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Video preview: Robert Spencer on the Muslim refugee crisis

Nov 16, 2015 8:59 am By Robert Spencer

Last Thursday, November 12, I spoke at the Global Faith Institute in Omaha, Nebraska, on the Muslim refugee crisis. Here is a preview featuring a portion of the talk I gave; the full video of my remarks will be posted in the coming days.

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  1. spartan says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 9:30 am

    Currently the three principal enemies of truth are:

    Fear of legal action

    Fear of physical violence

    Fear of the Guilt Gun

    This last foe is the most effective, and therefore the most used weapon in public debate in Western societies. This plays upon the speaker’s conscience, and in certain courts of public opinion trumps reason and all other considerations when assessing any expressed view. If deemed immoral, wanting in compassion, or motivated by an unacceptable degree of affiliation to Western-centric values and traditions, aim is quickly taken at the speaker’s conscience to provoke embarrassment, shame and, ultimately silence. It is a form of bullying, but because the bully in the school yard claims the moral high ground, no one may challenge his words or actions.

    When the Guilt Gun is used effectively, the bother and expense of the other two truth-slayers can be avoided, though they will be brought into play when needed to advance the fascistic objectives of groups who move forward by silencing open debate where reason or contrary views might prevail.

    Witness the assault from many quarters of the media since the the largest movement of population in history commenced from Muslim countries in the Near East, North Africa and Asia into Europe. Any voice raised against what is clearly a hijrah (migration of believers advocated in the Koran as a way to spread Islam – the only true and acceptable religion in the eyes of God – for those who cannot be bothered to make even the most cursory investigation into what the Koran advocates) is quickly silenced with headlines such as “Europe’s Shame” over the photo of a dead child washed up on a beach.

    Reason would compel at least a questioning of why the father risked the life of his child to escape – NOT Syria – but Turkey, a Muslim country where he and his family would not be subjected to the filth of kufars and their way of life. Anyone who pursues this line of questioning publicly could be facing attack by either or both of the other truth-slayers, but even a media reader or watcher finds that any reaction other than feeling guilt might somehow brand him/her as inhumane and neglectful of responsibility for a tragedy.

    Likewise, asking why other Muslim countries have refused to accept fleeing victims of the war in Syria can be construed as a shirking of one’s moral obligation, or as a Western-centric insensitivity to the deeply felt aversion of a vehemently Sunni regime such as Saudi Arabia’s to the acceptance of venomous Shia heretics from Syria into their midst.

    But here is the brilliance of the Guilt Gun’s use in the targeting of Western consciences: It doesn’t work outside of societies that lay any claim to being multi-cultural. This is why is has little or no effect on public opinion or policy in non-Western nations. For them, multiculturalism is the problem that must be dealt with at best, or an impurity which must be eliminated to advance the ethnic and religious objectives of the dominant group. Witness Sunni Saddam Hussein’s attempted extermination of the so-called Marsh Arabs, or the current Shia government in Iraq’s elimination of Sunnis from government positions. Or Turkey’s perennial oppression of Kurds, the last remaining non-Turkish group within its borders after the extermination in the early 20th century of the Armenians, and the forcing of Greeks from their homeland of three thousand years on the western coast. Compassion for, much less giving support to, any group other than one’s own is a betrayal of sectarian religious and/or political mission.

    This is what wars are fought for throughout the Muslim world. This is why Iraq and Iran went to war repeatedly against one another under Saddam, and why Sunni and Shia forces from all over Ummah line up to fight their proxy war now in Syria, and why Iran funds and arms Hezbollah to run a parallel Shia government in Lebanon.

    Sectarian hatred is the most important export of the Muslim world – both within Ummah and outwards to countries not currently part of it – though the mission is well under way to bring them within this circle of hell with the call to hijrah which the world is currently witnessing. Not content to murder hundreds of thousands of Muslims in civil and religious wars, this great spiral of violence reaches out to every country where Muslims have colonized, with terrorist attacks on non-Muslims, be they in Europe, North America, Africa or Asia.

    If the Guilt Gun fails to silence you and to soften your resistance to what you clearly recognize as an open challenge and threat to all the values which Western Civilization has fought repeatedly to defend, then the courts will. Groups such as the Islamic Circle of North America militate for the application of Sharia in the US court system, fighting resistance by state legislatures as Islamophobic and a betrayal of American principals of religious freedom. Or Islamic pressure groups in the UK who demanded – and received – recognition by the Law Society of guidelines in the writing of wills to deny women an equal share of inheritances, and to exclude altogether non-Muslims, and children born of marriages outside Islamic law.

    And the world over has witnessed what carnage those advancing the spread of Islam will readily use in order to intimidate those who speak inconvenient truths about Islamist motives and practices, and governments who resist their efforts to take control of territories where they intend to establish their own particular brand of totalitarianism through some of the most extreme forms of physical violence the world has witnessed. And if you have not witnessed it first hand yet, these acts are broadcast in lurid detail through the internet for maximum intimidation.

    • Mike says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 10:13 am

      A very good piece however I think militant Islam has overplayed its hand along with the liberals as I truly believe we are heading for serious civil unrest from the non Muslim electorate that has had enough of this pandering to terrorism. Already right wing groups are gaining power and strength in Europe, the EU is starting to fragment as leaders refuse to follow edicts from Brussels over immigration and if we don’t see a vigilante back lash against Mosques and Muslims in Paris, its certainly on the cards when the next atrocity happens.

      Somehow I can’t see any EU government being prepared to use its military against its own people and this is the one thing that scares EU leaders the most. What to do when a killing backlash kicks off as it surely will. Can they shut down the EU under martial law ? Hardly as they don’t have the forces. World War 1 & II were started on far less than whats happening right now but our leaders never did study history !.

      The writing is on the wall that it will get very nasty sooner than later unless these leaders act now to contain the enemy within as they are the greatest threat not Syria, Iraq or Libya.

    • Edwin1683 says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 3:44 pm

      Thank you for an excellent analysis.

      I wholeheartedly agree that the The Guilt Gun is the deadliest weapon facing the West. Guilt is our Achilles heel and it is in full swing right now, breaking us down relentlessly from within.

      The question is, where does this guilt come from and why are we so susceptible to it?

      Is it something that develops in all advanced civilizations eventually or is it specific to the modern West? I never thought of it having played much of a role in the fall of the Roman Empire, for example. Will it infect other future societies as they become wealthier and more powerful, for example, China? I find that hard to imagine. Or is it inherent in advanced Christian societies?

      It also seems to have developed just since the Second World War. Back then, Hitler (our enemy) made us hate him, not ourselves. Now Islam (our enemy) makes us hate ourselves, not them. What changed between then and now?

      Many factors could be cited, e.g. the rise of socialism as a dominant intellectual fashion in the 20th century, bringing with it sweeping attempts to right “injustice”; the state of material comfort the West achieved, requiring less time for the struggle for survival and allowing more for a perhaps excessive amount of self-analysis; the anti-establishment thinking of the 60s now coming to full fruition in our institutions, etc etc.

      Regardless, it is very unfortunate that at just this point in our history, lumbered with this ludicrous and misplaced guilt, we find ourselves on a collision course with a resurgent barbarian 7th century ideology, which has been only too happy to discover how magically well the Guilt Gun works.

      I hope that as more people wake up to the reality that Islam has declared war on us (more accurately, has never stopped being at war with us in 1400 years) we will be able to throw off this mortally dangerous self-hatred and get down to the business of defending ourselves.

    • Angemon says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 4:49 pm

      Great post, spartan.

  2. Howard Pond says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 9:44 am

    Such a clear voice confronting the facade of “peaceful” Islam. Thank you Jamie.

    • Jay Boo says

      Nov 16, 2015 at 9:53 am

      Howard,
      Don’t you mean Thank you Robert

  3. Mike says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 9:57 am

    On Friday evening when that declaration of war was made against France with those simultaneous atrocities, I said to my wife this is a ‘game changer’ because of the manner of the attack without a ‘motive’ such as insulting Islam like Charlie Hepdo. Personally I back the right to be offended or give offense under freedom of expression and there was no excuse for the January attack, however, this latest attack has changed the attitudes of people due to its savagery. It took 1 or 2 days before some in the media were also calling it a ‘game changer’ and as gratifying it is to see this admission but where have they been these past years of Islamic terrorism.

    As I see it now, there is no western will to bomb the crap out of ISIS in the manner that the UK & USA bombed Dresden in 1945 when that city was literally destroyed by 3 days of bombing by 2,500 UK & USA bombers causing a fire storm. Even if we did, it still wont solve the core problem which is Islam in its current manifestation within our own borders.

    The only possible solution that might stand a chance of working is to halt ALL immigration from Islamic states, secure our borders in the west and ban Islam until it changes its teachings. Shut down all mosques, close all Islamic schools and anyone caught being involved in Islam in any shape or form to be given a choice of being interned or deported to an Islamic country. If Muslims can ‘enlighten’ Islam, we can then look at allowing Islam back into the religious fold but for now its a pariah religion. If Britain and America can intern Germans and Japanese during WWII despite none of them ever committing an act of terror, there’s every justification for interning Muslims in the west for being a threat if they publicly endorse Islam when many among them have killed thousands through terror attacks in the west.

    Right now Islam and all other religions are incompatible and western leaders have to be honest and acknowledge this to protect us. So far they have all failed in some way or other. The failure to address this issue will see vigilante gangs firebombing mosques and killing Muslims just as some of them have killed us indiscriminately. This is not a threat but a logical consequence of Obama, Cameron, Merkel and other leaders failing to grasp the core problem which is the teachings of Islam.

    It will be interesting to see what responses might occur over the next few months but we must reclaim our culture if we are to survive in the west.

  4. Jay Boo says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 10:08 am

    It is bad enough that some of the Muslim killers in Paris came in as refugees but the willingness to grovel by Germany’s politicians in acceptance of refugees only encouraged the Muslim mindset to attack Paris as a way to emphasis that France was not kissing up to Muslims as well as Germany. It is unfortunate that so many innocents lost their lives. It would have been better for Europe as a whole if Muslims had attacked (the hands that feed immigration) Berlin in a similar manner weeks ago instead of France to show how Muslims only feign gratitude to get what they want. Remember all those Muslims claiming “We love Germany”

  5. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 12:31 pm

    Can you count on him when the final struggle comes down?

    Those words have portent. I’ve thought of such a thing, myself; I’ve wondered when will it happen, how will it unfold, and where. These are ugly times with an increasingly bleak future. And here we are in a country where there’s a contentious debate on whether it’s ok to say “Islamic extremism” when in fact such a concept is absurd. Spencer knows this, and knows that things are built one step at a time, so here he is imploring the media to identify Jihad mass murder operators as Moslems, their primary identity, instead of by the nation that’s stupid enough to hostem them.

  6. Mike says

    Nov 16, 2015 at 6:34 pm

    For those who mock Donald Trump and his policies they should re-visit Britain’s Winston Churchill political career before, during and after World War II. His career was not that remarkable before 1939 but at the outset of WWII, a leader was required who could pull the nation together and hold back Nazism until help came from across the Atlantic. He took tough decisions like interning suspected German sympathizers, he had the RAF along with the USAF bomb the crap out of Dresden despite the PC fall out, but he saw the country through its direst moments. Tough hard decisions were taken and ‘feelings’ of minority were thrown on the bonfire of liberalism

    Right now in 2015, is there any western leader willing to do what is necessary to squash Islamic warfare both internally and externally, it sure doesn’t look like and its even worse when you look at the political opposition in the UK (Labour) or the USA (Democrats). Most on the right other than Trump are hesitant to take controversial actions to deal with immigration and terrorism and those on the left, Obama, Clinton, Saunders, O’Malley (USA) or Blair, Corbyn (UK) have already given away the farm to Islam.

    Churchill has and always will be remembered as a great wartime leader for Britain but a failure in peace time.

    Heads up folks, this is not peacetime the west is at war against Islamic Jihadist who are both inside our borders already and are waiting their turn as ‘refugees’ to sneak into the west. Do you want a ‘new’ Churchill to save the west or do you want those pontificating, selling out the country or a tree hugger like Saunders more concerned with the weather.

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