The inaugural event of the Freedom Defense Initiative this morning at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC, this morning was a big hit, with a standing-room-only crowd. I'm in the airport now and have tried repeatedly to upload the photo of the crowd, but have failed; so go here and here for photos from Atlas.
Meanwhile here is a Fox report that is quite lopsided simply because it focuses on me, when actually along with Pamela Geller I was moderating the event, and spoke very little. I suspect this reporter left before the second half of the program, but, well, I suppose half a report is better than none.
I only saw two black guys at the event: Allen West and Simon Deng.
Reminds me of the tea parties and how they aren't racist despite the fact that everyone showing up at them is white and scared of their own shadow.
Have read the blogs on this event. More events like this need to be conducted nationwide to educate and combat the treat of Islamic extremism in the U.S.A. As part of the public education process, regarding the threat of Islam, these events will go a long way in preventing the Islamification of our country, thus educating the population about the threat Islam represents. Will continue to donate on a regular basis, so these events can grow in size and scope.
Hey Dustan H,
I thought I recognized you. Weren't you the kid who was wearing the black ski cap and the yellow scarf, diligently picking your nose and studying the contents?
Ladies and gentlemen: observe 'Dustan H', Muslim apologist, attempting a little 'well-poisoning' in the first posting, above.
I'd like to see 'Dustan H' go to Colonel West and Simon Deng, and tell them to their faces that they're Uncle Toms, and that the Global Jihad (currently in full mass-murderous swing in the Sudan, with a black body count two million, and counting, not to mention that it's revving up in Nigeria - many black Christians and animists murdered by Muslim mobsters, and their churches, homes and businesses already in ruins) is merely a figment of our imaginations. I'd buy tickets to watch what happened next.
Or perhaps 'Dustan H' should arrange to debate black Franco-African scholar and historian Tidiane N'diaye, author of 'Le Genocide Voile', "the hidden genocide", a study of the viciously destructive impact of Arab Muslim imperialism upon Africa.
http://www.evene.fr/livres/actualite/interview-tidiane-n-diaye-afrique-genocide-voile-1328.php
Memo to any black non-Muslim who may be reading this at the moment: of the three continents assailed by Jihad slavers and mass-murderers and pillagers throughout the past 1400 years, it is AFRICA, cradle of humanity, that has suffered the heaviest death toll, a rough guesstimate of some 120 million...and counting (see, Biafran War; see Sudan, today; see the howling Muslim mobs attacking black Christians in Nigeria, this year). Does 'Dustan H' fancy tangling with our Coptic contributors, or with 'tilly', who came in here fresh from having discovered what Islam has done, historically, to black people who didn't want to be Muslims?
Two items that may be of interest to Afro-American non-Muslim readers:
first, the story of blessed Saint Josephina Bakhita, patron saint of...Sudan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Bakhita
http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20001001_giuseppina-bakhita_en.html
second, a little item
'Ghana Dig Reveals Ancient Society'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8518185.stm
about some fascinating archaeological discoveries in Ghana, revealing the existence of a 'sophisticated civilisation', indigenous to West Africa, that simply...disappeared...after the arrival of Islam.
That's right. It *ceased to exist*...just as did the fascinating pre-Islamic Greek/ Persian/ Hindu/ Buddhist civilisation (spiced with Jews and Nestorian Christians) in what is now the desolate physical and spiritual Islamic wasteland called 'Afghanistan',.
All black non-Muslims, whether in the Caribbean, Latin America, the Americas or Africa, should be overjoyed that the black American Colonel A. West, now seeking election to Congress in the United States, has no illusions about Islam whatsoever; he knows what Jihad is, and why it is waged and against whom, and the ruin it has wreaked upon all human societies it has assailed; and he has every intention of resisting it to the best of his ability and of rallying others within his society - whatever their skin colour or ethnic origin - to do likewise.
Apologies for a small redundancy in my above posting - for "the Caribbean, Latin America, the Americas or Africa", read "the Caribbean, North America, Latin America or Africa".
And I did not mean to exclude, of course, persons of Afro-Caribbean or direct African origin, currently resident in Western Europe, where those who are non-Muslim are often targeted by Muslim hate.
Colonel West is far from being the only one 'awake up'.
A friend of mine told me of an amusing incident she saw while queuing on the Paris metro, a couple of years ago; a bearded, arrogant Muslim thug was verbally abusing a diminutive Parisienne. But then a deep, cool voice said from behind in an English accent, "I think I shall have to *do* something about that"; my friend then observed a tall Afro-Caribbean or Nigerian, the perfect English gentleman coloured-in in black, elegantly turned out in suit and tie, who drew himself up and suddenly seemed to become six inches taller, exuding wrath as if channelling Chaka Zulu; having switched into 'warrior mode' he advanced menacingly upon the Muslim, looming over him spiritually and physically, and rebuked him in scathing tones. The Muslim shut up and disappeared in a cloud of dust; the little Parisienne recovered herself, looking pleased; the black gentleman, with an air of satisfaction as of a job well done, returned to 'urbane Englishman' mode and resumed his place in the queue.
And down in Florida there's a black pastor who's holding protests against the building of a mosque in his neighbourhood. I drew attention to him here previously:
"a black American pastor...is putting up a good fight against a proposal to build a great big mosque right next door to his church in Pompano Beach, Florida.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=122088
*He* and his congregation held a protest on 6 February.
Quote: "Rev. O'Neal Dozier, a former NFL player who now is minister at the Worldwide Christian Center, has announced plans for a protest rally in front of the partly constructed mosque at 10 a.m. on Feb. 6."
Robert,
Congratulations on the GREAT Event you and Pamela MADE HAPPEN.
Dustan will have to REPORT Back to his Jihad-Enabling Masters the TRUTH,despite anything he posts to the contrary.
Great to see Robert Spencer branching out into what might be called a more activist mode. A lot of people have been hoping for that for a long time.
In Sahih Bukhari, the most canonical of hadith collections, Muhammad said, "Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him."
In the same hadith collection, Muhammad said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah."
In other words, if you are not a Muslim, Muhammad says your blood and property will not be safe from Muslims.
Qur'an Chapter 8, Verse 12
When your Lord revealed to the angels: I am with you, therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.
T H A N K Y O U Robert!
A write-up on this event may be seen at:
http://greenspiece.blogspot.com/2010/02/stirring-event.html
From your lips to God's ear, I hope these events grow and grow until more people become aware of the need to awaken to the threat.
Thanks to Robert's suggestion, I purchased the Tafsir ibn Kathir on the Quran, and I have since been copying out sections, particulary from Surat al Bakara and the infamous ninth surah, and sharing them with friends and coworkers.
Had more Americans read Mein Kampf when Hitler wrote it, and awoken to the threat that fascism posed, WW2 could have perhaps been avoided.
Thanks for the links and comments regarding Africa and people of African descent in the Western Hemisphere.
I have seen Colonel West speak, and I was impressed with his intelligence, eloquence, and vision.
For every Simon Deng who shows his public face, there are thousands of victims of Arab-Islamic terror who could step forward and curdle Dustan's pubic hairs with renditions of the horrors they suffered at the jihadists' hands in Sudan.
Thanks again for the post.
If we love our military and country, we must send letters to our two senators and congresspersons, demanding both the Senate & House Armed Services Committees hold hearings on Stephen Coughlin’s thesis, “To Our Great Detriment” Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad and why DoD silenced him. The military has never completed the proper steps to identify our enemy. http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.176/pub_detail.asp
It will be difficult to get Sen. Levin (D-MI) chairman of the Senate committee to hold hearings when the Muslims in Dearborn oppose it. Therefore, we must write to our local city/town council members and mayor, asking them to send letters to their state and national representatives asking them to send letters to our two senators and congresspersons, demanding both the Senate & House Armed Services Committees hold hearings on Ste3phen Coughlin’s excellent work.
Here is the challenge, political correctness in Washington, DC. especially in DoD, is keeping us from identifying and fighting our real enemy. The DoD has been infiltrated by those preventing our military to identify the real enemy. DoD is just one of our useless alphabet soup agencies who is failing to protect us.
http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.176/pub_detail.asp
“To Our Great Detriment”
Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad
by Stephen C. Coughlin, Esq.
Published on July 2nd, 2007
REPORTS
In comments made at the National Defense University on 1 December 2005, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace explained to his audience the importance of “understand[ing] the nature of the enemy” if we hope to defeat jihadi extremists. Comparing our situation today, with that faced by an earlier generation who had to deal with the reality of the Nazi threat, General Pace suggested a simple solution to complying with his injunction: “read what our enemies have said. Remember Hitler…. He said in writing exactly what his plan was that we collectively ignored to our great detriment (emphasis added).” Just as we ignored Hitler’s articulation of his strategic doctrine in Mein Kampf, so too are we on the verge of suffering a similar fate today, if we fail to seriously assess the extremist threat based on jihadi strategic doctrine.
Read the full report here: "To Our Great Detriment": Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad
http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.176/pub_detail.asp
Extremism and CAIR
http://www.strategycenter.net/docLib/20080127_Extremism_and_CAIR.pdf
Extremism and ISNA
http://www.strategycenter.net/docLib/20080127_Extremism_and_ISNA.pdf
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)
also available in French intro+Chapter 1 so far
‘Le Guide Politiquement Incorrect de l'Islam’ disponible en Français intro+chapitre 1
don' t hesitate to share this with your french speaking friends using social networks buttons available on the website or email share options.
http://www.avraidire.eu/category/islam/robert-spencer-islam/le-guide-politiquement-incorrect-de-lislam-robert-spencer-islam-islam/
Go Robert . . . Go Robert [dancing the swerve] . . . Go Pamela . . . Go Pamela [still dancin' the swerve].
True Americans!
Dumbledore, you may want to go back to community college and demand a refund, I never referred to West and Deng as "Uncle Toms." That you would assume this reveals your hidden insecurities about your political leanings.
On to your list of atrocities against blacks by Muslims - you seem to be claiming that Muslims are a distinct race. What color are they? The Muslims who are killing Christians in Nigeria are black, I'm sure you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a Muslim and Christian Nigerian - but don't stop things like that from leading Spencer to promote racial profiling against Muslims which would have supposedly saved us from the underwear bomber who apparently looks a lot like UBL.
The remainder of your gibberish reveals that to you black people are nothing more than puppets to be used for whatever your ultimate goal is. I think most people are smarter than you which is why the nonsense you subscribe to finds little traction except among the terrified blue-haired masses who worry about Al-Qaida launching a terrorist attack on their worthless Mid-Western/Southern state.
Slave-to-Islam Dustan H:
You have ridiculed JW's most respected poster.
And what are you? A PC MC pip-squeak. A pip-squeak.
How's that GED working out for you? It shows.
YOURS is the "gibberish," you Imbecile, you PC Imbecile, and Dumbles is SO MUCH SMARTER than your stupid little ass it's not funny. You brainwashed idiot.
Hmmm...let's see, what's "worthless?" - YOU dustan are WORTHLESS YOU LITTLE PIP-SQUEAK CREEP. YOU KNOW-NOTHING, YOU CENTIPEDE.
WORTHLESS DUSTAN THE PIP-SQUEAK CREEP. An Insignificant small-fry NOTHING. A non-entity, a cipher. A big fat ZERO, spewing his PC NONSENSE. Really sucks to be you, doesn't it? dustan pip-squeak.
You must demand a refund from your GED factory! You're not even worthy of nursery school.
Insignificant pip-squeak dustan h!
The poor little non-entity got dropped on his head as a child. Which explains SO MUCH. Worthless spineless jellyfish, PC Idiot.
Hey dustan - why don't you just become a Muzlim? You have the zero intellect for it. And then you can move to Yemen, that wonderful country, and get the hell out of ours. Good Riddance! Don't forget to make your female relatives wear Black Hefty Bags with eyeholes, you jackass.
Islam is destroying Africa, HAS destroyed Africa, as far back as mass-murderer nutcase Idi Amin.
Poor Africa - ruined and destroyed by Barbaric Evil Islam. Just as Western Europe is currently being destroyed by the over-breeding polygamous "child brides" Islamic Barbarians.
dustan h the PC imbecile would, of course, approve of the Global Islamic Jihad. Hey dustan - got your 4 wives yet? Nutjob.
Dear Darcy, please take some nitroglycerin and calm down before your heart explodes. Your emotionally immature response to my comments only confirms the stupidity of those who follow Spencer. I'll let Princeton know that you think of it as a GED-mill as well. Good day ma'am.
Princeton?
Well, that speaks volumes about Princeton these days.
You deserve *every single word* you little twerp. You pompous, arrogant, twerp. Your papa should give you a good thrashing for speaking to DDA that way.
The "followers" of Spencer and his colleagues are the most intelligent people in the United States. End of story.
Now, go join your dumbed-down PC Libtards on Huff Post, monitor your heart rate, and keep working on that GED! You can do it!
Oh, how's the Yankee Doodle Tap Room these days? We haven't had lunch there since last summer.
Toodles, Jerk.
Okay, let's analyze this. Dunstan H implies he was at the event yesterday and that he only saw two black guys. Black guys weren't disallowed from attending, or black gals for that matter. They had as much right to RSVP and attend as anyone else who was there. If they did not choose to do so that is also their right.
We didn't have any pink Martians or yellow pygmies at the event either, although if they had RDVP'd and attended I'm sure they would have been allowed inside. Dunstan H, why aren't you bitching about these folks not coming to the conference? In fact, why are you bitching at all? Isn't it really true that you have nothing to bitch about but you are doing so as a brave and fearless (and clueless) college student who thinks he's all that and a bag of chips? Got some news for you sweetie...bitching college students are a dime a dozen and while I'm sure your Comparative Religion professor is giving you extra credit for "bravely" dissing Robert here, no one in the real world is impressed with you. You're dismissed.
"You're dismissed."
Excellent, Isabella. He really is a little snot, isn't he?
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia - they've all become Dhimmi slaves-to-Islam. So, believe me, snot-nose, we're *not* impressed.
DustanH,
You wrote:
"I only saw two black guys at the event: Allen West and Simon Deng."
Did you happen to listen to the contents of their presentations?
DustanH makes claims that are both unsubstantiated and tangential.
1. He claims there were only two "black guys" at the event, yet (a) cites no evidence that this was the case, and (b) fails to provide any argumentation or evidence as to why he believes this is relevant to the substance of the claims being made at the event.
2. He boasts that he went to Princeton, and in previous threads he has claimed he was taught by Patricia Crone. Once again, there is no evidence to support this claim, nor has DustanH demonstrated its relevance. When I asked him whether he agreed with a particular statement made by Crone, he did not answer.
One suspects, though, that if DustanH possessed the knowledge that he implies he possesses, he would be presenting some of it in these threads in order to educate those he considers to be so uneducated regarding Islam.
What do we know from what DustanH has actually posted? His posts consist primarily of name-calling, boasting, and insults. Note how he is preoccupied with perceived prestige and status, denigrating "community college" education (in the context of making yet another unsubstantiated and irrelevant accusation), yet provides no actual substance by way of refuting the claims of the speakers at the event.
DustanH,
"...the nonsense you subscribe to finds little traction except among the terrified blue-haired masses who worry about Al-Qaida launching a terrorist attack on their worthless Mid-Western/Southern state."
Given his style and content of presentation, somehow I don't think DustanH is all that concerned about battling prejudice, racism, etc. Here he exhibits his prejudice and contempt for the elderly, victims of terrorist attacks, and large portions of the American population.
Islamic jihad and sharia, worldwide, threatens people of all different backgrounds, and should be opposed by people of all different backgrounds. Don't you agree, DustanH?
p.s. DustanH's first post could be interpreted as implying that he attended the event. However, I see no evidence that DustanH actually attended the event, much less that he attended to what was stated by the presenters at the event.
Darcy & Kinana,
I was at the event and my reference to Dustan H picking his nose was because of some strange things that happened there. I was there with one of my good friends and we walked in right after the conference started when there was standing room only. We stood in the back to the left of the center aisle. A few minutes after we went in this very strange young man walked in. He looked to be in his early to mid-twenties. He was wearing dark slacks, a wool blazer, a black patterned ski cap and a yellow scarf. He kept looking to his right and left and behind him which seemed very peculiar because everyone else was engrossed in what the speakers were saying. I got a bad feeling about it and gave a look to my friend that was standing about four feet away from me but behind that guy. I motioned to her to look at him and she mouthed to me, "Ooh, I know". I asked her what she meant and she told me to watch him because he was picking his nose and then staring at his fingers, both gross and also beneath the maturity level of someone who is in college. (I later learned that he was from University in Southern Florida.) I was wondering by his fidgeting if he was planning to make a scene or disrupt the conference in some way. I went over and talked to one of the security guys who I know to let him know what I was observing and he told he was already on it.
At one point this young guy went and sat down on the floor at the back of the room but in front of the other people who were standing. Several people followed suit, mostly because it was tiring to stand for so long. I stopped paying attention to him for a while when Stephen Coughlin was speaking because his information was more complicated and required greater focus to understand his entire message. After a little while I saw my security detail friend escorting the same young man down the center aisle. Apparently he had scooched up and was sitting in the center of the aisle on the floor half way up towards the speakers. After that I saw him take a seat about five rows up from the back of the room when somebody else left.
Later my friend and I were fortunate enough to be able to hang out with Robert, Pamela and Stephen in a little coffee klatch near the bar off the lobby and Anders Gravers walked up to talk with them. I chatted with his two body guards and mentioned that strange college kid and one of them told me that they had indeed been watching him and when this kid got up and left his seat he had left a box under it. We were just sitting there going, you've to be kidding me. Nothing happened but based on the death threats these guys get, and the stupidity of some of the useless idiot college kids who attend these things, it was good to be vigilant.
As far as Dunstan H's comments, he has nothing of value to offer. I'm sure he "bravely" posted here, anonymously, and is getting a nice pat on the head from his college professor this morning for trying to be a good little anarchist.
Yawn.
Really? Wow, what amazing powers of perception. You should definitely apply for a job as an analytical, investigative reporter for ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC.....one of those. Man, they'd be thrilled to have such an amazing analytical mind as yours.
I think our little buddy Dustan H has been imbibing too much of this Kool-Aid:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33305.html
Rules of engagement? There is no way we will kill by mistake more than they will kill on purpose.