The hysteria of Stanford fascists over my impending appearance on campus, and the ensuing smear campaign, continues, and is growing more desperate and vicious by the moment. Jihad Watch has been loaded with posts on this over the last few days, and I apologize if some readers find it tiresome, but I believe it important to expose and respond to each one of these smears separately, so as to inform people about how these defamation campaigns proceed, and about the low state of academia today and the dominance of Leftist propagandizing over free inquiry. I also mean to provide the truth for anyone of good will, at Stanford or anywhere else, who may be looking for it.
The latest is that although I am a strong and consistent supporter of Israel, I’m really aiding in the oppression of Jews. This foul little libel comes from one Courtney Cooperman in the Stanford Daily, but the claim that Muslims are being victimized as Jews were is not original to Courtney. It’s a common Leftist talking point. Many, many others have made this claim, including Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders; Prince Charles; the notorious non-Muslim Islamic apologist Karen Armstrong; Jeffrey Goldberg, “journalist” at The Atlantic; Leftist media darling and pseudo-intellectual hack Reza Aslan; Muslim Brotherhood-linked Congressman Keith Ellison; Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times; the deceptive Canada-based Islamic supremacist imam Syed Sohawardy; and Philadelphia chapter leader of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations Jacob Bender. Many others have repeated it.
The blazingly brilliant Daniel Greenfield takes it apart in this video. The idea that Muslims are the new Jews is put forward by the Left, but it also has opponents on the Left. In 2014, as part of his ongoing awakening to the nature and reality of the jihad threat, Bill Maher noted:
Jews weren’t oppressing anybody. There weren’t 5,000 militant Jewish groups. They didn’t do a study of treatment of women around the world and find that Jews were at the bottom of it. There weren’t 10 Jewish countries in the world that were putting gay people to death just for being gay.
Indeed. Further, no one is calling for or justifying genocide of Muslims. No individual or group opposed to Islam is remotely comparable to the National Socialists. Not that facts have ever gotten in the way of a good meme.
Maher isn’t alone on the Left in having pointed out the absurdity of likening opposition to jihad to the lead-up to the Holocaust. The late Christopher Hitchens also refuted this idea when writing a few years ago about the notorious Ground Zero Mosque proposal:
“Some of what people are saying in this mosque controversy is very similar to what German media was saying about Jews in the 1920s and 1930s,” Imam Abdullah Antepli, Muslim chaplain at Duke University, told the New York Times. Yes, we all recall the Jewish suicide bombers of that period, as we recall the Jewish yells for holy war, the Jewish demands for the veiling of women and the stoning of homosexuals, and the Jewish burning of newspapers that published cartoons they did not like.
Courtney Cooperman has seen an earlier post containing this data, for she links to it below, and calls the denial that Muslims are facing persecution as the Jews did “not only despicable but also objectively false, as the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar tragically demonstrates.”
In reality, there is considerable evidence that the “ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar” is a fabrication, like many alleged Israeli atrocities against the “Palestinians.” What’s more, the Rohingyas are guilty of massacres of their own, which the Jews in Germany, of course, never were. But no doubt Courtney Cooperman has never learned the full truth about the Rohingyas at dear old Stanford. If the Rohingyas are really being subjected to ethnic cleansing, that is reprehensible, but when so many atrocities turn out to have been faked, one must approach the situation with reserve.
Much more below.
“Not in my name,” by Courtney Cooperman, Stanford Daily, November 10, 2017:
In 2011, Abraham Foxman, then the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed: “We must always be wary of those whose love for the Jewish people is born out of hatred of Muslims or Arabs.”
This warning was written in the aftermath of a mass murder in Oslo, Norway carried out by far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. Ninety minutes before he detonated a bomb in Oslo, Breivik emailed out a lengthy manifesto — entitled “2083: A European Declaration of Independence” — to over 1,000 recipients. The document, which calls for the expulsion of all Muslims from Europe, quotes extensively from Robert Spencer,
Here again we see that all too many Stanford students seem incapable of doing or unwilling to do basic research. Or maybe Ms. Cooperman is simply dishonest. In any case, her implication here is that I have called for the expulsion of all Muslims from Europe, and that Breivik got it from me. Is that true? No. Have I ever called for the expulsion of all Muslims from Europe? No. Cooperman’s further implication is that because Breivik quoted me, I inspired or am responsible for his massacre. In reality, Breivik only seems to quote me extensively because he included in his manifesto the text of a documentary film in which I appear. Every time I speak, my name is given in the text, to make it clear who is speaking. That is not really quoting me extensively. Aside from the documentary script, Breivik actually referred to me only a few times. Courtney Cooperman did not mention that one of those references upbraids me for not calling for violence. Of course, if she had mentioned that, her readers would have realized that her implication, that my work incites violence, was false. Cooperman also omitted mention of the fact that Breivik says in his manifesto that he was inspired to commit violence not by me, but by al-Qaeda and Hamas – that is, by two Muslim entities. Nor did she mention that Breivik said in that manifesto that he decided to commit a massive act of violence in 1999. I published my first book about Islam in 2002.
the self-proclaimed Islamophobe who is scheduled to speak on campus next Tuesday.
Ah, I see this is a talking point. It also appears here and here. Looks as if the snowflakes had a meeting! Anyway, thanks for plugging my book, Courtney. Have you preordered your copy yet? Get it here. In it, as well as in Jihad Watch posts advertising the book (not that Stanford fascist students can be expected to have done any actual research), I’ve explained that “Islamophobia” is an intentional conflation of two distinct phenomena: vigilante attacks upon innocent Muslims, which are never justified, and honest analysis of the motivating ideology of jihad terrorism, which is lumped together with those vigilante attacks in order to discredit such analysis and intimidate people away from attempting it. I am an “Islamophobe” in the sense of opposing jihad terror, discrimination against women, gays, and non-Muslims, and the denial of the freedom of speech. In that sense, everyone should be an “Islamophobe.” But in this propaganda piece, the Stanford fascists are attempting to give you the impression that I approve of vigilante attacks upon innocent Muslims. Note that they never define “Islamophobia,” because doing so would give away their game.
As Stanford grapples with this upcoming event, Foxman’s statement is all too pertinent.
Robert Spencer frames himself as a defender of the Jewish people, often invoking incidents of extremist violence against Jews to corroborate his anti-Muslim agenda. As an American Jew, I am deeply frustrated and infuriated by those who espouse racist hatred and claim to have the Jews’ best interests at heart.
What race is the jihad mass murder of innocent civilians again, Courtney? What race is the jihad murder of Israelis enjoying a Shabbat dinner? The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29). What race is all that, Courtney? And if I am supposedly enabling anti-Semitism by calling attention to it, what are you enabling by smearing me for calling attention to it?
I do want to acknowledge that the opinions I express reflect my individual understanding of Jewish history, values and identity. (For a communal Jewish response to Robert Spencer’s scheduled visit, see the recent open letter in condemnation of the event, to which the Jewish Students Association is a signatory.)
My response is here.
Of course, I have trouble grasping how any Jewish person could accept an ideology whose proponents are often found in coalition with white supremacists and neo-Nazis, but I want to make explicit that I am speaking as an individual and do not claim to represent all Jews.
More libel. I have no coalition with white supremacists or neo-Nazis. Do these Stanford fascists have any regard for the truth at all?
Jews are made vulnerable in any society that discriminates and persecutes on the basis of religious and ethnic identity. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s oft-quoted remark, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” is more than just a platitude. If a society can deny freedom of religion to one group, it can employ the same mechanisms to systematically limit Jewish religious practice and denigrate Jewish communities.
Still more libel. I have never advocated for denying religious freedom to Muslims, and challenge Courtney Cooperman to quote me doing so. I am opposed to activity that is illegal under American law, such as shooting American civilians at a Christmas party, murdering one’s daughters for dating non-Muslims, the beating of disobedient women, etc. Courtney Cooperman should be against those things as well. Religious freedom is not a license to break existing laws.
Throughout American history, Jews have been leading defenders of civil liberties and equal rights for good reason. Despite our relative privilege, we will always be a minority in America. Public indifference, or open hostility, to the rights of any minority group is an implicit threat to the well-being of the Jewish people. When hatred remains unchecked or gains ground, Jews have little reason to expect that anyone will come to our defense when we face discrimination or existential danger.
Fortification of civil liberties, strong bulwarks against intolerance and deep commitment to a pluralistic society are the best safeguards of Jewish freedom and the most important pillars of our security. In a society where these institutions and principles do not apply to Muslims, Jews have no guarantee that they are stable. Any platform for Islamophobia is well-equipped to double as a platform for anti-Semitism. No matter how vociferously Robert Spencer proclaims to respect and defend the Jews, his ideology gives license to our oppression.
In reality, Courtney Cooperman is giving license to the jihad mass murder of Jews, and to Islamic antisemitism, by smearing and defaming those who stand against those things.
Spencer also consistently rebukes the claim that “Muslims are the new Jews.” He rejects the idea that the same phenomena that gave impetus to systemic oppression and genocide of Jews underlie anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies. He also maintains that the threat of Islamophobia to Muslims cannot be compared to Nazism’s threat to Jews, writing, “[N]o one is calling for or justifying genocide of Muslims now; there is no individual or group remotely comparable to the National Socialists in any genuine sense.” This claim is not only despicable but also objectively false, as the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar tragically demonstrates.
I am also compelled to bring up a seminar I am taking that explores the historical origins of anti-Semitism. One of the main theses of the class is the notion that hatred accumulates. Anti-Jewish theological interpretations, legislation and imagery did not develop in a vacuum. Stereotypes, persecution and violence only gained traction because subtler forms of anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism were already ingrained in the cultural consciousness, as hatred and exclusion were legitimized throughout generations. Across ages and empires, the existing repertoire of anti-Jewish assumptions gave justification to denigration and oppression. The Holocaust would not have been possible without thousands of years of anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism that emerged in increasingly catastrophic forms and that, left largely unchecked, accelerated over time. Nazism was only a thinkable outcome because hateful ideologies, with many parallels to Spencer’s, gained widespread acceptance and intensity throughout the history of the Western world.
Produce the parallels, Courtney, or stand accused yet again, and justly, of plain and outright libel.
Spencer’s worldview evokes one particular event that we studied: the trial of the Talmud in 13th-century Paris. The Talmud is the body of Jewish teachings that interpret the words of the Torah. As historians John Friedman, Jean Connell Hoff and Robert Chazan describe in “The Trial of the Talmud: Paris, 1240,” Christian religious and secular authorities were appalled that the Talmud is much longer than the Torah itself, which suggested that Jews were more devoted to human analysis than to G-d’s own word. Christian officials insisted that the Talmud “contained so many falsities and offensive things that they are a source of shame to those who repeat them and horror to those who hear them.” Calling the Talmud a fundamentally anti-Christian document, critics pointed to passages that depicted Jesus burning in excrement in Hell and portrayed Mary as a whore. These passages from the Talmud were not fabricated, but were unjustly taken out of context and highlighted as representative of an entire faith tradition. Spencer’s hostile readings of the Qu’ran follow the same pattern.
As the Qur’an says, “Bring your proof, if you be truthful” (2:111; 27:64). Give one example of my taking any Qur’an passage out of context, ever. You did not, and will not, because you cannot.
In 13th-century Paris, thousands of copies of the Talmud were seized and burned, which not only deprived Jews of their religious practice but also planted the seed for later anti-Jewish attitudes and policies. I should not need to reiterate that a misinformed societal view of a faith should never limit the rights of its adherents, but I find it important to note that Jews have a special historical impetus to denounce such blatant misreadings.
As much as I am frustrated and infuriated that Spencer cites Jewish well-being to corroborate his claims, this is trivial in the context of his entire worldview. The most abhorrent aspect of Spencer’s ideology is the blatant Islamophobia that he embraces, justifies and proliferates. I cannot fathom how I would feel if a self-proclaimed anti-Semite were given a platform to speak on this campus, and I am in awe of the Muslim community’s courage in the face of this affront to their identity and security. Even if one of his stated aims is to protect the Jewish community, Robert Spencer brings nothing of value to the Stanford student body — as a Jewish student, his presence at Stanford is simply insulting. No matter how much Spencer positions himself as a defender of the Jewish people, his rhetoric only serves to undermine our rights, threaten our security and resurface the tragedies we have suffered throughout history.
Islamophobia is a propaganda term designed to intimidate people into thinking it wrong to oppose jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and non-Muslims. And look how well it has worked on the unfortunate Ms. Courtney Coooperman.
John Moe says
You are a fool, Cooperman!
mortimer says
What a nincompoop! Start learning about Islam’s Jew hatred here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCQEmeGfFmY
Kay says
Can you send this link to the Stanford newspapers?
St. Manuel II Palaiologos says
Jews and women love to defend their eventual torturers and executioners. Many Jews rallied alongside the Nazis before they were sent to the camps. Many women will defend their “boyfriend” or “husband” when he kills others or even her own kids. It’s a hyper-insane form of Stockholm syndrome. May God keep us free of it’s pernicious grasp.
gravenimage says
The idea that most Jews in Germany were Nazis before the Holocaust is just a bizarre claim.
Yohanan says
Palaiologos wrote many not most Jews in Germany before the holocaust were Nazis… – but still a totally incorrect claim. In a genocide victims might try to survive by flattery. Also the Nazis appointed stooges, collaborators, mostly unknowing, fooled and unwilling functionaries such as Judenrat appointed ghetto authorities and in camp crematories Sunderkommando.) No Jews were Nazis (except perhaps for Germans who joined the party only to learn they had a Jewish grandparent according to the Nazis.)
Cooperman’s view is not self identification but a diaspora survival strategy to curry points with oppressors. So it’s also not exactly Stockholm Syndrome like.
Rob says
St. Manuel II Palaiologos didn’t say “most Jews”, he said “many Jews”. The sick irony is that ANY Jews were taken in by Nazi propaganda and did not see the Nazi danger sooner.
America’s current college campus attacks on free speech are today’s Brown Shirts trying to enforce new “Nazi” propaganda. These students are the source of America’s future leaders and shakers yet have no respect for or even understanding of the most basic principles of democracy.
jihad3tracker says
ROBERT CAN REST ASSURED THAT I — AND PROBABLY EVERY OTHER JIHAD WATCH READER — ARE ***** NOT ***** TIRED OF THE POSTS ABOUT FASCISM AT STANFORD.
I strongly urge everyone to find the email address of this vicious “Special Snowflake” and send her (politely, even if you want to use language which would be more appropriate under this circumstance) a reality check.
But consider making the subject box title of your message to her deceptively neutral — so she will actually open it, instead of tossing it (like the lying coward she is) into the spam bin. .
jihad3tracker says
ON FURTHER THOUGHT, SKIP THE EMAIL TO HER AND POST IN THE STANFORD DAILY COMMENT SECTION (FIRST RED HOTLINK STARTING ROBERT’S ITEM ABOVE).
Why ? She would have the chance to mischaracterize your remarks if they go directly to her, but at the Stanford Daily site, that opportunity is gone. If you don’t want to use the Facebook sign-in, open a Discus account — I use it, very easy.
Also, be sure to include some citations from the Qur’an and Hadith that are especially pathological in their violence toward not just Jews, but unbelievers in general.
RonaldB says
Sorry.
Leftists don’t listen to opposing opinions, regardless of the subject title.
I’ve been screamed at for telling people I’m a Trump supporter. I’m also not a snowflake, so it didn’t bother me, and I refrained from responding too much in kind. This was probably a good decision, as there is no profit or benefit to be gained by responding to personal insults with personal insults.
gravenimage says
+1
Emilie Green says
Courtney has her work cut out for her.
Of course she won’t do it.
“Facts are hard.”
Greyhound Fancier says
Facts also don’t care about one’s feelings!
Linde Barrera says
Lawsuit by Robert Spencer for libel and defamation of his character from certain students at Stanford Univ.
is what I see eminating from this. And I want Robert Spencer to win.
pfwag says
The last time I checked, the only major group that had similarities to Nazi National Socialists was Islam and it’s Muslim followers.
Guy Macher says
We are losing the West because we have elevated feelings above reason. Who can deny my feelings? Reason is now “waycist” (I try to be culturally sensitive), math is “toxically masculine”; scientific truth is arrived at by vote; history is just the stories of “dead white, Christian, and straight, oppressors of coloured, non-Christian, LGBTQXYZ folk.
The mayhem in store for our post-rational society will be overwhelmingly emotional.
No nasty posts, please. They would hurt my feelings.
maghan says
Yes, post-modernism in action.
pdxnag says
It is like trying to talk reason with someone who has one leg hanging out over the rail of a high bridge as they steel themselves for the big leap. They do not hear you or your words, they are on a mission.
It is perfectly okay in a free society to persuade nominal Muslims that they should abandon self-identification is Muslim, even if both is forbidden in Islam. Hopefully all would choose to relegate genocidal Islam to the dustbin of history, in a museum. Then there would be no offended supremacist Muslims, only universally offensive Islam.
762x51FMJ says
The love affair between Leftist Totalitarianism and Islam is most apparent
by the fact that AntiFa soldiers wear black masks, wave black flags and in mobs they beat people up for their religious and political views,,,
Just like ISIS..
mortimer says
American secular Jews are generally unable to fathom the Jew hatred in Islam. They should attend any Al Quds Day witness thousand of Muslims from every country joining together with their families and little children to hate and despise Jews. The hatred was so severe that it was an atmosphere of HYSTERIA.
Courtney Cooperman should attend at least ONE Al Quds Day hate fest and bring an ARMED BODYGUARD FOR HER SAFETY!
Kay says
Good suggestion.
I wish there was a way to get secular American Jews to hear your suggestion and take you up on it.
Decades ago I heard only one middle aged muslima express that sentiment and only briefly. It was such a surprise and so intense that memory of the experience has never left me. I would not believe it possible had I not heard and seen it myself.
Demsci says
I know. In Holland I was co-worker with a young black Muslim, from Guinea in Afrika origine.
He told us, his colleagues, at breaks, or slow times, that he wanted to know “What the Jews had done to the Germans” to make the Germans so mad that they killed them!
And he actually used for proof that the Jews indeed had done injustice to the Germans prior to WWII by referring openly to the website of STORMFRONT, of the Neo-Nazi’s. Afterwards he was often praising Nazi-Germany.
You can imagine that on those occasions there was quite a bit of “Firework” discussions between him and me.
gravenimage says
This is grimly typical, Demsci.
And good to see you posting again. Hope you are well.
Demsci says
Thank you Gravenimage. I feel I belong with the like-minded people here.
I am sure you know that in Rotterdam I am “surrounded” at work, in family, with friends and in the public space, with so many Muslims, many of them being real nice, including in shops + all sorts of places everywhere, and even a popular Islamic Mayor. And of course many leftist political correct, Islam-unaware, but nice people.
It influences my posting in that I always try to seek some middle democratic ground between counterjihadists and the people surrounding me, not wanting to speaking with “double thong” to either of them.
maghan says
Ignorance is a very bad thing. It often leads to false explanations. All this foolish man from Guinea had to do was to read Mein Kampf, research Jewish percentages in the professions, and the aftermath of WW I leading to the punishment meted out Germany in the Treaty of Versailles.
Benedict says
Photo: “The Prophet Muhammad foretold that we would kill the Jews.” –
That says it all! It’s the prophet of Islam that turns his followers into barbaric murderers.
Greyhound Fancier says
It also connects the hatred of the anti-Christ Mohammed and his present-day followers’ horrid behavior.
Just doing what the perfect man would do.
RonaldB says
I don’t visit Holocaust museums anymore because they use the Holocaust as a springboard for ginning up sympathy for any and all immigrants, legal or illegal, skilled or illiterate.
I would say from my personal acquaintances that some liberal Jews (possibly a majority) accept the logic that any restriction on immigration, anywhere, anyway, represent an existential threat to the Jewish community. I haven’t found anyone willing to actually discuss the assertion reasonably, but I live in hope. My father fled the Nazis in Austria in 1937, so I have been described as a “survivor”, although I myself have led a charmed life in the US. By the way, anti-Semitic expressions to my face do NOT hurt me, cause me no harm, no fainting spells, and no financial or security loss. So, let’s not walk on eggshells when discussing fact-based assertions.
There are anti-Semitic posters on alt-right sites who degenerate into incoherent, inchoate grey goo when they think they’re talking to a Jew. These people are more frustrating than threatening: they, like many liberal Jews, seem impervious to actual reasoned argument.
I think someone who uses the argument: “I’m a Jew and therefore, you’re a racist, Islamophobic threat to my existence” ought to be discounted out of hand. I think I’m actually more upset at the evident degeneration of institutions of learning with formerly excellent reputations. As a concrete response, I think we ought to eliminate all employment requirements concerning an academic degree. If you’re qualified, you’re qualified; if not, not. Academic requirements used to be a way to slow down real genius or creativity. The earning of academic credentials is now being used to totally suppress genius and not simply delay or dilute it.
http://geniusfamine.blogspot.com/
mortimer says
Agree. Many secular Jews are actually delusional about the jihad threat if not self-hating. By not supporting Israel and by foolishly supporting Hamas and other Islamic terror groups, they are adding to their OWN VULNERABILITY and to the vulnerability of all Jews everywhere.
They are clueless and smug Pollyannas who refuse to learn anything about the jihad threat or the HUGE JEW HATRED in the Islamic source texts.
9% of all the Islamic source texts are Jew hatred. Whereas, 7% of Mein Kampf is Jew hatred.
762x51FMJ says
Obstinately faithful to ancestral practices, The Qur’an is easy to understand.
Islamic law is the Roman Code revised and corrected by Arabs
.
David Stephenson says
I do not find your reports tiresome, Mr. Spencer. I find these insights into the student body of Stanford University to be illuminating and horrifying. One of the top universities in the nation, I expected Stanford students to be different – to have the intellectual ability to question and examine. But no, they are no different than what we have seen at every other campus across the country. I am frightened to my core for the future of our nation and our very civilization.
Westman says
Allan Bloom’s, “The Closing of the Ametican Mind”, is as salient today as in 1987. The leftists of Stanford, who substitute Social Warrioring for academic achievement, were well predicted.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Closing_of_the_American_Mind
The controversy over a simple talk, that lasts perhaps 1 hour, intended for a group that made the invitation, is reaching absurd proportions. This indicates that not only are there too many closed minds, there are powerful suppressing interests working beyond our view.
Enough already! Let’s hope some students have wisdom to listen to the presentation and then discuss it.
mortimer says
MESSAGE TO Courtney Cooperman:
Please get Robert Spencer’s books and FIND ONE… yes, only ONE… example of what you claim, Courtney…
… or YOU OWE ROBERT SPENCER AN APOLOGY FOR YOUR THOUGHTLESS SLANDER.
BARBARA BROOKS says
Time to post or publish some quotations from Muhammad about the Jews in the school paper or some other public place on campus.
And post what he said about blacks also.
alex julian says
the askenazi judeans exhibit high level of intelligence …..the muslim elite have long memories and will recall the re-conquista of al Andalusia as well as the fall of Jerusalem to crusaders …and certainly the ignomities middle eastern men faced in places like Camp X-Ray ( maybe they also teach their children about the many excursions of caliphates against the West, foiled by Martel and Vlad Tepes…but why dwell on defeat proud arab?) my point is this ; if all your softdisk is filled with foiled hatred and the teachings of a non-rational book (yes THAT book; more holy than animal lives)..then if so…your powers of memetics gives you little joy….so THAT is a difference between Jews and Muslims ; Jews breed for adaptility …muslim breed for submissive traits …
eduardo odraude says
Muhammad says, “kill any Jew who falls into your power.”
He says it on page 369 (554 in the Arabic) of the earliest Muslim biography of Muhammad.
It’s a “beautiful” story of two brothers, Muhayyissa and Huwayyisa: (To avoid confusing the two brothers, keep in mind that the brother whose name begins with M is the Murderer in the story.)
To speed understanding of the above passage, I introduced into it specific names (in brackets), in place of some of the pronouns (“he,” “him,” etc.) you will find in the original text.
http://www.quotingislam.blogspot.com
eduardo odraude says
Here’s the link to page 369 if you want to see the story about Muhayyisa and Huwayyisa for yourself:
https://archive.org/stream/TheLifeOfMohammedGuillaume/The_Life_Of_Mohammed_Guillaume#page/n208/mode/1up
Kay says
“we will always be a minority in America.”
——
She seems unaware that Jews are a minority worldwide and that that is a relevant fact.
Yohanan says
Correction, Kay – Jews are a majority in Israel, where minority rights do not include overthrowing state.
Kay says
(:
gravenimage says
Stanford: Jewish student claims Robert Spencer “gives license” to “oppression” of Jews
…………………….
Wait–so now condemning Muslims oppressing, slaughtering, and preaching genocide against the Jews is–somehow–giving license to their oppression? No logic or sense of decency here.
Norger says
Her faculties of logic, reason and decency appear to have been short-circuited by identity politics. Unfortunately this isn’t just a Stanford thing.
gravenimage says
Sadly spot on.
duh swami says
his rhetoric only serves to undermine our rights, threaten our security and resurface the tragedies we have suffered throughout history.
I knew Spencer was powerful, but I didn’t know he was ‘that’ powerful…
Elana Starr says
I sent an email to Courtney. First, she doesn’t get that criticism of Islam does not constitute racism. It’s a simplistic concept which a third grader should understand, let alone a student at a first-rate university. (How in the world did she get into Stanford?) Second, even some Islamic scholars, eg Imam Mohammad Tawhidi, admit Islamophobia doesn’t exist. It’s rational to fear people who want to rape, crucify, or behead you. Third, her view of the Buddhist/Rohingya conflict is utterly simplistic and right out of MSM. She obviously hasn’t done any true research. Worst of all, Courtney doesn’t believe in free speech, only in free speech for those who agree with her views. Disgraceful.
Lydia says
Okay, let me get out my kindergarten tools here…
Let’s draw a line and see if we can tell which side each item is on, shall we children???
Facts:
1. Islam hates Jews, Israel, and all things Jewish.
2. Robert Spencer is against this sort of islamic hatred.
3. Islam gives license to the oppression of Jews and all non-muslims in their book, the koran.
4. Robert Spencer fights against the items in #3 above by exposing the terrorism, oppression, and attacks against Jews and others by islamic terrorists on his website; Jihad Watch, and by lectures and books, etc.
5. As a result of #4, those who hate the Jews attack Robert for this, and that includes these hateful protests at Stanford against his lectures, and the use of the false label “islamophobe” as if he were doing something wrong, but he is only telling the truth for the public good and protection.
So….. questions:
Who is protecting and defending the Jews?
And who is oppressing and persecuting them?
Either directly or by association???
Draw a line and put each item on one side or the other and the negation logic will work itself out.
Even kindergarteners would know the answer!!!
Now for the ‘Special Education Class’ version:
Suppose the blue team is good and the red team is bad.
1. Person A goes around doing bad to those on the blue team and siding with those on the red team.
2. Person B fights against what person A is doing by defending the blue team and exposing the red team’s actions as well as person A’s actions against the blue team.
3. Then, person A turns around and accuses person B of hurting the blue team.
Huh?!? Exactly. Person A’s accusation is the opposite of the truth and makes no sense. Hopefully folks will be smarter than a special ed kindergarten class! But, don’t hold your breath!!!
gravenimage says
Excellent analysis.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Confusion is not a sign of intelligence. Profound confusion may even indicate stupidity. I thought Stanford took only smart students, but they seem pretty stupid. Doesn’t say much for Stanford as a superpremium diploma. Feels more like a diploma mill if its students appear in public and say things at odds with the facts. That’s stupid.
But I bet it feels good.
762x51FMJ says
“So I Abraham, inquired and heard from those who had met him that there was no truth to be found in the so-called prophet, only the shedding of other men’s blood” to obtain the keys to paradise, A claim that is as audacious at it is incredible.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
I think David Horowitz would disagree with ‘polezni durak’ Dhimmi Cooperman.
eduardo odraude says
Consider how selective the sciences are. That’s how selective the humanities should be, if not more so. But it seems that too many of those who go into the humanities are just people not bright enough for the sciences. This is a grave disservice to the humanities, which are at least as important as the sciences. Universities all too often are becoming reminiscent of The View, i.e., places where idiotic gossip masquerades as informed discussion.
gravenimage says
I agree with the importance of the Humanities–but they often are not treated that way anymore at universities.
maghan says
But why did institutions like MIT and the Ivy League colleges go for the dummy Clinton to the tune of 80%+.
maghan says
https://www.joshuakennon.com/sat-scores-ranked-by-intended-college-major-show-teachers-are-below-average/
Do the above SAT scores for the above majors surprise you?
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Mr Spencer is confused that his masters the evil Jews are not fully satisfied with the services he has been rendering tirelessly for them.Lie cannot survive the test of time. Jews have now realised that Mr Spencer is not competent person to criticize Islam in a way that will serve the best interest of the Jews. As an ignorant analyst he could not hit the target. Mr Spencer should know that Jewish scholars are not ignorant about Islamic literature because many Jews were with Muslims when scholarly analysis on Islam were propounded right from the time of our noble Prophet Muhammad down to the time when Islamic principles of interpretation were fully developed, more particularly during Abbasid period. so, for an ignorant person like Mr Spencer to tell them this is the position of thing according to Islam is an insult to their intellectual curiosity. Jews have their reasons for rejecting Islam and Christianity, not based on trial and error. The important reason for rejecting Islam from the beginning , according to Jews, was that they are superior to Arabs because the grandmother of Arabs (Hagar) was a bondwoman ,while their grandmother(sarah) was a free wife of Abraham .They never disputed that they are brethren to Arabs. It is that feeling of superiority over the Arabs that made not accept Arabs as new leaders of humanity after they had been occupying that position for long. It was the Satan (the cursed one) who tempted them to revolt against God’s decree, and that is why they were cursed, according to the Quran. They rejected Jesus for the confusion that surrounded the emergence of Christianity from Judaism. Note:That the evil Jews know at the bottom of their hearts that they had been exactly as the Quran described them as people associated with evils and arrogance.Even with that the Quran never calls for genocide On them as Christians did.It only mentions that they will trigger war with all Muslims that will lead to their extinction as a sign for last, a prophecy not a license to kill them wherever they are found as Hitler called.
gravenimage says
The vile Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Mr Spencer is confused that his masters the evil Jews are not fully satisfied with the services he has been rendering tirelessly for them.
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Ibrahim itace muhammed has said this before–that if Infidels take issue with being raped and murdered by Muslims, that it must be because of the “evil Jews”. If not for them, we would be find with this savagery.
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Lie cannot survive the test of time.
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As always, Ibrahim itace muhammed is unable to point to a single falsehood from Robert Spencer.
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Jews have now realised that Mr Spencer is not competent person to criticize Islam in a way that will serve the best interest of the Jews.
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Ibrahim itace muhammed is now pretending that one naive Jewish college student represents “the Jews”. He is incapable of grasping that in the civilized world, people have differences of opinion, including sometimes ill-informed ones.
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As an ignorant analyst he could not hit the target. Mr Spencer should know that Jewish scholars are not ignorant about Islamic literature because many Jews were with Muslims when scholarly analysis on Islam were propounded right from the time of our noble Prophet Muhammad down to the time when Islamic principles of interpretation were fully developed, more particularly during Abbasid period.
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If by this Ibrahim itace muhammed means that Muslims have been oppressing and slaughtering Jews from the very beginning, he is quite correct.
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Note:That the evil Jews know at the bottom of their hearts that they had been exactly as the Quran described them as people associated with evils and arrogance.Even with that the Quran never calls for genocide On them as Christians did.It only mentions that they will trigger war with all Muslims that will lead to their extinction as a sign for last, a prophecy not a license to kill them wherever they are found as Hitler called.
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This Mohammedan’s ham-fisted apologia for Muslim genocide of the Jews is just appalling–he is saying that the Muslims will slaughter all Jews, but that it is *the fault of the Jews*.
I hope that Courtney Cooperman reads this thread, and sees conformation of what pious Muslims intend to do to her and all Jewish people.
Jim says
muhammed, disssembler and deceiver.
Jim says
We are living in a world of idiots. God help us when these leftist college/university students graduate and take positions of power. Not looking good.
Voytek Gagalka says
“If a society can deny freedom of religion to one group, it can employ the same mechanisms to systematically limit Jewish religious practice and denigrate Jewish communities.”
Is he talking about Iran? (How many Jews left over there?) Saudi Arabia (where are no Jews left since Mohammed times)? Pakistan? If not, why he is silent about those places which verily denigrate other (non-Muslim) communities? Silence in face of evil is endorsement of evil.
Tim says
Down with the Stanford fascists!
Max Publius says
These sad little student hacks don’t seem to know about the journalistic crimes of defamation of character, portrayal in a false light, and yellow journalism. I’d expect more from a stringer at a small town paper, but these prima donnas at Stanford are a disgrace.
Jack Holan says
I am a Jew. I’m also an American-Israeli and my elides family are Kurdish Iraquis who fled Iraq toIsrael in thel 50s.
I’ve been an avid reader of Roberts Jihad Watch for many year trying to fill gaps in my knowledge of Islam and to stay current with the part of Story line in the news not expressed by the news media ior if revealed its twisted. I’ve determined over these many years of reading that arobert Spencer is most generous and honest and about Jews Judaism and Israel. His voice. His voice is expresses strong advocacy for all 3. Whom ever accuses Robert of being an Anti-Semite is dishonest since there isn’t a shred of evidence supporting the accusation and they’re making it up to fit their political or Religious Agenda.
Ronen says
As a Jewish Israeli I am grateful to Mr. Spencer for highlighting and raising awareness to the ugly Islamic Jew hatred, as well as Islamic hatred and warfare against anyone which is not a Muslim man.
You need a lot of courage to say these things in the current cultural atmosphere in the west.
Thank you Robert, you are my hero!
May you keep strong and never give in!
FYI says
“We must always be wary of those whose love for the Jewish people is born out of hatred for the muslims or Arabs”
Wow.The naivety of that statement:what blindness to the fact that the hate for the Jews comes straight from islam itself:it is in the koran,the hadith and wicked example of the mass murdering of Jews by the self-appointed “prophet” muhammed himself{Ibn Iishaq 464,Ibn sa’d vol 11 no 93}.What more evidence do you need?
Perhaps Mr Foxman should have read the koran and hadith more closely…
allah curses the Jews koran 9:30
muhammed curses the Jews sahih muslim 1082
Even the “angel” jibreel is “the enemy of the Jews” al bukhari vol 4 bk 60 no 3329
And if the angel jibreel is the “enemy of the Jews” then he obviously is in opposition to the God of Moses which means he comes from the enemy of God.That explains why allah/muhammed/jibreel hate the Jews because they are in opposition to God{the God of Moses}.
And who was it that gave the violently anti-Semitic,commandment-violating koran to muhammed the mass murderer of the Jews?
jibreel..”the enemy of the Jews”.
And what does islamic ideology say needs to be done to the Jews for islam to dominate the world..?
{Sahih Muslim book 41 no 6985}
“the last hour would not come unless the muslims will fight against the Jews”
The Jews and Israel are a major obstacle to a global islamic caliphate.So of course they and Israel would need to be wiped out…. with allah’s approval.
The Jews are allah’s #1 enemy.The koranic hatred of the Jews is very deep and islamic teachings are very,very clear on what should be done to them.
The islamic hatred of the Jews is as vitriolic and evil as anything found in Nazi ideology.Nothing in Hitler’s mein kampf or the forged protocols of the elders of Zion compares in its ferocious hatred of the Jews to what you see in islam.
Meanwhile,the Iranians talk about the annihilation of Israel,the Holy Land…which is proof positive that it is they and their warped god allah that is the enemy of God.
Ignoring islamic ideology that calls for getting rid of the Jews or the annihilation of Israel is inexcusable.It facilitates evil.
Maria says
Truly mindboggling that a person can be as ignorant as this woman and be proud of exhibiting it.
UNCLE VLADDI says
This leftist suicidally masochistic nonsense propaganda seems to go something like this:
“If and when you use force to defend yourself from criminal aggressors, it’s the exact same thing as being a criminal who initiates aggressive force against innocent victims, because there are no real crimes nor criminals, only other, fellow victims!”
It’s either blatant hypocrisy, or a declaration of mental incompetence.