Last Monday, March 4, I spoke at UCLA, at the invitation of their Turning Point USA chapter. Unusually for a university appearance, it was a quiet event, unmarked by the defamation, fascism, and hysteria that is generally the response to discussions of the jihad threat on campus.
Be sure to check out what the first questioner says, starting at 40:11.
This video doesn’t have the q and a, but is shot from a better angle, so you don’t have to look at my bad posture for 40 minutes:
eduardo odraude says
All quiet?!!! How can that be? How was Spencer permitted to set foot on campus?
Could the reason be that Trump’s statement at CPAC was effective? Trump said he would sign an executive order depriving universities of government funding for research if universities fail to protect free speech. It will be interesting to see if now conservatives suddenly are able to speak on campuses.
Scott says
Don’t hold your breath on that….
eduardo odraude says
Looking forward to later watching this video.
CRUSADER says
Note at minute marker 29:00 that Spencer reveals why he utilizes so many quotes in his writing. 🙂
eduardo odraude says
I did note that, it was witty.
But I think Spencer was just being modestly self-deprecating in the course of explaining how much he relies on quotes from Muslims: his real point was that he bases his views on evidence, not that his books are easy to write because of quotations. Anyone who tries to write a book like Spencer’s latest book in two months, much less ten years, will see it was not actually “easy.” Spencer could only do that because he’s devoted his gifts to this subject for decades, since college or before.
CRUSADER says
Indeed.
As only such a great man can do.
gravenimage says
Video: Robert Spencer at UCLA on the reality of jihad vs. “Islamophobia” propaganda
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Good to see Robert Spencer speaking at UCLA!
CRUSADER says
Interesting to hear about Khomeini, the turn on the Leftists by Iranian Guard, and also the future of Demographics/Birthrate, and the false finger pointing by Quilliam’s Maajid Nawaz, invention of “alt-right”….
Assimilation as a notion to enforce….
Cool, that the first questioner admitted that Spencer is “REASONABLE”.
gravenimage says
+1
RichardL says
My wife is a scholar on the shari’a and she always scoffed at me reading JW every morning and admiring Robert’s poise and scholarship. Until she started reading his books. Same quality of scholarship as the big names just better prose for the most part. She has the advantage that she reads Arabic, German, English and French and thus has access to the original sources.
CRUSADER says
RichardL,
Do elaborate more, please.
What does she say about these “big names”?
Such as: Are you speaking of Bernard Lewis or John Esposito?
What about the content and the conclusions?
Why are the “big names” still big names?
Why isn’t Spencer a “big name”?
In certain circles, he is….
gravenimage says
Good to hear, Richard.
CRUSADER says
Especially love the “emergency exit only” signage.
Don’t mind the angle of the camera in the video, it’s great to receive Robert Spencer any way possible.
Hearing the venerable Robert Spencer is ALWAYS a pleasure and an exceptional learning experience.
A learned, caring, modest, courteous and humorous man of many talents. And he likes sports!!!
What a decent fellow …and intelligent as well.
Instead of being kryptonite, he should be seen as a magnificent magnet for becoming better educated.
Jule Bacal says
I chuckled at that too….one favorite part though was that REFORM in Islam means getting Back to Fundamentalism of 600AD. No reform forward is allowed.No changes may be made. (or Allah will punish and torture in the afterlife.) Remember the Petition that scholars, authors and even a few Muslims in France sent to al Azhar asking that the Jew Hate be deleted? They said NO WAY. NEVER.
CRUSADER says
And yet Moderates keep believing in Reform.
mortimer says
Robert Spencer quotes FROM SHARIA LAW to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that JIHAD TERRORISM is CODIFIED IN ISLAM.
Jihad is VERY REAL and the ‘Islamophobia’ smear is GASLIGHTING … accusing mentally well and morally fine people of being INSANE and IMMORAL because they criticize Islam. It reminds me of the STALINIST METHOD of calling every who disagreed with Politburo as a ‘fascist’.
The word ‘Islamophobia’ is in fact pseudomoralism … even Stalinism.
People who use ‘Islamophobia’ are unethical slanderers and immoral hatemongers who slander highly-ethical and mentally healthy people, merely because they don’t agree with the totalitarian globalist political agenda. Criticizing globalism and its allied ideology of Islam isn’t a phobia or hate, but political science, which is to to question what happens when political Islam or Marxism dominates a society. Using the word ‘Islamophobia’ is unethical because it’s a slanderous libel used to silence political opponents.
It is immoral in religion, because it is a breach of the Ninth Commandment: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Using the word ‘Islamophobia’ is PSEUDOMORALISM that uses slanderous libel posing as morality. It is totalitarianism imposing thought control so that it’s opponents may not speak in their own defence …
It is insincere virtue-signalling by totalitarians who privately despise Islam and would never choose themselves to live in an Islamic Sharia society, but don’t mind letting others suffer in one.
CRUSADER says
“Gaslight” (movie 1944) – {You’re Being Driven Insane Scene}
CRUSADER says
Seen this movie?
“The Death of Stalin” (2018)
– Rotten Tomatoes
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_death_of_stalin
Rating: 96% – 232 reviews
CRUSADER says
Those utilizing Islamophobia have the originators to thank, as they saw how successful Homophobe was as a scandalizing zing to sling at people who are “disagreeable”…..and discovered that to be called an Islamophobe could work similarly. Thanks to their CAIRful strategy, we are now saddled with this nonsense.
Fling it back, I say!
Call others an Islamophile, and say back to them that they support death, destruction, slavery, and a plague on souls.
CRUSADER says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNoh0hEkrj4
Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Islamophobia in Both Parties | THE CIRCUS
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Alan Dershowitz and Raheel Raza, in commenting about this victim card,
fell over themselves supporting the concept of Muslim Reform….
on the “Ingraham Angle” on Fox News, speaking about Anti-Semitism institutionalization.
WCM says
Always a pleasure to watch RS in action, esp. among a civil audience. I was grateful to see uniformed security in the back and the rather large fellow in the front who kept his eyes on the audience. I assume he had more than a couple of his colleagues outside. 🙂
I pray that we will see many more of these gatherings in increasingly larger venues.
Thanks, RS!
gravenimage says
+1
Norman Moffatt says
I’ve read “The History of Jihad from Muhammad to ISIS” a book that should be in every school for compulsory study.
gravenimage says
Yes–excellent and important book.
Shi Sataara says
Hello.
Why do I always hear about a speech after it happens.?If I had known before I would have attended. I do subscribe to the newsletter.
S.
Egon Speneder says
Robert Spencer’s books are very informative and easy to read. Some can even be found in pda on line. He has devoted his life to this because he is a devoted Christian who truly recognises the spiritual and ideological warfare that always exists. Everything our fore-father’s have fought for can slip through our fingers if we allow Marxist and Islamic ideology to take root! Europe and the Western Hemisphere could look like the Middle East with Capitalism, liberty, freedom and wealth gone, pushing our culture back to the Middle Ages. Read the book “The Arab Mind” by Raphael Patai.
Mirren10 says
I can barely hear the first video. Is you tube deliberately lowering the sound, or is it just me ?
The second video, I can hear that.
CRUSADER says
Look out, Freedom of Speech!
Contact is coming from the mitten of the North: Michigan….where many Muslims reside.
Michigan Attorney General Nessel Officially Launches New Hate Crimes Unit
https://www.michigan.gov/ag/0,4534,7-359-82916_81983_47203-491579–,00.html
Attorney General Dana Nessel has officially launched her new Hate Crimes Unit within the Criminal Division
She orchestrates this upon the SPLC Hate Mapping.
How disingenuous!
Jason says
I noticed a jump in the Q & A. One moment a person was asking about “open to interpretation” passages in the scriptures of Abrahamic faiths. Then it skips to Robert talking about Sadiq Khan, and the situation in Britian. If anyone can fill the gap, that would be great, as I would really like to know what Robert said in response to this.
Thanks in advance.
Jule Bacal says
I would like to hear about how Islam says Judaism and Christianity are no longer of Abraham. They say the only Abrahamic Religion left is Islam, the ONE and ONLY True Religion. When some says the three Abrahamic religions, the Qur’an says WRONG….Only Islam is Abrahamic and that is why Allah sent Mohammed to clean things up from the ones who strayed. For Islam, Judaism/Christianity cannot be Recognised as Religions any more. Only Islam. Its false to say its all cozy with the three Abrahamic religions.
dumbledoresarmy says
Mr Spencer observes – “Last Monday, March 4, I spoke at UCLA, at the invitation of their Turning Point USA chapter. Unusually for a university appearance, it was a quiet event, unmarked by the defamation, fascism, and hysteria that is generally the response to discussions of the jihad threat on campus.” UCLA is to be commended.
I think it would be appropriate for American jihadwatchers – and *especially* any here who might be associated with UCLA in some way (as alumni, or perhaps as parents whose child attends / attended UCLA) – to communicate with UCLA administration and – briefly and politely – *commend* them for upholding genuine freedom of speech, notably in the case of a civil, scholary and decent guest speaker who was addressing one of *the* great political and social issues of our time.
gravenimage says
+1