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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: CNN’s Reza Aslan Losing Fight to Make ‘Islamophobia’ Happen

Mar 14, 2017 7:12 pm By Robert Spencer

The Islam (and cannibalism!) apologist slams me, but avoids debate. My latest in PJ Media:

Rather than feeling invigorated by his recent meal of human brain, Leftist media darling Reza Aslan appears to be a bit down in the dumps.

Recently he spoke at the University of Pennsylvania, where he railed against a handful of “clowns” and “fringe figures” who, despite their idiocy, have managed to create a prevailing climate of “Islamophobia” against Muslims in the United States. According to the Daily Caller, Aslan spoke to a crowd of around 750 people, including many who show that his message is treated on campus with the utmost respect. In attendance:

[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 claimed, according to Gregg Roman in the Caller, that “Islamophobia” as a phenomenon is only three years old: “a few fringe groups, or ‘clowns’ as he put it, supposedly created it in 2014.”

“Islamophobia” was invented in 2014? Reza Aslan himself gave an extensive interview about “Islamophobia” in December 2010, but you know what they say about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

And Aslan’s mind — again, now fortified by eating human brain — is very large indeed. Large enough to admit that a rogue’s gallery of hacks and psychopaths have been able to hoodwink a huge segment of the American people into thinking there is something wrong with their entirely benign, sweet, friendly, cuddly Muslim neighbors.

These idiot masterminds, Roman noted:

… allegedly include authors Robert Spencer, whom Aslan charmingly called a “moron,” Pamela Geller, Frank Gaffney (a “wackjob!”), and Middle East Forum president Daniel Pipes. … 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.”

Well, a group of four “clowns,” including a “moron” and a “wackjob,” who are also evil “hate group leaders” have — despite our comically bumbling idiocy and manifest malevolence — been able to make “Islamophobia” a large enough problem that it requires Reza Aslan to spend all his time fighting it.

How could my henchmen and I have managed to pull this off, as moronic and mean-spirited as we are?

Why is it that Aslan, with his CNN platform and the adulation of the entire media establishment, has been unable to prevent this sudden three-year spread of “Islamophobia” across the land? Why has he not been able to outwit and out-charm us?

In reality, Aslan’s speech was an admission of defeat.

Aslan represents — in the eyes of the establishment media — everything that is good and true. He may be (in his eyes) brilliant and (in his eyes) handsome. He is also inarguably Muslim and Leftist. He hates and ridicules Trump. He heaps scorn on all the right people (i.e., anyone to his right). He refuses to engage us intellectually in discussion or debate, because he knows in his heart of hearts that we are beneath contempt.

And yet, for all his pride in being the voice of reason against our sinister “Islamophobic” forces, he has failed, and he knows it.

There is, of course, a very good reason why he has failed, and it really doesn’t mean that Aslan himself is any less dazzling than he thinks he is. He has failed because the real originators of “Islamophobia” in the U.S. are not Geller, Gaffney, Pipes, and me. They are 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 “Islamophobia” roadshow is a cynical and disingenuous attempt to divert attention away from the reality of jihad terror. And that’s why he is doomed to fail and fail again while those he vilifies as “clowns” and “wackjobs” just keep on being proven right….

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  1. David Wood says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 7:18 pm

    Never trust a cannibal:

    • No Fear says

      Mar 14, 2017 at 9:55 pm

      LOL ….. love your work David Wood.

      • Bijender says

        Mar 15, 2017 at 1:26 pm

        correctly define for this hater and racist Reza – Aslan’s “Islamophobia” roadshow is a cynical and disingenuous attempt to divert attention away from the reality of jihad terror

  2. WTF is wrong with people says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 8:13 pm

    “Whackjob” “Clown” and “Moron” says the guy chowing down on human brains….

    • HH says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 12:43 am

      He ate a spoonful of ashes. It could be dog shit or pig crap

  3. Guest says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 8:34 pm

    … HE ATE HUMAN BRAINS!!!

    • Frank Scarn says

      Mar 14, 2017 at 10:06 pm

      And despite that, he still doesn’t have one.

  4. mortimer says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 8:44 pm

    If the top counterjihad debaters (such as Robert Spencer) are considered ‘clowns’ by Reza Aslan, he will have no objection to SHOW EVERYONE how CLEVER he is by comparison by actually DEBATING ROBERT SPENCER or David Wood. But he will not… since Aslan is a light-weight with little knowledge of the jihad doctrine or even Islam in general.

    After Reza Aslan has debated Robert Spencer we will see WHETHER OR NOT he has any SUBSTANCE or if it is all empty FLUFF.

    Reza Aslan has shown no particular specialized knowledge of Islam or the jihad doctrine up until now. He won’t in future, because he is concentrating making AD HOMINEM INSULTS to people and other faiths, rather than defend Islamic doctrines, such as WIFE-BEATING or POLITICAL ASSASSINATION.

    Aslan would quickly lose a debate about any Islamic doctrine with the top counterjihad debaters… he certainly knows that.

    Aslan is clearly a fraud. His students must all realize his self-promotion is mere FLUFF.

  5. Voytek Gagalka says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 9:04 pm

    This happens always when one resorts to cannibalism: brain tissue consumed as a “food” seems to gain heavily devastating influence on the brain of a cannibal and his capacity to reason. Subsequently, intellectual decadence is an unavoidable result.

  6. STJOHNOFGRAFTON says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 9:13 pm

    Reza Aslan might have contracted Creutzfeld-Jacob disease as a result of his human brain eating stunt.

    • FYI says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 7:33 am

      It might develop into a new disease….

      Islamophrenia

      Symptoms include delusional behavior,cannibalism,denial of reality,Intellectual deficiencies revealed in fragmented thought patterns(word salad),screaming “allahu akbar” in public,violent assaults on people who they imagine are demons which they call “infidels”,Cartoonophobia,Irony deficiency(as when they say”islam is the religion of peace,islam respects Gays and Atheists..and then violently demonstrate the opposite.),Camel Urine drinking(inspired by an actual teaching of their “prophet”),constant lying which they call Taqqiya,Strong tendencies to commit murder inspired by the teachings of their god allah in the koran…and “many,many more”…

      • Jose Luis says

        Mar 17, 2017 at 2:00 am

        Taqqiya is not only lying, the real meaning of taqqiya is to lie purposely to deceit the infidels, and make them (unbelievers) believe that he (Muslim) is your friend. It is taught in the Quran as a mean of defense against infidels for as long as the believer (Muslims) are the minority, but once they are the majority, taqqiya is OFF and the real Islam comes in.

  7. Dry Academy says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 9:16 pm

    Perhaps Little Reza is looking to start a new career as an extra on “The Walking Dead”.

  8. Westman says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 9:29 pm

    While the agenda-media keeps us busy with the “what” of Islamic aggression, Jihad Watch explains the “why” by using Islam’s own official ideology from its own sources.

    Aslan is preaching to the agenda-choir and the curious. When CAIR touts him as their Poster Boy, we’ll know their end is near.

  9. No Fear says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 9:53 pm

    If you are not Islamophobic then you are not paying attention.

  10. Diane Harvey says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 10:04 pm

    Reza, “Hey, look, a squirrel!”

    Of course, if Reza, in his fetid & pathetic attempts to distract us all from Muslim jihad, actually saw a squirrel, he might be inclined to eat it.

  11. Oliver says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 11:39 pm

    Once
    Years ago
    I was driving an acquaintance somewhere
    We saw one of our mutual acquaintances
    His friend. O knew the man and his wife slightly from business.

    They invited us to join them in a mixed meat bbq
    Road kill and raccoon.

    I passed
    Had some Scotch instead

    But some people will it appears eat anything.

    • Oliver says

      Mar 14, 2017 at 11:43 pm

      Even parts of dead people

      I guess if necrophilia is allowed why mot cannibalism

  12. Pandit Technology says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 11:40 pm

    ‘Islamophobia’ is the phobia that thinking, rational non-muslims have, AFTER coming in contact with Islamic traditions of treatment of Kaafirs and women (including Muslim) and children and animals. I believe that it is as old as Islam itself. India is the only nation which experienced these Islamic barbarians for 1400 yrs and has survived so far. It is the only break to their Green Crescent , spanning countries from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean. And in India, we are well aware of the nature of Islam and the least offensive English word is Islamophobia. There are words in the local languages for Islam and it’s founder, which are far more offensive. But I digress, I mean there are reasons, centuries of history and most importantly present and their view of the future. So give solid reasons to not have a phobia for Islam, rather than lightly claiming it to be a recent phenomenon and benign nature.

  13. Dry Academy says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 11:41 pm

    So let me get this straight: tasty pork products like bacon, sausage, and glazed ham are forbidden by Reza’s religion but it’s okay to eat charred human brains?
    Yeah, that makes perfect sense.

  14. August West says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 4:31 am

    Its amazing that Islamophobia can be carbon dated to 2014.

    If felt the same about Islam in 2013 as I did in 2015, 2017 and 2017

    I guess what I have must not be Islamophobia then.

  15. Imnokuffar says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 4:39 am

    The best response should be no response as this creature is beneath contempt.

    However it is impossible not to respond to him and his ilk for precisely this reason.

    Roberts responses are always well honed and undermine the credentials of people like this (as are the majority respondents to his commentaries).

    On the latter point I have many a good laugh at some of the more barbed comments !!!!!!!!

    Apart from anything else this creature eats human brains to prove something.

    What I do not know.

    Can someone enlighten me?

  16. August West says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 4:41 am

    Since when is what is reported on CNN true?

    The fact that a CNN show is depicting Aslan as eating brains is in and itself proof that he did not eat brains on that particular occasion.

    You have heard of fake news…. well this is fake brains.

  17. al-Kidya says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 5:42 am

    BRAINS!
    Reza Aslan is just one of the representatives of a failing fake Communist News Network.
    I believe the only thing that keeps CNN going is subscriptions from a leftist audience and millions in cash from the Muslim Brotherhood and certain Saudi Princes.

  18. SweetOlBob says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 6:20 am

    Islamophobia Is a made up term to describe any person or group of persons who are smart enough to see through the bullsh*t about islam being a religion of peace.
    The term was then waved in front of our Manure Stream Media, who immediately adopted it because it make them seem to be intelligent.
    The term is also used freely by propagandists and college age squats for the same reason.

  19. Anna says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 9:25 am

    The leftist Muslim ( oxymoron?) Reza was threatened with beheading? Oh dear……

  20. Angemon says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 11:49 am

    Isn’t eating pork, long or otherwise, haram?

  21. Celtic says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 11:55 am

    Yeah – eating feecies and human reamins has a lot to do with spirituality – not.
    It is just barbaric and totally wicked and sick. No wonder that a leftist would participate in such a Thing in order to prove how “open minded” he is.

    What a sick guy..

  22. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    KURU luro luru, KURO luru LIE!

    😉

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