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Robert Spencer in PJ Lifestyle: 3 Times I Was Framed for Murder – And How You Can Be, Too

Apr 20, 2014 2:47 pm By Robert Spencer

AslanthreatIn PJ Lifestyle today I outline the price for speaking out on behalf of human rights:

Have you ever been blamed for a murder? Speak out against jihad terror, and you probably will be. It has happened to me three times (so far):

3. Reza Aslan blames me for murder of Muslim woman in California.

Last Thursday in El Cajon, California, an Iraqi Muslim named Kassim Alhimidi was found guilty of murdering his wife, Shaima Alawadi, after she had told him that she wanted a divorce.

Before Alhimidi was arrested, this murder was widely reported as an “Islamophobic hate crime”: a note was found by Alawadi’s body that read, “Go back to your country, you terrorist.” Leftists and Islamic supremacists made a great deal of this, claiming that the murder was the work of an “Islamophobe” who hated Shaima Alawadi for wearing a hijab. They even staged a campaign, “One Million Hijabs for Shaima Alawadi.”

Reza Aslan, the celebrated author of Zealot, bashed out a sub-literate tweet blaming Pamela Geller and me for the murder: “If a 32 year old veiled mother is a terrorist than [sic] so am I you Islamophobic fucks Gellar [sic] Spencer et. [sic] al. Come find me.” When Alhimidi was arrested and it became clear that this was not an “Islamophobic hate crime at all, I asked Aslan for a retraction and an apology, whereupon he showed yet again what a classy and mature individual he is, tweeting: “You owe me an apology for that beard you sexy walrus.”

In any case, the whole “hate crime” aspect of Shaima Alawadi’s murder was staged to deflect attention from the real murderer. Now that it has been definitively established that the murder was an Islamic honor killing, will the Leftists and Islamic supremacists who made so much of the hate crime now stage “One Million Hijabs Against Honor Killing”? Somehow I doubt it.

2. I’m blamed for a murder in New Jersey, too

Islamic supremacists are avid to find “Islamophobic” hate crimes that supposedly show that what I say incites people to violence – so avid that the Alawadi case was not the first time I was blamed for a murder.

In August 2011, a young Muslim man, Kashif Pervaiz, murdered his wife, Nazish Noorani, while she was pushing her three-year-old son in a stroller on a street in Boonton, New Jersey. Pervaiz was walking with Noorani when the shooting took place, and was shot himself. According to the New York Post, “Parvaiz originally claimed three men — one black, one white and one of an uncertain race — called the couple ‘terrorists’ before opening fire.” That was enough for police to investigate the possibility that the shooting was an anti-Muslim hate crime — that is, until Pervaiz began changing his story, and began to emerge as a suspect who had staged the whole thing, including his own shooting, so as to deflect attention away from himself as a suspect.

Even as Pervaiz was starting to equivocate and spin ever-taller tales, the blame game began. I received a tweet from a certain Jawad Rasul, containing a link to one of the initial stories about the murder: “Thank you @PamelaGeller and @jihadwatchrs [my Twitter handle], If you have any humanity, you might ponder over this!” Meanwhile, a source close to the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) told me that Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR was “salivating and waiting to jump all over” the Noorani murder story: “They are waiting to blame you for everything.”

Another Hamas-linked Muslim Brotherhood front group, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), wanted Obama to take action on this: “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.”

In reality, the idea that any of the counter-jihad activists and writers whom the mainstream media and Islamic supremacists blame for violence against Muslims are actually responsible for any such violence is absurd. This is true not just because I was nowhere near Boonton, New Jersey in August 2011, but also because we have never called for or justified violence. It is ironic that the Islamic supremacist groups that are trying to shut down the counter-jihad movement by claiming that our views lead to violence at the same time hotly deny that there is any connection between Islamic teachings and jihad violence — even though Islamic jihadists routinely point to those teachings as their motivation….

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  1. wildjew says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 3:07 pm

    Is Reza Aslan a zealot?

    • jihad3tracker says

      Apr 20, 2014 at 3:22 pm

      Hello wildjew —

      Reza Aslan is zealous only in the degree of fear haunting him about actually encountering Robert Spencer in any form whatsoever.

      Check out the hilarious hasty exit Aslan made when he got on Reddit for an “Ask me anything” session… around last May or two Mays ago.

      When our master of ceremonies here appeared, coward Reza leaped out the nearest window.

      You can likely find the post here on JW with a search using relevant words…

      Reza Aslan is basically a sad clownish person who has never made it emotionally past adolescence, and that is worsened by the pussy-whippings he gets on a regular basis by a wife who makes him wear a dog collar all weekend — or so the rumor goes…..

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Apr 20, 2014 at 6:56 pm

      C’mon, Wild, does a bear sheet in the woods? You know the answer, but I appreciate your cynical sarcasm. That’s needed when dealing with Moslems.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 21, 2014 at 5:51 am

      Reza Aslan is an apologist for misogyny, honor killing and warfare against disbelievers.

      Reza Aslan is a supremacist posing as a human rights advocate. He advocates for SUPREMACISM AND MISOGYNY.

  2. Tradewinds says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 3:10 pm

    Islam is a scourge on the world and so is Reza Aslan, a Muslim goon and thug like his cohorts of “cair.”

  3. duh_swami says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 3:22 pm

    Well, when Islam is innocent someone has to be responsible. Mahoundians love the ‘guilt by association’ game, they have made that into such a high art form that no association is the same as association. So no matter what, you are guilty.
    Facts have nothing to do with it. The good thing about it is that few people outside those with vested interests believe it, so it is largely bluster of a particularly nasty type.

  4. Ashley says

    Apr 20, 2014 at 3:32 pm

    To those who celebrate…Happy Easter!

    OT: Tomorrow is the Boston Marathon, and a sad anniversary. I find myself wondering why the FBI released the photos of the Tsarnaev brothers to the public. Surely the FBI would have recognized the brothers, especially Tamerlan, from their previous investigations. Once the photos of the brothers were released, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar were on-the-run. I wonder if the death of the MIT police officer may have been prevented had the photos not been released by the FBI to the media.

  5. Karl S. says

    Apr 21, 2014 at 2:12 am

    I wonder if Reza forced his wife to convert to Islam? Something tells me no, but she could wear the pants in that relationship…you never know.

  6. Jax Tolmen says

    Apr 21, 2014 at 5:26 am

    It’s despicable that people like Reza Aslan can blame you for a murder, without any indication of your direct involvement. It’s slanderous and grossly inappropriate – just another empty attack by the enemies of freedom.

    Even if the killer was hypothetically a reader of your site/books – that’s just as preposterous as stating that video games inspire murder; perhaps even more illogical as video games contain violent content. Not once have either you or Pamela Gellar incited people to violence or ever condoned indiscriminate violence against Muslims.

    There may be a small minority of disturbed people who happen to frequent this site who might be deranged enough to commit hate crimes – but that is no one’s fault. It seems to be common practice to blame a scape goat when such things do happen – but as a whole, the vast and overwhelming majority of Jihad Watchers would not commit such heinous crimes.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 21, 2014 at 5:56 am

      Sophomoric scurrility is the ‘perfect example’ of the pedophile Mohammed whom Muslims worship as the partner of Allah.

      They descend to that level because they have no rational argument with which to defend their unhistorical faith.

  7. Anushirvan says

    Apr 21, 2014 at 10:27 am

    It is quite typical for PC/MC zealots, leftwing or otherwise, to latch on to every occasion which in their minds calls for the milking of the bleeding heart narrative of alleged Muslim victimization, and to make a fuss about it. It’s like a preprogrammed reflex kind of thing, or a primitive conditioned response, much like Pavlov’s drooling dog: push the right button and you get the same behavior as a result. The only thing a Muslim needs to do is report on having been hurt by ‘Islamophobes’, and bob’s your uncle.

    Quite simple, people who tend to behave that way can’t stop to think about it in all earnest or to simply sit and wait for the police investigation’s objective findings to emerge. Simply because they are as much ideological fanatics as the Muslim Taqiyya con artists they tend to support. So they don’t really feel a need to turn realist or to disavow such idiotic behavior, nor to apologize afterwards, because that would definitely be some kind of admission that they are blatantly wrong. That’s just about the last thing such crackpots would ever admit to. It’s much easier to totally ignore viable criticism on this issue than to put yourself in the spotlight by debating it with Pamela Geller or Robert Spencer. They know they have absolutely no arguments when they do get egg on their faces.

    That is the sad state of the mass media and journalism today. It’s like a bunch of high school juveniles emotionally claiming they know it all, and when proven wrong they bury the inconvenient facts as if they never existed in the first place. The mythology has to be kept alive at all costs.

  8. RodSerling says

    Apr 21, 2014 at 5:47 pm

    Slightly OT, but on the subject of Reza Aslan’s continuous supply of dubious and sweeping pronouncements, from a recent interview with Salon:

    Q: “[…] You argue that it’s the story of resurrection that really set Jesus apart. What made resurrection such a novel idea?

    Aslan: “Well, it simply doesn’t exist in Judaism. The idea of an individual dying and rising from the dead absolutely has no basis in five thousand years of Jewish history, scripture or thought. […]”

    http://www.salon.com/2014/04/20/you_want_people_like_that_to_hate_you_reza_aslan_on_glenn_beck_that_fox_news_interview_and_who_gets_to_speak_for_jesus/

    Wow.

    Even wikipedia recognizes the concept of resurrection in the Jewish scriptures:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection

    Also see:
    http://stronginfaith.org/article.php?page=114

    Isaiah 26:19 “But your dead will live, LORD; their bodies will rise– let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joy– your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.”
    http://biblehub.com/isaiah/26-19.htm
    (also see other examples cross referenced at that link)

    See, also from Isaiah:
    http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2053&version=NIV

    Daniel 12:2. “And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”

    There is much, much more. It will be interesting to see how Aslan squirms out of this one; I assume I’m not the only one who will have caught that one.

  9. Sniper says

    Apr 21, 2014 at 6:44 pm

    I am getting sick of these idiots using “islamophobia” and “islamophobic”. Do they not understand we don’t fear them? We just detest the way they act.

  10. gravenimage says

    Apr 22, 2014 at 12:14 am

    Robert Spencer in PJ Lifestyle: 3 Times I Was Framed for Murder – And How You Can Be, Too
    ………………………

    Appalling—especially given that two of these murders were Honor Killings deliberately characterized as having been committed by “Islamophobes” *by the murderers themselves* to deflect suspicion.

    Of course, no apology, or even acknowledgment, from false accusers like Reza Aslan.

    That a person who has never preached violence, but only warned against it, should be so treated is repulsive.

    But Robert Spencer wryly says “you can be, too”, he knows whereof he speaks. While the treatment of Spencer and other high-profile Anti-Jihadists like Pamela Geller has been especially egregious, how many here *haven’t* experienced at least intimations along these lines?

    I know I have—daring to mention the violence of pious Muslims, and getting a bizarre response that implies that *I* am myself calling for violence.

    This is terribly strange—but is so common that it is, disgustingly, nothing unusual.

    It seems to be some sort of defense mechanism, though a morally indefensible one—to project onto anyone warning about Islamic violence the advocacy of just that sort of violence.

    It seems that if they take this tack, they believe that they will not have to take Islamic violence itself seriously—because if they did, it would just be too frightening.

    Much “better” to slander good people than to have to face that kind of fear…sarc/off

    And, of course, meretricious Muslims are only too happy to feed this fear, in order to deflect attention from the threat of Islam itself…

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