“My comrade-in-arms, my pal, my buddy.”
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Oriana Fallaci
“Robert Spencer incarnates intellectual courage when, all over the world, governments, intellectuals, churches, universities and media crawl under a hegemonic Universal Caliphate’s New Order. His achievement in the battle for the survival of free speech and dignity of man will remain as a fundamental monument to the love of, and the self-sacrifice for, liberty.”
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Bat Ye’or
“Robert Spencer is indefatigable. He is keeping up the good fight long after many have already given up. I do not know what we would do without him. I appreciate all the intelligence and courage it takes to keep going despite the appeasement of the West.”
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Ibn Warraq
“America's most informed, fearless, and compelling voice on modern jihadism.”
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Andrew C. McCarthy, Senior Fellow at National Review Institute
“Robert Spencer is the leading voice of scholarship and reason in a world gone mad. If the West is to be saved, we will owe Robert Spencer an incalculable debt.”
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Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs
"The consummate Islam critic and expert." —
Bruce Bawer
“Over the years, we have become friends, and I have received his assistance on several pieces of legislation I proposed.”
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Former Congressman Tom Tancredo
“Few people are capable of applying scholarship, analytical reasoning, and objectivity to their topic -- while simultaneously being readable and witty -- as can Robert Spencer.”
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Raymond Ibrahim
“A national treasure...The acclaimed scholar of Islam.”
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Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy
“I am indeed honored to call him my friend.”
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Brad Thor, novelist
“A top American analyst of Islam....A serious scholar...I learn from him.”
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Daniel Pipes
“A brilliant scholar and writer.”
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Douglas Murray
"One of my best teachers."
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Ashraf Ramelah, Voice of the Copts
“Thank God there’s at least one man with balls left in the West.”
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Kathy Shaidle, Five Feet of Fury
“I read people like [Mark Steyn] and Bob Spencer and the rest of them, and I say, ‘Boortz, you’re pretending you’re an author. These people really are. They really write some entertaining, some standup stuff.’”
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Neal Boortz
“Robert Spencer is the Stephen King of Jihad.”
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Chris Gaubatz, Muslim Mafia
“Armed with facts and fearlessness, Spencer stands up for Western civilization.”
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Michelle Malkin
“Widely read in conservative foreign policy circles.”
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New York Times
“Widely read in many quarters in Washington.”
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Washington Post
“A canny operative who likely has the inside track on the State Department’s Middle East affairs desk should the tea party win the White House.”
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New York Magazine
“A hero of the American right.”
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Karen Armstrong
"The leading anti-Islamic intellectual in the United States....The go-to Islam expert for the right wing."
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Salon Magazine
“Robert Spencer is an Edward Said turned upside down.”
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Stephen Suleyman Schwartz
“One of the nation's most notorious Islamophobes.”
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Hamas-linked CAIR
"Geller and Spencer are probably the most important propagandizing Islamophobes in the world. These people's voices speak very loudly — not just here in the United States but overseas."
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Heidi Beirach, Southern Poverty Law Center
“Satanic ignoramus.”
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Khaleel Mohammed
“The Likud anti-Christ.”
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Dar al-Hayat newspaper (Saudi Arabia)
“Zionist Crusader, missionary of hate, counter-Islam consultant.”
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Al-Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn, “Azzam the American”
During the trial, Khairi had claimed that he killed his wife in self-defence, alleging that she had tried to attack him with a knife...
Khairi had not revealed his claim that he was attacked prior to the trial, including when questioned by police.
In court, Khairi said that he had been waiting for his trial to tell the full story....
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Uh...right...
More:
We have seen this defense from Muslim honor murderers before.
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We have indeed. It was especially ludicrous in the case of Muzzammil Hassan, who was a head taller than his petite wife, and who outweighed her by probably a hundred pounds.
But on some grotesque level I believe pious Muslims *actually believe this*.
Oh, not about being 'attacked with a knife', of course—but that they both regard their murders of their wives as a form of "self-defense".
After all, in both cases she offended him in some way, by being insufficiently obedient, or for becoming "too Westernized"—i.e., insufficiently Islamic.
It is exactly the same with the devout Muslim who threatened to hunt the non-violent Robert Spencer down and cut off his head with an axe in "self-defense":
"I was thinking to CUT your head with AXE.. as Self -defence. defending mY dignity as MUSLIM"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/11/after-repeatedly-threatening-to-kill-me-muslim-emailer-comes-out-for-obama.html
This hardly sounds like "self defense" to any rational Westerner. For an act to be considered "self defense" in the West, the person must be directly and immediately threatened with grievous physical harm.
But for a Muslim, he only need be confronted with someone who offends his sense of Islamic propriety, or someone whom he considers to present an obstacle to the spread of Islam.
This also makes the Islamic tenet that no Muslim can wage offensive Jihad in the absence of a Caliphate virtually meaningless, since anything and everything can be considered "defensive Jihad"—even an out-of-the-blue sneak attack like 9/11.