Spencer certainly looks suspicious.

Posted by: MP at March 28, 2008 4:20 PM

It's the beard.

Posted by: HOV Dummy at March 28, 2008 4:23 PM

Ok Robertollah Bin Spenceri, stop pretending! :)

Posted by: LazarOfSerbia at March 28, 2008 4:24 PM

I think this joke is about 4 days early guys, April Fool's is Tuesday.

Posted by: Stinkyinfidel at March 28, 2008 4:24 PM

I KNEW IT!!!!!

Posted by: cinerx at March 28, 2008 4:24 PM

Hells bells, you have a smile on your face...you can't be a jihadist.

Posted by: interestinconundrum at March 28, 2008 4:26 PM

I agree with Stinkyinfidel -- April Fool's is Tuesday.

Posted by: US_infidel at March 28, 2008 4:28 PM

So Robert is just trolling?

Posted by: non-croyant at March 28, 2008 4:30 PM

There's only one way to prove these allegations are false, but JW would be banned again... ;)

Posted by: LazarOfSerbia at March 28, 2008 4:31 PM

Well he does kinda look like a terrorist!

Posted by: BarackOsama at March 28, 2008 4:33 PM

Robert:

You've kept your inner struggle a well kept secret. I'm impressed.

And the only thing dangerous that I can see is that plaid wallpaper, as it may cause protests in the streets from interior designers across this nation.

Posted by: champ at March 28, 2008 4:34 PM

Typical leftist, backasswards, whack, conspiracy-theory nonsense.

What KILLS me about these type of ppl is that Robert is saying nothing that the Koran and the terrorists do not say themselves... yet for some reason, they ignore it when the terrorists say it over and over again, and instead focus on the messenger who is merely clarifying the message.

Just like Mr Wilders film... to me, it looks hardly different from jihadist propaganda all over the internet -- quotes from the Koran superimposed over their death porn. But for whatever reason, when Mr Wilders does it, he is equating Islam to violence. When the jihadis do it, well.... it's ignored.

Days like today I find myself incredibly dejected in the face of the world's seemingly willful ignorance on the very real threat we face to our civilization from Islam.

Posted by: JenBee at March 28, 2008 5:35 PM

Seven comments on that blog and every one of them said something to the effect that the blogger was stoooopid.

Posted by: Pelayo at March 28, 2008 5:37 PM

A "very cagey, wahhabist stooge" no less.

Posted by: TINBH at March 28, 2008 5:39 PM

>>Seven comments on that blog and every one of them said something to the effect that the blogger was stoooopid.

Posted by: Pelayo at March 28, 2008 5:37 PM

Not only that - Nuts.

Posted by: darcy at March 28, 2008 5:41 PM

The blog reads like a joke, but it's almost impossbile to tell the difference these days.

The posts on Charles Johnson and Geert Wilders are pretty far out there too.

Anyway, this is my favorite bit:

"Why would a regular American seek to study Islam, academically and receiving an MA for this. And then once he received his Islamic training he suddenly becomes an anti-jihadist?"

When a "regular American" studies Islam, the only reasonable result is that he become anti-Jihadist. There seems to be some confusion by the blogger between "studying Islam" and "Islamic training" too. I know our colleges are pretty well dhimmified, but as far as I know, they haven't become madrassas - yet.

Posted by: Jan Sobieski at March 28, 2008 5:51 PM

Robert,

I'm truly disappointed to hear that you're a closet jihadist and a double-agent of the Umma. All this time I thought you were from another planet--LOL!

Posted by: John C at March 28, 2008 5:52 PM

Well, you had me fooled, Robert. I'm so red-faced.

Posted by: Morgaan Sinclair at March 28, 2008 6:09 PM

Come to think of it Mr. Spencer,
I did hear you say;”My fa’thend, my fa’thend”
when greeting that clerk at the local 7-11 the other day.
What’s up with that?

Posted by: Joe Schmoe USA at March 28, 2008 6:29 PM

I knew it all along. You, you Muslimist and Hugh, Hugh, that Christianist. I knew it. I feel used.

Posted by: Jauhara Al-Kafirah at March 28, 2008 6:30 PM

It all makes sense now!

Anyone who is clever enough to invent sock-puppets as diverse as Hugh Fitzgerald and Jeffrey Carr must be trying to throw everyone off his true scent.

Posted by: patagonianplato at March 28, 2008 7:07 PM

Robert, do you know who runs the blog Memories of the Willow Tree? If I'm not mistaken, it's a former Jihadwatch comments poster that went by the name of leonthepigfarmer.

He fits the the profile to a T. The "Memories" blogger is an ex-pat Brit, naturalised as a US citizen and living in Georgia, as is Leon.

On his previous blog, before it was re-formatted, he, like Leon, boasted about being ex-British Forces (Leon was a former part-time member of our version of the National Guard and was given to boasting about it on here).

The Memories blog surfaced just after Leon's original piss-poor blog, which he used to promote in his comments, disappeared.

The Memories blog also formerly promoted the British National Party, same as Leon, and it linked to BNP supporter blogs. It championed the attention-seeking British blogging idiot Lionheart, as did Leon. (see these comments by the "Memories" ident on the Lionheart blog.)

It linked to the Michael Savage site (Leon was a big fan) and to the NRA site (Leon had a fetish for firearms).

Its former articles featured the idiotic claim that Muslim immigration to the EU is part of deliberate campaign to fulfil the dream of the secretly Muslim Napoleon Bonaparte for a Europe united under Islam, a totally nutjob theory which Leon tried to peddle on a few JW threads, including this one.

The current blog attacks Charles Johnson, as did Leon when the former criticised both the BNP and Lionheart.

And finally, the writing on the site bears the same idiosyncratic approach to spelling and grammar as Leon's posts to Jihadwatch.

If there's two identical idiots running around Georgia then I'll eat my hat. And yours too.

Posted by: Matamoros at March 28, 2008 7:07 PM

Whoever said this nonsense about Robert Spencer deserves a Darwin Award.

Posted by: Always On Watch at March 28, 2008 7:09 PM

Matamoros,

You know leonthepigfarmer TOO WELL. My guess is that YOU are "Memories of Willow Tree." Say it ain't so and I'll know that it is.

In any case, I posted this comment at Leon's Tree:

"Are you a weeping willow tree now that you've read all of these not very complimentary comments? Someone notified Robert Spencer of your post. At Jihad Watch he remarked that he can't stop laughing about your wacky theory that he is a jihadist! :^)

Allow me to thank you on his behalf for giving him a reason to smile. It is difficult enough for anyone to have to deal with death threats from actual jihadis, or are they in on the conspiracy???

March 28, 2008 4:26 PM

Posted by: Lex at March 28, 2008 7:38 PM

Lex -- they're not the same person.

Posted by: MarisolJW at March 28, 2008 7:55 PM

Lex -- they're not the same person.

Posted by: MarisolJW at March 28, 2008 7:55 PM

I second Marisol's statement. DEFINATELY not the same person.

Posted by: awake at March 28, 2008 8:01 PM

taqija!!

Posted by: repulse at March 28, 2008 8:50 PM

I am not laughing....willow tree? Coincidence?:

"The slogan Srbe na vrbe! (Serbian: Србе на врбе), meaning [Hang] Serbs from the willow trees! is hate speech calling for the extermination of Serbs. The slogan was first used by the Slovenian Marko Natlačen in 1914, at the beginning of the war of Austria-Hungary against Serbia, .[1]

It was popularized before WWII by Mile Budak, the chief architect of the Ustaše ideology and of genocide against Serbs. The slogan became a reality during World War II, with hanging becoming notable in terms of symbolism — if not in scope — in the Independent State of Croatia, as part of the Holocaust and the Ustaše's genocide against the Serbs. In present-day Croatia, Croatian neo-Nazis, extreme nationalists and people who oppose return of Serbian refugees often use the slogan. Graffiti with the phrase is common, and has appeared in 2004 and 2006.[2][3]

The slogan is most commonly heard shouted by Croatian and Bosniak fans at sport events involving Serbian teams..."

Serbs are atune to "willows"....

Posted by: ujaklija at March 28, 2008 9:24 PM

With his deep interest in the Qur'an, I can see how anybody might jump to that conclusion about our very own al Shaytani ;-)

Posted by: Infidel Pride at March 28, 2008 9:39 PM

Posted by: ujaklija at March 28, 2008 9:24 PM

Thanks for that. It was most enlightening.

Posted by: awake at March 28, 2008 9:57 PM

Oh, and the Crescent/Star symbol of JihadWatch should also have served as a dead giveaway

Posted by: Infidel Pride at March 28, 2008 9:58 PM

I have often been told by lefty looneys that 'I'm driving a wedge between us and moderate Muslims' because of my radical ideas. It is one of these absurd denial of reality fantasies that lefties engage in. This conspiracy peddler is not so different from the Islamic da'wa agit-props who peddle stuff like this:

'at an August 2005 “Know Your Rights” workshop sponsored by CAIR-San Diego, invited speaker Randall Hamud responded to an audience member’s comment that there was “still no evidence that Muslims carried out 9/11” by saying, “Maybe a hundred years from now we’ll find that out.”

Listen to them and they all deny, lie, deflect and obfuscate. That's their Islamic duty, and this is what this turkey does.

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at March 28, 2008 10:04 PM

So, what happened to leonthepigfarmer? Yeah, I remember him.

Posted by: darcy at March 28, 2008 10:48 PM

Robert,

How you've been able to keep your inner Muslim in check in the presence of infidels shows you've got your 'spiritual struggle' thing down pat.

Posted by: Bosch Fawstin at March 28, 2008 10:59 PM

Darcy,

He either left on his own or was ushered out. My instinct leans toward the latter, but I do not know for sure.

Posted by: awake at March 28, 2008 11:49 PM

I guess the "weeping willow" got tired of the abuse, all of which was completely deserved.

Now, when you access Robert's link all you get is "blogger not found".

Indeed.

Posted by: awake at March 29, 2008 12:36 AM

"Robert Spencer of Jihadwatch is an Islamic Jihadist posing as an anti-jihadist"

ahh, robert your cover is intact, they haven't realised you are an anti-jihadist posing as a Jihadist posing as an anti-jihadist

M

Posted by: raven_ at March 29, 2008 3:46 AM

The website was taken down. Still available in google cache though.

Posted by: Goob at March 29, 2008 5:38 AM

Congratulation Robert.

Yes, look like Christian is the only religion of Peace not Islam.

However, I am sorry the bible said you are wrong.

Matthew 10:34 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)

34"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Posted by: janeabraham at March 29, 2008 7:24 AM

Congratulation Robert.

Yes, look like Christian is the only religion of Peace not Islam.

However, I am sorry the bible said you are wrong.

Matthew 10:34 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)

34"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Posted by: janeabraham at March 29, 2008 7:26 AM

That site has disappeared. Pity. I'd loved to have seen it.

Posted by: SandiM at March 29, 2008 7:58 AM

'janeabraham'

haven't you ever heard of metaphor? M.e.t.a.p.h.o.r.

In the passage you cite, the Jew Yeshua of Nazareth, commonly known as Jesus, was not talking about actual military battles and war - and if you had bothered to read the whole portion of Matthew's gospel in which that passage occurs (rather than, as I suspect, merely parroting the little snippet that your Muslim dawa instructors have told you could be used for 'tu quoque' purposes) you would know that.

He was using 'the sword' as a metaphor for division and controversy. He was talking about the fact that people, even from the same family, would disagree strongly about who he was - for example, that the mother-in-law would be 'set against' the daughter-in-law, and so on. Now, in my experience, mothers in law and daughters in law do not usually conduct their arguments or settle their differences on the field of battle with either guns or swords!!! So it is obvious that the reference to 'a sword' is not to be taken literally. (My brother is an atheist; he and I have had some heated arguments about matters of faith - in other words, the 'sword' of division that Jesus was talking about, has sometimes affected our brother-sister relationship).

You like to claim that we 'misread' the Quran, etc - but your own deliberate misreading and distortion of Biblical texts is so bad it's beyond bizarre.

Mad hattery. Mad hattery. You have NO hope of bamboozling any Christian who thoroughly knows their Bible.

Give it up, lady. Give it up. And if you insist on talking more mad hattery, do please go away, we are not in the least interested.

Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at March 29, 2008 8:38 AM

This is very strange.

I read some of the articles on the old "Memories..." blog, as well as some of his comments on the LH blog.

The writer seemed mentally unstable to me. In my opinion, that type of person doesn't tend to have a good sense of humour: subtlety and irony are not their strong suits; they're more likely to overstate things.

The blog was removed for a while. Now it is back but written in a distinctly different style. I'd be surprised if it was still being written by the same person.

Posted by: Josephine at March 29, 2008 12:50 PM

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."

Posted by: janeabraham

Context - jane - Context!!! DDA explained this passage perfectly, but I did want to add that your overall mistake, jane, your overall "glaring" mistake, was that you took this verse and used it OUT OF CONTEXT to fit your own agenda. Naughthy, naughty.

Posted by: champ at March 29, 2008 1:08 PM

Now I'm sure I'm right.

From today's post, "Muslims are lovely people":

"Plus the Bible (pbuh) is not the true book, according to my new Pakistani friend (who has introduced me to his new mosque in michigan) the Bible (pbuh) is really the work of Shaitan and the Koran (pbuh) is the true book and you must love and understand it or face the Sword, which Naseem said is not a real sword but a holy one. Anyway, Naseem is taking me on a backpacking tour of North West Pakistan, so this will be a short post as I need to buy some night vision goggles and extra backpacks."

Posted by: Josephine at March 29, 2008 1:08 PM

Actually (I don't know if this has been said already, I didn't read every comment) but I think it really is a joke. The phrasing looks very tongue-in-cheek to me.

It reminds me of a comedy routine years ago claiming that the flight of Canadian acting talent to the United States was in fact a Canadian government conspiracy to take over our southern neighbour.

In which case, I guess Robert can take it as support, not criticism. So, bring it on. Let's
see some more.

Posted by: Novalis at March 29, 2008 3:47 PM