Useful Idiots are swarming in record numbers today. There are numerous non-Muslim organizations that are enabling and abetting jihad terror and Sharia oppression by smearing and demonizing those who are calling attention to them: the Southern Poverty Law Center is the most notorious of these, but there are many others, including the Anti-Defamation League, Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative, and more. There are individuals who do this as well: Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, British Leftist activist Nick Lowles, “scholars” in the US such as John Esposito and Karen Armstrong, and numerous “journalists” both in the UK and the US.
But this is nothing new. In my forthcoming book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which will be out this summer and you can preorder here now, I discuss numerous non-Muslims going back to the beginning of jihad violence who have aided and abetted the advance of the jihad for their own short-sighted ends. In the book, you will meet:
- The Christian count whose thirst for personal revenge led him to enable the Muslim conquest of Spain;
- The Byzantine general who deserted to the Muslims and enabled the jihadis to take the Byzantine commander hostage;
- The Hindu leader who paid tribute to the Muslims to avoid a jihadi invasion — and who converted to Islam when they invaded anyway;
- The Byzantine emperor who married off his daughter to the Ottoman sultan to secure his support in a dynastic dispute — and even gave in to the sultan’s demand that Christian slaves be auctioned off naked in Constantinople;
- The British financing of Saudi Wahhabism in their efforts to weaken the Ottoman Empire.
There are many more. It’s time to stop this appeasement and accommodation. But we can only do that if we’re aware of the devastation it has caused throughout history. Get the whole truth, told nowhere else, in The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. Preorder here now.
St. Manuel II Palailogos says
Sad moments in our history.
Mark Swan says
U.S. Supreme court backs Trump on travel ban.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-immigration/u-s-top-court-backs-trump-on-travel-ban-targeting-muslim-majority-nations-idUSKBN1JM1U9
gravenimage says
Yes! I just heard this good news, Mark.
Joy says
But sadly, one of Obama’s boys (on the bench in San Diego), is trying to block ICE’s policy of keeping children out of the clutches of coyotes and others that are NOT the children’s parents – or even family – even for a limited time. “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.”
balam says
May God bless President TRUMP for protecting America from the WRATH of Islam.
GP says
Good article about this….
https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article213779619.html
Moshe says
Mr. Spencer, whereas it is easy to assess events long ago (such as actions by Byzantine emperors), current events can be unclear. Indeed, the broad brush strokes of your analysis would require us to conclude that former President Obama was an enabler of Jihad against American interests. This is impossible to believe.
Pres. Obama’s election and re-election brought tears to my eyes.
One has only to reread Pres. Obama’s historic speech in Cairo in 2009 to see the wisdom of his Nobel Peace Prize. This is just one man’s opinion, but this beautiful call for multicultural understanding and inter-faith outreach inspired me to put a “COEXIST” sticker on the bumper of my call. There is a deep truth in the admixture of letters drawn from diverse religious symbols.
If only we could have 300 million such bumper stickers, then America would be worthy of the former President’s soaring peroration, which concluded as follows:
“We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written.
The Holy Koran tells us, ‘O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.’
The Talmud tells us: ‘The whole of the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace.’
The Holy Bible tells us, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.’
The people of the world can live together in peace. We know that is God’s vision. Now, that must be our work here on Earth. Thank you. And may God’s peace be upon you.”
Wellington says
I assume you meant your post as satire. Sure hope so otherwise……..
Sog says
It snot.
Sog says
It snot.
LeeZee says
Sorry, Wellington, but I believe Moshe is serious and sincere. He expresses himself quite clearly and with passion, obviously hearing through rose-colored glasses. Barry’s Cairo speech ushered in the “Arab Spring”, opening a portal to Hell on Earth. Too many have been seduced by the double-speak of our so-called “leaders”. We already have our ‘New beginning” here in the USA. “New World Order”, Globalization, Intersectionality, Multiculturalism are curses worse than any 4-letter word. Mashiach better hurry up, or maybe we could conjure up a Deus ex Machina, before the fit hits the shan.
Wellington says
Well, if not meant as satire then Moshe is a fool, which pretty much was what I meant by the word, “otherwise.” I was just interested, up front like, to make sure I covered “all the bases’—for form’s sake, for theory’s sake, for truth’s sake.
CogitoErgoSum says
Wellington, I always take Moshe’s comments as satire, although I’d say he’s very subtle about it. He’s doing his part by putting a COEXIST bumper sticker on his car. Deep truth, don’t you know. Oh, yeah.
Wellington says
Well, CES, Mark Twain’s satire was virtually always of the very subtle variety, which is why many people missed what he was really trying to convey (hell, many still do, including a lot of English teachers who should know better). Let’s hope the same is the case with Moshe. As a sometimes betting man, I would put my money on Moshe the satirist and not Moshe the one-dimensional commentator, but I see that others would bet otherwise, assuming they would bet at all.
Mockingjay says
I´m with you Wellington – only I think the irony of Moshe is layed on rather t h i c k …
J D S says
Naw Wellington..not satire……..
Whitey says
Moshe ,the unholy quran also tells you “take not the Jews and Christians as friends” It tells you to “kill the unbelievers (Jews and Christians) wherever you find them”. When was the last time a Christian killed in the name of Jesus Christ? And no, Timothy McVeigh was NOT a Christian.
Niemoller says
Moshe is what happens when a useful idiot, unaware that he is a useful idiot, defends another useful idiot, unaware that he is a useful idiot also.
Indiana Tom says
I see Moshe is tripping the light fantastic.
Just because you are not interested in violent Islam does not mean that violent Islam is not interested in you.
Sort of like the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium in 1940.
Islam may not be as different from Nazism than what some people might think.
Indiana Tom says
One has only to reread Pres. Obama’s historic speech in Cairo in 2009 to see the wisdom of his Nobel Peace Prize.
Either this is satire or a fantastic trip.
J D S says
Hey Tom….But what was being smoked on the “trip”
gravenimage says
I see the nasty “Moshe” is trolling us again. The other day he was happily ranting about genocide here–that post has happily been removed–so who knows what his real views are?
In any case, I am very tired of his bs.
Mac-101 says
So the Genocide of 30 thousand plus Black Workers in Libya and the reopening of the slave market in Tripoli bring a tear to your eyes as the glorious reestablishment of Islam and Sharia in Libya?
gravenimage says
+1
PGuud says
Are you serious? On what planet do you live?
The Wholly Shit Koran needs to be shredded. Muhammad needs to be condemned until every Muslim sees him for the fraud that he is. Islam needs to be banned. The non-Muslim world (one that advocates the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) needs to diffuse–by every means–and predominate over every Muslim territory, until freedom supplants Islam. No person of sound mind, of reason, should want to coexist with the most deadly and intolerant ideology in the history of the world. No–not interested in coexisting with evil.
Stop wasting time with fairy tales.
To hate Islam, is to know Islam.
shea says
Amen
IanB says
This is a mess of deluded nonsense. Like Wellington, I hope it’s satire.
balam says
The Qur’an speaks with FORK TONGUE and can never be trusted.When Mohammad was weak in Mecca,he spoke about PEACE and COEXIST but when welcomed in Medina by the JEWISH tribes,he cut the throats of 800 Jews of Quraiza Tribe ,enslaved their women and converted their children to follow his doctrine.He even expelled the rest of the JEWS. You can neither live beside Muslims nor with them.A good Muslim can never be trusted.
balam says
Moshe: You sound like a DELUDED FOOL to me. Have you ever lived in a Muslim country as a JEW or a CHRISTIAN? The WOLVES OF ALLAH WOULD TEAR YOU APART.You sound more like a Catholic to me whom the Muslims prefer.
GP says
Moshe…..please by all means head over to Cairo on a plane tomorrow and preach your ecumenical message outside any mosque there. If you are still alive and free in a week, and have managed to engage ‘enlightened’ Arab muslims to your cause then by all means come back and share your words of wisdom with us.
However, as your name seems to indicate that you may be Jewish, I would not favour your chances of coming away unscathed. And that my friend is the problem; Islam does not co-exist or work for peace with Jews and Christians. They refuse!
You are either very ignorant, delusional or a very tedious troll.
Naildriver says
Why would it be ‘impossible to believe’ Obama was an enabler of Jihad terror?
Obama’s Cairo speech was clearly treason, particularly if American interests are made possible by our Constitution and the Bill of rights — all of which a devoted Muslim would shred and replace with sharia law. A system diametrically opposed to any pursuit of human growth and goodness; as Islam is in truth a system of terror, given that low character in men is not only enabled by Islam but would have men follow horrors in example to Mohammed — with violence, intimidation and murder directives toward those who merely disagree with it — which is what we of course see daily from Islam’s devotees.
Obama even had the audacity to suggest the Islamic system was equal to the West.
The claim of religion isn’t enough to sanitize Islam’s place here or anywhere. It should be regarded an enemy to our Constitution and way of life, which it clearly is.
Bodart says
Moshe,
If I’m not mistaken , didn’t the car hijacked by the Jihadist Tsaranov brothers ( a.k.a. “Flashbang” and “Speedbump”) after their Boston Marathon killing spree have a “Coexist” bumper sticker on it ? I chuckle each time I see one of these bumper stickers knowing that the driver is yet another misguided virtue signaler, aka “useful idiot”. Fortunately , the frequency of these nauseating bumper stickers seems to be decreasing.
Mazel Tov to you,Moshe!
Ted Tyler says
Moshe, Thank you for your entertaining post. I know that you are just having fun with us.
eduardo odraude says
I wish this were coming out sooner than August!
Keys says
Aiding and abetting jihad and sharia – “ “scholars” in the US such as John Esposito and Karen Armstrong …. “
Don’t forrggett the foollisshh and sloppy Garry Wills, who recently bashed Robert Spencer.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/06/robert-spencer-in-pj-media-garry-wills-the-religion-of-the-quran-is-a-religion-of-peace
gravenimage says
Thanks for the link, Keys.
Patty Rains (@stopthatjunk) says
Slick as usual….
sidney penny says
“There are many more. It’s time to stop this appeasement and accommodation. ”
yes it’s time
gravenimage says
It didn’t start with the Southern Poverty Law Center
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There have always been dhimmis and useful idiots. We should be learning from history, rather than repeating it.
Mark Swan says
Absolutely gravenimage.
Vann Boseman says
It is easy to understand how someone might feel this way. Certainly I feel this way. My wife claims that she is sure she would choose death rather than being a dhimmi. I am not sure for myself. I would be afraid if given such a choice. Perhaps I would be delusional, but I would hope that if I could remain alive I would find a way to fight it, or escape it. The idiocy of the support of the women’s movement for Islam underscores my frustration with useful idiots. One could almost say “Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.” (Does it mean “Do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it” or “The more thy fortune frowns, the more oppose”? For von Mises, “I recalled these words during the darkest hours of the war. Again and again I was met with situations from which rational deliberation found no means of escape; but then the unexpected intervened, and with it came salvation.”) I think that if someone is not a useful idiot in one context, that this may be the best you can hope for.
Indiana Tom says
It sort of baffles me why the Marxists, Bolsheviks, Jews, Feminists, LGBTs,Progressives, and other Leftists are so willing to be used by the Muslims. I realize the Progtards want the Muslims to be a battering ram against traditional Western Civilization, but the Muslims are even more likely to attack the Progtard groups than the more Conservative groups. The Pulse Nightclub is actually very good example of the Muslims attacking an LGBT Progtard group. The Progtards must be very confident that they can conquer and subdue the Muslims after the Conservatives are out of the way.
gravenimage says
No–they are mostly in denial. Most Liberals I know–and I know a lot here in San Francisco–are in deep denial about Islam being a threat.
Mac-101 says
All these groups are just different Legions of Satan to destroy ALL that is good!
gravenimage says
You’re saying that Jews are “Legions of Satan”?
Mac-101 says
If a person supports murdering a baby in it’s mother’s womb by drilling a hole in it’s head and suckin out the brains then cuttin off the limbs to pull it out da hole, Jew or Gentile they are Satanic. If they support murdering Gays, honor killin women, then they are Satanic. If they support Sharia Law and the mass import of Muslims into Western Countries, then THEY are Satanic! How hard is DAT? You know a tree by it’s fruit!
Ashley says
If a person supports murdering a baby in it’s mother’s womb by drilling a hole in it’s head and suckin out the brains then cuttin off the limbs to pull it out da hole, Jew or Gentile they are Satanic.
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That was wholly unnecessary, Mac-101.
This is Jihad Watch. It is not a platform to spew your views on intensely personal and private reproductive matters.
Ashley says
Jim,
I appreciate your thoughtful response but I don’t understand what your point is.
It chaps my hide when abortion is introduced as a topic on THIS site but I will attempt to put it in context:
If a woman doesn’t have a right to her own body, she has no rights.
Period.
Joefelon says
robert Spencer does admirable work and this site is needed more than ever in todays world…but he really needs to ease up on the self-promotion of his new book.
Mac-101 says
He gotta pay da bills. I doubt he gits any of dat gubermint cheese to finance himself and this site!
gravenimage says
And if he doesn’t?
Vann Boseman says
I don’t think he should stop self promoting because what he is doing in this book is ground breaking. If you know enough about this site to know that it is “needed more than ever in today’s world,” then imagine those just stumbling across it who do not subscribe to jihad watch. If there is an element of self promotion, then he does not just give us teasers from his research here, but provides needed information here from that research furthering the movement against jihad by revealing those who historically aided and abetted jihad.
Naildriver says
Hasn’t it occurred to you, Joefelon, that those who publicly oppose Islam … and actually many who don’t publicly do, so are threatened with murder; and indeed, devotees to Islam have already tried to kill Robert Spencer?
Most people who manage to become ‘experts’ in this area know full well the dangers and choose to either say nothing or capitulate to the forces of Islamic intimidation and in some cases bribery. Just look at the results of the practices of Charlie Hebdo and hundreds of other news publications that once claimed some respect for free speech after some Islamic slaughter of a few journalists, opinion writers, or cartoonists — you’ll see no more lampoons of the prophet’s evil or mockery of Islam’s hardwired idiocy unless you look for it.
I think far less self-promotion would be necessary were not so many who we depend on for the truth of Islam’s threat not cowardly or treasonous. And, as has been pointed out, in addition to a need to finance a costly thankless and dangerous occupation, the information in the book needs to be made known as it pertains to this sad state of affairs in the back-bone department.
GP says
Moshe…..please by all means head over to Cairo on a plane tomorrow and preach your ecumenical message outside any mosque there. If you are still alive and free in a week, and have managed to engage ‘enlightened’ Arab muslims to your cause then by all means come back and share your words of wisdom with us.
However, as your name seems to indicate that you may be Jewish, I would not favour your chances of coming away unscathed. And that my friend is the problem; Islam does not co-exist or work for peace with Jews and Christians. They refuse!
You are either very ignorant, delusional or a very tedious troll.
Creole Gumbo says
The most outrageous enablers are the Lutherans, Catholics and Reformed Jews.
GP says
And the PCUSA
GP says
Great article about this….
https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article213779619.html
rbla says
Quite true. Muslim conquerors were able to avail themselves of a remarkable and extensive pattern of treachery, opportunism and collaboration from elements among their opponents. The forces of the dar-al-harb were always plagued at the most inopportune times by rebellion, civil war, religious conflict, schism and heresy. Renegades ready to join the Arabs or to “turn Turk” abounded just before or immediately after the warriors of Islam invaded. Often, non-Muslim technicians, mercenaries and scholars seemed to queue up in seeking patronage from Muslim caliphs and sultans. Ambitious non-Muslim rulers and politicians sought alliances against their co-religionists with the Muslims. Many of these were eager to make use of the fierce military energy of Islam and turn it to their own purposes. Suffice it to say that those who played with fire usually themselves ended up burned.
UNCLE VLADDI says
They’re all RACISTS and “biased bigots” themselves, who only support islam because they think it’s the religion of oppressed swarthy “People Of Color!”
Anyone dumb enough to support a crime-gang because of its “race” deserves to live among the criminals they support! Deport all liberals to Syria ASAP!
Max says
It would be OK if the consequences of what the useful idiots do affected them alone, but unfortunately they impact on all of us.
granddaddy says
“…there are many others…” I constantly find it amazing that so many people refuse to admit they are wrong, even when documented evidence is presented to them (the Quran, the Hadith, the 33,000+ terrorist attacks worldwide since 9/11, etc, etc), even when they have PhD’s and are licensed professionals and they’re no slouch in the brains department. And some of them will even become angry. I see it all the time on the news. It just amazes me. I thought people thought logically. Or at least I thought professionals did. I thought they weighed the evidence and came to a reasonable conclusion. Or if they didn’t have evidence, they looked for some. I thought people thought things through, not just believe whatever they are told. But not so. Or at least, no so for a very large part of humanity. Did I suddenly become Einstein’s smarter brother? I don’t think so. It’s hard to believe this is all brainwashing and deceit. It reminds me of how anti-semitism crept into pre-war Germany’s thinking as something acceptable. And now here we have something before the SPLC, whatever it is. And whatever it is, we might even root it out. But the problem remains.
Bill Shackelford says
I recently read that the Democrat Party will have to garner the support of Hollywood, of all places, in order to defeat President Trump. They may want to consider the number of useful idiots among the throngs of self-loving actors, beginning with George Clooney, who recently donated one MILLION dollars to the SPLC. The Southern Poverty Law Center is an enabler of Islamic terrorism. George Clooney is ignorant of that fact, and so is much of Hollywood. Will this become the base of the Democrat party – Hollywood – Liberalism beyond reason – the privileged few who boast of holding $35 million dollar weddings and donate a million bucks to organizations that oppose our First Amendment right to free speech – political correctness?
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Bowen Gustafsen says
READ POLITICO’S “SPLC: Has a Civil Rights Stalwart Lost Its Way?”
The Southern Poverty Law Center—led by charismatic, swashbuckling founder Morris Dees—is making the most of the Trump era. But is it overstepping its bounds?
OR EVEN BETTER…
John Stossel’S “The Southern Poverty Law Center is a money-grabbing slander machine”
Who will warn Americans about such hate groups? The media know: the Southern Poverty Law Center.
SPLC, based in Alabama, calls itself “the premier” group monitoring hate. Give us money, they say, and they will “fight the hate that thrives in our country.”
I once believed in the center’s mission. Well-meaning people still do. Apple just gave them a million dollars. So did actor George Clooney.
They shouldn’t.
The Southern Poverty Law Center Scam
A “hate group” list loved by the media is bogus.
There are dangerous hate groups in America. So a group called the Southern Poverty Law Center promises to warn us about them. They release an annual list of hate groups in America.
The media cover it, but John Stossel says they shouldn’t. It’s a scam.
It lists Ayaan Hirsi Ali—who grew up Muslim in Somalia and suffered female genital mutilation—as an “anti-Muslim extremist.” Just because she now speaks out against radical Islam.
They also list the conservative Family Research Council as a “hate group.”
That listing led a man to go to the Council’s office to try to gun down their workers. The shooter later told law enforcement that he picked the group because he saw they were on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hate map and he wanted to fight bigots.
Stossel disagrees with the Family Research Council on many issues. But he says they don’t deserve to be called haters. The group’s Executive Vice President, Jerry Boykin, tells him: “I don’t hate gay people, and I know gay people, and I have worked with gay people.”
Another group that the Southern Poverty Law Center smears is the Ruth Institute. The group argues that gays shouldn’t have the same rights to adopt. But does that make them haters? No, says founder Jennifer Morse: “I have no problem with gay people. That’s not the issue.”
Other reporters, such as Megyn McArdle at Bloomberg, have also pointed out that the group is an odd fit for a “hate” list.
There are many non-hateful groups on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hate list. But Antifa, which clearly is a hate group, is not on the list.
The Southern Poverty Law Center wouldn’t talk to Stossel about their list. Stossel says screaming “hate!” brings in money.
Morris Dees, the Center’s founder, pays himself nearly half a million dollars a year. Although Dees once promised that when the Center’s endowment reached $50 million, he’d stop fundraising, he didn’t stop. Now the Center has $320 million dollars stashed away — much of it in the Cayman Islands. It’s all in their tax returns.
They still con people into giving them even more money. Apple gave them $1 million last year.
He says the Southern Poverty Law Center has become a hate group itself. It is now a left-wing, money grabbing, slander machine.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali grew up in Somalia, where she suffered female genital mutilation. So now she speaks out against radical Islam. For that, SPLC put her on its list of dangerous “extremists.”
Maajid Nawaz was once an Islamic extremist. Then he started criticizing the radicals. SPLC labels him an “anti-Muslim extremist,” too.
While launching hateful smears like these, SPLC invites you to donate to them to “join the fight against hatred and bigotry.”
SPLC once fought useful fights. They took on the Ku Klux Klan. But now they go after people on the right with whom they disagree.
They call the Family Research Council a hate group because it says gay men are more likely to sexually abuse children.
That’s their belief. There is some evidence that supports it. Do they belong on a “hate map,” like the Ku Klux Klan, because they believe that evidence and worry about it?
I often disagree with the council, but calling them a hate group is unfair. In my YouTube video this week, the group’s vice president, Jerry Boykin, tells me, “I don’t hate gay people. And I know gay people, and I have worked with gay people.”
But once you’re labeled a hate group, you are a target.
One man went to the Family Research Council headquarters to kill people, shooting a security guard in the arm before he was stopped.
The shooter told investigators that he attacked the FRC because he found them on SPLC’s hate list.
Calling the council a “hate group” made its employees the target of real hate.
SPLC also smears the Ruth Institute, a Christian group that believes gays should not have an equal right to adopt children. The institute’s president, Jennifer Roback Morse, says they’re not haters.
“I like gay people. I have no problem with gay people. That’s not the issue. The issue is, what are we doing with kids and the definition of who counts as a parent.”
The institute doesn’t argue that gays should never adopt. “There could be cases where the best person for a particular child would be their Uncle Harry and his boyfriend,” Morse told me. But the institute wants preference given to “a married mother and father.”
For that, SPLC put the Ruth Institute on its hate map. That led the institute’s credit card processor to stop working with them. In a letter to the institute, the processor company said that it had learned that the “Ruth Institute … promotes hate, violence, harassment and/or abuse.”
“We went and checked our website,” Morse told me, “and we were already down.”
I suspect SPLC labels lots of groups “haters” because crying “hate” brings in money.
Years ago, Harper’s Magazine reported that SPLC was “the wealthiest civil rights group in America, one that now spend most of its time — and money — on a fund-raising campaign.” People in Montgomery, Alabama, where SPLC is based, call its elegant new headquarters “the Poverty Palace.”
“Morris Dees’ salary is more than my entire annual budget,” says Morse. “Whatever they’re doing, it pays.”
Dees, SPLC’s co-founder, promised to stop fundraising once his endowment hit $55 million. But when he reached $55 million, he upped the bar to $100 million, saying that would allow them “to cease costly fundraising.”
But again, when they reached $100 million, they didn’t stop. Now they have $320 million — a large chunk of which is kept in offshore accounts. Really. It’s on their tax forms.
In return for those donations to SPLC, the world gets a group that now lists people like Ben Carson and Fox commentators Laura Ingraham, Judge Andrew Napolitano and Jeanine Pirro as extremists — but doesn’t list the leftist militant hate groups known as Antifa.
SPLC is now a hate group itself. It’s a money-grabbing slander machine.