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Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Spencer
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Category: Book
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Pages: 328
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.4
ISBN: 1596985569
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.5570973
EAN: 9781596985568
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Publication Date: November 18, 2008
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Most terrorism experts agree: it is not "if" we are attacked again, but "when." Yet the assault has already happened. A silent battle is being waged on our nation everyday. Not with guns and bombs, but via covert sources: Islamic charities, the ACLU--even presidential candidates. They are all pawns in a stealth holy war. Unwittingly advancing the jihadist agenda not by violence, but through endeavors designed to acclimate and subject us to Islamic law--just the way Osama bin Laden wants it. In Stealth Jihad, bestselling author Robert Spencer exposes how a silent but lethal movement is advancing on the U.S. and calls upon Americans to resist it--before it's too late.
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 It's Your America; Keep It That Way November 7, 2008
Ralph White (New England)
94 out of 103 found this review helpful
Robert Spencer describes an America that welcomes its mortal enemies into its midst, gives them equal time with our founders' ideals, and defends their right to hate us. Spencer is a veteran of the struggle against jihad; his previously published titles include "The Truth About Muhammad," "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam, and the Crusades," "Religion of Peace, Why Christianity is and Islam isn't," "The Myth of Islamic Tolerance," and "Islam Unveiled..." Spencer adds his voice to Islam's courageous adversaries, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Brigitte Gabriel, Mark Steyn, Bruce Bawer, Carafano and Rosenweig, Benjamin and Simon, Efraim Karsh, Mary Habeck. Take the time to understand Spencer's and these other authors' warnings; distill their thoughts; and join the resistance to Islam's malevolent spread in America. France and Holland are already past the tipping point and will have some form of sharia law within 50 years. If you don't think it can happen here in America consider the Minnesota taxi incidents of 2006.
One taxi driver refused to pick up passengers carrying alcoholic beverages at the Minneapolis airport because to do so would "insult Islam." Soon other drivers joined the embargo against passengers with alcohol. The city tried a system using different colored taxis to accommodate the drivers who were and weren't willing to transport alcohol, but the system broke down. Within three months 5,400 passengers were denied service. The drivers claimed that they were defending "freedom of religion." In fact, Spencer shows that no one was preventing the drivers from practicing Islam. What the drivers were doing was "asserting sharia norms over non-Muslims." Had the precedent been allowed, what was to prevent drivers from refusing to carry passengers with pork products, or an unmarried couple?
Spencer shows that it is the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928 in Egypt by Hassan al Banna, which is directing these and other incursions into the unalienable rights which Americans blithely take for granted. The Muslim American Society is the Brotherhood's front organization in America, and the Council of Islamic-American Relations is its political arm. These organizations reject peaceful coexistence, reject moral equivalence, and reject pluralistic governance. Resistance to jihad is not bigoted, racist, hatemongering, or Islamophobic; it is self defense against the war Muslims are obliged to wage against us. For them to live peacefully with us is to insult the prophet Muhammad.
You will not have to believe Spencer. His argument is most forcefully made by Islam's governance documents, the Qur'an and the Hadith (traditions of the prophet), and by Muslim writers and speakers themselves. Spencer quotes Islam's words verbatim and shows that there is no scope for compromise in the mandate to convert us, extract jizya (humiliating tax on non-Muslims), or kill us. These are their sole options and they mean business. America's very openness, its civil rights, its democratic ideals and institutions, and its tolerance create a vulnerability which Muslims use against us.
Spencer hails Representative Sue Myrick (R-NC) for her ten point plan to counter jihadist activity in the United States. The Myrick Plan is a commonsense list of urgently needed tools and policies. No rational person could object to a single one of them. So who objects? The Council on Islamic-American Relations for starters. At what point will Americans wake up to the threat of Islamic jihad? When Islamic students in Brooklyn start wearing tee shirts emblazoned with "Intifada in USA?" Guess what? The school principal tried to defend the students' rights to flaunt their violent intents.
Jihadis in America will continue to press forward with their "right" to subjugate us; is it their sworn religious duty. You will either accept their gradual incursions, this "stealth jihad," or you will find the courage to resist. The more of us who are exposed to the thoughts of Spencer and other banner carriers for the resistance, the less effective the jihadis will be. It's your America; keep it that way.
It's Happening Here November 9, 2008
J. M. Tapson (Los Angeles CA)
62 out of 69 found this review helpful
After seven years, the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 are fading in the memory of many, and with no further attacks on U.S. soil, it's easy for too many Americans to dismiss the threat of radical Islam as "the politics of fear."
But as the tireless, prolific Robert Spencer details in his latest book, the threat is no less real and isn't only about overt acts of terrorism. It's a decades-long subversive effort, on behalf of a totalitarian ideology, to tear down America and the West from within, using our own freedoms and cultural openness to erode those freedoms and literally subjugate us.
Sounds far-fetched? It's precisely such skepticism and overconfidence that keeps too many of us from acknowledging the imminent danger. Europe is already nearly a lost cause, and it's happening in America as well. It's only a question of whether we'll recognize the threat and push back, or keep giving gradual ground until our way of life is no longer. And that's the value of this book: to educate us about the implacable ideology of our enemy, to expose the various fronts on which this covert battle is being waged - legal, political, educational and cultural - and to offer suggestions as to how to take action.
The book's not long but covers a lot of ground. It's scholarly but a quick and compelling read. I can't recommend it enough, if only because its message is literally critical for America's survival. You'll be disturbed and outraged, but inspired as well.
In the coming months you will see the usual reviews here attempting to smear Mr. Spencer as a racist and "Islamophobe," and to trash the book as a pack of lies - reviews usually from customers who clearly haven't even read the book. One thing you won't see is any such reviews disproving or even addressing his arguments, because the book is thoroughly researched and seamlessly argued, as are all his books. Just remember that 1) Islam isn't a race, and 2) Islamophobia is nothing but trumped-up name-calling designed to silence the critics of radical Islam. We need such courageous critics as Mr. Spencer.
Essential Reading for all Americans November 7, 2008
Henry Kadoch (Houston, TX USA)
53 out of 62 found this review helpful
Once again, Spencer delivers. Never has this topic been more important than now, when we are again becoming complacent about Islam, believing that because we have not been attacked again, we are safe.
This is and always has been the most insidious form of jihad against us, and we need to be aware of it, speak out against it, and defeat it.
Spencer lays it all out clearly, convincingly, and in his usual scholarly fashion.
DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK! Read it, pass it on to your family and friends, send copies of it to your Politicians and law enforcement.
Nail on the Head November 20, 2008
RJVDB0 (SE MO)
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
I am blazing through 'Stealth Jihad', witten by Robert Spencer. That guy hits the nail on the head. He puts in perfect words about the naiveté and futility of the now seemingly bi-partisan belief that we can negotiate ourselves into a state of coexistance with the imperialistic Islamic agenda. As he writes, there is absolutely nothing we can do or not do that will change the radical Islamic view of our society or bring a peaceful state of coexistance.
This is a world war we are in and it is a war of ideals and religion (the most grave sort). As referenced in the book, the first rule of war is to know your enemy and to understand the nature of the battle you are in and that is where our policies have failed. You can't win the hearts and minds of the Islamist, no more successfully than the bomb-wielding child murderer can win you or I over to accept and share his reasoning.
The book also points out the success of the non-violent plan to assimilate the non-Muslim population. As a metaphor, I am reminded of the fictional Star Trek characters, the Borg. The difference is that with the Borg, the purpose of assimilation through both violent and non-violent means was to expand its ever-growing "hive" of like-minded, efficient, dedicated and submissive community for the betterment of the whole. The assimilation agenda of Islam has no wants or expectations of a truce or acceptance of its ideals... there is no live and let live thought toward non-believers, it is about conquer, domination, religious biggotry, slavery and brutal iron fist rule.
Not only am I afraid that our President Elect lacks the knowledge, experience and guts to understand and deal with our enemy, I am afraid that we will not soon see a leader who can do the job that needs to be done. We have been P.C. browbeaten and brainwashed so successfully by the leftists in our own society, that the agents of this "stealth Jihad" agenda can see the clear-cut path for success... and they are working all the angles. As it stands, any elected official that calls an Islamic terrorist and Islamic terrorist is committing political suicide and setting himself up for a civil lawsuit. Any policy maker or elected official who points out hateful language spewed in mosques and these "moderate Islamic social justice group" meetings and the correlation between it and the very writings that Muslims hold most sacred is committing political suicide and setting himself up for a civil lawsuit. The attacks not only come from the Islamic "justice and civil rights" lawyers but our leftist P.C. stormtroopers in the US media are more than happy to lead the charge to "right the wrong".
Again, the words of Ariel Durant come to mind: "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
Daniel Webster warned, "There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing."
Webster's warning rings hauntingly clear when you witness first-hand our own policy makers roll in their own filth of ignorance and unwillingness/inability to muster the courage to call this huge, feathery, quacking thing for what it is.
Great book!
 With All Due Respect November 9, 2008
M. Himed (Oakland)
17 out of 87 found this review helpful
I have come to acknowledge that although Mr. Spencer does not know how to read or write Arabic nor has he went to any Islamic schools in the Middle East, he really does know a few things about Islam and especially about jihad. I am not about to "smear Mr. Spencer as a racist and Islamophobe" nor will I "trash the book as a pack of lies." I'm just here to make my observations on what Spencer believes is a threat from all Muslims in America and the West. When he started writing this book in January of this year, I thought he would wait until another terrorist attack happened in the U.S. to release it so that he could make as much money as possible, but I guess that an Obama victory is enough to boost sales.
The message that Spencer tries to push on people is that any Muslim is a threat. They all have the intentions of doing jihad and destroying America and killing Americans. He doesn't say it out front, but it is exactly what he implies. He uses the example of civil rights group CAIR and calls them a front organization for terrorism and the "political arm" of radical Islam. While it is true that they once funded Hamas and they occasionally prevent criticism of Islam by political pundits such as Michael Savage and people such as Spencer, but they are not supported by Al-Qaeda nor have they ever had any communication with Osama Bin Laden. Yet the amount of time spent on criticizing them by Spencer would make you believe that Bin Laden engineered every building they have worked in and sends his videos straight to their offices. They supported Hamas which was an organization that was once supported by Israel and now holds a majority of seats in the elected legislative council of the Palestinian National Authority. The Israelis bombed the hell out of the British and killed civilians and those same people, such as Menachem Begin, became leaders of Israel. They are looked upon as heroes. But if an Arab does what a Jewish person does, he is never a hero but always a terrorist. I'm not condoning the killing of children and women and I think it is evil to target and kill innocent people, but I think we need to look at the larger picture before we start to make accusations.
He also uses some instances of Muslims demanding that Sharia law be implemented and said that we will soon have it in Europe and eventually the U.S. He mentions the taxi drivers who refused to pick up drivers with alcohol as an example. While there may have been some were reluctant to pick up people with booze, there were other Muslim drivers who were not so serious about Islamic law being implemented. One driver, Rasheed Gardad, said "If we want to impose our rules and our beliefs, we should stay where we came from." This is probably the opinion of most of the drivers, but Spencer will have you believe that all of those drivers want the Islamic call to prayer put on loud speakers, all women put covered from head to toe, and want every other law in Somalia implemented in the U.S. It's the same tactic used by the Bush Administration to keep their ratings high.
There are terrorists in America, Europe, and all over the globe. The majority of them might even be Muslims. Alright....99.9 % of them are Muslim and that recent bus bombing in Russia was done by Muslims, even though nobody has declared it yet, but we follow the guilty by association theme. The terrorists who call themselves Muslim are about 0.1 % or 1/10th of all Muslims in the world. There are 1.3 to 1.5 billion Muslims in the world. If you make books like this one, then you convince non-educated people to think that the 99.9 percent of Muslims who abhor terrorism are as guilty as the real terrorists in some way, shape, or form. This leads to racism, hate crimes, and the abuse of innocent Muslims. I know Americans do not want innocent people to get hurt and I also know that they want to feel safe from a terrorist attack. I don't think it would be wise to alienate those Muslims who are on the side of the good guys. Robert Spencer wants to alienate them and would be satisfied if all Muslims were eliminated off the face of this Earth because he thinks that the Prophet Muhammad was a terrorist and that the Quran is a book of hate that endorses terrorism. Do you support him?
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