Why does CNN think opposing jihad is worse than jihad itself? My latest in FrontPage:
Liberty has ruthless enemies, but CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski is on the case. He is deeply alarmed that “the new chief of staff to national security adviser John Bolton defended anti-Muslim and far-right activists in a pair of online columns.”
Clearly all upstanding citizens, in Kaczynski’s view, should be up in arms about this, the latest indication of the Trump administration’s disquieting dalliance with the “far right.” But Kaczynski’s “far-right” bogeymen weren’t exactly Hitler and Mussolini: it turns out that “in columns for Fox News written in 2016 and 2017, Fleitz, as vice president of [Frank] Gaffney’s think tank, defended anti-Muslim activists Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller and far-right activist Cliff Kincaid from their designations as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based nonprofit activist group that tracks civil rights violations and hate crimes. His defense highlights his ties to more extreme elements of the fringe, anti-Muslim right.”
Kaczynski’s produced a quote from Fleitz as evidence of his perfidy: “Smearing anyone who speaks out against radical Islam is one of the SPLC’s priorities. Accordingly, it has placed on its hate lists Jihad Watch and its Director Robert Spencer; American Freedom Defense Initiative and its director Pamela Geller. My organization, the Center for Security Policy and our president Frank Gaffney, also are on the SPLC’s hate lists due to our principled stand against the Global Jihad Movement.”
Taking a “principled stand against the Global Jihad Movement” is what Kaczynski apparently thinks makes one “anti-Muslim” and “far-right.” But in demonizing his chosen villains, Kaczynski revealed more about himself than about us. “Geller,” he wrote breathlessly, “is well-known for her inflammatory public comments about Muslims and Islam and has long peddled the theory that there is a broad conspiracy among Muslims to impose Sharia law in the US.”
A broad conspiracy among Muslims to impose Sharia in the U.S.? Inconceivable! Yet a captured internal Muslim Brotherhood document says that the Muslim Brothers “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” That’s from “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America,” by a key Brotherhood operative, Mohamed Akram. All the major Muslim organizations in the U.S. — the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim American Society, the Muslim Student Associations, the International Institute of Islamic Thought, and more — are listed in the same document as partner organizations in this effort.
But as far as Kaczynski is concerned, it’s all just a conspiracy theory cooked up by Pamela Geller. Kaczynski also notes that I have “said ‘the harsh reality is that you cannot tell peaceful Muslims from Jihadis in any discernible manner.’” Unfortunately, he didn’t provide any way to do this. I said that in a 2014 speech in which the next sentence was: “And so it is simply ridiculous and suicidal to continue to import whole communities of Muslims from hot Jihad areas like Somalia and Syria and Pakistan into the United States and drop them down into American communities.”
Let’s look at the record. Somali Muslim migrant Mohammad Barry in February 2016 stabbed multiple patrons at a restaurant owned by an Israeli Arab Christian; Ahmad Khan Rahami, an Afghan Muslim migrant, in September 2016 set off bombs in New York City and New Jersey; Arcan Cetin, a Turkish Muslim migrant, in September 2016 murdered five people in a mall in Burlington, Washington; Dahir Adan, another Somali Muslim migrant, in October 2016 stabbed mall shoppers in St. Cloud while screaming “Allahu akbar”; and Abdul Razak Artan, yet another Somali Muslim migrant, in November 2016 injured nine people with car and knife attacks at Ohio State University. 72 jihad terrorists have come to the U.S. from the countries listed in Trump’s initial immigration ban.
What’s more, all of the jihadis who murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015 had just entered Europe as refugees. In February 2015, the Islamic State boasted it would soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. The Lebanese Education Minister said in September 2015 that there were 20,000 jihadis among the refugees in camps in his country. On May 10, 2016, Patrick Calvar, the head of France’s DGSI internal intelligence agency, said that the Islamic State was using migrant routes through the Balkans to get jihadis into Europe.
Andrew Kaczynski isn’t concerned about any of that. He just knows it’s wrong for you to be.
I started to wonder what was in it for Andrew Kaczynski. So I reached out to him on Twitter and asked him these questions:
Hi
@KFILE! I’m doing a story about you. Please answer a few questions:1) How did you decide that foes of jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of gays, women, etc were worse than jihad mass murderers themselves?
2) Why didn’t you ask me for comment on this piece defaming me? Did you ask the other people you defamed for comment?
3) Did you get paid by any individual or group other than CNN to write this story? If so, who?
4) Are you aware that there have been over 30,000 jihad attacks around the world and an even greater casualty count? Do you really think in light of that fact that “Islamophobia” is a worse problem than jihad terror?
5) Are you aware that “Islamophobia” is a propaganda term that was specifically chosen as a label to intimidate people into fearing to oppose jihad terror and Sharia oppression?
6) Do you think that if Bolton, Fleitz, Gaffney, Geller and me are all ultimately silenced by the smear campaigns that you and others conduct, that the problem of jihad terror will disappear?
7) Why do all CNN “journalists” and other establishment media “journalists” reflect the exact same point of view on these issues? Do you think diversity of thought should be valued as much as diversity of skin color etc.? Or would that be “Islamophobic”?
8) Are you aware that over a million Yazidis, Christians and others have been murdered, displaced, or had their lives otherwise ruined in recent years by Islamic jihadis? Do you think those jihadis misunderstand Islam? How did this misunderstanding of Islam get so widespread?
9) Are you aware that the jihad agenda targets all unbelievers? Do you believe that you will be spared because of how useful you are to the forces of jihad?
That’s all for now,
@KFILE! I look forward to seeing your answers! Thanks!Of course, Kaczynski did not deign to answer. And so the questions linger. What benefit will Andrew Kaczynski get if he succeeds in destroying Fred Fleitz and the rest of us? What leads Kaczynski and his fellow establishment media “journalists” to work so hard to defame and marginalize people who are trying to defend basic principles of human rights and the norms of free societies?
What kind of ideal world does Andrew Kaczynski envision? One in which the “far-right” has been completely destroyed and Leftists and Muslims live together in perfect multicultural harmony? One thing is certain: if Andrew Kaczynski succeeds, and attains his goals of destroying the people he smears as “far-right” and everything they stand for, the chaos he will thereby unleash will eventually engulf him. Whether he will have the wit and the honesty to realize and admit that he was wrong before the jihadi’s blade slices through his throat, or those whom he loves are brutalized and enslaved, is anybody’s guess.
Andy says
The Spiritual Death of The West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kONs7sQ5DQ
J D S says
“Islam is a scourge on the earth”….Does anyone think any western leader would say that? With facts starting them in the face they refuse to admit that Muslims want to rule and destroy all of our western values as well as our heritage, destroying democracy and replacing Christian values with satanic ideals fabricated by centuries of misleading foes who have educated millions of people’s in a religion that is destroying every facet of a sane peaceful life.
Would a politician, CNN. the MSM or any media outlet be willing to tell the truth of islams goals? It’s written in THEIR book, hadath and Susannah and preached by many many of their clerics YET most refuse to see it and speak out against it…
FEAR, pure FEAR has driven Islam for all these many centuries. When muhammad (if he ever actually existed as a man) started Islam he thought people would flock to it in droves..But finding they didn’t he started the FORCE and FEAR tactics Forcing people into accepting Islam then keeping them there with Fear.
Today they are using different tactics but FEAR Is the main tactics.
Ray Jarman says
jDS, As usual, you are correct but Mr. Spencer should have asked one more question regarding how the liberal/socialist have fared in Sweden with their loving and grateful Muslims.
J D S says
Yes Ray….Swedeistan! ..the Swedes have a new country.
Steve says
The Jihad won’t surround him for long, because his legs were born to bend, at the slightest hint of danger. A convert, or dhimmi, he will gladly be.
Voytek Gagalka says
That’s the “catch” for Mr. Kaczynski (properly pronounced: “catchinsky”). It might not be just purely coincidental.
Lydia Church says
Things are not all as they appear to be.
It’s a well orchestrated ‘event.’ In slow motion. All of it.
People usually assume ignorance, but.. no.
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Defaming Fred Fleitz: What’s In It For Andrew Kaczynski?
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Just false virtue signalling.
TWG says
As per usual, excellent questions, Mr. Spencer. I no longer expect any of these so-called “journalists” (aka, islammunists) will respond to your well informed insight, other than to continue to smear you, and the rest of us islamaware people, as “islamophobic racist, knuckle-dragging, white supremacist, bigot nazis” They sure have bastardized those terms. Yawn.
Wear it like a medal, Mr. Spencer. Bling bling.
What they “think” no longer matters to any of us islamaware human beings who actually do think.
(p.s……. Given my views…… Am I allowed to say that I am not “white”, not “racist”, not “islamophobic”, not a “white supremacist”, not a “bigot” and not a “nazi”?…… Or is rejecting such BS considered to be “hate speech” today? hmmmmm) I suspect the rejection itself earns me a death threat from their islammunist party thugs and their brown shirt antifa klan.
YAWN……. Who TF cares anymore?
Rivahmitch says
As the saying goes… “He thinks he’ll be the last to be eaten”.
Norger says
It’s a harsh unflinching truth,but Mr. Spencer is 100% right of course, that there is no reliable way to distinguish jihadis from peaceful Muslims. Mr. Kaczynski’s objection to this politically incorrect reality betrays his apparent belief that Islamic theology has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism. It’s just mind-boggling that a journalist (living in the Information Age no less) could be so willfully ignorant.
Norger says
The other thing about this that is so disturbing is that highly knowledgable, well-spoken critics of Islam, like Robert Spencer, are so easily dismissed by the MSM with non-substantive, ad hominem labels (“far right,” Islamophobic”) thereby freeing the likes of Mr. Kaczynski of any obligation to consider the substance of anything such critics may say (e.g. mainstream Islam is demonstrably violent and anti-western). The MSM’s intellectual dishonesty on this issue is criminal.
Tom Finnegan says
Apparently Mr Kaczyinski is unfamiliar with Polish history and one particular hero, Jan Sobieski, whose army saved the city of Vienna from destruction by the Muslims.