I did not read in this book anything new nor witnessed a departure from the author's unusual disregard for authenticity.The publication of some of the stories in the book with a 21st century lights shed on them is, at times, laughable. Some of the practices attributed to some leading Moslems were standard ones in, say, England and France, up to the sixteenth century! To bring them out in this manner alludes to an agenda that the author has beyond compiling impartial scholarly study.My lack of surprise was reinforced by reading Daniel Pipes review in... the Jerusalem Post. I am so angry and upset that history is but a tool for the unscrupulous.