The myth of Islamic tolerance : how Islamic law treats non-Muslims / edited by Robert Spencer.

Includes bibliographical references.

Islamic tolerance : myth and reality -- Islamic law regarding non-Muslims -- Islamic practice regarding non-Muslims -- The myth and contemporary geopolitics -- Human rights and human wrongs at the United Nations -- The myth in contemporary academic and public discourse.

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This collection of essays by some of the world's leading authorities on Islamic social history focuses on the juridical and cultural oppression of non-Muslims in Islamic societies. The authors of these in-depth but accessible articles explode the widely diffused myth, promulgated by Muslim advocacy groups, of a largely tolerant, pluralistic Islam. In fact, the contributors lay bare the oppressive legal superstructure that has treated non-Muslims in Muslim societies as oppressed and humiliated tributaries. They describe a religious caste system based on a culturally ingrained contempt for outsiders and show the devastating effects of these discriminatory attitudes and practices in both past and contemporary global conflicts, including jihad terrorism. This hard-hitting and absorbing critique of Islamic teachings and practices regarding non-Muslim minorities exposes a significant human rights scandal that rarely receives any mention either in academic circles or in the mainstream press. -http://www.booksinprint.com