After carefully reading their writings, one feels inclined to admit that western orientalists have not been motivated by academic objectivity. Some orientalists, more particularly Arabists and Islamists, have made a well-orchestrated effort to denigrate Islam. This disparaging tendency was particularly pronounced during the heyday of colonial empires and it still exists. Robert Spencer's writings are a blatant manifestation of the orientalist agenda. He often regurgitates the biased ideas and notions presented by the prejudiced Orientalists. He questions the authenticity of Islamic sources and presents Islam as a violent religion which poses serious threat to the western values. This article investigates the similarities between Robert Spencer’s prejudiced views and the primary motives of Orientalists
Key words: Colonization, Orient, European, Occident, Muhmmedanism, Middle Ages, Christians, Contraferentia.
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