Cheap Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (Library Edition) (Book) (Robert Spencer, Jeff Riggenbach) Price

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Simply propaganda. Neither politically incorrect nor a guide to Islam.
If you already believe or want to believe that Islam is evil/violent/etc., this will give you lots of ammunition, in a package that will sound scholarly to the nonscholarly. <
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>If you want to see how the far right's propaganda works, this is a great example. Most of the language is that tired old "Liberal media and leftist academics don't want you to know this, but the Truth is..." stuff. Rather than a guide to Islam, we get a steady stream of "PC Myths", "Jesus versus Mohammed", "Book You're Not Supposed to Read", and "Some Islam Apologists will tell you that...". In other words, the audience for this work is not someone who wants to learn about Islam, but rather the conspiracy theorists who've arranged their belief system around that "liberal media" strategy of the right wing propagandists. <
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>The sections begin with phrases like "Islam: Religion of War" and "Islam: Religion of Intolerance", with cherry-picked quotes to support the claims. They hired someone with an intelligent-sounding voice to read it, but the content is ranting, and as another reviewer pointed out, repetitive. The author crammed a half a CD's worth of material onto seven CDs. <
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>I'm very open to the possibility that Islam is, at its core, violent. I suspect that it is (though I wouldn't claim to know), and was hoping to learn something about that question. But this work is so obviously just shallow propaganda, transparently aimed at persuading gullible readers against Islam, and so undermines its own persuasive goal if you're a fair-minded reader. You're more likely to come away thinking less of Christianity in light of the shamelessness of the author. <
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>If you want to learn something about Islam, don't bother with this. Despite the title, the work is raw political correctness, and not a good source of information. However, again, if you're interested in the nature of right wing propaganda this is a solid example.