“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”
Israel National News interviewed me briefly on my waving an Israeli flag at a rally in Berlin last weekend, after German police had warned us not to do so. My account of this rally is here. "American Islam Scholar Defies German Ban on Israeli Flag," by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz for Israel National News, October 9 (thanks to all who sent this in):
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same old stuff: Provocation.
You can't speak (or show a flag) because of potential violence.
Why, because when you would speak, they knew you would attempt to provoke/incite your followers to violent acts?
No, because those that oppose you will become violent, and if an innocent party were to become injured or killed, that party or their heirs would have legal recourse against us for allowing you to speak/provoke. We can't take that risk.
Failing injury, if we absorb the expense to provide adequate security to prevent injury or death, then we can be criticized and or be removed, for misuse of funds.
Worse yet, if we provide the security, and someone is injured and or killed, would we not have admitted that allowing you to speak would be dangerous, and why would we allow you a forum to speak, if we knew it to be a public danger?
I am sorry, but we, as an organization, cannot absorb the cost and/or take the risk.
It is a most interesting way to control the public dialogue, and limit free speech. Get a group of people together to threaten criminal acts, in order to stop a constitutional right.
I know this is Germany, and this example involves a flag at a demonstration involving two opposed groups. But doesn't go like this:
Put away the flag.
Why is it against the law to have a flag?
No, but we have requested you put away the flag, and failure to follow the direction of a peace officer you can be arrested.
Why?
Because it could endanger the public.
So let me get this straight, having a flag is legal, but since someone else might commit a violent criminal act, you will arrest me and take my property?
Sir, come this way you are under arrest.
Opposing protesters, "Yay!" "We win, we win!"