Bill Warner (writer)

Bill Warner is the pen name of Bill French (born 1941), an American anti-Islam writer, and the founder of the Center for the Study of Political Islam International. He is a former physics professor whom the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2011 counted among a core group of ten anti-Islam hardliners in the United States.[1][2]

Bill Warner
Born1941 (age 80–81)
OccupationFounder and President of the Center for the Study of Political Islam International (CSPII)
NationalityAmerican
EducationNorth Carolina State University, Ph.D.
SubjectWriter
Website
www.politicalislam.com

Biography

Warner graduated from North Carolina State University where he got his PhD in physics and mathematics in 1968.[3] He is a former Tennessee State University physics professor.[1]

Criticism

Middlebury Institute professor and terrorism expert Jeffrey M. Bale refers to Warner as an example of writers who identify Islam with Islamism. According to Bale, these writers relate all the characteristics associated with Islamism with Islam as a whole, alleging that "such characteristics are intrinsic to Islam itself, and therefore that Islamism and jihadism are simply logical extensions - or simple applications in practice - of the authentic tenets and core values of Islam." He argues that, what they "fail to acknowledge is that these particular interpretations are by no means the only possible interpretations of core Islamic doctrines, traditions, and values, nor are they necessarily the most authentic, valid, or widely shared interpretations." This he says, is like claiming that Christian Reconstructionism is identical to Christianity.[4]

Warner has been compared to Geert Wilders in considering Islam a totalitarian political ideology demanding complete submission.[5]

References
  1. Steinback, Robert. "THE ANTI-MUSLIM INNER CIRCLE". splc.org. Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  2. Campbell, Kay (2012-08-27). "Anti-Islam writer Bill Warner warns of political Islam". al. Retrieved 2021-11-18.
  3. "Dr. Bill Warner - Author, Speaker, and Teacher on the History of Political Islam". drbillwarner.com. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  4. Bale, Jeffrey M. (2017). The Darkest Sides of Politics, II: State Terrorism, "Weapons of Mass Destruction," Religious Extremism, and Organized Crime. Apple Academic Press. pp. 217–231. ISBN 978-1138785625. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  5. Iqbal, Zafar (2019). Islamophobia: History, Context and Deconstruction. SAGE Publishing India. p. 199. ISBN 978-93-5328-697-2. Retrieved 27 June 2020.

Bibliography
  • Warner, Bill (2015). Sharia Law for Non-Muslims. Centre for the Study of Political Islam. ISBN 978-0-9795794-8-6.
  • Warner, Bill (2016). The Hadith. Center for the Study of Political Islam. ISBN 978-1-936659-01-2.
  • Warner, Bill (2016). A Two-Hour Koran. Center for the Study of Political Islam. ISBN 978-1-936659-02-9.
  • Warner, Bill (2016). The Life of Mohammed. Center for the Study of Political Islam. ISBN 978-1-936659-06-7.
  • Warner, Bill (2019). Measuring Mohammed. Center for the Study of Political Islam. ISBN 978-1-936659-38-8.
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