Anti-Muslim books sold widely despite being riddled with documented falsehoods

Evidence

In Unveiling Islam, the Caners told of growing up as devout Muslims, but after the attacks on America they felt compelled to expose the faith as violent and dangerous. War was “not a sidebar of history for Islam,” they wrote, but “the main vehicle for religious expression.” Muslims quickly raised red flags concerning a number of assertions in the book, accusing the brothers of “either purposely or ignorantly” presenting “half-truth after half-truth, mischaracterization after mischaracterization and falsehood after falsehood.” But the book told conservative evangelicals exactly what they wanted to hear. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 498

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the commercial logic by which consumer demand rewarded factual inaccuracy in a niche book market — evidence for how market forces shape religious epistemology.
• SHARE: The Caner brothers’ own Muslim critics’ phrase ‘half-truth after half-truth, mischaracterization after mischaracterization and falsehood after falsehood’ is a striking quote for someone interested in evangelical anti-Muslim publishing.
• XREF: connects to: The Eurabia conspiracy theory about Muslim demographic domination has circulated widely through bestselling authors — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 50