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Media type Print (paperback) Originally published 2006 | 3.9/5 Goodreads ISBN 978-0895260130 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Series The Politically Incorrect Guide Preceded by The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History Followed by The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science Similar Robert Spencer books, The Politically Incorrect Guide books, Muslim books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades) is a book by Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch. It is part of The Politically Incorrect Guide series by Regnery Publishing.
Contents
Content
Spencer claims Islam as militant and oppressive, and argues that the Crusades were a late response of European civilization to centuries of invasion and occupation which had begun at the turn of the 8th century in the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Sicily, France, and the majority of Eastern Europe. He attributes the perceived civilizational clash between Islam and the West in the 21st century to a continuation of a 14 century long jihad began at the inception of Islam and discusses the what he claims are difficulties of treating this topic in the current political climate.
Public reception in the United States
The book spent 15 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list page, although it stayed in the "Also Selling" section for most of the time, and made it to the list proper only once.