The renowned historian Bat Ye’or, author of The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam, Eurabia, and other great books, says this:
“Robert Spencer incarnates intellectual courage when, all over the world, governments, intellectuals, churches, universities and media crawl under a hegemonic Universal Caliphate’s New Order. His achievement in the battle for the survival of free speech and dignity of man will remain as a fundamental monument to the love of, and the self-sacrifice for, liberty.”
I’m honored by her words, but I wonder: why does it require any intellectual courage at all to discuss jihad terror and Sharia oppression in an honest and realistic manner?
Because the establishment media and the political elites have bought wholeheartedly into the idea that to discuss such things is to engage in “Islamophobia.” And in doing so, they’re shutting down discussions we need to have in the public square about Islam and the rights of women, gays, non-Muslims, and others.
This is the focus of my new book Confessions of an Islamophobe: as such discussion continues to be stigmatized, there are genuine concerns about Islam that need to be brought out in the open — or else the West is opening itself up to a future of civil strife and worse.
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t. says
I 100%, agree with Bat Ye’or about Robert!
D J says
And so say all of us!
mortimer says
To say that ‘ROBERT SPENCER INCARNATES INTELLECTUAL COURAGE’ is like saying sunshine comes from the sun. The light shines in the darkness, but the globalist powers of darkness cannot comprehend it. The global 1% kleptocrats are the enemies of righteousness.
IT’S A BATTLE OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL and Robert Spencer preaches righteousness every day.
The moral light of Spencer is similar to the moral light of Socrates, a preacher of righteousness to the Athenian kleptocrats and slave-owners. They wanted none of Socrates’ morals and ethics and killed him.
Today’s 1% globalist mega-rich elites want to control their fake Weltanschauung that claims Islam is benign and harmless, when ALL the Islamic source texts claim the opposite… namely, that Islam has a duty to conduct military warfare until all non-Muslims are subjugated.
These facts are indisputable, but so few people know this because of the complexity of the Islamic texts and because Muslims consider themselves to be in a state of war and DISINFORMATION ABOUT ISLAM IS A WEAPON in the Islamic arsenal that ALL MUSLIMS UNDERSTAND INSTINCTIVELY.
The truth about jihad is almost NEVER ADMITTED BY MUSLIMS (Anjem Choudary is virtually the only exception… and he’s in jail.)
Robert Spencer leads the righteous. Jihad Watch readers, YOU are the righteous remnant.
Linde Barrera says
To mortimer- Thank you for your beautiful and spiritual comments. I am thinking you are a minister?
Raja says
Mortimer,
When have you become a minister or a preacher?
Great comments. Seen so many of your comments on the evils of Islam.This one is certainly different.
Walter Sieruk says
A claim by Islamic scholars as well as jihadists is that no one can produce something as beautiful as the Quran in the way the words are arranged and thus it can only be of God. This claim should be answered.
First, all someone has to do is examine some of the great works of literature to fine much written beauty. Such as the Greek epic poet Homer with his Iliad and Odyssey and then Virgil who produced the Aeneid has beauty. Even one of the non-Bible books in the Apocrypha called The Song of Three Children is also very beautiful. Thus just because someone sees a work that is written in great beauty doesn’t mean it’s inspired by God.
Second, the scholar Edward Gibbon wrote after an examination of the Quran that it is an “incoherent jumble of fable and precept and declamation which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, sometimes craws in the dust and is sometimes lost in the clouds…” The writer Thomas Carlyle wrote the Quran is “A wearisome jumble, crude, incondite [with] endless iterations [and] long-windedness…” Likewise, the philosopher David Hume was NOT favorably impressed after reading the Quran.
[Source of the three scholars mentioned – Secrets of The Koran: Revealing Insight Into Islam’s Holy Book .56,66, by Don Richardson]
Furthermore, the following should be taken into consideration. Of course the Muslim who reads the Quran will see great beauty in the way the words are arranged. This is, in part, because of the power of suggestion after being told so many times that the Quran is so beautifully written. That’s an old brainwashing method, repeating and being told that same thing again and again. Since he or she is always being told the same lie will end up believing that lie. In addition to that, the Imams try to discourage their people from reading other works, such as the Bible, so then they don’t have much or anything to compare or contrast the Quran with. Of course there are some Muslim’s that do read other works, but they are exceptions and they read other things only after they were already brainwashed by the Imams. In short, the Muslims can’t read the Quran objectively because their Imams have programmed them to have a strong bias towards it.
Ursus Arctos says
Wish I could be that erudite. But my first reading of the Koran caused me to slap my forehead & cry, “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever read!”
The Koran did not improve upon subsequent readings. It’s so bad that I blame it for a near permanent 10 point drop in IQ.
Voytek Gagalka says
“…a fundamental monument to the love of, and the self-sacrifice for, liberty.”
The only problem with that is that alleged “self-sacrifice.” Liberty is one of the most fundamental individual rights, a fundamental VALUE, on which other two components (the right to life and the pursuit of happiness) depend. We, who uphold the standard of our rights, do not wish to exist without all three of them. What is the value of life without liberty? Does life have lesser value to be sacrificed for? To obtain what? For us, slavery is not an option: we do not wish to “sacrifice” ourselves to achieve enslavement – Life is our highest value. “Self-sacrifice” would be simply self-immolation, i.e., desiring and active participation in action toward one’s enslavement.
gravenimage says
Standing up for and fighting for your values is not mindless immolation. We have to be willing to fight for–and, if need be, die for–our values.
We are free now because brave people were willing to fight for these values.
Walter Sieruk says
Since the very foundation of and for Islam is the Quran ,this leads to very important question: “Is the Quran the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a man. Thus, is the Quran the truth or a fiction and a hoax ?” The answer is clearly given on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Quran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Quran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Quran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.” Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran. Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” Nevertheless, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.” In conclusion, the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
Even though the above essay was posted before, it should now be added that the last statement of the above that “the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.” To put this in a Biblical way. As in from the Bible, it may be truly explained that the Quran is a deceptive work of “the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.” Ephesians 14:12.. [N.I.V.]
t. says
Thanks a lot, Walter, for your encyclopedia of comments, such as the above two!
Even though the time I got available whenever I visit this site is usually limited, I make sure to read certain comments which I think would contain important information. Yours are among them.
eduardo odraude says
pre-ordered my e-book version
gravenimage says
Bat Ye’or: “Robert Spencer incarnates intellectual courage”
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Said by someone who knows whereof she speaks!
mortimer says
They are both courageous.
carol says
He’s not “sacrificing” so much as just being himself. His output is amazing.
gravenimage says
Absolutely, Mortimer! So was her brave husband, the late David Littman.
Raja says
It is Islam that incubates bigots, so all of Left should examine Islam instead of name calling.
This lady’s praises of Robert Spencer is Welcome in a world of insanity and chaos. Hope her worlds will bring in some serene atmosphere.
Robert_K says
Political Science in the Western World is an oxymoron. How did Hitler succeed, if not for the support of the incompetents leading the Western World then? People haven’t changed since then. The masses are asses lead by asses.
gravenimage says
It have escaped your notice that the West finally stood up to Fascism, and won.
carol says
Forces set in motion and their impetus is the problem. The Lincoln Memorial scene from “Nixon” is great as Nixon realizes his limitations:
Young Student: You don’t want the war, we don’t want the war, the Vietnamese don’t want the war, so why does it go on?
Young Student: You can’t stop it, can you? Even if you wanted to. Because it’s not you, it’s the system. The system won’t let you stop it.
Richard Nixon: There’s… there’s more at stake here than what you want, or what I want.
Young Student: Then what’s the point? What’s the point of being President? You’re powerless!
Richard Nixon: No. No, I’m not powerless. Because, because I understand the system, I believe I can, uh, I can control it. Maybe not control it totally, but tame it enough to make it do some good.
Young Student: Sounds like you’re talking about a WILD ANIMAL..
Richard Nixon: Yeah, maybe I am.
t. says
carol, did the above dialog between Richard Nixon and that Young Student really took place?
gravenimage says
For good or ill, Nixon did end the war in Vietnam. Your implication that this was impossible simply makes no sense.
Charles Martel says
I’ve read half of Robert Spencer’s 16 or so published books as well as Bat Ye’or’s “Eurabia”. I think his new one might be redundant information….but I’ll read it anyway. I just wish the publisher would send a copy to President Trump and the rest of his WH staff and cabinet.