Book Reviews 215 

Islam Unveiled: Dist urbing Questions 

About the World's Fastest-Growing Faith 

Robert Spencer 

San Francisco: Encounter Boob� 2002. 2 I 4 pages. 

Rehashing historical animosities, polemics, and stereotypes, Spencer's 
work is an admirable contribution to the clash of civilizations underway. 
Basically a collection of diatribes, invective, and ranting against Islam 
consolidated by a heavy dose of disinformation, Islam Unveiled reflects a 
discursive piece of work consistent with the lmperium's policies and inter ­
ests. With a pure secular discourse having proven ineffective in con­
fronting Islam, the same discourse has been repackaged in a religious garb, 
pouring old wine into an even older bottle in order to fight fire with fire. 
The subtitle of the book, Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest­
Gro-wing Faith, expresses the author's main worries and underscores that 
similar publications are not mere religio-polemical enterprises to be