The Charter of Hamas explicitly refers to the Protocols, accepting them as factual and makes several references to Freemasons as one of the “secret societies” controlled by “Zionists.” The Article 32 of the Hamas Charter states: The Zionist plan is limitless. After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.....rs_of_Zion

That means he isnt a traditional scholar of Islam? Ok. I wonder if religious Jews would appreciate someone waxing so authoritatively about their religion who hadnt the proper qaulifications to do so? I guess when you arent dealing with a Western -read white if you like- religion it doesnt deserve much consideration.

I’ve explained this before. I have been on his site and it doesnt even seem like he mentions to often fiqh books at all. He mentions alot of the same Muslim politicos that get so much play in the media who similarly fail to rely on the fiqh.

Has Islamic scholarship been degraded in peoples quest for fast food information? Perhaps.

BTW, I heard Abu Khadijah from SPUDS on a documentary on the BBC, which I assume was quite old. He sounded brilliant as always.

“The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Islam”.

You stole this from you? Give it back brother. I said that long ago here. Ask Yusuf?

Now all Muslim are out to destroy and conquer the world, we spread disease, we destroy every society we come to, we are greedy, and baring being able to take over the world, we will debauch your women.

It is sad, I am waiting for them to come up with a “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Islam”.

Oh, Pipes and people of his ilk (e.g., the Chickenhawks) will never go to Baghdad…voluntarily. Not those cowards.

I’ve got a question? SPencer says he is a scholar of Islam, is he one in the traditional sense or the after 9/11 sense? Does he read Arabic with great proficiency? What sources does he use for his conclusions about Islam? What scholars of the past does her refer to?

I would make up a name for the syndrome Pipes suffers from, but he’s just stupid. Much like Spencer, he knows he has a market to please, and so pleases it in case one of his rivals gets one up on him.