I was recently interviewed by Folks Magazine's founder and editor-in-chief, U. Mahesh Prabhu. The whole interview is here, along with some prefatory material that embarrassingly praises me overmuch, but if you can get past that, the interview may be of some interest -- although I see in retrospect that I was a bit terse. Here is a section:
UMP: There is something called as "Stealth Jihad" your site often refers to it. Can you describe it in few words?RS: Stealth jihad is the attempt through non-violent means to achieve the same goal as that of the violent jihadists: the imposition of Sharia upon non-Muslim states.
UMP: Fighting Islamists in USA seems easier than in India. Do you buy that point?
RS: Not necessarily. In both countries the problem of jihad has been drastically misdiagnosed by the authorities, leading to numerous policy errors.
UMP: With multimillion petrodollars the Arab Shaikhs have been funding these pro-Islamist organizations for a long time now. Given their financial muscle and infrastructure do you think their antagonists stand any chance?
RS: Yes. We certainly stand a chance. We have the truth on our side.
UMP: How many Muslims in the world, do you think, are "moderate Muslims"?
RS: It depends on how one defines "moderate." If by it you mean those who are not engaged in violent jihad, then the number is huge. If you mean those who actively disapprove of violent jihad and Islamic supremacism in general, and are working against the jihad imperative, the number is minuscule. If you mean those Muslims who simply aren't concerned with such matters, the number is considerable. [...]
UMP: Which is more dangerous - Terrorism Jihad or Stealth Jihad?
RS: They are two fronts of the same war and two aspects of the same initiative, so it is impossible to distinguish between them in this way....
Admitting that this may be because Muslims are not flying planes into buildings and blowing up shopping malls every day, I confess to finding stealth jihad more terrifying because I never would have believed they could get so far so fast. Everything depends on "waking up" millions of people who appear determined to sleep through everything short of nuclear assault.
I would say that rather than praising Robert too much, the prefatory material is dead on and perfectly accurate.
"...because I never would have believed they could get so far so fast."
Agree. For some reason I can't fathom, America submitted to the Mohammedans after 9/11. And has been and still is ferociously determined to separate Islam from Terrorism, to pretend that the two are not connected.
I don't get it, but there it is.
Ditto. And along with RS and Charles De Gaulle - Enoch Powell.
"Policy errors" is an understated way of describiing the squandering of three trillion dollars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, in addition to many tens of billions pf other dollars hideously misspent on Egypt, Jordan, the "Palestinians" and many other Muslims who forgot to be born with oil reserves.
Heatsketch,
Perfectly accurate? No. Parts of the praise sound like something out of the old Soviet Union speeches praising "great" leaders, or the praise for Dear Leader in North Korea.
Objectively, Spencer deserves high praise. He does risk his life every day for the cause of freedom. He is brilliant. And the best may be yet to come. If he's not perfect, like the "great" Comrade Stalin, we won't hold it against Spencer. To the contrary. We are glad when he admits to mistakes.
IMO...
Stealth jihad is far more insidious because it doesn't create the kind of backlash that terrorist jihad does. When you attack a group of people, or a society, openly you make them stronger, more willing to fight back. The Roman persecution of Christianity had this effect. The harder the persecution is to spot the harder it is to rally people against it.
A question for Indian non-Muslim members of this forum.
The interview appeared in "Folks Magazine" which, I deduce, is an English-language journal published in India. Is it published on paper (i.e. sold in newsagents) as well as online?
And what sort of a readership does it have?