The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran

5 Responses to “The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran”

1. A. F. Martin says:

   June 26, 2010 at 5:42 am

   Have heard nothing about the manner of language of my book for over a month! It seems a name could let me know what is going on!!!!!
   
   A F Martin
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2. Salki says:

   June 26, 2010 at 7:03 am

   Robert Spencer is just so amusing! He has raised the art of despise-mongering to such a high level that you just have to laugh or you’d weep. If anyone bothers to buy this work, please, please remember that context is everything, something Mr Spencer specialises in forgetting. Anyone who truly want to learn about Islam should read Tariq Ramadan, Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood, John Esposito, Ingrid Mattson, Kahled Abou el-Fadl or Karen Armstrong.
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3. Serious Student says:

   June 26, 2010 at 8:55 am

   Very demeaning to anyone of the Islamic faith. Does not contribute to legitimate dialogue in any respect. Belittling to the reader as the leader assumes that the audience does not have the intelligence to renovate their own opinions.
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4. Lebanon says:

   June 26, 2010 at 10:32 am

   Robert spencer is nothing more then an anit-islam dread monger who knows nothing about the Muslim faith, If anyone really wants to learn about islam and the Quran, then speak to a muslim person, visit a mosque, better yet GO READ the QURAN Yourself rather then listen to it second hand from a name who has a person campaign against it. Reading this book to learn about the Quran or Islam or about muslims is like going to a Priest to learn about Judaism. If a similar book were written about the Torah, the leader would be branded an anitsemite and lawsuits would be flying left and right.
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5. M. Himed says:

   June 26, 2010 at 11:08 am

   The Infidels guide to the Koran is recycled information from Spencer’s older books with a sprinkle of new information such as President Obama’s speech to the Muslim world. You can read any of the additional books that bash Islam and still feel like you are doing your job of being Islamaphobic. The premise is the same; The Quran commands Muslims to kill everyone who is not Muslim, oppress women, and Christianity is better.

   Spencer says “the Koran decrees that women be subordinate to men in copious verses.” It may be hard to see through the smoke, but Islam honors women better than any religion on Planet. Now of course Spencer will throw the verse that says men can beat women up and then the verse that says a woman’s testimony is half of a man’s or the one which says a woman’s inheritance is half of that which her brothers get.Ok. But lets look deeper and beyond the surface.

   Can we all agree that women and men are different not only physically but psychologically. I remember reading a book by John Gray who said that men have a psychological need to take care of women. If a man were the one providing for women as the Quran demands of them (men are protectors of women) would it make sense for the inheritance they get to be split down the middle 50-50? The man has to place the food on the table while the female can place her money in a certified deposit and nobody can touch it. Can you show me any religion or society that says women do not need to work, but only if they want to. Show me where women are honored like this in the Bible and show me where it says as it does in the Hadith that “Heaven lies at the feet of Mothers.”

   How about that beating verse. I do not aver to have all the answers but I recommend that people watch a youtube video by Abdulrahman Green about beating women in Islam that clarifies it in a way you might know.

   He mentions Iranian women throwing off their head covering and liberating themselves from the shackles of the headscarf. Women were banned from wearing the headscarf in France so what is his point. Covering your hair is not a form of oppression, but being forced to show your hair and your beauty to be accepted in society or to make money is oppression.

   Moving on to chapter 11, I read something that I thought Spencer may have written lacking giving much thought. He says that people judge that Islam teaches “universal like and brotherhood, being kind to the poor, peaceful and generous.” The next paragraph says “Certainly Judaism and Christianity teach these things.”

   Judaism? I remember Bill Maher adage that the God of the Ancient Tribute was a rifleman who wanted to kill everybody. What this shows is one mans bias against a religion. He says Islam does not teach any excellent. There are many verses that clearly preach excellent such as 4:36

   “(Show) kindness unto parents, and unto near kindred, and orphans, and the needy, and unto the national who is of kin (unto you) and the national who is not of kin, and the fellow-traveler.” But Spencer only points the finger at persons verses that can be made to look terrible or evil or oppressive.

   The glaring difference between Islam and Christianity can be summed up on page 209 where Spencer quotes Matthew 5:39 “Do not resist one who is evil But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the additional.” He says this has been “interpreted by Christian tradition as utter passivity in the face of evil.” Now I question the reasonable reader, Why didn’t the U.S. turn the additional cheek on 9-11? How about after Pearl Harbor? The U.S., a Christian country, did not follow the commands of the Bible but followed the commands of the Quran “Fight persons who Fight you.” 2:190 and when U.S. army soldiers were in the trenches on D-Day fighting Nazis, All-purpose Patton gave orders to “kill them wherever you find them.” 9:5

   The problem with terrorists is that they use these verses to kill everyone, even their fellow Muslims. We need to identify these people and call them out, I agree with that. But lets not take out the huge guns and wipe out everyone who practices Islam. The religion of Islam is excellent, but some of its followers are not. Only rational people will know this and I hope you are one of them.
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