The Truth About Muhammad

Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion

By: Robert Spencer

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins

Publisher's summary

In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times best-selling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam - perhaps the first such portrait in half a century - unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammad's life that continue to affect our world today. Spencer details Muhammad's development from a preacher of hellfire and damnation into a political and military leader who expanded his rule by force of arms, promising his warriors luridly physical delights in Paradise if they were killed in his cause. He explains how the Qur'an's teaching on warfare against unbelievers developed, with constant war to establish the hegemony of Islamic law as the last stage.

©2006 Robert Spencer (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc.

mohamad, an intolerant prophet

What made the experience of listening to The Truth About Muhammad the most enjoyable?

All of the knowledge and information I received. Mohammad was an interesting person. Even though he was unable to write it's amazing he and his scribes were able to remember all that the spirit told him to repeat. It's a shame that most of the information he got from Jews and heiretic Christians was incorrect.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Truth About Muhammad?

His fear of the alleged spirit of the angel interested. Where was Ala? Usually The Lord speaks directly to His subjects.

Which character – as performed by James Adams – was your favorite?

Unable to decide. James Adams spoke the names and places in Arabia, but didn't really do well with the different characters portrayed.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Fear of repercussions.

good reading

like to read the other opposing side. Mahomad seems to be like any other ruler back in those days. Take,destroy and have people killed who opposed their way of thinking.

Analyzes the founder of Muslim pedophilia

The last chapter exposes why sexually perverted men love Islam: it allows raping young "infidel" girls and forced marriages to young girls. It shows how women's civil rights are vastly unequal to men's in Islamic society.

Enlightening!

The book was very enlightening. I would recommend this book to anyone that interested in in finding out more information about the Muslim religion

This seems to be a common sense history of Muhammad

The big questions answered are is Muhammad a man of peace and is Islam a religion tolerant of other views. This is a book that invites discussion over facts and I believe it is pretty balanced for it simply gives the Islamic text then explanation, with very little commentary.

very good book

very informative very easy to follow
answered a lot of questions about traditions where when why hope this review doesn't get me on the hit list lol

Good summary of Muhammad’s life

May have some bias here and there but the author points to supporting evidence for everything he presents. Eye-opening and alarming. There’s some politics-related comments at the very end that risk undermining the book.

Good!

I thought it was excellent to listen to, but I guess I'll have to refer to the book to actually find where the information comes from whether it's the Koran sura etc

Biographies of Muhammad are not too exciting

I am guessing I have purchased better than 60 audible books to date. I should review more of them on this site. Robert Spencer is one of Audible's invaluable authors. Before I got hooked up with Audible, I bought and listened to the cassette tape edition of Spencer's "Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith." It is excellent. I notice with Islam Unveiled, as with these reviews here on "The Truth About Muhammad," there are some one or two starred reviews from people that either did not appear to have listened to the audio book or from people who only reviewed "one" audio book on the Audible web-site:

"Robert Spencer."

I've got three good biographies of Muhammad including Audible's "Muhammad" by Martin Lings. I recommend it, though unlike Spencer, Lings' biography is more of an apologetic of the prophet's life. Suffice it to say, Muhammad, unlike Jesus and Moses, was a warrior-king along the order of King David, though perhaps more violent than David. There may be those who will dispute this point. A Biography that details the violent exploits of a warrior-king is not necessarily an exciting read or listen, yet in the case of Muhammad it is a must read; because he was and still is such an important historical figure. Robert Spencer is a scholar on Islam whether you agree with his conclusions or not. I cannot recommend Spencer's books enough to audible subscribers; all of them.

Great book, great courage

As you can see from some reviews, this book offends many muslims and apologetics. However, the author of this book references nothing but the most highly regarded texts and speakers of the muslim world. He doesn't present only small out of context portions of their holy book. He presents the person in full context.

The problem many people have is that they really don't want people to know what type of Person Mohamed was. They are lovers of lies.