Frank Hawkins is a former U.S. Army intelligence officer, Associated Press foreign correspondent, international businessman, senior newspaper company executive, founder and owner of several marketing companies, and published novelist. In the American Thinker today, he reviews my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which you can order here now.
“Robert Spencer: A Paul Revere of Our Times,” by Frank Hawkins, American Thinker, October 14, 2018:
Robert Spencer’s new book The History of Jihad from Muhammad to ISIS is a clarion call to Western Civilization. We are under assault by Islam from all sides in a war that has raged since 632, the date of Muhammad’s death. In trying to raise the alarm, Spencer is clearly one of the Paul Reveres of our time. But who is willing to listen?
Spencer’s opening observation sums up his book.
“There is no period since the beginning of Islam that was characterized by peaceful co-existence between Muslims and non-Muslims . . . There has always been, with virtually no interruption, jihad. Nor is jihad in Islamic theology primarily, or even prominently anything but warfare against non-believers.”
The rest of Spencer’s well researched and thoroughly documented book are the details, fascinating, convincing and frightening details that more that substantiate his case.
Spencer is one of the world’s leading authorities on Islam. He has written several best selling books on Islam and is founder of Jihad Watch, a website that covers global Islamic attacks and activity on a daily basis. It is a program of the David Horowitz Freedom center, where Spencer is a Shillman Fellow. He also is co-founder of Stop Islamization of America. A tireless speaker and advocate, he has been banned from entering the UK despite the fact the British government has no trouble allowing Islamic hate preachers full access.
Of the Greek Orthodox faith, Spencer has spent decades researching, studying and observing the elements that fill this important book with records of events and, most damagingly, direct quotes from Qur’an, which “contain numerous exhortations to fight against the infidels, as do all the hadith collections of Muhammad’s words and deeds.” More specifically, the scriptures command Muslims to “fight those who do not believe in Allah.” The historical record is chilling. But Spencer’s most damaging and convincing argument is letting the Muslims speak for themselves including the prophet Muhammad who bragged, “I have been victorious with terror.”
The book sweeps the reader through Muhammad’s own bloody conquests against Jews and other infidels, and then on through centuries of jihad, mass bloodshed from Spain to India, the Barbary Wars, the Ottoman Empire, and on into modern day global terrorism. There is no accurate body count, but it’s certainly a staggering number.
His most alarming material is in the closing chapter “The West loses the Will to Live.” The well-documented, ongoing jihad against Israel is more than enough for a book of its own. The fall of the Shah of Iran triggered the globalization of modern jihad terrorism. Spencer details the rise of Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden along with the 9/11 attacks that were, not so shockingly, organized and funded by senior people in both Saudi Arabia and Iran. Even worse were attempts by the Bush administration and the Obama administration to cover this up. One can see the hand of Obama’s CIA director John Brennan in a good deal of this. Who can forget Obama’s 2009 trip to Cairo where he “acknowledged civilization’s debt to Islam.” Somehow he managed not to mention the slaughter of millions over the centuries in the name of Allah.
The Obama-supported Muslim Brotherhood, which has been labeled by some as a terrorist group, and its offshoot CAIR, remain highly active in weakening America’s resolve to resist the encroachment of Islam. In February 2012, for instance, the Obama administration, led by John Brennan, purged thousands of documents about the threat of Jihad from FBI and other government training manuals, because they were allegedly “biased, false and highly offensive to Muslim groups.”
In other words, Spencer points out, “American was going to war against jihadists while forbidding itself to understand jihad.” Brennan, in fact, “was instrumental in the Obama administration’s recasting of the defense against terror as a localized struggle against al-Qaeda.” This was after Spencer had led seminars on Islam and jihad for the FBI, the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Justice Department’s Terrorism Advisory Council and the US intelligence community.
Meanwhile, the flood of Muslim immigrants into the West has accelerated. Spencer concludes that, “The failure of today’s leadership and the international media to inform the public about what is really going on (is) an abdication of responsibility unparalleled in history.” Spencer believes the leaders of Europe have “brought almost certain doom on their countries.” Reading daily dispatches, particularly from the UK and France, it is difficult to disagree….
“The historical record speaks for itself,” says Spencer, “even more loudly and clearly than it usually does. It is my hope that readers with an open mind and a willingness to consider unwelcome facts…will see this record for what it is and ponder carefully its implications for the future of free societies around the world.” In other words, Islam is coming, by land, sea and air. The warnings are all there. It’s time to recognize what is happening and bring it to a halt.
Read the rest here.
Lookmann says
Right words from a man of substance. Hope it reaches the masses ,
overcoming the resistance from stupid MSM.
Berengaria says
A Big, Big Thank you to Mr. Frank Hawkins, who gives us a Great Insight Into The Plague of Islam & a Supreme Critique of Robert Spencer’s “HISTORY OF JIHAD”, which should be Required Reading for Every American Citizen.
If Nothing Else, Muhammad’s Blood Thirsty Boast, “I have been Victorious with Terror”, should resonate with everyone, who was alive on 9/11/2001.
Our Presidents Carter, HWBush, Clinton(Bill & Hill), GWBush & Obama have all acted as apologists for the Muslim Hordes, aka Terrorists.
Please, Please Read & Reread “The History of Jihad”, An Essential Book, before it’s too Late!
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Merkel’s sister party CSU suffers worst election result since 1950 in Bavaria”
https://www.rt.com/news/441229-germany-election-bavaria-results/
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
I can’t wait for the Conservatives to pull the plug on the CBC.
Another example of the CBC’s attempts at social engineering:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/national-alia-youssef-the-sisters-project-1.4858799
jayell says
“Robert Spencer’s new book The History of Jihad from Muhammad to ISIS is a clarion call to Western Civilization”……Absolutely! But what if ‘civilisation’ has been deafened by all the PC propaganda?
Thomas Arthur (Sultan) says
What is Islam?
ISLAM IS FALSE, that’s the simplest answer. Islam is a false religion with out any doubt. Koran is the most unimpressive, boring book I have ever read. It does not look like a work of a brilliant intelligent all knowing god from any angle. In fact a 8th grader can write a better book than that. Muslims instead of wasting time in glorifying Mohammad and singing poems describing how remarkable he was should understand Koran and critically examine it. They have been gullible for last 1400 years, it is about time they use common sense and take a hard look at Koran and Mohammad if they want to be part of humanity. The glorified version of Islam and Mohammad that Muslims learn while growing up and which is in-grained on their minds is not true. Muslims should know the facts about Islam, Koran, Muhammad and Islamic history.
It is my sincere hope to save as many Muslims as I can from the curse of Islam. It is an evil barbaric ideology which has no place in 21st century civilised world. I will proved on my site without any doubt that Islam is a bogus religion and Mohammad and Koran have nothing to do with any god.
gravenimage says
“Robert Spencer’s new book The History of Jihad from Muhammad to ISIS is a clarion call to Western Civilization”
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Fine review from Frank Hawkins.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
OMG! Francis is talking about himself!
“Pope Francis: Beware of ‘Well-Mannered Demons’”
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/10/13/pope-francis-beware-well-mannered-demons/
FYI says
Isn’t that a neat and cunning trick?Deflect attention AWAY from himself and his henchmen.
Such positively luciferian cunning:it’s all the fault of the devil.Nothing to do with us!It’s almost as cunning as trying to create the illusion he is like St Francis:he isn’t,he is nothing like that genuine saint.
Francis is just an old man in a dress playing an Oscar-winning performance of “fool the sheeple”.
{BTW I have catholics in my family and they are wondering where their church has gone:Thanks to Mr Bergolio and the Vatican it seems to be under attack….by the men in Rome.They tell me Fatima 1917 is a Catholic prophecy and another from St Francis….that seems to explain it…}
“If you say something I do not like I have to listen even more”
xxx
pope francis.
Well,OK,francis..it’s a BIG LIST…and say,did you hear the joke about your mother and the Chilean sailors..
hey,hey!..there’s no need for violence francis…haha..god you are bad as the muslims…