Posted on 03/19/2008 11:24:04 AM PDT by JeepInMazar
DUBAI (AlArabiya.net)
A right-wing American weekly newspaper will distribute free copies of a book that insults Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and associates Islam with terrorism, Washington-based news agency America in Arabic reported.
The neo-conservative, Republican-oriented Human Events newspaper will distribute Robert Spencer's The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion (2006), America in Arabic said.
The book -- regularly priced at 30 dollars -- is released by Regnery, which has published a string of controversial neo-con books and is a division of Eagle Publishing, which owns Human Events.
Well-known British writer Karen Armstrong, author of Muhammad: A Prophet of Our Time, has said that the book is "written in hatred," contains "basic and bad mistakes of fact" and that the author "deliberately manipulates the evidence".
The newspaper says Spencer unravels facts not known to historians.
The book claims that Muhammad said terrorism made him victorious and that he used to tempt people with paradise so they would crush his enemies.
The author also accuses Muhammad of treason, breaching the Treaty of Hudaybiya with the Meccan tribe of Quraish, and instigating Muslims to kill Jews.
Spencer, the director of the Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch websites, also claims that the prophet encouraged Muslim men to take women captive to control them.
Ultra conservative attorney Ann Coulter, who writes a column in the newspaper, is taking part in the campaign to promote the book.
Coulter is famous for her controversial statement about Arabs and Muslims, especially after 9/11 when she said Americans should invade Arab countries.
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war," she wrote in the conservative website National Review Online.
Coulter also angered Jews in the United States when she said they should convert to Christianity to reach perfection.
(Translated from Arabic by Sonia Farid).
I wonder why they continue to carry Pat Buchanan, though.
I haven’t read the book. I do know that Robert Spencer does have a lot of good information on his website.
Haven’t heard that one before. And love it : )
Because a significant segment of their readership consists of Buchanan(ites).
Much of their outlook has not been much different from his jaundiced, often poisonous, views - which is why I ceased reading HE.
Perhaps they are trying to broaden their readership through an enlightened editorial policy. May it be so. I do not regard them as a friend of Israel. May I be mistaken.
OHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhh...
I also hope you are. And you don't have to tell me about their former(?) hostility to Israel. I had a personal experience with that many years ago!
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