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And now here's your Ralph Cramden of the airways, Eric Mott, Texas.

Hey, the folks. Welcome.

I'm going to tell you, there are very few people who have been as brave as my guest in this hour.

Robert Spencer has been very, very bold speaking against, oh, I don't know, radical Islam.

And he has a new book out called Muhammad, a critical biography.

We clearly need to know what is really going on because there's been so much confusion over the years.

So it's a privilege right now to have on the author of the new book, Muhammad, a critical biography, Robert Spencer. Welcome back, Robert.

Good to see you again, Eric. Thank you. Well, this is such an important subject, and it's such an incendiary subject. What led you? I mean, you've been writing about this kind of stuff for many years. As I said,

you've been just tremendous on this. What led you to think, okay, we need a biography of Muhammad?

Well, in the first place, because there is still general lack of understanding of how much Muhammad inspires contemporary jihad terrorists.

And so that in the first place is something that I think deforms our entire response to the terrorist threat in many different places around the world, including

stateside, inside the United States. So that's one thing. But also, I've been exploring this

historically for a number of years. And I wrote a book a few years ago called Did Muhammad

Exist? That was an examination of exactly that question.

And this one goes deeper into that, looking into the biographical material about

Muhammad that Islamic tradition shows us and trying to evaluate whether it's historically

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