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Robert Spencer’s History of Jihad “marshals the facts that put the lie to the delusions of Western appeasers”

Nov 19, 2018 2:38 pm By Robert Spencer

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 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.

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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 19, 2018 at 2:51 pm

    On the date of 9/25/ 18 President Trump during a speech declared “ISIS has been driven out of Iraq and Syria.” This is both a truth and a triumph .so far so good. This is actually very good.
    Likewise, the scholar and author, Robert Spencer, in his latest book which has the title of THE HISTORY OF JIHAD FROM MUHAMMAD TO ISIS . For on page it reads “When Donald Trump replaced Barack as president of the United States, Iraqi forces and other began rolling up the Islamic State strongholds, such that within a year of the beginning of the Trump Presidency, the Islamic State had lost nine-eight of its territory.”
    As good as the collapse of that Islamic “state” is we must not remember that the source and inspiration for and of that vicious and murderous jihad entity, ISIS, has not collapsed .Therefore we should not let our guard down regarding such heinous dangers. The source and inspiration is Islam.

    • Andy says

      Nov 19, 2018 at 7:15 pm

      Give Alex Jones press credentials and sit him next to Jim Acosta

      Sign This Petition

      https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/give-alex-jones-press-credentials-and-sit-him-next-jim-acosta

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 20, 2018 at 2:39 am

        I am no fan of how Alex Jones’ free speech has been shut down–this is unconscionable.

        But he is also a 9/11 “Truther”, who does not believe this was Jihad, but was done by Americans to their own people and then blamed on Muslims.

        That changes nothing about his right to freedom of speech–but it does, to my mind, indicate that we should be cautious about considering him an ally in the fight against Jihad.

        • David Pimentel says

          Nov 20, 2018 at 11:53 am

          @gravenimage
          Agreed. Alex Jones is a sensationalist who uses such things to sell advertising. It is obviously a lucrative business model. Unfortunately, too many people, like The Greek, are too gullible. It’s also unfortunate that this WordPress comment tool won’t let me reply directly in order to advise him to stick to sheet metal, because he knows next to nothing about fission weapons’ characteristics.

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 21, 2018 at 2:30 am

          The Greek wrote:

          I also had worked on the roof of Tower 2. The towers came down by the hands of our own government using muslime filth as the catalyst . There were nuclear fission bombs planted throughout both Towers.
          …………………………

          This is even more ridiculous than what you hear from most 9/11 “Truthers”. The idea that no one involved in the clean up would have noticed nuclear materials in the wreckage is utterly ludicrous.

          And the claim that this was not Jihad, but just the work of Infidels murdering their own people is grotesque calumny.

          Does “The Greek” also claim that all 34,000+ Jihad terror attacks just since 9/11 were also pulled off by the “filthy Kuffar”? *Ugh*.

        • Andy says

          Nov 21, 2018 at 9:24 pm

          😂😂 HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! 😂😂

          😂😂 that is one turkey Trump shouldn’t pardon😂😂

          Jim Acosta is Reintroduced back into the Press Briefing Room

    • jumbo says

      Nov 19, 2018 at 8:50 pm

      Donald Trump can hardly spell ISIS. He is a dangerous sociopath and fool. Mr Spencer should have stuck to his scholarly analysis of the Islamic threat to our civilization and not digressed into supporting this stupid fraudulent disgrace to our country

      • Rob Porter says

        Nov 20, 2018 at 6:19 pm

        jumbo, better your name were Dumbo because you don’t know much more. So you preferred Islam-supporting Obama and would have preferred a traitor like Hillary

  2. mortimer says

    Nov 19, 2018 at 3:33 pm

    Our thanks to you, Mr. Bruce Thornton !

    One by one, scholars and politicians are realizing the high value of The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer.

    It is essential for all diplomats, politicians and police detectives to read The History of Jihad so that they will be prepared to know what Muslim TERRORISTS WILL DO NEXT.

    Muslim TERRORISTS are simply REPEATING OVER AND OVER what you will find in the pages of the The History of Jihad.

    The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer is PRETTY MUCH the PLAYBOOK of Islam.

  3. Terry Gain says

    Nov 19, 2018 at 3:46 pm

    Robert Spencer’s History of Jihad conclusively proves that Islam is not a religion.
    You are what you do. Talk is cheap.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 19, 2018 at 5:53 pm

      Islam calls itself a ‘DEEN’ meaning ‘a system of governance’. Islam was in fact created as an imitation of the Roman Empire. Islam is the Holy Arab Empire, having a plenipotentiary emperor and a state religion subordinated to the whims of the caliph-emperor. Caliph is the Arab equivalent of ‘Caesar’.

      Islam DEFINES ITSELF, so it does not fit into the West’s categories where there is a separation of religion and state.

      • Terry Gain says

        Nov 19, 2018 at 6:00 pm

        Mortimer

        Islam’s definition is not binding on me. I reject it. As a religion, Islam is not even close. Mandating the killing of people because of their beliefs is not religious. It is evil.

        • mortimer says

          Nov 19, 2018 at 7:55 pm

          FACTS ARE BINDING ON YOU, Mr. Gain. You cannot DISCUSS SOMETHING YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND FROM THE INSIDE. You resist LEARNING the facts.

          You may as well say that the DEFINITION OF THE ELEMENTS in the PERIODIC TABLE IS NOT BINDING ON YOU.

          If you don’t understand what ISLAM IS, then you cannot oppose it or refute it.

      • Terry Gain says

        Nov 19, 2018 at 9:01 pm

        Mortimer

        Did you even read my comment? You yourself stated that Islam defines itself as a system of governance. I am well aware of that And that it also claims to be a religion. In western democracies we believe in the separation of church and state. Your arrogance is tiresome.

  4. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Nov 19, 2018 at 4:15 pm

    Having finished reading The History of Jihad from Muhammad to ISIS about three weeks ago, I stumbled upon this tonight, Watching it was surreal, to say the least.

    • Indiana Tom says

      Nov 19, 2018 at 5:50 pm

      What a tempting target!
      Foot stuck in arse!

      • mortimer says

        Nov 19, 2018 at 6:01 pm

        Ali Mahmood made a WHITEWASH of Islam. The History of Jihad is the REAL STORY.

        No one’s falling for the WHITEWASH version of Islam any more. Muslims realize that their jig is up.

        The taqiyya isn’t working anymore. They had 17 years since 9-11 and the JIHADISM HAS ONLY GOTTEN WORSE !

        Islam is a WARRIOR CULT and a DEATH CULT. Motto of early Muslims: “WE LOVE DEATH.”

    • Terry Gain says

      Nov 19, 2018 at 6:12 pm

      Muslims are easily the world’s greatest propagandists. A willingness to lie without compunction is their greatest weapon.

    • Sam says

      Nov 19, 2018 at 11:51 pm

      What a f**** b’s.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 20, 2018 at 2:44 am

      What a load of Taqiyya. Thanks for that link, Anjuli.

      • Anjuli Pandavar says

        Nov 21, 2018 at 2:44 am

        The book was written in 2017. I’m just staggered that they still think they can get away with such brazen cr*p. But what I found worse than the BS is the lulling tone! I was surprised that he did go so far as to mention the Ridda wars, though without mentioning what they were, of course! Abu Bakr was “rightly guided” *and* the first caliph. You don’t mess with that.

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 22, 2018 at 12:45 am

          +1

  5. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Nov 19, 2018 at 5:08 pm

    “Israel Books Record Tourist Numbers as U.S., Europe Travelers Dominate”

    https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2018/11/19/israel-books-record-tourist-numbers-as-u-s-europe-travelers-dominate/

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 20, 2018 at 2:45 am

      +1

  6. Indiana Tom says

    Nov 19, 2018 at 5:54 pm

    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.
    Yeah, and only if we can get the liberal dumbarses to read the dang thing!

    • Terry Gain says

      Nov 19, 2018 at 6:06 pm

      We need to mock them for not reading it.

      “So you haven’t read Spencer. Seriously?”

  7. Salah says

    Nov 19, 2018 at 7:15 pm

    Major Western Appeaser Exposed.

    “The name of Jesus Christ… has become an excuse to talk about something else: migration, ecology and so on…”

    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-has-broken-with-previous-popes-causing-heresies-schisms-vatica

  8. Georg says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 1:53 am

    Wow. I didn’t know there’s someone at Stanford who isn’t nuts.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 20, 2018 at 2:46 am

      Actually, most of those at Stanford’s Hoover Institution are conservative.

  9. gravenimage says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 2:33 am

    Robert Spencer’s History of Jihad “marshals the facts that put the lie to the delusions of Western appeasers”
    …………………….

    Excellent stuff from Bruce Thornton.

  10. Jenny H says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 6:21 am

    The way his comments appear on this page means that I’m not able to reply directly under the comments of “The Greek”. I heard not long after 9/11 that the burning aviation fuel from the planes was so hot that it melted out the steel from the reinforced concrete in the towers. The burning fuel poured down the lift shafts spreading the fire.
    Also, the separation of Church and State doesn’t mean the USA Founding Fathers didn’t believe in God or a higher power, rather that the Government should be run in accordance with Jesus’ command to “render to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s”. It’s from somewhere in the New Testament but I can’t remember exactly where at the moment.

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