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Reza Aslan blames rise of “Islamophobia” on Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, Frank Gaffney and Daniel Pipes

Mar 12, 2017 12:24 pm By Robert Spencer

Cannibal Reza Aslan will never tell you this, but I will: the real originators of “Islamophobia” in the U.S. are not Geller, Gaffney, Pipes and me, but Nidal Malik Hasan, Mohamed Atta, Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Mohammed Abdulazeez, Syed Rizwan Farook, Tashfeen Malik, Omar Mateen, and all the other Muslims who have plotted and/or carried out jihad massacres on American soil. Aslan’s whole “Islamophobia” roadshow is a cynical and disingenuous attempt to divert attention away from the reality of jihad terror.

His claim that Geller, Gaffney, Pipes and I are actually responsible for any suspicion Americans have of Islam or Muslims is also self-contradictory: on the one hand I am a “moron” and Gaffney is a “wackjob,” and all of us are “fringe figures,” yet somehow we have managed to amass enough nefarious power to make “Islamophobia” enough of a serious concern that he has to run around the country giving talks about it.

Meanwhile, speaking of “morons,” Aslan has made the ridiculous claim that the idea of resurrection “simply doesn’t exist in Judaism,” despite numerous passages to the contrary in the Hebrew Scriptures. He has also referred to “the reincarnation, which Christianity talks about” — although he later claimed that one was a “typo.” In yet another howler he later insisted was a “typo,” he claimed that the Biblical story of Noah was barely four verses long — which he then corrected to forty, but that was wrong again, as it is 89 verses long. Aslan claimed that the “founding philosophy of the Jesuits” was “the preferential option for the poor,” when in reality, that phrase wasn’t even coined until 1968. He called Turkey the second most populous Muslim country, when it is actually the eighth most populous Muslim country. He thinks Pope Pius XI, who issued the anti-fascist encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge, was a fascist. He thinks Marx and Freud “gave birth to the Enlightenment,” when it ended in the late 18th century, before either of them were born. He claims that “the very first thing that Muhammad did was outlaw slavery,” when in fact Muhammad bought slaves, took female captives as sex slaves, and owned slaves until his death. He thinks Ethiopia and Eritrea are in Central Africa.

A “renowned religious scholar” such as Reza Aslan should not make such elementary mistakes. But this is, of course, the man who writes “than” for “then”; apparently thinks the Latin word “et” is an abbreviation; and writes “clown’s” for “clowns.”

“Celebrity Prof Reza Aslan Brings His ‘Islamophobia’ Show To Penn,” by Gregg Roman, Daily Caller, March 10, 2017:

What happens when a professor known for hyping the dangers of “Islamophobia” is accused of perpetuating such a “phobia” himself? Critics of UC Riverside creative writing professor Reza Aslan’s new CNN show, “Believer,” are charging him with “Hinduphobia” for depicting Hindus as cannibals in the opening episode.

An Iranian-American academic, author, HBO producer, and now television host Reza Aslan has become a sought-after speaker on Muslim life in America. His celebrity profile packed the house at the University of Pennsylvania last month for the presentation “Fear Inc.: Confronting Islamophobia in America.”

The crowd of approximately 750 was a diverse mix of students, attentive adults, and prominent Penn faculty and alumni, most notably NBC’s Andrea Mitchell. The significance of the turnout was clear: fearmongering about rising “Islamophobia” is trending, and a young, hip Muslim-American with cable TV producing credentials has the answers.

Aslan began by proclaiming American “Islamophobia” a recent phenomenon. An Iranian immigrant whose arrival in America coincided with the Iran hostage crisis, he claims to have witnessed little bigotry against Muslims. Even 9/11 sparked not a backlash, but a nationwide rallying cry to support Muslims. “If we are engaged in the war of ideas, we knew that the most powerful weapon in our arsenal were the three million Muslims that were here,” he proclaimed.

So where did “Islamophobia” originate? A few fringe groups, or “clowns” as he put it, supposedly created it in 2014. They allegedly include authors Robert Spencer, whom Aslan charmingly called a “moron,” Pamela Geller, Frank Gaffney (a “wackjob!”), and Middle East Forum president Daniel Pipes, whom he called

the thinking man’s Islamophobe! He’s the guy I worry about the most because his argument is pretty simple: it’s not the jihadists and the terrorists that we need to worry about, it’s the Muslim who is actually absorbed in American culture.

Pipes never made such a claim and, far from encouraging fear of Muslims, has consistently proclaimed “radical Islam in the problem; moderate Islam is the solution.”

Aslan encouraged the audience to “laugh at these guys” and ostracize them as “fringe figures, hate group leaders . . . and people who have no business in the mainstream on any topic, much less Islamism.” He even claimed that Trump doesn’t believe Islam is a religion at all.

A student asked about U.S. influence on the rise of Islamism, leading Aslan to point out that this is neither unique nor surprising. Religious nationalism is on the rise everywhere, especially in the U.S. and Israel, he maintained. He brought up a Pew study to back up his contention that at least one third of the U.S. can be defined as Christian nationalists, and cited messianic Zionists and current Israeli Education Minister, and who Aslan called “the expected next Prime Minister, Naftali Bennet” as Israeli examples.

“What’s important to understand is that [Islamism] is not a religious ideology, it’s a political ideology,” Aslan stressed. “As an ideology, it has very defined goals that are nationalistic.” The U.S should only be concerned with those whose goals are “trans-nationalistic,” he added.

But of course, Islamism is inherently religious, not merely political, adhering as it does to the traditional tenets of Islam that do not allow for separation of church and state. Moreover, Aslan erroneously claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas are nationalistic, whereas only al-Qaeda and ISIS are trans-nationalistic.

Aslan insisted repeatedly that Islamists with nationalistic views are part of the worldwide trend exemplified by Brexit and the election of Trump, and should not be feared. That is, only jihadists like ISIS are distinguished by a “military element” and therefore pose a threat to Americans.

His claim that the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas are only interested in taking political control, respectively, of Egypt and the Palestinian territories is deeply inaccurate. The Muslim Brotherhood has always maintained trans-nationalistic goals, while Hamas has forged alliances with international jihadist groups and Islamist regimes.

In emphasizing this “important distinction” Aslan sought two goals: downplay the number of dangerous Islamist groups, and attack the Trump administration for its anticipated plan to label the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. “We’re in the midst of an administration that shows no difference between these two orientations,” Aslan declared to gasps of outrage from the likeminded audience. “We have to stop jihadists, but to apply the same pressure to Islamists is disastrous. This is what leads to the kind of radicalization we are trying to reverse.”…

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  1. Expat88 says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 1:06 pm

    His comments show him to be a dangerous fool. How sad that he can command large audiences.

    • Terry Gain says

      Mar 12, 2017 at 1:15 pm

      Allan is not a fool. The fools are the non-Muslims who don’t understand Aslan’s role in spreading Islam.

      We know that Mohammed was a mass murderer, slave-taker, rapist and pedophile. He is Islam’s role model, so every Muslim should be confronted as to why they think Mohammed is a role model. They should also be asked what kind of God would choose a psychopath as his Messenger.

      • Marisol Enrique says

        Mar 12, 2017 at 6:45 pm

        How about “enslaver”?? When I put this question to Muslims, they are horrified and confront me with: “You don’t understand Arabic–you’re misinterpreting the Qu’ran!!” What a load of BS. I’ve given up asking this question of ANY Muslim because they all LIE (taqiyya)…. As Robert has said before, “The Qu’ran is the same everywhere.”

      • Dacritic says

        Mar 13, 2017 at 3:37 am

        Damn it, ain’t that the truth.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 12, 2017 at 5:11 pm

      OSTRICH-HEAD-IN-THE-SAND TIME for Reza Aslan.

      See no jihad, hear no jihad, speak no jihad.

      • Red says

        Mar 15, 2017 at 4:27 pm

        do not be fooled. He knows the truth

    • Patricia says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 5:55 pm

      Kuru

    • jo says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 6:01 pm

      Reza Aslan is an Iranian Shia moslem that has been BRAINWASHED by the Shia Islam ideology of the last few decades and rendered to some extent STUPID by its backward/primitive teachings in spite of the fact that he is educated and has lived in western developed societies .
      This goes to show that for some human traits like reasoning , intelligence and IQ , genetic factors can have a stronger influence than environmental factors…………………………!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      • Red says

        Mar 15, 2017 at 4:31 pm

        ALL mohammedans are brainwashed AND they do not know the truth. Cannot accept the truth
        99% of them cannot read arabic … have an education that is principally of the koran. Find one that can add sums without a calculator in Indonesia for example

  2. Terry Gain says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 1:09 pm

    There is but one God and Mohammed is his prophet. There is but one Muslim. The one who believes that the Koran is the word of God and Mohammed is His Messenger. Everything else is a distraction. The moderates will be more successful in imposing Islam than the Jihadists for they are considered our defense against the Jihadists. The ideology is so ingenuous I am beginning to think it was invented by Satan

    • john spielman says

      Mar 12, 2017 at 3:43 pm

      islam WAS( invented by Satan) – just as the Bible says. St Paul warned the followers of Christ Jesus that the people should be careful NOT to listen to anyone; even Paul himself or an angel, if they present a ” gospel” other than one Paul and the other apostle of Jesus first gave the world because “Satan masquerades as an angel of light”. Clearly Paul was referring to religions like islam where the founder claims to received a “new revelation” from an angel, as allah of islam share all the characteristics of Satan of the Bible. Both Satan and allah are deceivers , murderers liars and thieves and muhammed, the ” perfect man of islam” shares these qualities plus sexual immorality- muhammed was a pedophoie pervert!

    • Cara Dewitt says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 12:50 pm

      muhammed clearly knew what to do to amass an army . he appealed to all the baser physical wants and desires . he offered tons of sexual contact with men , women , and children . he offered slaves and wealth from the booty of those they killed and enslaved . he placed men in the position of master over everybody . women were only property to be used as men wanted , they were only here for men . women do not go to heaven as they are not human beings . however , somehow ? , men will receive virgins in heaven and nice young boys for pleasure . he allowed 4 wives in addition to the slaves . this allowed for rapid growth in numbers to add to his pool of willing fighters . he claimed he had personally ben given this task by Allah , himself . this story seems familiar . where , oh, where have I read this before ? it sounds very similar to the tales of others who have gone to the mountain or to the desert and had a vision . this only proves men want to be lead like sheep and not have the burden of thinking for themselves . it also proves men really do have low moral standards . wrap it up in pretty paper and tie it up with bows . you still unwrap a pile of shit .

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 2:01 pm

      Well it certainly couldn’t have been thought up by the pedophile from the land of goatherds!

      It had to have been dropped into his limited mind by some entity who was very clever and sly, AND who supports torture, murder and mayhem.

      And that does sound like Satan, doesn’t it?

    • Red says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 4:37 pm

      Actually the quote is basically wrong the quote is “There is only one god who is allah. and mohammed is his prophet”
      Once cannot say there is only one God but God. got the idea.? one must “submit” to allah. so WHO IS allah?

      • Jeanette says

        Mar 16, 2017 at 12:13 am

        My hand is up!

        God says “Love one another.”

        Allah says “Do evil to innocents around the world.”

        One of these two entities sounds suspiciously like Satan.

        I have come to strongly suspect that Allah is Satan.

  3. Pandit Technology says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 1:21 pm

    “Islamophobia” or disgust of the barbaric practices, in which non muslims and women were / are treated by the “true” believers of Islam is actually as old as as Islam itself. Just that the information due to social media and internet cannot be “controlled” or “channeled” as to the liking of the oil shieks ( Arabs who sell oil) and their paid minions in the media. In fact most of the Main Stream Media (MSM) have either been bought or have substantial stakes these sovereign investment funds of Arab nations. Mr Spencer is only throwing light on the dark stinking sewer of these barbaric Islamic practices. Yeah and these shit heads like Reza think that they can stop the march of science and technology now. These barbaric Islamic turds cannot think creatively or critically and just repeat the words of the ” progressive” liberals. They all have no idea that the new thinking now does not come from these liberals and nor they do not control the flow of information any longer. That train has long left the station and things are not going back ever. Long live Mr Spencer and may his tribe increase !

  4. DFD says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 1:23 pm

    Robert Spencer says: “….**but** Nidal Malik Hasan, Mohamed Atta, …. Aslan’s whole “Islamophobia” roadshow is a cynical and disingenuous attempt to divert attention away from the reality of jihad terror….”

    Dear Robert, I would have simply said: “**but** Islam.”

    One question: Is this guy for real? Or is it a fictional satire figure? Though, the way you report, he seems to be real. (Sorry if I sound ignorant, but watching from Europe)

  5. Alien Republican says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 1:30 pm

    Reza basically saying that Mr. Spencer is influential while he himself is irrelevant.

  6. Westman says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 1:34 pm

    The problem with the appearance of a “moderate” Islam is the inevitable attacks on the unbelievers which come from some “moderate(s)” who recently became more devout.

    The ideology of Islam is like a grenade with an obscured trigger pin. When the devotee burrows far enough into Islam, the trigger pin and the paradisiacal reward for pulling it come into view.

    Aslan should enjoy his present glory while he can because previous “moderates” will ultimately undermine his false message. We’ve seen these “conversions”, ad infinitum, until they have the staleness of morning breath.

    And if that doesn’t dissuade his audience from the notion that Muslims can be both devout and patriotic, he will likely sabotage his own message with more behavior, on the order of grey matter consumption, until he’s viewed as silly entertainment.

  7. Krazy Kafir says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 1:52 pm

    America is waking up to the stealth Jihad, and their leftist allies. Hence Trump.

  8. Jim says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 2:14 pm

    Isn’t it time we, the non-Muslims (and the Muslim reformists) of the world, adopted new approaches? lsamophobia is a good place to start. First, we should start calling a spade a spade. Namely, if any ideological group in the world is rampant with phobias it is without question Islam. To its very core Islam has been replete for well over a thousand years with phobias about anyone who is not Muslim. If anything we non-Muslims should be calling out Allah’s followers for their fanatical phobias against non-Muslims. We need to press the mainstream media in the U.S. and the world to stop talking about “symptoms” and start talking about “causes.” We need to damand from the media that when they interview the Reza Aslans of the world, that they also take time to ask the questions they rarely, if ever, ask (no doubt many have failed to take the time to find out the facts themselves), namely: Isn’t the fact that over 1.5 billion Muslims give voice to prayers (“causes”) five times every day that denegrate Jews, Christians, and all other non-Muslims in fact represent a form of “non-Muslimophobia?” Could one not argue that it is in truth a form of preaching hatred? Under the UN goal to make saying anything negative against Muslims a hate crime, would not these prayers potentially be a form of hate crime against non-Muslims as well? Moreover, why are not our media reps asking how Muslims can justify making their children, like Pavlov’s dogs, memorize (a “cause”) the Koran, a book virtually enshrined with hatred for others? Why aren’t our media asking of the Reza Aslans of the world why Muslims insist on Sharia law, when the facts (“causes”) clearly demonstrate that Sharia demeans women, gays, and all other religions, let alone sets the stage along with the Koran and related Islamic writings for crimes such as honor killings, female genital mutilation, and so on. Maybe it is time we started posting op-eds in major media to highlight the “causes” rather than the symptoms of why Islam is so dangerous and needs major, major reform.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 7:19 pm

      How could Satanism be reformed?

      And since Islam and Satanism have so much in common (a major addiction to rape, child rape, torture, and murder), how can Islam be reformed?

      And, given that Islam fits all of the qualifiers for a cult, including the BIG one, human sacrifice, we must consider whether it is worth time and effort to “reform” a murderous cult.

      The Muslims should be required to simply abandon Islam, just as I would abandon any Christian church that announced that from now on, its members would be expected to enslave, convert, or kill anyone who doesn’t already belong to our Rape & Death Cult.

      Any Muslims who are so inbred (and a lot of them are, from marrying their first cousins) that they cannot understand this will have to be treated as mentally deficient and locked up to protect the rest of us from them, and that should be paid for with oil money from the Muslim middle east, not with American TaxVictim money.

  9. Marty says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 2:17 pm

    aslam is the reason for islamophobia: dumb as dirt, provides a whitewash of the islamic death cult at every opportunity, and pretends (unconvincing) to be a legitimate scholar.

  10. JawsV says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 2:27 pm

    Aslan is an absolute idiot. No other word. Oh, imbecile.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 7:22 pm

      Well that certainly lets him off the hook. If he’s stupid, not evil, then he can’t be blamed for anything, can he?

      We must learn from the leftie Muslim-lovers and always select the most damaging modifier for the enemies of free people.

  11. jewdog says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 2:49 pm

    Cannibal to Reza: “Here, have some more brains – they’ll make you smarter.”
    Reza to Cannibal: “You know, these brains taste like monkey shit.”
    CannibaL: “See, you’re getting smarter already!”

  12. Emilie Green says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 2:49 pm

    Aslan was seen recently eating a human brain.

    Despite the effort, he still doesn’t have one.

    • john spielman says

      Mar 12, 2017 at 3:47 pm

      maybe the Creutzfeldt -Jakob disease is already taking hold of his brain and turning it to “swiss cheese”

      • Jeanette says

        Mar 13, 2017 at 7:23 pm

        Unfortunately the incubation period is often decades.

  13. jayell says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 3:02 pm

    Could there be a connection between Aslan’s profession as a Professor of Creative Writing and his assertion that Dr. Spencer, Ms Geller and Messrs. Gaffney and Pipes have been responsible for the rise in so-called ‘islamophobia’? It certainly does take a well-practised imagination to come up with an idea like that, which also ignores the self-evident fact that practically all of those who denounce this ‘perfect’ religion are highly literate and intelligent and are quite capable of reaching a logical and well-informed opinion about islam without the need to refer to Dr. Spencer, Ms Geller or Messrs. Gaffner and Pipes.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 7:24 pm

      Or, Winston Churchill, who warned us about Islam long, long ago.

  14. Stan Lee says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 3:33 pm

    Aslan would not be a “bona fide” Muslim operator, unless he could instantly name a few very perceptive people to blame for the atrocious code exercised by Muslims seeking to please their Prophet.
    Unless one is claiming that it was he, or they, who performed jihad, Muslims always shift their responsibility from themselves to persons perfectly innocent of any Muslim crimes. “Muslim crimes” don’t even exist for Muslims, they, the crimes, are strictly advisements from the koran, which they believe it is their duty to carry out exactly as the koran directs.
    The four non-Muslims mentioned by Aslan, including Robert Spencer, are people who are educating a non-Muslim public with invaluable knowledge. They are appreciated if they never divulge anymore knowledge again. We are now alert to Islam’s distortions and lies.

  15. Angemon says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 4:03 pm

    So where did “Islamophobia” originate? A few fringe groups, or “clowns” as he put it, supposedly created it in 2014.

    Uh-oh – “professor” Aslam gets an F- on research. Here’s a 2012 article dating “islamophobia” back to the 1990’s:

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/08/did-the-muslim-brotherhood-invent-the-term-islamophobia

    Truly, Robert, Pamela, Frank, Daniel, etc., must possess magical time-travelling powers if “professor” Aslan’s theory is to make any sort of sense…

  16. Steve Klein says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 4:05 pm

    ‘….A “renowned religious scholar” such as Reza Aslan should not make such elementary mistakes. But this is, of course, the man who writes “than” for “then”; apparently thinks the Latin word “et” is an abbreviation; and writes “clown’s” for “clowns.”

    I do not think the New York Times best-selling author (owner of this site) likes this guy. Just a hunch.

  17. Paul N Silas says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 4:21 pm

    A. He left out Brigitte Gabriel
    B. He left out all of us
    C. Mr. Spencer should be honored to be on that list
    D. Whatever?, who cares what this dork says/thinks

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 7:26 pm

      Yes! Brigitte Gabriel is a real warrior against Islam; she can’t even use her own name.

  18. DJ says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 5:01 pm

    Commuting to work on the London Underground on 7/7 made me start to read and understand Islam.I didn’t even hear a bomb.
    That was the primary cause of my antipathy to Islam.
    Everything since than has been education for which I thank the above quoted authors.

  19. mortimer says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 5:10 pm

    WONDERFUL CONCLUSION, Reza !! Just stop talking about the problems within Islam and then everyone will LOVE ISLAM!!!

    The things about Islam that you should stop talking about are the following: 1 No Golden Rule 2 No free speech 3 No democracy 4 Jihad – holy war of supremacism 5 Honour killings 6 Taqiyya – sacred lying 7 Taqlid – group think 8 Circular reasoning 9 Misogyny – repression of women 10 Rape of kafirs as jihad prizes 11 Genocide 12 Ethnic cleansing 13 Al-Walaa wal-Baraa – Islamic apartheid 14 Torture 15 Plundering 16 Cruel and unusual punishments 16 Backwardness – stagnation 17 Violence against women 18 Slavery 19 Discriminatory Sharia law 20 Hatred of the arts 21 No music 22 Pedophilia disguised as child marriage 23 Fifty generations of cousin marriage and genetic defects 24 Cruelty to animals 25 Extortion tax to humiliate disbelievers 26 No historic basis 27 Anti-intellectual obscurantism 28 FGM 29 Arab racism 30 Theocratic totalitarianism 31 Vigilantism 32 Amoral, opportunistic character of Mohammed that all Muslims must imitate.

    (sarc/off)

  20. Ali Bey says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 5:38 pm

    When somebody is stupid, ignorant, disgusting and above all cynical, is a waste of time to argue with him or comment about. Best is ignore him completely.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 7:34 pm

      When someone is evil, we had best do way more than ignore him completely. We should have learned that from World War II, if we were ignorant enough not to know it before then.

  21. David, Thailand says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    “radical Islam in the problem; moderate Islam is the solution.” – Pipes

    Pipes makes a mockery of his own position by clinging to the lethal pc narrative that Islam is a religion of peace being hijacked by extremists and radicals.

    An increasing number of so-called ‘counter-jihadists’ excuse themselves by echoing this very mantra, which lends credence to the lie that has become the truth through repetition.

    Pipes should reflect on Geert Wilders, an honest man that would sacrifice himself rather than compromise his position, even though this has twice placed him in docks owned by corrupt leaders, that “There may be moderate Muslims but there is no moderate Islam.”

    • peter says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 10:04 pm

      I do not have much respect for Pipes . I think he is just an opportunist!

  22. Sam says

    Mar 12, 2017 at 9:33 pm

    How can anyone who is so much foreign to truth getaway with so much vicious lies? Are majority of Americans so stupid to believe what Reza says about religion, Islam and freedom fighters like Pam and Robert? I guess I know the answer to my question.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 7:36 pm

      Some of our public schools are teaching 3-week courses lauding Islam, and forcing non-Muslim children to answer to Muslim names, wear Muslim clothing, and recite the Islamic version of the Apostle’s Creed every day.

      Oh, and the textbooks are donated by Saudi Arabia – surprise, surprise!

  23. Brett_McS says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 5:31 am

    On Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio it was suggested that it be spelled Islamofauxbia.

  24. Brennan Kingsland says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 7:37 am

    There is no such thing as Islamophobia! There IS however Islamorealism…the knowledge of the real truth about Islam!

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 7:44 pm

      A phobia is an illogical fear, and how is it illogical to fear 1.7 billion people who regularly crank out latter-day Charles Mansons?

  25. Eric Allen Bell says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 7:45 am

    Reza Aslan Comes Out As TRANSGENDER – Muslim CNN Celebrity
    https://ericallenbell.com/2017/03/13/reza-aslan-comes-out-as-transgender-muslim-cnn-celebrity/

    • Robert says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 10:55 am

      Thanks for your expose on Reza Aslan. I’m so proud of her.

      She’s an inspiration to all reasonable, fact-based, liberty-loving people who simply want to live the ultimate dream as a transgender apostate from the religion of peace. She’ll do fantastic things for humanity in her new persona as an Iranian-American she-man in a floral dress.

      What could go wrong?

  26. More Ham Ed says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 8:13 am

    The left & jihadis both want to control speech and control thoughts.

    If you disagree, you have a “phobia” of some kind.

    He won’t confront islamorealism:

    30450 deadly documented ISLAMIC terror attacks since 9/11.

    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com

  27. FYI says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 9:16 am

    The Cannibal lectures…

    To silence the infidel lambs

  28. TheBuffster says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 10:40 am

    It’s not just all the terrorists that have made me (rightfully) afraid of Islam. Reading the Koran hugely influenced my fear. And then reading many of the “reliable” Bukhari hadiths topped it off. Scary stuff! That Mohammad dude wants people like me dead! Or at the very best, he wants me subjugated, with my life depending on whether I willingly live by restrictive rules imposed by Islam on unbelievers.

    It’s also the attempts Muslims have made to get our Western governments to outlaw criticism of Mohammad and Islam. Threats to freedom of speech are an attack on the most important pillar of liberty. So those threats frighten me a lot.

    It’s also that kid who leaned over as I passed him on the stairs at the airport and with total contempt in his manner and voice, called me a name in a language I didn’t understand. Since his mother was dressed all in black from head to toe, even to wearing long black gloves on a hot summer day, I figured he was calling me a “whore” – me with my bare arms and legs and a V-neck dress.

    It’s also the four African teens from the housing project in our neighborhood who called my husband and I “pigs” and yelled at my husband “We’re going to f**k your wife!”

    It’s also the Muslim man (his wife was in hijab) who pushed his way in front of a friend of mine in line at at Target, and when she stood up for herself he said to her in an authoritarian tone “Where is your husband?” as if she had no authority to talk to him that way. (She had the clerk call security.)

    If I’d never heard of Spencer or Geller or Gaffney or Pipes, I’d still have plenty from the above sources and from the terrorism all over the world and the threats of the likes of the late Ayatollah Khomeini to make me afraid to have the place I live flooded with Muslims.

    I go to people like Robert Spencer and the rest to experience the comfort of knowing that there are people who know about Islam who are leading other people to read the sources and get informed.

    Reza Aslan is an apologist for an evil book that’s full of hatred of those who don’t buy what it’s peddling. He has to smear good people who have done their homework and who tell it like it is.

  29. Jan Aage Jeppesen says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 11:16 am

    Pipes never made such a claim and, far from encouraging fear of Muslims, has consistently proclaimed “radical Islam in (is – sic!) the problem; moderate Islam is the solution.” (Robert Spencer).

    Pipes did make such an absurd claim and was rebutted by historian Bat Ye’or in an interview from 2005:

    “Question: Daniel Pipes’ slogan is “Fundamentalist Islam is the enemy; moderate Islam is the solution.” But do you think there is hope for change?

    Answer: I know moderate and brilliant Muslims, but I do not know of a school of thought, represented by teaching and publications, followed by millions of Muslims, called “moderate Islam.”

    Everyone hopes for a change, including Muslims. I never say “never.”

    But I think that changes will emerge if we start discussing these issues instead of hiding them under the carpet, and if we take measures to protect ourselves and become aware of language manipulation, like, for instance, pretending that jihad means peace and justice.

    We should also support secular and modernist Muslims who are also targeted and hope desperately for our help and encouragement.”

    Bat Ye’or is among those scholars accused of “islamophobia”. This question is also raised in the interview and Bat Ye’or`s answer is still worth quoting:

    “Question: It seems that those who stand up to tyranny in the Muslim world are often attacked as “insulting Islam.” Are you threatened for your views?

    Answer: Allegedly I am an “Islamophobe” just because I mention historical realities. Muslims are accustomed to an Islamic version of history in which infidels are the cause of all evils. A critical interpretation by non-Muslims is rejected as Islamophobic. Only this Islamic version exists in Muslim countries, hence, Muslim immigrants in the West are scandalized to hear a Christian, Jewish, Hindu or other version of their history, from their victim point of view, and they try to impose in the West the criteria of the Islamic version – in other words, to condition the West in thinking that jihad and dhimmitude mean peace and justice.

    We are now living in a time of jihad. Except for Turkey, the Muslim world has not developed another type of relationship with the non-Muslim world. In general, it relates to Jews, Christians, Hindus and others as infidels. And even if it is not said, this is proven by their laws, their interpretation of history, their policies, the declarations of illustrious clerics, the nearly unanimous admiration for bin Laden and the execration of the West. Their elite does not want to envisage other interpretations of their scriptures.

    Now there is also a peaceful jihad – which will engulf the West, like it has done in Europe, with the help of the elite, the politicians, the intellectuals. Or we shall suffer from a terrorist jihad if we refuse to submit and insist on maintaining our values. The West isn’t prepared because it doesn’t understand jihad.”

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 7:47 pm

      If the West really doesn’t understand jihad, it’s only because it’s full of lazy people.

      It only takes a few minutes to understand jihad in the age of the internet.

  30. Elizabeth Lawson says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 11:35 am

    This fellow Reza, must be commended for his having chosen just the discipline for which he is eminently qualified – creative writing. I hasten to add though, that when he applies his ‘skills’ to writing of historical events, he is required to abandon his flights of fancy, to absolute historical, and accurate facts – which he clearly appears ill equipped to do. For example, and discounting the ” fond memoirs of an Islamist” perhaps he has forgotten – if he ever knew, that bloodthirsty racist, Mohammed, slaughtered roughly 600 million Hindus in a number of his incursions into India? Current conduct of Muslims not excepted, it is very clear that they hew to a line of history that best suits them. Not for them accurate historical accounts of their savagery across the world. Oh no, THEY were the victims. The western world, which insists upon hosting ideologues like Reza, must either insist that they desist from preaching nonsense to the gullible, or go back to the land of the illiterate, where every man jack has a hatchet at the ready to avenge a real or imagined slight. Enough of this tripe. I might add that I would have serious objections to any person of my acquaintance attending his Creative Writing classes. The man has quite simply, shown a poor grasp of the .English language.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 7:50 pm

      American Thinker has an article stating that the number of people murdered by Muslims since Mohammed’s time is around 270 million.

      If they are responsible for 600 million murders in India, then the total must be much higher, possibly approaching a billion.

      I’d be very interested to read up on this – can you point me to a particular source?

      Thanks, Jeanette

  31. TheOldOligarch says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 3:45 pm

    Am I to take it that adding ‘Cannibal’ to the front of Reza Aslan’s name whenever he is mentioned is going to become another of Robert’s fine traditions along with the likes of ‘Hamas linked’ CAIR?

    It should.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 7:51 pm

      Actually, cannibalism has been noted lately in the middle east; perhaps we should say “Cannibalistic Islam.”

  32. Jeanette says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 7:42 pm

    Maybe they are the surviving descendants of the Nephilim; that would explain why they can seem so inhuman.

  33. Raj Ambardar says

    Mar 17, 2017 at 7:05 am

    This is the trick, keep blaming others and never take responsibilities of any kind.
    He is using “Takhiya” an Islamic word meaning you can lie and deceit an infidel if it advance interest of Islam and Iranian Shia Islam is forefront on this, Reza Islam Iranian too. He is on the mission.

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