Last Monday, I spoke to an overflow crowd at the Santa Monica Republican Women Federated’s September monthly luncheon. There is no video, but here is a good report about the event.
“Robert Spencer Tells Santa Monica Women #Republicans About #PussyHats and #VaginaCostumes,” by Michael Greer, Santa Monica Observer, September 22, 2017:
The Santa Monica Republican Women Federated held their September monthly luncheon at the Beverly Hills Women’s Club due to the overwhelming response to speaker Robert Spencer and the subject, “The Left’s Jihad Against the Freedom of Speech”.
Those on the Right are acutely aware that our speech is being censored and silenced. As people arrived and gathered around tables, the talk was of how many ways our speech is being silenced.
Robert Spencer began by saying if he were to name the time we are living in he would call this “The Era of Absurdity”. We are being told to believe the unbelievable. Let’s begin with Linda Sarsour, one of the organizers of the Woman’s March where women wore “pussy hats” and “vagina” costumes. She recently gave a speech saying that before she started wearing the hijab, she was just a white woman from Brooklyn. But when she put on the hijab she became a woman of color. She now identifies as a Palestinian-American woman of color. Absurd.
Linda Sarsour (translated in Arabic is “cockroach”) describes the hijab as liberating. But how is a hijab liberating? The purpose of a hijab is to cover one of a woman’s more beautiful features so that they will be less attractive to men. In fact, Islam considers it a woman’s responsibility to cover herself so she won’t attract men. It is not a man’s responsibility to restrain his passions. Absurd and unjust.
The Left wants no restraints on immorality but embraces Muslim restraints on women. Again…….absurd.
Let’s examine the absurdity of identifying as a Palestinian-American woman of color. First, there has never been a “state” of Palestine, nor is there a Palestinian ethnicity. Those called “Palestinians” are from Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries. In the 1960’s Yasser Arafat invented Palestine and Palestinians. Brooklyn born Linda Sarsour is saying she’s from a country that never existed and is a White woman of color.
Spencer said if you are Black, you don’t need to tell anyone you are, it’s obvious. He asked why anyone would pay attention to White people who say they are Black or a religion that says they are the religion of peace when…..they’re NOT? They need to keep reminding people because they’re worldview keeps conflicting with reality. Absurd, absurd, absurd.
In the absurd world where people accept that you are whatever and whoever you say you are, Robert Spencer said he is Linda Sarsour.
Spencer went on to describe how Conservative speech is being silenced. Spencer’s Facebook page, “Jihad Watch” normally had about 20,000 hits a day. All of a sudden it went down to 2,000 a day. The same has happened to many Conservative pages. Facebook had no answer to the drop.
Before this happened, if you googled “Jihad”, “Islam”, “Muslim” his page would be one of the first to come up, but that is no longer the case.
Spencer said Joel Kaplan, Vice President of Public Policy at Facebook, recently traveled to Pakistan and assured them Facebook would will remove fake accounts and explicit, hateful and provocative material that incites violence and terrorism.
Facebook VP travels to Pakistan to assure government it will remove anti Islamic material.
It is a strange thing this BOWING to AN IDEOLOGY that seeks to destroy choice ! Our schools seem to have missed the FREE CHOICE lessons & OPTED for Blasphemy Laws !
A California Imam recently called Muslims to kill and annihilate all Jews. https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/california-imam-calls-for-muslims-to-annihilate-the-jews
California imam calls on Muslims to ‘annihilate’ the Jews
http://www.conservativereview.com
A California imam delivered a ferociously anti-Semitic sermon Friday from his podium at the Islamic Center of Davis, calling for Allah to “annihilate” the Jews …
Facebook didn’t remove the video showing the Imam saying this. Apparently, Facebook doesn’t think that might “incite violence or terrorism” or offend “community standards”. However, Twitter said Spencer saying “Islam is not a religion of peace” was hate speech and deleted it.
“The Left is at war with reality”. Spencer said Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube have more control over speech than ANY government has EVER had. It started when Obama gave control of the internet to the United Nations. Let that sink in.
Spencer said we must not surrender, we must keep fighting. He said think of the blades of grass that poke through the concrete. BE A BLADE OF GRASS!!
Dan says
Hope I’m first to post here.
I use duckduckgo as a search engine, and just typing Jihad came up with jihadwatch.org as the second possibility listed right after “Jihad”
And Mr. Spencer’s page link came up about sixth in line after entering the search on just “Jihad.”
Dan says
Forgot to mention that Jihadwatch.org came up with duckduckgo set to “safe” content, and that seems to keep out things I consider inappropriate for children, in random searches.
Another search engine I’ve used its gibiru.com, but as far as I can tell it’s 100% uncensored, and adult content will appear by chance some times. There may be a way to censor, but since finding ddg, I’ve pretty much quit using gibiru.
Searching “Jihad” there though, got jihadwatch.org about fifth on the first page too.
Maybe there’s a censoring restriction
Dan says
Dang. Need an edit button here. That last line was O.S. when I hit post comment.
gravenimage says
True, Dan and John–but the problem is that the average reader uses Google, and they are bound to have their results censored to leave Jihad Watch out. This means that it is increasingly difficult for the average person concerned about Jihad and eager to ;learn more the learn the truth.
Tony says
used “Bing” and the first thing listed was Jihadwatch and a list of the same thing. strange but good
Walter Sieruk says
A strong part of this “age of absurdity ” are the nonsense of the politically correct idea of multiculturalism and cultural relativity. .some of this PC absurd madness may be further explained by the following essay.
One of the many politically correct idea’s which is tragically alive and well in both America and Europe the philosophy of multiculturalism which many Westerners are infected by the worthless , sick and unrealistic philosophy also part of the PC madness that is called “Cultural Relativity.”
Which is the concept that all culture are equal because this C.R concept teaches the foolishness that all values derive their meaning within the specific social content. This folly of thinking leads, or misleads, many people to view every position as only “opinion” and that truth is only relevant to the person or society holding that view. In other words, discovering actual truth in impossible.
Such C.R is absurd, nonsensical and contradictory. For example, to say “finding the truth is impossible” Is a statement of contradiction. For in making that statement that is saying, in essence, “I have found the truth which is finding the truth is not possible.” It should be obvious that this “Cultural War’ needs to and should have a solidly based in and on truth and not by a worthless “war of opinions” With the Left Wing ,with PC mindset of CR everything those of the Right says is just “opinion.” on a subject. Of course, that’s not so with the left in which everything they claim is be true is “true.” What a flip –flop!
Two other examples of the falseness of C.R. with its teaching that everything is only “opinion.” First is in the elate 1970’s two guys said “There are so many different religions that no one can ever know the truth about religion.” They were really saying that statement so dogmatically that they were self-contradicting. For they were saying that they know the truth about religion that is not one can know the truth about religion. Second, a shallow man in the 1980’s said when asked the question “Why do you always small talk ? You don’t ever talk about a topic that might have some value, as politics? After all , all thing are related “ That shallow C.R man replied “There are so many different political ideas that finding the true one is unattainable and all thing are not related.” The wisdom-less man was saying that he obtained the truth which is the he can’t obtain the truth and who does can is really truthfully say that all thing are not related in he can’t find the truth. How foolish, an obvious contradiction. What is needed to counter this nonsense C.R./P.C. is the concept of “Absolutism.” Which a definition of this, with the scope of the topic, is “An absolute standard or principle .” In this cultural war it’s the Bible with its absolute standards and principles to stand firm against the extreme folly and foolishness of the CR and PC concepts. In conclusion, in this War of Ideas a firm foundation for truth may be found in the Bible and not the weak folly of CR. in which everything is “opinion.”
Darryl Kerney says
Ayn Rand said that if you claim
“There are no Absolutes”,
You have just uttered an Absolute…..
And she pointed out how the anti-concept of reality being unknowable was injected into philosophy and filtered into public consciousness starting with Immanuel Kant, which poisoned philosophy for hundreds of years with subjectivism and lead to the cultural/moral relativism we see today. That’s the extremely short version of course, Ms Rand spelled it out completely in logical sequence, how false axioms lead to false conclusions.
Wyldeirishman says
Absolutely agreed, though I wish it weren’t so…between Kant and the ingrained higher-criticism approach to Scriptural exegesis, we have become content not only to shoot ourselves in the foot, but to keep reloading by asking others to provide the bullets.
Darryl Kerney says
And now the Left has drawn us into a game of islamic roulette,
With a bullet in every chamber…..
Darryl Kerney says
Yes,
Except it’s not the foot,
It’s the head…..
shosh7154 says
yes as in ARE YOU ABSOLUTE – LY CERTAIN THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES ?
Darryl Kerney says
to which the subjectivists would reply, “we can’t be certain of anything”….
thus denying that reality can even be knowable,
but they are certain they are right about that, haha !
Darryl Kerney says
This can be clearly seen today,
By starting with the false axiom that islam is a religion of peace, many conclude that islam has nothing to do with islamic terrorism, in defiance of mountains of evidence, and growing numbers of dead bodies……
jack grandville says
Now, ain’t that the truth?
Darryl Kerney says
Truly the Age of Absurdity.
Now Germany has choosen suicide by islamic immigration…..
gravenimage says
Good posts, Walter and Darryl.
Darryl Kerney says
Thank you graven !
That means a lot to me coming from you, I’ve come to greatly admire and respect you from reading your insightful and wise comments.
Cheers !
Emilie Green says
“spoke to an overflow crowd”
So encouraging to hear. In my own feeble ways I spread the word about Islam. But Robert has a greater reach and greater knowledge. PTL.
More and more. The word is getting wider and wider play as both the ideology of Islam and the practices of Islam are getting known.
Despite the despicable efforts of those in the Establishment and the MSM who will NOT tell the truth about Islam.
WorkingClassPost says
One particular absurdity of today, is that a culture built on scientific and philosophical achievements, should now face extinction due to it’s stupidity.
jack grandville says
Again, I can say: “Now ain’t that the truth?”
gravenimage says
Yes–if we do fall to these barbarians, it will not be conquest, but suicide.
We need to stand up for our civilized societies!
Darryl Kerney says
And now the Left has drawn us into a game of islamic roulette,
With a bullet in every chamber…..
J_not_a says
Since the islamic terror attack at the Manchester Ariana Grande concert and the London bridge terror attack, the Daily Mail has refused to allow commenting on articles regarding subsequent muslim terror attacks, eg. the Parsons Green bucket bomber. I’m thinking they must have islamic shareholders or may have gotten threats.
More and more, online publications have ceased allowing reader comments on anything regarding muslims and islam. Freedom of speech is truly under attack.
Sarah says
I just saw an breaking news, top page article about an hour ago on DailyMail regarding multiple acid attacks in London overnight.
They’re currently calling it a gang. The comment section is absurdly heavily moderated.
Not letting people speak their views doesn’t change their views. Nor does it ultimately silence them. The pressure builds and eventually it all explodes outwards, elsewhere.
The media are as complicit as the Politicians in all of this social engineering we’re living under.
J_not_a says
Britain appears to be all but lost to islam, so it’s no surprise that speaking crtitically in the press in regard to it is not allowed. Just waiting for Maybemaybenot to don the hijab permanently.
Sarah says
I agree, J.
jack grandville says
I’m on a roll — again, I get to say: “Now ain’t that the truth?”
gravenimage says
Yes–this is disgusting, not allowing people to speak.
abad says
The biggest absurdity of all, there being what, 2 billion Moslems on this rock and they are constantly playing the minority card and the victim card.
J_not_a says
It’s NOT 2 billion yet! Sheesh! About 1.5 or 1.6. Why be in such a hurry to inflate their numbers prematurely Mr. Doomandgloomster?
gravenimage says
True, J_not_a.
Shmooviyet says
Agreed, Abad– muslims have grabbed hold of how well ‘victimhood’ works in so many parts of the West! People will bend themselves into pretzels to avoid (fake) charges of intolerance- some to the point of defending those who’ve raped them.
L. Sarsour has the ‘female’, ‘Palestinian’, ‘muslim’ boxes checked, and recently added ‘black’ to her personal list, if she ‘feels it’ on a given day. At the same time she viciously attacks a true, non-whining victim who is 10x the woman and heroine LS is so desperate to be.
How many more victim groups will Linda join before she feels she has won this sick victimhood contest?!
J_not_a says
It’s NOT 2 billion yet! Sheesh! About 1.5 or 1.6. Why be in such a hurry to inflate their numbers prematurely Mr. Doomandgloomster?
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer: “We are living in the age of absurdity”
………………..
Thank you, Robert Spencer.
Expat88 says
I think the number of Muslims is less than we think since it is not taken into account all those who have left the religion or who want to leave but cannot or those who no longer believe.
jude says
Thank you Robert, very interesting and informative. You are vital in the fight against islam and it’s plain to see why they want to shut you up.
How pleasant to see polite, well spoken, civilised young people asking questions, listening and learning,
hopefully to help in the fight in the near future
Peter Gunning says
You make sense about much of the absurdity but Palestine existed for centuries. Look at old maps with the word “Palestine”… your claim denying that existence is… also absurd.
Robert Spencer says
As I explained quite clearly in the speech, it was for years a geographical designation, but was never a nationality or a people.
Les says
It’s the Age of Absurdity because Satan is getting desperate that his 100 year reign of increased power is over and there still exists good women and men willing to fight leftists evil everywhere
UNCLE VLADDI says
Don’t expect hypocrites to EVER make objective sense! Their subjective double standards mean they pretend to have no free will, and to always be helpless victims, while simultaneously claiming that everyone else does have free will and so are responsible for their “oppressive” actions, and, as such, only have a “right” to become and remain the hypocrites’ slaves! All criminals are hypocrites, and all hypocrites are extortive criminals!
shosh7154 says
google search has only glowing good reports about jihad
its time to use something else…thanks everyone for search engine tips