The Washington Post, interviewing me for a hit piece on David Horowitz (whom they characterize, with their usual ham-handed propagandizing touch, as “an intellectual godfather to the far right”), asked me what the purpose of Jihad Watch was. This is what I told them.
“How a ‘shadow’ universe of charities joined with political warriors to fuel Trump’s rise,” by Robert O’Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg, Washington Post, June 3, 2017:
…It also formed an alliance with another charity called Jihad Watch, which would become a leading voice in calling for restrictions on Muslim immigrants.
“Our work at Jihad Watch relates to dispelling falsehoods and disinformation spread by The Washington Post and others regarding the motivating ideology, nature and magnitude of the jihad threat worldwide and within the U.S.,” the group’s chief, Robert Spencer, told The Post in a statement last month….
Donald R Laster Jr says
The “News” Papers like the TV “News” Channels have stopped being news outlets long ago. They have been taken over by people following the book “Rules for Radicals”.
Diane Harvey says
Basically a 4,000 word hit piece.
About what’s to be expected.
But on the good news front, the only reason the WP felt the need to do this is its editors must believe that Horowitz and Company are making some headway, and a wing-clipping was in order.
Graeme Howarth says
Beautiful!
SV says
Doesn’t Podesta work at Washington Post now…?
Terry says
Sen/Liar Blumenthal, when Jess Sessions was undergoing his confirmation hearings, blasted Mr. Sessions because he (Sessions) called Mr. Horowitz a friend.
Blumenthal asked (no particular order) “Mr Horowitz said that the reason that blacks are over represented in prison is because they commit more crimes” (actually, paraphrase). DO YOU AGREE?
Mr. Horowitz said—–, etc
several of these. (Mr. Horowitz on his website had the video of the questioning.
Total character assassination.
So, the Washington Post, also a liberal rag, would do the same.
Kris T says
Robert’s response to the WaPo included “….dispelling falsehoods and disinformation spread by The Washington Post and others…”
BRILLIANT REPLY, ROBERT!!
Mo says
@ Kris T
“BRILLIANT REPLY, ROBERT!!”
Ha! Right? I can’t believe he actually said that. And that they printed it! (I thought he was joking until I went to the actual story and saw it!)
Matthieu Baudin says
“…’Our work at Jihad Watch relates to dispelling falsehoods and disinformation spread by The Washington Post and others regarding the motivating ideology, nature and magnitude of the jihad threat worldwide and within the U.S.,’ the group’s chief, Robert Spencer, told The Post in a statement last month…”
I’d say that the most important feature of Jihad Watch, together with some other related sites, is to provide a forum for discussion and an exchange of ideas around the theme of Jihad and the current insecurities and violence associated with it. There exists a healthy and essential challenging of views and tempering of opinions that Jihad Watch provides, which is why leaders such as Teresa May should view this site as a social ally against the promulgation of fanatical reasoning rather than as an irritant to her political ambitions.
dumbledoresarmy says
One of the things that happens here is a *lot* of sharing of experiences and transnational mutual encouragement and education.
The regulars read books. The regulars swap information. Useful articles – *classic* articles, by greats such as Conor Cruise O’Brien – are regularly linked and shared so that anyone with good-enough English, or access to Google translate, from all over the Infidel world, can read and understand.
*Apostates from Islam* pop up here regularly, sharing their insights and warnings.
Indians – worried about Islam in India – rub shoulders with Israelis rub shoulders with worried people from continental Europe, and the UK, and Australia, and the USA, and Canada, and New Zealand; and the occasional visitor from Anglophone Africa. We have a few people who comment occasionally from places like Poland.
*Alliances* are being formed here, at the grassroots level. When a UK poster and an Indian (non-Muslim) poster commiserate with one another on the way in which the lure of the Muslim bloc vote has corrupted the political process in their two democracies, there are lessons for all; and at the same time there is common ground being established.
Stan Lee says
I think that since the WA PO has a new owner (Bezos, owner of Amazon) I suppose he believes his “super stewardship” will do miracles for his new media investment. The WA PO ought to try reporting truth and things that attract conservatives, like giving President Trump fair treatment. I’ve even patronized Amazon occasionally, but if Leftist dribble penetrates Amazon’s pages, I’m outa there!”
Alien Republican says
Amazon pushes actively Merkels Agenda in Germany. Heiko Maas, Minister of “Justice” pusblished a book diffaming anything and anyobdy to the right of the Socialist Party he belongs to. Within short time there were almost 100 1-stars reviews and a handful 5-star reviews that upon closer look revealed to be satricical and even more devastating.
What happened next was that Amazon restriced writing reviews to people with a “verified purchase”. That has never been a requirement before. It gets even better as people startet do buy the book AND returning them to Amazon. I think they have reconsidered in the meantime.
The worst book ever was alledegly even a “best-seller” for a while. There isn’t the least proof of it.
https://www.amazon.de/product-reviews/3492058418/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_viewopt_srt?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=recent&pageNumber=1
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
It is a bit startling that Jihad Watch and similar groups are called “charities”, but I suppose they fit an IRS definition. I think of a charity as an organization that dispenses money to the needy, no as an organization that collects money from donors to achieve a public-policy purpose.
Phil Copson says
Dispensing accurate information to the needy is pretty charitable too…..
Am sure that Robert, Pamela, Christine, Hugh etc would all much rather be doing other things with their time than attracting opprobrium, but as things get worse, they will be needed more than ever.
Farage understandably decided that he could afford to stand down as UKIP leader after Brexit, never thinking that the pro-Remain May would fail to start the leaving process, but would instead drag it out to give Remain and the EU time to re-organise, and then call an early election.
Had Nigel Farage stuck to his guns, he might now be on the point of being elected to Parliament, and at least being able to force MPs to listen to him, if not act on what he says.
dumbledoresarmy says
You wrote – “Am sure that Robert, Pamela, Christine, Hugh etc would all much rather be doing other things with their time than attracting opprobrium..”.
They’re not just ‘attracting opprobrium”.
All of them receive **death threats** by the sackful; and in the light of what has been done to Theo Van Gogh, and the Charlie Hebdo Cartoonists, and the driving into hiding of people like Robert Redeker, and the arson attack on Lars Vilks’ house, and the attack on the Mohammed cartoons event (which attack was foiled by a straight-shooting off-duty cop), and the axe-wielding Somali Muslim ‘refugee’ who in Denmark – DENMARK!!! – broke into the house of Kurt Westergaard, elderly cartoonist who drew the ‘turban-bomb Mohammed’, the threats have to be taken very, very seriously.
Spencer, Geller, Hugh and all other public faces of the counter-jihad are risking their *lives*. Every. single. day.
That’s the thing the Washington Post won’t even deign to mention. NOr would the Washington Post *dare* to explain *why*; it will not discuss the blasphemy law that is part of bog-standard classical Islam, nor its foundation in events such as Mohammed’s ordering and approving of assassination ‘hits’ on non-Muslim poets who had criticised and mocked him and his banditti ‘companions’.
Terry says
And the mother and step father of the terrorist enabler/traitor Reality Winner said in an interview that their daughter ” fears that she may disappear”. (Also, that their daughter is a “patriot”. A new definition, I guess).
Yes, Ms. Geller, Mr. Spencer, etc. are in danger, but nobody seems to care, or give them interviews.
(The parents interview was on NewsMax-which calls itself conservative-although the owner paid thousands to attend a dinner for HRC- not sure if during the primaries or after–leading to the election). I trust them more than CNN, MSNBC etc but still nto entirely.
JIMJFOX says
Sadly, Farage has stated he has no interest in becoming a UK politician, for which I can’t blame him. It’s very doubtful he’d succeed anyway with the FPTP rigged ‘democracy’ in the UK. Don’t forget UKIP got nearly 4 million votes- and ONE seat in parliament.
Phil Copson says
I know – but it appears to be one of the great missed opportunities; had Nigel Farage not thought “job done” when the Brexit vote came in, but stayed on as UKIP leader, he may then have retained the credibility to have successfully stood for Parliament.
This isn’t a knock at Nigel – who has done more than anybody to save the UK from the EU – just that the country could really have done with him in Parliament to articulate the threat that the UK and Europe faces from mass migration and Islam.
Which party runs the United Kingdom, and whether the UK leaves the EU or not, is all irrelevant if Europe goes down anyway.
Force majeure kicks in eventually – eg, my Great-Aunt Dolly having a pair of tickets for a cruise down the Rhine and the Oberammergau Passion Play didn’t really cut it any more in 1940……
Jim – have you still got a link to the thread in which some chap was trying to put me right about the use of Barnes Wallis’ Tallboys and Grandslams during D-Day etc ? having looked up some info to support what I said, I would rather like to post it where he will see it. Thanks, Phil.
Noel says
You’ll be pleased to read this:
http://www.westmonster.com/dup-want-farage-involved-in-brexit-negotiations/
A Conservative-DUP alliance could mean Nigel Farage is offered a role in the Brexit negotiating team, according to some reports.
carol says
In this video Stefan Molyneux mentions Farage dropping out because he tired of the ongoing threats (17:10). The video is interesting to the end as he discusses May’s policies, Brexit etc.:
The Truth About The London Bridge Terrorist Attack | Stefan Molyneux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmHrox-Zq-0
Blangwort says
I visit their web site only very rarely. I haven’t purchased a newspaper from them in at least ten years.
I really can’t boycott the Washington Post any more than I already have been. They simply don’t matter to me.
Martin says
Perfectly put. WaPo is pure rubbish at this point. If you check their comment section, you get a sense of the mentality of their readership. Almost to a person immature, smug, brainwashed libtards.
Relic says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yECd_Sz_zJ8
awake says
“Chief” Robert Spencer; speaking the plain, doctrinally-supported truth about Islam since 2003.
Frederick says
Note the media usually lists John Podesta as Hillary’s former Campaign Manager but does not say (covers up) what he is doing now. John Podesta was hired as an editor at the Washington Post in January 2017. He works with his relatives there; Brian, Don and James (Podesta). The Washington Post is helping keep the lid on this too and all of Johns comments should be assumed to Editorial Opinions of the Washington Post.