The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS

"The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS" by Robert Spencer (Aug. 2018).Spencer demonstrates clearly and convincingly that today's Islamist, militant-jihad attacks throughout the world derive their suicide-bombing advocacy based not on the jihadists' aberrant reading of Islamic texts, but are indeed well-founded on the clear teachings and practices of Islam's patron saint: The Prophet Muhammad -- Islam's "The Perfect Man" [al-Insam al-Kamil].Spencer's new book provides an expansive, detailed look at the 1,400-year-long history of Islam's jihad [militant struggle] war against the entire non-Muslim world -- which didn't stop upon his death [c. 632 AD]. As Spencer expertly shows, Muhammad's followers used his jihad teachings to continue their warfare-based conquests against not just their local Arabian neighbors, but in their ever-expanding, Scimitar-sword slicing, proselytizing military campaigns throughout the Middle East, Northern Africa, northward into the Iberian Peninsula and France, and later eastward and eventually subjugating Persia and India. Spencer espouses that this Islamic-bred terrorism continues unabated today.A brief look at some of the sub-titles to the various chapters highlight Muhammad's anti-Jew proclivities:"Killing Muhammad's Enemies""Muhammad Against the Jews""Divine Terror Against the Jews""Massacring the Jews"Least one think that Muhammad's territorial conquests were just against the Arabian Jews, other sub-titles reveal the true worldwide terrorism of the enslaving Mohammedians:"Prophecy of Conquest" (by Muslims)"Jihad Against the Christians""Calling the World to Islam"Many of Spencer's earlier books analyzed the Quran and the ahadith to better understand the theological dreams of Muhammad, and how they led to his development of a united religious-political, polis-state: the 'Daesh' or 'Dawla' for the Muslim-domineering community: so beloved by ISIl/ISIS during the 2010s decade.Spencer reveals that few Westerners are aware that the on-going India/Pakistan-Kashmir dispute evolved from the Muslim conquest of India, and Islam's superior-attitude theology prevented Muslims from embracing a "Greater India" -- a supremist thought that led many Muslims to demand that the "Islamic Republic of Pakistan" be separated from India in 1947.Besides being merely a historical review of past battles, military campaigns and conquests by marauding Muslim soldiers, Spencer's latest book reviews today's current jihadist, militant attacks throughout Europe, Asia, Latin and North America. No need the recount all of the recent terrorist attacks, as they are well represented in Chapter Nine: "Resurgence."Sadly, Spencer notes in his concluding chapter "The West Loses the Will to Live" how many of the "politically correct" liberal politicians have chosen to ignore the burgeoning Islamic threat, as sustained by the recent waves of Muslim immigrants seeking the welfare-largesse in European countries - "refugees" who espouse their Islamic supremacy of seeking to impose their restrictive Islamic beliefs rather than assimilating into the more progressive and permissive Western civilization.A thought-provoking book, a very vital book in revealing that the current Islamic-jihad threat is based on firm, Muhammadian theological principles.

I have various other books from Mr. Spencer and they are all great.He says this one is the third in a kind of trilogy: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades, The Truth about Muhammad, and this current book.This is history we're never taught in our western leftist schools and universities. All we hear is how mean ol' European Christians enslaved the world and were the only people to ever enacted slavery or made war. Pure BS. European history is not without blemish and it has its sins, but it has nothing on Islam.Mr. Spencer shows the constant apologies for Islam and the mythical Golden Age are just that...mythical and unwarrantedWhen the first Islamic Arabs swarmed out of Arabia like locust, they conquered an area twice the size of the Roman Empire in less than 130 years. It took the Roman Empire 800 years to amass their empire, but the Umayyad Caliphate extended from Spain to India in less than 130 years. Within 25 years of Muhammad's death, Islam had conquered an area from what is now Tunisia to Pakistan and up to Georgia...25 YEARS!!!!. How many have even heard of it?.This is fascinating, outstanding and unprecedented, yet all we hear is how the German barbarians overrun and destroyed classical civilization............MORE BULLCRAP!!!. Get this book and learn the truth.Mr. Spencer goes into detail about a litany of battles most have never heard of, and what it was like to live under these various caliphates. What's even better, he uses Muslim sources.He goes into Saladin...was he the magnanimous warrior conventional history has made him out to be?.He explains why the Crusades were really waged and why we should not be continually apologizing for them like self-loathing drips.Did you know the first foreign war the young United States was engaged in after the Revolution was with Islamic Barbary pirates in Morocco, Algiers, and Libya?.Did you know the Badge of Shame worn by Jews during WWII did not originate with the Nazis?.How about al-Andalus, Muslim Spain we are told was a multi-cultural paradise?.If it was such a paradise, then why did the Spanish spend nearly 800 years trying to expel them from Spain.If you like historical truth and are fed up with the leftist pablum spoon fed us by self-loathing Western indoctrination camps known as public schools and colleges, then get this book.

This is the most terrifying book in print in any language.The most demented, sadistic mind could not fabricate the horrors revealed.Yet it is as clinical and passionless as an autopsy report in a criminal trial.The documentation trail back to historic sources for every fact, is as rigorous and exhaustive as any work of history to come out of an ivy league University Press; and I have read a few.This book was a generation overdue.It will be dismissed as hate speech.Because at no time in human history has the truth been so dangerous, or the stakes so high, or those opposed to truth so entrenched and organized and determined.They sense the End Game, and this book stands in their way.Read this book. Ignorance on this issue is no longer an option for any free people.This is not a book of hyperbole, or political bias, or a 'narrative'.It is simply a brutal revelation of historical fact that most have turned away from for its sheer horror.Until now.

Within understandable limitations this is absolutely a great book and especially a great reference book covering 1400 years of the evil that is Islam. The primary limitation being the impossibility of covering 1400 years of slaughter, rape, pillage, looting, murder, lies, intrigue, and so on and on in merely 440 pages. However, Spencer does a great job of providing concise accounts of most of the important events taking place during those 1400 years. This book is a great addition to my over four dozen great books on Islam.After carefully studying my way [I ran down many of the references provided] through this book I highly recommend it to anyone wishing to have a fully referenced concise account of the history of jihad.The time is late ... wake up America!!

This is a scholarly well-researched book by one of the foremost experts on Islam. It is rather tough going because of the huge amount of detail in the text necessary to cover the incessant rampage of jihad violence that has murdered or subjugated millions of people to Islam over 1400 years. The myth of Islam as a "religion of peace" is demolished by Robert Spencer's history of jihad with facts from Islamic literary sources and historical records. The so-called prophet of Islam Mohammed is recorded by Islamic sources as saying "I have been made victorious through terror". He was the first Muslim terrorist and his example has been followed from the 7th Century to the present day by followers of his supremacist theocratic ideology. This is a timely, essential book for all those who care about freedom, the future of civilisation and of their descendants.

One of the best books on the truth behind Islam and it's brutal and barbaric conquests. Robert Spencer lays out the jihad campaigns in chronological order with enough contemporary material. Must read for all humanity.

I note that someone wrote in the reviews that this book had "nothing of historical fact". That statement is complete garbage, Not only is this book absolutely historically accurate, but also the facts it quotes and uses come from highly reputable cited sources that the author lists in minute detail in the endnotes. There is a copious bibliography as well. So, if you dispute any fact that the author uses then you can easily and quickly find out where he got it from. I have checked many of the author's factual statements against my own reference books and, naturally, online. I have yet to find an error. Whoever wrote the statement I quoted should be ashamed of themselves for this book is factually correct. I have no hesitation in recommending it to anyone who wants, or needs, to know more about the history of Mohammedan warfare (jihad) against civilisation.

Robert Spencer factually lays out the truth that is censored by the mainstream media regarding the fanatical aspects of a particular religion that cannot be questioned or criticised. The book serves as an eye opener for infidels of what awaits them if they repeat the mistakes of the past and fail to see what awaits them. One salient aspect of this book is it covers the centuries of waves of genocides in India to which most of the western readers are grossly oblivious to. It is a must read book for everyone.

Brilliant book. Well written by someone who has a firm grasp of islam and the danger it poses to the Western World. Spencer sets out the history of islam and the book explains, amongst other points, the essential words that islam uses in reference to disbelievers (like me). Such as 'Jizya' the tax which all conquered non-believers have to pay the muslim conquerers essentially for protection agains the islamic inclination to turn everything into violence. The, 'Kafir' is explained which muslims derogatorily use when referring to non-believers as. Effectively, the Kafir is lower than the low - a non-human. Personally I've lived in the Middle East and have a good grasp of what islam is all about and I highly recommend this book to anyone that is concerned about the future of the West.