This earnest peroration was sent this morning to me and to Khaleel Mohammed of San Diego State University:
TO SPENCER WHOSE HEART IS FILLED WITH HATE AND WHOSE POCKET IS FILLED WITH MONEY OF POLITICIANS.
I just checked my pockets — alas, nary a penny from any politicians. Perhaps my payments have been lost in the mail. Memo to politicians: contact me at director@jihadwatch.org for the proper address to which to send your checks.
I AM MUSLIM AND I AM PROUD OF THAT. YOU AND THOSE LIKE YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT WE ARE OVER 1 BILLION PEOPLE AND IN CASE THERE WERE SOME BAD RULERS INSIDE MUSLIM WORLD WHO CAN NOT RESPOND TO YOU, I WILL BE ONE OF TENS OF MILLIONS WHO CAN PROVE THAT YOU ARE INACCURATE IN YOUR WORK, YOU COME WITH FALSE THINGS AND CONSIDER THEM AS AN EVIDENCE.
Tens of millions, eh? Hoowee. Would you fellows mind lining up single file along that wall? Otherwise I might not be able to get in and out of my office. But alas, I rather suspect that these tens of millions with all their evidence of my inaccuracy will end up like Khaleel Mohammed and all the others who have made similar claims — they talk a good game, but never quite succeed in backing it up.
And this emailer’s evidence of my horrible inaccuracy is particularly telling. It comes right after he inaccurately characterizes the subject of my unjustifiably famous Master’s thesis:
YOU GOT THE MASTER DEGREE UPON YOUR STUDY IN CRUSADE ISSUES. TO PROVE THAT YOU ARE INACCURATE, FOR EXAMPLE, I WOULD LIKE TO REFER TO THE STORY OF KUWAITI SINGER WHO JOINED AL-QAEDA RECENTLY. YOU QUOTED FROM ALARABIYA WEBSITE. THAT WAS THE LINK http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/03/15/46971.html
LOOK AT THE WEB TODAY AND FIND THE NEW STORY
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/03/16/47028.html
THE STORY IS IN ARABIC BUT YOU CAN FIND A TRANSLATOR TO PAY FOR. THE TITLE OF THE STORY SAYS THAT FAMILY OF THIS SINGER ASSERTS THAT HE HAS TRAVELED TO IRAN TO HELP THE POOR SUNNIS LIVING THERE AND HE WILL COME BACK TO KUWAIT AFTER A WEEK OR TWO WEEKS. IN ADDITION, YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT THERE IS NO AIRFLIGHTS FROM KUWAIT TO AFGHANISTAN. THIS IS ONE OF YOUR LIES POSTED ON JIHADWATCH WEB.
The lies in question would be here, in the post about the Kuwaiti singer. But you’ll notice that all the information there comes from the Al-Arabiya article. So this guy is calling me a liar for quoting what Al-Arabiya is itself reporting.
WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER LIES YOU HAVE PUT INSIDE YOUR BOOK ABOUT THE PROPHET MUHAMMED (PEACE BE UPON HIM) WHO LED MILLIONS TO GOODNESS AND PEACE. AT THE MOMENT, I AM LIVING IN A MUSLIM COUNTRY AND IN MY DISTRICT THERE IS A CHURCH FOR TENS OF CHIRISTIANS LIVING THERE.
Wow! Tens of Christians! Oh, the tolerance!
THE CHURCH IS SAFE IN A SIMILAR WAY TO THOSE CHURCHES IN CAIRO, DAMASCUS AND OTHER MUSLIM CITIES. THE PROTECTION OF CHRISTIANS WAS RECOMMENDED BY THE SECOND RASHIDI CALIPH, OMAR BIN ALKHATTAB (MERCY BE UPON HIM) WHO ENTERED JERUSALEM IN PEACE AND WITHOUT FIGHT. HE WAS THE COMPANION OF MUHAMMED THE PROPHET. THINK OF THAT AND YOU WILL SEE THE TRUTH. STUDY THE STORY OF MUHAMMED BY IBN HUSHAM OR SAHIH AL-BUKHARI.
Sure, there are churches all over the Islamic world, and they were unmolested as long as the Christians remembered their second-class status as dhimmis — as long as they knew their place and paid the jizya. And in fact, yes, Ibn Hisham and Bukhari were two of my principal sources for The Truth About Muhammad.
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Surely We have given thee abundance
so pray unto thy Lord and sacrifice
Surely he that hates thee, he is the one cut off.
That’s Qur’an 108:1-3, in case you were wondering.
THANK YOU PROF KHALIL FOR DEFENDING MUHAMMED THE PROPHET, YOUR SAVIOR INSHALLAH
Muhammad is the Savior? I’m not sure that’s an orthodox Muslim statement! But in any case, here we see yet again the inchoate rage, the inability to form coherent arguments, the furious invective and false charges. These kinds of messages give me confidence: I just don’t see men like this as world conquerors.