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Fascist “journalist” Claire Goforth tries to get Facebook to shut down Jihad Watch’s page

Feb 21, 2019 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

This is a long story about how white supremacists and other baddies proliferate on Facebook, and must be silenced at all costs. “Journalist” Claire Goforth stuck Jihad Watch right in the middle of her lineup of evildoers, despite not being able to produce a single “white supremacist” or “racist” or “bigoted” or “hateful” quote from me or any other Jihad Watch writer. She brings up madman Anders Breivik in a particular defamatory fashion, calling him “the Norwegian mass murderer who cited Robert Spencer dozens of times in his manifesto,” thereby giving the impression that I was calling for mass murder or approved of Breivik. She doesn’t bother, of course, to point out that Breivik criticized me in his “manifesto” for not calling for violence, and that if violence is committed ostensibly because of some idea, it doesn’t discredit the idea itself, or else the socialism she likely endorses would be amply discredited on that basis alone.

Other than that, this is just more SPLC, with only cursory and incomplete notice of the fact that the SPLC has been thoroughly unmasked and discredited as a far-Left hate group bent on destroying all dissidents. Even the Washington Post has noticed. Goforth also employs a common tactic among Leftist “journalists”: present something that is perfectly true and innocuous as if it were egregious and hateful on its face, without explaining why. The convert story she cites from Jihad Watch is particularly grisly, with the convert explaining how he wants to kill and behead people, but Goforth apparently thinks its worse that I noticed, or that I know that the convert’s new holy book tells him: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4).

There has been a two-decade effort on the Left to fool Americans and Europeans into thinking it “hateful” and “bigoted” to oppose jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others. Goforth is yet another Left-fascist bent on emulating the Nazi Brownshirts by defaming and crushing all those who dissent from the Leftist agenda. And she may well succeed in getting me banned from Facebook, which has made its Sharia-compliance abundantly clear. Facebook’s Vice President Joel Kaplan traveled to Pakistan in July 2017 to assure the Pakistani government that it would remove “anti-Islam” material, and they’ve been following through. But Goforth may one day regret her role in all this, when she discovers that her new friends she has enabled and aided so assiduously don’t respect and revere her as much as she does them.

“The Hatebook: Inside Facebook’s thriving subculture of racism,” by Claire Goforth, Daily Dot, February 18, 2019:

The SPLC does have critics, among them many individuals affiliated with hate groups on this list, who question its methodology, politics, and motives. Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes has filed a defamation suit against the SPLC for labeling his pro-Trump club for “Western chauvinists” a hate group. Nevertheless, generally speaking, the nearly 50-year-old nonprofit is considered among the foremost authorities on hate in America.

But it’s not just that these hate groups have an oversized presence. It’s how few clicks away truly horrendous beliefs are….

Hate groups have long been using the internet to find like-minded individuals and coerce others into adopting their views. Social media sites put them all in the same place, making it far easier to find and indoctrinate a person like Fields Jr., who murdered a woman at the Unite the Right rally and posted approvingly of Nazism on his Facebook page; or Dylann Roof, who spent countless hours on a racist website before murdering Black churchgoers in South Carolina; or Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer who cited Robert Spencer dozens of times in his manifesto.

Spencer, who was banned from the United Kingdom in 2013 for extremism, is the founder of the SPLC designated hate group Jihad Watch; its Facebook page has 84,000 Likes.

Visitors to the Jihad Watch blog are asked to “help spread the truth about jihad” by “exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts.” Stories on the prolific site are largely about Muslims committing crimes, recruiting for terrorist groups, people becoming criminal and violent after converting to Islam, and the like.

A recent story claims, “Yet another convert to Islam gets the idea that his new religion commands him to commit treason and mass murder.”…

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  1. Steven RSA says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 1:09 pm

    She appears to be perfect islam fodder. Ignorant, pliable and beautiful.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 22, 2019 at 3:13 am

      When fascism comes to America, it will be called ANTIFASCISM. – Gov. Huey Long

  2. Steve says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 1:19 pm

    A fool’s fool. A glorious example of a dhimmi stooge.

  3. AnneCrockett says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 1:20 pm

    “Claire Goforth is a Jacksonville, Florida-based journalist covering politics, culture, justice, and unicorns. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from regional alt-weeklies to Al Jazeera.” 🤣🤣🤣

    • Dan c says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 2:01 pm

      Playing a little loose with the word journalist aren’t you?

    • Raja says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 2:13 pm

      Anne Crockett,

      Her association with Al Jazeera could be the reason for her comments. leaning anti West./ anti freedom. Islam feeds and thrives with these kind of elements. May be there is a money trail to this tirade.

      Hard Left and Islam are dead against any analysis of them -Critical or otherwise.

      They both make strange friends..

      I don’t have the greatest regard for bartenders…Would JW readers expect her to be a moral guide?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 23, 2019 at 1:06 am

      Al Jazeera, huh? Why does this not surprise?

  4. James Lincoln says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 1:30 pm

    I have a question for Jihad Watch readers:

    How many minutes would it take Robert Spencer to totally discredit Claire Goforth during an honest debate?

    I say an absolute maximum of three minutes.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 2:28 pm

      +1

    • PRCS says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 2:48 pm

      Maximum of…

  5. Grumpymel says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 1:31 pm

    Orwell wrote his novel 1984 as a cautionary tale. People like Ms Goforth are using it instead as a playbook. Their ignorance is both staggering a frightening.

  6. FYI says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 1:43 pm

    “lawyer by day.bartender by night.I made more $$ bartending.this was 2009”
    clarie Goforth@clairenjax Jan 31 Tweet

    And it’s been downhill all the way since……hasn’t it Love?

    Still,the White Liberals love to show off their bleeding hearts credentials by virtue-signalling,usually by trying to identify some source of “hate speech”:hey,it brings in the $$$.As Ilhan Omar might say “It’s all about the Benjamins baby”.

    She should have stayed in bartending:at least there is some honor in that..and it’s a proper job isn’t it?That would have been the smart choice.Has she considered moving to Somalia?I’m sure they love White Western liberal females there….

    The White Liberal “journalist”:master purveyors of fake news.

    You can easily invent the protest placards yourself “Everything is Donald Trump’s fault”,”Snowflake students of America:isalmophoobia is whyte Supremany”,”Jesus was a muslim refugee”…Haters gotta hate and Lefty White Liberals are the masters at that.

    The SPLC is itself a hate organisation..and should be designated a hate group.

    • Raja says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 1:53 pm

      FYI,

      You are absolutely right about SPLC. They perfectly fit the bill-hate organisation and as such should be charged and sued by meticulously screening all their foul deeds coupled with scheming and plotting nasty political “games” I wonder how JW can be termed hate site?

      • mortimer says

        Feb 21, 2019 at 3:49 pm

        +1 … SPLC are scammers funded by globalists.

  7. brane pilot says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 1:47 pm

    You do not understand how Progressive journalists minds work.
    If your website gets traffic, but is off progressive-narrative, it makes them hate you. Thus, your website ‘promotes hate’.
    Progressives hate many, many things. Hate is what they do.
    Yes, it really is that simple.
    There is nothing complicated about these people.

    • Keys says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 5:15 pm

      “Hate is what they do”.

      Yes, using hateful tactics: pick the target, accuse it, mock it, isolate it, personalize it, punish it, and use any means to destroy it.

  8. dan christensen says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 2:02 pm

    “A know-it-all or know-all is a person who constantly presents their input as though they were professionally trained, schooled or have firsthand insight into subjects when it is evident this is not the case. A know-it-all will quickly reject opinions, suggestions, thoughts and commentary from others as incorrect, nonsensical and disruptive.”
    Claire Goforth is a typical modern know-all journalist. Very cocksure on her observations, with shallow knowledge on subjects she clearly does not understand, or even are interested in evaluating on a factual basis. Her writing is indirectly pro-islamic, as she never reflects on the possibility that the heavy criticism of islam might be justified. She likes to play the objective neutral cool reporter with a keen sense of perspective; fair and square. She does not that she is the manipulated manipulator, unconsciously propagating the Sharia hell on earth. A typical MSM hired laborer.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 3:59 pm

      Agree with DC. To put it in the most charitable manner, she is a PIOUS HUMBUG. She is completely uninformed about several of Islam’s aggressive teachings: the jihadic terrorism doctrine, the near enemy doctrine, the taqiyya doctrine, the harsh punishments doctrine, the misogyny doctrine, among other violent Islamic teachings.

      Claire Goforth is clearly a PIOUS HUMBUG in the matter of Islam.

      Professor Harold Frankfurt wrote of her process in his précis ‘On Bullshit’:

      “However studiously and conscientiously the bullshitter proceeds, it remains true that he is also trying to get away with something. There is surely in his work, as in the work of the slovenly craftsman, some kind of laxity which resists or eludes the demands of a disinterested and austere discipline. The pertinent mode of laxity cannot be equated, evidently, with simple carelessness or inattention to detail.”

    • Keys says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 5:30 pm

      “… the manipulated manipulator.”

      I do like that description of her.

      She is also a self-righteous, politically correct virtue signaler, who thinks she is very courageous and so should be lauded by all, and therefore, is deserving of advancement in her career meriting top remuneration for her unstudied opinions.

      She is a hater – a hater of freedom of speech, who plots to take away Robert Spencer’s human, constitutional, and moral rights and duties.

      Despicable as Gollum.

      • mortimer says

        Feb 22, 2019 at 3:15 am

        An antifascist who is actually a fascist repressing the human rights and civil liberties of those she hates.

  9. Jayme says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 2:20 pm

    Here in Canada we have some reporters that want the feds to ban any sites that attack Islam in any way they also want the feds to control what media come in much like North Korea.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 2:31 pm

      Very scary.

  10. gravenimage says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 2:23 pm

    Fascist “journalist” Claire Goforth tries to get Facebook to shut down Jihad Watch’s page
    …………………..

    Just disgusting. How is opposing innocent people of all ethnicities being brutalized and murdered “racist”?

  11. Charlie Martel says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 3:23 pm

    Notice that she doesn’t allow any comments- too much danger of becoming better informed!

  12. mortimer says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 3:48 pm

    Doubtlessly, Claire Goforth has not read the Sira, Bukhari or Koran, does not know the previous volumes of Sunna nor what ‘Sunna’ is… and yet, preposterously, she promotes herself as an expert and authority on Islam. She doesn’t know the difference by taqlid and taqiyya … or fried chicken.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 4:04 pm

      correction: she doesn’t know the difference BETWEEN taqlid and taqiyya or fried chicken.

  13. Dawne says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 3:53 pm

    This is outrageous. How do we fight this?

    • mortimer says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 4:20 pm

      Dawne, fight with well-informed comments and letters. The truth shall prevail.

  14. WPM says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 4:01 pm

    Claire Goforth is one of the many useful idiots in the MSM ,if Sharia law were enforce they would be first in line to lose their lives or become sex slaves to the jihadist.

  15. gravenimage says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 4:09 pm

    Here Claire Goforth is slamming a person who if pro-life for saying he would not murder a baby:

    “Ben Shapiro comes out as pro-baby Hitler in March for Life message”

    https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/ben-shapiro-comes-out-as-pro-baby-hitler-in-march-for-life-message/

    Actually, I think most of us would stick at murdering a baby–even if that baby were Hitler.

    Firstly, I don’t think we could be morally certain that murdering Hitler as a baby would prevent WWII and the Holocaust.

    Secondly, she appears to be fine with associating abortion with infanicide–something even most who are rabidly pro choice would have a moral problem with–but not her. *Ugh*.

    • Kay says

      Feb 22, 2019 at 9:40 am

      She should stick to reporting on unicorns.
      The rest of her “journalism” is just shoddy opinion pieces.

  16. eduardo odraude says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 4:31 pm

    Claire Goforth is either a fascist or a useful idiot. Or both.

  17. Wellington says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 4:43 pm

    When Mollie Hemingway, who is highly intelligent, highly informed, wonderfully articulate and a senior editor of The Federalist, was asked why so many modern-day journalists get so many things so wrong, her reply was that a lot of today’s journalists are simply not very bright.

    Applies here quite arguably.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 4:50 pm

      Grimly true–and terrible to see. This is–or was–a noble profession, and a free press is key to maintaining a functioning democracy.

  18. marc says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 4:46 pm

    As you know, I only really admin here and don’t really involve myself much, I must say to all of you, your comments here are thoughtful and elegant, so proud of you all, truly humbled. Thank you.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 4:52 pm

      +1

  19. jappy says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 8:01 pm

    “Her work has appeared in publications ranging from regional alt-weeklies to Al Jazeera.”

    Shocker

  20. Lydia Church says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 8:16 pm

    ‘A recent story claims, “Yet another convert to Islam gets the idea that his new religion commands him to commit treason and mass murder.”…’

    Yeah, because it does! Jihad Watch reports the TRUTH!
    What a dumb-a_ _ bimbo!
    All she has to do is crack open the koran to see this, but that would be too difficult for her I guess…
    because it would require genuine research and journalism! It is much easier to get paid to be a mouth piece of leftist fascist propaganda that slanders the truth and glorifies lies!

    To types like her I say: Grow a brain and get a clue!

  21. saturnine says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 10:12 pm

    “using the internet to … coerce others into adopting their views”

    Ms. Goforth does not understand the meaning of that word.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 10:18 pm

      True.

  22. martin says

    Feb 22, 2019 at 6:45 am

    Do to her, what she has been doing… only unlike her, by telling the truth about her, instead of the lies she tells about others.

    Get her exposed and shunned.

    Target who she works for with the facts.

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