{"title":"Books by Robert Spencer","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781893554771","title":"Islam Unveiled","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \"Islam Unveiled,\" Robert Spencer dares to face the hard questions about what the Islamic religion actually teaches--and the potentially ominous implications of those teachings for the future of both the Muslim world and the West. Going beyond the shallow distinction between a \"true\" peaceful Islam and the \"hijacked\" Islam of terrorist groups, Spencer probes the Koran and Islamic traditions (as well as the history and present-day situation of the Muslim world) as part of his inquiry into why the world's fastest growing faith tends to arouse fanaticism.       \"Islam Unveiled\" evaluates the relationship between Islamic fundamentalism and \"mainstream\" Islam; the fixation with violence and jihad; the reasons for Muslims' disturbing treatment of women; and devastating effects of Muslim polygamy and Islamic divorce laws. Spencer explores other daunting questions--why the human rights record of Islamic countries is so unrelievedly grim and how the root causes of this record exist in basic Muslim beliefs; why science and high culture died out in the Muslim world--and why this is a root cause of modern Muslim resentment. He evaluates what Muslims learn from the life of Muhammad, the man that Islam hails as the supreme model of human behavior. Above all, this provocative work grapples with the question that most preoccupies us today: can Islam create successful secularized societies that will coexist peacefully with the West's multicultural mosaic?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308691206517,"sku":"9781893554771","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781893554771_977245e1-e34a-4f6f-b7e1-78fe7a5b336d.jpg?v=1786029275"},{"product_id":"9798888456446","title":"Antisemitism","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhy the ancient evil of antisemitism has returned—and how to counter it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Had we listened to Robert Spencer and taken heed twenty years ago or even ten years ago, the impact of the Islamists driven antisemitism would not have caught us by surprise. We would have had in place an institutional effort to counter it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Here is another opportunity to pay attention to his important work. Read this book!” –Ayaan Hirsi Ali\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Hamas attack upon Israel on October 7, 2023, was one of the most inhuman jihad attacks ever. The attackers gloried in their savagery and vied to outdo one another in cruelty. Yet despite—or perhaps because of—its brutality, that attack unleashed expressions of hatred for Jews that shocked those who assumed such hate was a thing of the past.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGlobal public opinion turned sharply against Israel. One campus protester carried a sign calling for a “Final Solution.” Another published a video saying, “Be glad—be grateful—that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.” Synagogues all over the US received bomb threats. Jews in Europe and the US were attacked.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOctober 7 also led to a large-scale reappearance of claims about the Jews’ secret power and malevolence. Claims that Jews are enemies of all that is good have become mainstream as they have not been since Hitler put a bullet in his brain.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe record needs to be set straight for anyone who is willing to see the truth. Historian Robert Spencer does just that. He reveals the sources of today’s Jew-hatred in pre-Christian paganism, Christianity, Islam, and national and international socialism, and rebuts the most common claims against Jews.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe resurgence of antisemitism should worry everyone, Jewish and non-Jewish, who is concerned about the recurrence of one of the darkest chapters in human history. The world today is on the brink of returning to such barbarism. \u003ci\u003eAntisemitism: History and Myth\u003c\/i\u003e is an attempt to keep that from happening.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311271948661,"sku":"9798888456446","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9798888456446_67fa819f-754b-42a7-87da-750fca74a36b.jpg?v=1786032801"},{"product_id":"9798895653005","title":"Holy Hell","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Shocking Truth About the Islamic View of Non-Muslim Women\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHoly Hell\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how Islam sanctions the rape and sex slavery of infidel women, and how non-Muslim officials prefer to deny that fact rather than confront it.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe extent of the “grooming gang” scandal in Britain is horrifying beyond measure. As many as a million British girls were raped, and many were forced into prostitution, while British officials turned a blind eye to what was happening.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe officials were terrified at the prospect of being accused of “racism” or “Islamophobia” if they went after the perpetrators, for the men who committed these crimes were overwhelmingly Muslim. The cover-up continues to this day, for much the same reason. Even those who have dared to speak honestly about the “grooming gangs” generally stop at noting that they were mostly Pakistani, not that they were Muslim.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eYet these English girls were not victimized because the gangs were Pakistani. The gangs were Muslim, and did all this because Islamic law allows Muslim men to victimize non-Muslim women in this way. Nor did it happen in Britain only; this phenomenon has played out in other countries that have experienced a recent massive influx of Muslim migrants.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this eye-opening book, Islamic scholar Robert Spencer tells the truths that Western officials don’t dare acknowledge: that the behavior of the “grooming gangs” is sanctioned in Islam, and until the West faces that, the brutalization of women will continue. Holy Hell: Islam’s Abuse of Women and the Infidels Who Enable It is a much-needed antidote to the wishful thinking and denial that dominate discussions of this topic in the Western media.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369653252469,"sku":"9798895653005","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9798895653005.jpg?v=1786035232"},{"product_id":"the-tragedy-of-islam","title":"The Tragedy of Islam","description":"\u003cb\u003eIslam fails both individuals and societies, yet non-Muslims keep making excuses for it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a set of ideas for the ordering of the lives of individuals and societies, Islam has proven to be a singular failure. Aside from the accident of geology that has provided them with oil wealth, Islamic states are generally economic basket cases and serial violators of human rights. All too many converts to Islam end up turning to terrorism.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eYet in the face of these truths, which historian and Islam expert Robert Spencer definitively establishes here, it has become a cultural habit in the non-Muslim West to retreat into fantasies and tout glories of Islam that are more imagined than real. These widely disseminated falsehoods have created the cultural context for the fad of conversions to Islam that swept TikTok in the wake of the Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, and widely believed falsehoods regarding an Islamic Golden Age and Muslim inventions of the past.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOften, these fantasies are handsomely subsidized, even government-sponsored endeavors. The Western governments that pour money into these endeavors hoping that they will lead to an eradication of “Islamophobia” are ignoring the real problem: Islam’s failure breeds fanaticism and intolerance, as Spencer explains in detail. He demonstrates that if the failure and tragedy of Islam is not faced honestly, the same pattern of societal destruction and decay that swept over much of the Islamic world will bring down Western civilization as well.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSpencer’s findings will infuriate the woke and blinkered—but they will find them impossible to refute.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57555375325557,"sku":"9798888459225","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9798888459225.jpg?v=1788791330"},{"product_id":"muhammad","title":"Muhammad","description":"\u003cb\u003eMuhammad: What can we really know about him?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe know a great deal about Muhammad—or so it seems. Islamic tradition contains an astonishing wealth of information about the founding figure of the Islamic faith, and most historians take for granted that this material is generally reliable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his latest book, historian and Islamic scholar Robert Spencer shows that there is no agreement in the earliest Islamic sources about the most fundamental details of this towering figure’s life. There are conflicting accounts of key details of his life, including the circumstances and contents of the first revelation he claimed to have received from Allah; the year of his birth; the length of his prophetic career; the name of the angel who supposedly appeared to him; and even his own name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMuhammad: A Critical Biography\u003c\/i\u003e takes a detailed look at the Islamic traditions regarding Muhammad and lays bare their contradictions, inconsistences, and incoherence. Spencer continues the groundbreaking research he began in \u003ci\u003eThe Truth About Muhammad and Did Muhammad Exist?\u003c\/i\u003e, exposing the shocking reality of how shaky Islam’s foundations really are. He meticulously explains why competing traditions may have been invented and definitively demonstrates that, contrary to the complacency of establishment historians, the Muhammad of Islam is more legend than history, more fable than fact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMuhammad: A Critical Biography\u003c\/i\u003e does the work that mainstream academics—who are either bought by Saudi Arabia or Qatar, or too afraid to depart from the herd—should have done long ago. Not for the faint-hearted, this book will do nothing less than rock the Islamic world to its very core.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57695200444789,"sku":"9798888453087","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9798888453087.jpg?v=1793031882"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-robert-spencer.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}