I’m sympathetic to Robert Spencer, and I haven’t read the book, but this reminds me of something Karl Keating once said. “If Homer didn’t write the Iliad, it was written by someone else going by that name.”
Spencer was on Medved’s show today talking about this book. I’ve read some other things Spencer has written, notably The Arab Mind. A fascinating look into how the Arabic language and its idiosyncrasies have molded Arab and Muslim thought processes.