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Robert Spencer heading to Iceland, Left-fascists in uproar

May 2, 2017 3:42 pm By Robert Spencer

I am set to speak in Iceland on May 11, and they have Left-fascists enemies of the freedom of speech and enablers of jihad terrorism there, too. This smear piece in the marvelously titled Reykjavik Grapevine uncritically retails all the usual ingredients of the American Left’s defamation playbook on me, with of course no rebuttal or opposing view from anyone, and unsurprisingly, Paul Fontaine made no effort to contact me for comment. His hit piece does include a few twists that may mark a new low for the Grapevine’s journalistic credibility: he confuses me with neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, and drags in Jihad Watch writer Christine Williams, who is also set to speak, making gratuitous claims about her writing that of course he doesn’t substantiate, because he cannot substantiate them.

Christine sent me her own comments on the piece:

My position on Jihad Watch is to highlight the danger of Islamofascism and it has always been. In one of my earliest articles for Jihad Watch, I explain my motivations: “Christine Williams: I Was Challenged: Why Write About Jihadists and Muslim Migrant Crimes?”

Every news story discussed on Jihad Watch proves how alarming the Islamofascist agenda is. Every single day, news across the globe, proving the size of the threat to Western freedoms, to democracy.

Islamic supremacists and jihadists have beaten the West into submission, into fear, into believing a lie; to the point that their absurd falsehoods are widely accepted as truth. The sloppiness of their approach is on full display in the Reykjavik Grapevine article: they repeat common accusations about Robert Spencer that are patently false, and now about me because I write for Jihad Watch.

A little about me, outside of my work with Jihad Watch: my work encompasses a broad spectrum of people from all faiths, including democracy-supporting Muslims. I am a six-time award-winning broadcast journalist who – among other shows – hosted and produced a daily, live call-in program that was balanced. A balanced program in Canada means that it must be CRTC- compliant (CRTC is the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission.) I am also a federal appointee, an advisor to the Council of Muslims Facing tomorrow, a former appointee to the Office of Religious Freedoms, the President of the Canadian Caribbean Multicultural Association, and have worked in many areas that promote the unity of a diverse, democratic society. Also, I have written a book that will be released in July by Encounter Books: The Challenge of Modernizing Islam; it includes warnings about the Islamic supremacist strategies that are being employed today, and about groups such as CAIR and their leftist water carriers.

None of my affiliations and work points to my being anti-Muslim, but in my work I tell the truth about the real Islamofascist threat to unity, democracy and freedom, which far too many Westerners have taken for granted. However, the slipshod article written by Paul Fontaine states: “Williams, who has written extensively for JihadWatch, carries much the same message as Spencer: that Islam is a dangerous religion which must be wiped out.”

He drags me in without doing his homework: this is a patently false claim, and Fontaine doesn’t provide any quotation from Jihad Watch to substantiate it. He can’t, because we have never said such things.

This article is an example of the Islamophobia ploy that has seized Canada. Six major cities have signed on to Islamophobia charters, there are Islamophobia hotlines, and an anti-Islamophobia motion M-103 that passed in parliament is duping Canadians into believing a big lie.

These anti-islamophobia drives are forced upon Canadians by groups linked to terrorism such as the NCCM (formerly CAIR-CAN). It is a global strategy pushed by the powerful OIC to demonize anyone who opposes the Sharia agenda, a clearly defined agenda to overtake the House of War that was revealed during the Holy Land Foundation Trial. Sadly, leftists have aided this agenda to destroy Western freedoms, and others have gone along to get along. The Reykjavik Grapevine is among these dupes.

As for me, I’ve answered these charges a thousand times. “Journalists” such as Paul Fontaine never see fit to include my rebuttals. Here goes yet again, briefly: the very concept of “Islamophobia” was invented in order to intimidate people into thinking it wrong to oppose jihad terror. The Southern Poverty Law Center is a far-Left group, not a neutral observer, and it uses its “hate group” list to demonize those whose political views it opposes, by lumping them in with the likes of the KKK and neo-Nazis. I am not a neo-Nazi myself, and note that Fontaine’s link below purportedly showing that I am goes to a story about Richard Spencer, not Robert Spencer. I am not now, and have never been, Richard Spencer. Breivik was a madman who quoted a great many people, including Barack Obama; he also did not hold to my views, but counseled collaboration with Hamas and al-Qaeda. Even if he did, if every point of view were discredited by violence done in its name, Islam and Marxism would be first in line. I was banned from Britain, according to the Home Office’s letter to me, for saying that Islam has doctrines of violence, which is like banning me for saying water is wet. Meanwhile, Britain has admitted many jihadis, illustrating that its banning policy is not based on sound principles.

Anyway, Ms. Williams and I will be heading to Iceland next week, unless the Left-fascists prevail and get us canceled. Either way, the jihad about which I intend to speak there will continue. After next week, people in Reykjavik will either be better informed about its nature and magnitude, or full of the Grapevine’s defamatory and incorrect jihad-enabling propaganda.

“Known Islamophobe To Hold Conference At Grand Hotel, Protest Likely,” by Paul Fontaine, Reykjavik Grapevine, May 2, 2017:

Vakur, a group claiming to be dedicated to “European culture” but seem to be more about Islamophobia and general hatred of foreigners, announced that they are hosting an event at Grand Hótel called “Everything you wanted to know about Islam but were afraid to ask” on May 11. The speakers at this event are scheduled to be Robert Spencer and Christine Williams.

For the unfamiliar, Spencer is the man behind the Islamophobic blog JihadWatch and the co-founder of Stop Islamization of America. The Southern Law Poverty Center has identified Spencer as a purveyor of hate speech and racism, and his sympathies for Neo-Nazism have been well documented. The writings of Spencer were also greatly admired by Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik.

In fact, Spencer was denied entry to the UK in 2013, on the grounds that his presence “is not conducive to the public good”, as the Home Office put it, adding “We condemn all those whose behaviours and views run counter to our shared values and will not stand for extremism in any form.” Williams, who has written extensively for JihadWatch, carries much the same message as Spencer: that Islam is a dangerous religion which must be wiped out.

We called Grand Hotel to ask if they were aware of who Spencer and Williams were and, if they were, how they justified allowing the conference; and if they weren’t, what they intend to do about it.

Salvör Lilja Brandsdóttir, the General Manager of Grand Hotel, told us, “We generally do not ask our guests who hire conference spaces what the conference will be about or who will be speaking. It is also not up to us to decide who speaks at a conference or to judge the subject matter,” adding, “Regarding this particular case, I need to familiarise myself with it better to comment on it.”

Óskar Steinn Ómarsson, the secretary of the Social Democrats who wrote about the matter on Medium, is concerned about the development, and believes the conference should be protested.

“It worries me that an organisation has flown in a man who is globally known for spreading hate speech against Muslims,” he told us. “I don’t agree that he should be banned from coming to Iceland, but I hope this conference will be met with a powerful protest outside of Grand Hotel.”

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  1. mortimer says

    May 2, 2017 at 4:11 pm

    A group that presumably supports European culture refuses to discuss JIHAD-WARFARE against disbelievers?

    A group that opposes discussing an IDEOLOGY that produces 4.5 DEADLY JIHAD ATTACKS EVERY DAY, a deadly attack every 6 hours?

    How does European culture include the JIHAD-WARFARE whose object is to annihilate European culture, European Christians and Europeans in general?

    NOT TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST JIHAD-TERRORISM is to ACCEPT IT… to have no MORAL OBJECTION to it … to be COMPLICIT WITH THE SLAUGHTER OF PEOPLE and DESTRUCTION OF CULTURE by jihadists.

  2. mortimer says

    May 2, 2017 at 4:25 pm

    Óskar Steinn Ómarsson has no objection to the 30,000 or more JIHAD TERROR attacks every year.

    Óskar Steinn Ómarsson gives silent approval to JIHAD TERRORISM.

    • Jeanette says

      May 3, 2017 at 6:42 pm

      Probably more effective to say: Oskar Steinn Omarsson approves of Muslim rapes, murders, tortures, kidnappings, and mutilations.

      And “Omarsson” looks suspiciously like an altered version of “Omar”!

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        May 3, 2017 at 8:38 pm

        Yes, I had seen that too. “Omarsson”. It reads as “Son of Omar”. That suggests to me that this bloke is the result of a spot of ‘marriage jihad’: i.e. that a Muslim called ‘Omar” managed to sucker a native Islandic woman into having his child.

        ‘Surnames’ in Iceland are patronyms – a person is known as “son of [Father’s first name]’ or “Daughter of [Father’s first name]”. Thus, a woman whose father was called “Fred” would be “Sally, Fred’s Daughter” and a man whose father was Joseph would be “Bill, Joseph’s son”.

        And a man whose father was called “OMar” (which is DEFINITELY NOT a native Icelandic traditional name) would be “so-and-so, Omar’s son”.

        • Björgvin Brynjarsson says

          May 3, 2017 at 9:28 pm

          ómar is actually a very common name in iceland we write it like this: Ómar. there is a difference between Omar and Ómar.
          therefore It says nothing about if his father was muslim or not.
          Everything is going crazy in iceland about this man speaking but i think they should let robert say whatever he wants. No one should be banned from speaking.

        • EInar says

          May 6, 2017 at 8:38 am

          Here are graphs that show how common the name Ómar has been in Iceland since 1950. You can see it was more popular in the past than it is now.
          https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93mar

          You are correct that the name does not have Icelandic roots, it only entered the Icelandic language in the early 20th century. The first Icelander to carry the name was born in 1913. The name appears in the Bible, which is my guess as to how at came to be used here, since there are many other Bible derived names here.

  3. Shmooviyet says

    May 2, 2017 at 5:01 pm

    Marvelously titled, indeed. The grapevine, where sleazy gossip items ripen into “fact”. One old crone gets a tidbit from another; it’s passed from window to window getting fatter and juicier with each retelling.

    Have to laugh at that incredibly stupid intro in the title: “Known Islamophobe…”

  4. gerard says

    May 2, 2017 at 5:20 pm

    Robert don’t forget to pack a bottle of Holy Water.

  5. Terry says

    May 2, 2017 at 5:29 pm

    Re: Anders Breivik.

    The ‘ group’ where he shot the “children’ (teens) was a pro-Palestinian group, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic. (Norway, incidentally, has a long history of anti-Antisemitism). He said (something like) against Muslims coming into Norway.

    however, while he was in prison (shortly after he was arrested) he claimed that he is PRO-MUSLIMS, ANTI-JEWS AND ISRAEL. (I don’t have the exact wording, nor the article). And, as mentioned, he quoted terrorist groups.

    Strange person to be associated with, if anti-jihad.

    • gravenimage says

      May 2, 2017 at 7:18 pm

      Terry, at the time Breivik said that he admired Al Qaida and would ally with Jihadists against this own people. He has not really changed.

  6. Terry says

    May 2, 2017 at 5:38 pm

    During the financial meltdown, Iceland- which TRIED TO BECOME AN ECONOMIC/FINANCIAL POWERHOUSE- COLLAPSED.

    The economy collapsed, and the bankers were jailed. Not so the politicians who pushed the bankers into making risky loans, and expanding into unfamiliar territories. (I agree that the bankers deserved-some of them, probably, anyhow, but the politicians got off free).

    During their next election for (not sure for what office-if for the presidency or prime minster position, or a-using US terms-governorship or mayor of a large city) one candidate ran on a single issue; BRING JEWS TO ICELAND- THEY KNOW HOW TO RUN A BUSINESS, AND MAKE MONEY.

    (postscript- the man won; went to New York City, found a Jewish businesswoman who spoke Icelandic (?) and was convinced to move to Iceland to help the government. Do not know the outcome).

    ————————————————

    back-Iceland is basically a sea based (fishing) economy, and not an important economic country.

    I am surprised, however, that they seem to be pro-Islamic. or, at least their newspaper is (or seems to be).

    • gravenimage says

      May 2, 2017 at 7:21 pm

      They are “politically correct”. like most Scandinavian countries. So far, Iceland has had little trouble with Muslims, but that could change if more come in.

      • Björgvin Brynjarsson says

        May 3, 2017 at 9:39 pm

        I am icelandic and no we are not all politically correct. Grapevine is a gossip magazine and they are biased. There is for example a radio show called Harmageddon and they took an interview with this Óskar Ómarson questioning him why he wants to stop robert from speaking and trying to inform him why he has the right to speak and that no protest is required.
        there is currently a big fight on chat groups in iceland right now where people are fighting for both sides of this matter.

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          May 4, 2017 at 12:30 am

          It’s good to hear that resistance to Islamisation exists and is building in Iceland.

          Keep on keeping on ! Wake your people up!

          You are surrounded by long kilometres of open ocean; unlike many less fortunate countries, the only way mohammedans can get to your shores illegally is by a *very* long voyage over dangerous and icy-cold waters.

          So it should be easy enough for you to keep them out, once you put your minds to it.

    • Jeanette says

      May 3, 2017 at 6:45 pm

      Odd for a culture that was so genetically pure that not that long ago they were used for studies of genetics.

      Boy, will their genetics be degraded if they let the Muslims infest Iceland.

  7. Wellington says

    May 2, 2017 at 6:42 pm

    Well, one of many things that the modern Western Left and Islam have in common is that they traffic in lies. In fact, two finer representatives of mendacity would be harder to find in all of history than the modern Western Left and Islam.

    There would be other “contenders” of course, like Nazism of old, the KKK from its inception onwards, the Aryan Nation, the Socialist Workers Party (just a sub-feature of the monumental error which is Western Leftism), certainly Marxism too from Marx and Engels onwards——–but Islam from its inception in the seventh century, and the Western Left since it began to debase modern liberalism in the 1960s, are “sterling” representatives here, whether in Iceland or wherever.

    All who cherish liberty should despise Islam. The modern Western Left too. Those arguing otherwise are at best ignorant, at worst something far worse.

    • gravenimage says

      May 2, 2017 at 7:26 pm

      All true, Wellington.

  8. jewdog says

    May 2, 2017 at 6:50 pm

    I think Robert is going to get an icy reception there. Just don’t turn up the heat or their brains will run out their ears.

  9. Ciudadano says

    May 2, 2017 at 6:52 pm

    OFF TOPIC

    I wonder why JW pays little attention to jihad in Spain. A lot seems to be going on in that country.

    Many jihad-related police raids in Spain in the last couple of weeks.

    That latest: “Qatar wants a great mosque in the bullring in Barcelona” (http://tinyurl.com/mscx9m2).

    Qatar Airlines already owns famous Barcelona Football Club. Barcelona is located in the Catalan region of Spain that before “La Reconquista” was ruled by Islam (Al-Andaduz). I wonder if petrodollars from islamic countries are behind Catalan region secession movement from Spain.

    • gravenimage says

      May 2, 2017 at 7:29 pm

      Ciudadano, Jihad Watch does cover stories in Spain.

      If you have specific stories you want to draw attention to, use the “Contact Us” box on the right-hand or bottom of your screen.

    • TL says

      May 2, 2017 at 7:46 pm

      Take a look at “Los miembros de la asociación Nous Catalans”.

      Estos son los ‘Nous Catalans’ que impulsan el proceso de independencia
      https://okdiario.com/investigacion/2016/08/07/estos-son-nous-catalans-que-impulsan-proceso-independencia-307462

  10. Boston Tea Party says

    May 2, 2017 at 6:55 pm

    I don’t mean to belittle the indignity that Robert is subjected to in these unfair attacks, but I do have to chuckle at how things often transpire. These far-left radicals work themselves into a frenzy with their hyperbolic demonization of Robert—and so they convince themselves to expect some unhinged, foaming-at-the mouth ignoramus who spouts his own crazy take on Islam. Then if they actually see him speak, they’re hit with the shock of reality: that Robert is actually a sober, articulate, mild-mannered Classical Liberal intellectual who quotes almost exclusively from mainstream, widely-accepted and respected Islamic sources. That’s generally NOT what they were looking for. 🙂

    • Boston Tea Party says

      May 2, 2017 at 7:50 pm

      Actually, I guess I spoke to soon. I’ve seen Robert speak in person a couple times in the Boston area, but they were “friendly” venues where the crowd listened politely. I just saw the piece about the university at Buffalo, and it wasn’t so friendly.

      I was a far-left liberal in my college days, but I think that I WAS at least taught to examine positions on their own merits—which is why I eventually came to see that Robert was on the rational, logical, morally correct side of the issue. I fear that American universities have changed drastically since I was there in the late 80’s.

  11. gravenimage says

    May 2, 2017 at 7:15 pm

    Robert Spencer heading to Iceland, Left-fascists in uproar
    …………………..

    Grotesque calumny.

    • Wellington says

      May 2, 2017 at 7:43 pm

      “Grotesque calumny.”

      Indeed, gravenimage. And true not only of modern Leftists but for modern Leftists’ “inspiration” of old———Islam itself.

      Yes, both excel at calumny, which I know you know, and which in and of itself bespeaks of how much truth resides within both of these thought systems.

      I say somewhere between “not much” to “none.” I’m personally inclined to go with “none.”

  12. God's Warrior says

    May 2, 2017 at 9:14 pm

    “Everything you wanted to know about Islam but were afraid to ask” on May 11. The speakers at this event are scheduled to be Robert Spencer and Christine Williams.
    *-*-*-*

    Sounds like the place to be in Iceland on the 11th.

    Nobody really believes the rumours about Islam, Jihad, ISIS. It’s not what they told us in school.

    But we see the news videos, maybe it’s time to find out.

    BTW, Iceland, the hate-speech will only be found in Mr. Spencer’s quotes from the scriptures, scriptures that have sponsored the murder/rape/slavery/robbery of millions upon millions upon millions since the seventh century.

  13. Keys says

    May 2, 2017 at 10:32 pm

    Iceland. Most who’ve been reading JW for awhile know that Muslims raided Iceland in the early 1600s for slaves.

    https://jddavies.com/2017/02/20/the-barbary-corsair-raid-on-iceland-1627/

    • Arnar Hreidarsson says

      May 3, 2017 at 8:28 am

      In partly correct. The raiders were captained by a Dutch pirate called Jan Janszoon Van Harlem who was employed by the Ottoman empire.
      Of course this was an horrible act but no less horrible than what the English, the French, the Spanish etc. did in Africa around the same time.

      • Keys says

        May 3, 2017 at 10:16 am

        Arnar, what part of my post is not correct in your opinion?
        The raiders were muslim. The link mentions the Dutch pirate captaining them.

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          May 3, 2017 at 6:27 pm

          If the Dutch pirate still identified as an Infidel he was a *traitor* – siding with Muslims, siding with the enemy of all of non-Muslim Europe.

          If he was a convert to Islam, ditto. He was no longer “Dutch’ in any meaningful sense of the word.

          Either way, the Muslims – the Allah Gang, the Mohammedan Mob – were making use of him, just as they are making use of the Useful Idiots and antifa and the rest, in modern Europe, today.

  14. Santa Voorhees says

    May 2, 2017 at 11:13 pm

    “The Southern Law Poverty Center has identified Spencer as a purveyor of hate speech and racism, and his sympathies for Neo-Nazism have been well documented.”

    Right, do not research yourself, just take their word for it.

  15. Robert says

    May 2, 2017 at 11:37 pm

    refugees are welcome in Europe and get all support from the society. But Jihadists are not welcome.,.. this is not islamophobia… this is a matter of applying and defending Human Rights: the fabric of any secular democratic society.

  16. Relic says

    May 3, 2017 at 1:28 am

  17. ibrahim itace Muhammed says

    May 3, 2017 at 5:14 am

    so Mr spencer you are taking your merchandise of lies and falsehood to Iceland after you realised that it has been failing in the United states?mr spencer you and your co_travellers are wicked in your mission to block muslims from the united states and other western nations.Remember your parents were immigrants.united state is land of immigrants.Even mr trump is the son of immigrants.the constitution of the united states this characteristic of the united states.mr trump was deceived to believe in such shallow and childish thinking like yours,but he now realising that such discriminatory action against muslims is impossible as it tantamounts to infraction of American constitution ;and in fact mr trump was successful challenged on that.Equally,mr spencer ,your mission of spread hatred against islam and muslims will fail wherever you go .Continue travelling with christine williams or even with a mad christian fanatic Mrs Graveimage,it will make no difference.idiots!!

    • duh swami says

      May 3, 2017 at 6:02 am

      You lie that Spencer lies…I been reading and posting here longer than anyone current, and longer than you have been alive, and I never caught him in a lie…
      Yer poison pen gives you away as less than genuine……I’m for banning Muslims and Islam from the US…whatcha think about hat Abu…

    • Michael Ray says

      May 3, 2017 at 8:44 am

      Mr. Spencer tells no lies and does not incite hatred. He reports honestly that the koran contains verses that incite violence against non-muslims. Do you deny the koran contains such verses?

      Mr. Spencer also reports that the koran and sunnah contain verses that advocate lying to non-muslims in order to advance the cause of islam. Do you deny such verses exist?

    • Jeanette says

      May 3, 2017 at 6:50 pm

      I repeat:

      You are wasting your time here; we are far too well informed to believe anything you say. You, on the other hand, likely read little other than the Satanic Koran.

      You might enjoy reading historic books on Ba’al and Moloch, though, since they are so similar to Allah.

      Meanwhile, go back to slitting the throats of goats and having relations with women genitally mutilated to imitate the sensation of sex with little boys.

  18. Arnar Hreidarsson says

    May 3, 2017 at 8:19 am

    I don’t really get your agenda. You live in the United States of America. The chances of you being a victim of an Islamic act of terrorism are remote compared to the chances of you being gunned down by your fellow christian American. They are even more remote to you being hit by a car or dying of cancer. It’s the same here in Iceland. The muslim population of Iceland is less than 1% and the most damage I can have from a muslim is if the guy at the corner shop won’t put enough sauce on my Kebab.
    I don’t like Islam, I think it’s ridiculous and a means of control rather than a religion. But the people that are suffering aren’t people in the U.S. or Iceland or even Europe. It’s the people that live in countries like Syria and Iran. These people need to be educated and they need to get rid of dictators and they need democracy. One of the greatest threats to these people comes from Saudi Arabia, where the oil fueled wealth is partly used to support extremism in the region. The Saudis are of course great friends of the USA. If these people would be deposed, then the soil of democracy would be fertilized.
    Think about this Mr. Spencer.

    • Robert Spencer says

      May 3, 2017 at 9:32 am

      Your claims are false: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/06/orlando-jihad-massacre-explodes-widely-touted-study-claiming-right-wingers-bigger-threat-than-jihadis

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 3, 2017 at 6:31 pm

      Arnard (IF you are an Icelander; you might be someone else pretending to be an Icelander)

      you wrote – “the muslim population of Iceland is less than 1% and the most damage I can have from a muslim is if the guy at the corner shop won’t put enough sauce on my Kebab…”.

      The *reason* why you don’t need to fear being killed by a Jihadist, right now, is right there in the first part of your sentence – “the muslim population of iceland is **less than one percent**”.

      Keep it at less than one percent – and, frankly, you’d be even better off it were ZERO – why does Iceland need Muslims, specifically, rather than anything else??? – and the risk will remain very low.

      But if that percentage *increases** you WILL be in trouble… take a look at France or Britain, if you don’t believe me, where the percentage of Muslims over all is a good deal higher, and in some sub-regions, very high indeed. Fancy having a Bataclan massacre or an Orlando nightclub massacre in Iceland? It’s on the cards, IF you insist on letting in Muslims and allowing the Muslim presence to increase.

      Got Muslims? Got Jihad. The more Muslims, the *more* Jihad.

    • Jeanette says

      May 3, 2017 at 6:55 pm

      The Saudis are NOT friends of the Americans.

      SOME Saudi elites may be friends with SOME American elites, but that is the end of apparent friendship, which is probably simply taqiyya on the part of the Saudi “friends,” anyway.

      Any group that is trying to force our children into the black abyss of Islam by funding classes on Islam (all glowing – no information about the Koran’s commands that the children being taught should be murdered by Muslims, naturally) is no friend of the American people.

      I could go on, but it isn’t necessary – the indoctrination of our children is enough.

      • Keys says

        May 4, 2017 at 9:48 pm

        Agree, Jeanette. The Saudis are currently friendly toward the USA and Trump mostly because they fear Iran.

        Neither SA, nor Iran, are our friends.

        It appears to me, because of the sudden jump of muslims in Iceland, that Iceland was “targeted”, like many other Western nations, by SA and/or other Islamic countries. Hijrah. Muslim bribery of key officials is likely.

        Of course, it’s my opinion. But why would so many from muslim countries want to settle in Iceland all of a suden?

    • Keys says

      May 4, 2017 at 9:21 pm

      Arnar, if you are Icelandic, you might consider talking to several Swedish cops about muslims in their country (and only about 5% in 2009; about 6% in 2014).

      As one frequent poster here says:

      “Got muslims?
      Got problems.”

      ….. throughout their murderous history.

  19. Marc Padraig says

    May 3, 2017 at 8:45 am

    I lived in Iceland for a number of years. Icelanders are good people, but they have a core “activist” cadre that protest all things Israeli, most things American and anything which they perceive to be anti-Islamic. Iceland is a country with less than 1,000 registered muslims. The Icelandic state registers members of different religions for taxation purposes. There is a HUGE gay pride parade every year in August. There is also a supermarket chain called BONUS that uses a pink pig as it’s brand. These two things are patently offensive to muslims and in the long run may cause trouble in Iceland. Icelanders will be shocked if and when violence does break out. In 2010 the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik hosted an Iftar dinner in ICELAND! A country with a minuscule muslim population. I don’t remember the embassy hosting a Passover Seder or Easter, Christmas dinners.

    • Jeanette says

      May 3, 2017 at 6:58 pm

      The miniscule Muslim population. That’s what every non-Muslim country in the world started off with – a miniscule number of Muslims.

      And now look at France, Germany, Austria, Great Britain, Scotland, Spain.

      Does no one understand that Muslim women are encourage (basically commanded) to have at least 5 children, so that they can outbreed, outnumber and then overtake host countries?

      Why does this seem to be rocket science to some people – calculators are so cheap these days.

    • Keys says

      May 4, 2017 at 9:55 pm

      “U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik hosted an Iftar dinner in ICELAND”

      Obama – dispicable. The USA taxpayer footed the bill for this! Disgraceful!
      Someone needs to be held accountable, damn it! We do not need to be paying for this bs.

  20. Sigurfreyr says

    May 3, 2017 at 9:11 am

    Robert Spencer, as well as Christine Williams, address many of the fake news items that the piece by Paul Fontaine published. The journalistic quality of Fontaine’s writings can be best seen by the fact that he confuses Robert Spencer with Richard Spencer, a spokesman for the alt-right movement in the United States. That blunder might have been removed by the time you read this. Fontaine, a dedicated supporter of open borders, is now the laughing stock among Icelanders on social media. So is the secretary of the Social Democrats, who has encouraged people to protest in front of Grand Hotel. Protest what?, they ask. Freedom of speech? Freedom of assembly? The hotel for renting space for the conference?

  21. Linde Barrera says

    May 3, 2017 at 11:31 am

    It really sickens and disgusts me that people like Fontaine cannot tell the difference between a doctrine or ideology and a group of humans who espouse that doctrine or ideology. Keep on educating people, please, Robert Spencer and Christine Williams. You are both awesome and my heroes.

  22. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 3, 2017 at 7:29 pm

    Icelanders need Icelandic translations of 1/ Sam Solomon’s “Al Hijra: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration” and 2/ Rev Dr Mark Durie’s “The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude, and Freedom”. Or good Icelandic *summaries* of those two texts.

    Was Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s “Submission” dubbed into Icelandic? Or Geert Wilders’ “Fitna”?

    They could do with translations of Raymond Ibrahim’s various articles on the assorted varieties of Islamic deception – e.g. “How Taqiyya Alters Islam’s Rules of War”.

    Also useful – Conor Cruise O’Brien’s classic article from the mid-1990s, “The Lesson of Algeria: Islam is Indivisible” (by ‘the lesson of Algeria’ he was referring to the bloody civil war that broke out *after* Algeria gained its independence), Jacques Ellul’s foreword on Jihad, written for Bat Yeor’s “The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam”, and a brilliant article by one Patrick L Moore, entitled “From Cold War to Guerra Fria”, also written in the mid-1990s.

    Those three plus the Ibrahim articles on deception and the Solomon book on Migration as an instrument of Jihad would pretty much give people an idea of what Islam is and how the Ummah or Mohammedan mob goes about attacking, subverting and subduing Infidel societies or nations.

    If enough people in Iceland wake up, fast enough, and if Iceland were to STOP all immigration – for that matter, all *entry* – into Iceland of persons holding passports issued by OIC countries – excepting only VERY thoroughly vetted persons established to be bona fide members of the horribly-persecuted *non-Muslim* minorities from those countries e.g. Copts from Egypt, Assyrian Christians from Syria and Iraq – and if Iceland banned all mosque building, resolutely rejected all ‘dawa-strings-attached’ money from OIC countries and any other Muslim entity or agent, and *also* evicted from Iceland all non-citizen Muslims and kept a very beady eye on any that have gained citizenship, with an intention of giving them the boot the instant they put a toe out of line, then.. Iceland will be sitting pretty in the 21st century, as a haven of peace and good order, **sans Islam**.

    Iceland needs to realize that the general mass of Muslims ‘human shield’ and enable the jihadi terrorists. The Ummah or Mohammedan Mob, the allah gang, is the nurturing, sheltering sea within which the jihadis swim and from which ceaselessly they emerge… the more and the faster, the bigger and stronger that Mohammedan Mob is (and / or perceives itself to be) in any given location.

    The precautionary principle says that Iceland must stop ALL entry of Muslims, *now*. And every other majority-Infidel country on the face of the planet – *especially* any that, right now, have very few or NO Muslims inside their gates – should do likewise.

    No mosques, no Muslims = no jihad waged from within the gates, that is, no assassinations like that of Theo Van Gogh, no murders of Jewish children such as Mohammed Merah carried out in Toulouse in France, no mass-murders of deemed-Islamo-insulting cartoonists (Charlie Hebdo), no truck and stabbing rampages like on Westminster bridge (or on numerous occasions in Israel), no murder sprees in nightclubs (Orlando), no mass murder in a concert hall (Bataclan), no big truck driven by an allahu-akbaring Muslim squashing people flat all along an esplanade (Nice), no Muslim rape gangs (Cologne; Rotherham and Oxford and Rochedale in the UK; Sydney in the early 2000s); no mass-maiming / mass-murderous explosions on the trains or on the buses or at a marathon finish line (Madrid, Mumbai, Moscow, St Petersburg, London, Boston).

    Don’t want any of the above sh*t (and I could have listed a whole lot more of similar kind?)? – then.. STOP Muslim immigration, NOW. It’s called ‘nipping it in the bud’.

  23. underbed cat says

    May 3, 2017 at 8:33 pm

    Why Iceland? Beautiful landscapes, very volcanic, lots of horses sheep….just hope you will be safe in the capital, I believe it is very socialist country and hopefully has not criminalized speech…..please stay safe and tape a video of speech. It has some ties to Russia, I think.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 3, 2017 at 8:56 pm

      It is a very good sign that *somebody* in Iceland is awake up, that they have *invited* Mr Spencer in the first place, to speak.

      Iceland is *small* – no more than 330 000 people – and very closeknit and homogenous, with a long tradition of freedom. They are nominally 90 percent Christian; most of the rest is nonreligious.

      In 2010 there were an estimated 400 Muslims; in 2014 – nota bene, in just four years, presumably due to a FOOL letting in more Muslim immigrants – there were 2000 (and if Iceland wakes up, fast enough, then it should STOP at 2000 and, in fact, those 2000 mohammedans should be strongly discouraged from remaining, and strongly *encouraged* to depart, back to the dar al Islam).

      There were enough Islamoaware Icelanders, for a stink to be kicked up, in connection with a proposal to build a mosque, a few years ago.

      The thing about Iceland being small, and very much interconnected (everyone related to everyone else; they have to have a dating app so that couples can check how closely-related they are, right at or before the first date, so as to back away if they decide they are too close) is that the Resistance – the Islamoaware – do not have to reach *milliions* of people. An ‘each one teach one’ approach should rapidly spread the unpleasant facts about Islam to a *large* percentage of the population, very fast indeed.

      I hope that Mr Spencer’s and Ms Williams’ presentations will be beautifully videoed, together with any ensuring Q and A, and *widely* circulated by the incipient Islamoresistance in Iceland… a ‘critical voting mass’ of persons convinced that more Muslims is a really bad idea, that Muslim immigration (including entry of so-called ‘refugees’) must be stopped ASAP, and that NO accommodation of already-present Muslims’ demands must be engaged in, looks to me to be very achievable.

      Save Iceland… and you have a point from which to begin the ‘reconquista’ to liberate *the rest of Europe*, in time.

      • Aussie Infidel says

        May 4, 2017 at 6:08 am

        DDA, I was in Iceland two years ago and spoke to some people about Muslim immigrants. The people were locals on a lunch break, but were quite outspoken against Islam. They understood the difference between Muslims and their ideology Islam. They had also read the Quran, or at least enough of it to be vehemently opposed to its message. They said that Muslim immigrants had been allowed in by Leftist officials, and they were working hard to get them out. Now is the time the Icelanders must act to stop and reverse this incursion, or they will also be committing national suicide like the rest of Europe.

  24. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 4, 2017 at 12:42 am

    Here, from 2013 and 2014, are a couple of other Islam-related stories from Iceland, that reveal the existence not only of deluded Dhimmis, but of a nucleus of intelligent Islamoleery Icelanders who are ready and willing to resist Islamisation. I would hazard the guess that it is some among *them* who have invited Mr Spencer and Ms Williams to come and speak.

    First up, a story about some dhimmi Icelanders letting the mohammedan interlopers build an advance miitary base (i.e. ‘mosque’).

    http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/50517
    Friday, 27 September 2013
    Iceland gives local Muslims a Free Plot to Build Mega Mosque

    The dhimmis were falling all over themselves to suck up to the mohammedans, but the former mayor of Rejkjavik – one Olafur f Magnusson – didn’t mince his words:

    “…The former mayor of Reykjavik says he believes it is outrageous for the city to give Muslims a site at no cost at a great location in the center of the city, and asks why political and feminist groups are so tolerant of a religion that he says degrades women…”.

    Well said, mate.

    A bit more, from the same article – “… Critics of the mosque, however, say the project is being financed by donors in the Middle East who are seeking to exert control over — and radicalize — the growing Muslim community in Iceland.

    (I would say they’re bang on the money – dda)

    Although reliable statistics do not exist, the Muslim population of Iceland is estimated to be approximately 1,200, or 0.4% of the total Icelandic population of 320,000. Most Muslims in Iceland live in the capital Reykjavík, where they make up about 1% of the total population of 120,000.

    “The Muslim community in Iceland may be small in comparison to other European countries, but its rate of growth has been exponential:

    “Since 1990, when there were fewer than a dozen Muslims in the country, their number has increased by nearly 10,000%. ”

    (Yep: so I had a source that said 400 Muslims in Iceland in 2010… now I discover that in 1990 – just twenty years previously – there were **fewer than a dozen Muslims in the country**. From ten in 1990 to 400 in 2010 to… 2000 in 2014. That’s actually not a trivial rate of change and if it is – foolishly – allowed to continue unhindered it WILL result in disaster. Those who in this thread, above, were complacent about the ‘minuscule’ Muslim presence need to remember: THINGS CHANGE, and they can change rapidly, and for the worse. – dda)

    “Much of this growth has been due to immigration, but in recent years native Icelanders have also been converting to Islam in increasing numbers… [any reliable stats there?? – dda]

    More: next article was from 2014.

    http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/54311
    Wednesday, 4 June 2014
    Reykjavík: Founder of Muslim Association Sues for Hate Speech

    From that article, we get the name of yet another Resister against Jihad.

    “…the leader of the Progressive Party in Reykjavík, Sveinbjörg Birna Sveinbjörnsdóttir, said she wanted to withdraw the allocation of the plot of land to the Muslim Association of Iceland and that the issue should be voted on in a public referendum.

    “Following the remarks, support for the Progressive Party in Reykjavík increased and the party secured two seats in municipal elections on Saturday…” [excellent! – dda]

    If one does a bit of research, one discovers that Sveinbjorg Birna Sveinbjornsdottir has **spent a year in Saudi Arabia** and that she did not like what she saw there, at all, at all, at all.

  25. Tóki lávarður says

    May 4, 2017 at 11:23 am

    ´Reykjavik Grapevine´

    Is not considered news by anyone in their right mind here in Iceland. Its basically a bunch of privileged, virtue signalling hipsters, mostly foreigners, with too much free time on their hand trying to pander to tourists. The cited article is a rehash of the PC articles the lame stream media over here has been spewing since Mr. Spencer´s coming was announced. PC social science students and the like are having fits no one else!

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