In a highly significant symbolic move, Obama gives his first interview as President to…Al-Arabiya. “Obama Al-Arabiya Interview: Full Text,” from the Huffington Post, January 26 (thanks to all who sent this in): […] Q Sir, you just met with your personal envoy to the Middle East, Senator Mitchell. Obviously, his first task is to consolidate […]
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“There will still be free speech in America in much the same way as Henry Ford used to say that you can have any color car you want, as long as it’s black”
“In Defense of Wilders” — at FrontPage this morning, Jamie Glazov interviews me about the case against Geert Wilders. FP: Robert Spencer, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Spencer: Thank you Jamie. FP: Geert Wilders is being put on trial by the Dutch Court of Appeals in Amsterdam for making anti-Islamic statements. Tell us what this charge […]
Harvard-educated Iranian academic sliced sections out of priceless historical books
Hakimzadeh: Vandal for the jihad? Rewriting history is a major enterprise for jihad apologists, and an eminently successful one: the myths of the tolerant, pluralistic Muslim Spain, and the tolerant, pluralistic Ottoman Empire have entered the popular consciousness, despite mountains of evidence to disprove both (see, for example, here and here on the Ottomans, and […]
Spencer: Obama selects a Muslim with ties to Hamas to pray at the inauguration
In “Hamas Inauguration,” the featured article at FrontPageMagazine.com today, I explain why Barack Obama’s choice of Ingrid Mattson of ISNA to offer a prayer at his inauguration festivities is so unwise — or worse: Barack Obama isn’t wasting any time making an impression: he has selected the leader of a group that has been named […]
Hamas declares “great victory” after Israeli cease-fire
The decisions of Israel’s commanders continue to perplex, as the disastrously inconclusive end of the Second Lebanon War casts doubt on whether this truce is a tactical move in a broader plan to isolate and dislodge Hamas, or another study in half-measures under international pressure to negotiate with a party committed to Israel’s destruction. Granted, […]
Netherlands: “Moderate” Muslim pol calls for Muslims-only district of Amsterdam
Marcouch: Working toward the next phase Here we see the next phase of the stealth jihad: first Muslims push for special accommodation of Islamic law, even when it is at variance with the law of the country they are in. Then there often follow demands that non-Muslims also conform to Islamic sensibilities — cf. the […]
Spencer at the Middle East Forum on the Stealth Jihad
An account of my talk at the Middle East Forum in New York this week. “Exclusive: Robert Spencer on “˜Stealth Jihad,– by Pam Meister for Family Security Matters, January 16: Earlier this week, noted Islamic scholar and director of Jihad Watch Robert Spencer spoke at a luncheon in New York City, sponsored by the Middle […]
ISESCO (OIC) propagates Dialogue & Judeophobia in two books ““ even quoting Nazi forgeries about Benjamin Franklin ““ while celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the UN-Geneva
Comments by David G. Littman of the Association for World Education, UN-Geneva. After a series of articles on Stealth Jihad at the United Nations here and here, my last coverage was OIC at the UN: “˜Dialogue for Dhimmis” & more “˜Stealth Jihad”, on the three consecutive celebrations at the UN in Geneva (December 10, 12 […]
Genocidal Jew-hating jihadist Sheikh has a friend in…Ohio!
Earlier today we saw Sheikh Qaradawi expressing these pious sentiments: Oh Allah, take this oppressive, Jewish, Zionist band of people. Oh Allah, do not spare a single one of them. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one. As it turns out, this charming fellow has friends stateside. The […]
Spencer: Should Israel Agree to a Ceasefire?
In Human Events today, I explain why not: “We in Europe want a ceasefire as quickly as possible, and”¦everyone understands that time is running against peace. The guns must fall silent.” So said French President Nicholas Sarkozy after meeting with the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. Later, a delegation from the European Union […]