The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)

Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, 2005. Later printing. Trade paperback. Very good. xvi, 270 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Signed by author on title page. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Signed copies are very scarce. Robert Bruce Spencer (born February 27, 1962) is an American author and blogger and a key figure of the "counter-jihad" movement in the United States. He appears frequently on Fox News and has given seminars to various law enforcement units in the United States. Spencer, a self-proclaimed expert on radical Islam, has published a number of books on the subject including two New York Times bestsellers. In 2003 he founded and has since directed Jihad Watch, a blog which he describes as containing "news of the international jihad, [and] commentary" which is dedicated to "bringing public attention to the role that jihad theology and ideology plays in the modern world, and to correcting popular misconceptions about the role of jihad and religion in modern-day conflicts". He has also co-founded Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) and the Freedom Defense Initiative with blogger Pamela Geller, with whom he also co-authored a book, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America. His viewpoints have been described as anti-Islamic or Islamophobic, while he denies this and says he focuses his criticism on radical Islam and its violence. In 2013 the UK Home Office has barred Spencer and Geller from travel to the UK for 3 to 5 years for "making statements that may foster hatred that might lead to inter-community violence". The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades) is a book by Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch. It is part of The Politically Incorrect Guide series by Regnery Publishing. Spencer claims Islam as militant and oppressive, and argues that the Crusades were a late response of European civilization to centuries of invasion and occupation which had begun at the turn of the 8th century in the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Sicily, France, and the majority of Eastern Europe. He attributes the perceived civilizational clash between Islam and the West in the 21st century to a continuation of a 14 century long jihad began at the inception of Islam and discusses the what he claims are difficulties of treating this topic in the current political climate. The book spent 15 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list page, although it stayed in the "Also Selling" section for most of the time, and made it to the list proper only once.The Politically Incorrect Guide is a book series by Regnery Publishing presenting conservative, or politically incorrect, beliefs on various topics. Each book is written by a different author and generally presents a conservative or libertarian[citation needed] viewpoint on the subject at hand. The series was the brainchild of Jeffrey Rubin,[citation needed] then editor of the Conservative Book Club, Regnery's sister company within Washington, DC-based Eagle Publishing. Each Politically Incorrect Guide contains the following: "Guess What" sections, which oppose common, liberal viewpoints, "PC Myth" which discusses widely believed ideas that the authors see as completely false and what they believe to be the truth, Boxed texts, "A Book You're Not Supposed to Read", depicted with a · pig at the top of each box, lists books that challenge politically correct opinions about topics covered in the Guide, "Pig" which lists quotes from notable authors supporting the opinions given. A picture of a microphone is featured at the top of each box.