Saturday, June 9, 2007

Book List: For Starters

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For Starters:

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam
(and the Crusades)
Author: Robert Spencer
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0895260131
Publish Date: 2005
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Review: (from August 22, 2005, The American Review, Online) Spencer explodes numerous apologetic canards about Islam—both its dogmas, and history—with a witty irreverence that is never mean-spirited, and always well-documented. Recurrent teaching tools the author employs effectively (and humorously) are the “Guess what?” bullets that open each chapter, four variants of text boxes (“Just Like Today”; seminal thinkers on Islam [for eg., John Quincy Adams; see below]; “Muhammad vs. Jesus”; and “A Book You’re Not Supposed to Read”), and the chapter subheading(s), “PC myth(s)”. Spencer’s utilizes these six motifs deftly to educate readers about disturbing, but quintessential truths regarding Islam. Read the entire review here.
Availability: Most large booksellers. Should be placed in every public library!

The Dawning of a New Dark Age
Author: Mark Alexander
Format: Paperback
ISBN:1-4107-9037-1
Publish Date: 2003
Publisher:
Review: The author demonstrates his deep familiarity with Islam and its goals in this collection of essays on a wide variety of subjects. He exposes both with great clarity, at a level that can be understood by readers from the teen years on up. It can function either as an excellent introductory resource for beginners, or as an equally excellent refresher and "fill-in-the-gaps" resource for those who are already familiar with the basics. He's not afraid to point a finger at the serious problem facing us from the politically correct, including and up to our policy-makers and leaders.

The use of "stand-alone" essays is especially useful for those who don't have the time to digest an entire book at a fell swoop. It should also prove very useful for the parents of somewhat older children who are trying to teach them at home what Islam is all about, since each essay can be used as a single lesson. For this reason, it should be brought to the attention of anyone involved with home-schooling, or perhaps even to some private schools which are seeking sources that don't whitewash Islam.
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The Gathering Storm e-Book
Author: Blogger WC of The Gathering Storm
Format: e-book available for download
Publish Date: 2007
Review: This e-book, essays with hyperlinks to show sources, delineates the subtle dangers which Western civilization now face as the Islamofascists undermine our freedom. The author makes the point that jihad isn't always violent. He convincingly asserts that jihad can take many forms, among them cultural, economic, demographic, litigational, institutional, and financial. The book contains a forward by Walid Shoebat. The author also has a weekly radio show on Blog Talk Radio and continues to update the information in the book for the show's listeners. In addition, WC offers a free weekly e-letter of recent efforts by the Islamofascists as the continue to try to impose shari'a law on the West.
Availability: HERE.

Prophet of Doom
Author: Craig Winn
Format: Hardcover. Also available online, here.
ISBN: 0971448124
Publish Date: 2004
Publisher: Cricketsong Books
Review: The subtitle of Winn's meticulously researched and documented book says it all: "Islam's Terrorist Dogma In Muhammad's Own Words." The very words of Muhammad himself make undeniable the claim that Muhammad was a terrorist ("I have been made victorious with terror!" "I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them." "Crucify them or cut off a hand and foot on opposite sides." etc.), and the claim that Islam is a terrorist organization established to fund the terrorism; Muhammad is shown leading seventy-five terrorist raids; he himself claimed his motive was money ("What is this religion? Muhammad claims Allah has sent him with this religion so that the treasures of Persia and Rome will be given to him by conquest.").
Availability: Some large booksellers

The Sword of the Prophet
Author: Sergei Trifkovic
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1-928653-11-1
Publish Date: 2002
Publisher: Regina Orthodox Press
Review: This book explains why September 11 happened and why September 11 changed America forever. Trifkovic concludes that "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," and his book provides historical analysis to prove his conclusion; Trifkovic also debunks many politically-correct myths about Islam. This book is well-footnoted and also provides a bibliography.
Availability: In many large public-library systems

Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West
Author: Robert Spencer
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ISBN: 0-89526-100-6
Publish Date: 2003
Publisher: Regnery Publishing Co.
Review:
Availability: In most public-library systems

Preachers of Hate:
Islam and the War on America
Author: Kenneth A. Timmerman
Format: Hardcover, Audio CD
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Availability: In some large public-library systems

Infiltration:
How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington
Author: Paul Sperry
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 1-5955-5003-8
Publish Date: 2005
Publisher: Nelson Current
Review:
Availability: In some large public-library systems

American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us
Author: Steven Emerson
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0743234359
Publish Date: 2003
Publisher: Free Press
Review:
Availability: In most library systems

The Third Terrorist
Author: Jayna Davis
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0-7852-6103-6
Publish Date: 2004
Publisher: WND Books
Review: Among those who gave a "thumbs up" to this book by award-winning investigative reporter Jayna Davis are a former Director of the CIA, a former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and a retired FBI Special Agent. The book reads like a proposal for a television mini-series. It begins with eye-witness accounts of the destruction of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, and then with pitbull-like tenacity, peels back the layers of coverup, obstructionism, fear, "lost" records, and "deer-in-the-headlight" responses from officialdom, to make a case that there were, indeed, Middle East masterminds behind "mules" Nichols and Mcveigh. These masterminds were revealed as phony "defectors" who settled in Oklahoma City, host to one of the largest Muslim communities in the U.S. Were her evidence to be presented in a court of law, it would easily win a conviction of what the government, before ultimately denying any Middle East participation, referred to as "others unknown."
Availability: Most bookstores and library systems


Dangerous Diplomacy:
How The State Department Threatens America's Security
Author: Joel Mowbray
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ISBN: 08955261103
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Publisher: Regnery Publishing Co.
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Militant Islam Reaches America
Author: Daniel Pipes
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0393325318
Publish Date: 2002. Republished in paperback, 2002.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Review:
Availibility: In most large public-library systems

Why I Am Not a Muslim
Author: Ibn Warraq
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1591020115
Publish Date: 1995. Republished in paperback, 2003
Publisher: Prometheus Books
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Availability: In most large public-library systems

Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism
Author: Dore Gold
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0895260611
Publish Date: 2004
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
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Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
Author: Ahmed Rashid
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0142002607
Publish Date: 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books
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