“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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OT but here are the latest musings of the muslim Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.:
told a group of atheists earlier this week the actions of the Bush administration in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida attacks remind him of the Nazis' use of the burning of Berlin’s Reichstag parliament building in 1933 to expand their power.
Ellison, at a noontime speech before Atheists for Human Rights, told the Minneapolis-based group, "You'll always find this Muslim standing up for your right to be atheists."
The congressman talked to the group of over 100 meeting in the Southdale Library in Edina about a number of topics – impeaching Vice President Cheney, Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence, the war in Iraq and the 2001 attacks by al-Qaida.
Speaking of the destruction of the World Trade Center and the damage to the Pentagon, Ellison said, "It's almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that. After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the communists for it and it put the leader of that country [Hitler] in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted."
On Feb. 27, 1933 – one week before elections in Germany – the Reichstag building in Berlin was burned. Historians have disputed who set the blaze for nearly 75 years, although the Nazis have often been suggested as culprits who destroyed the nation's parliament building in an effort to discredit the communists and justify seizure of emergency powers.
The day following the fire, Chancellor Adolph Hitler pushed for an end to many personal, political and property rights and used powers granted to him to crush political opposition and come to power.
"The fact is that I'm not saying it was a [U.S.] plan, or anything like that because, you know, that's how they put you in the nut-ball box – dismiss you," Ellison explained to the group.
On Tuesday, Ellison attempted to further clarify his Reichstag statement by telling the Minneapolis Star-Tribune he was making the point that "in the aftermath of a tragedy, space is opened up for governments to take action that they could not have achieved before that."
When asked for examples of such Nazi-like action in the wake of 9/11, Ellison cited the Iraq war, certain provisions of the Patriot Act and Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence.