Jamie Glazov interviews me for FrontPage this morning on the Fort Hood jihad attack:
FP: Robert Spencer, welcome to Frontpage Interview.What do we now know about the Fort Hood shooting and what conclusions can we make?
Spencer: Jamie, we now know from the testimony of various eyewitnesses that this act was carefully planned. Nidal Malik Hasan some time ago told his landlord he would not be renewing the lease on his apartment. He gave away his furniture along with copies of the Qur'an on the morning of the day he committed mass murder. This indicates that he thought he was going to die - in other words, that he was planning a suicide attack. As he began firing, he shouted "Allahu Akbar."
We also know that he was disciplined for proselytizing for Islam during his stint at the Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences. Law enforcement officials flagged Internet postings written by a man named "Nidal Hasan" and he was praising suicide attacks, but they couldn't be sure that he was the man who had written them. Still, it was in character: one of his colleagues recalled that he had said that Muslims must rise up against the U.S. military, and had spoken approvingly of Sgt. Hasan Akbar, a Muslim soldier in the U.S. military who lobbed a grenade at American troops, killing two, several years ago.
And we know that during a lecture he was supposed to be giving on a medical topic, he instead preached Islam, warning the assembled unbelievers of hellfire in such lurid Koranic terms that some left the hall wondering if he might end up shooting someone someday.
FP: Why does the media and liberal-Left so reflexively deny and ignore these conclusions?
Spencer: They reflexively deny and ignore these conclusions because they are completely sold out to the idea that Muslims, as non-white, non-Christian, non-Westerners, cannot possibly be anything but victims. (The facts that there are white Muslims, and that the jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism are not racial issues, but constitute an ideological and societal challenge, are completely lost on them. Likewise the non-white victims of the jihad matter nothing to them.) We can see from the avalanche of "backlash" stories in the mainstream media - even in the absence of any actual backlash - that it is simply impossible for these people to conceive of a paradigm in which Muslims can perpetrate any kind of evil at all. In the lenses through which they view the world, only white Judeo-Christian Westerners can do anything wrong.
FP: What does this massacre, and the media response, indicate about what is coming down the line for our country?
Spencer: The more we remain in denial about how these things happen, and from what wellsprings they come, the more we will see of attacks like this. Why? Because nothing is being done to prevent them. Instead of the endless stories about backlash that we are seeing, we should be seeing stories about authorities calling the American Muslim community to account. We should be seeing stories about authorities demanding transparent, inspectable programs in American mosques and Islamic schools, teaching against the Islamic doctrines that inspired Nidal Hasan. This is not a religious freedom issue - these are political doctrines with a lethal edge, as Nidal Hasan illustrated. It is an entirely Constitutional matter of self-protection to move to restrict it.
But that won't happen. Political correctness has the media and government in a stranglehold. That will only ensure that nothing will be done to address this problem at its root, and we will see many more Nidal Hasans.
FP: Robert Spencer, thank you for joining us.
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[To get the whole story on why the liberal media and the Left deny the true nature of Islamic jihad, read Jamie Glazov's new book, United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror. [2]]
Sen. Graham said. “At the end of the day, maybe this is just about him. It’s certainly not about his religion, Islam.”
Allahu Akbar...How stupid does it get???
It's time to clear the appeasing ignorant apologists out of government...
Allahu Akbar...How stupid does it get???
That's right duh_swami, must be some coded message, but definitely nothing to do with his "religion". Nothing to do with Islam.
Sen. Graham, you really make me sick.
Senator Nancy Graham from South Carolina is mentally unstable, but we are letting him do this senator thing due to veteran guilt syndrome.
We most certainly will see more attacks like this.
And if we're not willing to give even our lives to defeat this enemy ~ whether manifest as an ideology or as a person shooting at us ~ then we deserve the shame and the chains our conquerors will make us wear.
Of course all of us have seen Hasan the Islamic Jihadist being called nothing but a generic "shooter" in our Liberal newspapers.
But, today I saw this word being used: "sniper."
Sniper! Hey People - Hasan is a sniper!
This was in Liberal Libtard Bud Kennedy's column in the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram yesterday.
He's comparing the massacre at Ft. Hood to Charles Whitman on the UT Tower in 1966!
Oh, Charles Whitman was motivated by Islam? Gee, I didn't know that.
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/columnists/bud_kennedy/story/1745240.html
Undaunted...then we deserve the shame and the chains our conquerors will make us wear.
Well, liberals and other sociopathic misfits will deserve it and live in shame, but I don't think you're going to go for this...Me neither... I have an army of attack trained chickens, and some wild hogs...They protect my back while I do my best to defeat the enemy up front...If I get killed, I didn't defeat them, so I am obliged to stay alive in order to defeat...It's an advantage stay alive...dead people don't do much in the way of defeating...although some dead liberals still vote...:)
Still the amazing ignorance of the true tenants of Islam permeates the marble halls of our governing bodies. There are 164 jihad versus among the 114 surahs in the Qu'ran that are locked in stone for all time and yet our lawmakers and our President act as if they don't apply,they don't exist, they are really ignored by Muslims. This of course is totally false on its face even if Imans and clerics tell the media heads that Islam is a Peaceful religion, they are in fact always practicing the art of taquiya and kitman towards the kaffir (dog) and the infidel dhimmi.
Major Coughlin wrote an excellent thesis on Islam that was commissioned by higher ups in the Pentagon and yet the man who had the ear of the 2nd in command Hesham Islam was able to convince Gordon England that Major Coughlin needed to tone down his thesis. The Thesis went through and can be found on the internet. Coughlins thesis remains something that every officer in the military should have been mandatory required reading.
"Know your enemy and know him well if you want to defeat him"
General Douglas MacArthur
"Still the amazing ignorance of the true tenants of Islam" - Mackie
Hi Mackie, just letting you know it's "tenets," not "tenants." A "tenant" is a person who rents from a landlord.
Concerning your Douglas MacArthur quote, here's a similar one from Cicero:
"Know your enemy better than you know yourself."
Our "president" is a Muslim. That's why he deceives the American people about Islam.
Actually Muslims can be considered "tenants" of Islam, and many maintain the premises in a shithole condition, fight with their neighbors, complain incessantly, rip out the plumbing and sell it, beat their wives and children bringing the cops in and waking up everybody else, kill animals in the backyard (sometimes in front), deal drugs from the front porch, terrorize the neighborhood, and are chronically late with the rent. They somehow always manage to come up with the rent, even if it's a few months late because the penalty for eviction is death (apostasy).
Yeah, well, Mackie meant the doctrines of Islam, as you well know.