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Millions in this country believe that the Muslims of the world are on the warpath against the West in an attempt to destroy the Judaeo-Christian way of life. The tabloids, certain cable TV networks and a number of Christian evangelist groups have played a major role in spreading this myth There is no shortage of people in America who believe that the United Nations is a vast, and sinister organisation set up with the express purpose of taking over their country. If someone were to tell them that the United States played the leading role in the establishment of the...

Onward Muslim Soldiers An Essay-Review by Hugh Fitzgerald Habent sua fata libelli, wrote the Roman. Books have their dates, and books have their fates. Onward Muslim Soldiers (Regnery Gateway), by Robert Spencer, was published in the spring of 2003, but by the very nature of its subject matter it does not date. And as to its fate? In a rightly ordered world, its fate would be clear: the book would be translated into all major languages; it would be on the shelves and, more importantly, in the minds, of all those whose duty it is to instruct us. For Onward...

within the next 30 or 40 years we'll see Islamic states in western Europe -------------------------- Two years after 9/11, just how great of a threat is radical Islam to America? For answers to that question, Pat Robertson spoke with author Robert Spencer who has written extensively on radical Islam. His latest book is Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West. PAT ROBERTSON: We are now at the second anniversary of the tragedy that took place on September 11th. Devastation, the World Trade Center taken out by Islamic jihadists. The Pentagon, the symbol of our military strength,...

Last week's column contained excerpts from my interview with Robert Spencer, author of "Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West." He makes the case that violent Islam stems from a straight reading of Islamic religious texts, and that moderate Muslims need to face up to and repudiate this so that true reform can take place. This is Part II of the interview:Larry Elder: You cite Koran passages that state Jews, Christians and nonbelievers have three choices: conversion, second-class citizenship or death. When people say these kinds of things are "taken out of context," you say...

Quranic hatred Posted: November 27, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 Laurence A. Elder Last week's column contained excerpts from my interview with Robert Spencer, author of "Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West." He makes the case that violent Islam stems from a straight reading of Islamic religious texts, and that moderate Muslims need to face up to and repudiate this so that true reform can take place. This is Part II of the interview: Larry Elder: You cite Quran passages that state Jews, Christians and nonbelievers have three choices: conversion, second-class citizenship or death. When people say...

A "religion of peace," says President Bush about Islam. But investigative journalist Robert Spencer, in his new book "Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West," argues that what we call "Islamic extremism" stems from a straightforward reading of the Quran and interpretative Islamic texts. On Nov. 10, 2003, I interviewed Spencer. Larry Elder: Is Islam a religion of peace that's been hijacked by Islamic extremists, as George W. Bush says? Robert Spencer: There are millions of peaceful Muslims ... but the fact is that radical Muslims are using core texts of Islam that are deeply rooted...

An Interview With Robert Spencer by John Hawkins John Hawkins: Why haven't moderate Muslims been able to stop the spread of violent Islam? Robert Spencer: While there are moderate Muslims, moderate Islam is something else again. There are Muslims who are very peaceful people, who would never wage jihad, and who don't approve of those waging jihad in the name of Islam today. But the fact is that the radicals actually do have a stronger theoretical, theological, and legal basis within Islam for what they believe than the moderates do. They're able to intimidate moderates into silence because if the...

<p>The Muslim organizations that certify chaplains for the U.S. military have come under renewed scrutiny since the arrest of Army Chaplain Yousef Yee and two Muslim translators who worked with al Qaeda prisoners in Guantanamo Bay — and that's all to the good. The Graduate School of Islamic Social Sciences (GSISS) and the American Muslim Foundation (AMF) were already being investigated, and it may well be that somehow Mr. Yee picked up his radical Islam from some contact with these groups. But so far another possibility has been overlooked, perhaps because its political incorrectness quotient is positively off the scale: The possibility that Yee was sincere when he denounced the September 11 attacks, and that his mind was changed by the Guantanamo prisoners themselves.</p>

Truth, Justice & the American Waywith Michael King This month, Michael's guest is author Robert Spencer, who discusses his new book "Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and The West."In this shocking new book, author Robert Spencer details how jihad warriors have already established numerous footholds right here in America, and are an established, growing, and ominous threat in Europe. Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West reveals the open violent contempt of radical Muslims in the United States and around the world for Western freedom and tolerance, and details why a clash...

The arrest of two Muslim-American servicemen based at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, (a developing story originally broken by this newspaper), raises some complex questions about the conflicting loyalties of Muslim-American soldiers in the war against radical Islamic terror. Dueling it out are two policy imperatives dear to our tradition of government: equal treatment of all regardless of race and religion, and the need to guarantee national security. The threshold must be high for a policy to curtail one of these fundamental values in favor of defending the other — but it is a threshold that can be met in extreme cases....

"When I go into the field,” Captain Yousef Yee once said, “I have a copy of the Qur’an and next to it a copy of the U.S. Constitution.” Well, at least two of the documents he was carrying weren’t classified. But when FBI agents arrested this American Muslim Army chaplain recently, much of what he was carrying was. Al-Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo may have seen this material. Yee has been charged with espionage, sedition, aiding the enemy, spying, and failure to obey a general order. Officials are contemplating a treason charge. No one would have guessed it would come to...

New Book Onward Muslim Soldiers Exposes Muhammad’s True BelieversIslam is a religion of peace. Strangely enough, that is a political article of faith that no one has been allowed to question publicly since Islamic terrorists killed thousands in attacks on New York and Washington two years ago. Despite having this idea constantly pounded into their heads by network anchormen, U.S. government officials and even Pope John Paul II, millions of Americans are not so sure that Islam is peaceful at all. Certainly if one surveys the Islamic world, from the Middle East to South and Southeast Asia, it is obvious...