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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Huffington Post’s Luke O’Brien: “No Remorse” For Doxxing Counter-Jihadi

Jun 6, 2018 8:56 am By Robert Spencer

Leftists believe that those who dissent from the Left’s agenda have no rights that Leftists are bound to respect. My latest in FrontPage:

Since being doxxed by far-Left Huffington Post “journalist” Luke O’Brien, as I wrote about here at FrontPage on Monday, the popular Twitter counter-jihadi @AmyMek has seen her husband fired from his job and some of her family disavow her. She has received multiple death threats, including some in the Huffington Post itself. But the intrepid O’Brien is unrepentant, claiming victim status for himself and asking: “Why would I feel remorse calling out a bigot?”

O’Brien also lamented: “If a bigot like @AmyMek can spew hate for five years without being corralled and then prompt death threats directed at a journalist before he even publishes his story, it’s going to be hard to save social media.”

Of course. A “bigot” such as Amy Mek needs to be “corralled.” A family is in tatters, a man has lost his job, and a woman is living in fear for her life. And as far as Luke O’Brien is concerned, she had it coming, because she held opinions that are unacceptable to today’s media and political elites.

In his infamous Dred Scott decision of 1856, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney declared that black Americans were “so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” Nowadays everyone considers such language abhorrent; yet the Left today, while not proposing to reduce dissenters to slavery, does consider them “so far inferior” that they have “no rights” that Leftists consider themselves “bound to respect.”

Accordingly, if Amy Mek has been so “racist” as to oppose jihad mass murder and the Sharia oppression of women, non-Muslims, gays and others, she and her family (even if they had nothing to do with anything she wrote) have forfeited all right to be spared from death threats and personal and professional ruin. And as they leave all this destruction in their wake, the destroyers will feel right and righteous, because she is, as far as they are concerned, a “racist” and “bigot.”

It is becoming increasingly accepted on the Left that those who dissent from its agenda and are classified by its lights as “racists” and “bigots” indeed have no rights, and deserve to have their careers and very lives destroyed. They are as convinced of their correctness, and the error of those who disagree, as were medieval Christians burning heretics at the stake. O’Brien himself clearly thinks that the heretic Amy Mek got nothing but what she deserved, as is clear from an exchange he and I had on Twitter. I sent him a series of questions:

Hey @lukeobrien! I hope you enjoyed my piece here: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/06/huffington-post-fascist-luke-obrien-doxes-counter-jihadi-gets-her-husband-fired-for-holding-the-wrong-opinions … Now I’m doing a follow-up. Will you consent to an interview? You being a big-time journalist and all, I’m sure you’ll be happy to talk. For your convenience I’ll put the questions right here:

1) How did you decide that foes of jihad mass murder were worse than jihad mass murder itself (I’m basing that on the fact that you haven’t written a word against the latter), and must be targeted and destroyed?

2) Did you attempt to interview any friends and supporters of @AmyMek for your piece, or would that have interfered with your agenda?

3) If your own views fall out of favor with the elites one day, will you stand then for the freedom of speech or support attempts to silence you?

4) What other foes of jihad terror do you intend to target and destroy next? Would you like the name of my third-grade teacher?

5) Why did you repeatedly call @AmyMek a “racist”? Are you aware that Islam is not a race and that jihad terrorists come in all races?

6) Do you applaud the fact that @AmyMek‘s husband was fired from his job because of you, and that her relatives’ business have been targeted because of you, even though neither has to do with her tweets?

7) Do you applaud the death threats that @AmyMek has received?

8) Do you have any comment on the close resemblance of your actions to that of the Nazi Brownshirts? Thanks for your answers, @lukeobrien! You might find it more convenient to send them to me via email at director@jihadwatch.org. Thanks again!

After a delay of several days, O’Brien actually answered, but he answered only the first question. Here is his answer:

I didn’t decide this. If you lying about a decision I never made based on me not having written anything about “jihad mass murder” is evidence of your thought process, you should be institutionalized. When did you stop raping your dog, Robert Spencer?

Yet O’Brien clearly thinks that Amy Mek is so evil that her life and her relatives’ lives should be destroyed. When has he ever subjected an actual jihad mass murderer to the same treatment? Never, of course. And this is obviously because O’Brien, the Huffington Post, and the Left in general thinks that foes of jihad terror are worse than jihad terrorists. This was obvious from my reception at Stanford University last year: I was greeted as the second coming of Jack the Ripper, when a jihad terrorist screaming “Death to America” in the middle of that campus would no doubt be welcomed as a hero. And it is obvious from the Left’s peculiar combination of self-righteousness and thuggery that we see ever more frequently expressed in all kinds of contexts.

It is hard to see how this can end well. When one faction in the American public square thinks that the other faction deserves not even basic human respect, and is rightfully shamed, vilified, and even brutalized (that’s where Antifa comes in), it is hard to see how America can survive as a free society without armed conflict. If and when that conflict comes, it will be in large part thanks to the likes of Luke O’Brien and the Huffington Post.

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  1. Mac-101 says

    Jun 6, 2018 at 9:00 am

    THEY are JUST Neo Bolshevik scum and WILL kill millions of Americans and Billions around the world once THEY gain total control with THEIR Satanic NWO.

    • Andy says

      Jun 6, 2018 at 10:04 am

      Today is D-DAY! JUNE 6, 1944

      A BIG THANK YOU TO THE GREATEST GENERATION OF PATRIOTS!

      GOD BLESS YOU ALL & THANK YOU!

      https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6452692/d-day-pictures-colour-world-war-2-normandy-landings-british-soldiers/

      We need Patriots of our generation of every land to have courage and guts of the greatest generation to fight the evils of our time.

      • Andy says

        Jun 6, 2018 at 10:09 am

        The Price of Freedom is not FREE

        • Andy says

          Jun 6, 2018 at 10:12 am

          Again, God bless you all & thank you.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 6, 2018 at 9:19 pm

        Thanks for the links, Andy.

        • Andy says

          Jun 6, 2018 at 11:21 pm

          My pleasure gravenimage

          We remember the sacrifices of the greatest generation on this the 74th anniversary of D-Day.

          https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/06/d-day-74th-anniversary-wwii/676822002/

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 7, 2018 at 10:38 pm

          Andy, both my mother and aunt were WWII vets–in the British Army as very young women.

      • Mari For says

        Jun 7, 2018 at 5:26 am

        We went to Normandy in August last year to see the beaches. Taking our our two little boys there beginning of July. Very emotional place to visit especially the American cemetery. ?

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 7, 2018 at 10:42 pm

          Thank you, Mari.

    • BC says

      Jun 7, 2018 at 10:31 am

      There is no odour known to mankind that is worse than the stink of sanctimony, and it blows most strongly from the liberal left.

  2. Emilie Green says

    Jun 6, 2018 at 9:10 am

    “Why would I feel remorse calling out a bigot?”

    Because the ability to dislike, hate even, what others demand that I should or must like is freedom. That’s why.

    • Norger says

      Jun 6, 2018 at 3:15 pm

      And because no one appointed you, Mr. O’Brien, as the ultimate arbiter of what is, and is not “bigotry,” with the power to destroy the lives of the purported “bigot” and het family. What a sanctimonious hypocrite you are,

    • Joe says

      Jun 7, 2018 at 5:12 am

      O’Brien is a bigot which is why he feels no remorse. He hates everyone who doesn’t agree his crazy conclusions, and he expects that his victims will treat him with respect. It is good for O’Brien that his victims are much better people than he is

      • Necrophage says

        Jun 8, 2018 at 8:16 pm

        His victims, perhaps, are better people than he is, but I feel confident that there is someone out there with O’Brien in his sights.

  3. Berengaria says

    Jun 6, 2018 at 9:24 am

    Amy & all of us other Americans, who will not accept the Death Cult of Islam as “Normal”, will eventually suffer the same fate, if we placidly remain Silent. The “LEFT”aka Democrat Party, has finally found a “Religion” that will allow, even reward them, for destroying all those who disagree with them. The LEFT & ISLAM have now Become One Evil Entity!

    • ontoiran says

      Jun 6, 2018 at 10:29 am

      too bad about the gays, trannies, atheists, feminists, agnostics, et al; huh?

    • Westman says

      Jun 7, 2018 at 1:11 am

      There will be a day when O’Brien will be embarassed about his actions and adoption of the Left’s religion. It won’t be because a conservative pointed him to reality, it will be Islam itself showing that it can’t control its desire to forbid anything “haram” to everyone. Sooner or later, Islam will step on O’Brien’s freedom – it can’t help itself.

    • LR says

      Jun 7, 2018 at 2:34 am

      Berengaria, you are right…Too many people are being too placid. People have to stop the extreme left. There are those on ‘the left’ that do not want to suppress free speech, but it’s the more outspoken ones that often do. Or, so it seems to me.

      People need to start writing often, calling Reps. and speaking out about their concerns on these issues. Make some serious waves, because there are plenty of Dems that will keep working at destroying our borders (even though they will deny that when convenient) and be cowards when it comes to facing the realities of Islamic Jihad, and the presence of the MB in the United States.

  4. Niemoller says

    Jun 6, 2018 at 12:13 pm

    One word for O’Brien types: baizuo

  5. Norger says

    Jun 6, 2018 at 1:15 pm

    Q.“How did you decide that foes of jihad mass murder were worse than jihad mass murder itself (I’m basing that on the fact that you haven’t written a word against the latter), and must be targeted and destroyed?”

    A. “I didn’t decide this. If you lying about a decision I never made based on me not having written anything about “jihad mass murder” is evidence of your thought process, you should be institutionalized. When did you stop raping your dog, Robert Spencer?”

    So confident in your moral superiority Mr. O’Brien. Can we infer from your response that you agree with the obvious moral truth that “jihad mass murder” is far worse than opposing jihad mass murder? Given your outrage at Mr. Spencer’s suggestion that you implicitly support jihad mass murder, when, if ever, can we expect you to start “doxing” proponents of jihad mass murder? (And if not, why not?) May I suggest you start with the half dozen or so US-based imams who have called for the genocide of Jews this year?

  6. Aingel Strong says

    Jun 6, 2018 at 3:03 pm

    In the real world O’Brien would have been thoroughly investigated and dealt with accordingly. In (this) alternative world he is a as a men done up in veils and such like. The pompous Sinon will get his. Reality always wins.

  7. Lydia Church says

    Jun 6, 2018 at 7:05 pm

    He deserves the Biggest Idiot Award!

    Terrorism? No problem.
    Counter terrorism? Now he has a problem!

  8. gravenimage says

    Jun 6, 2018 at 9:15 pm

    Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Huffington Post’s Luke O’Brien: “No Remorse” For Doxxing Counter-Jihadi
    ……………….

    Of course he feels no remorse. Disgusting.

  9. LR says

    Jun 7, 2018 at 12:03 am

    Oh, nothin’ new of course…

    The other day a friend sat in on the ‘SJW’s’ version of ‘progressive’ candidates to vote for.

    I know it will be no surprise, but one of the respected, ‘good’ groups sited for endorsement’s was CAIR, and one ‘White guy’, stated he would rather vote for the ‘Latino’ than the ‘White’ guy…My friend stated that that was ‘racist’, and the ‘Lefty’ proudly acknowledged as a matter of fact that, “Yes, yes, that IS ‘racist.”

    So, see, just as you can ‘proudly’ claim to be an ‘Islamophobe’, you can ‘proudly’ claim to be a ‘racist’, or a ‘bigot’ against whomever you deem as being a danger to liberty.

    This political word game could get fun!

  10. LR says

    Jun 7, 2018 at 2:09 am

    Norger…”So confident in your moral superiority Mr. O’Brien. Can we infer from your response that you agree with the obvious moral truth that “jihad mass murder” is far worse than opposing jihad mass murder? Given your outrage at Mr. Spencer’s suggestion that you implicitly support jihad mass murder, when, if ever, can we expect you to start “doxing” proponents of jihad mass murder? (And if not, why not?) May I suggest you start with the half dozen or so US-based imams who have called for the genocide of Jews this year?”

    I hope you sent that to him.

    Any time people like this nasty, anti-liberty O’Brien is exposed, they need to be pestered with letters such as this. As does Huffington Post.

  11. LR says

    Jun 7, 2018 at 2:56 am

    Mr. O’Brien,

    You are a rotten coward. You do NOT believe in liberty.

    And yes, you should be ashamed of yourself.

  12. Felix Quigley says

    Jun 7, 2018 at 3:40 am

    I am relating this discussion to the march in two days time to free Tommy Robinson. Too many people are twisting reality to suit themselves. I am critical of some positions taken on this thread but prefer to state my own independent viewpoint

    .ONLY TWO DAYS TO MARCH IN LONDON

    This being Thursday it is now two days until the march in London to call for the freeing of Tommy Robinson. Robinson is not “right wing” in the slightest degree. He is the true voice of British and English liberation. This is the reason…

    Robinson began to fight against the Muslim rape gangs that spread out from Rotherham and into every British working class area twenty years ago, at a time when the local authorities and their local police forces WERE HIDING that these Muslim gangs were operating, and the police were turning away these raped girls who were seeking their help.

    That is what makes Tommy Robinson a liberationist figure in Britain.

    That is also why the police have come to hate Robinson so much.

    The police have come to hate Robinson so much for two reasons. Firstly Robinson shows them up for what they really are. Remember these were the same police forces and judges who framed the Birmingham (Six Irish ordinary guys) who were totally innocent, and kept them in prison for nearly 20 years. Secondly they hate Robinson because they hate the working class itself who tend to see Robinson as a fearless fighter.

    So the ruling class, what some call the “elites” hate Robinson. But see who else hates Robinson…As I said earlier the website Harry’s Place, but also the “left” which is not in actual fact a “left” at all. They are the servants of the police and of the British capitalist state, and here I will mention the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) which is connected to the wsws.org, which came out of the Healy (Gerry Healy) faction, as it broke up as a result of dogma in the period around 1986. Or in other words to sum it up these “left” movements, if you could call them movements, or tiny groups, or individuals, are not able to keep up with reality, nor was Healy, and they are ending up on the side of the police, and BEING ON THE SIDE OF THE POLICE ARE NOW FIGHTING AGAINST TOMMY ROBINSON AND ARE IN FAVOUR OF HIS JAILING.

    But we are clearly different. We support the march to free Tommy Robinson this Saturday because we are opposed to Islam, and the Islamization of Britain and all such countries. Our movement is posed AGAINST Islam. And in true fact and true reality, when you study it, so was Karl Marx. We are in fact true Marxists and true Trotskyists. Make of that what you will. That does not matter. What matters is the truth and the truth is that Tommy Robinson is a true fighter for liberty and against oppression, especially oppression against girls and women. The march this coming Saturday, two days from today, is a revolutionary march, as revolutionary as any march there has ever been in Britain. The British ruling class jailed Robinson inn the most callous manner. The British ruling class by that action has angered the masses. If the British ruling class try to release Robinson then that will be a sign and a show of weakness against the mass movement of the working class. So they cannot. That makes the march on Saturday of revolutionary proportion!

  13. Joy says

    Jun 7, 2018 at 3:51 am

    I’m afraid O’Brien’s intolerance of the anti-jihadis among us has had the effect of making ME totally intolerant of jerks and asshats like HIM!! A slow and painful death is too good for him, but I’d still settle for that. So, Luke, sue me for dreaming of putting an end to your miserable and useless life!!

  14. Zenobia van Dongen says

    Jun 7, 2018 at 5:57 am

    Luke O’Brien churns out the standard islamophiliac doctrine. However that does not justify Robert Spencer defending a woman who admittedly criticized Islam, but only as part of a crass and offensive attitude toward whole classes of people. Furthermore combatting Islam does not justify her rude and dehumanizing behavior toward individual Mohammedans who are not extremists, as related in Luke O’Brien’s article. Just because Islam happened to be one of her pet peeves does not make her a bona fide counter-jihadist.
    She’s just an obnoxious loudmouth and no serious counterjihadist should pay any attention to her.

    • Felix Quigley says

      Jun 7, 2018 at 10:07 am

      There may be moderate people who are Muslims. But there is no moderate Muslim religion. Islam is not a moderate religion or ideology. This is the quandary.

    • Norger says

      Jun 7, 2018 at 1:44 pm

      You may be right about her.

      But that doesn’t excuse O’Brien from judgment for his own moral culpability in deliberately attempting to destroy her family’s business and her husband’s carreer, without the slightest consideration given as to whether these people share or endorse “Amy Mek’s” views. What he did to these ostensibly innocent third parties was malicious, mean-spirited and reckless. What’s troubling is that to him, this is apparently acceptable collateral damage; Amy Mek’s relatives are fair game, no questions asked. He is a sanctimonious, hypocritical POS.

      • Zenobia van Dongen says

        Jun 7, 2018 at 7:23 pm

        Luke O’Brien is but one of the many bootlickers of Islamic imperialism who infest the Huffington Post, insisting that every religion be treated with exactly the same respect regardless of whether it was founded by a gentle saint (like Christ, the Buddha or Confucius) or by a serial rapist and murderer like Mohammed. O’Brien craftily takes advantage of the bigotry exhibited by Amy Mek to implicitly deny that the Muslim Brotherhood exists in the US and to oppose the appointment of Fred Fleitz, who accurately states that “major American Muslim organizations and mosques are secretly working to advance a jihadist agenda, that such groups should not be trusted when they claim to ‘eschew violence’ and that they should be ‘neutralized as political forces’”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_H._Fleitz
        However in order to unmask and denounce O’Brien’s insidious mission, it is necessary firstly to join him in deploring the anti-social shenanigans of AmyMek, who as I wrote before is unworthy of being treated as a champion of free speech.

        • Norger says

          Jun 8, 2018 at 10:54 am

          You’re missing my point.I haven’t studied the “anti-social shenanigans of Ms. Mek, but l’ve seen enough that she crosses over the line into unacceptable rhetoric. Even if that’s true, I have a major issue, apart from “Islamophilia,” with Mr O’Brien’s incredibly arrogant and fascistic assumption that because Ms. Mek has engaged in “bigotry,” he is entitled to contact her husband’s employer in an effort to take away his job. (And then insult everyone’s intelligence by claiming his actions in this regard were some kind of pure “journalism.” Ditto his actions with respect to the family business. His basicattitude is that as long Ms. Mek holds and voices views that he deems unacceptable, no one in her family has the right to earn a living. Apart from Islamophilia, he’s a fascist, pure and simple.

  15. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Jun 7, 2018 at 6:42 pm

    To leftopaths, nobody’s blood and treasure is safe until they prey the way they do.

    😉

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