This morning I was on Breitbart Radio, speaking about my book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies):
“Robert Spencer: Colleges Treat Conservatives as Enemies, But Would Welcome a Guantanamo Inmate Yelling Death to America,” by Dan Riehl, Breitbart, July 28, 2017:
Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Friday regarding his new book, “The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies)” and the steady erosion of free speech born by political correctness.
Said Spencer, “It is becoming impossible for people who are opposed to jihad terror and people who dissent from the leftist line in general from saying anything with any significant platform.”
Spencer said of the battle for free speech, “I spoke at three universities this past Spring and at every one it was as if Jack the Ripper was speaking. But I guarantee you that if a Guantanamo inmate showed up at any of those universities and started screaming death to America, he would have been welcomed as a hero.”
Having said the extreme left is winning the war on speech, he continued, “It’s just a fact that’s taken for granted widely that only one point of view is allowed on campuses today.”
Breitbart News Daily airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern.
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gravenimage says
Robert Spencer: Colleges Treat Conservatives as Enemies, But Would Welcome a Guantanamo Inmate Yelling Death to America
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This is true–and it is utter madness.
John Forbes says
Why the self hatred of the society that has the highest standard of living, the most choices, the longest lives, the best medical care & political system allowing changes ??
Who is teaching & promoting this hatred in schools paid for by the PUBLIC ??
The teachers need to be identified , teachings challenged & hate preaching stopped of the schools shut down!!
john spielman says
cut off all state and federal funding until the bill of rights is enforced on campuses
mortimer says
That would do it. Let them protect freedom or lose funding.
Kepha says
That won’t work. Rather, if you are conservative and your professor or a group of demonstrators gets really nasty and intimidating, document it, and go straight to the courts. Do it often, make them pay damages, demand a hearing for conservative speakers. Call the police on unruly Leftist disruptors.
They’ll get the message.
Jack Holan says
Robert,yes it was nice once to be big enough and sound some whT lucid that People would stop and listen. They may carried some morsel of what was declared to be true.
However,the angry rebellious young who get snared are the same ones who hate there”Authoratative Patent, take strong exception and resist lawful order break storefront windows burn cars,(Riot) loot and in General disobey civil authority cost store onwership and endanger the community. so the Left is good at taking fresh mind and cloning them into there image. The purpose may seem benign at first but their goal is the same as Worldwide change away from Capitalism as an economic system and an Islamic Caliphate guided by Sharia
pdxnag says
Hate speech will not be tolerated: Hence, promotion and advocacy of Islam and Islamic supremacism will not be tolerated?
mortimer says
Yes, pdxnag, Islam has an OFFICIAL, CANONICAL, COMPULSORY doctrine of HATRED.
This hateful doctrine is called ‘AL WALAA WAL BARAA’ (allegiance to Muslims and disavowal of kafirs).
Muslims are required under ‘AL WALAA WAL BARAA’ to direct HATRED and HOSTILITY against the dirty KUFAAR.
‘AL WALAA WAL BARAA’ is a doctrine that teaches ISLAMIC APARTHEID and SOCIETAL SUPREMACISM and DISCRIMINATION.
‘AL WALAA WAL BARAA’ can be used to justify genocide.
Wellington says
For anyone who thinks that modern liberalism (call it leftism if you will) has any merit, consider this: Where freedom is least existent in America is PRECISELY where modern liberals (leftists) are most in control—————-college campuses.
Got leftism? Well, the more you have of this rot, the more you have a dearth of liberty. Look to college campuses in America for confirmation of this verity, where nonsense like diversity deans and hate speech codes abound. Pure Orwellian stuff, compliments of the Left.
Yes, the extreme Right can also be a mortal enemy of liberty, but the extreme Right in the West anymore is a very pale imitation of what it once was. The extreme other end of the political spectrum in the West is hardly in deep waning mode. Quite the contrary, the extreme Left is most everywhere, including the taking over of what was once centrist, for instance the current Democratic Party of America, never mind the current rot on college campuses.
Overall rule: The extremes of both sides of the political spectrum are bad news for freedom. And right now the Left is making common cause with a traditional extreme on the Right———-Islam. Oh yeah, sometimes life is complicated.
Wellington says
An addendum: The reason why the Western Left and the Islamic world are so simpatico in our times is rooted in two things that these menacing belief systems have in common: 1) hatred of traditional Western Civilization; 2) hatred of freedom. (And yes, these two things are inextricably mixed though there is much else to the “story.”)
Of course, should these two massively deficient belief systems succeed in destroying the West, then they will go after each other. Guaranteed. Rather reminiscent of the possibilities of the Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 1939.
My money would be on Islam here. I’m sure many will understand that I hope it will never come to my having to bet on this wager. You bet.
mortimer says
The Leftards and Muslims agree up to Point A, but not up to Point B.
Point A is the destruction of traditional European civilization. Point B is their diametrically opposed Utopias… the Leftarded utopia is the Gulag of Stalin and the Islamic utopia is Pakistan or Taliban Afghastlistan.
Wellington says
But, mortimer, and specifically respecting my second point—-what you referred to as “Point B”—- whether the Gulag “utopia” or the Islamic “utopia,” they are nothing more than a variation on a theme that is not Paganiniesque in mode but rather totalitarianesquely so.
Which is to say that the difference here is one without a distinction because in both of these heinous belief systems freedom is extinguished. The bottom line and all that. Whatever the putrid reason.
underbed cat says
Universities pop out credentials….many universities are liberal…some waaaaay so. But to be ignorant about Islamic terrorism, while the bookstores and libraries usually have a authentic Quran sitting on the shelves make me think all this intelligence has the New York glamour drippings, of money and media marketing all over it. Glamorizing hijabs, designed to oppress ,showing young handsome men and beautiful woman with children posing for the shots. Never quite grasping sharia law, jihad terror, the abrogated verses and times when they quote them to confuse leaders about the nature of Islam that Osama Bin Ladin writings exposed, that was a declaration of war and planned 9/11. verses to lie, the deception and omissions the organizations that re-market the glances of horror to accommodate a brutal system.
Young professional new media unable to speak about the horrors they see, or the facts they may know, politicians and former presidents calling for resistance to deny unveiling the actually sura’s of the Quran that call for death while praising Saudi Arabia the heart of Islam as beautiful…. as they follow sharia law to behead, hang, or hang men on crosses. If they can ignore the chants of death to America from Iran send money, billions to Iran and sign a nuclear deal with the believers who cannot according to sharia law ever sign treaties . So yes, universities who pop out those smart people, hand them a diploma, as a direct a plan to declare truth as hate free speech and accommodate the evil. But somehow I am sure cash is involved the pretty cash call grants or endowments for access and betrayal. The future does not look bright.
Wellington says
“The future does not look bright.”
Agreed, underbed cat. But when has it ever?
Mankind is almost forever defending the fragility of civilization against the forces of anti-civilization, which are myriad.
And anti-civilization, in its most sophisticated form, disguises itself as something sapient. This particularly odious and lethal form of anti-civilization is indeed an unholy trinity————–wrong, malicious and with a decided tendency towards deceptive subtlety.
Marxism comes to mind here. So does Nazism. And most definitely does Islam, which took on the appearance of something civilized long, long ago even though it is a recipe for the closing of the mind and an enemy of liberty at least as much as Nazism and Marxism have been.
Still is.
Time for most everyone in the West to realize this. Not there yet. Better, far better, that the West in the aggregate get there soon.
But not there yet. Damn.
underbed cat says
The future Wellington, will not be life affirming but only oppressive submission to the dominate brutal nature of sharia. Just remember it does not take a whole society to agree, just some terror induced population that has been silenced by” authorities” who refute reality and allow the country to be dar al islam in submission and death.
Lydia says
Just like all dictatorships, they ban free speech and dissent.
It’s all about PC Orwellian speak.
Very reminiscent of the nazi era, only the party mentality and slogans would be proclaimed. That was the propaganda coming from all the speakers. Nothing else would be tolerated. Instead it was vilified.
Only their banner would be rallied around. Dissenters were silenced by fear. Only the truly brave stood up against the evil, those with a backbone and a passion for what is right and just and true.
The same again now.
By the way, I research persecution of Christians in the world in general and have come across this paradigm of ‘stages of persecution’ against a group in general. I know all true Christians will agree that we are already on stage five below as Christians are being arrested and losing employment or business over the Christian stand, of which I also am to suffer. I copied the stages below, which also occurred during the Holocaust:
Stages of Persecution:
1. Stereotyping the targeted group
2. Vilifying the targeted group for alleged crimes or misconduct
3. Marginalizing the targeted group’s role in society
4. Criminalizing the targeted group or its works
5. Persecuting the targeted group outright
We also see this in action under the guise of ‘islamophobia,’ those who oppose islam.
Interesting, no?
Stendec says
@Lydia: “We also see this in action under the guise of ‘islamaphobia,’ those who oppose islam.”
No, we don’t. Those who oppose Islam oppose it because of its clearly stated and immutable doctrines of mass murder, persecution, slavery, and deceit. Christians have no such doctrines. The manufactured epithet ‘Islamophobia” is part of the deceit mechanism of Islam.
Just a few of many, many examples from core Islamic doctrine, per the 5 categories in your list:
1. Non-Muslims are the “vilest of created beings,” says the Koran. That is, they are sub-human.
2. Jews are “descended from apes and pigs” All non-Muslims, including by name, Christians, are “filth,” whose mere presence defiles the Earth and every room or space into which they enter.
3. Muslims must never take non-Muslims as “friends or helpers” except for purposes of deceiving them. Non-Muslims must never be allowed to hold the reigns of power, anywhere on Earth.
4. Non-Muslims (including, by name, Christians) are guilty of the crime of “shirk”: which means “associating partners with Allah.” The penalty for shirk is persecution, and death if they persist. Non-Muslims who expose Muslims to the Bible or otherwise proselytize in any other faith so as to “shake the faith” of the Muslim are to be jailed, mutilated, or executed by crucifixion or other nasty ways.
5. Muslims must fight non-Muslims until they submit to domination by living as powerless, impoverished and abused untouchables (“filth” again), while paying protection money, called “jizya,” to their Muslim overlords. Christians may not build new churches, make repairs on existing ones, or make prayers or sing hymns in earshot of any Muslim. Any non-Muslim who criticizes Islam or its founder is to be killed. “Protected” non-Muslims paying jizya are to be constantly hounded and abused to remind them of “their inferior faith.”
Interesting, no?
Chuck says
“You Grew up with freedom so you can spit on freedom because you don’t know what it is to not have freedom” leftists and moslim lovers should live under sharia law to feel,appreciate and understand this quote…
James Stamulis says
These colleges should get no American tax dollars until they start acting American.
underbed cat says
I agree James Stamulis, no tax dollars if the universities accommodates the spread of the Islamic warfare doctrine, that has been genocidal around the world toward Jews, Christians, Yazidis, Indian Hindu, African starving christian communities by silencing the experts who can explain the dangers and use violent resistance and will terrorize other students who are interested in information based on facts.
John A. Marre says
Bought the book. It’s bold, and says the truth. Buy it.
Andy says
Trudeau Sets Record For World’s Longest ‘No’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7I_BhOdcAw
tgusa says
“Would Welcome a Guantanamo Inmate Yelling Death to America,”
Death to America. Would they please start with the leftist colleges? They already have. The leftist loons are on a collision course with reality. The loons are actually asking for it. So really, it seems to be, only fair.
Be careful what you ask for because you just might get it.
Ted Tyler says
Attack on Freedom of Speech by Muslims also effects the atheist community.
Richard Dawkins was scheduled to speak at a California radio station – but the station cancelled his speaking since Muslims told the station that Dawkins had said things that were offensive and hurtful to Muslims.
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/news/cause_effect_86/
Then I went to my Sam Harris folder YouTube to see how Sam is doing. There was one talk that was obviously critical of Islam. I clicked on the talk to find that the talk had been removed! So Islamization proceeds by many small steps – and the objective never changes.