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Title: The Sword of the Prophet: History, Theology, Impact on the World by Srdja Trifkovic, Serge Trifkovic ISBN: 1-928653-11-1 Publisher: Regina Orthodox Press Pub. Date: 11 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.05 (64 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Polemic Refuttaion of Islam
Comment: Serge Trifkovic has written a polemic on the Islamic faith. A recent detractor to this book has not really made an argument against Trifkovic's thesis, but instead has made dispareging statements. There are some problems with the book, but one needs to make an honest attempt to deal with his position.
The book has many strengths and many weaknesses (many mechanical/grammatical mistakes that demonstartes a rush to print by the editors). Serge's historical treatment of the growth of Islam is not politically correct, but does attack the more brutal truths about the foundation of Islam, with that said, he sometimes speaks where there is no evidence.
The book is at its best when discussing historical facts about Islam and Muhammad and the theological-philosphical problems with Islam, of which there are many. The weakness of the texts is when Serge tries to attach his speculation as to the motivation of many of Muhammad's actions. Thougth I at times agree, it is only specualtive and often, Serge reports it as fact.
This book is a good primer from a Christian perspective for those who have not studied Islam, but there are better books on the market like Giesler's "Answering Islam." Also, a warning should be stated, that though this book is historically accurate, there are many Muslims who have spiritualized Islam (Serge would say these Muslims, though noble, are not logically following Islam)and have contributed much to society. All in all I agree, but there are just too many nagging minor errors - hence three stars.
Rating: 5
Summary: Islam is a global, militarized terrorist organization.
Comment: If you believe in freedom, reason, and inalienable human rights, "Islam: The Sword of the Prophet" might be the most important book you will ever read. The sub-title--"A Politically-Incorrect Guide to Islam"--is unfortunate, because the book is not a slanted, anti-Islamic polemic. "The Hard and Bitter Truth About Islam" would be more accurate.
Islam is not merely a religion. As the Muslims proudly boast, Islam is a complete way of life-an all-encompassing social, political and legal system that breeds a worldview peculiar to itself. Islam is a global ideology that insists that the sharia, the revealed will of God, is the only sanction for law. Islam insists that any dissent from the sharia is heresy, and furthermore, that heretics be put to the sword.
The terrorism of 9/11 is not an accidental by-product of some temporary crisis that Islam is currently undergoing. Violence and terror are central, fundamental and indispensable tenets of the Islamic faith. The terrorist acts of 9/11 were completely in keeping with the commands of Allah's book and the example of Muhammad. In slaying infidels, Bin Laden and his followers were nothing if not pious and devout Muslims-doing exactly what the Koran commands of a good, observant, religious Muslim.
Women--especially those warmed by the cuddly and fluffy-bunny image of Islam presented by PBS and American intellectual elites-should read this book to learn the Muslim definition of a shameful and disgusting awrat. Hint: "The woman is 'awrat.' When she goes outside the house, the devil welcomes her," and accordingly, women must walk in the middle of the road, cover themselves in black from head to toe, and cannot speak without their husband's permission. As Muhammad's favorite wife, Aisha, said: "You have put us [women] on the same level as a donkey and a dog."
Beware of Usama bin Laden's fellow-travelers in America's Fifth Column. He who has the gold-rules, and as Dr. Trifkovic points out, Wahhabi money from the House of Saud has paid huge endowments to fund Islamic studies departments at renowned universities such as Harvard, the University of California, the University of London, and many others. As a result, the pro-Islamic "tolerance" of many Western intellectuals is really just moral cowardice trying to pass itself off as principle. Many of today's intellectuals and professors have found a new way to cash in when it comes to tenure, promotion, lecture fees, book offers, social acceptance and psychic reassurance.
The author-Dr. Serge Trifkovic-has been viciously slandered by a legion of Muslim "holy warriors" and apologists. One of the more prominent character assassins goes by the name of Steven Schwartz-a Muslim whose real name is Suleyman Ahmad. In his book, Trifkovic explains the machinations of poison pens like Ahmad. Under the Islamic concept of Al-Taqiya, which means 'dodging the threat,' Muslims are encouraged "to use subterfuge to defeat the enemy. They [are] ordered to infiltrate the enemy's cities and plant the seeds of discord and sedition. Sometimes they argue that Jihad is not aimed at the people about to be conquered, that they are not targeted. Taqiya is reflected in our own time in the attempts by Muslim activists to present Islam favorably, replete with tolerance and peace, faith and charity, equality and brotherhood. The poor, 'misunderstood Muslims' tell us that Jihad doesn't really mean 'holy war;' Jihad means 'striving for Allah' and 'inner struggle.'"
In his declaration of Jihad against Americans, bin Laden made it clear that he was not using the word jihad in the sense of "moral striving", but in the classical and traditional Islamic sense of a holy war against infidels. In this proclamation, bin Laden called on his followers "to kill Americans and their allies, both civil and military. . . . By God's leave, we call on every Muslim who believes in God and hopes for reward to obey God's command to kill the Americans and plunder their possessions wherever he finds them and whenever he can. Likewise we call on the Muslim leaders and youth and soldiers to launch attacks against the armies of the American devils and against those who are allied with them from among the helpers of Satan. . . ."
Oriana Fallaci was right when she warned: "Islamist terrorism is not, as we are so often told, the perversion of a great faith, [nor] the work of a disillusioned and obscurantist fringe. It was part and parcel of Islam itself, which she referred to as 'this mountain that for 1,400 years has not moved, has not emerged from the abyss of its blindness, has not opened its doors to the conquest of civilization, and has wanted nothing to do with liberty and justice and democracy and progress."
"Putting an end to Western dominance is an ongoing project for the world's Muslims--even the ones who live among us and may be best understood as an advance guard. 'You do not understand, or you do not wish to understand that if we remain passive, if we do not fight, the jihad will triumph. And it will destroy the world . . . .'"
Per Dr. Trifkovic: "Marxism, Fascism and Islam have in common the lust for other people's lives and property, and the desire to exercise complete control over their subjects' lives. All three have been justified by a self-referential system of thought and belief that perverts the meanings of words, stunts the sense of moral distinctions, and utterly and completely destroys lives and souls. . . .Islam is a collective psychosis seeking to become global, and any attempt to compromise with such madness is to become part of the madness oneself."
America's problem is not prejudice against Islam or Muslims, but folly in the face of a militarized and genocidal terrorist regime that seeks to kill us all.
Rating: 5
Summary: a scary book
Comment: this book is so scary, especially since the growing threat of militant islam is dangerous to democracy.
read this book, please!
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