Religion of Peace?: Islam's War Against the World

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 176 pages
• Published by: World Ahead Publishing October 17, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 097789844X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0977898442
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 12 ounces

Product Description
Virtually every contemporary Western leader has expressed the view that Islam is a peaceful religion and that those who commit violence in its name are fanatics who misinterpret its tenets. This widely circulated claim is false.

Relying primarily on Islam's own sources, Religion of Peace? Islam's War Against the World demonstrates that Islam is a violent, expansionary ideology that seeks the subjugation and destruction of other faiths, cultures, and systems of government. Further, it shows that the jihadis that Westerners have been indoctrinated to believe are extremists, are actually in the mainstream.

"A fascinating thesis." - William F. Buckley Jr. Founder, National Review

"A valuable, well-argued contribution to the public understanding of Islamit manages to convey in a short space what the West requirements to know about Islam: that its violent aspects are not the result of deviance but of orthodoxy"' - Robert Spencer, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and The Crusades)

"A very important work at a very important time. Anyone interested in understanding the growing violence on the world scene today must read this book. Its message for America and the West is, `Wake up before it's too late.'" - Gary Bauer, President, American Values

"This book provides a timely reality check to those still inclined to believe in the dichotomy between a "real" Islam and its allegedly aberrant violent fringe. That delusion costs lives and threatens the very existence of those affected by it. The refusal of the elite class to open its eyes to reality and protect Western nations from the threat is the biggest betrayal in history. It reflects a problem of cultural and spiritual decay that is the synthesis of all others." - Serge Trifkovic,The Sword of the Prophet and Defeating Jihad

Publisher Description
Is the "War on Terror" Based on a False Hope?

In the days following 9/11, George W. Bush assured America and the world that Islam was a "religion of peace" and that the violent followers of Osama Bin Laden had twisted the true Muslim faith. Acting on this belief, President Bush and other Western leaders sent troops to the Middle East in an effort to bring freedom and democracy to the Muslim world.

But what if this "understanding" of Islam is based not on fact, but instead on equal parts wishful thinking and Islamic deceit? It would mean that the entire War on Terror is based on a faulty--and increasingly deadly--premise.

In Religion of Peace? Islam's War Against the World, author and filmmaker Gregory M. Davis rebuts the notion that Islam is a great faith in desperate need of a Reformation. Instead, he exposes it as a form of totalitarianism, a belief system that orders its adherents not to baptize all nations, but to conquer and subdue them. Islamic law's governance of every aspect of religious, political, and personal action has far more in common with Nazism than with the tenets of Christianity or Judaism.

Davis details how Islamic thought divides the world into two spheres locked in perpetual combat: dar al-Islam ("House of Islam," where Islamic law predominates), and dar al-harb ("House of War," the rest of the world). This concise yet thorough book leaves no doubt as to why most of the world's modern conflicts are connected to Islam--and calls into question why Western elites refuse to acknowledge Islam's violent nature. Religion of Peace? Islam's War Against the World is nothing less than a wake-up call to all civilized nations--and one they ignore at their peril.

Reader Reviews
The thesis of this work is that 'Islam' is not a private religion, but one which aims at a certain Utopian social- political order. This social- political order is achieved through total submission of the individual to the communal theological imperative. 'Islam' is the religion of total submission, and as such is also a plan for ruling the world. The means to this are often violent, and terror is too a means. But Davis wishes to make it clear that the West's war for survival should not be defined as a war on the 'means' i.e. Terror , but rather on the Islamic Totalitarian Ideology. In the course of forwarding this thesis Davis makes another claim which many will dispute. He claims that essentially there is no moderate Islam, and all appeals in that direction are futile. He believes that what the West should be aiming in its struggle with Islam is for the secularization of a good share of the Islamic world. The view that encouraging moderate Muslims toward democracy and more individual liberties within their own societies is one which is held by many respected students of Islam, including 'hawks' in the War against Terror, such as Daniel Pipes. Nonetheless whether one believes that Islam can reform itself from within or not, this book does paint an accurate picture of the kind of radical totalitarian Islam which is sweeping the Islamic world, and posing such a great threat to the West today.