Amazon.com: The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims: Books: Robert SpencerThe Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims is a controversial collection of 63 essays, including 17 by Bat Ye'or, edited by writer Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch, and other Middle Eastern scholars and experts on Islam, including Ibn Warraq, Walid Phares, David Littman, Patrick Sookhdeo, and Mark Durie. "
Robert Spencer argues that advocates of Islam have promulgated a myth of Islamic tolerance that can be dispelled by examining the persecution of the Zoroastrians in Iran; the Armenians in Turkey; the Buddhists and Hindus in India; and the Jews in Morocco, Cordoba, Granada, Marrakesh and Baghdad.
Ibn Warraq discusses the difficulties encountered when attempting to have an honest examination of this topic.
Bat Ye'or discusses Dhimmitude historically and in modern contexts.
Middle Eastern scholars Walid Phares and Bat Ye'or discuss life under Islamic rule and the toll it has taken on Middle Eastern Christians such as the Lebanese Maronites, the Egyptian Copts; the Melkites; the Anglican, Protestant and Catholic southern Sudanese Africans; Christian Syrians; Iraqi Assyrians, and Jacobites; Iranian Persians, Armenian and Palestinian Christians.
David Littman chronicles the advancement of Islamic intolerance at the United Nations.
Patrick Sookhdeo and Mark Durie treat the rise of anti-Christian persecutions in Nigeria, Sudan, Pakistan and Indonesia in the 21st century.
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