Reddit reviews The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims

I share your frustration and dismay. I'm not a Muslim either, but I often find myself having detailed conversations on Islamic theology and put in the position of a defender of the religion by virtue of having to correct so many wildly inaccurate assumptions and "proofs". The creators of hate sites like atlasshrugs, religionofpeace.com (to which a commenter below referred) unfortunately dominate the public conversation in the US on Islamic belief. Even people who simply seek to satisfy a natural inquisitiveness about a major world religion end up being directed to Islamophobic sources, and are subsequently disinformed (as opposed to misinformed, because much of this is deliberate misinformation). None of this is by accident: there is a lively and lucrative "Islamophobia Industry" in the US and Western Europe, and it abuses the masses' ignorance of Islam, of the standards of academic rigor, and even of proper argumentation form to sow suspicion, distrust, and even hatred among Western non-Muslims with regards to their Muslim fellow human beings.

Nathan Lean wrote a truly excellent and illuminating exposé on this cottage industry of anti-Muslim bigots selling hate for profit, called The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Hatred of Muslims. I highly recommend it to Muslims and non-Muslims alike, so as to better understand this enemy we share as a society valuing tolerance and acceptance.

I recommend these books:

• Jeffery Lang (3) books: Struggling to Surrender, Even Angels Ask and Losing My Religion.
  
  
• Jonathan Brown Hadith- Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World
  
  
• Muhammad Asad The Road to Mecca
  
  
• Tariq Ramadan In the Footsteps of the Prophet
  
  
• Karen Armstrong (2) books: Islam: A Short History
  and Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
  
  
• Martin Lings Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
  
  
• John L. Esposito Who Speaks For Islam?
  
  
• Nathan Lean The Islamophobia Industry
  
  
• Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, Ossie Davis (Afterword), Alex Haley (As Told to)
  
  
• Sherman Jackson Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection
  
  
• Dr. Ejaz Naqvi The Quran: with or Against the Bible?
  
  
• Hamza Yusuf Purification of the Heart
  
  
• Imam Zaid Shakir's translation, commentary and notes on Imam al-Harith al-Muhasibi's Risala al-Mustarshidin Treatise For The Seekers Of Guidance
  
  
• Al-Nawawi Nawawi Forty Hadiths
  
  Side note on Quran translation:
  
  Stay away from
  
  
• The Penguin Koran (The Koran -Penguin Classics- by Anonymous and N. J. Dawood). Its been written by non-Muslim who also changed the order of the Suras. In fact, Dawood's translation might as well been written by Robert Spencer!
  
  Try:
  
  
• The Gracious Quran: A Modern-Phrased Interpretation in English
  
  
• Mona Siddiqui How to Read The Qur'an
  
  
• Bayyinah Podcast for a comprehensive tafseer with Nouman Ali Khan (The iTunes Podcast URL)
  
  
  Misc:
  
  
• Terry Alford Prince among Slaves: The True Story of an African Prince Sold Into Slavery in the American South
  
  
• Omar Ibn Said A Muslim American Slave
  
  
• João José Reis Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia
  
  
• Ahmad Dallal Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History
  
  
• Use this link to download the PDF copy of Even Angels Ask by Jeffrey Lang.
  
  
• Use this link to download copy of Quran translation by Muhammad Asad on on scribd.
  
  
• Use this link to download copy of Quran translation by MAS Abdul Haleem OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS
  
  
• Use this link to download copy of Quran translation by Saheeh International (PDF)
  
  
• The Purpose of Life - Jeffrey Lang
  
  Movie:
  
  
• Journey to Mecca

There seems to be a lot of paper written and a whole lot of time wasted on something that "doesn't exist."

Surely another liberal hoax -- concocted with help from the Chinese.

The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims

How about this book:

• [Book] The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims - Nathan Lean, Using terms like: “stealth jihad,” “creeping Sharia,” “Islamofascism,” and other techniques used to scare the public are discussed.