In his famous outreach speech to the Islamic world from Cairo on June 4, 2009, Barack Obama said: Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition. I saw it firsthand as a child in Indonesia, where devout Christians worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly […]
Robert Spencer video: EU top dog says Islam will always be part of Europe – or else
In this new video, discusses European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans’ statement, “The Commission is strongly committed to promoting diversity in Europe. Islam is part of our history, Islam is part of our present and Islam will be part of our future.” Preorder The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS here.
US response to 1979 Iran hostage crisis was hampered by an “American inability to understand” Khomeini
One of the biggest ongoing problems of U.S. foreign policy is a failure to understand what we’re really up against. This problem goes back decades. In Theodore H. White’s America In Search of Itself, there is this telling passage about the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979: Of the negotiating effort, the most biting summary was […]
Muslim preacher: When a “martyr” is killed, he feels no more pain than a mosquito or ant bite
In Islam, a martyr is one who “kills and is killed” for Allah (Qur’an 9:111). Mahmoud al-Khila is trying to make more people think that killing and being killed for Allah, and encouraging others to do so, is a great virtue. The early conquests that created the Islamic world gained their impetus from an ideology […]
Muslim former State Department official likens opposition to jihad terror to bigotry against Jews, blacks, Chinese
In its lengthy hit piece on Mike Pompeo and John Bolton, which I discussed at length here, the New York Times says this about Secretary of State-designate Mike Pompeo’s opposition to jihad terror and Sharia oppression: Wa’el N. Alzayat, who was a Middle East expert at the State Department and senior policy adviser to Samantha […]
Meet the non-Muslims who have aided jihad throughout history
There are numerous non-Muslim organizations today that are enabling and abetting jihad terror and Sharia oppression by smearing and demonizing those who are calling attention to them: the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Anti-Defamation League, Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative, and more. There are individuals who do this as well: Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, British […]
Why it’s so important to remember
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, a revolutionary state created by animals who chased off a farmer gradually becomes just as oppressive as the oppressors it overthrew. As the animal state grows more and more dictatorial and totalitarian, a good-hearted and simple horse, Boxer, has growing suspicions that things weren’t always this way: in the early […]
Daniel Pipes on Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad: “Will we listen to his warning? Much hangs in the balance”
Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East forum and author of Slave Soldiers and Islam: The Genesis of a Military System, read an advance copy of my forthcoming book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS and had this to say: Spencer argues, in brief, “There has always been, with virtually no interruption, jihad.” […]
Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad already #1 bestseller in “Muhammad in Islam”
My forthcoming book, The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS is already inspiring tremendous interest, and has zoomed to the top of Amazon’s “Muhammad in Islam” list, months before publication. You can pre-order your copy here. This is the first and only book of its kind. Other treatments of the history of jihad deal […]
Available now for pre-order: Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS
Coming this summer from Bombardier Books is my latest, and I believe my best and most important book: The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. You can pre-order it now here. This book provides, for the first time in the English language, a general overview of jihad activity from the time that the concept […]