The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam

Praise for
The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to
ISLAM (AND THE CRUSADES)

“With a provocative and irreverent style, Robert Spencer assails, with much erudition, the taboos imposed by the Politically Correct League. A daring tonic that teaches fundamental truths.”

—Bat Ye’or,
author,
Eurabia and The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam

“The jihad that the Western world faces today is identical in its motivations and goals to that which Europe managed to stave off almost a thousand years ago, thanks in large part to the Crusades of which the West is now ashamed. In this book, Robert Spencer tells the truth that few in the U.S. or Europe wish to face. Today’s jihad, as Spencer illustrates here, is proceeding on two fronts: one of violence and terror, and another of cultural shaming and the rewriting of history. Here is a devastating riposte to that revisionism—and a clarion call for the defense of the West, before it is too late.”

—Ibn Warraq,
author,
Why I Am Not A Muslim
, and editor of
Leaving Islam and What the Koran Really Says

“The value of Spencer’s book is twofold. He reminds us of the consequences of our failure to come to grips with the message and implications of Islam. And he warns against the spirit of masochistic self-loathing that permeates the Western elite class. In a sane world, Spencer’s recommendations—notably that the upholders of sharia should be treated as political radicals and subjected to appropriate supervision—would not be deemed “politically incorrect” but eminently sensible.

—Serge Trifkovic,
author,
Sword of the Prophet

“With the 2005
Kingdom of Heaven
movie trying to visualize the actual scenes that occurred between European Crusaders and Arab Muslim armies in the Middle Ages, the whole issue of the clash of civilizations came back to haunt politicians. Traditional historians used to relate facts. Politicized historians, such as Amine Maalouf, insisted that Western Crusaders were evil, and their enemies were righteous. Robert Spencer, an expert on historical jihad, responds with a “politically incorrect” but academically sound and challenging work. Spencer displays an enormous amount of well-researched material. He throws the ball back into the camp of Arabist historians.”

—Dr. Walid Phares,
author,
Lebanese Christian Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Resistance

“Sweeping away the politically correct myths about a tolerant, peaceful Islam brutalized by demonic Christian Crusaders, Robert Spencer in this powerful, important book lets the facts of history speak for themselves. The truth he recovers is simple: an aggressive, violent Islamic creed for fourteen centuries has waged war against the infidel West, a scourge of conquest and persecution that roused the Crusaders to restore the Near East to the Christian and Hellenic culture devastated by the armies of Islam. Spencer’s rousing, straight-talking book is a much-needed antidote to the poisonous propaganda that compromises our current battle against jihadist murder.”

—Bruce S. Thornton,
author,
Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization

The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to
ISLAM
(AND THE CRUSADES)

The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to ISLAM (AND THE CRUSADES)

ROBERT SPENCER

Copyright © 2005 by Robert Spencer

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Spencer, Robert, 1962–

The politically incorrect guide to Islam and the Crusades/ Robert Spencer.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-0-89526-013-0
1. Islam—Controversial literature. 2. Jihad. 3. Crusades. I. Title.
BT1170.S655 2005
297—dc22

2005017128

Published in the United States by
Regnery Publishing, Inc.
One Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
www.regnery.com

Distributed to the trade by
National Book Network
Lanham, MD

DEUS VULT!

CONTENTS

Introduction

Part I:
ISLAM