Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.94054
EAN num: 9781400049011
ISBN number: 1400049016
Label: Crown Forum
Manufacturer: Crown Forum
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Page Count: 384
Printing Date: October 21, 2003
Publishing house: Crown Forum
Release Date: October 21, 2003
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Like no book before it, Preachers of Hate uncovers an ancient hatred that threatens the life and livelihood of every American. The “new” anti-Semitism targets not only Jews, but Americans specifically and the West in general. It targets our values, our lifestyle, and our freedoms. It is the single most important issue we face when trying to make sense of the Arab world.
Most Americans will be stunned to discover the depth and extent of anti-Semitic hatred in today’s Middle East and Europe, and that many Muslim leaders are not just encouraging it, but spending a great deal of money to spread the lies that spawned the terrorists responsible for the September 11 attack on America. In Preachers of Hate, bestselling author Kenneth R. Timmerman (who is not Jewish) contends that, besides Islam itself, the core unifying force in the Muslim world is a virulent strain of anti-Semitism that postulates the existence of a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world. From the pulpits of fiery Muslim clerics to the Arab street, and to the highest reaches of government and state-sponsored media, there is a belief that this thousand-year-old conspiracy has already taken hold in America and is now, especially after the war in Iraq, about to do the same in the Middle East and beyond. It is seen as no less than Muslims’ historical destiny to prevent such a takeover, and to do so by any means possible. To misunderstand the ferocity of that belief is to vastly underestimate the resolve of many Muslims to repel America, Israel, and all things Western.
Timmerman explores the roots of this hatred, examining its history, the religious sources upon which it draws, and how it is being transmitted to young people growing up in Arab societies by their leaders, their teachers, and their mosques. He documents how U.S. and European Union money has been used to finance hatred in Palestinian schools. He exposes the double-talk of Arab leaders and their supporters in the West. As it so often was throughout history, this new strain of Jew hatred is really about much more than Jews. They get attacked first, when the enemies of America can’t attack Americans. However, what begins with the Jews never ends with the Jews.
“Is there a conspiracy between America and the Jews?” asks Timmerman. “Indeed there is: A common heritage, a dedication to improving the human condition through compassion and tolerance of differences—a conspiracy of freedom. And that is why they hate us.” As with the Jews throughout history, America has been “unfairly successful.” As have the Jews, Americans have “profited” from the misery and poverty of others. If you hate Jews, you must also hate America. Such is the simple logic of the anti-Semite. Such, increasingly, is the logic of the Middle East. It is a message that is reinforced day in and day out by the official government-sanctioned Arab media, from the streets of Egypt, London, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Paris, and Gaza, and in the mosques where impassioned clerics quote verbatim texts like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a pillar of anti-Semitic hatred that originated in czarist Russia.
As America reasserts her role in the Middle East and attempts to bring peace between Jews and Arabs, Preachers of Hate is an essential book that reframes a very complicated issue as a matter of life and death.
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Powerful Book ,what a Couragous Man Kenneth R Timmerman is ,keep up the great work and above all keep us all informed ...
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This is a highly narrative and even rambling exposition of the activities of Islamists around the world. This folksy approach will appeal to some people who find nonfiction "dry." It is also a highly first-hand account, providing a been-there, done-that feel.
Now and then, there is a striking piece of information that illuminates the situation that you will not read about in the mainstream press or see on TV, such as the government's seizing of the "Benevolence International Foundation's" videos and documents glorifying martyrdom in operations against Americans and Jews. (p. 281) "According to the charity's newsletter, seven of its officers were killed last year in battle in Chechnya and Bosnia." (p. 281)
The focus of the book is on the resurgence of anti-Jewish hate speech and activities in the U. S. and Europe, but a lot of attention is paid to Palestine and its never-ending series of "peace plans."
For those who want their information quick and to the point, and who want to know everything else that is going on in America that is threatening our future, see the new book, While America Sleeps: How Islam, Immigration and Indoctrination are Destroying America From Within. The times they are a-changin' and the people who know least about these changes will be the hardest hit.
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Two nuggets of inestimable value surfaced in this book for me. First, it is the realization that the stupefying double-speak of so many Islamic voices is made possible by the fact that they say different things in English than they say in Arabic. The answer to this problem, as Timmerman so powerfully proves, is MEMRI (The Middle East Media and Research Institute). MEMRI is a translation service that publishes transcripts in English of articles, book excerpts, speeches, TV and radio programs, sermons, pamphlets, and school books from throughout the Middle East. Wow! I continue to be amazed and horrified by the things being said across the Arab world.
The second little gem that emerged from this important book is this question: what standards of scholarship exist in the Muslim world that would allow men of advanced degrees, academicians, professors, journalists, heads of state and leaders of the most important institutions of society to believe and disseminate such an absurd collection of wacko, lunatic theories that now consume the fetid minds of the Islamic world. From the utterly stupid, but widely reported stories of Jews distributing AIDS laced chewing gum to children; to the foolish notion of Jewish blood pastries; to the newest idiocy to sweep the universities of Islam: Holocaust Denial. It is as if entire nations were being led by the most ignorant collections of back-woods, hood-wearing, good old boys who, instead of being rejected utterly for their racism and stupidity are given credence and legitimacy on the world's stage. Does the King of Saudi Arabia also believe that the moon is made of cheese? Are the Universities of Egypt convening symposia to discuss why ships don't fall when they reach the edge of the flat earth? And exactly how many Syrian Generals does it take to screw in a light bulb?
The Truth matters and the world is burning wherever silly men are allowed to tell lies to support their irrational hatred of Jews or Israel or Bush or the US or (insert object of hatred by lunatic fringe conspiracy theorists here). Read Timmerman and be amazed.
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"Preachers of Hate" is an unequivocally shocking documentation of the prevalent anti-Semitism existing in the Muslim world today. Kenneth Timmerman's research and presentation of the facts makes it almost undeniable that such hate around the globe still exists yesterday despite Islamic apologetics' efforts to conceal or justify it. This book does not hypocritically preach hate itself, as some disparagers might imply but more so presents theories backed by a multiple of pages of resources. He refrains from advocating counter-hate and compels a reader to wake up and see what is happening.
Any Westerner who has ever seen a news show in his/her life is aware of the violence and intolerance preached in the region but many are not aware of to what depth the prejudice runs in the veins of the Muslim world. Although the book is rather long and a time-consuming read, there doesn't seem to be another of it's kind available today. Mr. Timmerman proves an undeniable fact that anti-Semitism still exists in the world and how many try to excuse or vindicate it. Some examples he sets forth in the book will leave a reader in disbelief such as this excerpt from Page 9:
"Arabs living in the West expressed similar "comprehension" of the attacks and motives of the attackers. In the Washington D.C. suburb of Fairfax, Virginia, public school officials ordered high school students to return home by noontime on the day of the attacks. "They closed the schools not out of fear of a terrorist attack, but because Muslim students were shouting for joy" said David Keene".
One would not even know where to begin to confute his testament that this sort of bigotry is still very much alive currently. If you deny that the essence of this book is entirely fiction, ask Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yourself.
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I have found this book interesting and it has opened my eyes to some new things. I would not be surprised if much of it was true. The thing that I object to is that every story has two sides to it. I have known Arabs that were good people and I do not believe that Islam is evil per say. They were the civilized people when we Europeans were barbarians in the dark ages and did not know how to read or do math or that we should take a bath. We owe some thanks to the light the Arabs kept alive that contributed to kindling the renaissance and bring a new age of learning into the world. I am a Christian and believe that "Jesus is the way, the truth and the life" but I am aware that the Christian religion has a dark side to its history also. There have been and still are people who think they understand it and want to enforce it with the "sword". I love being an American and am grateful for the goodness and freedoms that are found in our country, though I know that we have a dark side to our history also with such things as slavery and our dealings with Native Americans and the many broken and unfulfilled treaties we made with them. I am also aware that the state of Israel has done things in there history that was not right. I don't know if we can ever learn to live together as a world community, but I do not believe that hating and distrusting all Arabs will help much. We need to live in the real world and I don't know all the answers, but I think that we ought to look for the good in those we come in contact with on an individual bases and try and build on that. There is too much of self-righteousness and hate and misinformation spread on all side. I found this book to be a bit one sided.
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