Spencer on People for the American Way Enemies List

Awesome! Thank you for your courage and
forebearance, you are truly a credit to America,
and I thank God there are people like you out
there! Take care, and keep up the good work!

Where would Pim Fortuyn, the libertine who wanted to halt all Muslim migration into Holland, have been placed on Right Wing Watch? Or Oriana Fallaci, who at 14 was helping to make life unpleasant for German soldiers in Florence, spent much of her journalistic career as a tiersmondiste (and thus had intimate views of Khomeini, Arafat, Khaddafy, Castro), wrote a book on Vietnam that would not have pleased Nixon or Kissinger, and finally came to realize that Islam was the greatest threat to human freedom she had ever encountered? And where would the free-thinking Ibn Warraq be situated --or a number of other unclassifiable ex-Muslims who have testified as to its real nature, and teachings.

Islam, with its "doubly totalitarian" (Bousquet's phrase) nature, both insists on offering a system for the complete regulation of the lives of the Believers (that is totalitarianism at the level of the individual believer), and it demands an attitude of uncompromising hostility toward non-Muslims, even if that hostility may be deliberately camouflaged for the purposes of "protecting the faith" and furthering the Jihad until Islam has completely subjugated all the lands of dar al-harb, and dar al-Islam covers the globe (that is totalitariansim at the geopolitical level). This is not an imaginary problem, a figment of fevered rightists. The geopolitical cult of Islam is a threat to the mental freedom, and physical wellbeing, of all non-Muslims. That threat has existed for as long as Islam; sometimes the threat has subsided, when local conditions have dictated, or there has been lack of wherewithal to pursue its goals. But three things changed all that: 1) OPEC oil money, which continues to disguise the political, economic, and intellectual failures of Islam; 2) mass movement of millions of Muslims, as yet unhindered, to the Lands of the Infidels, where they have not only established themselves, but have revealed their continued loyalty only to the umma al-islamiyya, their intent to preserve, and act upon, their hostility to non-Muslims (beginning with the most vulnerable of them, the Jews), and to work through da'wa (and procreation to increase their population relative to the Infidels; and 3) advances in technology which, in making audiocassettes, videocassettes, satellite channels such as Al-Jazeera, and the Internet all available vehicles for the aggressive further indoctrination of Believers and the whipping up of Jihad-fever.

Only the continued technological superiority of the West -- "we have the Gatling gun and they have not" -- protects us now. That can be undone by conquest through demographic invasion, and through the wherewithal that OPEC revenues supply.

Jihad has existed for 1350 years, long before Archie Bunker made a fortune for Norman Lear, and for his toy, the obnoxiously-named People for the American Way. Those who remember the book Under Cover, by John Roy Carlson (real last name: Garabedian), which did so much to alert Americans to the pro-Nazi and isolationist movement in the United States, from Father Coughlin to Pelley's Silver Shirts, to Fritz Kuhn (with the Bund rally in Madison Square Garden), to Lindbergh, should understand that a new version of that book would, in exposing the apologists and promoters of Islam, surely not fail to mention the ACLU (think of the role of a certain Mrs. Murray, in the Massachusetts office -- mother of Rebecca Murray, a pro-PLO activist), and a great many other such infiltrated groups.

"If People for the American Way really cared about freedom and human rights, they would be on board with Jihad Watch."

AMEN

greatness can be measured by the quality of your enemies btw i'm a little suprised no anti-jihadwatch hasnt been spotted on the web but then again you have not been up that long yet and as for watch watchers reading this get a life already

Congrats to you, Robert. You must be doing something right.

Islam is the enemy of every decent human being on this planet. Read www.jtf.org every week and learn how to save America and Israel from this evil religion.

I throw away any solicitations that I recieve these days from PFAW. Bob, you were in good company looking at the list for the CPAC meetings back in January, 2004. I noted David Horowitz of FrontPageMagazine for one and a number of leading members of the Senate and House. But your point is well taken. You went to the session to talk about the threat of Islamism abroad and most chillingly here in the good ole US of A. Heck, if we had Bob Spencer around as a professional paranoid adviser to Ms. Rice and Mr. Clarke on August 6th, maybe, just maybe, some of those 19 perps let into the US via the "quickie Visa" program might not have been let on those fateful planes in Boston, Newark and Northern Virginia. I know having watched the horrific destruction of the TWC twin towers and the murder of nearly 3000 people, including several former professional acquintances. My son and daughter-in-law lost a Cardozo Law School classmate in the Pentagon crash, Barbara Olson, the Solicitor General Ted Olson's late wife. I think that PFAW like MOVEON.org the latter fueled by dough from George Soros and manned by his son Jon are simply verifying the obvious: left radical McCarthyism. Now that's from a conservative yeller dawg, too! Keep on punchin.' Also thanks to Hugh for his cogent and trenchent comments.

While I laud Robert for his efforts, and shudder to think what would happen if a 'liberal' won the election, I must point out a few things:

The Bush administration is the most secretive in history. It is cronyism embodied. It is pro-business to the point of corruption and allowing pollution to despoil the land. It has actively UNDERFUNDED homeland security, and give Idaho as much funding as New York. It refuses to see the connection between oil and terror. It allowed the Bin Laden family to fly out of the country shortly after 9/11. It is resolutely anti-worker, trying to gut any possibility of social safety net. It governs by deception, in doublespeak, threatening anyone who dares to buck the party line (sound familiar?).

Both sides have problems with freedom of speech, both have their own belief canon. Both shaft people in the middle. Neither is pure. I am disgusted by politics in general.

I am as rabidly anti-Islam as anyone who posts to this site, but Islam and terrorism is but one issue among many.

Budd, your points about the Bush Administration are well taken. I think Kerry would be worse, but there is no doubt that there are many questions about how the Bush people have pursued the terror war.

And as I said above: resisting jihad terror is not a conservative issue. Jihadists want to destroy what both liberals and conservatives hold dear.

Cordially
RS

http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_2_when_islam.html

Anyone who lives in a city like mine and interests himself in the fate of the world cannot help wondering whether, deeper than this immediate cultural desperation, there is anything intrinsic to Islam—beyond the devout Muslim’s instinctive understanding that secularization, once it starts, is like an unstoppable chain reaction—that renders it unable to adapt itself comfortably to the modern world. Is there an essential element that condemns the Dar al-Islam to permanent backwardness with regard to the Dar al-Harb, a backwardness that is felt as a deep humiliation, and is exemplified, though not proved, by the fact that the whole of the Arab world, minus its oil, matters less to the rest of the world economically than the Nokia telephone company of Finland?
I think the answer is yes, and that the problem begins with Islam’s failure to make a distinction between church and state. Unlike Christianity, which had to spend its first centuries developing institutions clandestinely and so from the outset clearly had to separate church from state, Islam was from its inception both church and state, one and indivisible, with no possible distinction between temporal and religious authority. Muhammad’s power was seamlessly spiritual and secular (although the latter grew ultimately out of the former), and he bequeathed this model to his followers. Since he was, by Islamic definition, the last prophet of God upon earth, his was a political model whose perfection could not be challenged or questioned without the total abandonment of the pretensions of the entire religion

Robert,

All I was trying to say was that we, the people, must be remain alert to the attempts to use this VERY important issue (saving us, and the West from Islam, although the administration would never come out and say that) to destroy us from within.

The fight against this evil would be much more effective, and have many, many more people of all political persuasions, if it were done cleanly. This is not to say that the Democrats would do any better, even domestically.

Cordially back,

Budd

Mainstream media is our worst enemy. They either refuse to believe what some people are trying to do to this country, they like it, or they dismiss it as a non issue.

Robert, I don't wish to become a tiresome nag on the subject, but is there any way you and the other educators on the several "Enemies Lists" that are being developed would consider hosting a conference exposing the dangers we are facing?

Please, please, pretty please? I'll come, and I'll bet you a lot of other people would too.

Everybody who is interested, raise your hand!

Cubed,

Your point is well taken. Unfortunately, these things require money, of which I have none. I am trying to attract donors. We'll see what transpires.

Best
RS