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Add one more book to my Amazon wishlist – The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran.  From the description:

The Complete Infidel�s Guide to the Koran reveals:

• 
  The true meaning of celebrated and seemingly benign verses, such as
  �Strive in the way of Allah� and �Persecution is worse than slaughter�
• How the Koran sanctions domestic abuse, honor killing, and murder
• How the Koran not only discourages Infidels from reading it, but mandates that they don�t even touch it
• Why
  President Obama is dangerously close to supporting a multiculturalism
  based on an ideology that aims to destroy the principles America holds
  dear

Stripping
out the obsolete debates, Spencer focuses on the Koran�s decrees toward
Jews, Christians, and other Infidels, explaining how they were viewed
in Muhammad�s time, what they�ve supposedly done wrong, and most
important, what the Koran has in store for them.

Robert Spencer is one of the foremost experts and critics of Islam, and his site Jihad Watch is one of the best sites of its kind today.  I have no doubt this book will be very good.

In The boy who cried 'racism!', I broached the subject that I think that those who are complaining that the modern anti-Obama rallies and other conservative actions in the news are racist in nature are making bogus claims.  But if not racism, what ARE the motives of these modern conservative protesters?  Here's my quick list of what I think are the genuine motives involved.

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An IRED is an Improvised Rectal Explosive Device – that is, a new way of concealing an explosive.  Yesterday, a suicide bomber tried to kill a Saudi Prince with an explosive in his anus.  Unfortunately, this directed the blast downward, probably launching the attacker's body parts into the air.  The Prince was only injured.

The latest Shire Network News podcast ("Protecting the angloshpere through satire") has a wonderful piece on this, reminding us that this gives the term 'explosive discharge' a new meaning, and that we should probably not respond to requests from strangers who ask us to pull their finger.  I won't spoil the other wonderful word-plays in the podcast, but this will certainly make Alqueda the butt of a slew of new jokes – IRED?  I bet you are.   Way worse than getting too much hot sauce on your falafel.  Enjoy.

Jihad Watch has a good article entitled Europe�s Dark Age and Islam�s Golden Age: Two Facets of The Same Fiction?, which discusses the content of the book on the same subject, entitled Holy Warriors.

In the twentieth century, a whole new body of evidence became
available to historians; evidence unavailable to previous generations
of scholars: The evidence of archaeology. And what archaeology tells us
has been devastating to the traditional view…..

On the word of the written histories, then,
archaeologists expected to find, from Spain to eastern Iran, a
flourishing and vibrant culture. An Islamic world of enormous cities
endowed with all the wealth of antiquity and the plunder gathered in
the Muslim wars of conquest. They hoped to find palaces, public baths,
universities and mosques; all richly decorated with marble, ceramic and
carved stone.

In fact, they found nothing of the sort.

For a more accurate rendition of history that isn't colored by the anti-Catholic enlightenment historians or the Muslims trying to pretend that their faith has contributed to humanity, see How Christianity changed the world and The biblical origins of science.

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Islam is not just another faith system – it is an evil ideology with murder and the Father of Murder behind it.  Watch this testimony of a girl who has fled her parents to avoid being ‘honor killed’. Muslims, come out of darkness to the light of Christ!  There is a loving God, and Jesus is his messenger.

American Vision offers this excellent 30 page PDF entitled America's 200-Year-War With Islamic Terrorism (PDF).  In it, author Gary DeMar discusses the conflict of the early 1800's with the Barbary Coast Pirates (Muslims), and explains many misunderstandings around the phrase in the Treaty of Tripoli, which states:

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

Many have mistaken this for a denial of our Christian heritage, history, and ideological roots, and have also misattributed it to George Washington.  However, as DeMar quotes from Boller's They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions:

The statement was not Washington�s, and diplomats had used that particular phraseology because they were eager to make it clear that Christianity was not an American state religion, and that therefore the U.S. government bore no official hostility toward Islam.

QED.

One of my favorite humorous cultural podcasts, Shire Network News (“Protecting the Anglosphere through satire”), has created a great show this week, including an interview with Bruce Bawer, the Oslo-based US author of While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within and Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom.

Bower talks about his experiences as a gay man in what he thought would be a more
tolerant European society, and what happened when he ran into radical
Islam on the streets of Amsterdam one night.

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HT: Psychoteddy