Upsetting

Seemed a very negative take on Islam. I could not get into a rhythm to listen objectively. Written with an islamaphobia angle ???

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Waste of money, stay away.

The author is claiming to be objective and to apply only impartial scientific methodology to analyse the Sunna. It is nothing further from the true. He is biased and cherry picking facts and fragments just to proof and justify his negative point. He shows complete lack of understanding of Koran and Sunna. I’m scientist myself and in my view this book can teach the researchers how not to conduct their research!

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fantastic

clear , concise, everything the source material is not.
mayo4sam. tal32. Mary Lou for taoiseach.

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Non factuual accounts and based on opinions. Poor.

Non factuual accounts and based on opinions. Poor references and the narrative os negative on order to divide people. Especially by presenting misinformation.

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grizzly but necessary to know the history behind

grizzly but necessary to know the history behind The religion which has lasted 14 centuries

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Claims to be objective, but is not

Claims to be objective, but is surely very set on the way it attacks the analysis... I hoped I could have a refund...

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Misinformed, politically charged islamophobe

Although knowledgable on the political history of aspects of of the prophet Muhammad (pbuh), empires that succeeded him and the present day politics of the Middle East, this attempt to discern what the traditions of Islam are is misinformed, politically charged and frankly, Islamophobic.

The tenets of the faith are not anything like he describes, and Muslims do not perceive their religion of opinions through the narrow political lens he attempts to argue. Muslims abide by different legal schools of jurisprudence through which they look at Hadiths, sayings, alongside reading their findings with Quran. Some are stricter in their interpretations than others. That alone explains why the other 1.8 billion of us aren’t out killing people every day. As the Holy Quran says: “Whoever wants, let him believe, and whoever wants, let him disbelieve (2:256)”

I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone wanting to educate themselves on Islam, middle eastern politics, the history of the Middle East, the prophet Muhammad or the opinions of Muslims. It’s a helpful listen in terms of the American relationship between itself and the Middle East, but even then, it isn’t as lucid as other historians are on the issues.

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Lies & Deceit

Only time Bill is honest is when he describes himself as ‘kafir’. The book is lies and deceit. Bill is pretending to be scientific but every quotation is taken out of its true context twisted and lied about with added explicit fiction. This makes Bill not only a kafir but also a munafiq. He is even claiming that Islam is responsible for all African slavery!

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There's a certain degree of overlap

There's a certain degree of overlap with the other books in the series, but in fact that is quite helpful as the repetition of the most key points helps to drive things home.

It might be useful to incorporate as a cheat sheet a pdf in the Audible library with the key texts and their references as it is hard to remember them all from an audio reading, and when engaging a Muslim about these points they may try to downplay them or even claim we made them up. So this would be a useful addition.

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