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American critic of Islam and former physics professor (born 1941)| Bill Warner | |
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| Born | 1941 (age 82–83) |
| Occupation | Founder and President of the Center for the Study of Political Islam International (CSPII) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | North Carolina State University, Ph.D. |
| Subject | Writer |
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Bill Warner is the pen name of Bill French (born 1941), an American anti-Islam writer, and the founder of the Center for the Study of Political Islam International. He is a former physics professor whom the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2011 counted among a core group of ten anti-Islam hardliners in the United States.
Biography
Warner graduated from North Carolina State University where he got his PhD in physics and mathematics in 1968. He is a former Tennessee State University physics professor. Warner does not have an academic background in religious studies.
Criticism
Middlebury Institute professor and terrorism expert Jeffrey M. Bale refers to Warner as an example of writers who identify Islam with Islamism. According to Bale, these writers relate all the characteristics associated with Islamism with Islam as a whole, alleging that "such characteristics are intrinsic to Islam itself, and therefore that Islamism and jihadism are simply logical extensions - or simple applications in practice - of the authentic tenets and core values of Islam." He argues that, what they "fail to acknowledge is that these particular interpretations are by no means the only possible interpretations of core Islamic doctrines, traditions, and values, nor are they necessarily the most authentic, valid, or widely shared interpretations." This he says, is like claiming that Christian Reconstructionism is identical to Christianity.
Religious studies scholar Asma Uddin considers several anti-Islam groups like Warner and his organization as anti-Muslim entities that mainstream the idea that Islam is not a religion but merely a political ideology, which aids in legitimizing restricting the religious freedom of American Muslims. Uddin described the organization's statistical reports that claim Islam is mainly a political ideology as "pseudoscience and these 'think tanks'... are responding to the work of actual legitimate think tanks using the language of statistics."
Warner has been compared to Geert Wilders in considering Islam a totalitarian political ideology demanding complete submission. He has also been regarded as being part of the counter-jihad movement.
References
- ^ Steinback, Robert. "THE ANTI-MUSLIM INNER CIRCLE". splc.org. Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
- Campbell, Kay (2012-08-27). "Anti-Islam writer Bill Warner warns of political Islam". al. Retrieved 2021-11-18.
- "Dr. Bill Warner - Author, Speaker, and Teacher on the History of Political Islam". drbillwarner.com. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ Khan, Aysha (2019-07-16). "A Push to Deny Muslims Religious Freedom Gains Steam". religionandpolitics.org. Retrieved 2022-06-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Bale, Jeffrey M. (2017). The Darkest Sides of Politics, II: State Terrorism, "Weapons of Mass Destruction," Religious Extremism, and Organized Crime. Apple Academic Press. pp. 217–231. ISBN 978-1138785625. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
- Iqbal, Zafar (2019). Islamophobia: History, Context and Deconstruction. SAGE Publishing India. p. 199. ISBN 978-93-5328-697-2. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- Nissen, Anita (2022). Europeanisation of the Contemporary Far Right: Generation Identity and Fortress Europe. Routledge. ISBN 9781000547085.
Bibliography
- Warner, Bill (2015). Sharia Law for Non-Muslims. Centre for the Study of Political Islam. ISBN 978-0-9795794-8-6.
- Warner, Bill (2016). The Hadith. Center for the Study of Political Islam. ISBN 978-1-936659-01-2.
- Warner, Bill (2016). A Two-Hour Koran. Center for the Study of Political Islam. ISBN 978-1-936659-02-9.
- Warner, Bill (2016). The Life of Mohammed. Center for the Study of Political Islam. ISBN 978-1-936659-06-7.
- Warner, Bill (2019). Measuring Mohammed. Center for the Study of Political Islam. ISBN 978-1-936659-38-8.