Coming Soon: Robert Spencer’s Confessions of an Islamophobe

Canada is now discussing criminal penalties for “Islamophobia.” Facebook’s Vice President went to Pakistan in July to assure the Pakistani government that Facebook would remove content critical of Islam. American columnists seriously call for the denial of free speech rights to those who warn about the jihad threat. That call was directed at me, for the crime of  “falsely constructing a divide between Islam and the West.”

“Falsely”? Really?

Clearly there are some very powerful people who are desperately afraid of what they call “Islamophobia,” and are now cracking down on it hard. For years I have been sounding the alarm about the threat of jihad terror and the human rights abuses that Sharia enables, and increasingly the West, instead of heeding these warnings, is turning against those who have been sounding them.

The renowned Leftist who saw the light and became a conservative, David Horowitz, said this: “Robert Spencer is one of the most informed scholars on the nature of Islam and the jihadist threat. He is also one of the bravest. Confessions of an Islamophobe is an indispensable guide to how American leftists from Linda Sarsour to Bernie Sanders have joined forces with the Islamic enemies of women, gays, Jews, Christians, and other infidels, in an unholy alliance against America and its freedoms.”

In the book Horowitz mentions, my forthcoming book Confessions of an Islamophobe, I make my case. Is there really a threat to the free world from jihad terror and Sharia oppression, or are Linda Sarsour and Bernie Sanders correct, and all such concern is just paranoid fear-mongering, xenophobia, racism, bigotry, paranoia, profiteering — in a word, “Islamophobia”?

I’ve always found such accusations bewildering and baseless, and still do. I began this work because I was an ordinary American — a believer in the freedom of speech and free society and the equality of rights of all before the law — who saw problems that weren’t being addressed adequately. In the intervening years, those problems have only gotten worse, although the ruling elites still generally do not admit there are any problems at all.

So: are they right, or am I? You be the judge: in Confessions of an Islamophobe, I discuss the real threat women, gays, Jews, Christians, secular liberals and secular Muslims face, and reveal what happens to those ordinary citizens who dare to tell the truth about that threat. This is the book to give to your friends and loved ones who are uninformed about what is going on, and need to be awakened to the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat.

Here is what Ayaan Hirsi Ali has to say about Confessions of an Islamophobe:

“No one has upset the Islamophobia cabal more than Robert Spencer. First, he knows more about Islamic doctrine than they do. Next, he has outed all the tricks they use in their taqiyyah bag to disinform the public. Finally and most importantly, Robert will not be cowed. Please read this important book and make sure you share it with as many people as possible.”

And David Goldman (“Spengler”) added: “Robert Spencer writes with courage, wit and erudition about the most pressing problem of our times. His work is must reading for anyone who wants to understand why Islam produces so many violent outcomes and so many threats to life in the West.”

Steven Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism had this to say: “For years now, legitimate concerns about Islamic terrorism and related issues have been dismissed as ‘bigotry’ and ‘Islamophobia.’ In this masterful new book, Robert Spencer explains why those charges are unjustified. He details what is at stake, and how the genuine threat is being ignored and enabled by those who direct campaigns of abuse against those who are sounding the alarm. Confessions of an Islamophobe is a clarion call, a clear and heartfelt appeal to those who think terrorism is a matter of partisan politics, and that this threat has been trumped-up or exaggerated. As Spencer shows, the stakes couldn’t be higher. This is the one book to give to lawmakers and all Americans who don’t realize the full extent of what is happening today.”

Pre-order Confessions of an Islamophobe here.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies). Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.