{"id":660,"date":"2010-07-18T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=660"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:46:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:46:19","slug":"the-truth-about-muhammad-robert-spencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"The Truth about Muhammad (Robert Spencer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/TEMGHcmKLNI\/AAAAAAAAEg4\/DOBJgIsP3Ko\/s1600\/obama+islam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/TEMGHcmKLNI\/AAAAAAAAEg4\/DOBJgIsP3Ko\/s400\/obama+islam.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>A readable book gathering together several themes in Muhammad&#8217;s life. He doesn&#8217;t come out of it too well, which isn&#8217;t surprising <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/about-robert-spencer.html\">considering who the author is<\/a>. There were a few moments when I thought Spencer was lacking in generosity, but, frankly, I think his main point is incontestable: given that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ummah.net\/Al_adaab\/muhammad\/perfect_man.html\">Muhammed is seen in Islam as the perfect man, and to be emulated<\/a>, the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Banu_Qurayza\">supported mass slaughter<\/a>, had <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muhammad%27s_wives#Marriage_to_Aisha\">a questionable approach to women<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/prophetofdoom.net\/Islamic_Quotes_Jews.Islam\">became incredibly hostile to Jews<\/a> and Christians leads to a rather problematic inheritance. Spencer makes the case that what we experience today has direct and clear antecedents in the life of Muhammad himself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nothing-new-under-the-sun.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/next-twenty-years.html\">Byron and I have been having a conversation about three major crises<\/a> &#8211; financial, resource limits and ecological (we differ on the severity of the third). I think the <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/lubh-9-vain-deliverance.html\">cultural clash with Islam<\/a> &#8211; probably <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel\">focussing on Iran<\/a>, and possibly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/07\/12\/saudi-arabia-royalty-oil-opinions-columnists-ilan-berman.html\">involving a revolution against the house of Saud<\/a> &#8211; will be a fourth world-changing element over the next ten years.<\/p>\n<p>Sam&#8217;s thought for the day:<br \/>The problem with (some) Christians is that they don&#8217;t imitate Jesus enough.<br \/>The problem with (some) Muslims is that they imitate Muhammed too closely.<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A readable book gathering together several themes in Muhammad&#8217;s life. He doesn&#8217;t come out of it too well, which isn&#8217;t surprising considering who the author is. There were a few moments when I thought Spencer was lacking in generosity, but, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=660\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-aE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6821,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/6821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}