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Summary: 5 stars for sure...and I do not like much stuff
Review: This book is captivating. I bought it in the airport and read it on the plane even though I was VERY tired. I HIGHLY regard what this author has done. Bravo Mr. Spencer!
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Summary: Re-packaged Anti Islamic propaganda
Review: The writer goes out of his way to show Islam and Quran as very different from Christianity and Bible. This is the best defense 'Islam Haters' has been using for centuries. Nothing new here. Just re-packaged propaganda against Islam. The writer utterly fails to mention positives in Quran for humanity and only points out the passages in Quran that may be perceived as negatives at this particular juncture of time. A good example is about treatment of women. He ommits all the positives about women(which incidentally gave various rights to womenfolk back in 6th century against the women in the rest of the world who has only been able to attain some rights under the veil of liberalism during the past 100 years). The In truth, Judiasm, Christianity, Islam all show the way towards God, but each takes a slightly different path or direction. Recommend "Islam" by Karen Armstrong.
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Summary: Denial in Glass Houses
Review: I am sure that those mono-star reviewers that have attacked Mr. Spencer have not gotten beyond the cover of the book. To anyone who saw Mr. Spencer on CSPAN, it is clear that he is not anti-Muslim or anti-Islam. Mr. Spencer was adament in his talk that he was not referring to the one billion plus Muslims in the world, but a minority of radicals/fundamentalists (he said 10-15%) that were interpreting the Quuran too narrowly or selectively for their own political gain. Muslims would be wise not to call what Mr. Spencer says rubbish as most of his arguments are gleaned directly from the Holy Quuran itself. Mr. Spencer is not advocating any religion as superior or denegrading Islam. He is bringing up important points that most would like to ignore for fear of appearing politically incorrect. Radical Islam can never be a minor issue in a religion with over a billion adherents. Mr. Spencer's figure of 10% would still mean over a million Muslims demonizing the West.
The cries on this board to remove Mr. Spencer's book say far more about the mindset of some Muslims than anything meaningful about the work itself. They clarify one of Spencer's main themes-
moderate Muslims prefer to stick their heads in the sand instead of confronting the radicals in their midst.
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Summary: It Takes Courage To State The Truth
Review: After spending 20+ years studying the Islamic religion, Mr. Spencer knows more about this religion than the absurd reviewers below that call him a "hatemonger", "nazi", "racist", etc. One reviewer even had the audacity to say that he should not be free to write his viewpoints. And, that is exactly what Mr. Spencer is trying to say in his book; the Islamic religion has many misguided people--and about 10% of its followers are like the terrorists that attacked America on 9/11/01. Some reviews below have argued that Islam is a religion of peace and is good toward women because American women are converting to Islam. Heck, let them convert in Iraq and see what happens to them. I have a friend whose father is a Muslim-he beat her and her American mother because his religion says it's ok to do this. She and her mother had to flee from him to America. Her father continues to live in Iraq. I thank Mr. Spencer for the courage to call it like it is-thank God we live in America and are free to read his opinions. This is an excellent book that explains fully the many questions we in America have about the Muslim world since 9/11/01. It answered a lot of my questions--is Islam a religion of peace, how does Islam treat its women, can Islam exist in a secular government and society, and many others. If we lived in a Muslim country, he and the others, like me, who wrote favorable reviews of his book would be on the Islamic hit list. Mr. Spencer-I'd love to see you continue your arguments in another book.
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Summary: not bad
Review: i thought this book was excellent in exposing truths which are shown by the media. however i'd like to see more coverage on christian persecution.events like 7 year old sudanese christians being crucified by muslims should be heard by all.
overall not a bad book.
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Summary: Ignorant and naive
Review: This book is sad revelation of an authour who certainly doesnt know anything about islam.The things he mentions about Quaran and Hadith are truly false and most of them are made up by people.I would suggest to the author to get into a class of islam 101 before writing a book.
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Summary: he just Doesn't get it !!!...
Review: Obviously, if Islam is this and Islam is that, then why in the world there are people joining it, AND ONLY A HANDFULL LEAVE IT???? there is nothing to unveil about Islam; everything is there where you go to a Mosque and perhaps know the religion; however, for the narrow-minded ones, the ones who doesn't recognizes the faults of Cristianity and Judaism, as well, AND ONLY BLAME ISLAM AND MUSLIMS, THIS WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT BOOK!!!.
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Summary: Does Islam Mean Peace?
Review: In his final chapter, Spencer writes: "[i]t would be too pessimistic to say that there are no peaceful strains of Islam, but it would be imprudent to ignore the fact that deeply imbedded in the central documents of the religion is an all-encompassing vision of a theocratic state that is fundamentally different from and opposed to the post-Enlightenment Christian values of the West." And that about sums up the book. At every turn, Spencer acknowledges that Islam has plenty of adherents who believe in Western-style liberalism: live and let live, separation of church and state, allegorical interpretation of harsher scriptural passages or an understanding that such passages are no longer in force, etc. But he doesn't talk about them, because the point of this book is that Islam has a dark side. Which is to say, many Muslims believe in and practice a pretty savage faith. This, of course, is no surprise at all, if you read the news. The Miss World-induced riots, "honor killings" in Jordan, death threats made against Salman Rushdie and other writers, female circumcision in North Africa, the Saudi girls burned to death in their school because the police wouldn't allow them outside without veils, the teenage girl sentenced by a Pakistani court to be gang-raped as punishment for a moral indiscretion of her brother, you name it; the Muslim world has quite a few barbarians. What Spencer does that is interesting is examine the Islamic world in respect of various social or political issues -- human rights, liberal democracy, feminism, separation of church and state -- setting out the abuses of some Muslims and showing how those abuses, while they may look horrible to Westerners and to liberal Muslims, are fully compatible with Islam's fundamental documents, the Qur'an and the hadiths. In other words, it's too simplistic to call these people "bad Muslims," or to say that Islam condemns what they do. Along the way, Spencer throws in some relevant and interesting history (the Crusades, the intellectual contributions of medieval Islam, etc.) and a staggering wealth of illustrative examples. His writing is lucid and engaging throughout. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Mohammad.........The False Prophet
Review: In the Bible it says there will be many false prophets. 800 years after it was written the "devil's prophet" mohammad started islam. What other religion tolerates the killing of innocents and children or seeks to kill as many non-beleivers as possible?! "Ye shall know them from their acts". islam is incompatible with freedom and the majority of the world's peoples. islam needs to be shown for the false, violent, intolerant and incompatible religion that it is. This book is a must read!
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Summary: Book reeks of mistruths of Islamic Scripture (Quran, hadith)
Review: While referring to specific verses in the Quran seems to validate Spencer's anti-Islam position, either his lack of understanding or his intentional misinterpretation of verses and hadiths is clearly polemic and deceitful to the reader. Considering his anti-Islam views, it should not be surprising to find that with more than 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, he chose from them the picture of Mohamed Atta to put on his book, as if 1.5 billion terrorists exist. But then again this book really doesn't deserve a better face. Five stars for anyone interested in spreading hate and lies. Crosschecking verses and hadiths with Islamic religious scholars would do the reader justice.
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