Review of Spencer's Muhammad Book

REVIEW: The Truth About Muhammad, by Robert Spencer, Regnery Books, Washington, D.C; ISDN 1-59698-028-1; 2006

Robert Spencer has published a set of books that could now be called “the-no-excuse-series,” for sure.

In this new book, Spencer writes clearly, truthfully, and simply, providing the essence of the history of Muhammad. Thus, there is no excuse for anyone from age ten on to remain ignorant about Muhammad, just as there is no excuse any longer for any American to remain uninformed about Islam.

The Truth About Muhammad presents what Muslims themselves have accepted as fact, since about 900 A.D. Everything Spencer says, with the exception of the citation of current events, comes, without deviation or embellishment, from fundamental Islamic doctrines. If anything, the presentation understates the malignancy of Islam and Muhammad, although not by much. 

Of course, Muslims will be enraged by the book, just as they are enraged about everything in life, no matter whether trivial or important. They hated Spencer before he published The Truth About Muhammad, but now they can wallow in the full ululation.

Why? They will say it is because Spencer has insulted their almighty “prophet.” Not a one of them, anywhere in the world, will admit the truth. That truth is that Spencer took all of his material from foundation Islamic “holy” documents. If anything, Spencer understates the malignancy of Islam and Muhammad, although not by much. 

These documents are the ones Muslims base all of Islam on—the ones that go back to about 900 A.D. and earlier. Muslims always hate the public airing of Muhammad’s dirty laundry, but they deny what anyone can read for himself: Namely that Islamic doctrines did it first, centuries ago.

Spencer makes clear that the single most important thing about Muhammad is that he has been and is to this day THE PREMIER ROLE MODEL for Muslims. He has been labeled the “perfect man” by Islam, whose behavior is to be imitated in every last detail. They have been aping Muhammad for fourteen centuries.

Their behavior, currently and historically, is acting like Muhammad, according to their “good books.” So, look at their behavior, past and present, so you can see what Muhammad was like. 

By Western values, Muhammad seems like a character from Sam Peckinpah’s 1969 ultra-violent movie, The Wild Bunch. He is sociopathic/psychopathic, narcissistic, manipulative, explosive, and takes pleasure in killing. Like all killers, he provides himself ready excuses to justify his killing, no matter how flimsy. 

Surely, if Muhammad ever worried about it at all, he would never have needed to worry about the Muslim robots following his path; they have bought it all from Day One, hook, line, and sinker. What does that tell you? It says that they saw and see NOTHING WRONG in any of Muhammad’s behavior, as presented in their core Islamic doctrines!

Therein lies the profound and unbreachable gulf between the minds of Muslims and the minds of Westerners.

In fact, Muhammad founded the most successful religion in human history and stripped its meaning of window dressing disguises, which is a big factor in its success. Islam has continued the practices of Muhammad for 14 centuries, and Muhammad’s philosophy has proved singularly rigid, unable to adapt to changing conditions, especially to advances in knowledge and ethics. What Muhammad’s Islam gave to those who followed it was fourteen centuries of human misery and stagnation because of its attack on reality, reason, and freedom of the individual. Muhammad’s followers, as well as most people in the West, if they see it at all, keep the realization at the superficial, thus ineffective, level. Tragically, they revel in the world Muhammad gave them.

Today, we are living with the legacy of Muhammad, so it behooves us to know this entity as well as we can. Spencer’s new book tells us what we need to know in a few short pages, and no one could made it clearer. One cannot finish this short book and still speak of Islam with naïve and erroneous platitudes such as “Islam is a religion of peace,” or “Only a tiny minority of extremist, radical, militant Muslims distort the teachings of Muhammad.” No sireeee, Muslims take Muhammad at face value:  If Muhammad did it or said it, they must do it too because it is the right thing to do, no matter how horrible.

A great strength of The Truth About Muhammad comes from Spencer’s relentless weaving together of the entire tapestry of institutionalized moral obscenities upon which Islam is based. For example, Muhammad’s continuing “revelations” throughout his life from Allah provide unexpected humor, as well as bringing light to the Islamic darkness. Muhammad had endless and highly convenient “revelations” which served to get him anything he wanted whenever he wanted it, including other men’s wives, the murder of those who resisted him in any way, etc.    If Muhammad wanted something, then surely good ol’ Allah would authorize it via a “revelation.”  What a racket!

Other aspects of Islam are not humorous--for example, Muhammad's "religious" obligation for Muslims to impose Islam on non-Muslims. 

In summary, add this book along with all the rest of the works of Robert Spencer to your essentials-that-must-be-read about Islam.

Comments

[Eleanor]

Interesting and informative book that would not be on the list of suggested books that whitewash Muhammad and Islam.