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Full of information on the radical Islamic threat to the West. I was underlining on many pages of this book. It is a keeper.

Trefkovic tells it like it is. Politically incorrect. He doesn't pull punches on either the right or the left for having encouraged Islamism at one time or another for political gain. Extremely interesting and informative

Another book every American should read.

This is a tough one. On the one hand I was moved by the passion of the author. He has clearly been through tough times and is writing to inform and warn people. I would like to know this man, to sit and listen to him explain what he wrote.

But I struggled in reading the book. It was just too hard to separate fact from opinion. I do want to understand the History of Islam. But I need to find a more objective writer, or if that is not possible, read from the alternative perspective and try to compare the too.

Serge Trifkovic speaks truth to power, with footnotes.

This book is comprehensive and hard-hitting without being excessively polemical. I was particularly impressed by Trifkovic's survey of Islam's impact on, and undeniable contributions to, world hotspots, as well as the way he disabused the estimable Peter Kreeft of the idea that there can be such a thing as an "ecumenical jihad." Kreeft is seldom wrong, but in this case, I agree with Trifkovic. His hard look at American foreign policy vis-a-vis Muslim countries also makes for tough but informative reading. In Trifkovic's words, "Decades of covert and overt support for 'moderate' Islamic movements, countries, and regimes, whenever they were deemed useful to Western foreign policy objectives-- and especially if they have lots of oil, or prove willing to make peace with Israel, or both -- have been an unmitigated moral and political disaster." In the last chapter, he proposes some ways to fix that.

There are very few things on the negative side of the ledger for this book, but one stylistic choice that grated on me was Trifkovic's habit of usually referring to Catholicism (in the few instances where it comes up) as the "Church of Rome." That usage might be a holdover from Trifkovic's professional roots in England, or from his ancestral roots among Russian Orthodox Christians. Whatever its cause, the label is inaccurate.

Trifkovic is also uncharacteristically ambiguous in describing how the Taliban got started (author Eric Blehm is much clearer). To his credit, however, Trifkovic does point out that the CIA and the U.S. State Department have a shared history of short-sighted thinking.

Given the subject matter, this is a hard book to like. But it's well done, courageous, capped with a home-run conclusion, and probably even more necessary for the people who won't read it than for the people who will.

"The Sword of the Prophet: Islam; History, Theology, Impact on the World by Serge Trifkovic (2007)"

It is a must read book!It shows the part of Islam about the islamist don"t want us non-arab speakers to know or which they are interpreting according to their specific needs.

A must have.

Disturbing. If only 10% of it is true then we have a major problem. Must read a counter argument / critique to better assess its objectivity.

I can't recommend this book enough. I've traveled to the Middle East (Including both Israel and the Palestinian Authority), spent time among Muslims as an ally and friend, researched Islamic history extensively and written my own books on the subject of the War on Terror. Thus I can tell you: This book is true. I am appalled by liberal apologists for Islam that attack books like this (hence the teaser, "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam") that expose the truth behind an intolerant, civilization-destroying ideology that enslaves women and minorities, kills its own in order to advance its agenda, murders homosexuals and Jews systematically and which leaves its people materially and spiritually impoverished. If you love Muslims as I do, you will do everything in your power to convince them there is a better way to live than under the boot-print of Islamic extremism and sharia law. Think: If Christianity, Democracy and Western values are so bad, why do Muslims emigrate to the West? And if it's to escape the oppressiveness of their Muslim "paradise" societies back home, why do they try to force their host nations to become "more Muslim" as soon as they arrive here? The answer is obvious to people who think... and Mr. Trifkovic has simply written the obvious. Read this book!