This October 27 CBC audio report, published the day before I entered Canada in order to speak, along with Jihad Watch writer Christine Douglass-Williams, in Grand Prairie, Alberta, is a case study of how the “Islamophobia” smear works. The CBC’s embed code doesn’t work, but you can listen to the report here.
The CBC interviews Martin Theriault of something called the “Research Group on the Far-Right and Its Allies.” It is taken for granted that my opposition to jihad terror and Sharia oppression makes me “far-right.” What, exactly, does it mean to be “far-right”? It is meant to suggest that the person to whom the label is attached is akin to Hitler, the quintessential far-right figure. But Hitler was racist, anti-Semitic, genocidal, and against free society and the freedom of speech. I am against all racism, strongly pro-Israel, and a consistent proponent of societies that uphold the freedom of speech and the equality of rights of all before the law. So how can both Hitler and I be “far-right”? It’s just a smear term; if the CBC were a remotely responsible news agency, it would not use it.
Note also Theriault’s case. He says I claim that the West is at war with Islam. I have never actually said that, and do not believe it is true, so one major element of his case is a plain falsehood. I have said that clearly significant elements of the Islamic world are at war with us, but that is not at all the same thing. He also says, several times, that I have noted that Islam is not a religion of peace. He thinks that should be grounds to ban me from the country. If he were consistent in that, many Muslim clerics who know full well that Islam is not a religion of peace, and preach accordingly, such as Toronto imam Ayman Elkasrawy, who recently prayed that Allah would kill all the Jews, would have to be banned as well. But Theriault would, of course, oppose that.
Theriault is also singularly inept at making his case, fumbling to quote me saying that modern-day jihadis believe that they are continuing a fourteen-century struggle (jihad) against the non-Muslim world, and ending up saying that I believe that jihadis are continuing a fourteen-year-long struggle. The CBC interviewer, not surprisingly, never calls him on his false statements or misstatements.
Nor did the CBC bother to reach out to me for comment on a story in which I was the single subject. When you’re condemned as an “Islamophobe,” you have no rights anyone is bound to respect.
How did the extraordinary situation come to be? How has it become taken for granted that opposing jihad terror and Sharia oppression is such an egregious evil that it warrants someone being banned from countries? (After all, I was banned from Britain for saying that Islam was not a religion of peace.) Find out what kind of society the CBC and Martin Theriault are enabling by stigmatizing criticism of Islam and jihad in my new book Confessions of an Islamophobe (preorder here now). I never expected that standing for the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and the equality of rights of all people before the law would make me an international pariah. What happened? Find out in Confessions of an Islamophobe — preorder your copy here now.
Dawn says
You tried and you lost ! Keep up the good work Robert ! Thank you so much for coming to Grande Prairie Alberta. You are welcome any time.
Guest says
Don’t you love it when evil fails
gravenimage says
🙂
Alain says
G-d bless you Mr. Spencer,and may He lead you from success to success in your pursuit and spreading of the truth
Ren says
Left-fascists will ALWAYS fail in the end. Fools don’t win.
mortimer says
Agree with Ren. They fail only AFTER they run out of other people’s money.
mortimer says
The Communist Broadcasting Corporation of Canuckstan is no more than Pravda of the Naturally-Entitled Governing Party (the Lib-Jihad Party of Canuckstan) led as by Canuckstan’s first dhimmi prime minister Jihadi Justin Selfie Zoolander, the multi-millionaire concerned that middle class and working classes aren’t paying enough taxes.
The Communist Broadcasting Corporation has no one who is an Islam experts… namely, someone who has even read the original source texts of Islam (let alone studied them). This GUARANTEES that no one at the Communist Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) knows BUGGER ALL about jihad, Sharia law or Islamic supremacism. That’s the way the Naturally-Entitled Governing Party (the Lib-Jihad Party of Canuckstan) likes it !
Benedict says
“He also says, several times, that I have noted that Islam is not a religion of peace.” –
If Islam was a religion of peace no criticism, insults or caricatures of its prophet would arise such frenzied upheavals as we have witnessed. Politicians in the West walk on eggshells around this “religion of peace” thereby demonstrating their expectations that its “peaceful manifestations” are apt to erupt at any unpredictable occasion revealing their ridiculous and expedient reassurances of its peacefulness as just that in the process.
Kessler says
Brilliant – well said. This will go in my Islam A-Z
Mark Berlinger says
Politicians in the West will cover up atrocities to protect a lie that is repeated ad nauseum. Oh, what lie? “Islam is the religion of peace.” Islam is actually the religion of discrimination and domination.
Only Islam threatens non-believers with slavery and death for non-belief.
mortimer says
Theriault objects anyone saying that ‘ISLAM IS NOT THE RELIGION OF PEACE’ ???
– “Islam was NEVER A RELIGION OF PEACE. Islam is the RELIGION OF FIGHTING*.” – Caliph of All Islam, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi as quoted in “Islamic State releases ‘al-Baghdadi message’”, BBC (14 May 2015) (*Arabic “q-t-l” = fight to the death)
– “Do not think the war that we are waging is the Islamic State’s war alone. Rather, it is the Muslims’ war altogether. It is the war of every Muslim in every place, and the Islamic State is merely the spearhead in this war. It is but the war of the people of faith against the people of disbelief.” – Caliph of All Islam, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, as quoted in Independent (15 May 2015)
Bree says
I have been a Jihad Watch (Dhimmi Watch/ Jihad Watch) reader for at least ten years. Never once did you say (write) that the West is at war with Islam. However, I believe there is a substantial facture of Islam that is at war with the West. I also believe that if 911, the French tragedy, Florida gay club horror, the U.K. slaughter, San Bernardino Christmas party, and on and on: it is time to bomb Mecca, and put an end to it.
gravenimage says
I don’t think bombing would end violent Jihad. Violent Jihad is intrinsic to Islam.
Wellington says
Yes, gravenimage, bombing alone would not entirely end violent jihad, but the thought of Mecca, with its Kaaba, that silly meteorite in it, et al., being vaporized is not an unpleasant thought to me, anymore than what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki are since what happened in 1945 with those two cities actually saved far, far more lives than it destroyed and thus overwhelmingly vindicates Truman’s decision to this very day.
Yes, I know the realm of high theory I am functioning in right now, but damn, and as a hater of Islam as I know you are, and aware as you are that Muslims actually believe that Allah would never allow the destruction of the Kaaba, that Allah would disallow the Kaaba from being destroyed, I would love to see it destroyed.
After all, the worst religion ever created by man would be so deserving of this. Perhaps even to the point that belief by many confused Mohammedans (excuse the redundancy) would exist no more. It might actually and eventually have to come to this, when 9/11 is effectively the Pearl Harbor event and the destruction of Mecca is the Hiroshima and Nagasaki event.
Islam is asking for this I would aver. Very much so. More so by the year.
Joe Camelteau. says
Going to speak in Grande Prairie Alberta? Whats next? Reach for the stars!
gravenimage says
Joe, Robert Spencer has spoken all over the world.
Why sneer at his speaking in Grand Prairie Alberta?
LeftisruiningCanada says
” if the CBC were a remotely responsible news agency”
That “if” is so big, even Canadas massive size cannot contain it.
The CBC is one of the most overtly, glaringly, laughably obvious propaganda outfits anywhere. Bar none. The ‘quality’ of the reporting is so low, it is embarrassing. My own cheeks glow red when their hosts conduct what passes for an interview, both because of how far left their positions are, and at the obviously general lack of preparedness, insight, or interest in the subject or person being interviewed.
If there is ever a piece aired that doesn’t feature a rabid, angry, feminist, a marxist lesbian first nations homeless opioid addict, or a transgender government-employed housing crisis statistician who does a side line in the philosophy of radical leftist gender identity politics, i have not had the pleasure of hearing it.
Judged only by how many times President Trump is mocked, during any and all programs broadcast, be it news, local discussion or comedy, it would be fair to concede that the CBC is probably directly wired into Justin Trudeaus mind via implanted electrodes, and merely serves as a kind of stream of consciousness service from the Great Leaders endless musings on the poor, needy, and oppressed.
The day that this awful, awful, AWFUL, corporation is severed from the public teat and has to fend for itself, will be a good day for Canada.
FIN.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
There is a growing movement afoot among the political right in Canada to have the CBC ‘sold for parts’ (my words). It is a generally accepted plan for Canadian conservatives. During the Conservative Party’s leadership race it was clear that most of the candidates were for it. The only point they disagreed with was how to go about it. Some wanted to abandon funding it and let it survive or not survive in the market place. Others wanted to take it down completely. Others still held the dreamy view that it could be reformed.
What is odd is that the CBC has improved a little recently. I think this has happened because they have become painfully aware that the Tories will get back into power, sooner rather than later, and when that happens the CBC’s days will be numbered for sure!
The real offender of late has been CTV news. It has become stridently left and presents very biased news reporting. For example, the reports of the Rohinga crisis would often have the word “genocide” uttered no less than a dozen times in a two minute piece. Not a word around the history behind this story. They took the expense to send their Ismaili reporter to Bangladesh to gather first hand (uncorroborated) accounts of ‘genocide.’ I’m not sure what’s driving this. I investigated the shareholder structure of BCE Inc (the holding company), but it appears to be mostly ETFs and pension funds. So the news reporting is probably being editorialized under the direction of insiders and seconded by ‘polezni durak’ who don’t know any better. Maybe, when time comes, BellMedia will buy the CBC assets and then we’ll have just one news outlet to ignore.
Politicianphobia says
On a good day I can tolerate the BS for one minute. The CBC would promote Hitler as a good guy. The so called anchors are smug and pathetic. Who watches CBC, more tax dollars wasted. If you are looking for the truth do not go to CBC.
LeftisruiningCanada says
I know a man, here in Canada, who says he is reluctant to consider importing a car from the USA because, if he did so, a visit there would be needed. The reason he doesn’t want to venture south of the 49th? He “has a strange feeling about the USA since all this Trump thing started…”
Knowing that he has not been to the USA during the last few years, the source of this ‘feeling’ is the CBC. I know this because it’s all he listens to in while at work.
Job well done CBC, chalk another success up to your incessant and monotonous campaign of intolerance and bigotry aimed at the country in all the world we should hold as our best friend.
Understanding Canadian superiority syndrome is beyond me i’m afraid.
gravenimage says
Thanks for this ridiculous story. There is a lot of fear-mongering over Trump. I don’t agree with him on everything, but he has certainly never been violent, nor has he ever preached violence.
You would never know that from the hysterical bs slung against him from the dishonest Leftist press, though.
LeftisruiningCanada says
It’s shameful….but these silly, childlike, lefties on the CBC wouldn’t know shame if it yelled allahu akbar at them and cut their head off.
gravenimage says
CBC, Left-fascists try and fail to get Robert Spencer banned from Canada
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*Good*. That anyone in Canada was trying to get him banned for opposing Jihad terror is *appalling*, though–and I doubt it will stop here.
JanwoG says
Those who waunt spread Sharia in the West, are in war with the West. Apology of Islam is a criminal deception.