Author Archive | Robert Spencer

In 2006 I wrote the book, The Truth About Muhammad, a biography of the prophet of Islam based on the earliest Muslim accounts of his life, in order to illustrate what Muslims generally believe that Muhammad said and did. In my forthcoming book, Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry Into Islam’s Obscure Origins, which will be [...]

Anwar al-Awlaki, a desperately evil man who was linked to the 9/11 attacks (he was “spiritual adviser” to a couple of the hijackers) as well as to the Fort Hood jihad murder, the Christmas underwear jihad bombing attempt on an airplane over Detroit, and the Times Square? jihad mass murder attempt, has gone to his [...]

Millions around the world believe that when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas submitted an application to the United Nations [last month] for admission of Palestine as an independent state, he was setting the stage for a new era of peace in the Middle East.  Unfortunately, nothing is more certain than that those hopes—like all the [...]

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie this year appointed a Muslim attorney, Sohail Mohammed, to a Superior Court judgeship in Passaic County.  Mohammed was the lawyer for Mohammed Qatanani, a Muslim Brotherhood? operative who pled guilty to membership in the jihad terror group Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.  But when questioned about the wisdom of the [...]

Yet another jihad mass murder at Fort Hood in Texas was narrowly averted last [month], and its perpetrator, a Muslim soldier in the U.S. Army named Naser Abdo, was defiant.  Accused of plotting to construct bombs and detonate them in a crowded restaurant full of soldiers from Fort Hood, Abdo admitted his guilt in court [...]

Enraged over the burning of a Koran in Florida, Muslims have murdered about 20 people in Afghanistan and five in Pakistan—none of whom ever burned a Koran or had any acquaintance with the men who did. These killers are monstrous.  They have assassinated innocent people for something that they couldn’t conceivably have had anything to [...]

A Kosovar Albanian Muslim, Arid Uka, murdered two American airmen outside the Frankfurt Airport in Germany last Wednesday.  “I did it for Allah,” he explained. Like so many jihad attacks these days, this one was initially dismissed as having nothing to do with terrorism.  Boris Rhein, interior minister for Germany’s Hesse state, almost immediately declared [...]

As the U.S. fired more than 100 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Libya on Saturday, the objective seems clear.  Barack Obama declared that “we cannot stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people that there will be no mercy.”  He explained:  “Today we are part of a broad coalition.  We are answering the calls of [...]

President Obama made a strong statement in support of the Libyan protesters last Wednesday, condemning Gaddafi’s use of violence and affirming that the United States “strongly supports the universal rights of the Libyan people.”  Those include, he said, “the rights of peaceful assembly, free speech, and the ability of the Libyan people to determine their [...]