UPDATE: The fog has lifted! New version uploaded.
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On July 29, 2016, I spoke at the National Conservative Student Conference of the Young America’s Foundation on how the political and media elites have failed utterly to protect and inform the American people about the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat.
Yes, the video appears to have been shot through a film of gauze. No, I don’t know why or how that happened. I hope you will be able to get something from the content anyway.
If you watch, do watch to the end, when I am confronted by a Muslim student.
jihad3tracker says
MANY TIMES OVER SEVERAL YEARS I HAVE URGED FELLOW READERS HERE ON JW —- to send certain worthy videos on to our federal and state senators and representatives.
Well, with busy schedules and obligations to family and friends making spare moments rare, perhaps all of us have not had the chance to do so.
BUT THIS ONE BY ROBERT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL TO GET INTO THE MINDS OF EVERY ONE OF OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS.
Congress in Washington is on a 7 week vacation — so please pass a link to this item on to A DISTRICT OFFICE IN YOUR STATE. Make the subject line simple, powerful, and clear — like “CRUCIAL FACTS ABOUT OUR NATIONAL SECURITY”.
We are just now going into a weekend, so a little opportunity for you to swing into action might pop up.
eduardo odraude says
This video is Robert Spencer on a brilliantly articulate roll. In this video, speaking spontaneously, he is a thousand times better than in the Islam lesson videos where he reads from a teleprompter.
kessler says
Agreed – Robert doesn’t need a teleprompter. I was really surprised about those videos – this shows his knowledge and skill. Bravo – I will share this wherever possible. Essential viewing.
Rob Porter says
Robert is brilliant on Islam, but in regard to whether Obama is a Christian I wonder if I can help him.
In the Bible, Matthew 7:16, it states: “By their fruit (i.e. how they conduct themselves and what they produce) you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?” Thus I recognize Obama as a first rate liar and Muslim.
pennant8 says
Wow, talk about knowing your subject.
As I recall some time ago Robert was challenged to a debate by some prominent Muslim, and of course Robert accepted. In the end the guy backed out. But the funny part was that other Muslims warned the debate guy that he would surely lose if he showed up for the debate.
overman says
Yes, Robert you do need a new lense lol
Otherwise, another excellent analysis. Very good answer to the muslim student.
l think the guy below drives the point home. lt’s also hilarious – l just hope he didn’t burst a blood vessel.
Finally, Someone had a meltdown about Islam:
rara says
The video is fake:
http://www.snopes.com/arab-guy-renouncing-faith-television/
overman says
Thanks Rara, perhaps Robert can remove it.
linnte says
Rara, Snopes is not a trusted source any more. They have “debunked” things that have been proven to be true. Don’t trust Snopes. I don’t know if the video you are talking g about is true or not, but I have had personal experience noting something Snopes has said was untrue, when it indeed was. Just n fyi.
rara says
Memri original:
Egyptian opposition activists’ responses to Morsi’s speech. The commentary aired on Sada Al-Balad TV (Egypt) on July 2, 2013:
http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3896.htm
Transcript:
http://www.memri.org/clip_transcript/en/3896.htm
linnte says
Is this what Snopes said didn’t happen? Looks authentic to me.
rara says
No, that’s not what Snopes said didn’t happen, it’s what Snopes linked to, the original video from which the fake one was then made.
The fake one has no real translation but fake text only to “promote” one book that’s much worse than that of more serious authors. I can almost imagine linnte being an author.
Like overman says: ” lf we start using Taqqiya and Deception, we sink to their level”
overman says
Probably the only way to be 100% sure is for someone who’s fluent in arabic, that we can trust, to confirm it – someone like Brigitte Gabriel.
Of course, lt’s not really important, except from the moral standpoint. l mean, what was put in that vid was correct, but lf we start using Taqqiya and Deception, we sink to their level – and that’s how all corruption starts.
rara says
Overman, Memri doesn’t have any reason to falsely translate that particular video. Look at their other translations, that’s their job to do them right.
http://www.memritv.org/
linnte says
Mr. Spencer, I always watch no matter the “quality” of the video. And I appreciate all your videos, no matter the “quality” of the video. And it frustrates the Dickens out of me when someone expects MGM videos on your budget. So I suggest folks who complain donate as much as they can so there is money enough to satisfy their nit picking! ?
gravenimage says
Video: Robert Spencer on why we can’t fight terror without discussing Islam
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Yes–we have to know who is attacking us, and why, and what their end goals for these attacks are–and that only comes from knowing about Islam.
gravenimage says
Excellent stuff, Mr. Spencer.
mortimer says
The Shi’ite mullahocracy all take post-doctoral degrees in taqiyya.
Rob says
Aww c’mon Robt. Fort Hood was a staff cafeteria food fight the got out of hand.
mortimer says
Robert Spencer gave a superb speech and answered questions brilliantly in this video.
Spencer mentioned the Fort Dix six. The Fort Dix Albanian jihadists were caught because a young man questioned political correctness. If he hadn’t PC would have cost lives.
Islam is an ideology, rather than a race. Therefore, the criticism of Islam is the criticism of an ideology.
The female Muslim questioner is graciously and courteously answered by Spencer, but she appears to be a ‘moderate’. Moderate Muslims have been called ‘moderately Muslim’.
CrossWare says
I do not believe in the myth of “moderate Muslim”. As a matter of fact, I do not believe in moderate Nazis or moderate Communists either. You are accept the doctrine and you are a believer or not. You may pretend to be part of the “gang” so you do not get killed by them, but I just can’t accept someone who genuinely believes those doctrines but not act on it based on the very same believes. I think those are the people who come down later with “sudden Jihadist syndrome”.
linnte says
I think many “moderate” Muslims, like the young woman in Roberts video, are on the fence, and are in varying degrees of leaving Islam. Mr. Spencer’s response to her was perfect. And it probably pushed her more toward the “leave” than she was before the talk with this Student Forum. She was there for a reason! All that she heard was truthful. Let’s hope for her emancipation!
Myxlplik says
Imagine if we had elected Tom Tancredo for 2 terms instead of Obama. Its not like we didn’t have a great choice, and yet again we have a clear choice.
If we elect Hillary she will so gerrymander our electorate, that she will be guaranteed a second term. We are on the precipice of nearly an entire generation of this, our Republic will probably not remain intact. The problem, I’m afraid, is as old as democracy itself. Plato noted long ago people vote to gain access to the treasury, and I’ll add politicians dangle goodies for votes. In the end this is what destroys all democracies, and we’ll be no different.
Perhaps if the voting age was 24, unless you’ve had military service, then it would be 20 after a 2 year tour of duty, the electorate would be more resistant to Plato’s plight of all democracies.
I agree though, we are at a turning point in history, which if we elect wrongly, will probably destroy our country as we know it. If it already isn’t too late, but in the end, we had good options, because had we elected Tom, the world, and our country would be a very different place.
dumbledoresarmy says
Actually, raising the voting age to 24 would not be a bad idea; apparently the neurologists (now that we have fine-tuned tools such as MRI) are discovering that the *brain* only really finishes growing in the early 20s, with the frontal cortex (the bit we use to make careful decisions) the very last bit to be fully developed. (And this, btw, suggests why the pegging of voting age at *21*, which was the case – following the traditional ‘age of majority’ – in many western countries for some time before it was lowered to 18, was in fact quite reasonable; it actually accords with biological reality!).
The fact that brain growth-and-development continues into the early 20s is already being cited as one reason why teenagers and young adults – people 17-24 – should be strongly dissuaded from alcohol, and the legal *drinking* age raised; because **their brains are still growing and are therefore more vulnerable to damage**.
August West says
This students in this video demonstrate an excellent understanding of Islam. I was very impressed.
Also the interaction with the non-hijab wearing female Muslim “student” was very well dispatched. Spencer, very appropriately, pointed out the hate crimes that are committed by Muslims against women not wearing the Hijab. The re-direction of the question to actual victims of hate crimes (Jews and African Americans) was also excellently done. I am going to put that response in my playbook!
Bezelel says
Looks like a speakeasy flick. I am glad the girl asked the questions to you and got an appropriate answer. She has been indoctrinated to play the victim. Hopefully she learned something good.Good questions from all of them.
billybob says
I was fascinated to consider that young woman had been there listening to that the whole time while Robert was ripping Islam to shreds. When she arose to speak, she seemed so calm about it all, and of course very well behaved, ect. She was totally unlike the Muslims that come to Robert’s or Pemalas talks at universities with the sole purpose of disrupting them. What can we conclude from that?
One thing is, I suspect she was an intelligent and well educated young woman. If she had caught Robert out on some inaccuracy she would have pointed that out. Therefore, she provides validation of Robert’s thesis by her acquiescence. One element of greatest importance to my conversion to a confirmed “islamophobe” was listening to ex-Muslims themselves condemning their own religion, and comparing their understanding of Islam against what people like Robert are telling us and seeing they all reinforce one another rather than contradict each other.
She must have pretty much cast off her Muslim brainwashing at that point, or we would have seen some reaction. Either that or she is perfectly trained in double-think, and as Robert was talking she was instantly forming mental constructs in her mind to defend against cognitive dissonance. I can only conclude the former as the most plausible. Getting a university education can do that to you – challenge your beliefs and expose you to new ideas. Of course that’s much the point of it.
linnte says
I really enjoyed listening to this video Robert! And the intelligent questions from the students gave me hope! Thanks so much!
Michael Laudahn says
Referring to min 53 ff: Of course we don’t know what Robert Spencer’s private opinion is, after all he is a personality of public life and needs to play his roll. My private opinion as a free man is, we shouldn’t have members of an incompatible community in our countries. Which of course means, block the entry for new ones, and get rid of the old ones.
Raja says
Michael L, Burning the copies of the Koran by the “would be immigrants” or make them dump the pages of Koran into the toilet would be a good beginner. I know I am not being PC but this should happen at least 100 years down the line. (When I would be long-since-dead-and-gone)!
I have heard of an American missionary do similar acts in a far off land in East with another religion. That should be termed DETOXIFICATION- if you would. This is also to ensure that they don’t drift back their superstitious faith.
Michael Laudahn says
Why should we interfere with their superstitions? We have only one interest, and that is to re-establish our staus quo ante (ca 1970), plus get those responsible for these developments to be held accountable for their gigantic mischief.
Risto Kantonen says
Because the devout muslims are engaging in every effort to interfere with our culture, values and way of life by waging war against all the classical civilisations. Thus, it is not a matter of choice, but rather that they are forcing us to interfere by waging war on us.
bytheway says
Excellent video Robert and thank you for everything that you do.
This is a sobering article too Michael:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/259395/when-muslims-betray-non-muslim-friends-and-raymond-ibrahim
Mubarak says
You can’t be honest within the framework of Islam, it is just as impossible as for a lamb to lie down with a lion. Honesty will automatically propel you out of Islam.
A Muslim is therefore either a liar, already radicalized in his mind, or a person seduced and ignorant, wearing a cultural label, he doesn’t understand. Truth is the antidote to Islam, but few are those who speak it – in truth.
Risto Kantonen says
Good speech, however, i couldn’t help but notice what seems like contradiction in what Robert is saying.
Robert first speaks about the fact that muslims – at least in Afghanistan – only respect strength and force. So, it confuses me when he later on suggests that U.S. should put in place programs in mosques across the U.S. that teaches muslims why they should reject the doctrines that ISIS practices. Devout muslims will not submit to such things, even though they may play along by practicing taqiyya, but nevertheless this approach is unlikely to work, because at the end of the day muslims will practice what Islam teaches, not what anyone else says.
For example: Quran 2:193 – Fight them until there is no [more] seduction and [until] worship is [acknowledged to be] for Allah. But if they cease, then there is to be no aggression except against the oppressors.
It means that there can be no peace until the whole world submits to Islam and we both know that non-believers will take up arms before they allow that to happen.
So far every single approach of peaceful resolution to the problem has utterly failed, which leaves us with only one option: Islam does not belong in any modern society and its practice in any shape or form must be banned. This is more or less also what the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, has concluded as evidenced by this speech(1). The prime minister of Slovakia has also reaches similar conclusion.(2)
Islam is waging war against the entire classical civilisation, this is a fact as it is supported with multiple different tactics, such as traditional jihad, and civilisational jihad that is present and growing in the world today. And the enemy – Islam – will not accept logic and reason. This leaves only one option; war.
I will end my feedback with a couple of relevant quotes.
“Countless duels go to make up war, but a picture of it as a whole can be formed by imagining a pair of wrestlers. Each tries through physical force to compel the other to do his will; his immediate aim is to throw his opponent in order to make him incapable of further resistance. War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.” -Carl von Clausewitz(3)
“Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.” -Carl von Clausewitz(4)
“If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?” -Sam Harris(5)
Sources:
1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE7oCXPb2Iw
2 http://www.politico.eu/article/robert-fico-islam-no-place-news-slovakia-muslim-refugee/
3 On War (Oxford 2007) chapter 1, section 2, paragraph 1
4 On War (Oxford 2007) chapter 1, section 3, paragraph 1
5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk7jHJRSzhM&t=1m10s
Mubarak says
“Robert first speaks about the fact that muslims – at least in Afghanistan – only respect strength and force. So, it confuses me when he later on suggests that U.S. should put in place programs in mosques across the U.S. that teaches muslims why they should reject the doctrines that ISIS practices.” –
Good observation!
Maybe RS sees that as the second best solution, since he can’t endorse an outright military war against stealth jihad in America -?
And maybe he wants to help the Lord a little on the way according to psalm 55:9: “Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.” – ?
billybob says
“…he later on suggests that U.S. should put in place programs in mosques across the U.S. that teaches muslims why they should reject the doctrines that ISIS practices…”
You guys… I think that is a bit of a rhetorical device he is employing, inviting the listener to ponder the question – exactly as you are doing. On the face of it the proposal is ridiculous, and since Robert is certainly NOT ridiculous, to me it is obvious it is merely rhetoric delivered almost tongue and cheek.
The reason I say it is a patently ridiculous notion that Muslims are going to go along with such an edict can be seen when Robert comes to discuss the notion of whether there can be a “moderate” or “reformed” version of Islam. You simply cannot separate the violence from Islam. It just wouldn’t be Islam any more. I think that is what Robert would say, but these are my words and not his, and he would say the equivalent in a completely different way.
Any way that is said, we are left with the understanding – there is no way to reform Islam. Then within the same speech he is saying “U.S. should put in place programs in mosques across the U.S. that teaches muslims why they should reject the doctrines that ISIS practices”, in other words, do the impossible and remove the violence from Islam. In other discussions from Robert, he will demonstrate that ISIS follows the Quran and Hadiths to the letter, so if you eliminate “doctrines that ISIS practices” you have to eliminate the Quran and Hadiths and the perfect example of Muhammad. NOT GONNA HAPPEN without a struggle!
So instead of this lengthy discussion, Robert (peace be upon him) throws that out to you as a rhetorical device, delivered tongue and cheek – almost an encoded message to take from it what you will.
Brilliant! Subtle!
Risto Kantonen says
Ah, now it makes sense, thanks for the clarification. I was confused precisely because what i’ve seen or read coming from Robert so far has made sense.
This shows how absolutely terrible i’m at detecting sarcasm.
Mubarak says
The speech of mr. Spencer is so incisive and cogent that it runs the risk of being counterproductive: it could radicalize Muslims, who are not familiar with their own religion. Hope Muslims don’t frequent JW.
Mubarak says
Apropos Qur’an 5:32
“unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land”:
Infidels can always be construed as doing corruption in the land and are therefore legal targets anywhere and anytime in history.
Thank God for Muslims, who don’t follow the Qur’an!
Raja says
Mubarak, Your comments are truthful and Insightful.
But cannot agree with you on this:
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The speech of mr. Spencer is so incisive and cogent that it runs the risk of being counterproductive: it could radicalize Muslims, who are not familiar with their own religion. Hope Muslims don’t frequent JW.
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Muslims are in constant “war ” with anything that is not considered Islamic MUCH like the iMuslim states in the ME that are ‘IN THE STATE OF WAR with ISRAEL”. Some Muslims are subtle some are not so. The supremacist machinery of Islam pits Muslims against non Muslims. So the article under consideration won’t add too much gas to an already supposed state-of-war of Islam viz a viz non-Islamic. The Muslims who don’t take the /supremacist Islam seriously are nice people who have been caught between the devil and the deep sea.
To sum up, the counter productiveness of this article would be very negligible. There is a legion of states who give kid-gloves treatment to anything Islamic. I would suggest that is being counter productive in the West, oz included
I would personally be on the attack/ offensive than be passive / defensive because I am damned either way!
Mubarak says
The things you can’t agree with was said with a little 😉 Raja.
Anyhow in order to be a little more constructive with my criticism, let me say this:
The famous professor and tariqiya expert Taqiya Ramadan called some years ago for a moratorium on stoning as punishment in Islamic countries – I don’t recall if his attitude towards the cutting of throats was that generous – but we should mirror and profit from this accommodative spirit with respect to the building of mosques here in the West and call for a moratorium on these penile and penal stone constructions, until Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries catch up with the building of churches in their own vaginal part of the world. —
The ideal would be no mosques at all in the West; then we wouldn’t need to bother putting programs in place in these Trojan camels.
Raja says
Thanks for the reply Mubarak,
The Ideal would be to have no mosques and even underground mosques and Christians should learn to live without the “tall” church buildings. Christianity existed in spite of state as in first century and it still is in countries like China etc.
It is the cheap psyche of the Muslims that constantly compares itself with Christianity and Christians as such need not bask in the glory of great old church buildings as the practice of Christianity hardly has any bearing on the good deeds of the faithful.
Thanks again for your reply. Regards.
Jerry says
I especially liked the Q & A session, the questions were intelligent and Spencer’s answers were wonderfully articulate and intelligent, passionately expressed. This vid is a good way to start a day.
You know that there is not a single mosque or islamic school in the United States that has a program to teach young muslims why they should reject the ISIS understanding of islam. Spencer
And I think that’s an important point. This is supposed to be a “religion of peace.” You’d think it would be foremost on the minds of muslim leaders to resoundingly condemn this violence to their young. But we all know that violence is inextricable from islam, it is the foundation for its early conquering successes and has been the backbone of its unceasing polito-religio agenda of supremacy for allah ever since. And that’s why Spencer is right, these ideas are “sedition,” as they are unconstitutional, threaten our security and peace, and are tantamount to a declaration of war against us. Islamic doctrine and experience has taught us what muslims’ motives and tactics are. Collectively speaking muslims’ MO has always been to put their devil-god above the welfare of others, even if there are some individuals who are less than radical in that collective quest. Those individual “nice” muslims can never neutralize the eternal will of allah for the faithful, wherever muslims are of sufficient power their supremacist agenda always over rules the individual. We need to all be smart enough to know an enemy when we see one. Islam is conquering western nations under the guise of religion and political correctness, but it’s not a religion and political correctness is wrong when it encourages humanitarian crimes and behavior that threatens our nation and people.
Islam is our enemy and all muslims identify with and live to some measure that ideology. I don’t care if they are big Nazis or little Nazis, to me they’re all part of the same murderous club.
Raja says
Thanks Jerry for an educative comment.
God bless.
Harry ko says
We are so lucky to have Robert Spencer to enlighten the masses about this terrible , wicked ,
evil and murderous cult l!! .
Angemon says
Speeches work fine as podcasts.
Terry Gain says
Robert Spencer is an American hero. I share him on Facebook and sing his praises whenever I can.
Islofob IS-1 says
The “faith” of the death cult, known as islam, is the enemy.
It must be the focus of ALL efforts against the cult, it is the key to stopping the destruction and deaths.
Outlaw the cult , and the public following of islam .Shut down the mosques, shudder the islamic schools, those who wish to follow the death cult can leave. Only a complete rejection of the cult will reverse the threat. the death cult must be exposed, mocked , questioned, and called out openly.
Asking them to teach a friendly version of cult will never work, only create a new sect if at all successful, the threat will remain.
France just closed 10% of the mosques they looked into, a step in the right direction. Much more will need to be done.
If this path is not followed, the next attacks are certain , nothing else will stop it.
David says
“Quer’an Awareness Week” as described by Spencer is an brilliant idea and should be promoted on every American campus.Readings from the Quer’an long overdue.
billybob says
Where can we buy I’m with Robert Spencer T-shirts?
Pandoba Dhondiba says
Have you wondered why a miniscule ( as they are always depicted !) of these so called “Islam misunderstood” jehadis cannot be stopped from their so called “misdeeds” by the other billions of “Islam well understood” Moslems around the world ? If they want then they could do it in a minute but they don’t do that ! Does the silence of majority Moslems against the so called “misdeeds” of those ( islam misunderstood”) minority not in a way “approve” the acts of violence/terrorism by the silent majority ?
The answer to this question is given very well in the above video ! As the speaker rightly says adopting cheating & falsehood ( in the name of Jihad !) is officially allowed in Koran by Allah , the God , through His medium , Mohammed ! Perhaps the Christians from around the world could “interprete” ( wrongly though !) some Biblical commandment to justify a crusade against Moslems & Islam !
Dacritic says
Rob mentioned that American Muslims should not just condemn terror attacks but also teach against the ideology represented by ISIS. But Rob, that ideology is Islam! I’m not sure about this. I have to go with Gladstone here, Rob.
“As long as this accursed book exists (and I’m sure he meant together with the religion that book represents), there will be no peace in the world.”
It’s going to be a long, difficult, tedious war. Eradicating Islam is the only long term solution. David Wood said we need to educate ourselves about the facts of Islam and Muhammad and share this knowledge until it becomes common knowledge. This is what Wood is doing. This is what Rob himself is doing. If I were to advise the next commander-in-chief, I’d advise him to put all the Christian apologists, including Robert Spencer, into overdrive mode. Go into a mosque, and debate all the Muslims. Make them leave Islam as best we can.
Dacritic says
5:33 also says “…or those who cause mischief in the land…” Since the Quran didn’t specify what constitutes “mischief”, then Muslims can take it to mean anything. Including exposing the truth of Muhammad’s less than exemplary character. Or drawing cartoons of him. Or creating satirical poems about him, or whatever. That’s why those cartoonists were murdered.
Dacritic says
“Hitler wanted to stop the immigration of Jews so he can keep them in Germany and kill them. Trump wanted to keep the Muslims out so they cannot kill us.”
Couldn’t have said it better.