Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Appalling and Disturbing

Whether the author's purpose in this book was to report on the history of Jihad or denigrate the religion of Islam, he seems to lean towards the 2nd. I was appalled at his portrait of Muhammed and the early history of Islam. Imagine if a writer explained Christianity by decribing Jesus as a bastard child of Mary who described himself as the Son of God to cover his embarassment. (By the way, Muslims accept the holiness of Jesus, if not his divinity and would not treat Him as Muhammed is treated in this book) Fregosi is always looking into the seamier tales of Muhammed like a tabloid gossip reporter. One of his oft repeated ploys is to write "This book is not the place to cover-" some foible of Muhammed or of Islam in general and then launch into a lengthy discussion of it anyway. This is not so much history as Mr Fregosi's tirade against the followers of Islam. As such, it reveals the author's foibles too. Deserves 0 stars.