[Lurker]

Just flip through the first hundred pages of that satanic book knows as the koran and you'll know everything you need to know about the syphilitic pedophile who thought he was Gods final prophet.

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[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

My preference is always to have MORE ammo on hand, rather than LESS. :)

[Cornpone]

Titles highlighted in red should be read with great skepticism. Titles highlighted in green are objective analyses of the topics they explore. Titles highlighted in blue focus on Islamic extremism. Titles in black held no special resonance with the reader. Let awareness and knowledge light your path.

BOOKS:

Ahmed, Akbar S., Islam Today: A Short Introduction to the Muslim World. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002.

Ali, Maulana Muhammad, A Manual of Hadith. Columbus, OH: Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam Lahore Inc., 1941/2001.

Armstrong, Karen, Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World, New York: Anchor Books, 2001.

Armstrong, Karen, Islam: A Short History. New York: Modern Library, 2002.

Armstrong, Karen, Muhammad: A Biography of The Prophet. San Francisco: Harper, 1993.

Churchill, Winston S., “The Culture and Glories of the Arab Race.” In Never Give In: The Best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches. New York: Hyperion, 2003.

DeLong-Bas, Natana J., Wahhabi Islam, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1999.

New! Dozier, Jr., Rush W., Why We Hate. New York: Contemporary Books, 2002.

Duggan, Alfred, The Story of the Crusades: 1097 - 1291; . London: Faber and Faber, 1963.

Esposito, John L. and Voll, John O., Islam and Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Esposito, John L., Islam: The Straight Path, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Gerges, Fawaz A., America and Political Islam: Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests?. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Gibbon, Edward, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. No. 5 in a collection of 7 volumes. London: Methuen & Co., 1911.

Harris, Lee, Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History, New York: Free Press, 2004.

New! Harris, Sam, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and The Future of Reason. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.

New! Horowitz, David, Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2004.

Horuani, Albert, A History of the Arab Peoples, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard, 2002.

Huntington, Samuel P., The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Johnson, Paul, A History of Christianity, New York: Touchstone Books, 1976.

Kepel, Gilles, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Lewis, Bernard, From Babel to Dragomans. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Lewis, Bernard, Islam and the West. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Lewis, Bernard, Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East, Chicago: Open Court, 1993.

Lewis, Bernard, What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Lewis, Bernard, The Political Language of Islam. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

MacCulloch, Diarmaid, The Reformation: A History, New York: Viking Books, 2003.

Manji, Irshad, The Trouble With Islam Today, New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2003.

Menezes, Rev. J.L., The Life and Religion of Mohammed, Fort Collins, CO: Roman Catholic Books, 1912.

Mernissi, Fatima, Beyond the Veil, Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Murphy, John F., Jr., Sword of Islam, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002.

Paxton, Robert O., The Anatomy of Fascism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

Pipes, Daniel, Militant Islam Reaches America. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.

Pryce-Jones, David, The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1989, 2002.

Qutb, Sayed, Milestones, Egypt, 1964. (Can be found at various sites on the net, for example, Milestones.)

Riley-Smith, Jonathon,The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

New! Rorty, Richard, Philosophy and Social Hope. London: Penguin Books, 1999.

New! Russell, Bertrand, On God and Religion. New York: Prometheus Books, 1986.

Selbourne, David, The Losing Battle With Islam, New York: Prometheus Books, 2005.

Spencer, Robert, Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World’s Fastest-Growing Faith. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2002.

Spencer, Robert, Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2003.

Spencer, Robert, The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims, Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2005.

The Quran (Text, Translation and Commentary), Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali. Elmhurst, NY: Tahrike Tarsile Qur’an, Inc., U.S Edition, 2001 (originally translated, 1934).

The Quran (The Glorious Quran), Translated by Muhammad M. Pickthall. 10th ed., Des Plaines, IL: Library of Islam, 1994 (originally translated, 1930).

The Quran (With Parallel Arabic Text), Translated by N.J. Dawood. London: Penguin Classics, 2000 Edition, (originally translated, 1956).

The Quran, Translated by M.A.S. Abdel Haleem. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Trifkovic, Serge, The Sword of the Prophet, Boston: Regina Orthodox Press, 2002.

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