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'''Robert Bruce Spencer''' is an American scholar and commentator on ] and ]. He has written five books, including two bestsellers, on topics related to ] and ], is the founder and current director of the ] and ] websites covering Islam and ] ]-related events from a critical perspective, and is currently a ] writing for ]. | ||
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| He began his career in ] at the University of North Carolina. His MA thesis is entitled (concerning the conversion of ] to Catholicism in 1837 and Newman's denunciation | He began his career in ] at the University of North Carolina. His MA thesis is entitled (concerning the conversion of ] to Catholicism in 1837 and Newman's denunciation | ||
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| Professor ], in the websites for one of the courses he teaches, <ref> </ref> | |||
| Professor ] states that Spencer "falls into the Orientalist trap of trying to use Islamic legal compendiums dating back well over 600 years...to define for all times what Muslims think about a particular issue." <ref> </ref> | |||
| ] claims that "Spencer cherry picks few out of the hundreds verses that deal with issues of peace and war, and misrepresents Islam by arguing that the Quran directs Muslims to fight non-Muslims on the account of having different faith. He does that by obscuring both the textual and historical contexts of the verses he cites." <ref> by Louay M. Safi, Dec 29 2005 </ref> | |||
| == Documentary == | == Documentary == | ||
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Robert Bruce Spencer is an American scholar and commentator on Islam and Jihad. He has written five books, including two bestsellers, on topics related to Islam and terrorism, is the founder and current director of the Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch websites covering Islam and Islamist terrorism-related events from a critical perspective, and is currently a columnist writing for Front Page Magazine.
Biography
Robert Spencer holds a Master's degree in Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1986, and is an Adjunct Fellow with the Free Congress Foundation.
He began his career in 1979 at the University of North Carolina. His MA thesis is entitled "The Monophysite in the Mirror" (concerning the conversion of John Henry Newman to Catholicism in 1837 and Newman's denunciation of the Church of England as monophysite).
Documentary
Bibliography
- The Truth About Muhammad: The Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion, Regnery Publishing 2006
- The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims (editor), Prometheus Books, 2005. ISBN 1591022495
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades), Regnery Publishing, 2005. ISBN 0895260131
- Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West, Regnery Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0895261006
- Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics (with Daniel Ali), Ascension Press, 2003. ISBN 0965922855
- Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith (Foreword by David Pryce-Jones), Encounter Books, 2002. ISBN 1893554589
Additionally, Spencer has written seven monographs on Islam for the Free Congress Foundation: An Introduction to the Qur'an, Women and Islam, An Islamic Primer, Islam and the West, The Islamic Disinformation Lobby, Islam vs. Christianity, and Jihad in Context.
External links
- Robert Spencer's Front Page Magazine column archive
- JihadWatch weblog
- Dhimmiwatch weblog
- Robert Spencer on Fox News