This morning I spoke at the Young America’s Foundation September High School Conference.
My frequent references to the Los Angeles Times stem from the presence of a Los Angeles Times reporter in the room as I spoke. Watch for the Times hit piece on YAF and me.
mortimer says
Robert Spencer rightly points out the self-refuting nonsense of the Left-Green Axis as they pursue the total destruction of freedom of expression and political power without principle.
How can such self-declared LIBERALS get in bed with the most ILLIBERAL and MISOGYNISTIC and TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGY in the world? It is a blantant self-refutation. They are merely OPPORTUNISTS without principles they will not abandon in the pursuit of power.
jule says
Free Speech if a must. Free speech for Terrorists is a MUST NOT. I do not want binLadens family and friends parading down any street, armed and chanting death to the West. SORRY but TERRORISTS have no rights but a lawyer. Same with NAZIgroups (WORLD WAR) KKKlan (CIVIL WAR) or White Supremacists since Equality & Protection for all is also a guarantee and Right. We must protect our real Freedom. Not use loopholes to destroy it. Groups designated TERRORIST do not have the right of free speech to broadcast and recruit on the streets or internet. A line must be drawn. Conservative views are fine and as necessary as Liberal but Terrorists: Nazigroups, KKKlan, Unreformed ISLAM, White Supremacists are not. NO TERRORISTS.
gravenimage says
Jule, the big difference is whether someone is preaching violence. If they are not, then even abhorrent views are permitted.
But Islam regularly incites violence, and this is not allowed in a free society.
mortimer says
Linda Sarsour invented herself through absurdities, and flights of fancy away from reality: 1) a white girl is ‘black’ 2) a veiled Muslim woman who believes in female submission is ‘feminist’ 3) she is an American born in New York who is suddenly a non-American from a non-existent middle-eastern country.
These absurdities are like a square circle, a baby grand, bitter sweet, bug-free software, Clinton principles.
Saleem Smith says
The great Islamophobic ‘Babe Ruth of Truth’ Robert Spencer hits another home run at the Young America’s Foundation this morning. lol The Los Angeles Times reporter in the room probably believes that Muhammad the prophet of Islam was a Saint. A real lovely kinda guy that you would like to have over for dinner and have babysit the kids. In fact the supposedly perfect Qur’an says that Muhammad the prophet of Islam is the model man for human conduct!
Qur’an 33:21: ‘There is a good example in God’s apostle for those of you who look to God and the Last Day and remember God always.’
We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know that Mohammedanism/Islamism is a terribly dangerous and harmful fraud. The Egyptian Greek Melkite Jesuit Priest Henri Boulad was correct in saying that:
“Islamism is not a caricature, nor a counterfeit, nor a heresy, nor a fringe or atypical phenomenon versus classical, orthodox, Sunnite Islam. To the contrary, I think Islamism is naked Islam, Islam without a mask and without paint, Islam perfectly consistent and true to itself, an Islam that has the courage and lucidity to go all the way to its ultimate conclusions and final implications.Islamism is Islam in all its logic and in all its rigour. Islamism is present in Islam as the chick is present in the egg, as the fruit is present in the flower and as the tree is present in the seed.
But what is Islamism?
Islamism is political Islam, the bearer of a project for a model society and whose aim is to establish a theocratic state based on Sharia, the only legitimate law—since it is divine—since it was revealed and enshrined in the Koran and Sunna—it’s a law that applies to everything. Here is an all-inclusive and all-encompassing project, one that is total, totalizing and totalitarian.”
Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:
“One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…
The statement continues,
Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.”
mortimer says
Saleem, I agree with everything but one word which I correct: “Robert Spencer is the Babe Ruth of ISLAMO-REALISM.”
eduardo odraude says
A great talk.
Andy says
Another great video Mr. Spencer, Thank you.
Here is another “Freedom Fighter” saying it like it is.
“Islam is Fascist” Geert Wilders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yubwB7M3qc
More Ham Ed says
That is worth watching again.
BUT *VOLUME WARNING* AFTER THE 6 MINUTE MARK.
The volume triples for no reason at that point.
I only wish the “50 stars” person and everyone else on
youtube would learn what audio normalizing is.
Darryl Kerney says
just an FYI,
re : Solzhenitsyn’s blade of grass.
he “wrote” that, as in thought of it,
(because writing it down would result in the “9 gram” solution if it was discovered,
9 grams being the approx mass of a pistol bullet… or at least the isolation punishment cell, which were unimaginably horrific)
while in a Sharashka, which were Gulags for the more useful Zeks,
(gulag prisoners),in them were usually political prisoners sentenced under
Article 58, which if you read it, you’ll see that following it made it possible to sentence
Anyone for Anything, if there was even the slightest SUSPICION (real or imagined) that
you had even THOUGHT OF (thought crime) opposing the Soviet State, you could be easily
found guilty of being anti-soviet, anti-revolutionary, or whatever “anti” they felt like that day, and either be immediately shot, or sent to a Gulag, of which there were many types ranging in severity, all the way up to hard labor extermination camps where Zeks were worked to death on starvation rations in inhumane conditions beyond the imagination of anyone who never experienced them, because it was cheaper to simply get more convicts to replace them to do the work required to build the socialist utopia.
in fact it was extremely easy to replace them, since the various “law enforcement” organs of the gov’t were given QUOTAS to fill, they were ordered to arrest and convict (see Article 58) “saboteurs”, “wreckers”, and sweep up masses of people in waves of arrests, to send into the maw of the Gulag system,
and who were these people ?
ANYONE, but especially anyone who, as Article 58 spells out, is even suspected of being anti-Soviet.
the Sharashkas were island paradises compared to the “archipelago” of slave labor gulag camps that dotted the huge Soviet Union.
That was how they purged ANYONE who opposed the Soviet system, with the zeal of those who think they are ridding the world of cancerous tumors from the collective body of mankind.
The Sharashkas were for the scientists, engineers, etc, and mathematicians like Solzhenitsyn was,
where they were intellectual slaves, forced to research and invent for the benefit of the Soviet State,
as political prisoners,
THAT is where Alexander came up with his idea of the blade of grass pushing its way through the concrete,
he literally saw it, in the exercise yard of the prison complex he was enslaved in,
INSIDE the city limits of Moscow, while those across the street and beyond had no idea that innocent people who had been convicted by means of confessions beaten out of them, stating they had thought or acted against the State, were inside those walls…..(see his novel “The First Circle”).
or how easily they themselves could end up within them too.
simply absentmindedly WRITING ON a photo of Stalin in the newspaper could earn you 10 years of gulag hard labor,
Stalin was apparently EASILY OFFENDED……
in “The Gulag Archipelago” he many times implores,
WHY did we not speak up against the arrest of innocents ?
WHY did we not protest when they came for us ? (usually in the middle of the night, for obvious reasons…)
Why did we not call out to our fellow citizens around us when being taken away ?
Why did we believe it was all a Mistake, a Misunderstanding, and that the Court would straighten it all out, or Comrade Stalin would see the Error if we wrote to him, and set us free ?
Why did we let this happen ?
the blade of grass poking through the concrete was a glimmer of Hope in the face of absolute dictatorship.
We mustn’t let the Left “progress” us right BACK to such a horrific place.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“We mustn’t let the Left “progress” us right BACK to such a horrific place.”
+1
“Inside every socialist is a totalitarian screaming to get out.” – David Horowitz.
Darryl Kerney says
it never ceases to amaze me how so many think that the “progressive” ideas stinking up the air these days are somehow New, they are not, they are the same old re-labeled collectivist insanity that keeps destroying every nation that embraces them. Communism failed, so the socialists appear to have decided they need help to achieve their fantasy utopia, by teaming up with other totalitarians, the islamists, to crush all resistance and break down the capitalism they despise in order to “rebuild” and forge their dreamed of socialist paradise. it seems to me the Left will not fight islam until AFTER they have defeated their common foes, but if that happens they will have, by then, eliminated their only saviours, the defenders of truth, freedom and individual rights……
gravenimage says
Video: Robert Spencer on the freedom of speech in the age of absurdity
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I just heard that the Campus Republicans had just pulled out of sponsoring Free Speech Week at UC Berkeley. I don’t know the exact reason–they have not said–but I do know that they had been threatened with violence by Leftists including Antifa, and threatened with being charged for all security by the Berkeley Police Department.
I am saddened that they cracked–but under this grotesque pressure, not surprised.
And this is all over having non-violent speakers like Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter.
PRCS says
Wonder what UCB’s written policy is regarding who pays for security.
Would imagine the university is on the hook for that, as one of its responsibilities.
gravenimage says
I’m not sure, PRCS. I believe it was not campus police, but the Berkeley city police who were making the threat.
PRCS says
After a quick search, couldn’t find anything specific.
Whether it was UCB Police or Berkeley Police…something fishy there.
Darryl Kerney says
what the hell is wrong with people in Berkeley ?
what an appalling act of surrender !
leftists threaten violence in protest of FREE SPEECH,
and they obediently submit…..
letting thugs win by default.
gravenimage says
I understand why this student group got scared.
But Milo Yiannopoulos appeared and spoke anyway. Kudos to him.
PRCS says
I note in Robert Spencer’s talk, that Muslim women have a responsibility to wear hijab.
Of course, it is the ummah’s responsibility (mostly it’s “men”) to make sure they uphold that responsibility.
Warren Raymond says
There was very little in the way of hijabbery until the late seventies, when the Ayatollah Khomeini toppled the shah of Iran and the “Islamic revolution” began.
Until then, I traveled through many Islamic countries, you would hardly ever see any.
PRCS says
Thanks for the post.
I imagine it depends upon the country/region and the time frame.
Afghanistan?
Western China?
Chechnya?
Rural Pakistan?
Saudi Arabia?
blackcat mendoza says
Sydney?
Melbourne?
Brisbane?
Perth?
Ettamogah? (There goes the Pub!!)
TL says
Secular humanism was rolled back throughout many of those places.
V.S. Naipul is a famous author from Trinidad who in “Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey” wrote about his own journey through Asia after the Iranian revolution. Probably you would find his account fascinating. “The Kite Runner”, a novel, is another book which I recommend; the main setting is Afghanistan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Among_the_Believers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kite_Runner
gravenimage says
Yes–these books give something of the view from the ground in Dar-al-Islam.
Emilie Green says
“Watch for the Times hit piece on YAF and me.”
A genuine reporter, one interested in factual reporting, would look up the Quran references cited by Spencer and see if they say what Robert claims they say.
Then, when he/she realizes that Robert was accurate, he/she would write about that realization in the forthcoming LAT article.
Mike9a says
…use brain and common sense then suddenly one cannot work for LAT uninformed, half-truth and laying machine anymore.
Michael says
Of course, editorial standards must kept up. Sanity is superfluous.
Mike9a says
How beautiful, relaxing and refreshing to listen to voice of reason and common sense. Thank you Robert for all you do.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!
Green infidel says
Re Aqsa Parvez removing her hijab out of the house (8:10 in the video). I saw something like this once, on a bus in London… two maybe late teen girls were in the seats behind me talking about their shopping (bus was coming from Oxford street). At one point I looked round, saw they were looking quite glamorous… then later one of them says “uncle Abdul will be waiting for us at the station” . And then, lo and behold, when they get off the bus, on come the hijabs! This was early 2000s, around the time I first heard of honour killings, and I often wondered what may have happened, had uncle Abdul seen them without their hijabs…
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
When these social media tools (Facebook, Twister etc.) first came online, I warned anyone who would listen to avoid or at the very least not to dive into them without first thinking through the consequences. I said that these are privately owned businesses that have no regulations hanging over them. I warned that it is a mistake to view them as publicly owned infrastructure, they are not. I was laugh at. I was called a caveman.
As time goes by and I see these organizations showing their true colours, I find myself vindicated. There are some who still mock me but they are almost all fools so I pay them no heed.
JawsV says
Thoroughly enjoyed the video. The standing ovations were terrific! And so deserved.
blackcat mendoza says
Yeah, but not from the little fat pig who had to be nudged by his mate! Probably forced to go by his Mummy! No future leadership there! He’ll likely become a Police Commissioner or a Politician!
boakai ngombu says
observing the students, whom you taught well, Robert, i wondered how many had ever faced lies, deception and betrayal on a regular basis; that is what they’ll face in the college classroom and the world about, where the SHARIA culture influences the unsuspecting.
truth will win out. the way of righteousness will always show forth. the glory of Triune God certainly shines brighter than the devious ways of the allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers).
thank you for your efforts to speak truth in the midst of absurdity.
More Ham Ed says
A highly recommended video. You can listen to it while cooking bacon, pork chops, pork rinds, sausage, smoked ham and bratwurst, or while making ham sandwiches, or while sprinkling bacon bits on your salad.
solange silverman says
George Orwell was fully aware of the sort of lies that would be perpetrated upon us all. He was an insider, who learned first hand of the fascist globalists’ agenda. He left that group, disgusted, and became a whistle blower, hence, “1984.” Today, those same globalists are stepping up their game.