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Oregon: Julia Shumway of the Bend Bulletin invokes Hamas-linked CAIR and SPLC to defame counterterror speaker

Feb 22, 2018 10:01 am By Robert Spencer

It’s the same thing every time: if someone who speaks the truth about the nature and magnitude of the global jihad, including John Guandolo and me, is invited to speak anywhere off the conservative reservation, there are protests, defamatory “news” articles, and calls for us to be canceled. There is no engagement with or refutation of what we say, although, as in this article, there are sometimes tendentious presentations of statements we have made, presented without refutation as if they’re self-evidently false.

It shows that powerful forces, such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations and the hard-Left smear group the Southern Poverty Law Center, are deeply afraid of us. They know they cannot show us to be wrong, so they defame and smear us, in accord with the Alinskyite playbook, and do everything they can to intimidate and frighten timid event sponsors (which is usually pretty easy) into canceling the event. Cowardice is pandemic in our ridiculous age: look below at all the Bend, Oregon public figures who rush to distance themselves from Guandolo. Have they studied the issues and know that what Guandolo says is false? Of course not. They just don’t want their petty little domains threatened by pressure groups such as Hamas-linked CAIR calling for their heads — but their cowering and kowtowing only encourages CAIR to continue its tactics: they keep working.

One day maybe Wikileaks or someone will reveal who gave the order, and how it was delivered. But every mainstream media reporter, down to the smallest and most insignificant outlet on the planet, has gotten those orders, and always obeys them down to the last detail. The orders clearly must say that Hamas-linked CAIR and the SPLC should be treated as trustworthy, reliable sources, while those who note the obvious and readily demonstrable fact that Islamic terrorism stems from and is justified by texts and teachings of Islam is to be treated as a crank, a pariah, a notorious bigot. Julia Shumway of the Bend Bulletin, like every other mainstream media reporter on earth, has gotten those orders, and follows them here. Hamas-linked CAIR, she says, is “a Muslim civil rights organization.” Like every other mainstream media reporter on the planet, Shumway doesn’t see fit to inform her readers that CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. A CAIR operative recently called for the overthrow of the U.S. government.

Shumway also tells us that “the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, considers Guandolo an anti-Muslim extremist.” Why is the SPLC trustworthy as an arbiter of what is a hate group and what isn’t? Shumway, like every other mainstream media reporter in the galaxy, doesn’t see fit to tell us, or to inform her readers that there is considerable evidence that the SPLC is not a neutral arbiter, but a hard-Left smear group that uses its “extremist” label to tar legitimate groups that oppose its Leftist agenda.

Have you noticed that I keep writing the same things over and over again? That’s because the paradigm is well established. The play has been written, and everyone always acts out his or her part. Here’s how it goes: venue announces speaker on counterterrorism and jihad. Hamas-linked CAIR protests, calls for cancellation of “bigoted” speaker. Mainstream media reporter writes about the controversy, writing negative and distorted statements about the speaker, while invoking CAIR and the SPLC as if they were neutral and reliable sources. The only plot variable is that sometimes the event goes on as planned, but more often it is cancelled or disrupted beyond any value (as in my experience at Stanford University).

Sometimes there is also an extra act, in which Spencer exposes the dishonesty and slanted reportage of the “journalist” involved, and the “journalist” angrily defends his or her work, doubling down on the trustworthiness of CAIR and the SPLC, and the wickedness of Spencer and any other foe of jihad terror who may be involved.

Watch this space. In the next week or so, we’ll put on this play again.

“Deschutes County Republican Party hosts controversial speaker,” by Julia Shumway, The Bend Bulletin, February 20, 2018:

…The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, considers Guandolo an anti-Muslim extremist….

Oregon’s Democratic Party and the state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights organization, called on Deschutes County Republicans to cancel Guandolo’s speech….

“So many Muslim people are gentle, wonderful people,” Gregory said. “Just like Christians, there are people on the margins who are radical and violent. Christians are the people who bomb abortion clinics.”

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  1. Diane Harvey says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 10:20 am

    “Cowardice is pandemic in our ridiculous age: look below at all the Bend, Oregon public figures who rush to distance themselves from Guandolo.”

    The Kennedy Center will never run short on available candidates for the annual Profiles-in-Putty award.

    • Andy says

      Feb 22, 2018 at 11:06 am

      Censorship

    • jihad3tracker says

      Feb 22, 2018 at 11:56 am

      Please, everyone — Find an email contact path for Paul DeWitt (the courageous Repub mentioned in that article) and send him a huge thank-you. Also pass along your best sources for truth about the violence embedded in COMPLETE Islam.

  2. CE says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 10:49 am

    Wow! Gregory said, “Christians are the people who bomb abortion clinics”.

    I sure would like to know what percentage of terrorist bombings over the past 20 years were done by Christians versus what percentage of bombings were done by Muslims.

    • JawsV says

      Feb 22, 2018 at 2:49 pm

      Oh, Islam-lover Susan Gregory wouldn’t dare mention Islamic Jihad! That would be “islamophobic.”

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Feb 22, 2018 at 4:26 pm

      Yes, the attempt to draw a comparison between so many thousands of koran/hadith encouraged acts of murderous jihad, and a tiny number of anti-Christian acts of violence against abortion clinics is nothing short of willful deception.

      Bend is a nice place with some great people in it (not to mention the fine breweries) but it sure is a hotbed of smug leftism.

  3. MFritz says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 11:30 am

    Just take a look at the photo. Nobody ever asked Ms Shumway to be a grid girl. This is one of those women who blame EVERYTHING on white men (especially their lack of being attractive or sexually desired). And on Christian faith as well as Western society.

    This woman is a lost cause.

    • Garfield says

      Feb 22, 2018 at 4:10 pm

      I get your point…. But the real issue with so called unattractive SWJ types is their attitude, not their looks. A plain or even homely woman can be wonderfully desirable and sexy if she is NICE. These angry feminists are NOT nice and that is really what makes them “ugly”.
      Happy women do not resent their prettier sisters. They know there much more to it then looks. Its the leftie women who are jealous, petty, and never happy.
      Decent men want GOOD women. Fun, sane, kind women. Fun, sane, kind women have a certain beauty that goes beyond looks. But SWJs are so bitter and angry they don’t even think straight.

      • MFritz says

        Feb 22, 2018 at 6:01 pm

        Well, as I said.

        It is a complete waste of time to expect sane thinking and rational behaviour from a woman (or women, or people) that blames her personal failures AND all the evil in the world on white men, Christianity and Western culture.

  4. Elizabeth Lawson says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 11:43 am

    I was both glad and sad to read what Julia wrote. Glad that CAIR and the Muslim brotherhood are being exposed for the terrorist fifth columnists that they are, and sad that their goals and aspirations, and those of George Soros, in the matter of transforming the US into France, Germany, and pretty much all EU countries, was meeting with succes. These fellows and their wretched ideology thrive on chaos, anarchy – and the death of democracy. Assisting in destroying their democracy are ignoramuses bereft knowledge of the historic disasters all concerned have left in their wake. Communism gets the prize for killing the most people!at one hundred million people, since its inception, the numbers left dead in Mohammed’s rampage go all the way to 800 million, so, East and West have a few things in common – early death, and eternal war. Most of our politicians are cowards – excepting Donald Trump, Victor Orban of Poland, and the PM of Hungary, and our laws facilitate the goals of these dregs of humanity, while they dangerous,y disadvantage us. Were we to engage these troglodytes in the manner befitting them, than we would be changing our laws to one day strangle ourselves. So, what do we do? Stand passively by and watch utterly unworthy specimens of humanity destroy our countries? As much as we desire peace, we would be wise to prepare to defend our countries – and ourselves.

    • Brian Hoff says

      Feb 22, 2018 at 2:57 pm

      I question your number of people who die by Islam.First the Black Death an other illness like small pox kill more people than that 800 million included people who die from illness. Black Death and Small Pox where equal killer they kill all races religious people of any religious equally.

      • JawsV says

        Feb 22, 2018 at 9:09 pm

        “Brian Hoff” is a Muslim who used to be “defender of islam.”

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Feb 22, 2018 at 10:14 pm

        Deaths caused by disease are a whole different category from deaths caused by homicide.

        Historians estimate the death toll from Islamic slaughter at 270 million. No other belief system/ideology has produced a body count remotely close to that of the murderous cult of Islam.

        For the sake of historical accuracy, the Black Death caused the death of an estimated 75-200 million people. Deaths from Smallpox far exceed those from the Black Death, approaching 500 million by the end of the 20thC.

  5. Kay says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 11:47 am

    Same play. Just getting closer to home.

    Her comments about Christians are offensive though. Does someone have her contact information?

    • Lydia Church says

      Feb 22, 2018 at 9:55 pm

      Right here honey, I got it all for everyone to send her a little ‘educational comment’:

      Julia Shumway
      @JMShumway
      Now: City hall reporter at @TheBulletin. Then: @AP, @TheHawkEye, @azcentral, @cronkitenews, EIC @statepress. Always: Gryffindor, First Amendment fangirl.

      Bend, OR
      juliamshumway.com

      She writes the articles at that paper and I just searched out her contact information there.
      Have fun!!!
      : D

      • Lydia Church says

        Feb 22, 2018 at 9:56 pm

        and… 1st amendment fangirl??? What a joke!!!

  6. Fred H says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 11:50 am

    The opponents of Mr Spencer always stage a wonderful celebration of mediocrity.

  7. Barbara Ethel says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 2:44 pm

    The grinning fool in the picture above is first on the list when her buddies in the Muslim Brotherhood have their way and Sharia takes over. What an absolutely sad sack of humanity. A turkey voting for Christmas.

  8. JawsV says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 2:46 pm

    It’s Oregon. What else can you expect but Islam-loving?

  9. simpleton1 says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 2:59 pm

    ” “So many Muslim people are gentle, wonderful people,” Gregory said. “Just like Christians, there are people on the margins who are radical and violent. Christians are the people who bomb abortion clinics. ” ”

    Does she think that “gentle wonderful” hijabed, niqabed, burka muslim woman are free to attend an abortion clinic?

    Just what would happen if those “gentle wonderful” muslim woman had the freedom to wend their way to abortion clincs if they wished?.

    Just look at where the control starts !, and where the sources of that ideology come from.

  10. Dum Spiro says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 3:22 pm

    The SPLC exposed:




    You know now why some Prager U youtube videos have been restricted by YouTube…
    — Spero

  11. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 4:13 pm

    Thé speaker is not countering terrorism because he not debunking evil being sponsored by evil united states and fascist evil zionist state of Israel. Hamas, Hezbullah and muslim brother how are not terror groups, they counter evil zionists and evil IsIs.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Feb 22, 2018 at 4:29 pm

      They sneak around trying to stick knives in the back of any Jew they can slither close enough to reach.

      But, since you regard one mohammad as your perfect man/idol, it’s no surprise that you hold those seeking to act like him in high regard.

  12. livingengine says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 5:05 pm

    Julia Shumway! I made this video for people exactly like you.

  13. mortimer says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 5:07 pm

    IT’S THE IDEOLOGY STUPID!

    Is SUSAN GREGORY INTENTIONALLY STUPID?

    Susan Gregory, chairwoman of the Interfaith Network of Central Oregon, said that “So many Muslim people are gentle, wonderful people.”

    But that is not the point, is it, Gregory?

    ISLAMIC IDEOLOGY IS NOT GENTLE AND WONDERFUL TO NON-MUSLIMS … THAT is the point.

    IT’S THE IDEOLOGY STUPID!

  14. Carlos Danger says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 5:45 pm

    I suppose in shumway’s defense it’s possible that she is merely lazy and/or stupid…. just regurgitating the pablum she is spoon-fed by her intellectual superiors on the left instead of getting off of her duff and actually reporting.
    But then why give her the benefit of the doubt?
    Another example of fake news.

  15. Lydia Church says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 9:40 pm

    Again, it is not CHRISTIAN if it is not in the Bible, like bombing an abortion clinic! Duh!
    It IS muslim if it is in the koran, like bombing the masses and so forth!
    THAT is the difference!
    Again…. DUH!

    And, there have been millions of abortions committed by non Christians, which is murder of the innocents, and no one mentions that those murder facilities are the ones getting bombed. It is non Christians who commit murder, not Christians. I also wonder how many such clinics have been bombed? That would be interesting to know! It’s just more slander from the hating left against true Christians who are living righteously! Nothing new there!

    All the terrorists have been muslims, because that is what their book mandates, and they follow the demonic influence leading them to carry these crimes out.

    Christians follow the Bible and the Holy Spirit and that leads them to do good and righteous things like helping the poor, orphans, the abused, sick, disabled, etc.!

    And THAT is the difference, let those fools take note of it!

    • Elisha says

      Feb 23, 2018 at 3:54 am

      Amen, sister.

    • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

      Feb 23, 2018 at 3:32 pm

      Lydia, you mean crusaders Who killed millions were not christians ? transatlantic slave traders, were not christians ? what about White Christian police in the US shooting blacks at sight ? Also what you Call gunmen, are they not christians ? Idiot mithraist pagan !!

  16. Jack Holan says

    Feb 23, 2018 at 12:01 am

    I’m sure @JuliaMShumway thinks more of herself as a Journalist than Reporter. However what is her investigative prowess. She relies upon what she she is tole from an Islamic Organization purporting to be a Civil Rights Group. What’s The Groups background? Who do they associate with and represent. Have they. Every been Criminal Charged? Are they considered a terrorist group ln Muslim Countries or support any? Has Ms Shumway done her own homework before taking these People’s word about a former decorated FBI Agent?
    The SPLCENTER is NOT what it was in the 60s. Different People, Different Agenda and most of All a Different Benefactor with a known Policy and track record. This is a matter you owed the public to research before accepting statements about the Speaker. Did you call the Speaker for his side? Are you aJounalist who investigates before reporting or a Reporter who reports without investigating.

  17. Linnte says

    Feb 25, 2018 at 5:23 am

    I’m just over the Willamette Pass from Bend. I SURELY WISH I’d known about this meeting. Doggonnit! Grrrrrrrr

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