Another Book Review

Radical Eye for the Infidel Guy

This is somewhat repetitive but deserves special mention because it remains just plain difficult to adequately describe the malevolent hatred and intolerance that is the foundation of militant Islam. And, since militant Islam sets the tone and the limits for all of Islam, the message is worth repeating. Adequate words escape me on this point but the latest of the many books I have read about Islam does a great job in a relatively short and readable volume.
The book is Radical Eye for the Infidel Guy by Kevin J. Ryan from Prometheus Books. Ryan’s style is to be light and poke fun at these people and he carries it off very well while sticking to historical accuracy and verifiable facts. More than any other source, his 243 pages bring home the brutality, intransigence and mind numbing lack of logic and humanity encompassed by Islam.
One of his points that comes through strongly is that Muslims never give up on the religious requirement to conquer or convert Christians and Jews and all non-believers into the religious fold of Islam. This is illustrated in their many campaigns to conquer Europe. They attacked Constantinople many times over many years and sacrificed hundreds of thousands of Muslim warriors before finally succeeding. They did the same with south east Europe before finally retreating before Vienna in 1683. They now consider that the contemporary Muslim advances in Europe via immigration and cultural rape is the final campaign to achieve their goal.
Another theme made clear is the inability or outright refusal of Islam and its people to equate their generally miserable circumstances, backwardness and lack of competitiveness to their religion and governance. Since Allah and Mohammad are perfect and Islam is the one true religion then it goes without saying that nothing that befalls them has any relationship to who they are. Everything is blamed on Jews and America. There simply is no Islamic introspection on these points. It would be easier to convince a carnivore to not want meat as to reason with a Muslim on such points of logic.
Israel’s plight is made very clear. They can never let their guard down. Even if a formal treaty of peace and recognition were signed by all members of the Arab League it would only be a matter of time before Islam were at their throat again.
Ryan uses shaded pages as elaborate foot notes to illustrate principles with power point type of listings of various Islamic traits and historical events. It saves a lot of prose and really drives the ideas home in a clear manner.
This is a book that is somewhat light and fun to read but it delivers a convincing and disturbing message. Aside from America’s efforts in Iraq and the War on Terror, western civilization has a world wide fight on its hands.