"With his signature research, accuracy, and boldness, Robert Spencer has written a pioneering survey of the 'stealth jihad' whose ambition and subtlety threaten the continuity of Western civilization." -- Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University

I received my copies of Spencer's book yesterday. Despite my familiarity with the subject matter through years of reading JihadWatch & DhimmiWatch, it remains exasperating and extremely frustrating to witness stealth jihad penetrate and undermine our nations foundations like termites feasting on dead wood.
Spencer's focus and tenacity in explaining this issue is amazing. I planned on giving the book as gifts for the holidays. Rather, I'm going to give it to a local politician (Iraq war vet) I recently met. Perhaps through his connections this message will be introduced and circulate where it can be adequately addressed.
"This message will be introduced and circulate where it can be adequately addressed."
Oh, I so hope. This is the work (I assume) that most directly addresses what our policies ought to be, rather than addressing what people imagine are esoteric issues -- the teachings and history of Islam.
I wondered, Robert, whether you wanted to avoid publishing this book earlier this year because you did not want to be seen as trying to affect the election. It would have been to have the phrase "stealth jihad" introduced months earlier.
Obama winds up with two terms if he shocks us by learning from the horrible experience of the British, the French, the Dutch.
If anyone wants an unfiltered version of the views of many American and British Muslims they can look at the comments on these boards
http://forums.islamicawakening.com/forumdisplay.php?f=18
They represent the "true believers" from the Muslims
I received my copy yesterday and just started it. It's odd to write this, but I'm actually looking forward to reading Stealth Jihad as an "escape" from the recent election. I had to chuckle at myself when I realized that. :)
I hope it's a best-seller for you, Robert. I fear the counter-jihad movement will be getting even less of a hearing from the new administration than the old.
But what can we do to stop this, if we look at all Muslim countries, they protect their "life style" and 'values' by not allowing any thing that goes against their religion to be heard, eg Sudy Arabia, even the so-called tolerant UAE does not allow the preaching of Christianity
I received "Stealth Jihad" yesterday. It covers so much in a great economy of words - I can only guess at what you had to do to provide us (the public) with such good efforts.
Well, I had one of those sleepless nights, about which I'm not complaining at all. Yoou book hheld me in thrall, not so much in new material, but in yur use of that art of credible communication.
"The Saidist Straitjacket" is well worth a reader taking time with and digesting all it represents.
This humble pedestrian applauds you - - and thanks you from the depth of his soul.
Just out of curiosity. What are your thoughts on the vicious crimes that the media ignores and most people remain oblivious to.
1) Mass arial bombings of Baghdad, other Iraqi cities and Afghanistan, bombings that have killed, maimed, orphaned and disposed millions of civilians, civilians that posed no threat to the US, and also Iraq could not even take down one US fighter jet so I doubt they could have attacked the US, but then again the administration new this and Iraq not having WMD's is what allowed your fascist country to invade and occupy it.
2) What are your thoughts on the use of MK77, which was primarily used on the civilians of Falujah, and basically turned human bodies(men, women and children) into charcoal, I can send you the pics, but you probably dont care.
3) what are your views on them cowardly filthy terrorist you call soldiers, the ones that humiliate, oppress and shoot unarmed civilian men, women and children, yet they cower and squeal when the Mujahideen appear and call for arial support as opposed to fighting like men. Again, I can send videos and pictures both when they play the big tyrant with unarmed civilians and when they cower and squeal when the faced with the Mujahideen.
4) What are your views on the wide spread, torture, rape and murder of countless detainees be they civilians or freedom fighters? Women repeatedly gang raped, humiliated and impregnated by those scum bag, criminal low IQ cowards you call soldiers and heroesm who infact were classed as criminals in your own country before being given the opportunity to rob rape and murder and be heroes in doing so. Again pictures, testimonies etc are available for any one of conscience that dares seek the truth, as opposed to being brain washed by US political and media deception.
5)What are your views about the old men who were humiliated, tortured, defecated and unrinated on and made to drink menstrual blood? What are your views on the children made to watch as their family and homes were destroyed by the self claimed good guys the USA?
Just because the Neo-con controlled media fails to acknowledge these crimes, does not mean they have, and do, not occur. The pictures and testimonies of both the oppressed and oppressors are out there. So how can you claim any sort of moral high ground? How can this hypocrrite Spencer and those tyrants even claim to be God fearing Christians. or people that do good.
Every US soldier on Iraqi, Afghan or Arab soil is a terrorist. You talk about the so-called stealth and violent Jihad to control the world, which infact is just a Jihad to liberate the Muslim world from American political, economic and military occupation. The only attempt to impose on others is from the USA through its stealth media, economic (eg forcing the dollar on other), political (puppet regimes) and overt military crusade.
If the USA is not an imperialistic tyrant, that controls and dominates overs through intimidation and straight up slaughter then why does the USA have military bases throughout the world, war ships in all the oceans and nukes pointed at every major city in the world? Because the USA is an imperialistic tyrant state, that controls the world at the barrel of a gun, and accuses others of doing what it has and continues to do, while hiding under the facade of righteousness and goodliness
Benson,
One question - What do you think would happen if the U.S. just one random day uprooted it's base in South Korea? I mean, there is the idyllic, almost uptopian HOPE that N. Korea would not take advantage of their southern neighbors, but for a few moemnts, let's just think about this rationally. It was not long ago that North Korea "tested" it's aresenal, of which fell severly close to the shores of our ally, Japan. Just as a reminder, of course...
Benson - C'mon! Only you can stop taquiyya!
'Biography of Muhammad...'Stealth Jihad'...'An Infidels Guide to the Quran'...
The sacred cows keep falling.
Benson
Are you really this stupid?
Jihadist kill in Sudan, Thailand, Philippines, Nigeria, Russia, China, India, Europe, etc., not to mention the bigoted systems they have imposed in the Islamic world, which treat all non-Muslims as second class citizens, or worse, for example the Copts in Egypt, Christians in Iraq or Zoroastrians in Iran. Islam is a political ideology that treats women as inferior under the law, stones them to death for being raped (and what civilized state stones people to death for adultery?). Yet that is a-ok with you, is it not? The United States at least is attempting to bring these people into the modern world, even though it has been poorly managed. The Jihadist on the other hand want to impose a fascist theocracy, that treats women like it was the 7th century, kill anyone who refuses to go along with their law code, revive chattel slavery (some have called for this) out of Africa, and much more.
Tell me, Benson, are you defending a sexist, bigoted ideology? Are you a supporter of slavery? Are you a supporter of a Theocratic based government? If you are, I can understand why you would hate America, if not…well you are just stupid!
You cannot expect rational thought from the mind of the inherently irrational Mohammedan. It is no different than blood from a stone.
The rational mind rejects Mohammedism at every turn.
Benson,
Supports pedophilia, child kidnapping, mass rape of women, mass bombings of non Muslims women and children. Benson supports hate and bigotry towards non Muslims. Benson supports stoning women and hanging gays. Benson supports the emulation of the first Islamic terrorist, mass murderer, pedophile, mass rapist and robber, thief and a thug the prophet called Mohammad. Benson supports killings and destruction of non Muslims. Benson supports stoning women who are raped, the killing and destruction of non Muslims in Islamic countries. Benson supports the evil ideology and supremacist ideology of Islam that ordains warfare and violence. No wonder the UMMAH is so messed up in a real pathetic and sorry state. What a shame to be a Mohammedan living in total failure and destitute. Well I feel good about that anyway.
Benson,
Reasonable people can disagree about the necessity of the Iraq war. They can also disagree about the executive management of the war. But before anyone trys to condemn our soldiers, they need to look hard into a mirror and condemn themselves.
If you reside in America, then you must realize that your life and that of everyone else here in America is a gift supplied by all the American soldiers throughout the years. In any war it is better that our soldiers live than the enemies' soldiers. Sometimes civilians aid the enemy soldiers or they get in the way and they are accidentally killed. That is the nature of war. On rare occasions, soldiers do go bad but our military deals harshly with them when it happens.
You may disagree with this, but if our American soldiers and citizens all stay here at home and do nothing, then it is just a matter of time until an enemy out there somewhere comes here and kills us. That is the way life has been for humans as long as history has been recorded. (The law of the wild does apply to humans too.) There really are enemies who want to kill us for no other reason then to expand their territory, supply of minerals or food, and wealth.
I have talked to screwed up people who actually believed that the American Indians were peaceful. Can you actually believe that? Now it has been scientifically determined that many "peaceful" indian tribes were actually canibalistic.
People like you always have a hard time blaming the enemy for anything, even if the enemy were a canibal. The people we fight in the middle east are only one step above canibals. Whatever they are, our good soldiers, your neighbors' sons and daughters, have to deal with it. That is their job.
Benson,
If you are a Mohametan, go to hell!
Were it not for the USA, then where would the free world be? Dominated by the tyrants of Islam, who only want to control and dominate others through intimidation and slaughter. That is why the USA has military bases throughout the world, and war ships across the free world. The USA is a defender of freedom, who is fighting against the terrorist and Islamic controls; the same terrorists who wish to control the world by "the sword", and who accuses others of doing what it has and continues to do, spread terrorism and hate, while hiding under the facade of righteousness and goodliness.
I love America!
Posted by: Benson
Way off topic. Looking for an appropriate thread...
Robert,
RE: the LGF issue... Today CJ, in a buried thread is going after Rush Limbaugh. So. you are going to have quite a lot of company under that bus.
They are upset Rush is promoting ideological purity w/ in the conservative party.
My point is just that he's attacking his former (?) ideological colleagues everywhere. Strange that..
FWIW.
Do you suppose that Daniel Pipes will ever develop the courage to say, "The problem is islam"? (As opposed to 'radical islam', 'islamism', yada, yada, PC, yada, yada)
Benson, swallow that Kool-Aid of yours by yourself -- otherwise, keep your mouth shut.
I've recommended this book to my American Government students. I doubt that many will read it, but I think that one young man will. When once asked to write a timed essay on the issue of most importance in today's world, he chose the threat of Islam as his topic.
I hope that Stealth Jihad gets on the NYT bestsellers list. Then the public libraries will accept copies as donations!
BENSON!!!
If you are so against the United States and its retaliation
for the evil, despicable actions of 9/11, why don't you move out? I
will gladly help pay for your one-way ticket and good riddance!
Learn from Benson, don't shout him/her down. Benson is a fine example of why Jihad IMHO will lead to serious conflict. The truth does not set him free, it binds him/her to philosophical thrashing that does not encumber our enemy. Western philosophy is not a suicide pact of feel good self loathing acceptance of diversity. For some that path to self destruction is reality and deserved. A path accepted until reality actually sets in then the call goes out for warriors to save the day. Mr. Spencer etal are just a bit ahead of the call and like good warriors attempting to avoid bloodshed through other forms of conflict.
Lan astalem,
GoingThere
ps...yes we are in serious conflict already but not serious enough for the western masses to cry for help and listen to the answers.
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