Why does opposing jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and other groups make one “notorious”? Why does it get one stigmatized with the pejorative label “Islamophobe”? Is there really a distinction between sound and legitimate criticism of Islam and jihad and “Islamophobia”? Is there a way for thoughtful opponents of jihad terror to avoid charges of “Islamophobia”? What are the pitfalls of charging critics of jihad terror with “Islamophobia”?
Find out the answers to these questions and more in my new book Confessions of an Islamophobe, out next week. Preorder your copy here now.
mortimer says
Question for CAIR: What FACT from Islamic source texts or Sharia law cited by Robert Spencer is inaccurate?
Wellington says
Seconded, mortimer, but, of course, CAIR is not at all interested in accuracy (indeed, it is averse to this) but rather in effective propaganda.
Fitting, since Islam from its inception has distinctly favored effective propaganda over accuracy. It’s a major feature of Islam. After all, it has to be since if Islam EVER favored accuracy over propaganda it would be done for (e.g., the Koran is replete with ludicrous inaccuracies about what Christians themselves consider the make-up of the Trinity).
Have Islam? Well then, you have threats and propaganda aplenty. Take the propaganda and threats (particularly the threats) away from Islam and it would wither on the vine with a metaphorical rapidity rarely seen in man’s history.
Yes, Islam, this is all you really have————propaganda and threats. You have little “more” than this. Every religion threatens something in the next life if you don’t believe this, that or the other thing, but only you, Islam, threaten in this life something terrible by your own followers if you don’t accept what the illiterate, psychopathic, narcissistic, pedophiliac and overall reprobate, one Mohammed, put forward as the true religion.
What a joke Islam is. A very, very cruel one but a joke nonetheless. Mankind is paying for this joke to this very day. Will be into the foreseeable future. Damn.
Terry Gain says
Totally agree. Islam cannot withstand honest scrutiny.
John Forbes says
SCRUTINY OF THIS IDEOLOGY IS – HARAM- & THE ISLAMIC COUNCILS ARE WORKING HARD TO GET BLASPHEMY LAWS ENACTED WORLDWIDE!
CANADA WILL COMPLY ONCE M-103 MOTION GET TO BE A BILL RIGHT AFTER THE BLATANT PATHOLOGICAL LIAR – HEY DRY – OF THE PRINCE GEORGE KKK BURNING CROSSES EPISODE – GET HER LYING OUT!
MUSLIM JUSTIN & HIS MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LIBERALS WILL AGREE & THE END OF FREE SPEECH & CRITICISM OR INSPECTION WILL BE IN CANADA & THEN CANADA CAN REALLY BE SHARIA COMPLIANT!
OTHERS ARE ALSO WORKING TOWARDS THIS!
epistemology says
Right, Islam is a joke but a really bad one, it’s so ludicrous.
What you’re saying about propaganda and threats, it’s the same ideology as Nazism, two of a kind, both of them equally disgusting.
Thanks a lot my friend
Shane says
Let’s face it, Muslims have been brainwashed since they were toddlers that Muhammad was the greatest human ever and he should be emulated, but they know that he was a rapist, murderers, warlord, bandit, misogynist, pedophile and a slave trader. This makes no sense to an outsider who knows Islam. This is just like in the West where the Left does everything that they can to destroy their countries and Western Civilization, but they insist that they are patriotic. These twisted Leftists actually do believe they are acting in the best interests of their country!
Aussie Infidel says
Shane, The answer to this conundrum lies in the process of indoctrination. When people are indoctrinated with religious or political beliefs from a young age, when they have no personal resources to refute what they are told, it is highly likely they will believe it. It doesn’t always happen of course, or to the same extent, because all humans are different, as are the circumstances of the indoctrination process, and subsequent interaction of family and friends.
mortimer says
Wellington, (in a listing of several traits of Islam) has identified TWO of its most IMPORTANT ones: ILLITERACY and NARCISSISM…I would call it, GROUP narcissism, which is a very difficult target to attack, since members of the group reinforce one another and narcissism per se is extremely hard to treat psychologically.
Narcissists are likely the legendary vampires who cannot see themselves in a mirror. They have no ability of self-criticism or self-analysis. They act instinctually and as predators.
Because Muslims are predators, they always on the attack, often stealthily. They come out of hiding when the prey is within range of attainment.
This is what is happening to Robert Spencer. In this scenario, the Leftard jackals are doing the work of the Islamic tigers who defend the tigers and the tigers’ carnivore tastes from criticism.
The Leftard-jackal narrative is that the tigers are really HERBIVORES and that it is ‘nonsense’ to say that the Islamic tigers are actually CARNIVORES. Robert Spencer is WRONG, WRONG to ask people to examine the LARGE JAWS, FLESH-RIPPING TEETH and HUGE, POWER CLAWS of the Islamic PHYSIOLOGY (that is Islam’s IDEOLOGY of warfare against disbelievers).
Anyone who examines the TEETH, JAWS and CLAWS of the Islamic tiger will be forced to conclude that ISLAM IS NOT A PEACEFUL RELIGION, but rather a PREDATORY POLITICAL IDEOLOGY… and this tiger will NEVER BE a VEGETARIAN.
J D S says
Yes! Islam…a religion?? that believes in punishment in the Herefore ..(Is that a word?) and rewards for wrong doing in the here after..72 virgins, young boys flowing wine etc. Solid,man, solid! Time to outlaw Islam in the free world. Free world????
JOHN SPIELMAN says
The term “islamophobe “is both an oxymoron and grossly incorrect, the correct term is islamoLOATHE
hendrikush says
Anyone who is not islamophobe is not wise.
And that includes moslims.
Shane says
Or as Pamela Gellar says – Islamorealist!
John Chontos says
I would prefer the label “Islamaware”, implying I’m not afraid of these delusional idiologists, just that I know what they’re up to and on guard.
mortimer says
COWARDLY Muslim apologists are ALL FRAUDS because they flee from debating Robert Spencer. The BEST of Muslim apologists have been defeated by Spencer and those DEFEATS ARE RECORDED on the internet. Watch them on youtube.
To hide their obvious COWARDICE at being shown to be FRAUDS, Muslim apologists rely on fallacious AD HOMINEM MUD-SLINGING, REPETITION and SPECIAL PLEADING (hurt feelings of Muslim arguments).
So why are the ‘hurt feelings’ of Muslim more important than the HURT BODIES of PERSECUTED RELIGIOUS MINORITIES, HONOR KILLING VICTIMS, FGM victims, GAYS TORTURED AND MURDERED, and all the JOURNALISTS and INTELLECTUALS in JAIL in Islamic countries?
Answer: Hurt FEELINGS are not more important than REAL, GENUINE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS in Islamic countries.
boakai ngombu says
these are questions that can only be examined and answered in an Islamophobic studies department of the local free university … probably where revolution is discussed
David Longfellow says
You should wear that comment as a badge of honor
Liamm Daman says
Good plan..keeping the sharia law at bay, is only is a matter saved by goox information on what it actually intails..!
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Charles says
Izlam, being at it’s core SATAN worship, can NOT stand up in the light of TRUTH!
This is why all muslums, everywhere, become ENRAGED, RIOT and murderous, when ever the actual truth about their Cult, it’s founder or it’s beliefs and doctrines are published openly FOR ALL TO SEE AND LEARN!
The “god” of izlam is SATAN, that is really all you need to know!
Nicholas W Tesdorf says
There is no use inventing a multi-purpose put-down word like “Islamophobe” and then not using it at every possible, conceivable moment, even if it is obviously totally inappropriate. Exposing Islam to the light of day causes it to shrivel and die, so it must be hidden from the any light at all times.
Linde Barrera says
To mortimer, Wellington and Charles, your comments are truly awesome and dead-on accurate. Thank you. I am so grateful that I have learned so much from this website. (And I also purchased 2 of Robert Spencer’s books.) Take good care, be safe.
gravenimage says
Seconded re their comments, Linde. 🙂
jihad3tracker says
HELLO AGAIN GRAVENIMAGE and all the other superb JW regulars here — Yes, TOTALLY AGREE ! ! !
As a commenter here on JW since 2010, I am completely familiar with CAIR and its mentally retarded staff.
They must be getting so much secret jihad money that talking like complete ASSH*LES is worth continuing.
ONE FAVOR PLEASE — Robert’s counter-jihad partner, Pamela Geller, has a post up currently (Friday night 11/24) titled “Email of the day”, linked with this path:
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https://pamelageller.com/2017/11/email-of-the-day-3.html/
Take a few minutes from our weekends to write a bit of appreciation for all that she does EVERY DAY, in the war against Islam’s pathology.
gravenimage says
Yes–Pamela Geller, like Robert Spencer, is a great hero of the Counter-Jihad. Thanks for the link, jihad3tracker.
Jaladhi says
Robert Spencer is one the most famous truth tellers of Islam!! No wonder Muslims/CAIR call him notorious Islamophobe! Ha, ha, . the hypocrisy – the biggest liars on this planet calling the truthteller a liar!
gravenimage says
Hamas-linked CAIR on Robert Spencer: “One of the nation’s most notorious Islamophobes”
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This is like having Himmler call you a notorious Anti-Fascist…
Benedict says
Hamas-linked CAIR on Robert Spencer: “One of the nation’s most notorious Islamophobes” –
What a moderate statement. Sure CAIR can find a saying, in harmony with the Koran, that abrogates such benevolence?
Ren says
I would be proud to be “One of the nation’s most notorious Islamophobes”.
Mark Swan says
Islamophobes
Have you been branded an Islamophobe – a slur word invented by Muslims against non-Muslims?
Then join the ranks of the world’s greatest political leaders, military leaders, writers, philosophers, historians, researchers and intellectuals; the movers and shakers of history.
Here are just a very few of them and their opinions:
An extremely large percentage of Muslims in South Asia today are the progeny of forcible conversions and systematic rape campaigns by marauding Muslim invaders.
– Dr. Younis Shaikh
Pakistani medical doctor, human rights activist and freethinker.
Some, indeed, dream of an Islam in the future, rationalised and regenerate. All this has been tried already, and has miserably failed. The Koran has so encrusted the religion in a hard unyielding casement of ordinances and social laws, that if the shell be broken the life is gone. A rationalistic Islam would be Islam no longer.
– Sir William Muir
Scottish Orientalist, scholar of Islam, and colonial administrator (27 April 1819 – 11 July 1905).
The brotherhood of Islam is not the universal brotherhood of man. It is brotherhood of Muslims for Muslims only. There is a fraternity but its benefit is confined to those within that corporation. For those who are outside the corporation, there is nothing but contempt, slavery and enmity.
– Dr.B.R. Ambedkar
Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956).
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
– Sir Winston Churchill
British Conservative politician and statesman of the United Kingdom (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965).
Religious harmony is a desirable thing. But it takes two to play the game. Unfortunately such a sentiment holds no position in Islamic theology.
– Ram Swarup
Independent Hindu thinker and prolific author (1920 – 26 December 1998).
Over a billion people believe in Allah without truly knowing what Allah supposedly stands for or what he really demands of them. And the minority that do understand continue to be Moslems because they have redefined their morality and ethics to fit within the teachings of Islam, which are floridly lacking in morality. They therefore redefine what is good and evil in order to fit their lives into what is preached by Islam, instead of examining Islam to see if it fits within the good life. Backwards thinking, imposed by a backward religion.
– Professor Bertrand Russell
British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970).
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
– Will Durant
American writer, historian, and philosopher (November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981
There are such “social values” today in Europe, America, and Australia only because during those thousand years the Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do – that is, to beat back the Moslem invader.
– Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
26th President of the United States
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gravenimage says
Important quotes–thank you!
JawsV says
I don’t get it. They mass-murder us on 9/11, continue to mass-murder us, whine and complain, call us names, throw their “religion” in our faces via hijabs and halal, mass-rape young girls in Britain, worship a deity that commands them to kill us (Jihad) — yet, somehow we’re forbidden to dislike nay abhor Islam and if we do we’re the haters! The world’s turned upside down.
Infidel says
Welcome to Islam.. This is how Muslims behave with Hindus in In India and had been doing so for the better part of 1000 years..It is their standard approach of kill and play victims..
tgusa says
Mr Spencer has been upgraded to a notorious islamophobe. Congratulations Sir, they have given you a promotion.
JawsV says
That’s funny!
tgusa says
Thank you.
This is indeed a historic occasion for Robert Spencer.
JawsV says
I started “Confessions” last night. It’s fabulous. The biographical info at the start really draws you in.
Infidel says
DID THESE SHAMELESS UNGRATEFUL CREATURES ISSUE ONE WORD OF CONDEMNATION REG THE EGYPT BOMB BLAST WHERE THEIR SUNNI BROTHERS BUTCHERED THE SUFIS???? DID CAIR ISSUE ONE WORD OF SYMPATHY FOR THE UNFORTUNATE VICTIMS?? But yes.. they will certainly waste no time in jumping on Robert
Carl Goldberg, PhD says
“One of the nation’s most notorious Islamophobes”? It’s a badge of honor! We should all be working hard to become notorious Islamophobes.
True Kafir says
CAIR is right. An islamophobe is a kafir who knows more about islam (the quran, the hadith and the sira) its doctrine and its teachings than muslims would like him to.
AleX says
‘One of the nation’s most notorious islamophobes’ from a source like CAIR should be taken as a compliment.
Indeed, Mr. Robert Spencer is the behemoth in the field of exposing islam.
Chapeau! for his entire work!
joe gonzalez says
Islamophobia is a term used by certain groups of Muslim apologists in order to protect Muslims from scrutiny. However, rather than protecting a group of people against bigotry, the term merely acts as a way to silence critics who raise valid points about the real and troubling aspects of Islam.
joe gonzalez says
The very term Islamophobia is itself misleading. A phobia is an irrational fear of something. In the case of Islam, however, it often makes practical sense to be afraid. As a former Muslim myself, I have genuine fears about a religion that advocates the murder of its apostates and victimizes its own members, especially innocent women and children.
scherado says
On what basis would I buy a book written by a guy who has an irrational fear of Islam OR Muslims OR, worse, both?
Does anyone understand the question?
Let’s be clear: not only is the term “islamophobia” being misused by all those who peddle the syndrome, as a widespread phenomenon, but the chosen name, ITSELF, the word, contains an error: ‘islam’ is a religious doctrine; ‘muslim’ is an actual, factual human and the ONLY one of the two that will, THAT CAN, strike fear, in a person, in the heart of an infidel.
Therefore: ‘musliphobia, ‘muhamaphobia’ are more appropriate POTENTIAL candidates for an accurate term to represent an irrational fear of a violent, Islamic, religious zealot.
Am I the only sane person on the planet?
I want, I may want, to read books by people who do NOT have an irrational fear of Muslims OR, worse, Islam OR, much more worse, both.
duh swami says
If you read the Quran and didn’t turn into an Islamophobe, you need to read it again…this time with mood music…
Keith Neadley says
Hamas is allowed to lie to forward Islam. This is pretty rich coming from an organization who hates anything white, gay, Christian (or any other religious group including some Islamic sects) and is still launching rockets at Israel and then not being able to comprehend why Israel fights back !!
Screeminmeeme says
The Evil One doesn’t waste resources on those who are no threat. On the other hand, he does allocate every resource to destroying those who are…..like Robert Spencer and Pam Geller who have literally committed their lives to the cause of protecting free speech and exposing Islam.
May God strengthen and protect them as they fight the good fight for us all.
Mike Proulx says
It’s is only difficult to understand why they would label those whose oppose violent acts as Islamaphobe’s if one does not believe God’s Word as complete and unadulterated.
Here’s are only some of the verses which come’s to mind.
2 Thessalonians 2:11-12
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The old saying goes something like this “live by the sword, die by the sword” and basically means “what goes around comes around.” to be really blunt, “if you use violent, forceful, or underhanded methods against other people, one can expect those same methods to be used against oneself
Believers in Christ can also read Psalm 7.
PS
The Lord Jesus Christ sits on the right hand of The Father according to scripture, in Him will I put my trust.
Amen
staffsgt7 says
My group and I went to an Interfaith deception oh er I mean ‘dialog’ and once we started picking to pieces the moslem’s bull poop he was giving a congregation full of useful idiots – the moslem went straight to bashing and trying to denigrate us. One of his attempts at bashing us was to say we were associated with Robert Spencer. I looked at that as a good thing!! I learned from the best!!
The moslem guy was from CAIR and his name is Basim Elkarra. It is a shame that the Presbyterians are ok with such ilk (He has 11 pages of crap about him thanks to Pamela Geller… http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/files/basim-elkarra-of-cair.pdf
The guy should never be allowed in a Church to sully it. But it seems the room was full of useful idiots – of which I expected but it is sad to me.
BlueRaven says
Mr. Spencer is nothing less than IslamoFit.
Kesselman says
Count me in. I’m a dedicated Islamophobe ad nausea. Sorry, Spencer, you have an equal.
Cheer Bear Girl says
If being informed on Islam makes me an Islamophobe then I accept the label with pride.
Forewarned is forearmed.