The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims
by Robert Spencer
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"This collection of essays by some of the world's leading authorities on Islamic social history focuses on the pervasive legal and cultural oppression of non-Muslims in Islamic societies. The authors of these in-depth but accessible articles explode the widely diffused myth, promulgated by Muslim advocacy groups, of a largely tolerant, pluralistic Islam. In fact, the contributors lay bare the tyrannical legal superstructure that has treated non-Muslims in Muslim societies as oppressed and show more humiliated tributaries, and they show the devastating effects of these discriminatory attitudes and practices in both past and contemporary global conflicts." "This hard-hitting and absorbing assessment of Islamic teachings and practices regarding non-Muslim minorities uncovers a significant human rights scandal that rarely receives any mention either in academic circles or in the mainstream press."--BOOK JACKET. show lessTags
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The historical, cultural, and religious elements of the violence and profound contempt for outsiders that characterizes much of the Islamic world today, written by a variety of scholars, Middle Easterners, and commentators. The wide-ranging group of essays explains how these attitudes are rooted in laws and cultural habits that are connected organically through the institution of dhimmitude. Many of these are written by Ibn Warraq and Bat Ye'Or, who is an Egyptian-born Jew.
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Robert Spencer is a New York Times bestselling author and the director of Jihad Watch (www.jihadwatch.org), a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of sixteen books on Islam. He has led seminars on jihad for the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the United States Central Command.
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, History
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- 297.28 — Religion Other religions Islam Theological Conceptions and Doctrines
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- KBP2449 .M98 — Law Islamic law Islamic law. Sharīʻah. Fiqh Furūʻ al-fiqh. Substantive law. Branches of law General works. Treatises
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