stop! action time!

i don't ascribe to everything that CAIR does, but this action alert is worthy. the press release with contact instructions follows; i just wanted to add that the book in question is The Life and Religion of Mohammed by J. L. Menezes. the same sale page you find when you search for it is headed,

Mohammed: the ugly truth about the founder of the world's most violent religion, By a priest who lived and ministered among Muslims.

i can find neither hide nor hair of the author or the book in the library of congress, by searching for its ISBN, or by just doing web searches. judging by the quotes, it can't be a modern book - it sounds like it was from the 1800s.

Ask National Review to Repudiate Anti-Muslim Hate
Neocon magazine silent on promoting Islamophobic hate

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 3/22/05) - CAIR today urged American Muslims and other people of conscience to contact editors of the National Review magazine and ask that they repudiate Islamophobia and remove a book attacking the Prophet Muhammad from their online store.

Last week, CAIR called on the prominent national neoconservative magazine to clarify its policy on anti-Muslim hate following revelations that the publication distributed an Internet advertisement for a virulently Islamophobic book that, according to the magazine, is a "guide into the dark mind of [the Prophet] Mohammed" and the "world's most violent religion."

The National Review's review of the book states:

[The author] explains why Mohammed couldn't possibly be a true prophet, and reveals the true sources of his 'revelations.'

It quotes the author as claiming:

Mohammed posed as the apostle of God while his life is marked by innumerable marriages; and great licentiousness, deeds of rapine, warfare, conquests, unmerciful butcheries, all the time invoking God's holy name to sanction his evil deeds.

According to the National Review, the book shows how "Mohammed again and again justified his rapine and licentiousness with new 'divine revelations.'"

CAIR said the book "is the literary equivalent of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." (NOTE: In 2002, CAIR called on an Arab-American publication to apologize for publishing excerpts from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a 19th century anti-Semitic forgery used to justify the persecution of Jews.)

ACTION REQUESTED:

(As always, be POLITE. National Review WILL use any hostile comments to further defame Islam and Muslims.)

Contact National Review to respectfully that they reconsider promoting a book that attacks the faith of one-fifth of the world's population and harms America's image in the Muslim world.

CONTACT:

Mr. Richard Lowry
Editor
National Review
215 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York 10016

TEL: 212-679-7330
FAX: 212-849-2835

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