I had to laugh. “Nauert’s relationship with Spencer dates back to 2009, when she hosted him and fellow anti-Muslim activists Frank Gaffney, Tarek Fatah and Nonie Darwish to discuss an hour-long segment on ‘stealth jihad.'”
I wish my memory were as good as the Huffington Post’s smear files. I remember going to the Fox offices with Gaffney, Darwish, and Fatah, and having a lengthy meeting with Roger Ailes and a long table full of Fox producers, and being annoyed with myself for having forgotten (as I nearly always do) to bring business cards. I don’t remember this hour-long show about stealth jihad at all. But the Huffington Post and Hamas-linked CAIR, their memories are elephantine, and they would have you believe that this is practically the only show Heather Nauert ever hosted, and one of the few noteworthy things about her.
Otherwise, this hit piece by Rowaida Abedelaziz is chock-full of the usual Leftist propaganda: Nauert has “a history of spreading anti-Muslim and Islamophobic comments,” which in the real world means that she opposes jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others. For Rowaida Abdelaziz, that makes her “anti-Muslim,” which tells you more about Rowaida Abdelaziz than it does about Heather Nauert. Gaffney, Darwish, Fatah and I are “anti-Muslim activists,” which must mean that foes of the Nazis were “anti-German.” Gaffney is an “Islamophobe,” which is actually a neologism designed to intimidate people into fearing to oppose jihad terror. Jihad Watch is a “hate site” for chronicling jihad activity, a neat inversion of reality. I was banned from the UK for “Islamophobic and racist rhetoric,” when actually I was banned for saying Islam had doctrines enjoining violence against unbelievers, which is, alas for Rowaida, a demonstrably true statement. And as for my supposedly “racist rhetoric,” what race is jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression again? Anyway, I challenge Rowaida Abdelaziz to produce even one racist statement from me, but she won’t, because she can’t.
Heather Nauert may or not be confirmed as US Ambassador to the UN, but this tired piece shows yet again that the Left is at war with reality, and desperate to convince people that there is no actual jihad threat, and that the real problem is “Islamophobia.” Unfortunately, the jihadis keep making them have to be all the more insistent with this propaganda, to drown out the sound of the bombs going off and the cars crashing into crowds of pedestrians to screams of “Allahu akbar.” President Trump is to be commended for keeping a grip on reality in the midst of this din of lies.
“Donald Trump Picks Anti-Muslim Official For U.S. Ambassador To UN,” by Rowaida Abdelaziz, Huffington Post, December 7, 2018:
President Donald Trump announced in a tweet Friday morning that State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert will replace Nikki Haley as the newest United States ambassador to the United Nations….
Nauert, a former Fox News host with no foreign policy experience, has something in common with many of her peers in the Trump administration: a history of spreading anti-Muslim and Islamophobic comments.
She mocked Muslims in a 2016 tweet that linked to a New York Times story about Muslims’ concerns over then-presidential candidate Trump. “They should meet ISIS,” she wrote. She also tweeted links to jihadwatch.org, an anti-Muslim hate site run by Robert Spencer, a prominent anti-Muslim activist who is banned from the United Kingdom for his Islamophobic and racist rhetoric.
Nauert’s relationship with Spencer dates back to 2009, when she hosted him and fellow anti-Muslim activists Frank Gaffney, Tarek Fatah and Nonie Darwish to discuss an hour-long segment on “stealth jihad.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled Gaffney “America’s most notorious Islamophobe” and his organization as a hate group. Similarly, the SPLC called Darwish “a staple of the anti-Islam right.” Fatah is a Canada-based columnist and self-proclaimed Muslim reformer who has been criticized for spreading anti-Muslim conspiracy theories and has called for a ban on the face veils.
In 2013, Nauert hysterically claimed that “sharia law is now changing everything” after a Minnesota YMCA announced it would host a private swim class for Muslim girls to accommodate their religious clothing requirement….