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The Nation magazine: Robert Spencer an “extremist, right-wing anti-Muslim rabble rouser”

Oct 23, 2017 11:09 am By Robert Spencer

That is what Bob Dreyfuss of the hard-Left magazine The Nation called me. He threw in “anti-Muslim bigot and fanatic” for good measure.

How did I get to be such a villain? Well, it all started when I had the bad manners to notice that Muslims who were killing the idolaters wherever they found them were actually acting upon instructions in their holy book directing them to “kill the idolaters wherever you find them” (Qur’an 9:5, cf. 4:89 and 2:191).

For wanting to expose the motivating ideology of such people, and to defend free societies from them, I’ve been poisoned, threatened with death numerous times, and demonized, vilified and excoriated by Bob Dreyfuss and other enlightened people like him.

But is all this really just extremist right-wing rabble rousing?

If Bob Dreyfuss had a fair-minded bone in his body, I’d send him a copy of my new book Confessions of an Islamophobe and ask him whether he stands by that evaluation of me and my work after reading it.

In the meantime, make your own evaluation, and get this book to give yourself ammunition when you yourself are charged with being an extremist, right-wing anti-Muslim rabble rouser just for calling attention to the jihad threat and Sharia oppression.

All right, you rabble! Rouse yourselves to preorder Confessions of an Islamophobe here now!

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  1. Emilie Green says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 11:19 am

    1. First they ignore you
    2. then they laugh at you
    3. then they fight you
    4. then you win

    (attributed to Gandhi)

    We’re probably between 3 and 4. What we have going for us, as Robert points out, is the truth. Everything Robert says about Islam is truthful and fully supportable with Islamic texts, Islamic history, Islamic practices. And because of that more and more of the left’s papering over of why Muslims behave as they do can no longer be contained.

    JihadWatch explains the truth. And the left hates that.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 5:18 pm

      +1

    • Richard says

      Oct 24, 2017 at 3:35 am

      The definition of insanity is when you hear people saying they want to kill people like you, and you see them actually killing people like you, and you dismiss it as “They really don’t mean it.” It’s like the signs the Nazis posted in France during their occupation in World War II: “The German soldier is your friend!”
      Richard the Rotten

      • Charles says

        Oct 24, 2017 at 7:43 pm

        Richard, I do not think that the Germans in WW2 would have put up, in France, a slogan in English.
        It probably was “Le soldat Allemand est votre ami”.

    • John S. Obeda says

      Oct 24, 2017 at 8:59 pm

      As we all know, the world does not want the truth, neither the devil, nor our sinful human nature. God, help us to overcome the three enemies: the world, our sinful human nature and the devil. God, continue to give power to our leaders, Robert,Pamela, Brigitte, James, David, etc to simply tell the truth; and help us to do so too and then to suffer the consequences.

  2. Charles says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 11:31 am

    Sounds like Mr. Bob Duefuss is just another impertinent ASS HOLE!
    Ignore him!

    • Rubiconcrest says

      Oct 24, 2017 at 12:03 pm

      … Ass yes, on CAIR’s payroll yes as well.

  3. Pablo says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 11:45 am

    Bob Dreyfuss’ mark on the world will be one of misery; Mr Spencer’s will be one of empowerment.

  4. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 11:48 am

    What an unpleasant magazine. Full on agitprop. You can feel the communism seeping into your brain with every sentence read. The only solution to every problem is bigger government and less freedoms.
    Did they repost this article recently or something, as its dated from 2010?

  5. Ren says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 12:01 pm

    Islamophobia is a sign of sanity while speaking against islamophobia is insanity.

  6. concerned canadian says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 12:05 pm

    Slightly off topic friends but here a snipet from our local news :
    http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/update-elderly-woman-remains-in-critical-condition-after-beating

    thanks you Justin Trudeau !!

    • mortimer says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 7:55 pm

      Dear Concerned, SHE WAS WALKING WHILE BEING A DIRTY KAFIR.

      Muslims are required to hate all kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’ … simply because Allah hates them, Muslims must hate kafirs too.

      Kafirs are hated merely because they exist.

      Poor Sara Anne Widholm. She’s a nice old lady. The surgeon said it was the worst battery he saw. Multiple fractures to head and neck.

  7. Voytek Gagalka says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 12:10 pm

    There is nothing more closed and permanently sealed than the mind of a leftist bigot. They REFUSE to know or acknowledge, they will never read ANYTHING beyond their usual approved list of propaganda books (if they are capable to read at all). They can’t debate because they don’t have any arguments to supporting their case, and they know it. They notoriously resort to name callings since this is everything they are capable to do short of reaching directly for a gun to “support their argument,” either their own (gun) or using guns of the government: legislated anti-free-speech “laws.”

  8. Linde Barrera says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 12:12 pm

    I wonder what editor Dreyfuss would call me if I told him to “watch out, there is someone with a knife and a Quran standing behind you”.

    • Grim Gnarlicon says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 12:28 pm

      Paranoid?

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 12:28 pm

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Oct 23, 2017 at 12:34 pm

        That was supposed to say “insert string of derogatory lefty buzzwords here”

    • mortimer says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 7:59 pm

      Exactly! Dreyfuss should visit Sara Anne Widholm in the hospital and decide if jihad is a GOOD THING or not.

      Dreyfuss is a GREAT FOOL and a dhimmi.

  9. Jim says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 12:24 pm

    Bob Dreyfuss will someday be more unknown than some underling of Neville Chamberlain, or Quisling..

    • mortimer says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 4:43 pm

      History will hold him up as the courtier who most admired the emperor’s new invisible clothes.

  10. Krazy Kafir says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 12:28 pm

    Good call on not sending him your latest book, for dhimmi stooges like him can’t afford to stray from their goose-stepping parade ground, for to do so, would shine too much illumination on their misguided foundational belief.. Which happens to be, the biggest liberal lie ever perpetrated on the human race that, all cultures are equal.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 1:01 pm

      Agreed. And that lie is just the one at the top of the list of other lying, “equalizing”, communist propaganda ideas.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 4:44 pm

      Bob Dreyfuss would rather lick the boots of the jihadists who are his masters.

  11. jewdog says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 12:45 pm

    It’s interesting to read the analysis in The Nation on bin Laden and 911. It blames the US, of course, in that we should have evacuated our troops from SA to appease bin Laden after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan. Never does it stop to consider that since we had supplied Stinger shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to the mujahideen, a crucial step enabling the Soviet defeat, the everlasting gratitude of the mujahideen should have prevailed, but doctrinally-based Muslim Infidelophobia prevented that. Oh no, it’s always US imperialism at fault to those leftist traitors.
    Robert’s book will be available on Kindle in late November.

  12. Westman says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 1:07 pm

    Another frightened advocate of globalism who can’t see his vision of earthly nirvana is in free-fall; a denier of social incompatibilities, a believer that the war to end all wars has passed and all that is required for eternal peace is one world government.

    Wasn’t it “rabble” who brought democracy to Europe and a new nation on the Ameriican Continent?

    Does anyone besides reality deniers believe that “birds of a different feather” can be forced to flock together without discord? This is the equivalent of insisting all cultures are equal. Small birds can harass a hawk to keep it away from nest and young. Put them both in the same cage and there will be a very different result.

    Robert Spencer is merely issuing the warning, with current examples, that there is a hawk in the cage that has no intention of becoming a sparrow; not because it is unable, rather, it is indoctrinated from an early age with teachings from books that describe other birds as prey.

    History provides adequate evidence that the nirvana wanted by hedonistic liberals will never come; each world-level conflict more devastating than the former. Globalism is a trap of interdependence that will lead to dystopia and starvation in an inevitable world conflict. No nation, that values its future, should ever allow itself to become dependent.

    Frankly, The Nation publication is a soma that drugs uncomprehending minds into a false state of induced peace. You are getting sleepy…sleepy…

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 1:45 pm

      Nicely put. The ‘ol birds of a feather saying is too simple for utopians to admit to be true, though it is in many ways. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
      Mr Spencer and all who think in similar ways will never be acceptable to the social progressive, since our thoughts contradict a fundamental tenet of their worldview.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 6:48 pm

      If the “birds of a feather” share basic values, then their mixing can be broadening and even beneficial. If you mix ice cream and sh*t, though, the results are very different…

  13. eduardo odraude says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 1:07 pm

    Who’s the rabble rouser?

    Muhammad affirms that those who do not follow him will be slaughtered

    On page 222 (326 in the Arabic) of the earliest Muslim biography of Muhammad:

    Abu jahl said to them: “Muhammad alleges that if you follow him you will be kings of the Arabs and the Persians. Then after death you will be raised to gardens like those of the Jordan. But if you do not follow him you will be slaughtered, and when you are raised from the dead you will be burned in the fire of hell.” The apostle [Muhammad] came out to them with a handful of dust saying: “I do say that.”

    http://www.quotingislam.blogspot.com

  14. Guest says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 1:10 pm

    Robert Spencer is one of the braves the people in our country. He is a hero

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 5:39 pm

      Hear, hear, Guest!

    • Carolyne says

      Oct 24, 2017 at 12:21 pm

      I, too, agree with “Guest.” Mr. Spencer and Ms. Gellar are the bravest people existing in this country at present. There is hope for some others, but not yet.

  15. Charles says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 1:19 pm

    The left have no principles. They simply use slander when is is politically or economically expedient. The smear is the only tactic they seem to have remaining. Islam is a left leaning group, not because Islam is compatible with “multi-culturalism” or “non-binary gender relations”. The Islamists side with the left because the alignment with victimology, identity politics, persecution propaganda, slander as a political weapon, violence or disruption as a means to avoid debate etc…Orwell invented the term “double think” to describe the ability of power-seekers to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time. Gender roles are anathema to the so-called progressive, but gender segregation and gender oppression in Islam is defended as “part of a cultural institution”.

  16. Richard Paulsen says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 3:38 pm

    The Great Sir Winston Churchill was being called a warmonger before the WW2. So do not worry.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 5:41 pm

      You are right. This is still a concern; but no reason for us to give up.

      • Richard Paulsen says

        Oct 23, 2017 at 8:42 pm

        Agree.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 23, 2017 at 8:53 pm

          🙂

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Oct 24, 2017 at 11:31 am

      “We will never surrender…”

      Boy, that speech never fails to rouse admiration for Churchill and the country of men and women who heeded his call.

  17. mortimer says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 4:40 pm

    Unstudied, unread and uninterested to learn, Bob Dreyfuss has no idea of the NAMES of Islam’s primary source texts (let alone the doctrines contained in them), and yet, preposterously, he presents himself as an expert on Islam! This is the height of unstudied arrogance.

    Islam’s top scholars have confirmed for over 1,200 years that Islam’s principle duty is to make warfare against those who DISBELIEVE in Mohammed, merely because they DISBELIEVE and for no other reason. That is jihad.

    The legal definition of jihad is found in manuals of SHARIA LAW … Reliance of the Traveler, “Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada signifying WARFARE TO ESTABLISH THE RELIGION” (Chapter o9.0).

    The definition is clear: JIHAD MAKES ISLAM THE ESTABLISHED RELIGION OF TERRITORIES CONQUERED BY MUSLIMS. JIHAD REFERS TO A MILITARY CONQUEST.

    O9.8: “The Objectives of Jihad : The caliph (o25) makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians”

    O9.9: “The caliph fights all other peoples until they become Muslim (O: because they are not a people with a Book).”

    Jihad is a war of pure religious bigotry.

    Mr.Dreyfuss there is no getting around the legal definition of jihad in this authoritative text used by 1 billion Sunnite Muslims, no matter how many adjectives you pile on.

  18. Wellington says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 4:44 pm

    In microcosm, the difference between the Left on Islam and constructive assessment of Islam. The former, as evidenced by Dreyfuss, has only insults and ad hominem attacks. The latter, as evidenced by Spencer, has true arguments aplenty, steeped in accurate knowledge and fine rhetoric.

    P.S. The Left won’t get this since they almost never “get” anything. Want to know the truth of things? Well then, find out what a Leftist “thinks” on an issue, conclude exactly the opposite, and you have about a 98.5% chance of nailing the matter. (Could be even 99%.)

    • mortimer says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 8:03 pm

      Dreyfuss has spontaneous ADJECTIVES and NAME-CALLING.

      Spencer has studied REFERENCED FACTS from Islam’s own primary documents and from Islamic history.

  19. gravenimage says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 5:02 pm

    The Nation magazine: Robert Spencer an “extremist, right-wing anti-Muslim rabble rouser”
    ……………………

    How *dare* any Infidel notice–and remark upon–the savagery of Islam? Bad, bad dhimmi…

    Dreyfuss was Middle East Intelligence director of the Executive Intelligence Review, the flagship journal of the unhinged Lyndon LaRouche movement.

    Since 9/11, he has mostly written about terrorism and the Iraq War–and recently, he has written obsessively about impeaching Trump.

    He’s made other insane claims, hinting that Israel and the United States are behind violent Jihad today, and that the US is–somehow–responsible for “hard liners” being elected in Iran.

    • Wellington says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 5:52 pm

      Thanks for that info, gravenimage. Wow, the guy’s even more of a loon that I first thought. And he’s old, which is extra pathetic because it means he has learned so little during his long life. Very few things are sadder than an old fool.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 23, 2017 at 7:00 pm

        Thanks, Wellington.

        Dreyfuss is even loonier than the run-of-the-mill leftist “journalist”, which is saying a great deal…

        • mortimer says

          Oct 23, 2017 at 8:08 pm

          Good research, gravenimage. That confirms that Dreyfuss is licking the boots of his Middle East bosses or he is working for someone like George Soros and doing a hatchet job on assignment.

          Dreyfuss must be one of the most cynical people alive.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 23, 2017 at 8:15 pm

          Thank you, Mortimer.

          I don’t know what Dreyfuss’ motives are–he may be paid to whitewash Islam, or he may just be deep in denial.

          He is shilling for evil, though, whatever his aims are.

  20. DRHazard says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 5:31 pm

    Some people never get past playground name calling. Like minded people form groups and tell each other that they are “progressive” which makes them feel special.

  21. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 5:52 pm

    Bob who?

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Oct 23, 2017 at 6:34 pm

      You know, the guy from Encounters of the third kind

  22. Lydia says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 10:16 pm

    As if it was all a paranoid figment of our imaginations that terrorists are muslim 99% of the time!

    More propaganda from their Orwellian delusion!

    All the ‘mouth pieces’ are moving by the strings that pull them from those behind the levers.

  23. gravenimage says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 10:32 pm

    Here’s Dreyfuss before 9/11, sneering at the whole idea that Islamic terror threatens Americans:

    “The Phantom Menace”

    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2000/09/phantom-menace/

    He called such fears “farcical” in 2000.

    Admittedly, everyone knew less about the threat of Islam then–but Dreyfuss has never really changed his tune.

  24. JanwoG says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 11:32 pm

    I think that Leftist “Jews” betrayers of the Torah should better adopt Muslim names. This not to hurt the Torah bearers who should be the light of the world.

  25. Theo Prinse says

    Oct 24, 2017 at 5:23 am

    Well perhaps it has to do with Lyndon LaRouche idea who recommended colonization of the planet Mars, on similar basis as many others in the field, that human survivability depends on territorial diversification.

  26. Mo says

    Oct 24, 2017 at 10:22 am

    Here’s the short note I sent to the editors:

    Re: Anti-Muslim Bigot and Fanatic Explains Islam to the FBI and the Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force by By Bob Dreyfuss

    When articles are written, one would assume that the writer has done research to support his claims. That’s what good journalism is all about. (Or so I thought.)

    Robert Spencer has done none of the things he’s accused of here. How do I know that? Because I have actually read his books/articles/website content. I’ve watched speech after speech. Never has he said or done anything remotely like what is being said here. If this writer had done even the minimal bit of research for this piece, he’d come to that same conclusion. That’s why there’s nothing here to support any of his claims. He’s got nothing.

    Talk about “bigoted” and “fanatical”! What’s bigoted and fanatical is to write an article with zero facts behind it, for the sole purpose of trying to destroy someone’s reputation.

    It’s disgraceful that such things are written by so-called journalists. What’s more disgraceful is that this was published. Does no one at The Nation read what goes out there under your name? Or did you read it and not care?

    Disgraceful.

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