The Myth of Islamic Tolerance

by Spencer, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781591022497
• ISBN10: 1591022495
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-31
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Summary

This hard-hitting and absorbing critique of Islamic teachings and practices regarding non-Muslim minorities exposes a significant human rights scandal that rarely receives any mention either in academic circles or in the mainstream press.

Author Biography

Robert Spencer is an adjunct fellow of the Free Congress Foundation.

Table of Contents

Foreword: The Genesis of a Myth	13	(14)
Ibn Warraq
Part 1. Islamic Tolerance: Myth and Reality	27	(30)
1. The Myth of Islamic Tolerance	29	(28)
Robert Spencer
The Myth of Islamic Tolerance	29	(3)
History as Politics: The Uses of the Myth of Islamic Tolerance	32	(4)
The Current Myth and the Current Reality	36	(3)
Non-Muslims in the Qur'an	39	(5)
Non-Muslims in the Hadith	44	(4)
Non-Muslims in Islamic Jurisprudence	48	(4)
Radical Muslim Theorists on Non-Muslims	52	(5)
Part 2. Islamic Law Regarding Non-Muslims	57	(34)
Introduction	57	(34)
Robert Spencer
2. Rights of Non-Muslims in an Islamic State	59	(14)
Samuel Shahid
3. The Jizya Tax: Equality and Dignity under Islamic Law?	73	(18)
Walter Short
Part 3. Islamic Practice Regarding Non-Muslims	91	(68)
Introduction	91	(68)
Robert Spencer
4. Protected Peoples under Islam	92	(15)
David G. Littman and Bat Ye'or
5. Historical Amnesia: Naming Jihad and Dhimmitude	107	(8)
Bat Ye'or
6. Dhimmi Peoples: Oppressed Nations	115	(32)
Bat Ye'or
7. Dhimmitude: Jews and Christians under Islam	147	(12)
Bat Ye'or
Part 4. The Myth and Contemporary Geopolitics	159	(146)
Introduction	159	(21)
Robert Spencer
8. Past Is Prologue: The Challenge of Islamism Today	161	(8)
Bat Ye'or
9. Oriental Jewry and the Dhimmi Image in Contemporary Arab Nationalism	169	(11)
Bat Ye'or
10. Aspects of the Arab-Israeli Conflict	180	(13)
Bat Ye'or
11. Euro-Arab Anti-Zionism	193	(34)
Bat Ye'or
12. The Oppression of Middle East Christians: A Forgotten Tragedy	227	(5)
Walid Phares
13. A Christian Minority: The Copts in Egypt	232	(15)
Bat Ye'or
14. Eastern Christians Torn Asunder: Challenges-New and Old	247	(5)
Bat Ye'or
15. Christians in the Muslim World	252	(5)
Patrick Sookhdeo
16. Persecution of Jews and Christians: Testimony versus Silence	257	(7)
Bat Ye'or
17. What Is Happening in Indonesia?	264	(3)
Mark Durie
18. Documentation of Oppression of Religious Freedom in Aceh, Indonesia	267	(4)
Mark Durie
19. Jihad and Human Rights Today: An Active Ideology Incompatible with Universal Standards of Freedom and Equality	271	(4)
Bat Ye'or
20. Culture of Hate: A Racism That Denies the History and Sufferings of its Victims	275	(3)
Bat Ye'or
21. The Dhimmitude of the West	278	(5)
Mark Durie
22. Beyond Munich: The Spirit of Eurabia	283	(6)
Bat Ye'or
23. Eurabia: The Road to Munich	289	(5)
Bat Ye'or
24. The Islamic Conquest of Britain	294	(6)
Srdja Trifkovic
25. Something Rotten in Denmark?	300	(5)
Daniel Pipes and Lars Hedegaard
Part 5. Human Rights and Human Wrongs at the United Nations	305	(168)
Introduction	305	(3)
David G. Littman and Robert Spencer
26. Islamism Grows Stronger at the United Nations	308	(9)
David G. Littman
27. Universal Human Rights and "Human Rights in Islam"	317	(16)
David G. Littman
28. "Blasphemy" at the United Nations and Judeophobia in the Arab-Muslim World	333	(4)
David G. Littman
29. Dangerous Censorship of a UN Special Rapporteur	337	(14)
Rene Wadlow and David G. Littman
30. Judeophobia Today = Anti-Judaism/Anti-Zionism/Antisemitism: A Growing "Culture of Hate"	351	(9)
AWE Written Statement to the Sixtieth Session of the UNCHC
31. The Ideology of Jihad: Antisemitism/Genocide/Slavery in the Sudan	360	(4)
Robert S. Wistrich
32. The Alarming Growth of Judeophobia/Antisemitism Since the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights (1993) and the UN Decade for Human Rights Education: 1995-2004	364	(8)
WUPJ Written Statement Submitted to the Sixtieth Session of the UNCHR
33. "Free at Last": Slaves in Sudan/Disappearing Jews of Iran: Their History	372	(2)
David G. Littman
34. The Ancient Jewish Community of Iran: End Silence, Disappearances, Discrimination, "Dhimmitude"	374	(9)
WUPJ Statement to the Sixtieth Session of the UNCHR
35. The Remnant Dhimmi Populations of the Middle East and North Africa: Forgotten Jewish Refugees and Persecuted Indigenous Christian Communities	383	(2)
David G. Littman
36. Historical Facts and Figures: The Forgotten Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries	385	(7)
WUPJ Written Statement to the Fifty-fifth Session of the UNCHR's Sub-Commission
37. Discrimination in the Egyptian Criminal Justice System: The Exemplary Case of Dr. Neseem Abdel Malek-Grave Attacks and Discrimination against Copts	392	(6)
AWE Written Statement to the Sixtieth Session of the UNCHR
38. "Rushdie Affair": Syndrome and Historical Overview-the Right to Life and Human Rights Mechanisms	398	(9)
AWE Written Statement to the Sixtieth Session of the UNCHR
39. Blasphemy Legislation in Pakistan's Penal Code	407	(5)
AWE Written Statement to the Fiftieth Session of the UNCHR's Sub-Commission
40. Universality of International Human; Rights Treaties	412	(3)
David G. Littman
41. Homage to UN High Commissioner Sergio Vieira de Mello	415	(3)
David G. Littman
42. International Bill of Human Rights: Universality/International Standards/National Practices	418	(8)
AWE Statement to the Fifty-fifth Session of the UNCHR's Sub-Commission
43. Combating Defamation of Religions	426	(2)
Roy Brown
44. Apostasy, Human Rights, Religion, and Belief-New Threats to the Freedom of Opinion and Expression: A General View of Apostasy	428	(10)
Ibn Warraq
45. Apostasy, Human Rights, Religion, and Belief-New Threats to the Freedom of Opinion and Expression: A Concrete Proposal	438	(6)
Shafique Keshavjee
46. Apostasy, Human Rights, Religion, and Belief-New Threats to the Freedom of Opinion and Expression: Pakistani Blasphemy Law	444	(4)
Muhammad Younus Shaikh
47. Apostasy, Human Rights, Religion, and Belief- New Threats to the Freedom of Opinion and Expression: The Problem of Apostasy in an Islamic-Christian Context	448	(5)
Paul Cook
48. Utopia: A "United States of Abraham"	453	(16)
David G. Littman
49. Yasir's Terrorist Jesus	469	(4)
David G. Littman
Part 6. The Myth in Contemporary Academic and Public Discourse	473	(118)
Introduction	473	(1)
Robert Spencer
50. Edward Said and the Saidists: Or Third World Intellectual Terrorism	474	(43)
Ibn Warraq
51. Jihad and the Professors	517	(9)
Daniel Pipes
52. The Islamic Disinformation Lobby: American Muslim Groups' Politically Motivated Distortions of Islam	526	(15)
Robert Spencer
53. `Isa, the Muslim Jesus	541	(15)
Mark Durie
54. Islam and the Dhimmis	556	(6)
Bat Ye'or
55. Answering Al-Azhar	562	(4)
Bat Ye'or
56. Islam, Taboo, and Dialogue: Reclaiming Historic Truths in Seeking Present-Day Solutions	566	(2)
Bat Ye'or
57. Israel, Christianity, and Islam: The Challenge of the Future	568	(19)
Bat Ye 'or
58. Honest Intellectuals Must Shed Their Spiritual Turbans	587	(4)
Ibn Warraq
Contributors	591