Robert Spencer: Andrew Breitbart for the Offense

In the American Thinker this morning I discuss Andrew Breitbart's legacy:

...Andrew Breitbart was never defensive. He called the left out for its hypocrisy, its thuggery, its totalitarian impulses, its self-contradictions and inconsistency, its naked hatred. That's why they hated and feared him so.
We should be hated and feared by the enemies of freedom. We should never bow to them, never apologize to them, never play the game they want us to play. Their hate is a badge of honor. Their fury and abuse are signs of our effectiveness. The people on the right whom the left love most are those who gore their oxen the least. These soft conservatives don't dare upset politically correct pieties. They wouldn't dream of challenging our government and law enforcement officials to stop peddling soothing falsehoods about the global jihad and Islamic supremacism, or of calling the Muslim community in the U.S. to account for the 80% of mosques that teach jihad and hatred of infidels, and for the Muslim Brotherhood ties of major Islamic groups in this country. Instead, they peddle the same false narrative, spending their time retailing crowd-pleasing fictions about the vast majority of moderate Muslims who are proudly American and accept constitutional freedoms, and whose vocal and vociferous and active support for anti-terror measures is no doubt right around the corner.

This is a false hope. Ten years after 9/11, and we are still waiting for this large cadre of moderate Muslims to begin fighting against their violent and supremacist coreligionists. And twenty years after 9/11, we will still be waiting.

It is time to give up false hopes and stop playing defense against the Islamic supremacists and the left. That is Andrew Breitbart's lesson, and his legacy. May we all emulate him, and may his memory be eternal.

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EZ Rider | March 5, 2012 6:45 AM | Reply

Mr. Spencer said,

"It is time to give up false hopes and stop playing defense against the Islamic supremacists and the left. That is Andrew Breitbart's lesson, and his legacy. May we all emulate him, and may his memory be eternal."

And I say again,

All muslim immigration to the U.S. must stop ASAP.

All muslims that are already in the U.S. must be deported/Exiled.

Any muslims who attempt to enter the U.S. illegally should be shot on site.

Counterjihad2012 | March 5, 2012 7:03 AM | Reply

Ten years after 9/11, the USA still denies to define his enemy (i.e. Islam)

Don't know the enemy ... one cannot fight it!

http://newstime.co.nz/andrew-breitbart-murdered-for-nothing.html

...Breitbart revealed that he had acquired damning tapes of Obama at Harvard

Mackie | March 5, 2012 7:12 AM | Reply

And now we have another dhimmi fool in the form of a Chicago Police Commissioner promising to not do blanket surveillances of the Muslim community in Chicago.

Bet that makes you feel a lot safer if you are a Chicagoan? that is of course until the next jihadist attack occurs.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-police-muslims-garry-mccarthy,0,351103.story

tanstaafl | March 5, 2012 7:31 AM | Reply

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

Counterjihad2012 | March 5, 2012 7:42 AM | Reply

... You’re fronting for stonings (Bukhari 4.56.829), amputations (5:33, 5:38), the murder of apostates (4:89), the treatment of women as possessions of men (4:34), ....

... And you call us fascists? You are the quintessence of fascism.”….

http://newstime.co.nz/michael-savage-on-the-passing-of-andrew-breitbart.html

thomas_h | March 5, 2012 8:05 AM | Reply

Great article Mr. Spencer. Thank you.

It is high time to drop the self imposed manacles of respect for the treasonous gibberish of the Left. We have nothing to loose but chains that we ourselves maintain. Lets loose them now so we may win the world of freedom, dignity and truth, that once was ours.
Let's get rolling!

David Dowse | March 5, 2012 8:39 AM | Reply

http://www.westernjournalism.com/pdf-obama-eligibility-investigation-report-released-by-sheriff-joe-arpaio-and-cold-case-posse-here/
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Read it, study it carefully, and please note that AB's last interview was with Sheriff Arpaio concerning the forgery that is Obama's "birth" certificate.

There is evil afoot in Denmark...

liberty.or.death | March 5, 2012 8:50 AM | Reply

Two thumbs up for this post, Mr. Spencer :)

Gaius Sempronius Gracchus | March 5, 2012 8:51 AM | Reply

So this site is NOT one of the most extreme and fierce outposts of the right wing noise machine?

If not to say, "crackpot right wing noise machine"?

I see.

Fiqh Al-Matter | March 5, 2012 8:55 AM | Reply

As Pamela has said so brilliantly before: We are the soldiers in this war. Nobody is going to do this for us. We win, or we’re gone. That’s it.

awake replied to comment from Gaius Sempronius Gracchus | March 5, 2012 10:09 AM | Reply

Gaius Sempronius Gracchus wrote:
"So this site is NOT one of the most extreme and fierce outposts of the right wing noise machine?"

Wow, that was some stinging criticism there. A presupposed assertion without a single example in support. I can't wait for your follow-up.

LemonLime | March 5, 2012 11:10 AM | Reply

"We should never bow to them, never apologize to them, never play the game they want us to play."

-- except when we don't want them to think we are too extremely anti-Islam and anti-Muslim. Then we must be very gingerly as we tiptoe around eggshells.

Cornelius | March 5, 2012 11:13 AM | Reply

Our Fearless Leader at his defiant best!

Buraq replied to comment from Gaius Sempronius Gracchus | March 5, 2012 11:36 AM | Reply

Interesting that you chose a 'handle' for JW of a Roman who led a street mob to take power and was killed in the attempt.

That's what Islam is trying to do everywhere in the world!

By the way, you're a clown!

marken | March 5, 2012 12:06 PM | Reply

David Woods once outlined the progressive stages of jihad and my thoughts were that most in the anti-Islam/anti-Jihad movement go through stages:

From awareness, to educating themselves and others, to defensive action, to containment, to offensive attitudes and actions.

5th stage anti-Jihadists who we admire, look beyond containing Islam and are for example convinced things such as 'Muslim land' is just a temporary condition and act accordingly. Many never progress from 2nd and 3rd stage. The majority of our activity should be 5th stage.

David Dowse replied to comment from Gaius Sempronius Gracchus | March 5, 2012 12:29 PM | Reply

Gaius:

"So this site is NOT one of the most extreme and fierce outposts of the right wing noise machine?

If not to say, "crackpot right wing noise machine"?

I see.

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If you're referring to the Arpaio investigation, I suggest you explain how it is that a scanned copy of a Birth Certificate issued by the State of Hawaii can have 9 layers of editable information.

If you're not, then I apologize and ask that you please explain your post further.

Champ replied to comment from Buraq | March 5, 2012 2:14 PM | Reply

Buraq,

Gaius Sempronius Gracchus changed his moniker from "Gaius" to now this ...and "Gaius" is the poster who does not support the existence of Israel and who loves to bash Christians. And here we see that he hates right-wing conservatives. Yep, hate is all that we can expect from this poster. Also, "Gaius" claims to be an atheist, but I suspect that he's a mohammedan troll. Time will tell ..

Buraq replied to comment from Champ | March 5, 2012 10:42 PM | Reply

Claiming to be an atheist is a new tactic by Muslim trolls. This 'neutral' position allows them to make criticisms of Christianity while using 'moral equivalence' arguments to smooth the very rough edges off Islam. Fayzal is another recent example.

Anyway, I like honing my arguments against the violent ideology of Islam. They are useful idiots, in that sense.

Thanks for the info.

vnbushman | March 6, 2012 10:18 AM | Reply

"It is time to give up false hopes and stop playing defense against the Islamic supremacists and the left".

I feelk the Wests failer to effectiveness, is the wests failer to know the ideology of this enemy. When you don't understand how, where, what, when, and who, you really don't know what you are talking about.

Such is the case with in United States with reguard to understanding Islam. It's like hunting ants with a jet fighter. It's not going to be effective, even after ten
or twenty years.

That is why Islam continues moving assortively and aggressively toward its goal.Today they are waiting for their stealth jihad to catch up. While they gain even more trust in the world. If this were a game of cat and mouse. Guess who would be the mouse?

David Dowse replied to comment from Buraq | March 6, 2012 6:25 PM | Reply

Buraq:

"Claiming to be an atheist is a new tactic by Muslim trolls. This 'neutral' position allows them to make criticisms of Christianity while using 'moral equivalence' arguments to smooth the very rough edges off Islam. Fayzal is another recent example."
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Bingo.

NewCrusader replied to comment from Gaius Sempronius Gracchus | March 6, 2012 7:46 PM | Reply

Gaius,
Your post is perfect example of what Robert was saying about the tactics of the left. You couldn't have done a better job of proving him right.

gravenimage replied to comment from Gaius Sempronius Gracchus | March 6, 2012 10:49 PM | Reply

Gaius Sempronius Gracchus wrote:

So this site is NOT one of the most extreme and fierce outposts of the right wing noise machine?

If not to say, "crackpot right wing noise machine"?

I see.
....................................

How can opposing Jihad terror and the imposition of Shari'ah—including such horrors as the stoning of rape victims—be anything other than "crackpot right wing noise"?

I'm sure it's ever so much sophisticated to defend such barbarities. Go ahead—we're listening...

classicus | March 7, 2012 10:23 AM | Reply

Gaius Sempronius Gracchus?

Bacca magna, gladius minutus.

(Big mouth, tiny sword.)

David Dowse replied to comment from classicus | March 8, 2012 6:31 PM | Reply

Classicus!

"Gaius Sempronius Gracchus?

Bacca magna, gladius minutus.

(Big mouth, tiny sword.)"

______________________

My God. You've FINALLY come back.

Have thought of you many times over the past 2 or 3 months.

gravenimage replied to comment from classicus | March 9, 2012 12:17 PM | Reply

Classicus wrote:

Bacca magna, gladius minutus.
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Hilarious! O amice, vir bonus es!

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