Understanding Islam

Understanding Islam is a book by Guillaume Faye, published in English in 2016 by Arktos.

Publisher description

"Understanding Islam means knowing that, in spite of its seemingly many internal divisions, the world of Islam has but one enemy — any civilisation that is not its own. Guillaume Faye proposes that there is no difference between Islam and Islamism other than a tactical one. According to him, Islam is completely incompatible with pluralist democracy, secularism, and the Western conception of freedom. Its purpose is theocracy, and its reign is synonymous with a decline in intelligence. Understanding Islam urges Westerners to refuse to submit to Islam’s values and to reject its principles."

About the Author

Guillaume Faye was a leading theorist of the French 'New Right' during the 1970s and ‘80s, and a prominent member of Alain de Benoist’s GRECE group. After leaving the movement in the mid-‘80s for a career in French journalism and radio, he resurfaced as a political writer in 1998, publishing numerous articles on the contemporary situation in Europe, many of which came to form his 1999 book L’Archéofuturisme (published in English translation in 2010 by Arktos under the title Archeofuturism). Ever controversial, Faye has criticised not only what he views as the ongoing Islamisation of Europe, as well as the dominant European culture of self-loathing, but he has also attacked anti-Semitism and Holocaust revisionism in his work La Nouvelle question juive, arousing ire not only among the Left, but also in many corners of the so-called 'Far Right'.

Among his ideas are notions such as an all but complete rejection of current political projects; opposition to extra-European, and especially Islamic, immigration; and a strong pan-Europeanism, which he views as the only hope for European survival. He continues to write and lecture to this day. Archeofuturism was the first in a series of his works that will be made available in English by Arktos.

Books by the same author

• A Global Coup
• Archeofuturism
• Archeofuturism 2.0
• Convergence of Catastrophes
• Sex & Deviance
• The Colonization of Europe
• Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance

External links

• Understanding Islam