Last month I had intended to publish my review of this book, and sadly got delayed. Fortunately, I’ve had the opportunity to mull over Jesus, the Fake Jihadis and Evangelical Christians for sometime and now I’m able to give my thoughts about it. The title is certainly a mouthful, and quite an unusual combination of terms. The question that immediately stands out is what does Jesus have to do with Fake Jihadis and Evangelical Christians? I surmised from the title alone that this work was going to pique my interest and it surely has. At best, I can describe this work as a treatise on Christians and their demonizing of Islam. At its worst, I can describe it as a title that touches on a variety of topics ranging from Jihad, Christian scholarship, Christian claims about Islam to Christian polemical arguments.

The book’s focus is responding to two…