Stealth Jihad

Robert Spencer discusses his latest book Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs. As always, reading Spencer is an enlightening experience.

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Stealth Jihad

By Jamie Glazov

FrontPageMagazine.com | 12/2/2008

Frontpage Interview's guest today is Robert Spencer, a scholar of Islamic history, theology, and law and the director of Jihad Watch. He is the author of seven books, eight monographs, and hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism, including the New York Times Bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His new book is Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs.


FP: Robert Spencer, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Spencer: Thank you.

FP: What inspired you to write Stealth Jihad? And define the term for our readers please.
Spencer: Primarily I was inspired to write this book by the continuing focus, on the part of government, law enforcement, and the mainstream media, on “terrorism” as the sole threat in reference to jihad. In the book, I offer evidence for the proposition that terror attacks involving bombings and shootings are not the sum total of terrorist aspirations, but are just one component of a larger initiative that is also advancing by means of non-violent initiatives. Those non-violent initiatives, which are often presented to the public as something quite different from what they actually are, are what I mean by “stealth jihad.” The goal of these initiatives is the imposition of Islamic law, Sharia, over the world – over their fellow Muslims and non-Muslims alike. It aims at nothing less than the transformation of American society and the imposition of Islamic law here, subjugating women and non-Muslims to the status of legal inferiors.

FP: In what ways in this book unique and what is your main thesis?
Spencer: The book is unique in that there is no other book that I know of that is devoted entirely to detailing the full extent and magnitude of stealth jihad initiatives. Its main thesis is that those who are working to advance the hegemony of Islamic law here are doing so in innumerable ways, including by introducing it, bit by bit, into American society and demanding that Americans accommodate it; by shouting down any and all who dare to discuss the supremacist impulse within traditional and mainstream Islam; and by engaging in efforts to transform and control Western economies. All these and more constitute the stealth jihad – a full-scale effort to transform pluralistic societies into Islamic states, and to sweep away Western notions of legal equality, freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, and more.
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