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The single-minded qualities of Islam that make it a threat also blind it to certain historical and modern realities that may well lead to the undoing of its most virulent forms. Accordingly, a prediction...

p>The totally blind misfit of a medieval desert philosophy in the modern world suggests that someone, somewhere in the Muslim world will some day soon commit an atrocity or an act of aggression that will so shock the world that the previously mentioned civilizations AND those now on the fence (yes, I mean Spain, France and Germany) will rise up and end this nonsense once and for all. Watch it happen. The world has seen enough killing and intolerance. br> -- Deane Fish br> Altamont, New York /p>

I've just received my copy of Robert Spencer's The Truth About Muhammad from the American Compass Book Club, and, having already covered 1/3 of it, I find William Tucker's review to be dead-on. I've been a long-time fan of Mr. Spencer, have a number of his books (including The Myth of Islamic Tolerance) and am a daily reader of his "Jihad Watch" column. Spencer's knowledge of Islam and its dangers are extraordinary and his explanations are lucid and compelling. Islam poses a serious danger to Western civilization, and the sooner we learn about these dangers from Spencer, Daniel Pipes and others, the sooner we will be able to mount a defense of the West.

p>I would like to recommend to my fellow Spectator readers a recent column from Dr. Jack Wheeler, found at BrookesNews.com and also www.tothepointnews.com. His column, "Allah Is Dead," is a valuable and illuminating discussion of Pope Benedict XVI's recent speech on Faith and Reason at the University of Regensburg in September, the same speech that caused Islamists to get their burkahs in a bunch. Tied in with Spencer's work (I also recommend Father J.L. Menezes' classic book The Life and Religion of Mohammed ), you will have no doubts as to the disaster Islam means to wreak upon us. br> -- Jim Bjaloncik br> Stow, Ohio

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