On November 16, 2014, I gave a keynote address at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Restoration Weekend at The Breakers in West Palm Beach, Florida. Below is the text I prepared, which many people who were present asked me to post here as a reference for actual presidential candidates. I departed from this prepared text considerably, as the video will show (I will post it as soon as it is available), but here is nonetheless the general idea:
Thank you. This is a momentous occasion. I have decided to take this opportunity, as I stand before so many patriots and lovers of freedom, to announce my candidacy for the presidency of the United States in 2016.
Now, I know this may sound like a joke, and of course it is a joke. I have no political experience whatsoever. I’ve never held elected office. In fact, I’ve never even run for office. I have no organization, no staff, no money. I am not now and have never been part of the Washington establishment.
In other words, I’m just the man for the job.
There is a serious point I am making in this. The point is that the problem is not Barack Obama. The problem is not the Democrats. Barack Obama and the Democrats are just symptoms of the problem. The problem is an entrenched Washington establishment that keeps failing again and again, and yet keeps on applying the same failed solutions to problems.
Presidents come and Presidents go, but the State Department’s foreign policy establishment is forever. And no matter how many times its remedies fail to heal problems (and usually cause worse ones), it keeps on applying them, without an ounce of self-reflection.
With the presidency of Barack Obama, of course, this has gotten even worse: the lifers at State have a President after their own heart – one whose vision of the world coincides exactly with theirs, and who takes their recommendations without question and fronts for them eagerly, no matter how often and how abysmally they have failed.
What is needed in the Oval Office is an outsider. Not an outsider who has been part of the same establishment, but has just been working at it outside the Beltway. No, what is needed is a genuine outsider, elected with a mandate to do the housecleaning that is needed – a real window-opening and spring cleaning at the State Department, to let in the sunlight and clear out the cobwebs of these failed ideas that are doing nothing less than leading this nation to disaster.
Now, the entrenched establishment is operating in all areas, but I am going to concentrate this morning on foreign policy, because if the foreign policy direction of this nation isn’t radically changed in the near future, we won’t have to worry about domestic policy at all.
Also, foreign policy and domestic policy are of course inextricably intertwined. One of the reasons why the American economy is teetering on the brink today is because we have wasted billions upon billions of dollars in so many ill-conceived foreign policy misadventures.
Chief among these are the millions we are showering upon the Palestinians and investing in the so-called “peace process.”
Obama of course blames Israel for failing to make peace, blaming the failure of peace talks on the so-called “settlements” in the West Bank – which are more accurately known as Jews building homes on Jewish land.
Anyone who still thinks after the Gaza withdrawal that a Palestinian state would bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians hasn’t been paying attention. We were told in 2005 that “occupation” was the problem, and if Israel withdrew from Gaza, the Gazans would turn to peaceful pursuits. Only a few people, including me, warned that Gaza would just become a jihad base for newly virulent attacks against Israel. Events proved us correct.
Now Obama and Kerry want Israel to withdraw from Judea and Samaria, aka the West Bank. They promise us that this withdrawal from this “occupation” is really the one that will finally bring peace and take the wind out of the jihadis’ sails.
Why would the establishment of a Palestinian state now, after the Arab Muslims rejected it in 1948 and the “Palestinians” rejected it in 2000 (and other times) bring peace? How could it, when the goal of Israel’s total destruction, which Hamas has repeatedly and recently reiterated, would remain? Why would another Israeli withdrawal accomplish what earlier Israeli withdrawals — not just from Gaza, but also from Sinai and southern Lebanon — did not?
Israel is not the only victim of our fantasy-based policymaker. Another is the American taxpayer. And this brings us to another false assumption that is again and again used as a basis for policy: the idea that poverty causes terrorism, and that therefore dollars can eradicate terrorism.
Late in 2013, the U.S. and Turkey launched what they called the “Global Fund for Community Engagement and Resilience.” This was intended to “support local communities and organizations to counter extremist ideology and promote tolerance.” It would do this essentially by giving potential jihad terrorists money and jobs. We are devoting at least 200 million dollars to this project.
At the event announcing this project, John Kerry spoke about the importance of “providing more economic opportunities for marginalized youth at risk of recruitment” into jihad groups.
Do you really think that a jihadist in the West Bank determined to murder Israelis, maybe run them down with his car, would give it all up if you gave him a chance to say, “Welcome to McDonalds, may I take your order, please?” Apparently John Kerry does.
This will be $200 million down the drain. Lack of “economic opportunities for marginalized youth” doesn’t fuel Islamic jihad terrorism in the first place. In reality, study after study has shown that jihadists are not poor and bereft of economic opportunities, but generally wealthier and better educated than their peers. In 2009, the Rand Corporation prepared a report for the Secretary of Defense. It said: “Terrorists are not particularly impoverished, uneducated, or afflicted by mental disease….Terrorist leaders actually tend to come from relatively privileged backgrounds.” Terrorists are generally better educated and wealthier than their peers. The Secretary of Defense didn’t listen. No one else did, either. And we keep throwing money at the problem – and by the way, just yesterday, a wealthy physician from Britain fled the UK and joined the Taliban.
Beyond the waste of money, our foreign policy is largely characterized these days by its appalling incoherence.
Take Obama’s stance on Syria. The President has long had Bashar Assad in his sights, but has been stymied by the fact that the only significant opposition to the Assad regime are Islamic jihad groups. Some of Obama’s “vetted moderates” last year drove Christians from their homes and ransacked churches in three towns in Syria.
But now Obama thinks that if he removes Assad, and the jihadis’ raison d’etre will be gone, and the Islamic State will melt away. He has asked his team to devise a strategy to remove Assad, and so – he thinks – take the wind out of the sails of the Islamic State.
Alistair Baskey, spokesman for the National Security Council, said it: “Assad has been the biggest magnet for extremism in Syria, and the President has made clear that Assad has lost all legitimacy to govern.”
The fact that this is even being considered shows that Obama doesn’t take seriously the Islamic State’s proclamations that it is a new caliphate that is going to keep on trying to expand. But who does he think will replace Assad? Does he seriously think he can find someone who can immediately marshal enough support to be able to withstand the Islamic State? If he removes Assad, the Islamic State is the principal force in a position to take advantage of the power vacuum.
So what Obama is saying is that to defeat the Islamic State, we have to let the Islamic State win.
This myopia and willful ignorance is part of the idea that the U.S. should be working to bring “democracy” to the Middle East. For years the U.S. was criticized for supporting dictators in the Middle East, and impeding the aspirations of the people there to choose their own governments.
Barack Obama listened. He adopted the policy that we would no longer support these dictators, but would encourage their opponents and work for peaceful change and free elections. George W. Bush really began this when he removed Saddam Hussein. Now Obama has aided in the fall of Mubarak in Egypt and Gaddafi in Syria, and wants to add Assad to the list.
Like so many of Obama’s policies, it sounds great on paper and is a disaster in real life.
When the U.S. stopped backing these dictators and instead backed popular revolutionaries and the “democratic process,” the result was not stability and the weakening of jihad groups. Instead it was chaos and anarchy in Libya, unrest and instability in Egypt, and the strengthening of jihad groups the world over.
The dictators were bloody and reprehensible; the “democratic process” in all too many Muslim countries has resulted in regimes that are scarcely less bloody and far less stable.
These are just some of the reasons why what we need is a change in the entire political culture, and a sweeping away of the mindsets and false assumptions that have led to these failed policies being repeatedly applied.
So when I get to the Oval Office on January 20, 2017 — where I will never put my feet up on the desk — I will begin sweeping away all that and implementing these policies.
First of all, there will be no more U.S. aid to countries that engage in Sharia oppression.
After a Muslim mob murdered a Christian couple accused of blasphemy, a Pakistani Christian leader called on Obama to make U.S. aid to Pakistan contingent upon repeal of its blasphemy laws. I’d go that one better: no more aid to any country or group that allows for or advocates Sharia oppression of women and non-Muslims, and curtails the freedom of speech in accord with Islam’s prohibition on criticism of Islam.
And as for the Palestinians, they will get nothing at all until they stop the genocidal incitement on Palestinian TV and teach their children that Israel must exist and they must live peacefully with it.
My second executive order will require that government, intelligence and law enforcement agencies tell the truth about the threat we face.
Obama and Kerry, and all the other leaders in the West, have repeatedly insisted that the Islamic State’s “hateful ideology has nothing do with Islam.” This is the official policy of their Administration regarding the jihad threat. In October 2011, John Brennan bowed to demands from Islamic groups with links to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, and ordered the removal of all mention of Islam and jihad from counter-terror training materials, and the firing of all those – including me – who had trained the FBI and the military about what the jihad threat is all about.
This denial and willful ignorance about the fact that Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify their actions and make recruits only fosters complacency, and complacency is deadly. Political correctness is also deadly. Thirteen people were killed at Fort Hood because U.S. Army officials were afraid to buck the politically correct culture and act against a Muslim officer who was in touch with Anwar al-Awlaki and had frightened his coworkers with his talk of jihad. Three are dead and hundreds were wounded at the Boston Marathon in 2013 because the FBI disregarded intelligence it received from the Russians about the bombers. The Russians said that they were jihadis just around the time that it became official policy to consider jihad a benign spiritual struggle and nothing more.
No good comes from evading and obfuscating the truth. Reality will always impinge upon fantasy, no matter how cleverly constructed.
We also have to end the exaggerated deference paid toward mosques, and start monitoring them. I will likewise call on Muslim groups to renounce the aspects of Sharia that contradict constitutional freedoms.
The U.S. government should call upon Islamic advocacy groups in this country to renounce, in a sincere and genuine manner, any intention now or in the future to replace the Constitution of the United States with Islamic Sharia. The sincerity of this renunciation should be demonstrated by transparent action to teach in mosques and Islamic schools against this intention, and against the elements of Sharia that contradict American freedoms.
Those that refuse to do this, or are found to be teaching these aspects of Sharia, should be immediately reclassified as political organizations, not religious ones, and made subject to all the accountability to which political groups are ordinarily held. Those that continue after this to teach political Islam should be closed and prosecuted.
Coming to an abrupt end on January 20, 2017 will be all U.S. government cooperation with groups linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
The United Arab Emirates is cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood. Yesterday, they designated a number of Brotherhood groups as “terrorist organizations.” Ironically, they included the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Yet 13 years after 9/11, CAIR and other Muslim organizations with proven ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood enjoy extraordinary influence in Washington (particularly in the Justice Department), as well as in the mainstream media.
We must ban government officials from having any contact with organizations that the Justice Department had designated unindicted co-conspirators in cases involving jihad terror activity. This ought to be a no-brainer. Would the Roosevelt Justice Department in 1943 have held outreach programs with groups that had demonstrable ties to the Nazis?
As Geert Wilders said yesterday, we also must end immigration from Muslim countries into the United States, except of non-Muslim refugees from persecution.
This is a simple matter of national security. It will be condemned as “racist,” but the harsh reality is that Muslims who are peaceful cannot be distinguished from Islamic jihadists. Can America really afford the national security risk of importing whole Muslim communities from Iraq and Somalia, as is happening now, without even trying to screen out potential jihadists?
We must reconfigure our international alliances.
America’s global alliances are still based on outmoded Cold War models. They need to be reconfigured in light of the global jihad. The old Cold War arrangements simply don’t make any sense today, and leads to this: NATO promising to defend Turkey against the Islamic State that exists today in no small degree because of Turkish help.
We must reconsider and restructure foreign aid programs.
Very simply: No state that oppresses women or non-Muslims in accord with Sharia provisions should get a penny of American aid.
And finally we must begin a Manhattan Project to find new sources of oil and viable new energy sources.
Offshore drilling. Pipelines from Alaska and Canada. Fracking. And concerted research to find alternatives to petroleum. All this and more is needed, so as to choke off the money flow to Islamic states. It is unfortunate but true that our oil money pays for the global jihad.
Ending that situation should have been the first priority after 9/11. It wasn’t. And today, even thirteen years after 9/11, with jihadists worldwide more powerful, brutal and aggressive than ever, one thing is certain: none of these recommendations will be adopted. No politician is willing to pay the political price for advocating them. However, before too long it will become clear to everyone that the price of not advocating them was far, far steeper.
As for my candidacy, the idea is, of course, absurd. But these ideas are not. Of course, establishments don’t become establishments by fiat or luck. The people fronting these bad ideas have huge amounts of money and extraordinary power. The one thing they do not have is the weapon we will use to defeat them: the truth.
And for the truth to prevail, there is one more thing above all that we must fight against.
The U.S. today faces an even stronger enemy than the Islamic jihadists – and stronger than Russia and China as well. That enemy is the entrenched culture of self-hatred that denigrates anything and everything American, and exalts the most inveterate America-haters as heroic underdogs struggling valiantly against a brutal and blind behemoth. That entrenched culture is the foremost obstacle to our defense against jihad terror and Islamic supremacism, in a never-ending tale of obfuscation of a genuine threat and slander of those who call attention to it.
In the aftermath of 9/11, George W. Bush should have called upon the education establishment to reject the revisionism and self-hatred that dominates the textbook view of American history and Western civilization today, and to recognize that Western culture and civilization are seriously threatened today and are worth defending.
Islamic supremacists calculatedly employ the rhetoric of inclusion and multiculturalism to gain for themselves the right of final edit of discussion of Islam in American history textbooks. We must demand a stop to this, and re-learn our own history, and teach it to our children. We need to teach them to revere, not find new ways to deride, those who built the political and legal institutions of this country.
It should also be made a requirement in public schools to teach that there is an ongoing Islamic jihad against the United States, and what a jihad is, and what it means to accomplish, and why it should be resisted.
Since I will never get a chance to deliver an Inaugural Address, I’ll close with this excerpt from what I would have said: “We do not seek war with Muslim nations. If war is brought to us, however, we will defend our nation, our allies, our freedom, and our families. We will not be subjugated. This is a different kind of war from the wars we have fought in the past. It is an ideological war and a war fought by believers in certain ideas rather than by soldiers from particular nations. We will, therefore, fight this new kind of war in a new way. No nation of the world will be a friend to the United States if it holds the beliefs that led to this heinous attack today and allows them to be taught. I invite and call upon the Muslims of the world to choose a society based on the principles of the freedom of speech and the equality of rights before the law. Make no mistake: we will defend those principles. And we will prevail.”
Thank you.

Michael Copeland says
Excellent.
Judi says
If only Robert. However, if an anti-American muslim from Kenya can occupy the WH, nothing is impossible.
Jay Boo says
Undocumented
“anti-American muslim from Kenya”
fidobite says
Yes, nothing is impossible…like making sure another muslim NEVER occupies the White House again!
Sovereign Man says
You are falling for and perpetuation Obama’s grand deception with the silly “Kenyan” accusations. Obama’s real father is Frank Marshall Davis, an American communist. Obama is likely a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, who was trained in Pakistan and was funded into Harvard by Saudi agent Khalid Mansour (AKA Donald Warden). Also see Vernon Jarrett, father of Valerie, who wrote an article in Tehran revealing the Saudi/MB plan to co-opt the US black civil rights movement to further the stealth jihad. The Kenyan father story was always just cover for Obama’s real identity.
Jay Boo says
“because if the foreign policy direction of this nation isn’t radically changed in the near future, we won’t have to worry about domestic policy at all.”
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So true,
Can’t say that too often.
tpellow says
‘Who is this guy, Spencer? – He’s too clear and convincing to be for real.’
John C. Barile says
That’s just a pseudonym. His real name is Emmanuel Goldstein, and he’s despised and reviled by every respectable, correctly-indoctrinated person and by Polite Society as a whole.
Moa says
Sarcasm is ThoughtCrime! Islamophobia is ThoughtCrime! The Truth is what we say it is, doubting is ThoughtCrime! Not obeying the Collective is a Crime!
This Robert Spencer is a ThoughtCriminal. How DARE he stand up to the Will of the Collective? Does he not know that Liberty threatens the Collective?
/sarc
ps. Great article Robert Spencer. I know Ted Cruz will take this on-board if elected President and Leader of the Free World 🙂
e h says
thinking about a write-in campaign.
Salah says
“Now, I know this may sound like a joke, and of course it is a joke.”
I’m glad it’s only a joke!
“The fact that a given person is holding or even seeking high-level public office is, in and of itself, proof that said person is morally and/or psychologically UNFIT to hold public office.” (Ann Barnhardt)
http://www.barnhardt.biz/2014/01/11/on-christie-proving-the-barnhardt-axiom/
William says
Mr. Spencer would not be morally or psychologically unfit to hold public office if we, the people, put him in office despite his not seeking that office.
Salah says
That’s exactly what I meant, William. And that’s exactly what we, the people, need to be doing; pick up some honest guy like Spencer and put him in office. A president by the will and the power of the people.
IQ al Rassooli says
Dear Mr Spencer
I for one would most definitely put my vote for you after all, Americans elected a none citizen who has been hiding ALL he can about who he really is
All the items you listed are absolutely the minimum required vis a vis Islam
I have listed 13 articles of similar nature in my “Ummat al Kuffar Manifesto”
Sincerely
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Nicky says
I will definitely support you if given the opportunity as what you say is clearly logical and sensible.
john spielman says
Amen! I agree!
John C. Barile says
There is one more thing you need Robert–Louie Gohmert for VP!
John C. Barile says
All right then, John Bolton for VP.
shosh7154 says
IF YOU RUN FOR PRESIDENT ROBERT SPENCER, MYSELF AND EVERYONE WHO KNOWS ABOUT YOU WILL VOTE FOR YOU
BUT
only the man who will continue leading us the wrong way will win.
Don McKellar says
President, perhaps not.
Appointed new czar of the State Department by the next president, perhaps required.
Edison says
Yeah!! Robert Spencer, Great speech great article definitely bookmark this one.
Especially loved this comment.
As for my candidacy, the idea is, of course, absurd. But these ideas are not. Of course, establishments don’t become establishments by fiat or luck. The people fronting these bad ideas have huge amounts of money and extraordinary power. The one thing they do not have is the weapon we will use to defeat them: the truth.
RonaldB says
I’m very happy that Robert doesn’t take his presidential campaign seriously. Consider that if he did, he would immediately pull out from the present political parties, the people who support his positions. This would mean that viable candidates would no longer feel the same pressure to make reasonable planks concerning Islam.
In a broader sense, the American political scene has deteriorated due to the abandonment of the original constitutional ideals of a representative Republic reflecting a balance of popular opinion (House of Representatives), political and property interests (Senate), and the individual states (Electoral college).
The fiddling with the original constitutional principles includes gerrymandering, proportional representation, direct election of senators, and campaign financing limits. These have shifted the Republic into the direction of a government unaccountable to any interests other than perpetuating and expanding itself. A pure democracy is one of the worst forms of government, responding to no pressure other than the whims of the crowd. This is where the individual and corporate socialists are pushing us, to where the only long-term influence comes from the entrenched bureaucracies such as the State Department.
By severe limits in campaign finances, it is guaranteed that any Presidential candidate will spend all his time on raising campaign funds, and no time on learning anything new. So much for educating actually intelligent candidates, such as Mitt Romney, on the complexities of Islam, once they actually announce their candidacy.
The present corrupting of the original structure of the constitution has allowed the bureaucracies to gain unchallenged power, and has insulated the bureaucrats of agencies such as the State Department from any viable challenge.
mortimer says
With the vast importance of ISLAMIC TERRORISM in the world and in the USA, NO PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE should be considered if he/she has not read the Sira and Sharia law manual…at least in the ‘Readers Digest’ version!
No knowledge of Sharia, no candidacy!
mortimer says
Having said that, Robert Spencer is my ideal candidate!
dumbledoresarmy says
One way to start shifting that: a mailout of copies of the Barnabas Fund’s little booklet “What is Sharia?” to *all* current denizens of Senate and Congress.
*And* to all State Governors.
*And* to all elected representatives in the various State Capitols.
Get it on their desks. With covering letters. From constituents. Then at least they cannot claim they weren’t informed.
It’s a good background briefing; it’s the background briefing that they *should* have gotten ten or twenty years ago, but didn’t.
Memo to self: make sure that right here in my own country (Australia) my own elected reps (State and Federal) receive copies of aforesaid informative booklet.
For good measure, toss in Conor Cruise O’Brien’s incisive newspaper article “The Lesson of Algeria: Islam is Indivisible”, from 1995.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-lesson-of-algeria-islam-is-indivisible-1566770.html
Here’s how he starts out, with a withering dismissal of the “moderate” vs “extremist” trope:
““Fundamentalist Islam” is a misnomer which dulls our perceptions in a dangerous way.
“It does so by implying that there is some other kind of Islam, which is well disposed to those who reject the Koran.
“There isn’t.
“Islam is a universalist, triumphalist and political religion. It claims de jure dominion over all humanity; that is God’s will.
“The actual state of affairs, with unbelievers of various sorts dominating most of the world, is a suspension of God’s will and a scandal to the faithful. The world is divided between the House of Islam and the House of War, meaning the rest of us….”.
And so on . Click on the link I just gave, and read the rest of it. Then make a copy and put the copy on your hard disk, so you can send it hither, thither and yon, to selected recipients, whether in digital form or as hardcopy printouts on actual paper.
FarmerMike says
Robert running for President might be absolutely the best idea around. True, he’s not likely to win. The last time a Third Party candidate won the election for President in the US was when Lincoln won, I think.
But Robert as a Third Party Candidate could influence the dialog, the rhetoric, the ideas brought into public consciousness. I’d like to see him in a 3-way debate w/ whoever.
Didn’t Nader as a Green Party candidate have a positive influence on public discussion & public awareness?
Robert’s candidacy should not be a joke. We all need a clear-thinking candidate who will defend the American Constitution, & require that all immigrants honor the Constitution in any of their cultural institutions.
citycat says
When Lincoln won?
Time for the rape number to come up again then.
These are such times.
citycat says
rare number
Neil Jennison says
I’d vote for you Robert if I were an American. As it stands I will vote UKIP next year in the UK election.
SallyA says
Robert Spencer tirelessly educates and advocates for freedom and reality in an upside-down world. He deserves our respect and gratitude. And if ever on a ballot, our vote!
Alex says
Very well said, Sally. Mr Spencer is a model of determination. He just won’t give up, even if this whole slow islamic invasion that’s been going everywhere in the free world is unstoppable in my opinion.
awake says
That was an excellent speech, Robert!
pongidae rex says
You have my vote, even if I have to scrawl it on the ballot myself.
Champ says
Last year I jokingly stated, “Robert for President 2016!” …but I wasn’t really joking–I meant it–and after seeing this headline I got excited because I would *definitely* vote for Robert Spencer!!!
Robert wrote:
“Now, I know this may sound like a joke, and of course it is a joke. I have no political experience whatsoever. I’ve never held elected office. In fact, I’ve never even run for office. I have no organization, no staff, no money. I am not now and have never been part of the Washington establishment.”
Ok, you don’t have those things in place, but you do have the **Right Stuff** to lead this country in a better direction–due to your keen insights and knowledge about islam & company.
Rezali Mehil says
Hello Champ,
How is the grannie role going?
Last year I jokingly stated, “Robert for President 2016!” …but I wasn’t really joking…
well never mind …how how about someone like me for president?
More Later…
Rezali
Bezelel says
It all makes sense to me, so why is the current admin doing the opposite? Is the obola regime grossly inept or actually trying to tear us down. I remember seeing a news clip of Bill Clinton saying that he didn’t think the US needed to be a super power any more. Thank you for spelling it out loud and clear.
William says
All that is required of Mr. Spencer is for him to say that if he is elected he will take the office. But running for office is a very corrupting process. The people could write him in on the ballot. He does not have to associate with any current political party.
Looking at the current list of potential candidates, he is hands down way over them in intellect and principles. All the potential candidates, if push comes to shove, will sell their souls. There is no undying principle there.
toby jaco says
Yess! If America is to be saved, it needs President Spencer.
(Taste the ring of that: “President Spencer”. )
Dr Nath says
Well-spoken Mr. Spencer for which your candidacy for American Presidency is well deserved if the world will contain and impede the excess of Islamic expansionism
But you did not say it all.
You forgot to agree instigating the abolition in stern words any religion that ferments violence and man inhumanity to man in disguises called extremism or whatever.
You forget to include taking the case to the United nation to demand the eradication or censuring from religious bodies Holy book any aspects that promote violence or territorial occupation forcefully of member state land.
You forgot to agree to spearhead the abrogation from tee United nation agency the conversion of members by intimidation and compulsion. You forgot to indicate the immediate calling the immediate use on international forces funded by the United Nation Organization to assist nations like Nigeria, Syria and others and Iraqi defeat of religious aggression and wanton destruction of properties and human beings with no regard to the sacredness of life.
You forgot to include punishment of radicals who aid and abet religious intolerance. You forgot to mention that perhaps time has come for man to debate and agree on one religion based on proper identification of the true God as opposed to usurper and deceptive gods. Abraham bosom does not exist any longer.
What exist are Paradise relocated to Heaven which qualification for entry is only acknowledgment of he who brought about an empty tomb 2000 years ago to the dismay of army Roman soldiers deployed to stultify the reality. Down is the Hades is only hell since the resurrection to which all many throng upon passing unaware where their wrong choice religiously is leading them till the reality is unfolded in an unchangeable stance. America is the only hope for humanity to understand reality of life here on earth and even beyond. Dwelling in religious ignorance is self-defeating in life now and after death. As a leader of free world whose hegemony has divine overtone, America in the present dispensation need a President with deep understanding of the circumstances of eternity and the choices mas is making today for it is not his wish that any may perish in hell
The Present sentiment in USA calls for a Republican President come 2016 because it requirs real aggression to end the attrocities in Syria, Iraqi and Nigerian presently. Your identification with a party of relevance is important since a third pearty evolution is presently inconceivable
citycat says
All those forgots are on the periphery of Islam.
The heart is the vampiric Allah entity in the East.
Champ says
Our last midterm election was *very* encouraging–since the Republicans took the Senate; so hopefully we won’t get another obama-type in 2016. I remain hopeful for the outcome of our next primary election. But, of course, time will tell who wins the presidency …
Dr Nath says
Well-spoken Mr. Spencer for which your candidacy for American Presidency is well deserved if the world will contain and impede the excess of Islamic expansionism
But you did not say it all.
You forgot to agree instigating the abolition in stern words any religion that ferments violence and man inhumanity to man in disguises called extremism or whatever.
You forget to include taking the case to the United nation to demand the eradication or censuring from religious bodies Holy book any aspects that promote violence or territorial occupation forcefully of member state land.
You forgot to agree to spearhead the abrogation from tee United nation agency the conversion of members by intimidation and compulsion. You forgot to indicate the immediate calling the immediate use on international forces funded by the United Nation Organization to assist nations like Nigeria, Syria and others and Iraqi defeat of religious aggression and wanton destruction of properties and human beings with no regard to the sacredness of life.
You forgot to include punishment of radicals who aid and abet religious intolerance. You forgot to mention that perhaps time has come for man to debate and agree on one religion based on proper identification of the true God as opposed to usurper and deceptive gods. Abraham bosom does not exist any longer.
What exist are Paradise relocated to Heaven which qualification for entry is only acknowledgment of he who brought about an empty tomb 2000 years ago to the dismay of army Roman soldiers deployed to stultify the reality. Down is the Hades is only hell since the resurrection to which all many throng upon passing unaware where their wrong choice religiously is leading them till the reality is unfolded in an unchangeable stance. America is the only hope for humanity to understand reality of life here on earth and even beyond. Dwelling in religious ignorance is self-defeating in life now and after death. As a leader of free world whose hegemony has divine overtone, America in the present dispensation need a President with deep understanding of the circumstances of eternity and the choices mas is making today for it is not his wish that any may perish in hell
dlbrand says
“I invite and call upon the Muslims of the world to choose a society based on the principles of the freedom of speech and the equality of rights before the law. Make no mistake: we will defend those principles. And we will prevail.”
President Spencer, Sir.
If I may likewise step into shoes , indeed, not my own, but those of the “American Muslim” (I am Christian, no Muslim), but, hypothetically, for a spell here, make those shoes my own and therefrom speak:
You have made an enticing proposal, Sir.
I like those words: “a society based on the principles of … the equality of rights before the law.”
Yes, indeed, Sir. What’s more, as one among millions of Muslims, that is the type of society it is our duty to form, forge, even command, and by the highest law– the Law of Allah, the Shariah of his final Messenger, Muhammad, sent to all man-kind.
You promised, Sir, “Make no mistake: we will defend those principles. And we will prevail.”
That is precisely what we as Muslim Americans believe, live, and practice: we will defend our right to implement and live by the law of Allah and reject all laws contravening with that law. Additionally, just as you asserted,” Make no mistake: we will defend those principles. And we will prevail.” And the Ummah shouts, “Amin!”
Sir, as a Muslim, I for one look forward to working in agreement with you, your leadership, and direction for this nation of ours.
However, Sir, as Muslims, we take our texts seriously. Therefore, we can work in concert with you only if you are willing to lead by the following guidance.
Please heed, Sir, just a few of the basic lines of guidance you must follow in forming and enforcing the laws governing the society you invite we Muslims to join you in–if you expect the support of the Nation of Muhammad, here, or anywhere, heed this guidance:
In addition to regarding those lines of guidance, Mr. President, please also know, should we Muslims seek guidance, thus regard laws, and execute judgments from other than those sent down by Allah; by Allah, such is tantamount to rejecting our din—unbelief in it.
And for such rejection and return to unbelief, Muhammad’s Ummah, Allah himself has thus promised, thus forewarned:
And speaking to the same, this verse—bearing, in mind, Sir, while reading it, as believers, Allah commanded us to follow in the footsteps of Muhammad; and the Noble Companions of the Messenger are nonpareil examples of those who follow our prophet’s footsteps:
As were the Noble Companions, so are true believers today, as we see in the actions of good works executed by the mujahedeen of the Islamic State: merciless to the unbelievers—so much justified, thus, understood by their actions, when we regard these verses and tenets.
You see, Mr. President, if we embraced and supported a society formed by other than what Allah has sent down, then, we too would suffer the same fate we hear tell of so many now in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere suffer when the true lovers of Allah acted as Allah has asserted the true Muslim would act.
Allah promised, true believers would be “ fierce [and harsh] to the unbelievers.” He promised, the same would “ fight to the utmost in the Way of Allah.” Would do so, just as the leaders and soldiers of Islamic State are doing, just as Noble Companion Sa ‘d b. Mu ‘adh did the day “the apostle appointed him umpire in the matter of B. Qurayza” (Ibn Ishaq): caring not “for any man’s censure”; fearing not “the blame of any blamer….” (vs. 54.)
Please note, Sir, Allah’s Messenger asked, “Why do some people impose conditions which are not present in Allah’s Book (laws)?” He asserted, “Whoever imposes such a condition as is not in Allah’s Law, then the condition is invalid even if he imposes one hundred conditions….”
(Sahih Al-Bukhari, Translated Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, Darussalam, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1997, Vol. 3, Book of Sales [Bargains], p. 208, #2155.)
So much more one can add to this. Nonetheless, for now, it establishes needed clarity.
In sum, Mr. President, please regard, as Muslims, as Allah has commanded we do, we live by this guidance. Regard, it is that society —the one guided by Allah’s law– we choose. It is that society we will regard, form, and swear to fight, both here and abroad, until we die or see the fruition of this Allah-guided society.
To that end, we eagerly anticipate supporting you in a successful presidency, and as you confidently asserted, “We will prevail.”
Dr Nath says
Please my dear your Allah is a God in Saudi Arabia and other Moslem world which is command should be confined and obeyed by the deceived. There are two Gods. One is called Jehovah whose son is Christ Jesus who was once crucified and defeated death as was prophesized many years before his miracles birth . he too defeated the law of gravity and ascended in to heaven where was before as the Word of God . It was through him that the world was created but he put on flesh for the redemption of man and to reconcile man to God and remove Adamic sin.
The other God (using capital letter for g here not to offend anyone) is your Allan or Baalh whose messenger is and Prophet Mohammed dead and buried in Saudi Arabia. Each of these Gods have their laws and you should confine your laws to your fellow folks. It was wrong that immigration was liberalized you would not have been allowed to enter USA found by the highly religious person from Europe who arrive with a gun on one hand and a Bible on the other hand to establish reality about true God. This God provided 10 commandments one of which is Thou shall not kill.
Imaging the wanton killing in Nigeria, Iraqi and Syria where defenseless individuals were slaughtered like animal in obedience of ruthless law that demanded the cutting of the head of an infidel and hand them on the wall. as seen presently on their websites. MADNESS Any opposition constitutes blasphemy but the denial of the divinity of Christ is not. The denial of his crucifixion and resurrection and ascension are not blasphemy.
Please your is a carnal borne out of deception which only bu his grace will your eyes and those trapped in the practise be opened. may God have mercy on you that repentance will be granted you. Imagine your laws on slaves girls abducted by sheer force and converted as sex partner forcefully. Imagine your law on unbelievers who are classified as enemy of God and have no right of existence.
Imagine the incitement to form a parallel government in a legitimated politically set government approved by the United nation organization. Imagine the promoting of lawlessness outside the laws given by true god himself written with his own hand before Moses who you claim to reverence but deny is message.
Imagine the law that pushed them to incite one of them to enter with a loaded gun to Canadian parliament to shoot the Prime Minster and all the legislators for no justified reason. Imagine the law that compelled them to enter only yesterday in a Synagogue in Israel to slaughter worshipping defends less citizens of the world. Imagine the planned attempt to murder Queen Elizabeth in spite of her age of above 80.
INCREDIBLE! Anywhere you turn one see bundle of abnormalities originating from nowhere than the pit of hell. The entire world should sit up and repulse this threat before humanity is ruined irreparable if they lay hands on weapon of mass destruction.
The time is now !! Of course Christian are anxiously waiting for the sound of trumpet. But as it tarry we should live in peace for Christ had defeated that God and given authority to the Church who is naïve and unserious in occupying till he comes
voegelinian says
A fine and subtle refutation of the one (and only) flaw in Spencer’s platform:
“I will likewise call on Muslim groups to renounce the aspects of Sharia that contradict constitutional freedoms.”
A flaw that, contextually, may well presuppose a complex tissue of unrealistic assumptions about Muslims and their Islamic psychology & culture.
dlbrand says
An “unrealistic assumptions about Muslims and their Islamic psychology & culture.”
Indeed.
Dajjal says
Invite them to apostatize and abjure the ideas which make Islam inimical to the human race:
“Only Allah has the right to be worshipped.”, Only allah has the right to legislate and govern.”, “Only Muslims have human rights.”, “Infiels must be killed.”
Make them look the fatal facts right in the eye: Allah is Satan, Moe was a demon possessed false profit and Islam is a continuing crime against humanity. No candidate will get my vote who does not condemn Islam.
dlbrand says
“No candidate will get my vote who does not condemn Islam.”
Roger that, Dajjal.
RonaldB says
Yeah!!!! You sound Christian as hell, dlbrand.
The problem is, Muslims believe their superstitious tripe so strongly, it’s sometimes difficult to distinguish a satirical presentation of their stupid set of laws and rules from a Muslim who takes it seriously, and figures because he recited the Koran, he thus wins any argument.
Now, if one takes your argument seriously, you wholeheartedly support the beheading of infidels, apostates, and any Muslim who doesn’t agree with your particular subset of beliefs. You support child marriage, jizya tax, systematic lying, and the abolition of representative government. You’re a capital fellow, dlbrand. At least you can write English…not very clearly, I admit, and your ideas are rather jumbled, but at least you can construct sentences.
dlbrand says
Ronny, my lad.
Indeed, if I were a Muslim I would of course accept and wholeheartedly support all that the prophet of Islam did, find no fault in any word he brought or act he did. If I found fault in him and what he brought, I would be no longer a Muslim but an apostate.
But because I am a Christian, one who studies Islam, I do find fault in both the acclaimed prophet of Islam and the books he brought. Thus I reject both, openly and aggressively.
RonaldB says
Well, you were a bit too subtle for me, dlbrand.
I’ll tell you what threw me off. Robert’s quote was ”
“I invite and call upon the Muslims of the world to choose a society based on the principles of the freedom of speech and the equality of rights before the law.”
You went on to say that a Muslim could absolutely not accept true freedom of speech, or give up the objective of ruling over all non-Muslims, but within that constraint, you accepted Robert’s proposal.
There was a basic disconnect there. You either didn’t understand Robert’s proposal, ignored it, or, in the fashion of Muslims, did not process the concept of freedom and equality.
Now quite frankly, you didn’t make a good argument. You shifted Robert’s proposal and then accepted it as a Muslim. You kind of showed no true Muslim could accept Robert’s proposal, but then you said you did.
So, you’re either being sarcastic as an anti-jihadist, or sincere as a Muslim. I’ve read more than one response that I thought was wildly sarcastic, only to find it was written sincerely by a Muslim. So, my mechanism for distinguishing the two is a little blunt.
Just a suggestion: as this is a place for diatribes rather than literature, I would be more likely to recognize your intent if you made it a bit clearer, at least at the end…you know, something like /sarc off.
TH says
Fortunatley, thanks to fracking and despite the miserable anti-energy policies of Obama, it seems that the U.S. will become energy independent in about 6 or 7 years.
tpellow says
Robert Spencer’s Florida speech on foreign policy/national security,
trumps anything from Florida’s Jeb Bush.
Henry says
And why not you as President Robert? Doesn’t seem to ludicrous to me! Why not Pamela as your running mate? Or, you as hers?
Kepha says
I beg to differ with you about foreign policy and my old shop at State. State does what presidents tell it to do. End of story. True, somebody may tell thePOTUS what he doesn’t want to hear, but policy is made by the elected guy and carried out by the guys beneath the person he appoints as SecState.
gfmucci says
I have worked in various levels of government for 35 years and while, in theory, what you say is correct, in practice it is absolutely a fairy tale.
Entrenched philosophies, predispositions, and social and political allegiances of staff and mid- and upper-level management make change extremely difficult and full of hazards. A small cadre of State Department appointees at the top will have to move mountains over months and years to exact change.
jewdog says
The last point is very important because our culture and its Western Judeo-Christian values will only survive if people have faith in it. It is also true that our values can help lead people out of the darkness of Islamic reaction and can serve as an alternative inspiration to people who may be otherwise tempted by Islamic supremacism and its deceptive allure.
Just imagine what the Islamic countries would be like were Western values to prevail. Now cry for what’s been lost.
abad says
Robert Spencer for President! You’re the man!
eduardo odraude says
Spencer should enter the campaign simply for publicity for this cause.
Ayattollahowmany says
Do I sense a huge online campaign???
Barry K says
Robert will be the last person to want to be President of USA even if given a chance. And that would be the right thing to do if he wants to continue to do what he is doing here, and if he wants to avoid making compromises in world politics and diplomacy , including recognising and working with ‘moderate’ muslim leaders and nations. The other alternative which no realistic President would want to do is follow a radical hard line anti Islam policy declaring a ‘crusade’ against all Muslims, ‘good’ or bad and bringing on another world war. The truth is that every hard line politician when they are in the seat of power mellows down from their former radical views, except maybe the hardcore communists and jihadists.
Richard says
Oh darn. I have already announced my support for Netanyahu for President 2016 with a button I wear daily. However, a bourbon baked bacon event would totally win me over. Got any buttons?
gfmucci says
This “no aid” policy means no help to Great Britain until they wake up and realize which side they need to be on.
One more action: Declare Islam in the United States a “subversive ideology” which it truly is, and prohibit any affiliated organization on the same basis, including CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood, et al.
Sam says
Spencer for president!!!!
Thomas Johnston says
Dear Mr Spencer .
In her recent posting on tube “Clare Lopez with Q Society in Sydney ” Ms Lopez power pointed the 7 easy steps Al Queda [circa 2005] , had devised , and were going to employ to “Jihad ” Western civilisation .
It was pure evil but a real eye opener !
Ms Lopez and yourself and just a handful of others are seemingly the only people who can see what is taking place !!! And speak out about it !!!
Sir , we desperately need a Western “Civilisationial” Jihad in reply to these lunatics … and you standing for President with Ms Lopez in your administration
would be the first step .. I look forward to your Presidency .
voegelinian says
Clare Lopez would definitely be part of the dream team — along with Hugh Fitzgerald, Andrew Bostom, Frank Gaffney, and Diana West.
Edward says
Mr. Spencer’s decision to submit his hopeful run for the 2016 presidential candidacy.
Robert Spencer said in a recent speech……”have never been part of the Washington establishment.”
“One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” –
Gilbert K. Chesterton
With full confidence as a born leader should say……Hi I’m Robert Spencer! “In other words, I’m just the man for the job!”
As the next President of the United States at your service for two consecutive terms starting 2016 through 2024 – these words would offer the US citizens hope of keeping America as an American Legacy for ever!
Mr. Spencer’s presidential run would be very timely considering that the Muslim community is already busy selling their dilemma to the Liberal politicians and media about America’s Sharia Law’s push-back. D/Ca Rep Maxin Walters is already using the podium to spew her thoughts that Sharia tenets are compatible with the US Constitution.
http://www.independentsentinel.com/maxine-waters-shariah-law-is-compatible-with-u-s-constitution-you-bigots/
In his recent keynote address at the Horowitz Freedom Center, he hinted about about his aim to run for the POTUS. With his expertise in the Middle East affairs he would be the perfect candidate for that office during these most difficult times in America’s history. His preparedness for this task is already at its peak……I confidently say this because we have become fully aware of his professional background, plus his hands-on experiences. Once he is inaugurated, he will hit the road running. No On-the-Job-Training (OJT) required!
Here are some visible and known things about Robert:
He is an excellent debater
He is an excellent orator; great eloquence speeches mixed with many one-liners that are very funny as well; as he has demonstrated on this 42:46 min. video. A master piece of Statesmanship@ http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/video-robert-spencer-on-is-the-islamic-state-islamic-and-why-it-matters
He has excellent literary capabilities, his vocabulary exceeds most writers of the word.
He has great cognizance abilities, recalling all of his past writings, experiences and events with ease. (here’s an example of his instant date recall as seen on the video @ between 27:35 & 28:36 minutes run time, now mind you this recall was answered without a script).
His dedicated studies of the Middle East’s, ever since the early 80’s, of which will be a plus in his own right to be the next 2016 elected president; this will be a must have tool for his world affairs decisions.
His website literacy will be another great tool during his presidential tenure for all of his planned projects of his administration’s endeavors and expected transparency communications with his constituents.
In summary: Robert is a moral, law abiding conservative whom innate attributes are strengthen by his faith. His love for America originates from the same source that bolsters his religious faith. BTW, President Spencer will not allow the use of teleprompters during his presidential presser speeches. I’m sure many more personal attributes he possess are available than these mentioned.
A side note: Mr. Spencer is well aware of the dangers imposed by Sharia law to our home grown culture; its good that he will outlaw its influence as his 1st policy to be attended too, during his presidency. Islam’s law is absolutely not compatible with the America’s law of the land in any way! His plans should compliment the US Constitution’s current wording that restrains the idea of supporting dual laws. That would be the Supremacy Clause that is provided by the provisions of Article Six, Clause 2, protecting the “Supreme Law of the Land.” Where it cites that: “state constitutions and laws are subordinate to the Federal Laws.” Although no state wanted a federal government that was impotent against internal enemies or foreign aggressors. The Supremacy Clause capped those concerns!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause
This is why Sharia Laws should be banned: This law embraces politics (no separation of church and state here) and severe human social penalties such as violent flogging and stoning among other punishments for the condemned transgressor according to their laws.
“First of all, there will be no more U.S. aid to countries that engage in Sharia oppression”
Spencer’s projected policy of no Sharia law will probably help to filter out radical Islam practices here in the states. This of course would require constant monitoring to assure that if this should be the case initially.
Spencer’s political plank most likely will include the banning of the Sharia law as his political platform during his campaigning for election. Surely the Muslim community will execute civil disorder, but I’m sure Spencer’s administration will be anticipating such chaos before it blossoms……have you noticed that JW always scoops the MSM by days? Intel networks are already in place and functioning it seems.
Spencer’s keen foresight (his prescience abilities) with on-going world events will be his greatest assets that America could tap for our lasting peace!
Robert Spencer For President-2016!
Mr. Spencer’s TRUTH runs through his veins: HIS MIDDLE INITIAL SHOULD BE A “V” WHICH STANDS FOR VERACITY!
Edward says
“He is an excellent debater”……..and David Wood agrees to Spencer’s expertise as “a great counter-Jihadis.” Here’s Wood’s video critiquing Robert:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/04/david-wood-challenges-me-to-debate-challenge-accepted
Note: at the end of Wood’s video there is a montage of various videos showing Mr. Spencer being interviewed by others in the past.
It has been published that Muslims usually prefer NOT to debate him….”for he always counters what the other side has to say.” I guess he can detect when the opposing speaker tends to undermine a huge lie.
Watcher87 says
Spencer for President.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali for V.P, (that way we won’t have an ignoranus (sic) in that job.
Muise and Yerulshami for DOJ and AG.
Geller for SoS. (we really need some serious help in that dept)
If only…