It is clear that Robert Spencer does not embody the welcoming, inclusive values of Claremont or #NH. Thank you to everyone who has shared their concerns w/ me. I have spoken with Mayor Lovett & am grateful The Elks have cancelled this evening’s (NON Elks) event. #LoveYourNeighbor
— Martha S. Hennessey (@hennessey4nh) October 4, 2019
Recently I spoke up in New Hampshire, defying a Leftist smear campaign that led two cowardly venues, the Eastman Community Center in Grantham and the Elks Club in Claremont, to cancel the event. The organizers found a third venue and the event went on as scheduled.
And now seven days have passed. Has New Hampshire State Senator Martha Hennessey resigned in disgrace yet? Why not? She is behaving like an open fascist: in the early 1930s, the Nazi Brownshirts carried out smear campaigns against anti-Nazi speakers, and got them hounded out of as many venues as possible. How is that different from what Martha Hennessey did here? She claims that I do not represent “the welcoming, inclusive values of Claremont” or New Hampshire. Do Claremont and New Hampshire value the freedom of speech? Is the fascist suppression of opposing points of view among the values of Claremont or New Hampshire?
Why isn’t the New Hampshire Republican Party calling for Hennessey to resign, and pressing the Democrats to affirm their support for the freedom of speech? I suspect that the answer is that they are cowards along with Eastman Community Center and the Claremont Elks Club.
Meanwhile, does Hennessey count approval of the jihad mass murder of innocent civilians among the welcoming, inclusive values she champions? Then why does she oppose my work? Does she count wife-beating, female genital mutilation, honor killings, and virulent anti-Semitism among the values of Claremont and New Hampshire? All my work is dedicated to resistance to those things. Hennessey, on the other hand, enables them by defaming me. #LoveYourNeighbor indeed.
Ms. Hennessey, show some integrity for once and resign. You owe it to your constituents.
Here is the video of the presentation Martha Hennessey didn’t want you to hear:

mortimer says
Very good questions by Robert Spencer. Why will our leaders not defend the freedom of expression that is the foundational principle of the United States?
I believe the wise Thomas Gray had the answer: “Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.”
Senator Martha Hennessey is blissfully ignorant of Islam’s political philosophy and agenda … so she VIRTUE-SIGNALS her alleged moral superiority.
Would Hennessey have defended the German American Bund in the late 1930s in the same vein? I believe she would, because she is unable to understand the difference between PEOPLE and a POLITICAL IDEOLOGY.
The counterjihad movement is a group of intellectuals who are analyzing and criticizing POLITICAL ISLAM’s philosophy and agenda and seeking to inform Western societies about the consequences if we do not take them seriously.
Senator Martha Hennessey wants everyone to stay and asleep about political Islam and to pretend that SLEEPING is a VIRTUE.
Mental sloth is not a virtue.
MESSAGE TO HENNESSEY: “Live Free or Die” is the official motto of the U.S. state of New Hampshire.
elee says
+1 and well stated. Oh, IMHO and all. Also IMHO, hey NH folks, consider contributing to a primary opponent for her seat.
Anjuli Pandavar says
Mortimer, “Why will our leaders not defend the freedom of expression that is the foundational principle of the United States? I believe the wise Thomas Gray had the answer: “Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.”
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maybe, just maybe, extremely short-sighted self-interest has something to do with it, too.
mortimer says
New Hampshire is a somewhat libertarian state. But Islam’s Sharia law is an almost POLAR OPPOSITE to libertarianism.
Libertarians should consider that Sharia law is an almost total denial of their human rights. Hennessey has now shown her DISREGARD for the right of someone in New Hampshire to say ‘I DISAGREE WITH POLITICAL ISLAM.’
Is that what Granite State voters want? Censorship?
Angemon says
“maybe, just maybe, extremely short-sighted self-interest has something to do with it, too.”
Yup. I recently discussed, on a different venue, that same phenomenon but in large corporations – sacrificing long-term gains and stability/sustainability for short term gains. In both cases, the taxpayer/common man/woman gets the worse part of the deal AND a bill to pay…
mortimer says
ISLAMISM is a dangerous political ideology.
Honest Ali says
ISLAM… there is no such thing as “Islamism”
mortimer says
HA … Merriam Webster Dictionary
Definition of Islamism
1 : the faith, doctrine, or cause of Islam
2 : a popular reform movement advocating the reordering of government and society in accordance with laws prescribed by Islam
mortimer says
The Free Dictionary by Farlex
Definition of Islamism:
– An Islamic revivalist movement, often characterized by moral conservatism, literalism, and the attempt to implement Islamic values in all spheres of life.
– support of or advocacy for Islamic fundamentalism
gravenimage says
In other words, Islam.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Oh look! Some Millennial SJW cuck dictionary editor decided a fake word was a real word! Thanks, Morty!
Giacomo Latta says
”popular”? with who?
Try defining ”inclusive” Merriam Webster.
inclusive: composing of anti-semites, hate-filled religious fanatics, anti-democrats, fascist muslims and their left-leaning useful idiots and anyone else wanting to destroy what generations of peaceful folk have created so that the aforementioned should feel a desire to come here
FYI says
Speaking of “welcoming and inclusive”,have the insufferably smug,morally bankrupt Leftie Liberals asked themselves THIS question?
What about the “welcoming,inclusive” values of islam and the muslim ‘holy’ book,the koran?
Its Doctrine of Hate al walaa wal baraa
Its CURSING of Jews k9:30 and violent antisemitism,sahih muslim #6985[=Genocidal war}
Its CURSING of Christians k9:30
Its antisocial nature:No “Love thy Neighbor” in islam as allah MISSED that esential 2nd chief commandment.No Golden Rule.
“Oh ye who believe!Take not the Christians and Jews for friends” k5:51
Its constant Dissembling via taqqiya,tawriya,taysin,muruna,kitman,daurura:Bearing FALSE WITNESS is sanctioned by the koran
Its commandment-of-God violating teachings of its ‘holy’koran:ok with MURDER k2;191 etc
Its endless jihadism in the west{called..the DAR AL HARB,the house of WAR}
Its endless violence,corruption and intolerance of ALL other Religions{Hindus,Buddhists etc….and atheists}
Its IMMORAL nature{polygamy,child brides,sex slave women,rape..ALL allowed within islam}
is islam “welcoming and inclusive”?
Obviously not.
mortimer says
POLITICAL ISLAM (Islamism) is neither welcoming nor inclusive.
Sharia societies are closed societies that are forbidding to kafirs and exclusive to Muslims.
elee says
+1. mortimer nails it again.
Ray Jarman says
FYI, Excellent points and you could have added John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” As you and Mortimer have stated, Christians are taught to love their neighbor and even their enemies but after two readings of the unholy Qur’an, I could find no such sentiments anywhere.
Descartes wrote about morality in his “Passions of the Soul,” “Desire is always good when it conforms to true knowledge; likewise it cannot fail to be bad when based on some error. And it seems to me that the error we commit most commonly in respect to desires is failure to distinguish adequately the thing which depend wholly on us from those which do not depend on us at all.” It is obvious that New Hampshire State Senator Martha Hennessey fails to realize the difference between Robert Spencer’s true and virtuous reason to impart his knowledge relating to a subject that few possess about Islam’s desire to remove virtue and love from the face of the earth.
mortimer says
Martha Hennessey could not last a minute in a debate with Robert Spencer. She is too cowardly to debate him.
revereridesagain says
She is a coward and a willfully ignorant one at that. I do not believe Hennessey wants to learn the truth about Islam because she could no longer continue to blithely ignore the suffering of millions of women and girls forced to exist under its control.
gravenimage says
Very true. What they cannot answer they want to silence.
Wellington says
Shameful and ignorant woman. Just think of all the people she would smear were they still here, in addition to Robert Spencer, for pointing out one way or another that Islam is not just another religion, as examples, Winston Churchill who said of Islam, “No stronger retrograde force exists in the world,” John Quincy Adams who said of Mohammed, “The essence of his doctrine was violence and lust, to exalt the brutal over the spiritual part of human nature,” Ernest Renan who described Islam “as the heaviest chains that have ever shackled humanity,” and Ibn Warraq (thankfully this intrepid man, like Robert Spencer, is still here) who said, “There are moderate Muslims but there is no moderate Islam.”
And just contemplate for a moment what this woman knows about Islam. Could she name even a single major school of Islamic theology, Sunni or Shiite? Does she know what terms like “kitman” and “muruna” mean? Could she tell anyone the difference between the words “sura” and “sira?” Has she read the Koran? Does she know that Islam sanctions rape? Is she aware that just since 9/11 there have been over 35,000 documented Islamic terrorist attacks worldwide? Is she cognizant of the fact that Islam is the only religion that calls for war to be made upon humanity until all the world is under the domination of one religion? Is she aware of the treatment of women in the Islamic world? Does she grasp that Islam is a mortal enemy of liberty and wherever it dominates it sets up a Jim Crow system based not on race but on belief? And so on.
When Ignorant and foolish people chastise courageous and informed people like Robert Spencer, freedom and many other good things, including truth itself, are put in jeopardy. This is what Martha S. Hennessey has done. She is the harmful figure here, not Robert Spencer.
elee says
Hey NH readers, go educate some people.
mortimer says
+1 to Wellington.
The following are people Martha Hennessey must also condemn.
The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to Muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all.
– Marco Polo (Explorer)
I am afraid that God has sent these men (Muslims) to lay waste the world.
– Cyrus of Alexandria, (Byzantine prefect of Egypt; died circa 641)
I studied the Kuran a great deal … I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammed. – Alexis de Tocqville (French thinker/historian)
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
– Will Durant (U.S. Historian)
Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword
– Sir Steven Runciman (British Historian)
The militant Muslim is the person cutting the head of the infidel while the moderate Muslim holds the victim’s feet.
– Dr M. Sabieski (Professor of Philosophy)
Islam was not a torch, as has been claimed, but an extinguisher. Conceived in a barbarous brain for the use of a barbarous people, it was – and it remains – incapable of adapting itself to civilization. Wherever it has dominated, it has broken the impulse towards progress and checked the evolution of society. – Andre Servier, in L’islam et la psychologie du musulman (1923)
“We have to be able to criticize bad ideas, and Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas.” – Bill Maher
“The Mohammedan religion…would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?”
-Adolf Hitler
(Note to Hennessey … Hitler liked Islam.)
Wellington says
Thanks for those quotes, mortimer. This silly New Hampshire legislator is very likely oblivious of all of them In fact, if she read them (she won’t), she’s probably so dim that they wouldn’t register with her.
I would add that it is not often I agree with Bill Maher, but I do here. He is one Leftie who grasps there are many heinous ideas and dictates to be found in Islam, such as can’t be found in any other major faith.
gravenimage says
Fine quotes Mortimer.
Phil Copson says
“…Senator Martha Hennessey is blissfully ignorant of Islam’s political philosophy and agenda….”
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You are far too kind – these people know perfectly well what is happening but find it more convenient and rewarding to pretend that they don’t.
After all, once the Martha Hennesseys of this world admit the truth – who knows better than she that all the other Martha Hennesseys will turn on them ?
So much easier to keep on denying the truth, keep on taking the plaudits of her fellow deniers, and keep on taking the money. The colder it gets, the further they will retreat under their security-blanket.
n says
Phil writes: “keep on taking the money.” I also wonder how many Dems (and some Republicans as well) are being bribed to support Islamism. Certainly, the British establishment is receiving MASSIVE BRIBES from Arab oil states to suppress all criticism of Islam.
Riky says
Libs have no higher moral authority therefore they can lie at the drop of a hat
elee says
This is a movement for anyone who fears being subjected to this evil cult. This includes some self-identified liberals. Quit trying to divide uys. And sorry for typos.
mortimer says
Analysis of a political system such as communism, Nazism, Italian fascism, Maoism or imperial Islamism is )*not* a ‘phobia’ or ‘intolerance’. It is *political science*.
Anyone who says we should not analyze political Islam is making a *special pleading* that political Islam is above criticism.
Martha Hennessey would be *unable* to say why political Islam should be above criticism.
WHY should political Islam be ABOVE CRITICISM?
Ashley says
Good grief. This was posted on the Solidarity and Support for Our Muslim Community FB page:
On Friday (today) an anti-Muslim racist by the name of Robert Spencer was invited by the Sullivan County GOP to speak at the Elks Lodge in Claremont after being canceled to speak at Eastman in Grantham. Robert Spencer’s work is cited 116 times in the manifesto of a White Supremacist who mass murdered 70 Muslims while they prayed. He was also mentioned by name over sixty times in this manifesto. His hateful rhetoric is so dangerous that the UK has banned Robert Spencer from going to their country based on his extremism.
We are holding an event entitled, “Solidarity and Support for Our Muslim Community” at 5:30pm outside the Elks Lodge in Claremont. Please come out and show support. We will sing songs and show love and support to our Muslim siblings.
Location: 54 Summer St. Claremont
Time: 5:30pm
Below are some other things you can do:
1) Come out to the event to support the Muslim Community, as mentioned above
2) Call the Elks (603-542-9802) and demand they cancel this event as soon as possible. Below is a script you can use that someone created for this purpose:
“Hello. My name is ________. I am asking that the Claremont Elks cancel the upcoming Sullivan County Republican Party event to be held this evening. This event is scheduled to feature Robert Spencer. Spencer is an anti-Muslim extremist who has been banned from traveling to the United Kingdom due to his hate-filled rhetoric against Muslims. The Southern Poverty Law Center lists him among the top anti-Muslim extremists and propagandists in our country. In support of our Muslim friends and neighbors in Claremont and NH in general, please cancel this event as soon as possible. Thank you.”
3) Write to all the state representatives, state senators, City Council members, City Manager, and Mayor and demand they speak out against this hate.
4) Contact Senator Ruth Ward from Sullivan County who is supposed to be attending this event and ask her why or how she can support such hatred. (ruth.ward@leg.state.nh.usruthward@myfairpoint.net ; 603-271-3092 )
Claremont Elks Lodge: They are hosting this event in their venue
Number: 603-542-9802
Ruth Ward: Sullivan State Senator who plans to attend event
Email: ruth.ward@leg.state.nh.us
ruthward@myfairpoint.net
603-271-3092
John Cloutier: State Rep
jocloutier@comcast.net
603-542-6190
Andrew O’Hearne: State Rep
Andrew.OHearne@leg.state.nh.us
603-558-1038
Martha Hennessey: State Senator
martha.hennessey@gmail.com
603-271-3042
Charlene Lovett- Mayor
Term Expires: 12/2019
Phone: 603-504-6273
clovett.ccc@gmail.com
Councilors:
Andrew O’Hearne
Term Expires: 12/2019
Phone: 603-558-1038
aohearne.ccc@gmail.com
Scott Pope
Term Expires: 12/2019
Phone: 603-542-2892
spope.ccc@gmail.com
Jonathan Stone
Term Expires: 12/2019
Phone: 603-558-5906
jstone.ccc@gmail.com
Abigail Kier
Term Expires:12/2019
Phone: 1-580-574-0905
akier.ccc@gmail.com
Nicholas Koloski
Term Expires: 12/2019
Phone: 603-543-7570
nkoloski.ccc@gmail.com
Claire Lessard
Term Expires: 12/2019
Phone: 603-543-3617
clessard.ccc@gmail.com
Kristin Kenniston
Term Expires: 12/2019
Phone: 603-543-9885
kkenniston.ccc@gmail.com
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Know what? I would never pass on an opportunity to listen to the words of a “controversial” speaker BECAUSE THAT IS MY RIGHT! I certainly wouldn’t appreciate if a speaking engagement was cancelled and my decision to attend was made for me!
I would listen to that clown that trolls New England libraries with his “Ask a Muslim” shtick and I CERTAINLY would listen to Robert Spencer!
Hennessey and others have no right to interfere with speaking engagements. Either go or stay home.
New Hampshire needs to grow up or drop the “Live Free or Die” motto. It clearly is hollow.
gravenimage says
Appalling smear, Ashley. Thank you for that information.
tgusa says
I would love to see her and others like her take their welcoming and inclusive values and live alongside male dominated islam if not for any other reason than they will get her to shut the hell up, forever. Oh do I want to live to see that.
The leftist progressive American bund, regressing to a 1930s ideology that had to be rooted out through total annihilation. Oh well.
mortimer says
Hennessey is giving a welcome and inclusion to an ideology that DOES NOT welcome or include her.
She is a naive Pollyanna.
lawrence estavan says
New Hampshire has the “diversity” bug.
https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20171229/naacps-johnson-to-lead-nh-civil-rights-council
Lydia Church says
Ah yes, the glorified ‘inclusion’!
According to them, the public should be ‘inclusive’ to:
jihad terrorism (islam), nazism, communism, genocide of any flavor, tyranny of any variety, any form of sexual perversion including pedophilia, eating humans and babies to ‘save the planet’ and other garden varieties of gone mad environmentalisms, other forms of demonic religion, etc.
The only groups they have a problem feeling warm and fuzzy inclusion for is:
Those who are good and stand against all those who are bad. (See list above)
We will most certainly be on their watch list for ‘hate’ groups.
And many already are. As the saying goes; “First they came for….” etc.
Lydia Church says
On ‘inclusion’ and ‘exclusion’…
Many of these leftists may feel that they are merely not including those who are not inclusive. But to the contrary, they are including those who are not inclusive and excluding those who are civilizations defense and immune system.
They have soiled the term ‘extremist’ which is actually a neutral term. It depends on… extremely… what?
They have glamorized the term ‘inclusive.’ But the same with that, it depends on what you are including!
As a group, the Christian church is to be exclusive because that is how it is and we can’t change that. The true church enters by the true door; Jesus. Those who enter by that gate are His, those that don’t are not. It is inherently exclusive and no one can alter that. On top of that, He wants us to act accordingly and receive those whom He has received, and not those whom He has not (unrepentant sinners in the church, etc.) So it is by nature exclusive, and that is a good thing!
We are excluded for our exclusion of those who should not be included, and for our inclusion of those who should be included. Yet they include those who show inclusion to those who should be excluded and exclude those who should be included. That, in a nutshell, is the policy of the left!
Norman Bates says
She is shameful! You may be an anti-science fool, but you got some good dope on Islam. Leftist (or rightist) deplatforming is unacceptable!
gravenimage says
Fascist NH State Senator Martha Hennessey forces cancellation of event opposing jihad terror
………………
How is banning someone who opposes Jihad terror “welcoming and inclusive”? Leftists use language differently from normal people.
Scott Allen says
Robert, we love you and need you safe and sound! Forget speaking in public for the moment. Use your gifts here, with your brilliant books and on live tv interviews.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Isn’t implying “We inclusively welcome all jihad terrorists!” some sort of a veiled illegal death-threat?
don vito says
perpetual islam, endless islam, forever islam. PEF describes the the zeitgeist of the modern world. This ideology is corrupt and seeks corruption, as well as seeking to corrupt those people that are susceptible of corrupting. Ancillary problems spread as a virus, throughout the globe with this zeitgeist. Yeah don, so what’s to be done? Beside the old adage of, “know your enemy”, I haven’t a clue.