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Video: Robert Spencer on the media whitewash of “Allahu akbar”

Dec 6, 2017 1:08 pm By Robert Spencer

In this new video, I explain how the media is obfuscating the true meaning of the phrase “Allahu akbar,” and why it is irresponsible of them to do so.

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  1. jihad3tracker says

    Dec 6, 2017 at 1:16 pm

    I have not watched Robert’s video yet, but let me mention a relevant one by Dr. David Wood, post at his blog — www [dot] answeringmuslims [dot] — soon after the Halloween vehicular jihad in New York City:

    “Allahu Akbar — Muhammad’s War Cry”. As usual, David includes citations from the Qur’an and/or Sunnah to explain context and undergird his assertions.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 7, 2017 at 12:54 am

      “Allahu Akbar” is the declaration of Islamic DOMINANCE.

      When Muslims say, ““Allahu Akbar”, they mean ISLAM IS WINNING or ISLAM IS GAINING SUPREMACY.

      “Allahu Akbar” is used by Muslims to mean “OUR TEAM IS WINNING”.

      “Allahu Akbar” is the declaration of DOMINANCE.

    • James Davis says

      Dec 7, 2017 at 10:04 am

      Perhap’s PRESIDENT TRUMP, Should Declare Himself A “CEASAR” for ONE YEaR, & Clean Out
      ALL The Lice, Viper’s, Cockroaches, Flies, Tick’s, Rat’s, & Other Sub-Human, Vermin, Out Of ALL Their Hiding Places. Whether In Plain Sight, Or Covert, Hidey-Hole’s!!! There Are Approximately 25 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIEN’S, Within The U.S. & Thousand’s Of These “SQUATTER’S” ARE MUSLIM TERRORIST’S, Comprising A Rather, Very Dangerous, “FIFTH COLUMN”( Think’s To OBAMA & HIS FORMER EIGHT YR. REGIME )!!! I Would Also, Call On ISRAEL, FOR ASSISTANCE IN THIS “CLEAN-UP”!!!

  2. Moshe says

    Dec 6, 2017 at 1:55 pm

    Mr. Spencer, my friends and colleagues in the Arab world have shared with me that your perspective may have been valid hundreds of years ago, but is no longer representative of the vast majority of Muslims.

    In modern usage, the phrase “Allahu akbar” is an innocent cultural catch phrase, similar to basketball fans in Cleveland saying “How about those Cavs!” after LeBron dunks or to football fans in New Yorkers screaming “Go Jets” after a touchdown. I think that this is a brilliant analogy.

    Any connotation of religious supremacy (as you assert) by contrast must be revisited in the context of the key insights of former President Obama: that terrorism represents a misunderstanding of Islam — and indeed its violation — as a religion of peace. I refer you to Pres. Obama’s historic and insightful speech in Cairo in 2009. Surely President Obama richly deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.

    • Kenny says

      Dec 6, 2017 at 2:05 pm

      Taqiyya, pure and simple. You are lying.

      • gungadin says

        Dec 6, 2017 at 10:06 pm

        Of Course!!

      • Carolyne says

        Dec 15, 2017 at 11:21 am

        And so was Obama

    • Gary Wadley says

      Dec 6, 2017 at 2:12 pm

      Love it when Muslims try to explain why their violent and evil religion is not violent and evil. Of course, nothing in Moshe’s comments refutes anything Mr. Spencer said.

    • Crusader says

      Dec 6, 2017 at 2:27 pm

      Moshe has missed Spencer’s point and warning.
      Spencer points out that shouting “God is Greater!”
      has the distinct potential of exhibiting a terror attack.
      Let’s not be complacent about this by referring to lulling
      statements about sports. That’s not where the danger is.
      As for Obama’s peace prize, awarded prior to any real achievement,
      Obama didn’t bring people together, he divided them, piece by piece.
      He also made allowances for dangerous elements of Islam to make inroads.
      Lessening his own country’s influence is not something to be proud of.

      • mortimer says

        Dec 7, 2017 at 1:08 am

        “Allahu Akbar” is a message of SUPREMACISM and DOMINANCE.

    • Robin says

      Dec 6, 2017 at 2:45 pm

      Moshe, if you seriously believe that:
      “terrorism represents a misunderstanding of Islam — and indeed its violation”
      then you are severely misinformed.
      Some corrective learning may be gained from here but also from http://www.BecomeATerrorist.com and http://www.IslamHoax.com and http://www.PoliticalIslam.com and http://www.thereligionofpeace.com among others.

      And as for “the vast majority of Muslims”: until such time as that “vast majority” stop the vast minority whose activities are reported on those latter two websites (and on front pages), their numbers are irrelevant.

    • Robin says

      Dec 6, 2017 at 2:48 pm

      >”Mr. Spencer, my friends and colleagues in the Arab world….”

      …are almost certainly a highly unrepresentative sample.

      • mortimer says

        Dec 6, 2017 at 8:20 pm

        Here’s a sample of ISIS shouting Allah Akbar and blowing themselves up:

    • Guy Macher says

      Dec 6, 2017 at 3:09 pm

      Moshe, your takkiya is noted. Well-done, devout and knowledgable Muslim. Now, you fooled no one who has studied the Koran with your lies, but you have gained glory in the sight of your satanic deity, Allah.

      • mortimer says

        Dec 6, 2017 at 7:36 pm

        Agree with Guy. Allahu Akbar is an expression of ISLAMIC DOMINANCE!

        DOMINANCE!

        Allah is GREATER than the kafirs’ god and Muslims are GREATER than the dirty KUFAAR!!

    • Ren says

      Dec 6, 2017 at 3:17 pm

      @Moshe

      The “vast representative majority of Muslims” is irrelevant for they have not founded islam. Muhammad did. The quran and the hadiths are representative of islam, not what the vast majority of Muslims believe.

      • Michael Copeland says

        Dec 6, 2017 at 6:44 pm

        “The only power the muslim community possesses is to acknowledge and obey” –
        Ruling by AMJA
        Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America

      • John S. Obeda says

        Dec 7, 2017 at 5:11 pm

        Very good comment; just like that we go to the Bible and to Jesus to find out what Christianity teaches and the works that Christians are to do. In a way the Christians themselves are irrelevant for, as is the case, some Christians are false.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Dec 6, 2017 at 3:48 pm

      I will bet 10,000 shekels that you are actually being sarcastic. Have we got a deal?

    • b.a. freeman says

      Dec 6, 2017 at 4:10 pm

      moshe, mr. spencer is referring to doctrines in the quran and sunnah. have U read them? they are easily available in english (and quite a few other languages), so i would encourage U to check for yourself. after all, is not the truth – direct from the source documents – a better weapon to use against liars like us than the word of a third party? it would also be far more satisfying to shut down our arguments with un-abrogated quotes from the quran and the sunnah.

    • MekaLekaHiMekaHineyHo says

      Dec 6, 2017 at 4:54 pm

      ” I think that this is a brilliant analogy.”
      Very narcissistic.

    • Ivan M. Rittenberg says

      Dec 6, 2017 at 5:56 pm

      Obama a learned Imam. What does the Sunni University in Cairo write? What is Wahabbi Islam say. Much better sources than Obama who states he is Christian. Its what people speaking in the language of the Koran write and say that is authentic and I’m sure know to reject passages of the Koran is to be an apostate.

    • Jim says

      Dec 6, 2017 at 8:02 pm

      Sure Moshe. I’ve seen enough Islamic beheadings, shootings, burning, drownings, gunning down POWs to see through your lies and deceptions. They almost always shout Allahu Akbar. You know as well as I do that Mohamed told believers to shout that into the ears of the executed, to terrorize them on the way to your version of hell, to let that sound be the last they hear before they die. ISIS and other Islamic groups around the world are shouting to this today.into the ears of the murder victims. Your taqiyya is an epic fail.

    • June says

      Dec 7, 2017 at 5:44 am

      Oh Bull! You would say milk is cream if it made you look better. It is what Robert Spencer said it means. If your Religion was one of peace then it would be so all over the world and nobody would need to shout that obscene word “Allahu Akbar — Muhammad’s War Cry”, nor would there be so many killings every place you decide to live just to promote jihad against anyone is isn’t Muslim. And as for Obama, pfffffft!

    • Martin says

      Dec 7, 2017 at 6:45 am

      “…terrorism represents a misunderstanding of Islam — and indeed its violation — as a religion of peace.”

      “Islam is a religion of Peace,” again and again we have this same, worn-out, trope trotted out after every Muslim mass murder that’s committed, as if repeating this phase often enough will make it true. It is the actions of an individual or a group that shows us what they are; a mother can say that her rapist-murderer son is a “good boy” but the rape and murder her son committed proves the mother’s claim to be false; the same applies to Islam.

      Most Muslims (not ISIS Muslims) may be deluded and truly believe that Islam is a religion of peace just as the mother of a rapist-murderer deludedly believes her son to be a good boy, but it is magical thinking, it’s a denial of the truth, and it’s an insult to my intelligence whenever anyone tries to convince me otherwise.

      To call Islam a religion is, in and of itself, a false statement: when the penalty for leaving Islam (a “religion”) is death Islam no longer qualifies as being a religion. To call Islam, “The religion of peace” is the double lie: it isn’t a religion and it isn’t peaceful.

      Within six short words, “Islam is a religion of peace” lies two great lies. You don’t have to read the Quran to realise that (which makes it crystal clear), you only need to read the daily newspaper.

    • Ray Sears says

      Dec 7, 2017 at 2:17 pm

      Sure Thing Mohammad !

    • Richard says

      Dec 9, 2017 at 10:26 am

      If Islam was a religion of peace Asia Bibi would not be in prison.
      If Islam was a religion of peace The Patriarch of Constantinople would celebrate the liturgy in the Hagia Sophia.
      If Islam was a religion of peace there would be churches in Saudi Arabia.

      Moshe – go away and persuade your fellow muslims to change these things and stop lecturing us. When you are successful we can talk (I am not holding my breath!)

  3. Benedict says

    Dec 6, 2017 at 2:36 pm

    “Allahu Akbar!” is a comparative and self-defeating exclamation: a god who has the need to compare himself with other gods eo ipso falls into the same category as those gods with whom he compares himself.
    Allah’s fan club – alas, as usual – screws it up for him, even when they mean to elevate and celebrate him by screaming “Allahu Akbar!” It’s hilarious! With friends like these who needs enemies?

    How different and incomparable is Allah, in his vanity and pettiness and especially in his greaterness, with the God of Israel who in his self-sufficiency and in-declinability, from the splendor of his majesty, asks the inhabitants of the earth a simple, devastating question:

    “To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? (Isaiah 40:25)

    How can such a God and his chosen people not prevail over their enemies —? even when the chosen people choose to oppose their own God?

    Allah – presumptuously and foolishly tooted as akbar – will ultimately slip, slide and fall in the manure provided for him by his favorite spokesman – the eel of the prophets – and break the pride of his neck.

    • Richard says

      Dec 9, 2017 at 10:29 am

      ““To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? (Isaiah 40:25)”

  4. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Dec 6, 2017 at 2:58 pm

    You’d think it’d be a simple one-step process to understand the gigantic difference between Allah Akbar and Allahu Akbar. Either they’re too stupid to understand this simple fact, or too lazy to look it up.

  5. mortimer says

    Dec 6, 2017 at 7:19 pm

    The cry Allah waKubâr = `Allah and the Great (Goddess)’, similar to the Christian exclamatory prayer `Jesus! Mary!’
    = the war cry was “Allah waKubâr” = Allah and the Great (Goddess)
    Allat was referred to as al-Kubra (The Greatest one) … i.e. the brightest and morning star…Venus (Aphrodite in Greek).
    …the lexical meaning, Akbar, as in Allah-u Akbar, is the male form, whereas Kub(e)raa is the female form … giving Allat al-kubera … the Goddess is the Greatest…similar to the Great Aphrodite
    Allat or Al-‘Uzzá was called ‘Chabar’ (the great) or ‘Allat-al-Chabra’.

    Mohammed using a pun, twisting this into ‘Allahu Akbar’, meaning ‘Allah is greater than Allat’.

    Mohammed’s cruel misogynistic joke is similar to the war cry “Allah wa-Kubâr” = Allah (Hubal) and (his) Great (goddess Uzza…Venus).

    The Moon Crescent of Hubal-Qos-Allah and the Star of Venus-Uzza are the symbols of early Islam.

  6. Bob says

    Dec 6, 2017 at 7:53 pm

    I’ve spent a number of years in the Middle East, in many different Islamic countries and have known many Muslims. In this time I have never heard any Muslim say Allahu Akbar (God is Greatest) during any peaceful interaction. However, I did hear, (many, many times), Muslims say alḥamdulillāh (God be praised). They often times said this in a joking or sarcastic sort of way like we would say Thank God this is over” or “well it’s about time”

    • mortimer says

      Dec 7, 2017 at 1:14 am

      Thanks for your testimony. The Islamic APOLOGISTS in the West are having us on.

      Is it possible they only say “Allahu Akbar” among themselves and avoid it in the presence of kafirs?

  7. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Dec 6, 2017 at 9:12 pm

    “Learned Imam John McCain”

    Good one!

  8. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 12:01 am

    At 4:07 in this video is a quotation from Bukhari 1.2.24 that “none has the right to be worshipped but Allah”.

    The Ninth Amendment of the U.S. federal constitution says, “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others [e.g., the right to be worshipped] retained by the people.”

    When the U.S. becomes sharia-compliant, we will have to repeal this Amendment, along with the Thirteenth Amendment (which prohibits possession by the right hand) and the Fourteenth Amendment (which grants kafirs equal rights with Muslims).

  9. Gamaliel says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 7:06 am

    Here is a good compilations of Allahu Akbars http://www.thoughts-everything.com/allahu_akbar.htm

  10. ronyvo says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 7:10 am

    You re entirely right, Mr. Spencer. This video should be distributed to the ‘reporters’ of the fake media. Oh, as if that would make a difference in repairing the cells in their brains.

    Allah of the Muslims is an extremely weak god. Since he could not do the job himself he makes every Muslim a judge and an executor. And, they are doing just that with atmost pleasure all over the world.
    They are as weak and coward as their allah. The criminal Mohammad was smart in ONE act, which he made Islam a religion by borrowing the idea from the Jews and Christians.
    However, I can understand this to work among the simple people of the Sahara, BUT NOW?1111111

  11. KmP says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 8:58 am

    The phrase was used in prayers and by Muhammad and his men when they attacked the enemy, as referenced in the earliest biography of Muhammad, Ibn Ishaq’s, “Sirat Rasul Allah” (Guillamume translation):
    [456] By Ali when he killed Amr in the Battle of the Ditch.
    [511] By Muhammad: “’Allah akbar! Khaybar is destroyed.”
    [670] By a Muslim during a raid and beheading.

    Also see this new infographic, “Blueprint for Terrorism: How Muhammad’s Example is Used to Justify Violence.” http://scienceetcetera.blogspot.com/2017/11/blog-post.html#links

  12. John Forbes says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 10:43 am

    ALLAHU AKBAR – MEANS GOD IS GREATEST & IS THE CRY OF THE SUPREMICIST ISLAMISTS!

  13. Ray Sears says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 2:22 pm

    Sure Thing Mohammad !

  14. boakai ngombu says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 6:20 pm

    the MSM are a godless bunch and are no longer principled.

    their antics have shown, of late, that they no longer know right from wrong, good from bad; they no longer know to differentiate righteousness from wickedness

    it makes no difference to them that an utter blasphemous cry is heard

  15. Danel Riqar says

    Dec 8, 2017 at 1:38 am

    Really, there’s one thing that could and would solve this MSM bias once and for all…. IF only the jihadists would turn their attention to MSM News stations, newspapers, and talking heads. Just think, for a minute. The problem would become the solution. And what a grand solution it would be!!!! The soldiers would take out their own propagandists, thus destroying a major part of what motivates them. Sure, the batshit crazy Imams would still spray their vile butt gland venom on their congregations, but at least the blatant ridiculous lies would abate somewhat. I would sleep very well at night knowing organizations like CNN, et. al. were lying in ruinous heaps, which is really weird. I’m a total pacifist. What scares me is that I would even think of this. Imagine the people who aren’t pacifists. What are they thinking………….

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