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No I did not read that book. Me, coming from a staunch Muslim family just wanted to know what a Western guy i.e Robert Spencer thinks about Islam. That is the reason I read it.

Being a Muslim myself until I was 21, I know about majority of the things that Robert Spencer talks in his Onward Muslim Soldiers book. However, it was encouraging to see that people in the West are slowly but clearly coming to understand Islam is unlike other religions- a violent and murderous idealogy of Jihad.

While other major world religions like Christianity, Hinduism and Budhism do not motivate their followers to kill, Islam is the one and only religion that advocates killing infidels aka non-Muslims. There are around 150 verses in Quran that preach murder.

It is interesting and ridiculous to see CAIR spokesman and his fellow Islamists always mentioning how Islam's Allah is compassionate and how Islam is peaceful just like Christianity is.

As for me, I do believe in God but do not believe in any religion.

Growing up in a diverse multi-religionist, multi-cultural/traditional country like India gave me an excellent opportunity to study various religions;some indepth and some I studied to understand the main theme of a religion.

Based on my understanding, it is my opinion that entire Christianity may be summed up into one simple verse and entire Islam can be summed up into the last Sura according to Mohammed's al-Quraan. The verse in Chapter 13 of I Corinthians "And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."

To sum it up, while Christianity preaches "Forgiveness", Islam preaches "intolerance against non-Muslims whether in the form of Muslims treating non-Muslims as second class citizens in their own countries or in the form of Muslims believing in the violent Jihad against non-Muslims.