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#1 bestselling author and radio host Glenn Beck exposes the real truth behind the roots of Islamic extremism in Muslim teachings in this sharply insightful handbook that debunks commonly held assumptions about Islam and the dream of a renewed caliphate.
From the barbarians of ISIS to the terror tactics of Al-Qaeda and its offshoots, to the impending threat of a nuclear Iran, those motivated by extreme fundamentalist Islamic faith have the power to endanger and kill millions. The conflict with them will not end until we face the truth about those who find their inspiration and justification in the religion itself.
Drawing on quotes from the Koran and the hadith, as well as from leaders of ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood, Glenn Beck seeks to expose the true origins of Islamic extremism as well as the deadly theological motivations behind these agencies of destruction.
Using the same unique no-holds-barred style from his bestselling books Control and Conform, Glenn Beck offers straight facts and history about the fundamental beliefs that inspire so many to kill.
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Glenn Beck, the nationally syndicated radio host and founder of TheBlaze television network, is a thirteen-time #1 bestselling author and is one of the few authors in history to have had #1 national bestsellers in the fiction, nonfiction, self-help, and children’s picture book genres. His recent fiction works include the thrillers Agenda 21, The Overton Window, and its sequel, The Eye of Moloch; his many nonfiction titles include Conform, Miracles and Massacres, Control, and Being George Washington. For more information about Glenn Beck, his books, and TheBlaze TV network, visit GlennBeck.com and TheBlaze.com.
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It Is About Islam INTRODUCTION Jefferson’s Quran
One block from the U.S. Capitol sits the Library of Congress. Housing more than 160 million books, manuscripts, photographs, recordings, and maps, it’s the largest library in the world. If you put its bookshelves together in a single line, they would extend 838 miles.
The current collection owes its start to one of America’s greatest Founding Fathers. After the Library of Congress was burned to the ground by the British during the War of 1812, Thomas Jefferson, then in retirement at Monticello, offered once more to be of service to his young nation. Jefferson, who owned the nation’s largest private collection of books—6,500 at the time—offered the entire lot to the newly rebuilt library “for whatever price found appropriate.”
Jefferson was a voracious reader and a distinguished intellect. Along with hundreds of books that matched his varied interests was a well-worn two-volume set that he believed offered his nation a warning.
Jefferson had bought these volumes, bound in leather and filled with yellowed pages that crackled when you turned them, forty years earlier when he’d been a young red-haired law student in Williamsburg. By then he’d already developed a reputation as a passionate debater in the service of justice—even if it meant challenging the laws of the Crown. In 1765, the young rabble-rouser had become known for his strident opposition to Parliament’s passage of the Stamp Act, the latest in a series of unjust taxes imposed by the British on the colonies without representation.
As a student of the law, Jefferson was curious about laws of many kinds, including those that had a voice in exotic lands or claimed to carry the word of God. That is why, when he wandered into the offices of the Virginia Gazette, the local newspaper that doubled as a bookstore, one day in October 1765, Jefferson found the two-volume set so tantalizing. Printed in London by a British lawyer named George Sale, the books were one of the first English translations of the Quran. After paying sixteen shillings, Thomas Jefferson held in his hands the holy book of Islam. He kept them among his possessions for the following four decades.
When I first heard that one of our nation’s Founding Fathers owned one of America’s earliest copies of the Quran, I endeavored to do some research on it. I was curious as to why Jefferson, a man famously curious and cosmopolitan, but also skeptical of organized religion, had it in his possession.
We don’t know exactly how closely Thomas Jefferson read the Quran he owned. We do know that he is the only Founding Father to have a basic understanding of Arabic. We do know that he promoted and championed the creation of an Oriental languages department at his alma mater, the College of William & Mary. And we do know that he would be the first American president to go to war with Islamic radicals.
It is clear, however, that Jefferson was, to put it mildly, suspicious of Islam. He compared the faith with Catholicism, and believed that neither had undergone a reformation. Both religions, he felt, suppressed rational thought and persecuted skeptics. When combined with the power of the state, religion would corrupt and stifle individual rights. Islam, to Jefferson’s mind, provided a cautionary tale of what happened when a faith insisted on combining religious and political power into one.
As a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, Jefferson cited Islam as an example for why Virginia should not have an official religion. A state religion, he argued, would quash “free enquiry,” as he recorded in his notes at the time. He knew Islam held little tolerance for other faiths.
But Jefferson was neither a bigot nor an Islamophobe. The irony of Jefferson’s observations about Islam is that they were made in service of an argument that would ensure that Muslims—along with Jews, Christians, atheists, and adherents of every other faith—would have full citizenship as Virginians, and ultimately, as Americans.
The landmark legislation Jefferson championed, “A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom,” which served as a model for the United States Constitution a decade later, ensured that there was no official religion of state. Between 1776 and 1779, Jefferson drafted more than one hundred pieces of legislation, but he was most proud of number 82, which is referenced on his gravestone as “the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom.” The fiercely controversial bill disestablished Christianity as the official religion of his state.
Jefferson’s legislation was nothing short of revolutionary, a first in the history of the world: absolute freedom of religious conscience and permanent separation of church and state. And as evidenced by his copious notes, Jefferson’s knowledge of the Quran and Islam had shaped his views of the importance of protecting religious liberty.
Jefferson believed that everyone should have the right to worship, or not to worship, as they choose. It was, unfortunately, not a view shared by the Muslims he eventually encountered.
In March 1786, after America had won its independence, Jefferson was serving as minister to France, shuttling between European capitals to secure commercial agreements. One of the thorniest challenges he had to confront was the growing power of the Barbary States, four North African territories that sponsored marauding pirates who were increasingly confiscating thousands of dollars in American shipping and enslaving hundreds of U.S. citizens in prisons across the Mediterranean.
In London, Jefferson and his fellow diplomat John Adams met with the ambassador from the pasha of Tripoli, a man named Abdul Rahman, to resolve the growing dispute. The war that existed between his nation and America, the ambassador explained, “was founded on the Laws of their Prophet.” The capture of U.S. ships and people was a just and holy war, sanctioned by the Quran.
Jefferson and Adams took meticulous notes of the meeting. “It was written in their Koran,” the two Americans noted, “that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musselman [Muslim] who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”
Jefferson needed only reference his own two-volume translation of the Quran to understand that everything in the ambassador’s explanation of the Barbary States’ “holy war” against America was accurate and faithful to Islam’s holy book.
The Quran’s Sura (or chapter) 9, verse 29, explains the Islamic duty to make war upon non-Muslims:
Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allah, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e., Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.*
Sura 47, verse 4 sanctions the taking of captives as spoils of war:
So, when you meet (in fight Jihad in Allah’s Cause), those who disbelieve smite at their necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them, then bind a bond firmly (on them, i.e., take them as captives). Thereafter (is the time) either for generosity (i.e., free them without ransom), or ransom (according to what benefits Islam), until the war lays down its burden. Thus [you are ordered by Allah to continue in carrying out Jihad against the disbelievers till they embrace Islam (i.e., are saved from the punishment in the Hell-fire) or at least come under your protection], but if it had been Allah’s Will, He Himself could certainly have punished them (without you). But (He lets you fight), in order to test you, some with others. But those who are killed in the Way of Allah, He will never let their deeds be lost.
And Sura 2, verse 154, clearly outlines that Allah will reward holy warriors who fight on his behalf:
And say not of those who are killed in the Way of Allah, “They are dead.” Nay, they are living, but you perceive (it) not.
What the ambassador of Tripoli was explaining to the future second and third presidents of the United States was the concept of jihad—God’s lawful war against nonbelievers. To drive the point home, the ambassador left Jefferson and Adams with a final image of what American sailors would face on the high seas. The two American diplomats recounted what the Barbary ambassador had told them:
It was a law that the first who boarded an enemy’s vessel should have one slave, more than his share with the rest, which operated as an incentive to the most desperate valour and enterprise, that it was the practice of their corsairs to bear down upon a ship, for each sailor to take a dagger in each hand and another in his mouth, and leap on board, which so terrified their enemies that very few ever stood against them, that he verily believed the Devil assisted his countrymen, for they were almost always successful.
Again, the ambassador was hewing closely to Islam’s holy text. Prisoners could be killed, sold into slavery, or ransomed. Sura 33, verses 26 and 27:
And those of the people of the Scripture who backed them (the disbelievers) Allah brought them down from their forts and cast terror into their hearts, (so that) a group (of them) you killed, and a group (of them) you made captives. And He caused you to inherit their lands, and their houses, and their riches, and a land which you had not trodden (before). And Allah is Able to do all things.
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I started with this story because I want you to follow the path of Thomas Jefferson, a path that starts with reading the primary sources and original texts of Islam in an effort to better understand how millions of Muslims interpret their faith.
Every day around the world Islamist fanatics are plotting ways to kill us. They do so under the banner of a supremacist ideology that pits Islam against the rest of the world and commands the murder of those who do not willingly submit.
It is no understatement to say that Islam has the power to change our way of life. It already has. From mindless security protocols, like toiletries stuffed into clear bags and shoes being removed, at airport checkpoints, to entire parts of the globe now being impenetrable to Western travelers, to an emerging nuclear arms race that threatens global stability, to shaming and silencing those of us who defend freedom of speech, Islam is on a crash course with the free world.
The ultimate irony is that, fifteen years after 9/11, we’re actually farther away from understanding the threat than we were in the days following the most brutal attack in our history.
That’s why this book is necessary.
This work is not meant to be a polemic, but rather an exercise in free inquiry in the tradition of one of our nation’s most cherished Founding Fathers. As such, it’s going to tell the truth about Islamists and the fundamental things they believe. I’ll spare you the political correctness and the pleasant-sounding niceties. The time for worrying about being insensitive or hurting other people’s feelings is long past.
Put simply, it is about Islam.
People do not want you to know that truth. They don’t want to hear it. They certainly don’t want to discuss it. The mainstream media has essentially ordered a blackout of anything remotely to do with it.
When you say that the siege against America under way today is about Islam itself, the PC crowd gasps and says you’re attacking a religion, or disrespecting people’s right to worship how they choose.
That’s nonsense. Do Americans have a problem with people worshipping any supreme being they choose? Of course not. Our country was founded on religious freedom. Thomas Jefferson himself ensured that the Constitution protected religious freedom, including for Muslims, Scientologists, Jews, Mormons, Catholics, and everyone else. Our forefathers came here expressly because they wanted every citizen to worship, or not to worship, as they see fit.
Is every Muslim in the world predisposed to violence or thinking that America is the Great Satan? Of course not. Does every Muslim in the world share a belief in spreading a Caliphate or support the mandatory implementation of sharia law? Absolutely not. Here in the United States, many Muslims disagree with the radical beliefs of Islamists around the world.
There’s a crucial distinction to be made between Islam and Islamism. When discussing a topic this important, terminology is critical. Islam is the faith of 1.5 billion people around the world. Islamism is the supremacist political ideology that insists on imposing sharia, or Islamic holy law, on the world. Tens of millions of Muslims around the world are Islamists. They include terrorists in groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS—variously known as the “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” (or Levant, meaning the lands including Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel, hence ISIL), and Daesh (the Arabic acronym of ISIS, pronounced “desh”)—but they also include millions more who may not resort to suicide bombings and beheadings but who would like to see people like you and me convert to Islam or else be treated as second-class citizens. There is no such thing as a “moderate” Islamist.
These Islamists—people who believe in Islam as a political and governing force—are the heart of the problem. They have a clear agenda. They are not trying to hide it. And they are succeeding in executing on it.
There are, however, moderate Muslims—and while I know this comes off as being overly political correct, it’s not an exaggeration to say that they are our neighbors, our coworkers, our friends, and our family members. They are the reformers who seek to make Islam compatible with our individual liberties and freedoms and with a twenty-first-century society. They are also the victims. The Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and other Islamist terrorist groups kill their fellow believers for not being Muslim enough. Thousands of Iraqi and Syrian Muslim Kurds have died fighting the Islamic State and its totalitarianism.
But increasingly I fear these Muslims are the exception. But there are troubling signs, including here in America. A June 2015 poll of Muslims living in the United States by the Center for Security Policy showed that a shocking number (51 percent) seek to embrace sharia over the U.S. Constitution. In addition, nearly one in four of Muslims polled believed that “it is legitimate to use violence to punish those who give offense to Islam by, for example, portraying the prophet Mohammed.” One in five respondents agreed that “the use of violence is justified in order to make shariah the law of the land in this country” while only 39 percent believed that Muslims in the U.S. should be subjected to American courts.
If, as the Pew Research Center estimates, there are approximately 3 million Muslims in America, that translates to roughly half a million U.S. Muslims who believe acts of terror and murder are legitimate tools in order to replace the U.S. Constitution with sharia law.
One of the consequences of living in a free, open-minded, tolerant nation like ours is that we don’t always see what is really going on elsewhere in the world. In the Middle East, for example, there are many countries where the vast majority of Muslims share the fundamentalist view that Islam is the only true religion and that it must be spread through any means necessary. They are growing in power, influence, and size.
Islam—as it is interpreted and practiced by these people—is, quite simply, incompatible with freedom the way we understand it. It is incompatible with open elections, rights for minorities, trial by jury, and all the other institutions familiar to the Western way of life. It is incompatible with basic morals and decency. It is incompatible with man-made laws and the rights of mankind to adapt and progress and modernize.
This book is going to prove that. Not through theory or opinion, but through facts and quotes of primary source material. You can understand the Islamists only if you first understand what they truly believe.
Those who claim Islam is not the problem, or deny that it’s incompatible with freedom, are racist, homophobic, and sexist. Why? Because the Islam that millions of Muslims believe in, practice, and promote envisions a world in which we are required to accept a lower standard of life for women, for homosexuals, for Christians, or for anyone else who is different from their standard.
In America we like to believe that all religions are equal. But that’s not the truth. A religion that believes in stoning and killing people who don’t share their views and values is not equal to the rest. A religion that supports the beheading of human beings in the twenty-first century simply is not equal to Christianity or Judaism or Buddhism or any of the world’s great faiths.
The PC police in America will be aghast at this thought—and this book. How, they’ll ask, could you say that the radicals and fanatics of Iran or ISIS have anything to do with Islam? ISIS is a terrorist group that has nothing to do with the Islamic faith.
That is a lie, and it’s time to label it as such.
Islam is at the root of everything that terrorists from ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas say and do. Islam is the reason they have recruits. To argue that it has nothing to do with terrorism or violence is the equivalent of going back to the sixteenth century and telling Martin Luther that the corrupt actions of the Catholic Church had nothing to do with Christianity.
If you take Islam out of ISIS, you have nothing left. They are called Islamists for a reason: their references to Islam—to what they call a holy war against our Roman Empire—are what help them gain recruits and money and support.
As a nation we bend over backward to accommodate—yes, to appease—some of the most vile practitioners of Islam. As I write this, the Obama administration is making a deal with the radical ayatollahs of Iran—a country that roots for the death of the Jews and the end of America; a country that refuses basic rights to women and denies not only the rights, but the very existence, of homosexuals. In Tehran, Bruce Jenner would not have a widely televised special where he talks about his transformation into a woman; he would be in pieces, torn limb from limb, hung from a crane, or stoned to death in public.
Let me repeat that: stoned to death. You will find that word repeated again and again throughout this book. Millions of practitioners of Islam believe that God wants us to literally stone people to death when we find their lifestyle offensive.
We haven’t had stoning in America, well, ever. But in the Islamic Republic of Iran, stoning is one of the punishments currently available for a variety of offenses. Here’s how a report by Amnesty International put it:
Iran’s Penal Code prescribes execution by stoning. It even dictates that the stones are large enough to cause pain, but not so large as to kill the victim immediately. Article 102 of the Penal Code states that men should be buried up to their waists and women up to their breasts for the purpose of execution by stoning. Article 104 states, with reference to the penalty for adultery, that the stones used should “not be large enough to kill the person by one or two strikes; nor should they be so small that they could not be defined as stones.”
What the Amnesty International report neglects to mention is the full name of the statutes that allow stoning: the Islamic Penal Code of Iran (emphasis added). Here’s what Chapter 21 of that code authorizes in cases of attempted theft: “up to five years’ imprisonment and up to 74 lashes.”
Lashes? Also known as flogging, as in taking a strap to human flesh seventy-four times. Hitting a human being repeatedly and violently so that pieces of their flesh tear off the body. That’s sanctioned under Islamic law.
How about forced amputations? This, too, comes from Amnesty International’s report on the Islamic Republic of Iran:
Sentences of flogging and amputations continued to be imposed for a wide range of offences, including alcohol consumption, eating in public during Ramadan, and theft. These sentences were increasingly implemented in public.
Under Islamic law, at least as interpreted by Iran, you can lose a hand for things that teenagers in America do on a typical Friday night. Even crucifixion is not off-limits in Iran as well as in ISIS-controlled areas of Syria.
In this book, we’re going to use the Islamists’ own words to show what they really believe. To show what they stand for. To show what their laws actually say. To show what they hope to impose on the rest of the world.
Again, we’re going to do this in their own words.
We’re going to quote straight from the Quran, Islam’s most holy book, so you can see what it really says. We’re going to quote straight from the Hadith, the collected deeds and sayings of Allah’s prophet Muhammad, which form one of the primary bases of Islamic law. And we’re also going to expose the foolish, na�ve, and, as we’ll learn in some cases, intentionally deceptive views of Islam apologists in the United States who have worked hard to convince everyone that there is nothing to see here. That there isn’t something inherently wrong with the way millions of people are practicing the Islamic religion. That Islam has nothing to do with the fact that so many people want us dead.
The first chapter will take you into the heart of the Islamist agenda—an agenda that seeks to bring about, in the words of many Islamists, Armageddon and the End Times. This is why reasoning or negotiating with terrorists is pointless. They believe they have literally been tasked by Allah with bringing about the end of the world—and that the time for it is rapidly approaching.
Chapter 2 offers some history of the Islamic faith, going back to the time of Muhammad and the spread of Islamic empires.
Chapter 3 chronicles the rise of modern Islamist ideology and the use of terrorism as a response to Islam’s stagnation and the rise of Western powers.
Chapter 4 outlines how Islamist terrorists have used everything from 9/11, to the war in Iraq, to the rise of ISIS to bring about a final confrontation with the West, one they hope will result in World War III. We will chronicle, in their own words, their twenty-year plan to build a new empire, or Caliphate, and expand it to the rest of the world.
The book also contains a section about the many lies that are told about Islam and its followers, using other people’s words and sentiments as much as possible. The lies include the oft-heard claims that Islam is a religion of peace, that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism, that Islam respects the rights of women and Christians, and that sharia law is a myth made up by Islamophobes.
Finally, we’ll talk about the future. What can we do about any of this that will make a real difference? How do we protect ourselves against people who believe they are taking their cues to destroy us directly from Allah?
In doing all this and asking the hard questions we will be following in the path of Thomas Jefferson himself, who read and thought deeply about Islam. He stood as representative of a nation that had hundreds of captives languishing in prisons across North Africa. He was face-to-face with jihad and saw the threat it posed.
Which brings us back to Jefferson’s Quran.
Today it resides in the Library of Congress in the great round room that replicates his original collection. Other than the fact the two volumes arrived at the Library of Congress in 1815 from Monticello, how do we know the book is in fact Jefferson’s?
On page 113 in volume 1 of George Sale’s translation are Thomas Jefferson’s own initials beside one of the Quran’s most warlike passages: “God hath preferred those who fight for the faith [mujahideen] before those who sit still.”
What possessed Jefferson to mark this page, and this page only, in his Quran? We will never know. Perhaps he was struck by Allah’s blessings bestowed on the mujahideen—the holy warriors who strive and fight in His name. Perhaps he turned to this passage before his meeting with Abdul Rahman in 1786. Or perhaps he turned to this passage in 1801, when, as commander in chief, he finally gave the order to take America to war against the Barbary pirates, the mujahideen of the Mediterranean. Regardless, it seems clear that Jefferson undertook a serious effort to understand the motivations of his enemies.
The mujahideen of 2015 are no less devoted than those of 1800. They seek Allah’s reward with even greater fervor. So, to truly understand the threat they pose, we must follow Jefferson’s example and go straight to the source of their beliefs.
*�There are many English translations of the Quran. Because Muslims believe the Quran was delivered to Muhammad in Arabic, most Muslims believe that any translation cannot be more than an approximate interpretation. As a result, every translated version of the Quran contains parentheses and brackets to give context and clarify missing pronouns. For the purposes of this book, we are using the translation by Muhammad Taqi al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan, titled The Noble Qur’an in the English Language. Endorsed by the Saudi government, Dr. al-Hilali and Dr. Khan’s translation is the most published Quran in Islamic bookstores throughout the English-speaking world. I have used the exact translation; all parentheses and brackets appearing in Quranic verses (as well as Hadith) can be found in the original text, which is available online at: http://www.noblequran.com/translation/.
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This Isn't a Muslim Hit Piece
By D. Buxman
Some people won't purchase this book on account of the fact that Glenn Beck is such a polarizing figure, but they will be missing out on a well organized exploration of the tenets of Islam that have given rise to the global threat we face today. This book begins with an overview of Islam in the historical context and then proceeds to dismantle 13 key lies that are being disseminated by the propagandists in government and the media, by utilizing extensive quotes from the Quran and the Hadiths as a means to understand what it is that drives the Islamic Fundamentalist. This book does not fall victim to the idiocy of the politically correct, but Mr. Beck does take the time to note the difference between the peaceful practice of Islam and the Islamism that is practiced by terrorist organizations. While the adherents to Islamism are a minority, they are a far more sizable minority than the media and government like to tell us, and it is critical that we are aware of this fact and the danger that it poses to society.
The beauty of this book is that it addresses the issues head on. Do you think that Islam is a religion of Peace? Examine the teachings. Do you think that Islam is tolerant to non-Muslims? Examine the teachings. The arguments contained in this book are well organized and competently sourced. They are a product of extensive study of authentic Islamic teachings, as well as current statements of Islamist leaders and opinion polls taken from Muslims around the world. This is a wake up call and Americans need to pay attention before it's too late.
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Adequate First Introduction, But Disappointing For Experienced Readers
By Lebouquineur
[tweaked on October 2, 2015]
*It Is About Islam* consists of three parts || Part One: Islam 101 || Part Two: Thirteen Deadly Lies || Part Three: What Can Be Done
|| Part One: Islam 101 ||
As the subtitle implies, Part One (Four chapters) provides essential knowledge that everybody should be familiar with.
1: Islam and End Times
Beck starts off by explaining the Muslim version of Armageddon, a confrontation with infidels (ALL non-Muslims) that will be "akin to World War III, with devastation beyond comprehension." At this time, Christians, Jews and others will be tortured and "led to Hell in crowds" and Jesus Christ will return "to impose Islamic law on the world." The barbaric ISIS murders broadcast on social media thus serve as recruiting videos for thousands of young men eager to bring about the apocalypse. Beck closes Chapter 1 by saying that these ideas are "the deep-seated ambitions and fervent desires of our enemies. We underestimate them at our peril."
2: From Revelation to Empire
After the shocking predictions of Chapter 1, Beck steps back and gives us the history of Muhammad's teachings, including the idea that Christians and Jews have "perverted their religions." Christians worship Jesus Christ (= idolatry in Muslim eyes) and "Jews ignored Jesus as a prophet". Here, Beck misses a detail: The Qur'an 9:30 also says that Jews make a similar error: Jews supposedly consider Ezra to be the son of God (!) [Ezra (Uzair or Uzayr in Arabic) is the scribe who reintroduced the Torah to the Jewish exiles returning from Babylonian captivity].
After Muhammad's death, his non-Quranic teachings (reliable oral traditions, called Hadiths) were organized into collections used as the basis for sharia, all-encompassing guides for how to live as a good Muslim and how to deal with non-Muslims (basically, collations of Muhammad's sayings and deeds). Beck finishes the chapter by explaining how Muhammad's followers rapidly conquered the Arabian peninsula and created a caliphate, a growing empire that stretched from India to Spain [Beck glosses over the savagery that was involved: he mentions the 1066 pogrom that killed thousands of Jews in Spain, but ignores the millions of Hindus and Buddhists massacred by the Mughal emperors who conquered India]. By 1300, however, the Ottoman Empire [centered in Turkey] was shrinking, and Muslims were confronted with a philosophical challenge: why was the *dar al-harb* (the non-Muslim world) growing?
3: Wahhabism and Salafism
Many Muslims maintain that the reason why *dar al-Islam* had shrunk was because Muslims had strayed from the teachings of Muhammad. The solution was therefore to return to the purest form of Islam, represented by wahhabism in the desert (Saudi Arabia) and salafism (the Muslim Brotherhood) in cities. Because the Brotherhood includes many well-educated Arabs, their flexible long-term approach has been enormously successful (before writing this book, Glenn Beck produced a series of programs detailing MB infiltration of the US government, well worth checking out). Beck devotes the last few pages of this chapter to the rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has seized the moral high ground against the wahhabists and the salafists by waging war against the US and Israel.
4: Reestablishing the Caliphate
According to a book published in 2005, September 11th, 2001 was one of the first steps in al-Qaeda's twenty-year plan to bring about the apocalypse:
I: The Muslim Awakening (2000-2003), provoking the West
II: Opening Eyes (2003-2006), recruitment to the cause
III: Arising and Standing Up (2007-2010), expanding the fight to Syria and other places
IV: Collapse (2010-2013), the collapse of western-style regimes in the Arab world
V: Caliphate (2013-2016), the reestablishment and gradual growth of the Caliphate
VI: Total Confrontation (2016-2019), the West's final, dying breath
VII: Definitive Victory (2020), the Caliphate will become the "world's lone superpower"
Beck reminds us that although the final result might seem absurd, "the first five phases have been right on schedule." This is especially worrisome when we observe this summer's [2015] vast, unchecked invasion of "refugees," many of whom are carrying fake Syrian passports. Seriously, how many of these young men are planning to emulate the REAL refugees of the past by becoming productive, well-educated, law-abiding European citizens?
|| Part Two: Thirteen Deadly Lies ||
The heart of this book seems to be Part Two, an extended refutation of the lie that the chaos we see "has nothing to do with Islam." The 13 lies are:
#1-Islam is a religion of peace ...
#2-Islam is not much different than Christianity or Judaism
#3-Jihad is a peaceful, internal struggle ...
#4-Muslims don't actually seek to live under sharia ...
#5-America is safe from sharia law
#6-The caliphate is a fanciful dream
#7-Islam is tolerant toward non-Muslims
#8-Addressing frustration, poverty, and joblessness ...
#9-Critics of Islam are bigots
#10-Islam respects the rights of women
#11-Iran can be trusted with a nuclear weapon
#12-The Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate, mainstream Islamic group
#13-Islam respects freedom of speech
Mr Beck clearly explains what is wrong with each statement, with plenty of examples. I have two complaints, however:
(1) This book doesn't connect the dots and explain why opinion makers are so determined to peddle falsehoods. I suppose this was a conscious choice to avoid overwhelming readers with horrifying truths.
(2) Most of the examples of lies are taken either from the US or the Muslim world. It would have been more convincing to also provide European examples. Lie #8, for example (Addressing frustration, poverty, and joblessness), is utter nonsense when one looks at the example of Scandinavian governments such as Sweden's, which has zero colonial history, provides active support for the Palestinian cause and bends over backwards to provide goodies for Muslims at the expense of their own citizens, and yet allows its citizens to suffer at the hands of malevolent outsiders.
|| Part Three: What Can Be Done ||
Part Three is the weakest part of this book. Glenn Beck mentions three things Americans should do, and one to forget about, most of which are rather obvious to outside observers, but bear repeating.
(1) Understand the enemy (blaming oneself by negotiating with an implacable enemy doesn't make any sense).
(2) Don't be afraid to speak (don't be cowed into submission)
(3) Understand American traditions (an important point given the sad state of American education)
(4) Only Muslims can reform Islam (this should be obvious)
A more general criticism about this book is the lack of an index. Of course, I can look for individual terms using Kindle Search, but the effect is not at all the same as using a professionally-compiled index.
I appreciate the fact that there are extensive end notes (hyperlinked references) for each chapter, but there is no easy way to jump from the text itself to the notes at the end.
To end on a positive note, I did learn a few new things, such as the art that was destroyed in the rubble of the World Trade Center (Picasso, Lichtenstein and Rodin), Along with "a collection of 40,000 negatives of photos by Jacques Lowe that recorded John F. Kennedy's presidency." Mr Beck reminds us that if we allow Muslims to get the upper hand, we will lose much more than religious freedom. Point well taken.
Although I don't agree with everything he says, I respect Glenn Beck for encouraging readers to check things out for themselves. Don't just reach for the first Qur'an you can find, however.
The original text of the Qur'an is extremely difficult to read because it is
(1) written in dense prose,
(2) repetitive,
(3) non-chronological
Imagine trying to read a detective story where the author used a pair of scissors to cut up his manuscript and rearrange it so that the longest chapter was first [the first chapter is an exception] and the last chapter was the shortest. Now try to imagine that the author also left out essential background about the major characters. That is why standard translations of the Qur'an are confusing for Western readers.
The Islamic Trilogy will help readers solve this Islamic mystery:
Mohammed and the Unbelievers (The Islamic Trilogy Book 1) Mohammed and the Unbelievers (The Islamic Trilogy Book 1)
The Political Traditions of Mohammed (The Islamic Trilogy Book 2) The Political Traditions of Mohammed (The Islamic Trilogy Book 2) More than half of the Qur'an is about how to deal with the kuffar [unbelievers]. Thus, the Qur'an is about policy (politics), unlike the New Testament, which is a primarily religious book.
A Simple Koran: Readable and Understandable (The Islamic Trilogy Series, Vol. 3) A Simple Koran: Readable and Understandable (The Islamic Trilogy Series, Vol. 3)
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A Book Review: Based on the Book Only
By College Stealth
Strengths:
-Condensed version of elements in the history of Islam
-Layering of arguments is pretty strong; they are supported a fair bit
-Has a footnote section in back (shows research and sources)
-Attempts to answer some of the main detractions from dubbing Islam as comparable to the Christianity
-Recognizes different sects and different variations of Islam
-Brief read
Weaknesses:
-A few arguments could be stronger
-Sources could also be stronger (less popular newspapers/sources back to The Blaze)
-The book will be going along fine, well written, very strong, then a minor political attack will occur, and it will be a bit of a reach.
This book isn’t bad, I’ve been going through and challenging myself to read different genres and new releases this summer, coming out when it did, I went through and read this book earlier tonight. I read the prologue, provide in Amazon, prior to reading the book itself, and enjoyed what I read. I enjoyed it because the arguments seemed logical, and there were a few choices of language that I really liked, especially the context about not knowing how much Jefferson actually read his version of the Qu’ran. That admission is small, but impactful.
I’m the same person who bought a tire cover with “Don’t Treat On Me,” not realizing it was a Tea Party Slogan, so I’m relatively slow on the uptake with politics and various people associated with party ideology. I say that, because I just approached this book as a book, and read it with a fair level of scrutiny that I would read any book. I do a lot of research and read a lot of journals, I also tend to approach things very critically, looking for both sides of a view point. I’d have to say that as a work pertain Islam and the U.S., it is a very well written book that gives strong consideration regarding some of the fundamentals of Islamic belief.
The writing is not simple, but not overly complex, so that ideas surrounding the concepts of Islamic ideology can be understand, and in some situations within the context of the writings of the Qu’ran, which is used heavily to give support to some of the positions that extremists have. I can also go to the footnote index and see where some of the headlines and additional information is being pulled from, so I know the context as well in which the information was drawn from by Beck. That’s a huge plus, and something that is not always present, especially in articles. The historical over-view of the faith of Islam is the strongest part of the book.
An area with some weaknesses is within the interpretation of some of the faith elements of Islam. Beck draws comparisons in how Christianity is NOT Islam, which, in all honesty, is an argument that is often left alone quite a bit. At first I was disappointed because there was a large shortcoming in this area, until Beck discusses reform within the religion itself. In my mind, that is a pretty good distinction, with a few other arguments about how Christianity and Judaism are not stoning people to death for being a woman or homosexuality. I can get on board with the not stoning people to death thing. However, this differentiation could be made strong, and although Islam calls for a state based on religion, Beck mentions Judaism a lot, and overlooks the element that Leviticus and Numbers are all about rules for governance. I can infer the element of reform with Judaism, but it is not explicitly stated.
The “Lies” section that is discussed by Beck becomes more of a reach in some of the premises and arguments, but, for the most part, they are pretty sound. Yes, there are violent Muslims, and, (like Christianity), one of the basic tenants of the faith is go out and make more followers. Beck also constantly looks at the language of calling ISIS the JV team; noted by Beck, ISIS controls an area larger than the size of Connecticut; which is pretty significant.
The one thing that I keep coming back to, and really wants me to make this a four star book is Beck’s rationale for why there is an apologist attitude towards Islam. Beck indicates that it has to do with a book, written by Said, that has been read at universities all over the U.S. Beck identifies that this is the origin of the ideas of calling those who are anti-Muslim or question the faith “racists.” I was a history major, I never read the book, and assuming that students in college actually read all their books is another issue. There is a huge window of opportunity to look at the PC talk that surrounds Islam, HUGE, but this is where there are couched political jabs that would make the read stronger if left without them. However, the PC talk around Islam is interesting, but the reasoning given by Beck is unsatisfactory; why not argue maintaining political constituents?
For a book that is relatively short, I commend the amount that Beck has undertaken and attempted to convey. I think that the writing itself is really good and accessible. I’d recommend reading it, there are some pretty well reasoned arguments. For a book, for a book's sake, I really liked it.
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