Robert Spencer

ROBERT SPENCER is the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of fifteen books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades). His latest book is The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS. Coming in 2016 will be The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran.

Spencer has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the FBI, the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), and the U.S. intelligence community. He has discussed jihad, Islam, and terrorism at a workshop sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the German Foreign Ministry.

Spencer is a columnist for PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine, and has written many hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism. Spencer’s books have been translated into many languages, including Spanish, Italian, German, Finnish, Korean, Polish and Bahasa Indonesia. His Blogging the Qur’an commentary on the Muslim holy book has been translated into Czech, Danish, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. His articles on Islam and other topics have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Dallas Morning News, National Review, TownHall.com, Real Clear Religion, the Daily Caller, the New Criterion, the Journal of International Security Affairs, the UK’s Guardian, Canada’s National Post, Middle East Quarterly, WorldNet Daily, First Things, and many other journals.

He has also appeared on the BBC, ABC News, CNN, FoxNews’s O’Reilly Factor, The Kelly File, the Sean Hannity Show, PBS, MSNBC, CNBC, C-Span, France24, Voice of Russia, and numerous radio programs, and has spoken at universities and other venues all over the world.