1. Spencer’s jihad against Islam is good for those who profit from a big government daddy state of military complexes and growing budgets for the CIA, DIA, FBI, DHS, NSA and other anti-democratic institutions within our midst. Feeding on the fear and bigotry of a segment of the U.S. population, Spencer is back again to tell them, ‘be afraid, be very afraid.’ It’s a convenient diversion from what Americans should fear, and that is the institutions of empire that have oppressed the Global South Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II-Updated Through 2003, and that have robbed this nation of trillions of dollars The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives.
   
   U.S. ‘soldiers’ sitting in computer rooms and directing the Reaper drones, or those wanna-be Rambos who listen to radio hosts like Michael Savage and take programs like ’24’ seriously will enjoy Spencer’s latest attempt to justify American aggression. But thankfully, as the Obama election has shown, most Americans don’t buy what Pentagon propagandists and PR firms (like the Rendon Group) are selling and are making daily contributions toward the peaceful kingdom that all the wisdom traditions guide us towards The World’s Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions.

   See also:
   
   Why We Fight
   
   Islam for Dummies Islam is the fastest growing religion in the U.S., with over 100,000 converts in Texas alone.
   
   Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
   
   Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World (American Empire Project) A revealing compilation of interviews with the most-cited author on the planet, Noam Chomsky.
   Rating: 1 / 5

2. Another book that tries to malign Islam, but still its the fastest growing religion. you say Islam spread by sword, my question is where is the sword today? why are so many americans converting to Islam? The fact is Islam is the truth and will win the hearts, no matter how much filth you write…
   
   For the record, there is no other religion that caused as much bloodshed as Christianity.
   Rating: 1 / 5

3. If Robert Spencer is a scholar, then my backside is a fire engine! I don’t think he’s an Islamophobe, just an opportunist, it’s become fashionable in post 9/11 America to make a few $$ by dissing Islam.
   Rating: 1 / 5

4. Why do people buy into this ?

   (1.) No bombs? No Guns? …As long as people persue their collective interests legally here, I got no issue. Why does Spencer?

   (2.) The evangelical christian political movement is at least 20 times larger, well-funded, and well-organized than the entire muslim population in america…and even they don’t get their way? What makes you think that muslims can even come close ?

   Hypothetically, if they all magically got politically active, AND they all somehow agreed on voting for the same candidates and policies, it would take over a 200 years of exxagerated birth rates to be numerous enough to “take-over”

   By that time, America will likely be as worth taking over as Papua, New Guinnea. intelligence analysts have already predicted a decline in the power/influence of the u.s. relative to other world players like Russia by 2025!!!

   For the ones who posted positive reviews, I wager that, after 100 years, the wretched offspring of your backwards, hate-seekin’, cow-tippin, Waffle House-raidin’, square-dancin’, flag-waivin’, confederate flag-waivin’, moonshine-drinkin’, sister-lovin’ smelly redneck DOOFUSES will be looking to migrate to Dubai for jobs.

   Y’all keep givin Spencer yer Money now, ya’hear? lol

   Rating: 1 / 5

5. I have come to acknowledge that although Mr. Spencer does not know how to read or write Arabic nor has he went to any Islamic schools in the Middle East, he really does know a few things about Islam and especially about jihad. I am not about to “smear Mr. Spencer as a racist and Islamophobe” nor will I “trash the book as a pack of lies.” I’m just here to make my observations on what Spencer believes is a threat from all Muslims in America and the West. When he started writing this book in January of this year, I thought he would wait until another terrorist attack happened in the U.S. to release it so that he could make as much money as possible, but I guess that an Obama victory is enough to boost sales.

   The message that Spencer tries to push on people is that any Muslim is a threat. They all have the intentions of doing jihad and destroying America and killing Americans. He doesn’t say it out front, but it is exactly what he implies. He uses the example of civil rights group CAIR and calls them a front organization for terrorism and the “political arm” of radical Islam. While it is true that they once funded Hamas and they occasionally prevent criticism of Islam by political pundits such as Michael Savage and people such as Spencer, but they are not supported by Al-Qaeda nor have they ever had any communication with Osama Bin Laden. Yet the amount of time spent on criticizing them by Spencer would make you believe that Bin Laden engineered every building they have worked in and sends his videos straight to their offices. They supported Hamas which was an organization that was once supported by Israel and now holds a majority of seats in the elected legislative council of the Palestinian National Authority. The Israelis bombed the hell out of the British and killed civilians and those same people, such as Menachem Begin, became leaders of Israel. They are looked upon as heroes. But if an Arab does what a Jewish person does, he is never a hero but always a terrorist. I’m not condoning the killing of children and women and I think it is evil to target and kill innocent people, but I think we need to look at the larger picture before we start to make accusations.

   He also uses some instances of Muslims demanding that Sharia law be implemented and said that we will soon have it in Europe and eventually the U.S. He mentions the taxi drivers who refused to pick up drivers with alcohol as an example. While there may have been some were reluctant to pick up people with booze, there were other Muslim drivers who were not so serious about Islamic law being implemented. One driver, Rasheed Gardad, said “If we want to impose our rules and our beliefs, we should stay where we came from.” This is probably the opinion of most of the drivers, but Spencer will have you believe that all of those drivers want the Islamic call to prayer put on loud speakers, all women put covered from head to toe, and want every other law in Somalia implemented in the U.S. It’s the same tactic used by the Bush Administration to keep their ratings high.

   There are terrorists in America, Europe, and all over the globe. The majority of them might even be Muslims. Alright….99.9 % of them are Muslim and that recent bus bombing in Russia was done by Muslims, even though nobody has declared it yet, but we follow the guilty by association theme. The terrorists who call themselves Muslim are about 0.1 % or 1/10th of all Muslims in the world. There are 1.3 to 1.5 billion Muslims in the world. If you make books like this one, then you convince non-educated people to think that the 99.9 percent of Muslims who abhor terrorism are as guilty as the real terrorists in some way, shape, or form. This leads to racism, hate crimes, and the abuse of innocent Muslims. I know Americans do not want innocent people to get hurt and I also know that they want to feel safe from a terrorist attack. I don’t think it would be wise to alienate those Muslims who are on the side of the good guys. Robert Spencer wants to alienate them and would be satisfied if all Muslims were eliminated off the face of this Earth because he thinks that the Prophet Muhammad was a terrorist and that the Quran is a book of hate that endorses terrorism. Do you support him?

   Rating: 3 / 5

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