Unexpectedly academic...

Doubtless some people may bought this book hoping it to be an easy way to discredit Tommy Robinson. Sadly any such reader is going to be in for a bit of a shock. It's not some "racist" diatribe written by a mindless thicko but a well written background introduction and then the Koran in reverse chronological order. It succinctly lays out the historical development of Islam and introduces Western readers to the key concept of "abrogation". Reading the Koran verses you do quickly get the sense of how despised non-Muslims are and this should be concerning to other cultures. We may want to see them as friends and equals - they do not (or at least their religion doesn't). Islam as a way of life, more so than a religion, teaches it's adherents to force conversion/murder or simply exorbitantly tax those who won't convert. I daresay the murder/tax decision is based on how threatened they feel. In either case this is hardly good news for minority non-Muslim communities. It does seem hard to draw a line between "radical" and "non-radical" Muslims assuming they are both reading the same book -it's a book teaching love & respect to other Muslims and death/oppression to everyone else. A clearer distinction to my mind would be "activist" vs "non-activist" and it would be helpful if our politicians understood this better.