Editorial Reviews
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Ibn Warraq exemplifies the rarely combined
qualities of courage, integrity, and intelligence.
BERNARD LEWIS, Cleveland E. Dodge
Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.
Ibn Warraq, one of the great heroes of our
time
DOUGLAS MURRAY, The Spectator.
Ibn Warraq is a hero of mine, and it is
shameful that he and his writings have not been recognized for their
scholarship, courage, and relevance. Ever since Leon de Winter gave me Ibn
Warraq s book Why I am Not a Muslim I have cherished it. It
has had a profound influence on me, and gave me courage in my own work and
activities. His subsequent books have defended Western civilization and have
reminded us what we are fighting for. Ibn Warraq deserves our attention and
thanks."
AYAAN HIRSI ALI, Activist and Author
of Nomad: From America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash
of Civilizations (2010) and Heretic: Why Islam
Needs a Reformation Now (2015)
--New English Review
Ibn Warraq, the celebrated apostate, author of
Why I Am Not A Muslim and of scholarly works on the Koran, Muhammad, and early
Islam, as well as polemical works in defense of the West, has now written The
Islam in Islamic Terrorism, showing, in the words of the Islamic
fundamentalists (or, more exactly, revivalists) themselves, what really
motivates Islamic terrorists today, and what has motivated them since the time
of the Kharijites in the first century of Islam: the belief in the need to
recover the pristine Islam of the time of Muhammad, by removing all innovations
(bid a), the further belief that it is the duty of Muslims to wage Jihad
against all Unbelievers until Islam everywhere dominates, and to bring about
the resurrection of the caliphate, and the imposition of Islamic Law, or
Sharia, all over the globe.
Ibn Warraq s The Islam In Islamic Terrorism is
a brilliant series of reported echoes down the corridors of Islam, where the
same complaints about bid a, the same insistence on regulating every area of a
Believer s life, the same refusal to allow freedom of religion or thought, the
same duties of violent Jihad and Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong, the
same demands for a return to the same pristine Islam of Muhammad, the same
virulent antisemitism, the same quotes from the Koran and Hadith, the same
hatred of Infidels, the same insistence that we love death more than you love
life, the same call for bloodshed and Muslim martyrdom, the same dreary
fanaticism, are thoroughly described and dissected, and above all the various
violent manifestations of this revivalism over the centuries are linked to
one another, as Ibn Warraq brings to bear the massive research he has been
conducting over many years, in primary and secondary sources, and here deploys to
splendid effect.
--Hugh Fitzgerald
--Jihad
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About
the Author
Ibn Warraq is
the highly acclaimed scholar of Islam and author of Why I Am Not a
Muslim and Defending the West. He is also the editor of The
Origins of the Koran, What the Koran Really Says, The Quest for the Historical
Muhammad, Leaving Islam, and his latest with New English Review Press, Sir
Walter Scott's Crusades and Other Fantasies. He is also a Senior Editor for
the popular Anglo-American webmagazine, New English Review.
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Here are a few quotes from the book:
As the Ayatollah Khomeini once
put it, “Eleven things are unclean: urine, excrement, sperm, blood, a dog, a
pig, bones, a non-Muslim man and woman, wine, beer, perspiration of the camel
that eats filth.”
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"If you refuse the jizyah, I
will bring against you the tribes of people who are more eager for death than you are
for life. We will then fight you until God decides between us and you
“(emphasis added). A little later, Khalid repeats the threat with a slight
variation: "then we will bring against you a people who love death more
than you love drinking wine."
Again
during the caliphate of 'Umar, al-Mughirag b.Shu'bah says to his Persian
adversary Rustam, 'If you kill us, we enter Paradise, if we kill you, you
shall enter the Fire," while the Muslim commander Zuhrah b.Hawiyyah al-Tamimi say to
Rustam , "we do not come to you looking for things of this world, our
desire and aspiration is the hereafter."
