The American Muslim lies about me again; retraction requested

The American Muslim likes to wring its hands about "Islamophobia." Here's a tip for Sheila Musaji: if you want people not to dislike and be suspicious of Muslims, stop acting in such a sleazy, dishonest manner.

I just sent this email to Sheila Musaji:

Ms Musaji:

http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/hutaree_christian_militia_not_an_isolated_phenomena/0018035

In that article you quote from my article here: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36267

Then you purport to summarize what I am saying, and what Pamela Geller, Chris Baker and the New York Post are saying: "Let's summarize what these folks are saying: Arresting the Hutaree is nuts, and an attack on free speech and the Christian faith."

In reality, in the same article from which you quoted, I wrote: "If the allegations against this group are true, they richly deserve to be raided and arrested and shut down."

Ms. Musaji, you have lied about me many times in the past, and I have let it go by. This time I am requesting a full retraction and apology from you, published in The American Muslim, for suggesting that I support the Hutaree and oppose their arrest.

In any case, the disclosure at Jihad Watch of this obvious libel by you will expose yet again the naked dishonesty of The American Muslim and the open contempt it obviously has for its readers.

Robert Spencer

I'll let you know if I get an answer. But I won't be holding my breath.

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It must be tiresome to be continuously slandered by various muslim groups... i can only imagine how stressful it must be. Dont give up

I don't know about the other JW readers, but I'm outraged and am cancelling my subscription immediately. The patients in my sex therapy clinic waiting room will just have to content themslves with back issues of American Proctologist.

Islam has a long history of aggression, physical attacks and terrorism aimed at kufr (dis-belief, and dis-believers)...Does the Hutaree have such a history?

The meter says 15150 Islamic terrorists acts since 911...
So it's Islam 15150
Hutaree 0...

Not that the Hutaree were not planning big things and it's good they got stopped, but the score of 15150 to 0 should give an idea of where the governments priorities should be...

Please do NOT hold your breath waiting for a reply!!!
Smurf-Blue is NOT a good spring color pundits.

I'm cancelling my subscriptions to these popular magazines as well:

"Muslima's Home Funeral"
"O, The 'Ye Who Believe' Magazine"
"Rolling Stone Her"

and

"Mullah's Monthly"

Islam is constantly 'Musaji-ng' the truth.

Does she even understand what she is working for ?
She is working for her to be out of a job and hidden in some house with her husband pounding her chest like Mohammed did to his dear last wife.
You dear, want to be a slave. But it's not like a Masochist game. It's slavery for real, with no "safe word", for you and for your daughters should you have any.

Shouldn't this be actionable? Lawfare can work both ways, it seems to me.

THAT brightened my day!
LOL...

No islam...Know Peace.
Know islam...throw up!

"In any case, the disclosure at Jihad Watch of this obvious libel by you will expose yet again the naked dishonesty of The American Muslim and the open contempt it obviously has for its readers."-Spencer

This is what is going to doom Islam. It is caught between the rock of truth, and the hard place of truth, and must lie, misled, Taqiyya, to survive. No one can love that which cannot be trusted. Islam betrays plain speaking and ruins the mind by patterns of deception. It cripples logic and morals based on reason.

It must rely on force and various forms of violence-one of which is deception. It is a zombie when it comes to reason and courageous truth telling.

The problem for Muslims is the truth. As the truth of its dogmas become widely known by non-Muslims (which is happening fast), it will implode as people laugh at the Taqiyya.

People are drawn to the truth, to what can be trusted, what proves courageous, truthful. Islam repels because of the deceptions-the Taqiyya.

Again we can see that the truth and Muslims follow divergent paths.

"I don't know about the other JW readers, but I'm outraged and am cancelling my subscription immediately."

You subscribed to "The American Muslim" - Why? Are you joking?

I am rewserving judgment when it comes to the Hutaree. I've made judgments in the past relying on the news of the moment and looked a fool for it.
I find it within the realm of possibility that a group of self proclaimed militiamen or survivalists of questionable intelligence...am I bigoted? (I would join a militia of my friends.)...got played by some pros. And maybe they were actually dangerous...I kinda go with the mountain out of a molehill thing right now...Napalitano...Obama...Holder...all proven liars.
An enemy within other than islam is required by the present administration. Hence the warnings we have seen regarding returning Armed Services Personnel.
Witness the recent blatherings of Clinton as he tells America to stop being demonstrative of the discontent we feel with our reps not representing. He warns us that speaking out against a government that ignores the will of the people will only lead to violence...as Tea Party members are all so violent and dangerous. He evokes McVeigh without mentioning the possible help he got from some misunderstanders of islam. Hypocrisy abounds.
There exist no islamburgs, no Guerrilla training camps run by rich muslims within our borders. Machine gunfire is heard regularly and nothing is done to even observe these militant practitioners of the government created by mo. They can afford to fly a helicopter around at least one compound to look for "spies" from America.
But these things do not exist in the land of Obama. islam is a religion of peace and there is nothing you can do about it. Or so he thinks.
Truth will always out...

islam is a lie and
Truth is killing it.

Yes. A joke...
knowing jewdog as I do...I laughed.

islam is a lie and
Truth is killing it.

muslims lie and are lied to by their imams and ayatoilets constantly. If they didn't lie regarding their chosen government they could never associate themselves with it willingly.

No islam...Know Peace.
Know islam...throw up!

Oh, that's good!

Only an imbecile would subscribe to that rag.

Or someone wanting to know the enemy better. I don't think I could stomach reading the garbage though. I have to eat once in a while.

I wish I could I say I was surprised by the disinformation campaign used by The American Muslim, but this is typical behavior of groups and individuals that are under pressure from those who criticize or demand accountability from them. Instead of engaging in rational discourse, they lash out at others with lies.
As an atheist who was raised both Muslim and Catholic, I have a perspective on religion that may differ somewhat from my Christian friends, but a quick look at my blog reveals where I stand on the issue of Islam and the danger it presents to the civilized world.
Jihad Watch is one of the few non-atheist blogs I subscribe to. Keep fighting the "good fight".

Sheila Musaji cites some strange sources for supporting her conclusions about the respective proportions of Muslim versus non-Muslim terrorist groups. These sources include a juvenile Muslim opinion website called "Loonwatch," which focuses on making ad hominem attacks and unsubstantiated allegations against Islam critics, and MPAC, a Muslim activist and public relations group that has produced a "policy memo" that Musaji cites in her article as though it were a mere unbiased, unfiltered summary of raw data.

Anyways, let's for the sake of argument, have a look at some of what Musaji presents by way of maximizing the appearance of non-Muslim terrorism and minimizing Muslim terrorism in the U.S. since 9/11.

"There were 51 total plots by domestic non-Muslim perpetrators against the United States, and 29 total plots by domestic and international Muslim perpetrators since 9/11.
Only 42% of individuals publicly associated with terrorism by the Department of Justice were actually charged with violating an anti-terrorism or national security statute.
There have been at least 4 cases of non-Muslim domestic terrorists possessing or attempting to possess Chemical or Radiological weapons, including one case since Obama’s election. No such cases involving Muslim extremists have been reported.
Since Obama’s election on November 4, 2008 there have been 25 terror plots by non-Muslim domestic extremists and 9 plots by Muslim domestic and international extremists."

These aren't exactly clean and appropriate comparisons, but let's take what she presents.

51 + 29 = 80. 29/80 = .3625, or 36% of the plots are by Muslims. This is wildly disproportionate, way more Muslim terrorist attacks than one would expect based on the fact that Muslims constitute only perhaps about 1% (and even by puffed up estimates, less than 2%) of the U.S. population. If Muslims are no more likely than non-Muslims to plot terrorist attacks, then only about 1 or 2% of the total plots should be by Muslims.

25 + 9 = 34, 9/34 = .2647, or 26% of the plots since Nov. 4, 2008, are by Muslims. Again, this is wildly disproportionate, given the 1% to 2% of Muslims in the general population.

I do not have time to assess all of Musaji's cherry-picked examples, truncated time periods, etc., but it is clear that her sources (e.g., Loonwatch?!) are biased, and that the numbers she does present don't support what she seems to suggest in the article.

Note also how the above example includes a period since 9/11 in the U.S. Why doesn't it include 9/11, the largest and most important terrorist attack on Americans in recent history? Why doesn't she include figures on the number of deaths caused by Muslim versus non-Muslim terrorism?

Don't forget

Pearly Boys' Life

Reciter's Digest

Death Magazine

On this issue of people trying to contrast Islamic terrorism with allegedly worse non-Islamic terrorism, I had a similar experience some three years ago with a person I believe is affiliated with Loonwatch -- a person who in the past has tried to smear Spencer and Jihad Watch: the "Rev." Jim Sutter.

On my now retired blog Jihad Watch Watch, I examined the "evidence" Sutter purported to have:

http://jihadswatch.blogspot.com/2007/06/test.html

And here was my more general analysis and comments about it:

http://jihadswatch.blogspot.com/2007/06/rev-jim-sutters-sorites-of-beans.html

Whack her over the head with a libel suit, RObert.

You subscribed to "The American Muslim" - Why? Are you joking? - Yes.

"ROLLING STONE HER"

You need to get copy rights to that.

"ISLAMOPHOBIA"
This word indicates a fear of Islam. I dont fear Islam. I just hate it.
Whats the word for that?

"I don't fear Islam. I just hate it.
Whats the word for that?"

Well, the Greek prefix for "hate" is "miso," such as in "misanthrope" and "misogynist."

So, how 'bout "misislamist?" It doesn't sound good, though, does it?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks Jane. It works just fine for me.

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