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Review #1: Great Information!
Review #2: Back to normality!
Review #3: An eye opener





Review #1

Great Information!

This book has some great information showing the facts about Islam's violent, expansionist history. Today it has become politically correct to call Islam "a religion of peace". Nothing could be further from the truth, or the facts.

Working from a foundation of hate, intolerance, and self-serving double standards, islam has inspired the death, rape, torture, and enslavement of millions through the centuries, along with the destruction of countless treasures and knowledge. This book demonstrates many examples of islam's expansionist conquests!

Another good book is The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades.




Review #2

Back to normality!

It is always a problem how to tell a child what the facts are and what not. As for standard of information the muslim world is in a deplorable mess. Most are not educated and have no access to reliable sources of information. I wished there was any possibility to "enlighten" them with truth or at least sth that comes close to truth.
We all have our prejudices, but we all can also discern apparent follies and real life. This is also what is right for Fergosi. But it cannot be denied that he is much too close to truth that anybody could wisely ignore what he has to say. I state this with journeys to many muslim countries behind me and talking to all kind of muslim people of different social background.
Most only lack the right information. I claim to know what I am talking about. It must be seen that the people of muslim countries are worthy and skilled people who deserve all our respect and help if possible. Too many of them are deceived by their spiritual leaders that the Fregosis should not be heard and the sullen facts rejected. This is not a book to hand it over to the fire.
It should be read by anybody who wants to get acquainted with the modern idea of Jihad and the tradition of Jihad. Thanks to the openness of many Jihad-warriors and Jihad supporters everybody can assure what the facts really are.
One example: in October 2004, Magdi Ahmad Hussein, Egyptian Labor Party general Secretary, spoke on Al-Jazeera TV in defence of terrorism. He praised both the suicide bombers, who target women and children, and the beheading of prisoners. In defence response to what we hope is a growing embarrassment among many muslims for the numerous barbaric practices committed in the name of Islam, Hussein supported terrorism from Muhammad`s example. He said:
"So how come some voices in the Islamic movement and official clerics tell us that killing prisoners is un-Islamic? No, both the quran and the prophet`s biography permit the killing of prisoners. This exists in our Islamic law...
Why do the government clerics ignore the killing of the prisoners during the time of the prophet? Somme 6oo to 700 prisoners were killed in the raid on the Qurayza tribe (Jews). Why do they conceal this? Why do they hide the fact that the prophet gave the order to assassinate some poets - to assassinate! Not in the military operations, but rather by individual assassination?"
Did Hussein really not know why? To appease the West? To tell the whole world that they can go on in their sleep? Salman Rushdie, the composer of "satanic" verses, is still in hide in fear of his life and with a reward on his head.
It does not speak well of any religion that must maintain itself by threats and killing rather than by voluntary belief and willing loyalty in response to truth!! Everybody should be aware of this! Everybody can see that Jihad supporters who think that the beheading of innocent people is an evil, satanic deed must have a twisted mind.
But truth has no high place in Islam. Truth is only for fidels the infidels do not deserve truth. Any lies or killings in order to protect Islam could be justified. Nobody is safe of assassination in the name of Islam if he says only one word of criticism. People in Pakistan or Iran are very careful, speaking in a low voice and in lonesome places, when they want to say something that clerics could interpret negatively. There is no freedom of opinion in Islam. Not to mention freedom of religion!
In the Quran it is said. "By Allah, he is not a true believer, from whose mischief his neighbours do not feel secure!" Yes, but who are the neighbours? Infidels have no right to claim to be neighbours! Only muslims are meant! Which neighbouring caravans could feel save when Muhammad and his troops assaulted them when they passed by?
Nobody can feel save as longs as he is not embracing Islam! It is even possible to be assassinated by muslims because one has claimed that Islam proves with such assassinations to be not peaceful, sentenced to death for slander! It would be something to laugh about if it were not so serious! If somebody accuses Islam to be satanic, he has a good chance to be massacred in a satanic way by people who claim to be true muslims!
In his "Pensees" Blaise Pascal made a comparison: "Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death, Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives." Or as Fregosi expresses it: "Jihad was ...accepted from the quran as the direct word of God. No one had any difficulty in reconciling religiosity and rapacity. Muhammad had not only made it easy for them to do so, he had made it a virtue by presenting plunder and war as righteous paths to Paradise."
In so far he has given the arab tribals a reason and heavenly legalisation for their common practise to rape, steal and murder. Rape might be not the nicest word, better instead of raping the women, they took the preyed women and used them as a possession in any possible way. This is taken out of the quran which allows Islams warriors to dispose about their loot as they like it. Pure facts.
Terrorism of that kind has indeed been an integral part of the pagan Arab society into which Muhammad was born and from which Islam sprang. No wonder if it is sth quite natural for Islam. Fregosi says: "Islam did not change any of these characteristics or influence the behaviour of Arabs. Instead, Islam embraced the Arab mentality and used it to accomplish its agenda. Jihad as a core belief of Islam came to the Arabic mentality not as a new behaviour but as one with which they were very familiar...Muhammad was born into a culture where conquest and bloodshed were the norm and were incorporated into Islam through the concept of Jihad."
When Muhammad noticed that the Christians and Jews living in his hometown would not accept him as prophet - as a matter of fact they could not because they understood that his teaching were not biblical- he changed his mind and started to persecute them. He killed those who refused to become Muhammadanians and could not escape his sword. Of course some saved their lives pretending falsely to become muslims. Those who loved truth were killed, those who practised lies survived as muslims! This practise followed wherever the conquerors came in the next centuries. Therefore Islam as well as Catholicism seems largely founded on pressure, pretence, violence, lies.
Some surrendered to Muhammad`s forces, but every male Jew of fighting age was slaughtered and their bodies buried under the marketplace. Women and children were taken as "wives" or slaves. Islam is found on blood and tears. Islam was spread in blood and tears. Why should it not be sustained in blood and tears? Muhammad himself practised Jihad, he attacked caravans and villages as a result of which many thousands were beheaded, tortured and enslaved. Is his the truth? It must be, because it is in the quran! Muhammad led personally 27 terrorist attacks, 40 others were led by his men, which he praised for doing so. So anybody who denounce the Islam-terrorism of today, should he not as well denounce Muhammad? A question that arises automatically!
The declarations of Muhammad and his successors and the islamists of today that Islam must conquer the world, which we hear almost daily from muslim leaders all over the world to which clerics never can contradict, seem to pass unnoticed by western leaders. They praise Islam as a religion of peace and welcome outspoken enemies to peace-talks and peace-treaties.
But the people in the west should understand why the warnings of muslims are a serious matter and Fregosi tells us why: he is not accusing the muslim people in general, only those who have mischief in mind. Now we lack only a book which gives us solutions to the problem. At last I cite a salesman of Iran, he told me: "I hope that the USA starts a war very soon with Iran, so that we come to normality in this country."
He meant that the USA would bring the normality. He was a muslim and he was sure to know that in the USA muslims can practise their religion. But under Islam nobody can practise anything normal. We do not hope for war but for normality, not the normality of Islam!





Review #3

An eye opener

This is a thoroughly well researched book, that takes you from the early middle ages to modern times, and gives you a different perspective on islam from what the P.C brigade preach.




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Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries

by Paul Fregosi

Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: 1998-10
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1573922471

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