The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Muhammad: a frank look at his influential (and violent) life and teachings
In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times bestselling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam-perhaps the first such portrait in half a century-unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammad's life that continue to affect our world today.

From Muhammad's first "revelation" from Allah (which filled him with terror that he was demonpossessed) to his deathbed (from which he called down curses upon Jews and Christians), it's ...
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Overview

Muhammad: a frank look at his influential (and violent) life and teachings
In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times bestselling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam-perhaps the first such portrait in half a century-unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammad's life that continue to affect our world today.

From Muhammad's first "revelation" from Allah (which filled him with terror that he was demonpossessed) to his deathbed (from which he called down curses upon Jews and Christians), it's all here-told with extensive documentation from the sources that Muslims themselves consider most reliable about Muhammad.

Spencer details Muhammad's development from a preacher of hellfire and damnation into a political and military leader who expanded his rule by force of arms, promising his warriors luridly physical delights in Paradise if they were killed in his cause. He explains how the Qur'an's teaching on warfare against unbelievers developed-with constant war to establish the hegemony of Islamic law as the last stage.

Spencer also gives the truth about Muhammad's convenient "revelations" justifying his own licentiousness; his joy in the brutal murders of his enemies; and above all, his clear marching orders to his followers to convert non-Muslims to Islam-or force them to live as inferiors under Islamic rule.

In The Truth about Muhammad, you'll learn

- The truth about Muhammad's multiple marriages (including one to a nine-year-old) - How Muhammad set legal standards that make it virtually impossible to prove rape in Islamic countries - How Muhammad's example justifies jihad and terrorism - The real "Satanic verses" incident (not the Salman Rushdie version) that remains a scandal to Muslims - How Muhammad's faulty knowledge of Judaism and Christianity has influenced Islamic theology--and colored Muslim relations with Jews and Christians to this day.

Recognizing the true nature of Islam, Spencer argues, is essential for judging the prospects for largescale Islamic reform, the effective prosecution of the War on Terror, the democracy project in Afghanistan and Iraq, and immigration and border control to protect the United States from terrorism.

All of which makes it crucial for every citizen (and policymaker) who loves freedom to read and ponder The Truth about Muhammad

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781596980471
  • Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc., An Eagle Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 9/15/2006
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 133,483
  • File size: 365 KB

Table of Contents


Chronology of Muhammad's life     xi
Names and places     xiii
Why a biography of Muhammad is relevant today     1
Is Islam a religion of peace? Why it matters
Dueling Muhammads
Why Muhammad matters
Polite fictions are useless
The purpose of this book
Why I did not want to write this book
Death to "blasphemers"
Defending freedom of speech
General notes
In search of the historic Muhammad     19
What can we really know about Muhammad?
The Qur'an
The Hadith
The Sira
Historical fact and Muslim belief
Muhammad becomes a prophet     33
Arabia before Muhammad
Muhammad's early life
Khadija
The first visitation
The suicidal despair returns
Muhammad's revelations and their sources     47
Borrowings from Judaism
"Tales of the ancients"
Borrowings from Christianity
Other borrowings
Revelations of convenience?
The consequences
Modern embarrassment
"A warner in the face of a terrific punishment"     73
Difficulties with the Quraysh
The evolution of the command to wage war
The Satanic verses
The Night Journey
Muhammad becomes a warlord     89
The Hijra
The covenant between the Muslims and the Jews
The conversion of Abdullah and tensions with the rabbis
The Hypocrites
The Nakhla raid
The break with the Jews and the change of qibla (direction for prayer)
"War Is deceit"     103
The Battle of Badr
Allah fights for the Muslims
The problem ofbooty
The Qaynuqa Jews
Anger toward Jews and Christians
Assassination and deceit
The Quraysh strike back
Assuaging doubts after Uhud
The deportation of the Banu Nadir
Casting terror into their hearts     123
The Battle of the Trench
Dealing with the Banu Qurayzah
Finding excuses for a massacre
The women of the Banu Mustaliq
Abdullah bin Ubayy and praying for one's enemies
The Treaty of Hudaybiyya
The raid at Khaybar
The poisoning of Muhammad
The spoils of Khaybar
Victorious through terror     145
The conquest of Mecca
Apostates to be killed
Muhammad at the Ka'bah
The Battle of Hunayn and mastery of Arabia
Invitations to Islam
The Tabuk raid
Collecting the jizya
The last pilgrimage: the rights of women and the expulsion of the pagans
The murder of the poets
Muhammad's final illness
After Muhammad
Muhammad's legacy     169
The War on Terror
Pedophile prophet?
Misogynist?
Draconian punishments?
Warrior prophet?
Islamic tolerance?
A kinder, gentler Muhammad
The veneration of Muhammad
Imitating Muhammad today
Frightening reality
What is to be done
Acknowledgments     195
Notes     197
Index     215

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  • Posted December 13, 2010

    Another Islamophobe profiting and preying on people's fears

    Robert Spencer is just another Islamophobe, attempting to profit and prey on people's fears. If he has ever read the Old Testament, The New Testament and the Koran, once, he'd realize how ALL THREE monotheistic religions are EQUALLY Intolerant.

    He is obviously out to make a buck off of the lives of our friends and families who lost loved ones after 9/11.

    Skip this book, unless you are looking for bigotry and an excuse to hate others.

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    Posted February 11, 2011

    @Newsjunkies

    You're a FOOL to suggest this is untrue! Wake up- it's all around you. We must already all bow down to the Muslims in the guise of political correctness! You're not even worth my time. Let me know once you've waken up!

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  • Posted September 14, 2010

    Powerful, informative, a must read.

    Spencer holds no punches. All rumors and myths are quickly swept away. No more net gossip to contend with. A well documented and extensively researched piece of work. Buy it, read it, pass it on!

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