Book List (Frequently Updated)
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For Starters:
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam
(and the Crusades)
Author: Robert Spencer
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0895260131
Publish Date: 2005
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Review: (from August 22, 2005, The American Review, Online) Spencer explodes numerous apologetic canards about Islam—both its dogmas, and history—with a witty irreverence that is never mean-spirited, and always well-documented. Recurrent teaching tools the author employs effectively (and humorously) are the “Guess what?” bullets that open each chapter, four variants of text boxes (“Just Like Today”; seminal thinkers on Islam [for eg., John Quincy Adams; see below]; “Muhammad vs. Jesus”; and “A Book You’re Not Supposed to Read”), and the chapter subheading(s), “PC myth(s)”. Spencer’s utilizes these six motifs deftly to educate readers about disturbing, but quintessential truths regarding Islam. Read the entire review here.
Availability: Most large booksellers. Should be placed in every public library!
Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America
Author: Walid Phares
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 1-4039-7074-2
Publish Date: 2005
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Review: This book, footnoted and indexed, is a riveting read! In its “Introduction,” Dr. Phares begins with a short and emotional description of the events of 9/11 and refers to the day as “The Pearl Harbor of Terrorism.” Having analyzed the jihad phenomenon for twenty-five years prior to 9/11, Dr. Walid Phares, an expert on the Middle East and a senior fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, seeks to answer ten questions, including the following:
(1) Why did the jihadists launch the attacks of September 11?
(2) Are the jihadists planning on future wars?
(3) What can we do about these jihadists?
The opening chapter points out that jihad, a religious duty within Islam, dates from the seventh century and was officially a state business. Perhaps the most chilling material in the book can be found in Chapters 13 and 15, “Projecting Future Jihad” and “America: Jihad’s Second Generation,” respectively. In his concluding chapter, Dr. Phares warns, with some urgency, “At the end of the next decade, historians will be asking many questions and will face the dilemma of hindsight. The war against terrorism will be seen as archaic compared to what will have by then become a worldwide conflict with jihad terror. And it may also be possible that the war of ideas will have been won by stages. But a stalemate could have been reached as well, if by the middle of this decade several opportunities have been lost.” This final chapter assesses the impact of 9/11 and the progress so far on the war on terror, emphasizes the importance of dealing with the second generation of Al Qaeda, and advises that Americans need to go beyond what they learn in the “educational establishment, which is now becoming an isolated bastion of denial.” Dr. Phares presents a frightening reality in his book, but because he has done a lifetime of research and is fluent in Arabic, thus able to understand what is being said in various terrorist chat rooms, he knows whereof he speaks. Dr. Phares’ web site is here, and he also contributes to The Counterterrorism Blog, an informative site for current information related to the topics raised in Dr. Phares' book.
Availability: Amazon, most bookstores, Dr. Phares' web site, some library systems
Prophet of Doom
Author: Craig Winn
Format: Hardcover. Also available online, here.
ISBN: 0971448124
Publish Date: 2004
Publisher: Cricketsong Books
Review: The subtitle of Winn's meticulously researched and documented book says it all: "Islam's Terrorist Dogma In Muhammad's Own Words." The very words of Muhammad himself make undeniable the claim that Muhammad was a terrorist ("I have been made victorious with terror!" "I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them." "Crucify them or cut off a hand and foot on opposite sides." etc.), and the claim that Islam is a terrorist organization established to fund the terrorism; Muhammad is shown leading seventy-five terrorist raids; he himself claimed his motive was money ("What is this religion? Muhammad claims Allah has sent him with this religion so that the treasures of Persia and Rome will be given to him by conquest.").
Availability: Some large booksellers
The Sword of the Prophet
Author: Sergei Trifkovic
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1-928653-11-1
Publish Date: 2002
Publisher: Regina Orthodox Press
Review: This book explains why September 11 happened and why September 11 changed America forever. Trifkovic concludes that "Islam is a collective psychosis seeking to become global, and any attempt to compromise with such madness is to become part of the madness oneself," and his book provides historical analysis to prove his conclusion; Trifkovic also debunks many politically-correct myths about Islam. This book is well-footnoted and also provides a bibliography.
Availability: In many large public-library systems
Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West
Author: Robert Spencer
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ISBN: 0-89526-100-6
Publish Date: 2003
Publisher: Regnery Publishing Co.
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Availability: In most public-library systems
Preachers of Hate:
Islam and the War on America
Author: Kenneth A. Timmerman
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Infiltration:
How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington
Author: Paul Sperry
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 1-5955-5003-8
Publish Date: 2005
Publisher: Nelson Current
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Availability: In some large public-library systems
American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us
Author: Steven Emerson
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0743234359
Publish Date: 2003
Publisher: Free Press
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Availability: In most library systems
The Third Terrorist
Author: Jayna Davis
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0-7852-6103-6
Publish Date: 2004
Publisher: WND Books
Review: Among those who gave a "thumbs up" to this book by award-winning investigative reporter Jayna Davis are a former Director of the CIA, a former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and a retired FBI Special Agent. The book reads like a proposal for a television mini-series. It begins with eye-witness accounts of the destruction of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, and then with pitbull-like tenacity, peels back the layers of coverup, obstructionism, fear, "lost" records, and "deer-in-the-headlight" responses from officialdom, to make a case that there were, indeed, Middle East masterminds behind "mules" Nichols and Mcveigh. These masterminds were revealed as phony "defectors" who settled in Oklahoma City, host to one of the largest Muslim communities in the U.S. Were her evidence to be presented in a court of law, it would easily win a conviction of what the government, before ultimately denying any Middle East participation, referred to as "others unknown."
Availability: Most bookstores and library systems
Dangerous Diplomacy:
How The State Department Threatens America's Security
Author: Joel Mowbray
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ISBN: 08955261103
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Publisher: Regnery Publishing Co.
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Militant Islam Reaches America
Author: Daniel Pipes
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0393325318
Publish Date: 2002. Republished in paperback, 2002.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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Availibility: In most large public-library systems
Why I Am Not a Muslim
Author: Ibn Warraq
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1591020115
Publish Date: 1995. Republished in paperback, 2003
Publisher: Prometheus Books
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Availability: In most large public-library systems
Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism
Author: Dore Gold
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0895260611
Publish Date: 2004
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
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Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
Author: Ahmed Rashid
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0142002607
Publish Date: 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books
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For Deeper Understanding:
The Myth of Islamic Tolerance
Author: Edited by Robert Spencer
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 1591022495
Publish Date: 2005
Publisher: Prometheus Books
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The Arab Mind
Author: Raphael Patai
Format: Paperback (2002 edition)
ISBN: 1578261171
Publish Date: 1976. Republished in 1983 and 2002
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
Review: Patai, a cultural anthropologist, was born in Hungary in 1910, and died in 1996. He taught in several schools, including Princeton and Columbia. His professional background gives the reader a perspective of the Arab that is different from, but contextually related to, the one obtained from focusing primarily on Islam. He shows us many of their day-to-day activities, including education, sexual issues, art, music, and literature, as well as less familiar issues. For example, he talks about the "Bedouin ethos," its aversion to physical labor, and also spends a good deal of time on the influence of the Arab language. Its use of exaggeration, overassertion, and repetition is a practice which traces its ancestry from pre-Islamic times, and continues to the present. He discusses the proneness to conflict and volatility of the Arab mind--the "reaction produced by real or imaginary injuries, insults, slights, and infringements of honor." These cause a "violent reaction, with a compulsive inner need to retaliate, so that there is a flare-up, a clash, usually followed by a rapid return to quiescence."
Dr. Patai died several years before 9/11, but everything he wrote is so useful that his book is used to teach American military teams being deployed to the Middle East. There is a very inclusive postscript, "The Last Ten years," with updates, tables, and two appendices, one of which compares the Arab World and Spanish America.
Availability: In some large public-library systems; www.hatherleighpress.com .
The Koran Its Composition and Teaching and the Testimony It Bears to the Holy Scriptures
Author: Sir William Muir
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1417948736
Publish Date: 9/1/2004
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
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Mohammed
Author: D.S. Margoliouth
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0830500448
Publish Date: February 1983
Publisher: Gibson Press
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Relations Between Arabs and Israelis Prior to the Rise of Islam -
Author: D.S. Margoliouth
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0317157728
Publish Date: June 1921
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Mohammedanism
Author: Christian S. Hurgronje
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0830500383
Publish Date: June 1981 (reprint)
Publisher: Gibson Press
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Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century -
Author: C. Snouck Hurgronje
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9004020667
Publish Date: August 1997
Publisher: Brill Academic
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The Legacy of Islam
Author: Joseph Schacht
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 019821913X
Publish Date: January 1975
Publisher: Oxford Univ Press
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Mohammed and the Rise of Islam
Author: David S. Margoliouth Format: Paperback
ISBN: 193195674X
October 2003
Publisher: Ams Press
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Islam and the Psychology of the Musulman
Author: Andre Servier. Translated By A. S. Moss-Blundell. With a Preface By Louis Bertrand
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: B00086Z1WS
Publish Date: 1924
Publisher: Scribners
Review: The author wrote this book in order to warn his countrymen of the problems they faced with Muslims and Islam in the French colonies of North Africa. France ignored his warning, but it is not too late for us to take advantage of his insights, since we face the same problems today. It covers Islam very completely, including its history and much of what has influenced the Muslim to have the worldview he has today. Of particular interest is the attention he gives to the myth of the production of a "Golden Age" by Islam, which he debunks at some length.
Availability: Used-books search services.
The Life of Muhammad
Author: Ibn Ishaq. Translated by A. Guillaume
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0196360331
Publish Date: 1955 (17th printing, 2004)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Review: This biography of Muhammad was written by Ibn Ishaq only about one hundred fifty years after Muhammad's death. Professor Guillaume's translation contains variants and additions from other early authors, and is considered to contain virtually all that is known about the life of Muhammad.
Availability: Oxford University Press
History of the Arabs
Author: Philip K. Hitti
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0333631420
Publish Date: 1937 (Revised 10th edition, Walid Khalidi, 2002)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Review: The author was born in Lebanon in 1886, but lived in the U.S. from 1913 until his death in 1978. He taught at the American University in Beirut, Columbia University and Princeton. This well written scholarly treatise of over seven hundred pages is surprisingly easy to read. It begins with the pagan Arabs, and covers in substantial detail their transformation into contemporary Islam. The Index is very complete and makes it easy to navigate the book. The author's discernable bias in some places, e.g. the Crusades and the Muslim "Golden Age," in no way detracts from its value as a very fine reference. If there's something you want to know about the Arabs, it's probably in there.
Availability: General
The Life and Religion of Mohammed It is of interest to note that this is the book that CAIR at one time recently pressured the National Review Book Service to remove from its shelves, but which is available through other sources, listed below.
Author: Fr. J.L. Menezes
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 192929168x
Publish Date: Original, 1912
Publisher:
Review: Not only would the purchase of this book be a slap in the face at CAIR's feeble attempt to impose its own brand of censorship on American citizens, but it's an excellent read. It reflects the author's deep knowledge of Islam and Mohammed, and supplies the reader with details not often seen elsewhere. Father Menezes says in his preface "I have had no other aim, than that of placing before my readers, Mahommed and Islam in their true colours--so that over 60 millions of my countrymen in India, who blindly follow Mahommed...may open their eyes, and behold how they are deceived..."
This extremely interesting and eminently readable book is divided into five parts: The Life of Mahommed, Mahommed at Medina, The Koran, Sects in Islam and the Conclusion, for a total of 183 pages jam-packed with the kinds of detail that help "connect the dots" in a way rarely seen.
Availability: http://www.conservativebookservice.com ; Roman Catholic Books, PO.Box 255, Harrison, NY 10528, www.BooksforCatholics.com .
Islam Undressed
Author: Vernon Richards
Format: Online
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Publish Date : February 13, 2005
Publisher: Vernon Richards
Review: Once again, here is a book where the subtitle itself is a mini-review: "A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam,' Its People, Culture, Philosophy, and Practices, Yesterday and Today."
For those who are familiar with Robert Spencer's work, I'll include what he had to say about this work: "A valuable sourcebook to the destructive activities of radical Muslims, and the Islamic texts they use to justify their actions and gain recruits in the Islamic world."
Richards' book deals with Islam within the context of its chronology, which is enormously helpful in providing context. In my opinion, this book should be the premier textbook for high school and especially college students. This is in no way because it is superficial; rather, it is because of its sophistication, its detail, its completeness, its superb explanations of unfamiliar ideas, its excellent references, its historical and chronological approach, and because unlike virtually every textbook our students have access to, it is not politically correct. The importance of getting the material in this books to our future policy setters is incalculable. This recommendation is made even though for most of our students, the curriculum has been "dumbed down," and so they run the risk of having to work a little harder with it; however, it is worth any bit of struggle they may have with it.
Needless to say, it serves as a similarly excellent resource for non-students. I give it a personal "five stars."
Availability: http://www.islamundressed.com
Winning the War Against Radical Islam
Author: Dr. Robert A. Morey
Format: Paperback
ISBN:1-931230-08-0
Publish Date: 2002
Publisher: Christian Scholars Press
Review: Although this relatively short book is written by a devout Christian from a Christian perspective, I am placing it in this section rather than in the "From the Christian Perspective" section lest someone make the mistake of assuming that its focus is too narrow to make it useful to non-Christians. Don't make this mistake, especially if you are relatively new to the "Islam problem." Dr. Morey's book was written after 9/11, and is one of the best introductory books on Islam around; Morey, a recognized scholar on Islam in general, and on terrorism in particular, has written what I call an "overview" book, and gives the reader some very interesting history of the pagan and non-pagan sources of Islam. You can see from the titles in the table of contents the sorts of things it addresses: "Who Is This Allah? Who Was Muhammad? What Is the Qu'an? What Is the Meaning of Jihad?" Of particular interest, however, is Dr. Morey's section called "How to Defeat Radical Islam." Let me say only this: Neither the author nor his solution is P.C.
Availability: www.faithdefenders.com
The Dawning of a New Dark Age
Author: Mark Alexander
Format: Paperback
ISBN:1-4107-9037-1
Publish Date: 2003
Publisher:
Review: The author demonstrates his deep familiarity with Islam and its goals in this collection of essays on a wide variety of subjects. He exposes both with great clarity, at a level that can be understood by readers from the teen years on up. It can function either as an excellent introductory resource for beginners, or as an equally excellent refresher and "fill-in-the-gaps" resource for those who are already familiar with the basics. He's not afraid to point a finger at the serious problem facing us from the politically correct, including and up to our policy-makers and leaders.
The use of "stand-alone" essays is especially useful for those who don't have the time to digest an entire book at a fell swoop. It should also prove very useful for the parents of somewhat older children who are trying to teach them at home what Islam is all about, since each essay can be used as a single lesson. For this reason, it should be brought to the attention of anyone involved with home-schooling, or perhaps even to some private schools which are seeking sources that don't whitewash Islam.
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From the Christian Perspective:
Islam Revealed: A Christian Arab's View of Islam
Author: Dr. Anis Shorrosh
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0785264647
Publish Date: 1988. Republished December 4, 2001
Publisher: Nelson Books
Review: Dr. Shorrosh, a Baptist evangelical who has read the Koran in the original Arabic, exposes the inaccuracies and inconsistencies of the Koran and contrasts the life of Muhammad with the life of Jesus. The author explores the origins of Muhammad's "revelations." Dr. Shorrosh's conclusions will be of interest to all Christians, especially to those of the evangelical persuasion.
Availability: In some large public-library systems. You may order your own copy from Dr. Shorrosh's web site. The book is also sometimes available from Amazon.
Terrorism, Jihad, and the Bible
Author: John MacArthur
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0849943671
Publish Date: December 2001
Publisher: Nelson Books/W Publishing Books
Review: Released shortly after 9/11, this book particularly appeals to Christians interested in the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies. The author attempts to expose how the Koran is driving terrorism as he shows how can human beings be capable of such diabolical savagery in the name of religion. A short book, this work is not an in-depth analysis, but nevertheless provides information on the link between the current issues in the Middle East and the Bible; this information will be of interest to evangelical Christians.
Availability: Unavailable in many secular libraries. You may buy your own copy at Amazon or at Christianbook.com
From The Hindu-Sikh Perspective:
Jihad: The Islamic Doctrine of Permanent War
Author: Suhas Majumdar
Format: Online book
Table of Contents: Here.
Excerpt: (From the Foreward) "Defenders of jihad have been forced to develop an apologetics. They are now trying to protect by means of scholarship a doctrine which has so far been sustained by means of the sword. In the present study, Professor Suhas Majumdar has seen through this 'scholarship', and demolished it brick by brick. He has rescued the doctrine of jihad from under the mass of pretentious verbiage, and made it stand in its pristine purity. Let no one say any more that jihad does not mean what it has meant all along in the blood-soaked history of Islam, and what we are witnessing today in Kashmir."
(From the Conclusion) The author notes "the failure of the world at large to take note of this creed of hate and violence, and get forewarned as to the peril it entails to the civilisation of all non-Muslim peoples..."
Understanding Islam Through Hadis:
Faith or Fanaticism?
Author: Ram Swarup
Format: Online book
Table of Contents: Here.
Excerpt: (From the Introduction) Islam is not merely a theology, or a statement about Allah and his relationship with His creatures. Besides containing doctrinal and creedal material, it deals with social, penal, commercial, ritualistic, and ceremonial matters. It enters into everything, even into such private areas as one’s dress, marrying, and mating. In the language of the Muslim theologians, Islam is a “complete” and “completed” religion. It is equally political and military. It has much to do with statecraft, and it has a very specific view of the world peopled by infidels. Since most of the world is still infidel, it is very important for those who are not Muslims to understand Islam. The sources of Islam are two: the QurAn and the HadIs (“Sayings” or “Traditions”), usually called the Sunnah (“customs”), both having their center in Muhammad. The QurAn contains the Prophet’s “revelations” (wahy); the HadIs, all that he did or said, or enjoined, forbade or did not forbid, approved or disapproved. The word HadIs, singular in form (pl. ahAdIs), is also used collectively for all the traditions taken together, for the whole sacred tradition. Muslim theologians make no distinction between the QurAn and the HadIs. To them both are works of revelation or inspiration.... In regard to the title of the book, the HadIs gives such a spontaneous and realistic view of the Prophet that it could most faithfully be called “Muhammad in the Words of HadIs (SahIh Muslim)”; but since a good deal of Islam is Mohammadism, it could equally justly be called “Islam in the Words of HadIs.”
Additional information: This book is banned in India for fear of Muslim rioting.
The Calcutta Quran Petition
Author: Compiled by Sita Ram Goel, who also wrote the Introduction
Format: Online book
Table of Contents: Here.
Excerpt: (From Chapter 3, "Entire Quran Is A Manual On Jihad") [The Quran] is not prejudicial to maintenance of religious harmony”, and that “Because of the Koran no public tranquility has been disturbed upt o now and there is no reason to apprehend any likelihood of such disturbance in future”. He has gone further and chosen to repeat the etymological exercise which we find in most of the books written by apologists of Islam in modem times. We are informed by Justice Basak that the word “Muslim” has been formed from the word “Islam” which in turn derives from “as-salam”, meaning peace. The mission of Islam, we are assured by him, is the establishment of peace, and a Muslim is he who works wholeheartedly for this fulfilment. The argument is clever but not consistent either with what is advocated by the scriptures of Islam or with what we find in the recorded history of this creed spread over more than fourteen hundred years. Human history has known several movements which have used words to mean exactly the opposite of what those words stand for in common parlance.... Islam has no word for democracy; that secularism and Islam are mutually exclusive; that Islam can set up only a theocratic state; that Islam has institutionalised slavery and degraded women; and that Islam has laid waste many countries.
Additional information (Background as to why the petition was filed): A Hindu victim of Muslim ethnic cleansing in Bangladesh, fled to India and filed a petition to ban the Quran under provisions of the Indian constitution banning incitement of religious hatred. Muslims rioted, and the Indian government harassed the petitioner.
Muslim League Attacks on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947
Author: Compiled by: S. Gurbachan Singh Talib, with Introduction by Ram Swarup
Format: Online book
Table of Contents: Here.
Review: Written by a Sikh, this books shows the history of the formation of Pakistan by Muslim rioting and ethnic cleansing of non-Muslims in 1947.
Other online books about Islam from the Hindu-Sikh perspective are available at The Voice of Darma. Also, see the right sidebar for informative articles about Sufism.
From The Biographical Or Autobiographical Perspective:
From The Novelist's Perspective:
(Since at least the time of Charles Dickens, who developed the novel of social reform and pioneered the concept of the serialized novel, writers of fiction can bring a deeper understanding of underlying ideology, particularly as the implementation of an ideology pertains to cultural aspects. Additionally, novelists can put a human face on those who are faced with important decisions in a changing society)
The Age of Tolerance
Author: Glen Reinsford
Format: Paperback
ISBN:0-9772164-0-3
Publish Date: 2005
Publisher: The Yukon Group
Availability: www.ageoftolerance.com, www.thereligionofpeace.com
Review: This book is a novel, although it doesn't FEEL like a work of fiction. The thesis is: What would the United States be like if Al Gore had won the election instead of George Bush?
The story takes the reader from September 11, 2001, to September 15, 2098, and follows the intertwined lives of several people who live and die in the years following the election of Al Gore to the Presidency. The nation sinks deeper and deeper into the clutches of Political Correctness, and the people experience the logical consequences of that scenario.
The utility of fiction works is that they can provide the added dimension of how living people respond to what might otherwise be a somewhat less engaging discussion of events.
This is a story you should read, and it would be a good one to give to your friends and relatives who don't quite "get it" yet. Oh--and don't forget to take a good look at the cover.
Tea With Terrorists
Author: Craig Winn and Ken Power
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0-9714481-1-6
Publish Date: 2003
Publisher: Cricketsong Books
Availability: TeaWithTerrorists.com
Review: Tea With Terrorists is a "barely fiction" work set in the aftermath of 9/11. Four years after the attack, the president, the first woman to occupy that office, finds herself in the position of authorizing a covert mission to capture al-Qaeda's new leaders.
The leader of that mission, Thor Adams, suffers the disappearance of several of his men, and begins a desparate attempt to save them. He finds himself in a world that few of us, well-read though we may be, can even imagine, and facing an enemy so primitive and vicious that we are only just now beginning to acknowledge really exists.
Thor and Cia agent Sarah Nottingly study every clue, from newspapers to ancient scriptures, in order to "connect the dots." In so doing, they learn the awful truth.
The authors actually did the very research described in the story, and met face to face with members of al-Qaeda, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas. The interviews described in the novel are basically the minutes of those meetings. Tea With Terrorists is a novel, but it dresses the truth.
Hatred of the Angels
Author: Jane Scully
Format: On line
ISBN:
Publish Date: January 2006
Publisher:
Availability: On line at www.6thcolumnagainstjihad.com as a series, one chapter about every four weeks, beginning in January
Review: The author's deep knowledge of Islam lends this novel an almost surreal quality. The setting is in Europe, well after the Islamification of that continent. The people have little to no memory of their Western heritage, and they have sunk into a second Dark Age worse than the first one. Reading it, one finds oneself imagining the events to be set in a world of perpetual dusk, a place with no sunshine.
It all begins in "Faith Square," in a place that is no longer remembered as "Paris."
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For Starters:
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam
(and the Crusades)
Author: Robert Spencer
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0895260131
Publish Date: 2005
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Review: (from August 22, 2005, The American Review, Online) Spencer explodes numerous apologetic canards about Islam—both its dogmas, and history—with a witty irreverence that is never mean-spirited, and always well-documented. Recurrent teaching tools the author employs effectively (and humorously) are the “Guess what?” bullets that open each chapter, four variants of text boxes (“Just Like Today”; seminal thinkers on Islam [for eg., John Quincy Adams; see below]; “Muhammad vs. Jesus”; and “A Book You’re Not Supposed to Read”), and the chapter subheading(s), “PC myth(s)”. Spencer’s utilizes these six motifs deftly to educate readers about disturbing, but quintessential truths regarding Islam. Read the entire review here.
Availability: Most large booksellers. Should be placed in every public library!
Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America
Author: Walid Phares
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 1-4039-7074-2
Publish Date: 2005
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Review: This book, footnoted and indexed, is a riveting read! In its “Introduction,” Dr. Phares begins with a short and emotional description of the events of 9/11 and refers to the day as “The Pearl Harbor of Terrorism.” Having analyzed the jihad phenomenon for twenty-five years prior to 9/11, Dr. Walid Phares, an expert on the Middle East and a senior fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, seeks to answer ten questions, including the following:
(1) Why did the jihadists launch the attacks of September 11?
(2) Are the jihadists planning on future wars?
(3) What can we do about these jihadists?
The opening chapter points out that jihad, a religious duty within Islam, dates from the seventh century and was officially a state business. Perhaps the most chilling material in the book can be found in Chapters 13 and 15, “Projecting Future Jihad” and “America: Jihad’s Second Generation,” respectively. In his concluding chapter, Dr. Phares warns, with some urgency, “At the end of the next decade, historians will be asking many questions and will face the dilemma of hindsight. The war against terrorism will be seen as archaic compared to what will have by then become a worldwide conflict with jihad terror. And it may also be possible that the war of ideas will have been won by stages. But a stalemate could have been reached as well, if by the middle of this decade several opportunities have been lost.” This final chapter assesses the impact of 9/11 and the progress so far on the war on terror, emphasizes the importance of dealing with the second generation of Al Qaeda, and advises that Americans need to go beyond what they learn in the “educational establishment, which is now becoming an isolated bastion of denial.” Dr. Phares presents a frightening reality in his book, but because he has done a lifetime of research and is fluent in Arabic, thus able to understand what is being said in various terrorist chat rooms, he knows whereof he speaks. Dr. Phares’ web site is here, and he also contributes to The Counterterrorism Blog, an informative site for current information related to the topics raised in Dr. Phares' book.
Availability: Amazon, most bookstores, Dr. Phares' web site, some library systems
Prophet of Doom
Author: Craig Winn
Format: Hardcover. Also available online, here.
ISBN: 0971448124
Publish Date: 2004
Publisher: Cricketsong Books
Review: The subtitle of Winn's meticulously researched and documented book says it all: "Islam's Terrorist Dogma In Muhammad's Own Words." The very words of Muhammad himself make undeniable the claim that Muhammad was a terrorist ("I have been made victorious with terror!" "I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them." "Crucify them or cut off a hand and foot on opposite sides." etc.), and the claim that Islam is a terrorist organization established to fund the terrorism; Muhammad is shown leading seventy-five terrorist raids; he himself claimed his motive was money ("What is this religion? Muhammad claims Allah has sent him with this religion so that the treasures of Persia and Rome will be given to him by conquest.").
Availability: Some large booksellers
The Sword of the Prophet
Author: Sergei Trifkovic
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1-928653-11-1
Publish Date: 2002
Publisher: Regina Orthodox Press
Review: This book explains why September 11 happened and why September 11 changed America forever. Trifkovic concludes that "Islam is a collective psychosis seeking to become global, and any attempt to compromise with such madness is to become part of the madness oneself," and his book provides historical analysis to prove his conclusion; Trifkovic also debunks many politically-correct myths about Islam. This book is well-footnoted and also provides a bibliography.
Availability: In many large public-library systems
Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West
Author: Robert Spencer
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ISBN: 0-89526-100-6
Publish Date: 2003
Publisher: Regnery Publishing Co.
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Preachers of Hate:
Islam and the War on America
Author: Kenneth A. Timmerman
Format: Hardcover, Audio CD
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Infiltration:
How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington
Author: Paul Sperry
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 1-5955-5003-8
Publish Date: 2005
Publisher: Nelson Current
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American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us
Author: Steven Emerson
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0743234359
Publish Date: 2003
Publisher: Free Press
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The Third Terrorist
Author: Jayna Davis
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0-7852-6103-6
Publish Date: 2004
Publisher: WND Books
Review: Among those who gave a "thumbs up" to this book by award-winning investigative reporter Jayna Davis are a former Director of the CIA, a former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and a retired FBI Special Agent. The book reads like a proposal for a television mini-series. It begins with eye-witness accounts of the destruction of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, and then with pitbull-like tenacity, peels back the layers of coverup, obstructionism, fear, "lost" records, and "deer-in-the-headlight" responses from officialdom, to make a case that there were, indeed, Middle East masterminds behind "mules" Nichols and Mcveigh. These masterminds were revealed as phony "defectors" who settled in Oklahoma City, host to one of the largest Muslim communities in the U.S. Were her evidence to be presented in a court of law, it would easily win a conviction of what the government, before ultimately denying any Middle East participation, referred to as "others unknown."
Availability: Most bookstores and library systems
Dangerous Diplomacy:
How The State Department Threatens America's Security
Author: Joel Mowbray
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ISBN: 08955261103
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Publisher: Regnery Publishing Co.
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Militant Islam Reaches America
Author: Daniel Pipes
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0393325318
Publish Date: 2002. Republished in paperback, 2002.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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Why I Am Not a Muslim
Author: Ibn Warraq
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1591020115
Publish Date: 1995. Republished in paperback, 2003
Publisher: Prometheus Books
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Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism
Author: Dore Gold
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0895260611
Publish Date: 2004
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
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Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
Author: Ahmed Rashid
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0142002607
Publish Date: 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books
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For Deeper Understanding:
The Myth of Islamic Tolerance
Author: Edited by Robert Spencer
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 1591022495
Publish Date: 2005
Publisher: Prometheus Books
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The Arab Mind
Author: Raphael Patai
Format: Paperback (2002 edition)
ISBN: 1578261171
Publish Date: 1976. Republished in 1983 and 2002
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
Review: Patai, a cultural anthropologist, was born in Hungary in 1910, and died in 1996. He taught in several schools, including Princeton and Columbia. His professional background gives the reader a perspective of the Arab that is different from, but contextually related to, the one obtained from focusing primarily on Islam. He shows us many of their day-to-day activities, including education, sexual issues, art, music, and literature, as well as less familiar issues. For example, he talks about the "Bedouin ethos," its aversion to physical labor, and also spends a good deal of time on the influence of the Arab language. Its use of exaggeration, overassertion, and repetition is a practice which traces its ancestry from pre-Islamic times, and continues to the present. He discusses the proneness to conflict and volatility of the Arab mind--the "reaction produced by real or imaginary injuries, insults, slights, and infringements of honor." These cause a "violent reaction, with a compulsive inner need to retaliate, so that there is a flare-up, a clash, usually followed by a rapid return to quiescence."
Dr. Patai died several years before 9/11, but everything he wrote is so useful that his book is used to teach American military teams being deployed to the Middle East. There is a very inclusive postscript, "The Last Ten years," with updates, tables, and two appendices, one of which compares the Arab World and Spanish America.
Availability: In some large public-library systems; www.hatherleighpress.com .
The Koran Its Composition and Teaching and the Testimony It Bears to the Holy Scriptures
Author: Sir William Muir
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1417948736
Publish Date: 9/1/2004
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
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Mohammed
Author: D.S. Margoliouth
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0830500448
Publish Date: February 1983
Publisher: Gibson Press
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Author: D.S. Margoliouth
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0317157728
Publish Date: June 1921
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Mohammedanism
Author: Christian S. Hurgronje
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0830500383
Publish Date: June 1981 (reprint)
Publisher: Gibson Press
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Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century -
Author: C. Snouck Hurgronje
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9004020667
Publish Date: August 1997
Publisher: Brill Academic
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The Legacy of Islam
Author: Joseph Schacht
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 019821913X
Publish Date: January 1975
Publisher: Oxford Univ Press
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Mohammed and the Rise of Islam
Author: David S. Margoliouth Format: Paperback
ISBN: 193195674X
October 2003
Publisher: Ams Press
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Islam and the Psychology of the Musulman
Author: Andre Servier. Translated By A. S. Moss-Blundell. With a Preface By Louis Bertrand
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: B00086Z1WS
Publish Date: 1924
Publisher: Scribners
Review: The author wrote this book in order to warn his countrymen of the problems they faced with Muslims and Islam in the French colonies of North Africa. France ignored his warning, but it is not too late for us to take advantage of his insights, since we face the same problems today. It covers Islam very completely, including its history and much of what has influenced the Muslim to have the worldview he has today. Of particular interest is the attention he gives to the myth of the production of a "Golden Age" by Islam, which he debunks at some length.
Availability: Used-books search services.
The Life of Muhammad
Author: Ibn Ishaq. Translated by A. Guillaume
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0196360331
Publish Date: 1955 (17th printing, 2004)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Review: This biography of Muhammad was written by Ibn Ishaq only about one hundred fifty years after Muhammad's death. Professor Guillaume's translation contains variants and additions from other early authors, and is considered to contain virtually all that is known about the life of Muhammad.
Availability: Oxford University Press
History of the Arabs
Author: Philip K. Hitti
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0333631420
Publish Date: 1937 (Revised 10th edition, Walid Khalidi, 2002)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Review: The author was born in Lebanon in 1886, but lived in the U.S. from 1913 until his death in 1978. He taught at the American University in Beirut, Columbia University and Princeton. This well written scholarly treatise of over seven hundred pages is surprisingly easy to read. It begins with the pagan Arabs, and covers in substantial detail their transformation into contemporary Islam. The Index is very complete and makes it easy to navigate the book. The author's discernable bias in some places, e.g. the Crusades and the Muslim "Golden Age," in no way detracts from its value as a very fine reference. If there's something you want to know about the Arabs, it's probably in there.
Availability: General
The Life and Religion of Mohammed It is of interest to note that this is the book that CAIR at one time recently pressured the National Review Book Service to remove from its shelves, but which is available through other sources, listed below.
Author: Fr. J.L. Menezes
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 192929168x
Publish Date: Original, 1912
Publisher:
Review: Not only would the purchase of this book be a slap in the face at CAIR's feeble attempt to impose its own brand of censorship on American citizens, but it's an excellent read. It reflects the author's deep knowledge of Islam and Mohammed, and supplies the reader with details not often seen elsewhere. Father Menezes says in his preface "I have had no other aim, than that of placing before my readers, Mahommed and Islam in their true colours--so that over 60 millions of my countrymen in India, who blindly follow Mahommed...may open their eyes, and behold how they are deceived..."
This extremely interesting and eminently readable book is divided into five parts: The Life of Mahommed, Mahommed at Medina, The Koran, Sects in Islam and the Conclusion, for a total of 183 pages jam-packed with the kinds of detail that help "connect the dots" in a way rarely seen.
Availability: http://www.conservativebookservice.com ; Roman Catholic Books, PO.Box 255, Harrison, NY 10528, www.BooksforCatholics.com .
Islam Undressed
Author: Vernon Richards
Format: Online
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Publish Date : February 13, 2005
Publisher: Vernon Richards
Review: Once again, here is a book where the subtitle itself is a mini-review: "A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam,' Its People, Culture, Philosophy, and Practices, Yesterday and Today."
For those who are familiar with Robert Spencer's work, I'll include what he had to say about this work: "A valuable sourcebook to the destructive activities of radical Muslims, and the Islamic texts they use to justify their actions and gain recruits in the Islamic world."
Richards' book deals with Islam within the context of its chronology, which is enormously helpful in providing context. In my opinion, this book should be the premier textbook for high school and especially college students. This is in no way because it is superficial; rather, it is because of its sophistication, its detail, its completeness, its superb explanations of unfamiliar ideas, its excellent references, its historical and chronological approach, and because unlike virtually every textbook our students have access to, it is not politically correct. The importance of getting the material in this books to our future policy setters is incalculable. This recommendation is made even though for most of our students, the curriculum has been "dumbed down," and so they run the risk of having to work a little harder with it; however, it is worth any bit of struggle they may have with it.
Needless to say, it serves as a similarly excellent resource for non-students. I give it a personal "five stars."
Availability: http://www.islamundressed.com
Winning the War Against Radical Islam
Author: Dr. Robert A. Morey
Format: Paperback
ISBN:1-931230-08-0
Publish Date: 2002
Publisher: Christian Scholars Press
Review: Although this relatively short book is written by a devout Christian from a Christian perspective, I am placing it in this section rather than in the "From the Christian Perspective" section lest someone make the mistake of assuming that its focus is too narrow to make it useful to non-Christians. Don't make this mistake, especially if you are relatively new to the "Islam problem." Dr. Morey's book was written after 9/11, and is one of the best introductory books on Islam around; Morey, a recognized scholar on Islam in general, and on terrorism in particular, has written what I call an "overview" book, and gives the reader some very interesting history of the pagan and non-pagan sources of Islam. You can see from the titles in the table of contents the sorts of things it addresses: "Who Is This Allah? Who Was Muhammad? What Is the Qu'an? What Is the Meaning of Jihad?" Of particular interest, however, is Dr. Morey's section called "How to Defeat Radical Islam." Let me say only this: Neither the author nor his solution is P.C.
Availability: www.faithdefenders.com
The Dawning of a New Dark Age
Author: Mark Alexander
Format: Paperback
ISBN:1-4107-9037-1
Publish Date: 2003
Publisher:
Review: The author demonstrates his deep familiarity with Islam and its goals in this collection of essays on a wide variety of subjects. He exposes both with great clarity, at a level that can be understood by readers from the teen years on up. It can function either as an excellent introductory resource for beginners, or as an equally excellent refresher and "fill-in-the-gaps" resource for those who are already familiar with the basics. He's not afraid to point a finger at the serious problem facing us from the politically correct, including and up to our policy-makers and leaders.
The use of "stand-alone" essays is especially useful for those who don't have the time to digest an entire book at a fell swoop. It should also prove very useful for the parents of somewhat older children who are trying to teach them at home what Islam is all about, since each essay can be used as a single lesson. For this reason, it should be brought to the attention of anyone involved with home-schooling, or perhaps even to some private schools which are seeking sources that don't whitewash Islam.
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From the Christian Perspective:
Islam Revealed: A Christian Arab's View of Islam
Author: Dr. Anis Shorrosh
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0785264647
Publish Date: 1988. Republished December 4, 2001
Publisher: Nelson Books
Review: Dr. Shorrosh, a Baptist evangelical who has read the Koran in the original Arabic, exposes the inaccuracies and inconsistencies of the Koran and contrasts the life of Muhammad with the life of Jesus. The author explores the origins of Muhammad's "revelations." Dr. Shorrosh's conclusions will be of interest to all Christians, especially to those of the evangelical persuasion.
Availability: In some large public-library systems. You may order your own copy from Dr. Shorrosh's web site. The book is also sometimes available from Amazon.
Terrorism, Jihad, and the Bible
Author: John MacArthur
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0849943671
Publish Date: December 2001
Publisher: Nelson Books/W Publishing Books
Review: Released shortly after 9/11, this book particularly appeals to Christians interested in the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies. The author attempts to expose how the Koran is driving terrorism as he shows how can human beings be capable of such diabolical savagery in the name of religion. A short book, this work is not an in-depth analysis, but nevertheless provides information on the link between the current issues in the Middle East and the Bible; this information will be of interest to evangelical Christians.
Availability: Unavailable in many secular libraries. You may buy your own copy at Amazon or at Christianbook.com
From The Hindu-Sikh Perspective:
Jihad: The Islamic Doctrine of Permanent War
Author: Suhas Majumdar
Format: Online book
Table of Contents: Here.
Excerpt: (From the Foreward) "Defenders of jihad have been forced to develop an apologetics. They are now trying to protect by means of scholarship a doctrine which has so far been sustained by means of the sword. In the present study, Professor Suhas Majumdar has seen through this 'scholarship', and demolished it brick by brick. He has rescued the doctrine of jihad from under the mass of pretentious verbiage, and made it stand in its pristine purity. Let no one say any more that jihad does not mean what it has meant all along in the blood-soaked history of Islam, and what we are witnessing today in Kashmir."
(From the Conclusion) The author notes "the failure of the world at large to take note of this creed of hate and violence, and get forewarned as to the peril it entails to the civilisation of all non-Muslim peoples..."
Understanding Islam Through Hadis:
Faith or Fanaticism?
Author: Ram Swarup
Format: Online book
Table of Contents: Here.
Excerpt: (From the Introduction) Islam is not merely a theology, or a statement about Allah and his relationship with His creatures. Besides containing doctrinal and creedal material, it deals with social, penal, commercial, ritualistic, and ceremonial matters. It enters into everything, even into such private areas as one’s dress, marrying, and mating. In the language of the Muslim theologians, Islam is a “complete” and “completed” religion. It is equally political and military. It has much to do with statecraft, and it has a very specific view of the world peopled by infidels. Since most of the world is still infidel, it is very important for those who are not Muslims to understand Islam. The sources of Islam are two: the QurAn and the HadIs (“Sayings” or “Traditions”), usually called the Sunnah (“customs”), both having their center in Muhammad. The QurAn contains the Prophet’s “revelations” (wahy); the HadIs, all that he did or said, or enjoined, forbade or did not forbid, approved or disapproved. The word HadIs, singular in form (pl. ahAdIs), is also used collectively for all the traditions taken together, for the whole sacred tradition. Muslim theologians make no distinction between the QurAn and the HadIs. To them both are works of revelation or inspiration.... In regard to the title of the book, the HadIs gives such a spontaneous and realistic view of the Prophet that it could most faithfully be called “Muhammad in the Words of HadIs (SahIh Muslim)”; but since a good deal of Islam is Mohammadism, it could equally justly be called “Islam in the Words of HadIs.”
Additional information: This book is banned in India for fear of Muslim rioting.
The Calcutta Quran Petition
Author: Compiled by Sita Ram Goel, who also wrote the Introduction
Format: Online book
Table of Contents: Here.
Excerpt: (From Chapter 3, "Entire Quran Is A Manual On Jihad") [The Quran] is not prejudicial to maintenance of religious harmony”, and that “Because of the Koran no public tranquility has been disturbed upt o now and there is no reason to apprehend any likelihood of such disturbance in future”. He has gone further and chosen to repeat the etymological exercise which we find in most of the books written by apologists of Islam in modem times. We are informed by Justice Basak that the word “Muslim” has been formed from the word “Islam” which in turn derives from “as-salam”, meaning peace. The mission of Islam, we are assured by him, is the establishment of peace, and a Muslim is he who works wholeheartedly for this fulfilment. The argument is clever but not consistent either with what is advocated by the scriptures of Islam or with what we find in the recorded history of this creed spread over more than fourteen hundred years. Human history has known several movements which have used words to mean exactly the opposite of what those words stand for in common parlance.... Islam has no word for democracy; that secularism and Islam are mutually exclusive; that Islam can set up only a theocratic state; that Islam has institutionalised slavery and degraded women; and that Islam has laid waste many countries.
Additional information (Background as to why the petition was filed): A Hindu victim of Muslim ethnic cleansing in Bangladesh, fled to India and filed a petition to ban the Quran under provisions of the Indian constitution banning incitement of religious hatred. Muslims rioted, and the Indian government harassed the petitioner.
Muslim League Attacks on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947
Author: Compiled by: S. Gurbachan Singh Talib, with Introduction by Ram Swarup
Format: Online book
Table of Contents: Here.
Review: Written by a Sikh, this books shows the history of the formation of Pakistan by Muslim rioting and ethnic cleansing of non-Muslims in 1947.
Other online books about Islam from the Hindu-Sikh perspective are available at The Voice of Darma. Also, see the right sidebar for informative articles about Sufism.
From The Biographical Or Autobiographical Perspective:
From The Novelist's Perspective:
(Since at least the time of Charles Dickens, who developed the novel of social reform and pioneered the concept of the serialized novel, writers of fiction can bring a deeper understanding of underlying ideology, particularly as the implementation of an ideology pertains to cultural aspects. Additionally, novelists can put a human face on those who are faced with important decisions in a changing society)
The Age of Tolerance
Author: Glen Reinsford
Format: Paperback
ISBN:0-9772164-0-3
Publish Date: 2005
Publisher: The Yukon Group
Availability: www.ageoftolerance.com, www.thereligionofpeace.com
Review: This book is a novel, although it doesn't FEEL like a work of fiction. The thesis is: What would the United States be like if Al Gore had won the election instead of George Bush?
The story takes the reader from September 11, 2001, to September 15, 2098, and follows the intertwined lives of several people who live and die in the years following the election of Al Gore to the Presidency. The nation sinks deeper and deeper into the clutches of Political Correctness, and the people experience the logical consequences of that scenario.
The utility of fiction works is that they can provide the added dimension of how living people respond to what might otherwise be a somewhat less engaging discussion of events.
This is a story you should read, and it would be a good one to give to your friends and relatives who don't quite "get it" yet. Oh--and don't forget to take a good look at the cover.
Tea With Terrorists
Author: Craig Winn and Ken Power
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0-9714481-1-6
Publish Date: 2003
Publisher: Cricketsong Books
Availability: TeaWithTerrorists.com
Review: Tea With Terrorists is a "barely fiction" work set in the aftermath of 9/11. Four years after the attack, the president, the first woman to occupy that office, finds herself in the position of authorizing a covert mission to capture al-Qaeda's new leaders.
The leader of that mission, Thor Adams, suffers the disappearance of several of his men, and begins a desparate attempt to save them. He finds himself in a world that few of us, well-read though we may be, can even imagine, and facing an enemy so primitive and vicious that we are only just now beginning to acknowledge really exists.
Thor and Cia agent Sarah Nottingly study every clue, from newspapers to ancient scriptures, in order to "connect the dots." In so doing, they learn the awful truth.
The authors actually did the very research described in the story, and met face to face with members of al-Qaeda, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas. The interviews described in the novel are basically the minutes of those meetings. Tea With Terrorists is a novel, but it dresses the truth.
Hatred of the Angels
Author: Jane Scully
Format: On line
ISBN:
Publish Date: January 2006
Publisher:
Availability: On line at www.6thcolumnagainstjihad.com as a series, one chapter about every four weeks, beginning in January
Review: The author's deep knowledge of Islam lends this novel an almost surreal quality. The setting is in Europe, well after the Islamification of that continent. The people have little to no memory of their Western heritage, and they have sunk into a second Dark Age worse than the first one. Reading it, one finds oneself imagining the events to be set in a world of perpetual dusk, a place with no sunshine.
It all begins in "Faith Square," in a place that is no longer remembered as "Paris."
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