The truth is spreading

Doing this work day in and day out can seem like shouting into the whirlwind, so it is gratifying to see some ideas that began with me or here at Jihad Watch gaining wider currency.

Recently Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy wrote a piece for the Washington Times that used the phrase "stealth jihad" in the title. The term originated with my 2008 book Stealth Jihad, which chronicled non-violent efforts to bring elements of Islamic law to the West and assert its primacy over American law. Frank also referred in his piece to "Islamist supremacism," which is a fairly close approximation of another term I coined, "Islamic supremacism."

My friend and colleague Pamela Geller also makes reference to "Islamic supremacism" and other terms I've originated, just as I borrow freely from her many memorable turns of phrase, including "Truth is the new hate speech" and her term for the jihad against the truthful expression of what we are facing: the "war on the truth." William Murray of the Sharia Action Awareness Network and Brigitte Gabriel of ACT for America have referred to dhimmi Americans "self-enforcing Sharia" -- another term that Pamela coined.

The professor of medicine and sometime anti-jihad researcher Andrew Bostom makes frequent use of another term I coined: "Islamorealism." And even James Taranto of the dhimmi Wall Street Journal a couple of years ago used the term "Islamic supremacy," which, like Frank's usage, is close enough.

In short, the truth is getting out, and spreading. And that is every reason to be hopeful -- as Pamela says, we will win because our ideas are better. The more these terms get into the mainstream dialogue, the more people will begin to understand what we are really up against, and be be equipped to frame an effective defense of our Constitutional freedoms.

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Don't forget my favorite Spencer-ism: the oddly, strangely large number of "misunderstanders of Islam." I look forward to seeing and hearing that phrase everywhere.

Bugs Bunny always had a snappy comeback, so why not us?
To name is to know, to know is to control. To incorrectly name is to lose...
... control. Of the situation, like a nonsense chat after too much booze.
So what word to use, for this or for that, most of all for things of great import,
Know and control before we slide into the rabbit hole, left all ears, without retort.
- the Holy Prophet APF

Steady on Mr Spencer, Sir, you may throw the believers into an islamoquandary.

Truth versus Islam. No contest long term.

Thanks you Robert, for your tireless, and sometimes seemingly thankless efforts to speread the truth about Islam.

Lan astaslem!

It is to hope -- but the situation is still dire. We don't even know what Hillary Hamhocker and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu got up to in their Washington confab this week -- held on the US taxpayer's nickel and assiduously concealed from us by the Obamagang.

Robert:

The link to Frank Gaffney's piece on Stealth Jihad redirects here, it doesn't send you to the Washington Post.

Many thanks Mr. Spencer. Your tireless efforts will be your legacy.

I, too, have a favorite phrase you often use.

"I tried to tell you."

God bless America!

If Muslims put their superstitious belief in Mo/allah and Quran aside and learn the truth about them, even they might leave Islam (if they have conscience left in them. That is why they always fight and try to stop truth being told about Islam.

Let the brave warriors such as Robert and Pamela continue their efforts in educating non-Muslims and Muslims alike and bring the demise of this cult ASAP!!

google

"stealth jihad" -spencer -jihadwatch

About 443,000 results

shows how robert's meme is spreading

In short, the truth is getting out, and spreading.
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Yes, indeed. And no small thanks to your indefatigable efforts, Mr. Spencer.

The truth will out!

I like Spencer's graphic use of "a state within a state" monicker for Islamic-Sharia-Jihad, found in his book Stealth Jihad, page 272. Indeed, the truth is spreading. Good! Now double it. ;-)

This is very good news. There are times when I despair of breaking through the denial of people in my small circle of influence who think incorrectly that Islam is just another religion. But here is some bad news. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has a new Islamic Art wing. That's rather like having a Nazi Art wing. I'm wondering where the funding came from. Let me guess: Saudi Arabia?

(With apologies to anyone who has seen this comment already)

I'm hopeful. I suspect the ideological counter-jihad cares about its cause far more than the leftists and dhimmis care to oppose the counterjihad. The left-dhimmi opposition to counterjihad thought arises out of inert mental detritus and mental weakness made up of conformism and its mediocrity (PC), conventional wisdom, stale tropes, commonplaces, such idiocies as "what everybody knows," misapprehensions and misunderstandings, and then hatred of what is misapprehended, namely the counterjihad.

In other words the left-dhimmi opposition to the counterjihad is slumbering in a pile of old illusions and is in some ways like a sleeping person who growls at you grumpily as you try to awaken him. The opposition to counterjihad is thus in a weak position, and their only strength is the huge inertia involved in large crowds of mediocre, half-asleep, or misinformed minds. I think the concepts held by the opposition to counterjihad are far more vulnerable, far less firmly and clearly held, than the convictions motivating counterjihad.

The counterjihad culture in its leadership is vigilant, energetically awake, driven by non-conformist individuals with fire in the belly and willingness to risk death, and by a burning desire to protect freedom of religion, thought, conscience, and speech, as sacred rights in a world where those are under threat from a worldwide totalitarian movement more powerful and dangerous than communism or Nazism were.

I think we see the left-dhimmi opposition to counterjihad slowly being converted even against its own will to incrementally join counterjihad, because the counterjihad by its fervor and by the superabundance of shocking evidence available to make its case, is slowly shifting the very Zeitgeist underneath everyone's feet, the Zeitgeist that to some extent determines what everyone takes for granted. The cultural weather is shifting as counterjihad forces educate more and more people, so that the whole culture shifts and by a sort of osmosis even those who pay virtually no attention pick up and take for granted counterjihad knowledge of Islam. Whether people pay attention or not, the new cultural environment structures peoples perceptions and ideas as surely as the physical environment affects them whether or not they pay attention to it. Thus what is obvious to all points on the ideological spectrum shifts. And it's shifting in our direction. The counterjihad is winning.


The truth about the islamic supremact thugs is also being exposed in canada.

Remember the nut-job Imam that claims canada has a secret plot to put muslims in death camp " Just like nazi's did to jews".

He's now using the muslim Fallback position to claim it was "taken out of context". This weasel it too stupid to see how only canada would allow him to spew his garbage outside of Pakistan,Iran,gaza, and the othe OIC hell-holes.
But note how is his final retort on the misquote, he does confess that muslims have to flee those exact islamic hell-hole he exalts and Utopic Shariah law nation for refuge in canada FROM his Whahhabi version of islam.


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CALGARY -- A local imam who compared the plight of pre-Holocaust Jews to Muslims' situation in Canada said he only regrets he was misinterpreted.

But Syed Soharwardy said his comments earlier this week, sparked by Ottawa's new policy banning face veils at citizenship ceremonies, has set back relations between his community and other Canadians.

"It has been counterproductive," said Soharwardy, who summoned reporters on Friday to clarify his thoughts.

But he said that's because his comments were taken out of context by the media and others.

"I have regret in the interpretation, on how people understand... What I don't regret is the truth I believe."

Other local imams and Jewish leaders have criticized Soharwardy for being insensitive for mentioning the Holocaust to discuss Islamophobia.

Though he hadn't told reporters in previous days, Soharwardy said he meant to compare the rising hostility facing Muslims in Canada to the genesis of anti-semitism decades before the Second World War Holocaust.

"It could be 50 years before, 100 years before, but if the trend continues, we will have a major hard time for Muslims in North America," said the imam, president of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada that counts 2,000 Calgary followers.

"The trend that brought hate toward Jews is happening in Canada ... I'm not saying Canada's a Nazi state ... we are not living in concentration camps."

If anything, he said, Canada remains "the best country on Earth" and attracted him from his native Pakistan to escape religious and political oppression. ***********************************************************


He claims to have FLED oppression, yet he's the scum bag that sued Ezra Levant over the MoToon's that were prints as a News Story for canadian's to see what cause the SJS (Sudden Jihad Syndrome) that led to over 150 civilans to be murdered by mobs or muslims.
This is my example of the alleged "Oppressed" that becomes the Oppresser once in canada.


Here's the news piece.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2011/12/20111217-104441.html

This guy is just as nut and demented as Muhammad Elmasry who was the Egyptian Pro-Shariah Law thug that crusaded with CAIR-canada's Dr.Sheema Khan for Shariah in canads, Elmasry also tried this fallback stance after his rants on TV that "Every islraeli over 18 was a vaild taget to murder by terrosim".
But he and this wackjob Imam will never be held to account because there is a well-founded fear of terrorism and riots in canada if any Muslim leader is jailed or Charged for spreading hatred or to incite muslims to kill non-muslims.
This is why the CBC refuses to call the 19 terrorist muslims from the 9/11 attack as terrorist muslims as they themselve professed. Muslims at CAIR love the "Victimhood" card they can pull out to get a special dispensations from the Laws that the infidels must obey.

Imagine the state of the world without our Fearless Leader? No kidding friends, there are dozens of courageous proponents of human freedom in America and around the world, but no one clarifies the struggle for civilization with such knowledge and comprehension as Robert.

I've written three good political songs in the past year and a half that I've been too busy to record, but I'm vowing to do so in the first three months of 2012. One is called "Sharia is All the Rage", one is called "Amina and Sarah", and the third is simply "Robert Spencer". So help me God, they'll be on youtube by April.

I encourage everyone here to do their little bit for the cause of human freedom. There's only one Robert Spencer, but if the rest of us contribute in our own limited capacities, we can - to quote Billy Qwan in 'The Year of Living Dangerously' - "add our light to the sum of light."

I'm slightly inebriated...getting in the Christmas spirit...and feeling mighty thankful for the many blessings of this wonderful life.

So, if you'll join me in a toast ladies and gents on this cozy Saturday night, here's to our Fearless Leader...here's to Robert!

(imaginary clink of glasses)

Here's a chronological Qur'an that links each Qur'an chapter very conveniently to Robert Spencer's commentary on that Qur'an chapter.

Here's a website some might find useful:
http://www.quotingislam.blogspot.com

Sorry, here's the chronological Qur'an website linked conveniently to Robert Spencer's commentary on each chapter:

http://www.chronquran.blogspot.com

All the propaganda from the jihadists in suits has not convinced the public that Islam is just another religion of love and peace. People notice the accumulation of deaths committed by the same group as a result of the hostility we see everywhere that Muslims reside in substantial numbers.

Robert's books are valuable because they explain the ideology behind the violence found in the Koran that has created a curious religion dedicated to war and conquest.

1) Truth for as many as possible, will help people to realize Islam and therefore all Muslims, not just "radicals" and "terrorist," are the problem. This mass realization, will naturally help lead to a mass rebellion against this evil.

2) Truth for as many as possible, will help Muslims, many who are slaves and victims to their very own ideology, realize that Islam is wrong.

I pray that you and others like yourself,

keep on keeping on.

Your work is lifesaving.

God Bless you all

Each and every term coined is not only a dart or arrow in the war of ideas, it is a tonic for the societies that remain unbelieving that they are infected with a virus that could kill them.

The value of this site is the clear presentation and explanation of the elements making up that virus, so that the workings of the virus are demonstrable. Many of our friends and family still maintain the naive American view that somehow it can't happen here, whether one is talking about leprosy, dengue fever or take over by Shariah law, it just can't happen here.

But the hard truth is: When the conditions are right, any of those diseases can develop. Thankfully we see a lexicon of terms being built with which to diagnose the progress of the last of these diseases; a necessary step albeit not a cure in and of itself.

In core Islamic texts, Muhammad says your "lives and property" are not safe from him unless you become a Muslim

In Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, the two most canonical hadith collections:

Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 2, Number 25:

Narrated Ibn 'Umar:
Allah's Apostle said: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform all that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah."

Sahih Muslim, Book 031, Number 5917:

...Ali went a bit and then halted and did not look about and then said in a loud voice: Allah's Messenger, on what issue should I fight with the people? Thereupon he (the Prophet) said: Fight with them until they bear testimony to the fact that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his Messenger, and when they do that then their blood and their riches are inviolable from your hands but what is justified by law and their reckoning is with Allah.

Without wishing to impugn the otherwise excellent analysis in Frank Gaffney's article, or his superb anti-jihad activism in general, it is a great sadness to me to see an anti-jihadist defame as "radical" the LGBT agenda, which in my understanding boils down only to tolerance and a call for acceptance by the secular state -- not of religious groups -- and for the education of children to accept them as their fellow human beings, restricting the belief that their identity is sinful to the private domain. As an anti-jihadist who is also an ally of the LGBT community, it frustrates me to no end when anti-jihadists are also opponents of LGBT equality. That's something I'm prepared to tolerate in the name of freedom of thought and belief, but it still rankles me enough to openly deplore it when I see it. I agree with Roger L. Simon of Pajamas Media, who was very astute when he said the promotion of equality of rights and dignity for gay people, including civil marriage opportunities in the secular public domain (secular not as in 'opposed to God', but as in 'prohibiting official civil deference to religious dogma'), is in fact a powerful tool, and an exercise of the freedom, and expression of the commitment to human dignity, that the jihadists would have us extinguish, and are trying to destroy us for daring to uphold.

I understand that rather a number of Jihad Watchers' religious beliefs incline them against my view of LGBT equality and in favour of Gaffney's, but that's fine. I just wanted to make my perspective on this point known.

I'm with you.

I have to be ever so tolerant of this on a daily basis. Most, if not all counter-jihad sites are rife with the anti-LGBT mindset, probably due to religious beliefs. There are a couple that are way over the top in their display of fear & hatred.

I find it ironic that some people in the counter-jihad movement share a hatred of gays equal to that of the supremacist "religion" they fight against. On this issue they are brothers in arms.

That comment was for "Funky Child"

@Funky Child

I know what you mean. Not all, but I know some on the far right are completely against multiculturalism. I don't agree with this, nor do I agree with the far-left, of being accepting and tolerant of all cultures and religions.

I feel there's no harm, in being tolerant and accepting of other cultures, lifestyles, and religions, if they don't directly or indirectly, cause or incite harm against any innocent people or groups.

Due to this view, personally I don't see anything wrong with the LGBT group, but, I do have a problem with Islam.

If more of the far right shared this view, they would probably have a lot more support.

Well, Funky Child, I'm not sure what I think about the LGBT agenda -- if there is any one agenda of that group -- but I can say whatever issues I might have with that agenda, they are miniscule compared to those I have with the jihadist sharia pushers. And for what little it's worth, to my mind you are welcome here, though actually I have no say in the matter.

The counterjihad needs to have as big a tent as possible. We cannot afford to be fighting among ourselves. We have to prioritize on what is essential (stopping the worldwide totalitarian movement of Islam) vs. what is of much less importance --

"I feel there's no harm, in being tolerant and accepting of other cultures, lifestyles, and religions, if they don't directly or indirectly, cause or incite harm against any innocent people or groups."

Seems like this could be a good common ground for both the left and right. If they united on this view, we could potentially have a much greater and united force, to combat Islam.

I agree with you at least in part. I've always been a bit resistant to the strong antipathy to multiculturalism here, since I suppose there is a good and a bad side to multiculturalism, and we should not throw out the good part. We all know the bad side, I suppose, as we hear it discussed here often. But the good side is simply what conservatives and the West in general call "pluralism." Freedom to disagree. Letting a thousand flowers bloom (though not in Mao's aborted sense!). I always thought it would make more sense, at least tactically, if not substantively, to point out to the Left that Islamic supremacism will destroy multiculturalism and substitute an Islamic monoculture. But instead, many counterjihadists just attack multiculturalism wholesale. I understand that is in many ways a coherent position to take: the main meaning of "multiculturalism" is not just "pluralism," but rather the specifically leftist notion that all cultures are equal except that non-Western cultures are more equal, ahem.

Here, Here, Cornelius, I'll toast to that, with great appreciation for Robert and companions, tireless and well done work, and I'll include that appreciation for Pamela's hard work, too, and their risks, as well, on all our behalf's, and for Freedom and America, that we all share in defending against all evils, both forign and domestic, and I swear that on the Holy Bible!

To them all I raise that worthy glass, clink!

I can guess that more sane people are visiting this site than ever before because the Truth (with a capital T) will be out. No matter whether the leftards tried to spin with the usual Religion of Peace, they can't win. Robert, you go get 'em!

Dunno. I have been posting forum messages about islam as a 'supremacist ideology' since late 2001. And prior to the obscene Bush armistice with Taliban animals, I wrote that if the US adopts 'nation building" in afghanistan, it will leave that country like a beaten animal, with its tail between its legs. Common sense is much better than prophecy.

http://www.daralhayat.com/portalarticlendah/340172

All those human and financial costs in iraq and what have we got? a colony for iran's ayatollahs. Subsidized jihad. The last 10 years have been like reading Gibbon. America is commiting suicide;

“the main meaning of "multiculturalism" is not just "pluralism," but rather the specifically leftist notion that all cultures are equal except that non-Western cultures are more equal, ahem. “

Ah, but that’s just the problem.

Multiculti types elevate inferior and malicious “cultures” above their own. The basis of this is a denial of the concept of “good” and “evil” – and once you reach this “enlightenment”, you are cleansed of all common sense.

Since, as Orwell showed, ideology is controlled by terminology, perhaps someone ought to produce a glossary of Islamic terms with contents and definitions determined from the counterjihad point of view, rather than by Muslims and dhimmis.

This could serve as a standard resource and reference for counterjihadists, and a quick introduction for newbies to the counterjihad scene.

Possible contents:
Abrogation
Acid attack
Apostasy
Appeasement
Bacha Bazi
Beheading
Blasphemy
Catamite
Clitoridectomy
Cultural Jihad
Dar al-Harb
Dawah
Demographic Jihad
Dhimmi
FGM
Gang rape
Harbi
Honor Killing
Inbreeding
Jahiliyya
Jihad
Jizya
Kuffar
Lawfare and Litigation Jihad
Motoons
Najis
OIC
Parasitism
Pedophilia
Perfect Man
Polygamy
Projection
Race-card
Razzia
Sharia
Stealth Jihad
Street Jihad
Sudden Jihad Syndrome
Supremacism
Taqiyya
Thighing
Tribalism
Ummah
Useful idiot
Victimhood

No doubt Jihadwatchers can think of many more.
See also http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/everything-you-need-to-know-about-islam.html

Ayaan Hyrsi Ali made a great comment in a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt some years ago. When she first arrived in the west she was amazed at how western people intensively study any phenomenon which is new to them to pull it apart and see how it works - to see what makes it tick. She said it was something she had never seen or experienced before in the cultures she had grown up in. It's something we so take for granted that it needs someone from outside the western tradition to remark on it.

"misunderstanders of Islam" and "stealth Jihad" are straight out of the top drawer...


Arthur Hugh Clough. 1819–1861

SAY not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; 5
It may be, in yon smoke conceal'd,
Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers,
And, but for you, possess the field.

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain, 10
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.

And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light;
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! 15
But westward, look, the land is bright!

One of the e-clippings files I maintain at home is called 'raising the alarm'.

Actually, by now I have three.

In the first one, there is a whole section in which I have placed copies of the stories that people tell here, every now and again, of how and when they 'woke up'.

Every story is different. And they come in from all over the western world - and beyond.

Secular people, Christian people, Jewish people, Hindu people: but the one common thread is that *something* got that person's attention, and they were not satisfied until they had sussed out Islam for themselves...and when they saw it, they realized it was evil, and dangerous.

Here's just one, shared by a poster here, earlier this year: it's a classic.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/muslim-brotherhood-linked-icna-wants-obama-to-shut-down-spencer-geller.html


Liana Gabriel | August 19, 2011 9:41 PM | Reply
QUOTING - "The rise of Islamophobia fostered by individuals such as Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller has threatened our communities and prompted such acts of violence.ICNA calls upon the international community and the Obama administration to take action against hate groups and so-called ‘experts on Islam’ who promote this kind of bigotry." UNQUOTE

I am confused what their claim is.What communities have been threatened? Israel ? David Letterman ? Boise,Idaho?
Prompted what acts of violence? They made a man kill his wife?
Will they demand Obama turn off the internet?

**
I began my journey into this madness after a friend in Amsterdam married a muslim man and after three yrs she had converted to Islam and not allowed to talk to family and friends unless they converted to Islam.

I started researching Islam to determine why/how this was happening** {my emphasis - dda}

'and frankly thought sites like this were biased, and many stories were unbelievable after reading them.

'Until i read some history and then read some more.

**I felt like i had fallen down the rabbit hole and landed in the 8th century on LSD** {great line that, Liane - dda}.


'Invasions,slaughter,castration,rape,torture,slavery:every horror man can commit.In country after country.Century after century.


'Then stark reality set in as i tracked story after story in current affairs.

'Hate,terror,death and destruction. Glee,pleasure and bravado in each deplorable act.


'Before i discovered anti-jihadist i worried i was seeing a bizarre conspiracy theory in Islam.Imagining the insidious infiltration and history beginning to repeat itself.

'Thankfully Mr.Spencer,Ms.Geller and so many more understood and could demonstrate the facts of Islam clearly and concisely.
I doubt these anti-violent,intelligent "bigots" can save as many lives as muslims take, but i am damn grateful i have been given information by them to defend my rights,family and country.

THANK YOU."

Brett

you wrote - "Ayaan Hyrsi Ali made a great comment in a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt some years ago.

"**When she first arrived in the west she was amazed at how western people intensively study any phenomenon which is new to them to pull it apart and see how it works - to see what makes it tick.** {my emphasis - dda}.

" She said it was something she had never seen or experienced before in the cultures she had grown up in. It's something we so take for granted that it needs someone from outside the western tradition to remark on it."

That's really interesting. I didn't know she'd said that.

Because someone here, four years ago, said something very similar.

You'll find it in the comments thread, here:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/08/cair-defames-me-jihad-watch-yet-again.html

"It is a pity that Muslims decided to come to the West, and then tried to force the Islamic agenda on Westerners.

"**The default position of the West is to critically examine any idea or thought that comes before it. ** {my emphasis - dda}.

'This examination, particularly by Robert Spencer, has led to the revelation of what the Koran and Hadiths constitute, and the thoughts, actions, and the depravity of the founder of Islam.

'Public interest in Islam as a consequence of 9/11, has led all this to become public knowledge, where previously it was the preserve of scholars.

'A case in point - the Crusades are now regarded [by some who have done their homework - dda], and correctly so, as a desperate defence of Christians and Christian lands, from repeated and eventually successful Muslim invasion.

'None of what we see now would have happened if Muslims had not come to the West, or just lived like Hindus and others.

'Now the cat is out of the bag. {*I* would say, 'the gremlin is out of the sack and more and more of us are seeing the teeth and the claws..', but that's just me. - dda}

'The perverted nature of Mohammed has been revealed.

Inevitably, this has led to the caricature of Mohammed, and given his lamentable character, ridicule...".

Posted by: DP111 at August 15, 2007 5:29 PM

(DP111 said a lot more, but that's the part that I wanted to re-post here, because it chimes with what you heard Ayaan saying.)

PS - If you click on that link, I recommend reading the posted article and the entire comments thread, as it is relevant to today's discussion - and it's interesting to see what people on this forum were saying four years ago, and how far we've come.

And if you do read that thread, look out for postings by a very intelligent poster named 'Frank', on the subject of truth and lies.


I printed out "Truth is the new hate speech" and taped it to the rear window of my vehicle about a year ago.It's a powerful phrase because of it's very generality. The usual reponse is a wry "Dude, you got that right!" I believe most here have other societal concerns as well, and it applies across the board. As a widower with matchmaker friends, I get the "Now,Brad,PLEASE don't mention..." every time! And so,I introduce...Jihad Watch Singles! KIDDING, don't beat me,LOL.

Language is critical, no question about it. I just yesterday came across a statement in one of Spencer's books with regard to the widely-disseminated term, "Islamofascism."

"Islamofascism, Spencer wrote, "is generally considered as a perversion of Islam -- a politicized version of a personal and peaceful faith."

I forwarded the reminder to one of our local radio talk show hosts who utilizes terms such as Islamofascism, Islamists, Islamism, etc., not to be confused with 'authentic' Islam.

When I read about Rabbi Joshua Hammerman's attacks on Tebow I can't help but wondering if the struggle is hopeless.

Robert, I picked up an excellent phrase here on JW a week or so ago. Unfortunately I forget who said it. The phrase, 'Muslim roulette' refers to the problem of how to distinguish between a "moderate" muslim and a jihadist.

I hope you are right about the Left-dhimmi element slowly coming to understand what's at stake. But I have my doubts.

The Left has always understood the main enemy to be Christianity. Marx himself wrote that in his Germany, criticism always meant criticism of "the rotting corpse of Christianity". Here, in the USA, the Left perceives Islam as part of its constituency of "minorities", and hence does not think itself inconsistent in simultaneously linking with radical feminism, Islam, multiculturalism,and the LGBT movement. All three undermine the hold of Christian theism in society and the social institutions which Christianity has fostered and nurtured; hence all of these are to be promoted and supported. Further, the immoderate left has high hopes that it will be able to control all of these and move them to do their bidding.

While I support the anti-Jihad movement, I also continue to believe that without a truly Christian spiritual awakening,it is ultimately doomed. And, if the movement finds itself hijacked by the materialist Left, it will probably be a prelude to the utter collapse of Western civilization.


memo, that is why I posted the other day -- on Robert's interview with Steve Austin of Australian Broadcasting Corporation -- liberal streams of Judaism are not authentic Judaism. No Orthodox Rabbi worth his salt would have written these things.

I haven't read the rabbis piece yet; just bits and pieces from his critics. I have to concur with one point the rabbi allegedly made: "In this country, nothing, not even God, is more popular than football...." wj

I was once a far-left, and very tolerant and accepting of Muslims, but this was due to ignorance of only learning about the white-washed version of Islam.

May the truth shine brighter and brighter.

I tend to agree with Kepha. I believe that the Christian worldview is largely the source of most of our freedoms and liberties in the West. The very idea of a separation of Church and state is supported by Christianity (give to Ceasar what is Ceasar's, give to God what is God's), the very idea of the immortal soul of the individual being vastly more important than the finite "state" (thousand year Reich, anyone?), the very idea that "all men are created equal" comes from a Christian worldview. Of course atheists and materialists can believe those things as well, but it doesn't flow logically from their worldview. Why would all men be of equal worth if the material world is the ultimate reality? They certainly aren't equal when it comes to intelligence, physical ability, contributions to society, etc.

Chesterton made a very prescient remark as he observed the decline of Christianity in the West. He noted that as Christianity fades, not only will the Christian vices be let loose (greed, cruelty, sexual immorality, etc.) but also the Christian VIRTUES will be let loose, and because they are no longer tethered to the moderating forces of the full religion, they will mutate and warp into awful things. I think this is exactly where we are today with cultural relativism---while Christians understood they should love their fellow man even if he is an enemy, modern cultural relativists have perverted that to mean that we should now also love every lifestyle, every ideology, every worldview. Modern multiculturalism is tolerance and respect gone insane---a warped mutation of a noble Christian virtue. The pursuit of many in the West now is no longer truth, since the Westerner doesn't believe in objective truth anymore---instead, the goal is "being nice".

Also, when I speak of "multiculturalism", I'm speaking of the modern ideology that says "all cultures are admirable, and we shouldn't discriminate". I thank that's completely wrong, but I do NOT believe, obviosuly, that all other cultures and value systems are terrible and worthless. Being around other cultures can certainly enrich people's live, but IMO, you NEED TO HAVE AN OBJECTIVE STANDARD OF VALUES BEFORE YOU CAN MAKE ANY RESPONSIBLE JUDGEMENT OF OTHER CULTURES. This is what so many in the West today do not have. And when you don't have objective standards to say "this is right, this is wrong" and "this is morally superior to that"---when truth is no longer the currency, then the things that WILL be accepted as currency are force and violence. And this is why you see so many leftists and multiculturalists in the West today bowing down to the demands of Islam: "The Muslim has a great advantage in this conflict: He is sure that he is right, while the modern Western multiculturalist isn't sure that the Muslim is wrong."

Let's hope that the truth about Islam spreads like peanut butter on toast.

I am glad you expose things clearly and truthfully. Truth is referred to as a double-edged sword precisely because it makes a clean cut in and out (i.e., both sides of the blade) completely separating the good from the bad.

Along with the Truth, above all about the muslim mafia, islam, one needs to always remember, the Truth about Liberty, and the awful Truth about the alternative, and the Truth of the importance of the Constitution of Freedom, of, by and for the People, and the alternative. The current erosion of our national Treasure, cogently reminded here, in these two fine contributions:

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2010/07/that-dangerous-idea-of-liberty.html

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2011/01/who-needs-constitution-anyway.html

Contrasting with the totalitarian dictatorship of the satanic Orwellian mobs, of islam, that lost to eternity, criminal gang of all time, helps to add fire to the belly, and clarifies.

Those contributions help to understand the derelict nature of the members of our government, who are supposed to be leaders, and defenders, of these, our Precious Documents and Concepts.

Truths, of our American Founding Documents, for Americans and those in the world who would like to better understand more of the many key aspects of the Freedoms Americans have historically aspired to maintain, and some of the historical developments, that led to the concept, see this source:

http://theamericanjingoist.net/index.php/founding-documents/

Hopefully, these will be of worth to many, around the world, who would aspire to find a way, to Truths of Freedom, Under God, not fear, loathing, criminality, brutality, and slavery, under and to, satan and evil.

And of course, as most of us have, in America, including Thomas Jefferson (who confirmed, by reading the koran, to prove, that the truth of the evil koran was just cause to send Navy and Marines to put down the muslim pirates of the Barbary coast of Africa), compare the Holy Bible with the real final version of the koran, (including the verse of the sword) to see the Truth of Goodness of the Bible, opposed to the pure evil of the koran.

Truth is our Sec. of State just visiting the graves and memorial of these Navy and Marines, in Tripoli, Libya, with the consideration of bringing them home, to America!

Truth is, that our merchant ships were attacked without provocation, whatsoever, (as goes on today, for the same reason), except for the excuse of the koran dictating they be attacked because they were not believers, and the koran is always the excuse for attacking everyone, including themselves. Just the muslim-nazi mafia slaves of satan, going to work, as always.

See Truth when you compare the example of Jesus' life of goodness by example, to the example of the satanic life of the fraudulent gangster criminal of all history, mohammed.

The thought of that comparison, makes one sick with utter nausea, utter revulsion, and incredulity, at the gullibleness of the muslim.

The koran's dictates, provide a false excuse for complete and thorough criminal behavior, hatred and violence for all time, and needs put down.

And for a handy koran comparison source, aside from all of Jihad Watch, I would remind from above, traeh's reference as a useful one:

traeh | December 17, 2011 5:59 PM | Reply
Sorry, here's the chronological Qur'an website linked conveniently to Robert Spencer's commentary on each chapter:

http://www.chronquran.blogspot.com

An excellent stream of contributions, from BTP, Kepha, and Traeh.

The need, the ultimate goal, is to get the multiculturist to know muslim is 100% wrong. And this, by the absolute evidence, on display for all to see, for 1400 years of unchanging and unchangeable Truth of the criminality and absolute non-religion gang, that it is.

It is existing and created, as an excuse for eternal criminal behavior and, to also know what to do about it, which is the exclusion of wrong, completely.

An absolute non-acceptance policy, as any other criminal, destructive gang or cult.

A while back, I sent the following word to Pam - in an email - in regards to the 9/11 mosque (which she then used). But - could easily be used in any of the many places where mosques are being forced upon our neighborhoods: MOSQUETROCITY

I think the term "Sharia-Defiant" is particularly useful in a host of counter-jihad contexts. We should get it into public view wherever sharia is "creeping" forward.

Dumbldore's Army wrote:

Because someone here, four years ago, said something very similar.

You'll find it in the comments thread, here:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/08/cair-defames-me-jihad-watch-yet-again.html
............................

DDA, I would recommend especially that readers here revisit Hugh Fitzgerald's excellent comments on that same thread about how the truth about Islam will out:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/08/cair-defames-me-jihad-watch-yet-again.html#comment-384882

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