Canada is now discussing criminal penalties for “Islamophobia.” Facebook’s Vice President went to Pakistan in July to assure the Pakistani government that Facebook would remove content critical of Islam. American columnists seriously call for the denial of free speech rights to those who warn about the jihad threat. That call was directed at me, for the crime of “falsely constructing a divide between Islam and the West.”
“Falsely”? Really?
Clearly there are some very powerful people who are desperately afraid of what they call “Islamophobia,” and are now cracking down on it hard. For years I have been sounding the alarm about the threat of jihad terror and the human rights abuses that Sharia enables, and increasingly the West, instead of heeding these warnings, is turning against those who have been sounding them.
In my forthcoming book Confessions of an Islamophobe, I make my case. Is there really a threat to the free world from jihad terror and Sharia oppression, or is such concern all just paranoid fear-mongering, xenophobia, racism, bigotry, paranoia, profiteering — in a word, “Islamophobia”?
I’ve always found such accusations bewildering and baseless, and still do. I began this work because I was an ordinary American — a believer in the freedom of speech and free society and the equality of rights of all before the law — who saw problems that weren’t being addressed adequately. In the intervening years, those problems have only gotten worse, although the ruling elites still generally do not admit there are any problems at all.
So: are they right, or am I? You be the judge: in Confessions of an Islamophobe, I discuss the real threat women, gays, Jews, Christians, secular liberals and secular Muslims face, and reveal what happens to those ordinary citizens who dare to tell the truth about that threat.
Pre-order Confessions of an Islamophobe here.
Anestos Canelidis says
I recently finished The Complete Infidels Guide to Free speech and it’s enemies so I’ll have to order this. Will books like this be banned in America someday? I am currently reading Answering Islam by Norm Geislar and Abdul Saleed and after that How to Debate the Left on Islam by Paul Nielsen. Will a day come when, like Nazi Germany, the government will burn all books they consider subversive to their NWO agenda?
Shane says
We must NOT LET THAT HAPPEN. Never vote for a Demoncrat again as the party’s agenda is anti-White, anti-Christian, anti-men, anti-Capitalism, anti-America, and anti-Western Civilization. The Demoncrats are pro-censorship, pro-Islam, pro-Communism, pro-mass third world immigration, and pro-violence against their opponents. The Demoncrat party is the enemy of America and it is time to call them out on their encouragement of hatred and violence.
patriotliz says
Shane,
I agree…America’s Demoncrat party is the enemy within and should be systematically defeated in every election.There are the Leftists in Europe/Canada/Australia and the American Democrat party that you describe well and,… then there are their ALLIES—a fundamentalist maniacal religious group called the IslamoNazis. What do these Leftists ultimately gain w/ that alliance? Do they really think their joint effort w/ IslamoFascism to destroy Western Civilization and ethnic cleansing of White people somehow gives them their socialist “paradise” and their NWO? All that the alliance will accomplish is a continuation of world-wide jihad to establish world-wide caliphate and endless war w/ the infidel minorities and also with their fellow Muslims who not “true” Muslims…so they end up replicating the never-ending Middle East warfare.
What good is that?
Stupid is and stupid does.
Stop the Democrats and Stop the Muslim invasion. That’s the only rational solution to maintain freedom and prevent the spread of warfare.
David Stephenson says
Mr. Spencer, your links in the article to your new book do not work. I would like to pre-order it.
Robert Spencer says
Thank you. The links work for me. What happens when you try?
Alien Republican says
Works fine for me. Directs me to the corresponding Amazon page.
Laura says
Works for me too, no problem.
jihad3tracker says
HERE IS A HOTLINK TO THE ARTICLE & AUTHOR ROBERT CITES in reference to “American columnists seriously call for the denial of free speech rights to those who warn about the jihad threat.”
https://www.newtimesslo.com/sanluisobispo/i-stand-by-my-opinion/Content?oid=3449901
Maybe some of us who have a bit of spare time this weekend would like to shred her :
(A) obvious approval of the hecklers’ veto preceding prior restraint
and
(B) giving control of who speaks — and who does not — to anyone intent on being violent at gatherings in the public square or on campuses.
But note that the 2 contact paths given at the bottom of do NOT necessarily lead to reaching her directly. So, it would be well worth a few minutes of searching to get her DIRECT EMAIL ADDRESS.
jihad3tracker says
Let me revise that advice somewhat. Make your primary reply here:
letters (at) newtimesslo
and copy it to a direct email address for her (Kathy Reidmann) if you can find one.
Shane says
The problem with hate speech laws is that hate is in the eye of the beholder. I certainly do not want emotional and subjective liberals to define what is hate speech. Many liberals define hate speech as anything critical of Islam, minorities, trannies, gays, immigrants, and Muslims regardless if the statement is true. I stand by our United States Constitutional right to freedom of speech unless the speech calls for violence against somebody or a group.
Also, I hope everybody sees the great movie, “American Assassin” starring Vince Flynn’s action hero, Mitch Rapp: https://twitter.com/VinceFlynnFilm It got very good reviews and even women liked it!
gravenimage says
Why “even women”?
Walter Sieruk says
Just thinking about about the blind fanatical zeal of many Muslims and the sad folly of many Christians regarding their lack of will and interest in concerning Islam’s jihad which is armed ,a many times, against the West.
The difference between Christians and Muslims in their places of worship in the United States of America and how they invest their time and effort may be seen in the following. There are some Muslims who gather together in their mosque. They, at times, discuss the furtherance and advancement of Islam by the means of either the stealth jihad or the militant jihad. In their Islamic agenda they are, no doubt, sincere and earnest.
In contrast, there are a number of Christians when they meet together, after the church service, and talk. The talk consists mainly of pious platitudes and their fantasy or daydream, of what they image heaven to be like. As if they actually can comprehend what heaven is like. They call this empty talk and waste of time “Christian fellowship.” Then after speaking such words many of them engage in a discussion about sports. This does show the Karl Marx was very wrong when he had written that “Religion is the opium of the people.” It’s obvious the actual “Opium of the people” is sports. For excessive obsession with sports distracts for subjects of real, actual, importance Nevertheless, the point being that with the topics, time and effort invested in by many Muslims is greatly contrasted in and by the topics, time and effort, invested in by many Christians. The outcome of this may be the sad tragic reality that Muslims ,might than , instead of Christians have a better future in America. Be it Sharia based laws in this nation and not Bible based laws or whatever the case may be. Then the Christians in America will not really have a valid reason to complain since they wasted their time with worthless subjects of no actual value rather than invest their time in the study of Islam and its different forms of its jihad, and the engage in Bible based and intelligent ways to counter the darkness of this demonic movement.
don vito says
true about sports being an escape, but the left is intent on changing that too. As an example, the left has “captured” the NFL and is now using the NFL to get their story out. Both sports commentators, and players, during the games, preach their values, using the games and the NFL to attract an audience. There is no escape or won’t be, for much longer, from the hive mindset.
Julie Forlizzo says
What on earth does Christianity have to do with this book and islamophobia? A Christian walks out of church and talks about sports, while the “moderate” jihad walks out of his phony religious ceremony at his favorite mosque and discusses his dysfunctional allegiance to the destruction of 241 yrs of American culture? Blah Blah Blah,, Walter Sieruk!!!
John A. Marre says
Just go to Amazon.com and search for the book. Easy to find.
Before the left can successfully destroy this country, with the willing help of Muslims, they have to take away our life and liberty if we dare complain.
They are succeeding. The left has come close to silencing this website.
Buy the book.
underbed cat says
This should be an interesting book. What happens when you talk about detailed facts in America that not too many know and the left goes bonkers…Robert I don’t know if you have heard about this now, there is an investigation on Russian ads on FB,apparently or maybe faked, how nuts is this..will this ever end, if ads were on FB I would think Hillary ads were plentiful, not saying they were Russian ads but plenty of ads. There was no ad that influenced me, just the Trump comments about the threat of Islamic terrorism…which it seems in the tech world some want to silence. any ..criticism as we know as factual doctrine, so not to offend (otherwise known as setting off) Strange stuff. Although I think at least google has Wiki facts when searched.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Congrats Robert! I hope that it sells out over and over again, and that it becomes a must-have best seller.
Lydia says
Needless to say Robert…
I already know that you are right!
And consequently, they are wrong.
( :
But this is a must read…
Keep up the good work!
PRCS says
Correct.
In an argument, only one individual/group can actually be right.
Sarah says
I’m looking forward to reading the book.
Facebook. Good old Facebook. Who cares? There are well over 7 billion people on the planet. According to Facebook they have around 1 to 1.2 billion users. And who knows how many of those users are actually ‘active’ users? And how many of those users could give a flying kangaroo kick for politics (of any side)?
Facebook’s influence is hardly the big threat that the Left like to use it as. Having Facebook control content means that Zuckerberg, the filthy worm, can shape content that less than 1/7th of the world will access – and far less than that, will even care about, to begin with.
scherado says
Holy Bleep, the title says it all, I’ve just spent the last week “standing up to the global jihad” AGAINST OTHER presumably ORDINARY AMERICANS!!! It’s on a Science Forum of all places!
mortimer says
Slander is normative Islam, rather than an aberration. Mohammed hired poets to create lampoons of Mohammed’s critics in order to slander them and make their message easy to dismiss as the words of fool.
Islam uses disinformation to create the ground of its supremacism and then to seize power and repress all free speech.
Once free speech is gone, Islam can take out any target unopposed.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “Mohammed hired poets to create lampoons of Mohammed’s critics in order to slander them and make their message easy to dismiss as the words of fool.”
REALLY?! He did?! Please prove this!
I find that hard to believe, since Muhammad hated all poets and regularly had them assassinated.
gravenimage says
With all respect, Mortimer, I have never seen any indication that Muhammed lampooned his critics.
Instead, there are numerous accounts in the Hadith and Sira that the “Prophet” had his critics assassinated.
James Stamulis says
Why doesn’t FACEBOOK remove content disparaging to Christianity or Judaism? It is all part of the NWO agenda and they are using Islam to destroy the west first. Not going to work!
libertyORdeath says
Islam sure didn’t seem to need Robert Spencer to have a “divide” with the West for some 1300 plus years. Islam and especially islamists cannot stand the least bit of criticism or challenge to their religion due to the obvious flaws, outright lies and lack of reason contained within their faith.
Yet the most terrifying aspect is that to the “true believers ” of many faiths, these facts are of no concern even when they lead to savagery. The only thing that matters is the faith that consumes them to a point of living an alternate reality where the wishes and commands of a supernatural force are far more compelling than understanding or truth. How to fix the human tendency to crave a more meaningful existence through religion is not the problem, but stomping out overzealous movements, especially when they progress to political entities should be a goal of all reasonable people.
Keep throwing the truth at em Robert! We all need to do everything we can to discredit these misguided Islamists and refuse to accept their barbarity on religious grounds. Mr. Spencer and many others have exposed a huge weakness in their plans and we must support and defend their tireless efforts to avoid the biggest disaster the world could imagine.
UNCLE VLADDI says
They don’t call it the “STOCKHOLM SYNDROME” for nothing, you know!
Pretending that the global crime-gang called islam is a “race” of poor swarthy animal-people, oppressed by the mentally superior whites, in order to slander everyone who notices it’s a crime-gang as a hatefully bigoted “racist” – is to deliberately enable that crime-gang’s crimes by hiding and destroying the evidence of same, and thus to be a willing accessory to those crimes. Since islam is a murder-gang, and the penalty for committing and enabling the commission of murder is DEATH, anyone and everyone who calls an opponent of muslims, islam, and their global jihad, a “racist!” should be lawfully put to death.
Everyone who defends islam and muslims endorses crime.
Endorsing crime IS a crime, so those doing it are criminals.
Right in the Qur’an is: the obligation to murder Jews and Christians (Surah 9:29), to terrorize all non-Muslims (8:12), to rape young girls (65:4), to enslave people for sex (4:3), to lie about one’s true goals (3:54), and the command to make war on all the infidels (9:123) and subjugate the entire world to Allah (9:33).
Are death-threats legal? NO.
Is extortion legal? NO.
Is slavery legal? NO.
Is murder legal? NO.
Is rape legal? NO.
THEN ISLAM IS ILLEGAL!
Rape, slavery, robbery, extortion and murder are never OK!
Everything muslims pretend to see as “holy” is already a crime!
So nobody has a legal right to practice islam anywhere on earth!
IN TRYING TO MAKE CRITICISM OF THE GLOBAL CRIME GANG CALLED “ISLAM” INTO A CRIME, TO PROTECT THAT CRIME GANG BY HIDING THE EVIDENCE OF ITS CRIMES, JUSTIN TURDEAU IS A CRIMINAL AND A TRAITOR TO RATIONALITY, CIVILIZATION, AND HUMANITY ITSELF.
libertyORdeath says
All great points.
Even when you disregard manmade law and simply rely on basic human nature, we all know that things like murder, terrorism and slavery are inherently WRONG. The only real reason to dispute something so basic is to gain control over people. If people are willing to ignore their conscious in favor of the religious teachings then there are MORE than enough people out there willing to take advantage of their ignorance.
gravenimage says
Bravo, Mr. Spencer!