Product Description

In this startling new book, New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer, provides a warts-and-all portrait of the Prophet of Islam and draws out what his life implies for reforming Islam and repulsing Islamic terrorists. Spencer relies solely on primary sources considered reliable by Muslims and evaluates modern biographies to show how Muhammad has been changed for Western audiences, lulling them into consoling but false conclusions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19360 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

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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.

About the Author
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and author of the New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect GuideTM to Islam (and the Crusades), as well as four other books on Islam and terrorism, including Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions about the World’s Fastest Growing Faith and Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West, as well as eight monographs and hundreds of articles. He lives in a secure, undisclosed location.

Customer Reviews

Nothing but an Angry Envier's Grumbles
Waste your money to buy,
Waste your time to read.

Nothing is researched as it was claimed by the author.

You can not study Islam by reading only what you like to read, and translating it and intrepreting it in the way only you want it to be intrepreted.

Highly opnionated. Shallowly researched and deeply biased.

Everybody knows the authors opinion about Islam and the last of the prophets Muhammad (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him and his family). None is interested in reading it because there are enough angry Christians and other opponetents of Islam going around out of the anger of loss to Islam their previous reputation in many spheres.

Those who oppose Islam are the haters, and this books proves how great is their hatred is.

A lot of Quran details, excellent historical interpretation of the writings of the "prophet"
I would have given it 5 stars but for the fact that it is a difficult read. If one reads in parallel with a Quran, one can see there is a near perfect correspondence with the text, and then one can interpret the material according to his beliefs.

I do not think Islam in itself is evil but rather the orthodox Islamic view of other faiths, intolerance for diverging opinions and lack of understanding of the west, and pluralistic societies (taking the Quran literally leads to this).

Wahabism has not helped at all in the understanding between Islamic East and the West, and it is unfortunate some middle East countries continue to fund its spread across the Islamic and 3rd worlds.

A clash of cultures is inevitable, and this book helps in reading, not necessarily understanding, the prophet and his hate for anything not Islamic and unbelievers.

No Modifing The Truth
By reading Spencer's book, I now have a clear idea of the dangers involved in trusting any Muslin. Mohammed, being the example for all Muslims was ultimately untrustworthy and strove to find fault in other while all the time harboring great defect in himself. All of his "revelations" echo the same delusional tone found in Joseph Smith. As a matter of fact they really have a lot in common, distrust of others while all the while being untrustworthy, polygamy, convenient revelations, deception and the killing of innocents.

If indeed Mohammed were the ideal man, I would prefer Hell. For as Spencer repeatedly notes, to understand a religion one must have an understanding of the founder.
To believe that I would spend eternity with the likes of Mohammed or Osama Bin Laden is no inducement to conversion.

It is apparent that Islam is the product of a singularly human mind that may have been trying to do good but was very lost.

There can be no treaty with an ideology that has it's origin in the imperialistic delusion of a 7th century lunatic. If of course you have no beliefs and are content to see all professions of faith as equal then you do not need to read this book. However, if you believe the there is a moral standard the rises above all else and murdering in the name of a pagan god is not included in that standard, read this book.

As for my family and me, we will trust Jesus, for his example is above all others, no matter what you believe.