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The author of "The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS" and "The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran" returns with the sharp wit and boundless courage needed to expose the oncoming storm from Iran

Overlooked by our media, purposely obscured by our own government, and unnoticed by the vast majority of Americans, the turmoil of the Islamic world's "Arab Spring" has become an "Arab Winter," bringing new threats of terror to America. New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer, an expert on Islam and terrorism, reveals why America is shockingly unequipped to face this threat. In Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth about the War We're In, you'll learn why the Obama administration has opted to appease rather than confront Islamic extremists in the United States; how Muslim organizations are pressuring witnesses to terror crimes not to cooperate with authorities; why the Justice Department has buried select news stories; and much, much more. The "Arab Spring" uncorked a jihadist genie in North Africa and the Middle East. It is about to wreak its mayhem here, with renewed terrorism. Americans need to inform themselves of the threat--and ensure that their elected government in Washington takes action. Robert Spencer's Arab Winter Comes to America sounds the alarm and shows what needs to be done. It is essential reading.

The man who wasn't there -- Jesus, the Muhammed -- Inventing Muhammed -- Switching on the full light of history -- The embarrassment of Muhammed -- The unchanging Qur'an changes -- The non-Arabic Arabic Qur'an -- What the Qur'an may have been -- Who collected the Qur'an? -- Making sense of it all

No, Virginia, all religions aren't equal -- Wars of religion -- We have met the enemy and he is -- The real threat -- Cherry-picking in the fields of the Lord -- The cross and the sword -- Christian anti-Semitism vs. Islamic "apes and pigs" -- The west calls for dialogue; Islam calls for Jihad -- Faith and unreason -- Democracy, whiskey, sexy -- Women in the west vs. burkas and beatings -- Yes, Virginia, western civilization is worth defending

This article places the Kenyan intellectual Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow (2006) in what has until now been seen as a predominantly Latin American tradition of dictator novels. Dictator novels unmask the intrinsic fallibility of power. The purported omnipotence of the dictator is undermined by dictation: that is, by his power's reliance on the shifty and ambiguous medium of language, which these novels reveal to be a medium of democratic dialogue not of dictatorial control. Wizard of the Crow also performs power in the sense of staging power's operations, dramatising its precariousness and exposing its crimes to censure. It also permits an understanding of the over-determined origins of dictatorship: in the legacies of colonialism, the lingering interference of Western states and corporations, and the failures of national leadership. The aims of the paper are, firstly, to demonstrate the longevity and efficacy of a decidedly topical literary tradition that has among its effects the illumination and explanation of enduring forms of colonial exploitation in Africa, and secondly to show how, especially through the reading strategies that it encourages, Ngũgĩs novel resists this state of affairs and forecasts democratic alternatives to it. © 2012 The Author(s).

This article shows that the work of the German Marxist philosopher Theodor W. Adorno offers a surprisingly rich resource for postcolonial theory. Adorno's work addresses the world outside Europe more often than one might expect. But it is not so much what Adorno thinks as how he thinks that makes him a postcolonialist. Adorno's philosophy of negative dialectics tracks particular phenomena to the totality of which they are a part. Everything, from the most innocuous details of everyday life to the Holocaust and imperialism, is linked to the world-encircling, thought-frustrating and violence-inducing system of capitalism. But Adorno's characteristic negativity also makes him sensitive to that system's fallibility and its vulnerability to alternatives. The article therefore touches on the normative dimensions of Adorno's moral philosophy. Adorno's work commands attention because of its dialectical style of thinking, its consequent focus on capitalism's intrinsic violence, its belief that effective political action presupposes introspection and a moral capacity for empathy with others' suffering, and its attractive conviction that these aptitudes can be enabled by aesthetic experience. Accordingly, the essay concludes with a reading of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace. This article seeks to show that an Adornian postcolonial criticism is as concerned with the gratuitous longevity of capitalism and imperialism as it is inspired by the prospect of erecting a more just and egalitarian social order. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.

My aim here is to explain the topicality of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses in the midst and aftermath of the so-called war on terror. The principal merit of the novel is that it sees fundamentalism not only in militant Islamism but also in the West's unselfconscious belief in its own social and economic practices. It engenders a kind of migrant sensibility that moves between and casts doubt on fixed cultural and ideological positions. Alas, the extraordinary torrent of literary writing and punditry about 9/11 and the subsequent war on terror has often failed to combine a vehement critique of Islamism with an equally penetrating appraisal of other forms of fundamentalist belief. Indeed, the enduring significance and salutariness of The Satanic Verses has not been matched by the tendentiousness of Rushdie's own media-based analyses of Islam, terrorism and western power. The article is also therefore a defence of literature as an efficacious form of political engagement. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.

Contends that Islamic law has not & will never recognize Jewish rights to the Holy Land. Some moderate Muslims, eg, Sheikh Muhammad Al-Hussaini, do not agree & accept that Israel belongs to the Jews; however, it is argued that this is not true & is based on a partial & inaccurate reading of the Qur'an. Excerpts from the Qur'an as well as the ideas of classic Qur'an commentator Muhammad ibn Jarir at-Tabari are drawn on to challenge Hussaini's position. Attention is then given to the Qur'an's anti-Semitism. D. Edelman. Adapted from the source document.