“My comrade-in-arms, my pal, my buddy.”
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Oriana Fallaci
“Robert Spencer incarnates intellectual courage when, all over the world, governments, intellectuals, churches, universities and media crawl under a hegemonic Universal Caliphate’s New Order. His achievement in the battle for the survival of free speech and dignity of man will remain as a fundamental monument to the love of, and the self-sacrifice for, liberty.”
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Bat Ye’or
“Robert Spencer is indefatigable. He is keeping up the good fight long after many have already given up. I do not know what we would do without him. I appreciate all the intelligence and courage it takes to keep going despite the appeasement of the West.”
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Ibn Warraq
“America's most informed, fearless, and compelling voice on modern jihadism.”
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Andrew C. McCarthy, Senior Fellow at National Review Institute
“Robert Spencer is the leading voice of scholarship and reason in a world gone mad. If the West is to be saved, we will owe Robert Spencer an incalculable debt.”
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Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs
"The consummate Islam critic and expert." —
Bruce Bawer
“Over the years, we have become friends, and I have received his assistance on several pieces of legislation I proposed.”
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Former Congressman Tom Tancredo
“Few people are capable of applying scholarship, analytical reasoning, and objectivity to their topic -- while simultaneously being readable and witty -- as can Robert Spencer.”
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Raymond Ibrahim
“A national treasure...The acclaimed scholar of Islam.”
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Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy
“I am indeed honored to call him my friend.”
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Brad Thor, novelist
“A top American analyst of Islam....A serious scholar...I learn from him.”
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Daniel Pipes
“A brilliant scholar and writer.”
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Douglas Murray
"One of my best teachers."
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Ashraf Ramelah, Voice of the Copts
“Thank God there’s at least one man with balls left in the West.”
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Kathy Shaidle, Five Feet of Fury
“I read people like [Mark Steyn] and Bob Spencer and the rest of them, and I say, ‘Boortz, you’re pretending you’re an author. These people really are. They really write some entertaining, some standup stuff.’”
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Neal Boortz
“Robert Spencer is the Stephen King of Jihad.”
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Chris Gaubatz, Muslim Mafia
“Armed with facts and fearlessness, Spencer stands up for Western civilization.”
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Michelle Malkin
“Widely read in conservative foreign policy circles.”
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New York Times
“Widely read in many quarters in Washington.”
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Washington Post
“A canny operative who likely has the inside track on the State Department’s Middle East affairs desk should the tea party win the White House.”
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New York Magazine
“A hero of the American right.”
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Karen Armstrong
"The leading anti-Islamic intellectual in the United States....The go-to Islam expert for the right wing."
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Salon Magazine
“Robert Spencer is an Edward Said turned upside down.”
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Stephen Suleyman Schwartz
“One of the nation's most notorious Islamophobes.”
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Hamas-linked CAIR
"Geller and Spencer are probably the most important propagandizing Islamophobes in the world. These people's voices speak very loudly — not just here in the United States but overseas."
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Heidi Beirach, Southern Poverty Law Center
“Satanic ignoramus.”
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Khaleel Mohammed
“The Likud anti-Christ.”
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Dar al-Hayat newspaper (Saudi Arabia)
“Zionist Crusader, missionary of hate, counter-Islam consultant.”
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Al-Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn, “Azzam the American”
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Which counts more -- this kind of event, or the smiles and India-Pakistan cricket games that are given all the attention? There is no "solution" to Muslim demands in Kashmir, and if they were to be met, the demands on India, and within India, by heartened Muslims would simply increase. There is no end to this.
Infidels keep hoping there is, and Indian Hindus and secularists think of the "good" Musliims such as the completely secular Muslims in the national government or even among some of the weapons scientists, and take these people to be representative Muslims.
In the United States, Indian-Americans who are of Hindu or Sikh ancestry or belief appear far less wary of Pakistanis or of Indians of Muslim background, than are their counterparts in the United Kingdom, and certainly are often ill-informed about the treatment of Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan and of Hindus in Bangladesh. Why? Surely it is because Muslims, including the Pakistanis, in England, can allow themselves to be more aggressive (and make life difficult for Hindus in such places as Bradford and London) because of their greater numbers.
But even here, where a false melting-pot of curry and saris may cause Hindus not to sense the real aggression, or to overlook the history, of Muslims in the subcontinent, or where a shared interest in something, curry or cricket, may render seemingly irrelevant the grim history of Muslim rule in India, or of the essence of Islamic ideology, that will always make life difficult for Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and always be a demographic threat within India itself for all non-Muslims, Hindu, Sikh, Jain, and Christian. In the shared excitement over deal-making with Muslim colleagues in Silicon Valley or Route 128, Indian-Americans may forget what Islam is all about. They should not. Mughal India had many Aurangzebs, and only one Akbar, revered in Hindu India precisely for his syncretism, his failure to be a real Muslim.