“You’ve scurried along the gutter floor for too long, unnoticed. Your prejudice towards Muslims deserves to be put on blast. I’ll do that!” pompously proclaimed “Islamophobia” expert Nathan Lean to me on Twitter on June 23. His subsequent insulting Twitter conversations with me over the summer would give a revealing insight into this deceitful, hateful, and shallow leftist thug, an ideological clone of the demagogic Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Lean had previously revealed his character and intellectual deficiencies during a humorous Twitter spat he initiated with me around New Year’s 2014, the subject of one of my previous articles. After a few weeks of debate, Lean had answered my Twitter responses to his politically correct rants by blocking me. Yet suddenly on June 16, he emerged like a bolt from the blue of cyberspace to snarl at me again.
Lean initially objected to my rejection of the totalitarian term “Islamophobia” underlying his fraudulent career. This postulated “irrational fear” seeks to suppress criticism of Islamic ideas by conflating that criticism with prejudice against Muslim individuals. He indicated as much, stating that “religion is more than a mere disembodied collection of ideas. It is integral to identity.” Therefore he effectively condemned critique of Islam as the “suggestion that Islam is merely a belief system is a loophole for you to malign Muslims with impunity.”
Lean’s concern for beliefs as “integral to identity” did not stop him from irreverently using Jesus’ name as a curse when he tweeted to this Christian that “Jesus Christ, you’re a character.” Surprisingly, while Lean’s research interests include “Muslim-Christian relations,” he admitted, “I actually don’t care for religion at all — any of them. I do care, however, about prejudicing people based on their religious identity.” The corresponding theological illiteracy of this “expert” appeared when he reiterated the hackneyed canard that the “Bible is full of vicious & violent stuff, and is no different than the Quran.”
Yet Lean nonetheless wants to appear as an authority on Islam on the basis of his graduate school and Arab language studies while condemning me as having “zero education in anything related to Islam; no Arabic.” He thus tweeted following the recent Barcelona, Spain, vehicular jihad attack that “Barcelona suspect Driss Oukabir doesn’t represent Islam. He doesn’t represent Muslims. He represents only himself, and only he is to blame.” This statement notwithstanding, Lean contradicted himself, tweeting to me in answer to my question about jihad’s meanings among Muslims that “I’m not the spokesperson. Ask the world’s 1.7 billion Muslims.”
Lean also presents himself as an authority on Israel, a country that draws his consistent scorn, irrespective of how much the ancestral Jewish homeland is “integral to the identity” of Jews. He crudely caricatures Jewish national liberation under Zionism as an “ideology which asserts that a certain group of people have the ‘right’ to a certain tract of land, and can thus expel all others.” “You’re damn right I’m condemning Zionism,” he forthrightly tweets, and claims that the radical Linda “Nothing is creepier than Zionism” Sarsour “is a champion of human rights. Zionism is bad.” He not surprisingly calls Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the “leader of an apartheid project,” although Lean qualifies this by saying that this slander does not apply to Natanyahu’s “entire country. The Occupied Territories, for sure, though.”
Against charges that his demonizing double standards applied to the Jewish state are anti-Semitic, Lean offers the usual lame defense that “criticizing Israeli policy does not make one ‘anti-Semitic.’” “I have no love of or hate for Israel. Its government, and their discriminatory policies, ethnic cleansing, segregation, etc., I abhor,” he elaborates. By contrast, he flagrantly dismisses longstanding Israeli security concerns such as the Jewish state’s demographic suicide under a Palestinian “right of return.” “There is nothing to suggest that a right of Palestinian return would ‘destroy’ Israel. That’s conjecture based on fear,” he tweets, blatantly disregarding facts. His hyperbolic fears tweeted to me encompass only Palestinians: “Well if it was up to you, Palestinians would all be exterminated with no claim to any land or territory. Typical Nazi.”
Lean’s “Nazi” reference came in a barrage of “white supremacist” and “white nationalist” insults he has hurled at me, even as he casts himself as free of prejudice. For such bigotry on my part, he asserts that “there’s plenty of good evidence,” yet this merely contains things such as my questioning of his threadbare racism accusations against conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. Lean similarly echoes the left’s slander of my friend, former Trump Administration adviser Sebastian Gorka, as the “White House’s resident Nazi.”
Lean’s notion of whether “extremists” may access the public square dangerously parallels other leftists such as Antifa. “If you must beat up someone, a Nazi’s not the worst place to start,” he cavalierly tweeted in response to leftist violence at Charlottesville, Virginia’s August 12 deadly clash between white supremacists and leftists. His tweets also whitewash as “public pressure” violence and threats that resulted in cancellation of events for conservative speakers including Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter at the University of California-Berkeley.
While winking at violence against political opponents, Lean does violence to the Constitution. The “First Amendment doesn’t guarantee access to property simply because it’s owned or controlled by the government (public university),” he has tweeted while suggesting that a university does not have to accept all speakers. In his erroneous, illiberal view, a taxpayer-financed institution may subject speech to viewpoint discrimination.
That Lean seeks to suppress opposing views befits a person whose slanders cannot mask an empty-headed disgrace to the modern academy in which he has prospered. His puerile humor is no more sophisticated, as he has tweeted at me that “I did NAZI that coming from a white supremacist,” and has rejoiced in a description of Breitbart as “America’s number 1 website for adult virgins.” While his tactics are part of a broad-based campaign to marginalize all dissenters from leftist party agendas, free individuals willing to speak out against his sophistries can still get the last laugh. His suddenly renewed online obsession with me caused me to respond with a kind of running gag of always tagging him in tweets that rebutted his phony arguments. An exasperated Lean responded that the “Twitter Tourette’s storm is kind of off-putting.”
JawsV says
Is this idiotic character a Muslim, or what? What kind of name is “Nathan Lean?” He’s like a clown.
Judy says
Lean Bacon send him some. not nice sounding of me but Shame upon him
Ren says
Nathan Lean definitely looks like a dumb leftist.
Charles says
It would be interesting to see who patronizes him. It is now time to employ Saul Alinsky tactics of our own to see who is funding the pro-Islamic journalists and professors of “journalism”. Rules for radicals is a good read. Its time to employ its tactics for the conservatives.
Tom says
Ahhhh the Lean machine. This fellow appears so full of biased hatred that he may be about to explode. Maybe his blood pressure will do the job and he won’t be spewing his anti semitic garbage for much longer.
He certainly seems to have picked up the anger trait seen in so many of his favourite people.
Westman says
It’s simple, Nathan.
Freedom facilitates a supporter to accomplish his aspirations.
Islam circumscribes the “believer” with limitations to thought and aspirations; parasitically using the infected individual to promulgate itself above all other considerations and to daily cause repetetive, non-productive, ritual movements. Effectively, Islam is a brain virus program.
The criticism of Islam is not mainly about the believer – it’s about the virus. Unfortunately, the most effective method to avoid the spread of a rarely-curable disease is quarantine. Hungary, Poland, etc, know this.
awake says
Lean is a Mohammedan liar, taqqiya artist and Islam apologist. He is also a lackey of Reza Assclown.
Tom Schaefer says
Alex Jones mentions JihadWatch favorably for the 4th time in a week at ~1:20 EDT on his ~2Million+ listener nationally syndicated radio show. I suspect Alexa is going to show the effect of this publicity soon. Robert should go on his show.
Carl Goldberg, PhD says
Why do you even bother with him?
If you answer him at all, it would be better to accuse him of being an accomplice to Islamic religious bigotry because he suppresses legitimate discussion of the sacred doctrines of Islam.
You can also turn his argument against him by pointing out that he is saying that the 1.7 billion Moslems support the Koran’s jihadist commands.
Nathanael Hoernlé says
The attacks on Robert and the site are becoming more frequent, aren’t they? Perhaps I should say the fact that those who disagree with him just can’t stand his expressing himself (so effectively).
He never shies though. He always stands up.
pumbar says
Hmmm…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd4NYHmxYG8
Lydia says
He’s just another hater.
The usual junk, islam is a terrorist religion and we call it out, and that they can’t handle.
“I do care, however, about prejudicing people based on their religious identity.” The corresponding theological illiteracy of this “expert” appeared when he reiterated the hackneyed canard that the “Bible is full of vicious & violent stuff, and is no different than the Quran.” ”
Uh, no, it is not PRE judice, it is POST judice, judgment based on observed facts and events.
I am so sick of them attacking the Bible, there is nothing violent or vicious in it, but only in the quran.
There is a 100% difference between these two books. People don’t understand because they do not comprehend God’s justice because their consciences are so removed from true righteousness. Punishing evil is GOOD. Punishing good is EVIL. 100% difference, but these stupid idiots don’t get it. Very tired of it!
More Ham Ed says
“If you disagree, you have a ‘phobe’ of some kind.”
Henner720 says
He is muslims fatherfigure. The poor things ( muslims) all bombed into wrecks, need a strong leftist , to reaffirm there underdog , uncivilized psykopathic personality. No expectations allowed these sand children are in need af a lean white man, to take them out of there aoocalyptoc armageddon mindset. That the ideology behind it is gangsta priesthood corrupt destructive is not reached his braincells ( both of them ) yet.
JawsV says
Why hasn’t he changed his name to Abdullah? Which means “slave to Allah.”
Gen Jones says
Nathan needs islamophobia because it justifies his book, so he’s happy to argue with Andrew Harrod and everyone else who tries to expose the supremacist totalitarian cult of Mo. He’s actually the one making money off the islamophobia industry.
JawsV says
If anyone gave me Lean’s and demonic Esposito’s book I’d throw it in the trash where it belongs.
martin says
Message to Lean,
Lean thanks for reaching out from your sewer.
Most of us will not of course associate with low life treasonous filth such as you so would not have become so easily aware of the low lifes that are so corrupt they believe all the garbage so many are willing to feed then.. so corrupt that they dont bother to check if its true or not before parroting it like the obediant little idiots they/you are.