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Sam Harris Declares ‘Osama bin Laden is Far Less Reprehensible than Trump’

Nov 4, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer 26 Comments

My latest in PJ Media: The Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is cresting as the election approaches. In one of the most reprehensible statements to come from the Left in this Year of the Left Behaving Reprehensibly was spoken on Friday by the famous atheist Sam Harris, who claims to be a “rationalist.” During an episode […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Leftist/Islamic Alliance, moral equivalence, Robert Spencer Tagged With: Sam Harris

Sam Harris: ‘Osama bin Laden is far more understandable to me and far less reprehensible than Trump’

Oct 31, 2020 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer 95 Comments

Sam Harris is a famous atheist and a self-professed “rationalist,” but here he demonstrates that the Left’s hatred for Trump can race far beyond all the bounds of rationality and become cultlike in its perfervid intensity. Sam Harris has spoken critically about Islamic jihad violence in the past, but he allowed himself to be intimidated […]

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Filed Under: Donald Trump, Featured, Leftist/Islamic Alliance, moral equivalence, Useful idiots Tagged With: Osama bin Laden, Sam Harris

Sam Harris tries to get Trump’s Twitter account banned over Iran tweet

Jul 24, 2018 11:11 am By Robert Spencer

In December 2016 I wrote a piece entitled “Sam Harris and the collapse of the counter-jihad Left,” about how Sam Harris and his close friend and collaborator Maajid Nawaz speak well about some of the problems with jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others, but object to serious and concrete steps to […]

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Filed Under: Donald Trump, Featured, free speech, Useful idiots Tagged With: Sam Harris

Collapse of the counter-jihad Left continues: Sam Harris says “Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ is a terrible policy…unethical”

Jan 31, 2017 2:16 pm By Robert Spencer

In December I wrote a piece entitled “Sam Harris and the collapse of the counter-jihad Left,” in which I noted Harris’ indifference to his friend and coauthor Maajid Nawaz’s endorsement of Keith Ellison in his quest to become chair of the Democratic National Committee, despite Ellison’s multiple ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. I also pointed […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Useful idiots, willful ignorance Tagged With: Sam Harris

Sam Harris replies to Robert Spencer, Spencer responds

Dec 18, 2016 11:46 am By Robert Spencer

As Sam Harris notes here, he is responding in this piece to one I wrote about him last week. My further responses are interspersed below. “Reply to Robert Spencer,” by Sam Harris, December 16, 2016: Over at Frontpage Magazine and Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer has published an essay titled “Sam Harris and the Collapse of […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Moderate Muslims, Muslim Brotherhood Tagged With: Maajid Nawaz, Sam Harris

Sam Harris and the collapse of the counter-jihad Left

Dec 14, 2016 3:26 pm By Robert Spencer

A few years ago, atheist writer Sam Harris became one of the very few high-profile figures on the Left to break ranks with the Left’s general denial of the jihad threat and willingness to ignore or even excuse the most inhumane Sharia oppression. His calling Islam “the mother lode of bad ideas” on a famous […]

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", Featured, free speech, Leftist/Islamic Alliance, Moderate Muslims Tagged With: Maajid Nawaz, Sam Harris

Selective outrage: Leftist, atheist critics of Islam enraged that SPLC hit list of Islam critics includes leftists and atheists

Oct 28, 2016 11:58 am By Robert Spencer

UPDATE: Hemant Mehta writes in to say, “I focused on those two because they’re well known in atheist circles.” ———– Sam Harris thinks it’s “unbelievable” that Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali made it to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hit list of “Anti-Muslim Extremists.” He said nothing about me or the other people whom […]

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", Featured, Leftist/Islamic Alliance Tagged With: Hemant Mehta, Sam Harris, Sarah Haider

Sam Harris: Robert Spencer “so fully stigmatized…you just don’t actually know who you’re talking to”

Oct 8, 2016 10:52 am By Robert Spencer

This exchange between Sam Harris and Gad Saad raises important issues regarding “Islamophobia” smear propaganda and its effectiveness even among people who are its subjects and should not be susceptible to it. This excerpt comes from the Harris/Saad conversation, “The Frontiers of Political Correctness,” which you can hear in its entirety here. This excerpt starts […]

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", dhimmitude, Featured Tagged With: Sam Harris

Ahmadi propagandist claims foes of jihad, not jihad terror, responsible for suspicion of Islam

Mar 21, 2016 7:57 am By Robert Spencer

In this hysterical little smear piece (a slight revision of a piece that appeared a few months ago in the Daily Caller, which should know better), the brazen and unapologetic liar Ahmadi spokesman Kashif Chaudhry, a willing water-carrier for Muslim Brotherhood propaganda, manages to defame Donald Trump, Pamela Geller, Sam Harris, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and […]

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", Ahmadis, claiming victim status, Featured, journalistic bias, Robert Spencer, War is deceit Tagged With: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Donald Trump, Huffington Post, Kashif Chaudhry, Pamela Geller, Sam Harris

Australia: Ads saying one should be able to flush Qur’an down toilet without violent reprisal banned as discriminatory

Oct 30, 2015 12:43 pm By Robert Spencer

The ads mocking Christianity were banned as well, but it is extremely unlikely that APN Outdoor was concerned about discriminating against and vilifying Christians. Clearly, what they were concerned about violent reprisals from Muslims enraged at the prospect of flushing the Qur’an. The organizers are quite correct when they say, “To reject these posters is […]

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Filed Under: Australia, Featured, free speech, Qur'an Tagged With: Sam Harris

Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins slam Left for giving Islam “free pass” despite jihad terrorism

Oct 5, 2015 2:09 pm By Robert Spencer

What is noteworthy about this is how selective and one-sided Maher and Dawkins are. They’re all upset about the Marxist anti-Semite Maryam Namazie being banned from speaking at a university because of her views on Islam, but have never said a word while for years Pamela Geller and I and others who tell the same […]

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Filed Under: Featured, free speech, Leftist/Islamic Alliance Tagged With: Bill Maher, Reza Aslan, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris

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