Guardian: “Robert Spencer, a leading American Islamophobe,” cheers Trump for tweeting about jihad violence
In the funhouse mirror that is the Leftist worldview, as indefatigably purveyed by the Guardian, foes of jihad terror and Sharia oppression are “far-right hatemongers,” on par with white supremacists and other “extremists.” Jihad threat? Pah! What’s that?
And so in their latest shoot-the-messenger article about President Trump’s heinous crime of retweeting videos depicting Muslims behaving violently in accord with the teachings of Islam, the Guardian anoints me “a leading American Islamophobe,” and in a clear lapse of editorial judgment, actually quotes me pointing out that Britain really does have a jihad problem, and so getting angry at Trump for pointing it out is as ridiculous as it is suicidal.
Doesn’t Ed Pilkington know that actually quoting those at whom he is slinging mud might awaken even the most thoroughly indoctrinated Guardian reader to the truth? Back to J-school with you, Ed!
Meanwhile, how did it come to be that opposing jihad terror made one such an international villain? Shouldn’t every sane person oppose jihad mass murder and the oppression of women, non-Muslims and others that Sharia mandates? Find out how we entered this particular funhouse, and how we can get out of it, in my new book Confessions of an Islamophobe. Order your copy here now.
“Far-right hatemongers cheer Trump’s Twitter endorsement,” by Ed Pilkington, Guardian, November 30, 2017:
Islamophobes, white supremacists and other extremists have reacted with glee following Donald Trump’s endorsement of their worldview when he retweet anti-Muslim videos from a British racist group.While most media attention has been on the transatlantic spat between the US president and UK prime minister Theresa May over Trump’s posting of three virulent videos on his Twitter feed, behind the scenes a different kind of fallout was unfolding – that could in the long run be even more significant.
Theresa May carefully rebukes Donald Trump over far-right Twitter videos
Read moreTrump’s retweets spawned a rash of Islamophobic comment on social media that is helping to disseminate hate speech and fuel the growing confidence of the far right.The pattern was set by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of the far-right group Britain First, whose tweets containing incendiary videos purporting to show acts of Muslim violence and intolerance were picked up by Trump and reposted. She initially responded to his supportive action with incredulous delight, declaring: “God bless you Trump! God bless America!”Fransen had reason to sound grateful. In a single day, thanks to the behavior of the US president, she put on an extra 22,000 Twitter followers, substantially extending her political reach.Fransen has already begun to use the moment to her advantage. She posted a video on Thursday in which she appealed to Trump for help in fighting her current prosecution; Fransen faces up to two years in prison for giving a speech in Belfast in which she said: “The biggest threat to civilization across the world is Islam. We are at war with Islam.”Within a matter of hours of Trump’s retweets, a sense of affirmation of the anti-Muslim sentiment contained in them fanned out in far-right circles.Robert Spencer, a leading American Islamophobe who was banned from entering the UK in 2013 for his anti-Muslim history, posted on his website Jihad Watch that doubts about the veracity of the retweeted videos were beside the point. “The real question is not whether this or that video is accurate, but whether there is a problem with jihad terror and Islamic supremacism in Britain and elsewhere.”…
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