Islam

Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide  by Paul Marshall and Nina Shea, Oxford University Press, 2011.  Islamists see freedom of religion as meaning protecting religion by making it free from criticism. Islamists do not believe in individual rights; they believe that only Islam and Allah have rights. The book examines how in various Muslim countries, apostasy and blasphemy are punished. In the early history of Islam, when Islam was spreading

Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me  by Geert Wilders, Regnery Publishing, 2012.  Freedom of Speech Wilders discusses several Europeans whose freedom of speech has been attacked for telling the truth about Islam. Jean-Claude Barreau was fired from his position in the French government for writing a book critical of Islam in 1991. On May 6, 2002, Pim Fortuyn, who advocated discrimination in favor of Christianity and against Islam, and who favored banning Isla

A God Who Hates: The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Speaks Out Against the Evils of Islam  by Wafa Sultan, St. Martin's Griffin, 2009.  Alawites The Baath Party of Syria was formed by educated Christians, (Shia) Alawites and other non-Sunni minorities, to protect themselves from Sunni persecution. The Sunni Muslim Brotherhood has been strong in Hama and Aleppo, and has fought against the Alawite regime in Damascus.  Syrian-American psychiatrist Wafa Sultan was

The Tyranny of Silence  by Flemming Rose, Cato Institute, 2016.  A Danish journalist’s memoir of standing up to Islam. In 1990 the author became the Moscow correspondent for the Berligske Tidenda. The author was the Moscow correspondent for the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, starting in 1999 to 2004. Later, he became the Culture Editor of the Jyllands0-Posten (2004). Rose wanted to find out whether Danish cartoonists would censor themselves to avoid offending Muslim sensib

The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist  by Robert R. Reilly, ISI Books, 2010.  Reason versus Dogmatism This book is about how Islam turned away from reason and embraced religious dogmatism. The author explains at the outset that this book is a history of Sunni, and not Shia,  Islamic theology. He mentions Shia theology only briefly. Much of the history of Islamic theology is about reason versus revelation. Saint Thomas Aquinas Dur

The Flight of the Intellectuals: The Controversy Over Islamism and the Press  by Paul Berman, Melville House, 2010.  Cowardice This book is about how many Western public intellectuals have been afraid to oppose political Islam. It focuses on the Swiss-Muslim intellectual, Tariq Ramadan, and the Western intellectuals who have embraced him as a proponent of moderate Islam. European intellectuals have embraced moderate Islamist Tariq Ramadan, rather than Enlightenment champion A

The Arab Mind  by Raphael Patai, Hatherleigh Press Paperback, 2002.  The Arabs raise boys and girls in different ways. Boys are pampered and spoiled, girls are not. Girl babies are often ignored when they cry, but not boy babies. An Arab man’s status depends primarily on how well he protects the chastity of the women in his family. The sense of time in the Arab world is much more vague than in the West. The Arab believes that not he but God determines what will happen to him