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CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski tries to get Interior Department official fired for opposing jihad mass murder

Oct 9, 2019 11:30 am By Robert Spencer

So it turns out that the acting director of the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, William Perry Pendley, has denied the Left’s “climate change” mythology, and opposes jihad violence and illegal immigration. CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski is out for blood, trying to get Pendley for heresy, that is, for his dissent from Leftist orthodoxy.

My first reaction to this was, So what? The guy is in the Bureau of Land Management. What does that have to do with “global warming,” unless Kaczynski thinks that the sea levels are going to rise and swallow whole cities, including Obama’s new beachfront estate, and we’re all going to be dead in 12 years? What do jihad violence and illegal immigration have to do with land management? Kaczynski here shows that he would have been a terrific Gestapo official: why no, sir, you cannot have a position as a grocery clerk, because you have shown insufficient ardor for the Führer. And indeed, the Left is increasingly open about its totalitarianism. Those with dissenting views will not be allowed to hold jobs, even if those jobs have nothing to do with the subject of their dissent. A few years ago I was invited to address an education conference in California that had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam; the hate-filled fascist Georgetown University thug Nathan Lean got the cowardly Catholic bishop Jaime Soto, under whose auspices the conference was being held, to cancel my appearance. (I spoke at the conference as scheduled, in a venue outside the bishop’s purview.) And also a few years ago, the Washington Post discovered that the Qur’an-burning pastor Terry Jones was driving for Uber; they duly got him fired. I don’t approve of book-burning, but it is not illegal in the United States, and the idea that a man must be hounded forever and prevented from making a living for views that dissent from the Left’s reveals what Leftists really are.

Among William Perry Pendley’s heresies was that he “has repeatedly pushed hardline anti-Muslim views, including citing an article by anti-Muslim activist Robert Spencer in a 2018 tweet to claim Islam was at war with America.”

Here Kaczynski employs the familiar smear of Leftist “journalists,” that opposing jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women, gays and others makes one “anti-Muslim.” That could only be true if all Muslims endorse jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women, gays and others. Does Kaczynski believe that? If so, he should accuse himself of “Islamophobia” and resign in disgrace from CNN. In reality, opposing such things doesn’t make one “anti-Muslim” any more than opposing the Nazis during World War II made one “anti-German.” I’ve only said that about ten thousand times, and have said it directly to Kaczynski in emails. He doesn’t take any note of it, because he is not a real journalist, he is a Leftist propagandist who is not interested in the truth, but only in shaping the world by imposing his narrative upon it. He may succeed for awhile, but all totalitarian thought control breaks down in the end under the weight of reality. And in this case, reality may break on in Kaczynski in a most unpleasant way, when he discovers that the Islamic jihadis he has enabled and run interference for are something less than grateful.

Kaczynski his smear of Pendley with this: “‘Who knew? Islam’s war with America started just up the road in Greeley, Colorado!,’ Pendley tweeted. In the article, Spencer floats unfounded conspiracies about ‘leftists’ allying with ‘Islamic hardliners who adhere to Sharia, a system of laws that would have many of them executed.'”

The article in question details how Leftist were banning the song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” which Muslim Brotherhood theorist and Islamic scholar Sayyid Qutb also found objectionable. That wasn’t a conspiracy theory at all. Both the Leftist hatred for the song and Qutb’s similar hatred for it are amply documented in the article and elsewhere. What is ironic here is that Kaczynski claims that I spread “unfounded conspiracies about ‘leftists’ allying with ‘Islamic hardliners who adhere to Sharia, a system of laws that would have many of them executed.'” Yet in demonizing me for opposing jihad terror, he enables those Islamic hardliners. In claiming that the idea that Leftists would ally with Islamic hardliners is a “conspiracy theory,” the hardcore Leftist Kaczynski allies with Islamic hardliners to try to destroy those who stand against jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others. Conspiracy theory?

Kaczynski also objects to Pendley for saying that the Department of Homeland Security should focus on jihad terror rather than “right-wing extremism”; Kaczynski quotes acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan saying that “extremism from white supremacists” is “one of the most ‘potent ideologies’ driving acts violence in the US.” He note that Pendley said this in 2010, but doesn’t bother to inform his hapless readers that few people were worrying about “right-wing extremism” in 2010. Nor does he bother to inform them that the idea that “right-wing extremism” is a greater threat than jihad terrorism is based on studies with numerous flawed premises.

We have just learned regarding the jihad massacre last week in Paris that the jihad murderer Mickael Harpon “had caused alarm among his colleagues as far back as 2015, when he defended the massacre of 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper by two brothers vowing allegiance to al-Qaeda. But even though a police official charged with investigating suspected radicalization among the force questioned the colleagues, none of them wanted to file an official complaint.”

Why didn’t they? The answer is obvious. None of them wanted to file an official complaint for fear of the French counterparts of Andrew Kaczynski. They were afraid if they did, articles like this one about William Perry Pendley would be in their future, and their career would be in ruins.

Yes, by stigmatizing and demonizing opposition to jihad terror, Leftist “journalists” are getting people killed. If CNN were a genuine news source, it would fire him and repudiate this article. But it isn’t, and it won’t.

“Senior Interior official denied there was an ozone hole and compared undocumented immigrants to cancer,” by Andrew Kaczynski, Paul LeBlanc, and Nathan McDermott, CNN, October 8, 2019:

(CNN) The acting director of the federal agency responsible for managing one in every 10 acres of land in the United States has repeatedly denied the existence of climate change and falsely claimed in a 1990s speech there was no credible evidence of a hole in the ozone layer.

William Perry Pendley was appointed by Interior Secretary David Bernhardt as the acting director of the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management in July 2019. Prior to his appointment, Pendley was a conservative activist, commentator, lawyer and served as the longtime president of the conservative Mountain States Legal Foundation. …

Comments on Islam

Pendley has repeatedly pushed hardline anti-Muslim views, including citing an article by anti-Muslim activist Robert Spencer in a 2018 tweet to claim Islam was at war with America.

“Who knew? Islam’s war with America started just up the road in Greeley, Colorado!,” Pendley tweeted. In the article, Spencer floats unfounded conspiracies about “leftists” allying with “Islamic hardliners who adhere to Sharia, a system of laws that would have many of them executed.”

Writing in a 2010 blog post, Pendley railed against a Department of Homeland Security report that labeled right-wing extremism as a threat, arguing instead the focus should be on “those who embrace radical Islam.”

“(New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and President Barack Obama) think — if one can call it thinking or anything more than wishful thinking—that Americans should be afraid of terrorist attacks, not from all those who embrace radical Islam, but from their countrymen who hold very strong views on important issues of the day?,” Pendley wrote.

Last month, acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan released the department’s counterterrorism strategy, calling extremism from white supremacists one of the most “potent ideologies” driving acts violence in the US….

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  1. mortimer says

    Oct 9, 2019 at 11:41 am

    The American tradition of the witch-hunt continues. HERETICS MUST BE CRUSHED as they crushed ‘witches’ at Salem.

    There is NO DIVERSITY OF OPINION ALLOWED in the UTOPIAN DEEP STATE.

    • Brad says

      Oct 9, 2019 at 6:31 pm

      I agree mortimer, other than that he is of Jewish origin as you know many Jews control the media and NGO’s in the USA with a leftist mentality, loyalty and support. The majority of Jews in USA support democrats but the problem with the Jews is they are very tricky Zionist conspiracists who hate everyone and secretly support terrorism as long it is not done to JEWS.

      • MorZ says

        Oct 10, 2019 at 5:35 am

        Brad is correct look at link bellow from former NGO members mentioning leftist propaganda biased information on basis of manipulating everything is true. …Founder. Corruption on the basis of truth really. Read carefully

        http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread953064/pg1

      • Brad says

        Oct 10, 2019 at 6:09 am

        Fr. Thomas Dailey’s website mentions the problems with the Pew Research Centre giving wrong information.

        https://media.ascensionpress.com/2019/08/16/how-accurate-is-the-pew-survey-on-the-eucharist/

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 10, 2019 at 11:35 pm

        I don’t know if Kaczynski is Jewish or not–there is no public information I can find on his faith.

        But this is standard leftist stuff from him–it has nothing to do with Judaism.

        And Brad pretending that Mortimer is antisemitic is just disgustingly false. Most at Jihad Watch support civilized Israel–it sounds as if Brad is pro-Jihad here.

        • Brad says

          Oct 11, 2019 at 4:39 pm

          Kaczynski is Jewish from Poland.

    • Brad says

      Oct 10, 2019 at 5:40 am

      http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread953064/pg1

      Read this link above even proves it with Pew Research Centre according to a former member who was under pressure mentioning corruption and bias within the organisation. Remember the founder

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 10, 2019 at 11:37 pm

        What is Brad on about here?

        • Brad says

          Oct 11, 2019 at 4:53 pm

          gravenimage what I am trying to say is that Kaczynski is of Jewish origins from Poland and that the people who founded the Pew Jew Research Centre such as Kohut the founder and staff come with wrong information about certain topics that is politically motivated as there is corruption within this NGO organisation. Don’t be fooled that the Pew Research is a high quality unbiased NGO that gives correct information about others.

  2. mortimer says

    Oct 9, 2019 at 11:49 am

    Kaczynski is misinformed by a skewed study of terrorism that started counting terrorism after 9-11-2001 when the US vigilance against JIHADIST TERRORISM was increased 10-fold.

    Of course, jihad terrorism was reduced after 9-11 due to the increased vigilance of American security.

    Meanwhile, overseas, there was a four-fold INCREASE of jihad terrorism after 9-11 … because they were not as vigilant as the US and because Islamist governments increased funding to jihad terrorism.

    Kaczynski is typical of the selective perception and tunnel-vision of the Utopian globalists.

    Kaczynski sees, hears and speaks ‘WHAT JIHAD?’.

    Hey, Kaczynski … there are 3 to 4 deadly jihad attacks every day of the year that kill an average of 50 people every single day. Thousands are killed by jihadists every year.

    Over 360,000,000 killed by jihad since 9-11.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 9, 2019 at 11:55 am

      correction: should be 360,000 killed by jihad since 9-11. (typo)

  3. SemiDave says

    Oct 9, 2019 at 12:28 pm

    Modern Islamic jihad began in June 1968 with the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (a Democrat) by Sirhan Sirhan, a “Palestinian”! It continued sporadically to 2011 and increased with the US incursion into Iraq.

    The corrupt George W. Bush government gave the muslim world the excuse they needed to declare a guerrilla-style war (jihad) on the US and all it’s allies.

    For Pendley to state the obvious is noteworthy but not profound.

    For Kaczynski to viciously criticize Pendley’s honesty is both profound and evil, though not really noteworthy, as he is a known leftist.

    Robert Spencer, in conclusion, is correct on all accounts as ths situation supports the connection between socialst/leftists and Islamic adherants/jihadists.

    • elee says

      Oct 9, 2019 at 1:57 pm

      I guess it all depends on what you mean by modern. Theyve been committing acts of war against America since 1800. If there had been anAmerican republic in 1100 they would have started then.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 10, 2019 at 11:39 pm

      SemiDave wrote:

      The corrupt George W. Bush government gave the muslim world the excuse they needed to declare a guerrilla-style war (jihad) on the US and all it’s allies.
      ………………..

      How so?

      Besides, the first attack on the WTC was during the Clinton administration. Why should we forget about this?

      • Angemon says

        Oct 13, 2019 at 5:04 am

        The same Clinton who let bin Laden escape several times.

  4. Carolyne says

    Oct 9, 2019 at 12:57 pm

    I’mu6 not sure George Bush was corrupt. I just think he is dumb. I’ll never forget the expression on his face when first told of the Jihadists flying planes into the World Trade Center. His Mantra then became “Islam is a religion of peace,” which of course it is not. There were rumors of his surreptitiously flying Saudis out of the country but as far as I know not confirmed. He then proceeded to invade two countries which were not involved in the attack and failed to invade the one that’d was. I think he is just dumb, perhaps led by someone smarter.

  5. elee says

    Oct 9, 2019 at 2:00 pm

    Fearing Islam does not require one to deny climate change.

  6. Angemon says

    Oct 9, 2019 at 2:41 pm

    The media arm of the Democrats is as desperate as the Democrats themselves. Two years of riding the nothingburguer of “Russian Collusion” 24/7 didn’t do them any good, and further down the Identity Politics road they go. And that was on top of generally being anti-Trump since 2015. When will they learn that having being anti-something as the whole plan gets you nowhere?

  7. James Lincoln says

    Oct 9, 2019 at 3:01 pm

    Robert Spencer states in his feature article:

    “Here Kaczynski employs the familiar smear of Leftist “journalists,” that opposing jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women, gays and others makes one “anti-Muslim.” That could only be true if all Muslims endorse jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women, gays and others.”

    It is true that not all individual Muslims endorse jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women, gays and others.

    But they all belong to a religious ideology that does endorse those practices…

  8. Battle says

    Oct 9, 2019 at 5:58 pm

    Robert Spencer hits nail on head. Good.

  9. Battle says

    Oct 9, 2019 at 6:00 pm

    Mortimer hits nail on head. Good.

  10. Battle says

    Oct 9, 2019 at 6:02 pm

    Sorry typo mortimer.

  11. Lydia Church says

    Oct 9, 2019 at 8:59 pm

    “Kaczynski here shows that he would have been a terrific Gestapo official: why no, sir, you cannot have a position as a grocery clerk, because you have shown insufficient ardor for the Führer.”

    Yup, I see this happening all over the place and it’s about that bad now.
    Yes, nail hit on head!

    Good job Robert!
    Ugh, it’s really getting bad out there now. Stay encouraged!
    You are a target because you are doing something right!
    Blessings.

  12. the least of terry's says

    Oct 10, 2019 at 6:15 am

    “…has denied the Left’s “climate change” mythology, and opposes jihad violence and illegal immigration…” I agree with all that whole-heartedly! “And indeed, the Left is increasingly open about its totalitarianism. Those with dissenting views will not be allowed to hold jobs, even if those jobs have nothing to do with the subject of their dissent.” Well, is not that the mark of the beast unfolding?

  13. Brad says

    Oct 10, 2019 at 6:16 am

    Here is another example with the Pew Research Centre according to Fr. Thomas Dailey complaining about misinformation among the organisation.

    https://media.ascensionpress.com/2019/08/16/how-accurate-is-the-pew-survey-on-the-eucharist/

  14. gravenimage says

    Oct 10, 2019 at 11:29 pm

    CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski tries to get Interior Department official fired for opposing jihad mass murder
    ……………..

    Just disgusting–but no surprise. This is not the first time Kaczynski has done this sort of thing:

    “CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski tries to destroy Congressman for having dinner with Belgian politician”

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/09/cnns-andrew-kaczynski-tries-to-destroy-congressman-for-having-dinner-with-belgian-politician

    “Robert Spencer video: Why does CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski defame the NSA’s Fred Fleitz?”

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/06/robert-spencer-video-why-does-cnns-andrew-kaczynski-defame-the-nsas-fred-fleitz

    There are more cases.

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