{"product_id":"9780786136353","title":"Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About The World's Fastest Growing Faith","description":"\u003cp\u003eGoing beyond the shallow distinction between a \"true\" peaceful Islam and the \"hijacked\" Islam of terrorist groups, Robert Spencer probes the Qur'an and other sacred documents, as well as Islamic traditions and history and the present-day situation of the Muslim world, to find out why the world's fastest growing faith tends to arouse extremism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA student of the religion for the last twenty years, Spencer brings a knowledgeable and critical sensibility to this brave, searching work. Cutting through the touchy and sentimental relativism of so much current discussion about the subject, he rigorously interrogates Islam. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWere Osama bin Laden and his followers perverting Islam when they claimed to find sanction in the Qur'an for their attack against the United States? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoes the explanation for the grim human rights record of Islamic countries lie in basic Muslim beliefs? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan Islam create successful secularized societies that will coexist peacefully with the liberal, multicultural world of the West? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this captivating, carefully researched book, Robert Spencer asks the hard questions about Islam and gives the hard answers, providing a profoundly needed antidote to the wishful thinking and willful distortions that have swamped the media since the September 11 attacks. As noted observer of the Arab world David Pryce-Jones says in his introduction, \"In its own lively style, \u003ci\u003eIslam Unveiled\u003c\/i\u003e puts down a strong and significant marker to what lies ahead, as Islam and the rest of the world strive to come to terms.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47095388504304,"sku":"9780786136353","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780786136353_p0.jpg?v=1763660422","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780786136353","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}