Jan 20, 2015 12:41 am | Robert Spencer
Where are the Muslims not just condemning this, but developing and instituting programs in mosques and Islamic schools to teach against the beliefs and assumptions that give rise to it? Certainly non-Muslims aren’t doing anything to call them to account — remember: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally […]
Jan 19, 2015 11:16 pm | Robert Spencer
This is an odd article, since it leads off with “a French newspaper shows that the majority of the country’s citizens are in favor of greater limitations on freedom of speech,” but then says that 42% of French citizens believe that newspapers should publish cartoons of Muhammad, and 50% believe in limits on free speech. […]
Video: Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer speak at Free Speech Rally, Garland, Texas, January 17, 2015
Jan 19, 2015 05:32 pm | Robert Spencer
The visual portion of this video is a bit subpar, but the audio is very good, and so far this is the only video of the speech that I gave that has surfaced. I speak starting at the 8:44 mark. Alternate video of Pamela Geller’s speech can be found here. This video thanks to Kymberly.
Jan 19, 2015 03:54 pm | Robert Spencer
Shattered, supine Britain is extremely solicitous of the human rights of jihadis like Baghdad Meziane, who would murder thousands of British non-Muslims if he could. British authorities are far tougher on counter-jihadis, whom they have moved energetically to demonize and drive out of the public discourse. And so the British political and media elites will […]
Jan 19, 2015 03:01 pm | Robert Spencer
In PJ Media I discuss some signs that the jihad against the West is just getting started: In a new video, an Islamic State jihadi proclaims: I say to all French people who think that the Islamic State won’t arrive in Europe, with God’s help, we will arrive in Europe. We will expand across all […]
Jan 19, 2015 02:01 pm | Robert Spencer
Here is a terrific piece about the AFDI Free Speech Rally in Garland, Texas last Saturday. Merrill Hope writes: “The grassroots came out en masse to rally with American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) president Pamela Geller, who spoke on behalf of free speech.” There is an increasingly yawning gap between the people and our “representatives.” […]
Jan 19, 2015 01:27 pm | Robert Spencer
It is painfully obvious that all too many Muslims in the United Kingdom believe that Islam has nothing to do with “British identity.” They have no interest in “British identity.” They consider themselves part of the umma, the worldwide Muslim community, and that is the only earthly entity to which they owe allegiance. This has […]
Jan 19, 2015 12:34 pm | Robert Spencer
Friday I was on Sun TV’s The Source with Ezra Levant to discuss jihad sleeper cells in Europe. Video thanks to Aloha Snackbar 01.
Jan 19, 2015 12:06 pm | Robert Spencer
“Nisman had been due to appear in front of lawmakers on Monday afternoon to explain his accusations, which said that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner tried to whitewash Iran’s involvement in the 1994 terror attack against the headquarters of the Jewish umbrella bodies AMIA and DAIA in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people were killed […]
Jan 19, 2015 11:44 am | Robert Spencer
If anything shows the falsity of the mainstream narrative about Islam and jihad, it’s this. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation is the world’s largest Islamic world body, and the largest voting bloc at the United Nations. If the Barack Obama/David Cameron/John Kerry/Theresa May narrative about Islam were true, the OIC would be denouncing the murders […]
Jan 19, 2015 09:40 am | Robert Spencer
Hypnotized by Slogans by Michael Devolin “Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man’s deadliest weapon is language. He is susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is by infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.” – Arthur Koestler Canada’s National Post newspaper has published an article […]