Still Hated After All These Years

And still over the target.

Order Robert Spencer’s new book, ‘The Tragedy of Islam: Failure and Excuses’: HERE.

The worst days of cancel culture seem to be past us, at least for now, but don’t be misled into thinking that the leftist establishment has suddenly grown respectful of opposing points of view and willing to let them be heard in a free marketplace of ideas, in which informed citizens determine which competing truth claim they find the most credible. No, leftists are just as censorious and authoritarian as ever; they’re just a bit more subtle than they used to be.

I got new confirmation of this several days ago, when I discovered that it is impossible to find my latest book, The Tragedy of Islam: Failure and Excuses, simply by searching for it at Amazon. It’s listed there (as you can see here), but you can only find the listing by clicking on a pre-existing link, such as the one I just provided.

And so there’s no problem, right? Wrong. Amazon has hidden the book entirely from searches. If you go to Amazon and search for “The Tragedy of Islam,” or “The Tragedy of Islam: Failure and Excuses,” or “The Tragedy of Islam by Robert Spencer,” or “The Tragedy of Islam by Robert Spencer, published by Bombardier Books,” or any other variant of such searches that you can think of, you’ll get listings for other books, including many that I’ve written, but you won’t get the actual object of the search, The Tragedy of Islam: Failure and Excuses.

Since I first discovered this on Saturday, many others have told me that they get the same results at Amazon. A direct link to the book works, but no search for it works, including a search for the exact title and author.

By way of comparison, if you search for the book at Barnes and Noble, it comes right up. And while that is good to see, the unpleasant fact is that Amazon is the primary source for obtaining books today. If your book isn’t listed at Amazon, it might as well not exist.

In a certain sense, it’s flattering. At this late date, after fighting against jihad violence and Sharia oppression for decades, the powers that be at Amazon are so afraid of my thirty-second book that they appear to be intentionally hiding it from view. As the old saying goes, when you’re getting flak, you know you’re over the target.

Maybe it’s just a glitch, of course. Maybe it’s just some entirely innocent malfunction. Isn’t it remarkable, however, how these glitches and innocent malfunctions seem always to happen to those who oppose the leftist line, and never, ever, to leftists who remain safely on the reservation? Also, in the past, Amazon has dropped books outright that were critical of Islam, including Mohammed’s Koran by Peter McLoughlin and Tommy Robinson, as well as McLoughlin’s Easy Meat, which deals withthe UK’s Muslim rape gang scandals.

It is thus not at all beyond the realm of possibility that after they received so much negative publicity for censoring various (non-leftist) points of view, they haven’t stopped censoring, but are just being more subtle about it.

Also, The Tragedy of Islam ventures into territory that few have dared to cover, and explores how Islam fails both individuals and societies. There are jihad attacks around the world virtually every day, and increasingly in the United States. All of their perpetrators insist they acted in accord with Islamic teachings. There is a distressingly large number of converts to Islam who have become terrorists, while it would be exceedingly difficult to find a convert to Christianity or any religion other Islam who became a terrorist acting, by his own account, in accord with his new religion’s teachings.

Nations that implement Islamic law, meanwhile, are uniformly human rights basket cases. Even in majority-Muslim countries that do not implement Islamic law, such as Turkey and Egypt, non-Muslims do not enjoy full equality of rights with Muslims. In fact, Muslims do not accord non-Muslims full equality of rights in any majority-Muslim society on earth. These states are also generally in the tank economically, with the notable exception of those who have experienced that happiest of geological accidents, and struck oil.

So is there something about Islam that not only makes many converts turn to terrorism, but also that hampers economic growth, as well as the development of truly pluralistic societies in which people of differing beliefs can live together with equal rights, without trying to subjugate or kill one another? That’s the focus of The Tragedy of Islam, and it looks as if there are powerful people who very much do not want you to think such thoughts.

Strike back. Get the book at Amazon (while the direct link still works) or at Barnes and Noble. Don’t let the leftists dictate the thoughts you can and cannot have. Dare to explore the truths they’re desperate to suppress.