Robert Spencer es académico de historia, teología y derecho islámico y es el director de JihadWatch. Es autor de cinco libros, siete monografías y centenares de artículos acerca de la jihad y el terrorismo islámico. También es miembro permanente adjunto de la Free Congress Foundation. Licenciado con honores en Estudios Religiosos por la Universidad de Carolina en Chapel Hill), lleva desde 1980 estudiando teología, derecho e historia islámicos en profundidad. Es adjunto de la Free Congress Foundation, y sus artículos acerca del islam aparecen en el New York Post, Washington Times, Dallas Morning News, el National Post de Canadá, FrontPage Magazine, WorldNet Daily, Insight in the News, Human Events o National Review Online entre otros. Entre sus textos se encuentran algunos de los libros más conocidos acerca del terrorismo islámico, como “El mito de la tolerancia islámica” (Prometheus Books, 2005. ISBN 1591022495), “La guía políticamente incorrecta del islam” (Regnery Publishing, 2005. ISBN 0895260131), o “El islam al descubierto: cuestiones preocupantes acerca de la religión de mayor crecimiento del mundo”

The St. Petersburg Declaration, issued at the Secular Islam Summit in St. Petersburg, Florida, last week, is the most comprehensive and forth-right statement of Islamic reform anyone has yet managed to come up with. Instead of denying the existence of the elements of Islam that are being used around the world today to incite violence and justify oppression – as do all too many putative Islamic reformers and moderates – the St. Petersburg Declaration is firmly rooted in reality, and evinces no interest in fashionable evasions or political correctness. Descargar PDF

A recent article in the Washington Post, written by Nina Shea of Freedom House, laid bare Saudi hypocrisy in claiming to have removed hateful material from textbooks, when in fact that material remains in abundance. Descargar PDF

Islamic spokesmen in the West like to compare the Islamic doctrine of jihad to the Catholic Church’s just war doctrine. However, the Cate-chism of the Catholic Church, in stating this doctrine in its modern form, stipulates that “the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. Descargar PDF

The horrifying ingredients of the life of Mariam Farhat, or Umm Nidal (mother of Nidal), one of the newly elected members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, provide a terrify-ing glimpse into the future of the Pal-estinian Authority under the rule of the new Hamas government. Descargar PDF