consider oneself historically aware. Imagine claiming to know American history while knowing nothing at all about Lincoln. Well, it’s at least as ridiculous if someone claims to know something about world history while one knows little about Islam and its jihad conquests over the last 1400 years. One of the reasons the West has been duped by so much PC mythology around Islam is our terrible ignorance of the facts of jihad history.
A great aspect of this book is that Spencer, because he knows Islamic history and the core Islamic texts inside and out, is often able to make transparent the meaning of statements and actions of Islamic scholars, leaders, ad jihadists. Spencer has a something like x-ray vision when it comes to understanding the events of the 1400 year jihad. And in recounting the dramatic story of the 1400 year jihad, Spencer relies mainly on sources written by Muslims themselves.
b.a. freeman says
+1
Tricia Stuercke says
Excellent!
mortimer says
Islam is an international version of the Ku Klux Klan but much more vicious and self-serving and the racism in Islam is ARAB RACISM and ARAB SUPREMACISM.
All ‘colored’ Muslims know they are considered INFERIOR to Arab Muslims. Islam’s dirty secret.
J D S says
Yes Mortimer…..the Arab Muslims little dirty secret….under their breath they call black or colored Muslims. Monkeys and apes……but they still keep joining this very hateful so called religion…… islam some in dark countries don’t have a choice other than join or die.
mortimer says
Only a CRIMINAL MIND could retain the slightest respect for Islam after reading The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer.
The History of Jihad demolishes the narrative that Islam is in any way ‘benign’.
ISLAM IS AGGRESSION, whether by military force, legal subterfuge, financial manipulation, sacralized prevarication or passive aggression.
Jihad REMOVES the rights and civil liberties of women and non-Muslim ‘others’.
ALL JIHAD IS AGGRESSION.
Tricia Stuercke says
QUESTION FOR ROBERT SPENCER:
Mr. Spencer,
With this insane attack you are under, WHAT IS THE MOST HELPFUL WAY THAT WE CAN SHOW THE OVERWHELMING SUPPORT YOU HAVE FOR YOUR MOST CRUCIAL VOICE? Do you have a preferred way for us to purchase copies of your book that would be more lucrative or helpful to you as we begin, say, our Veteran’s Day, Christmas &/or Hanukkah shopping?
Please forgive me if I missed you posting on this earlier…I’ve been breaking bones constantly & proving the need for a hospital version of “Frequent Flier Miles”! ?
I thank you with a very full heart for the knowledge you’ve given me, & for the unquenchable thirst for TRUTH in its entirety you’ve made me realize I must never let lapse. You have helped me raise my sons with proper awareness; at 23 & 19, I’m certain that you’ve helped me prepare them for a future none of us, til 9/11, ever fathomed. I’m eternally grateful to you & your incredible staff. May The Lord bless & keep you all! ?