Jan 07, 2015 09:19 pm | Robert Spencer
“The extremist Islamism, Islamist terrorism, is something quite
different from the Islam. And this differentiation is urgently needed
just on a day like today.” On such fictions people like Thomas de
Mazière have staked the future of the West and free societies
everywhere. If only he were right. “Germany not sure? De Maizière warns
against […]
Jan 07, 2015 08:08 pm | Robert Spencer
On MSNBC, Evan Kohlmann says: I think we need to understand here,
there, there has to be the ability for people to be critical of other
religions, of other ideas and whatnot. There has to be that ability. At
the same time, look, we have to also respect Islam and we should not
deliberately go […]
Jan 07, 2015 07:49 pm | Robert Spencer
UPDATE: Subsequent reports are saying they’re still at large. Their
work is done: the mainstream media is in full capitulation mode, eagerly
submitting to Sharia restrictions on the freedom of speech. Their
mission is accomplished. “Paris Attack Suspect Dead, Two in Custody,
U.S. Officials Say,” by Pete Williams, M. Alex Johnson and Jon Schuppe,
NBC […]
Jan 07, 2015 07:36 pm | Robert Spencer
I don’t see them attached to this Washington Post piece, either. The
entire mainstream media is capitulating to jihadist intimidation instead
of standing up for the freedom of speech — which freedom, accordingly,
is not long for this world. “Fox News has ‘no plans’ to air Charlie
Hebdo cartoons,” by Erik Wemple, Washington Post, January […]
Jan 07, 2015 06:32 pm | Robert Spencer
This appallingly risible analysis is the mainstream. If you point out
that suing someone for libel is quite different from massacring someone,
you’re just a racist, bigoted Islamophobe. Video thanks to Anne
Crockett.
Jan 07, 2015 06:02 pm | Robert Spencer
The freedom of speech is actually alive and well in the mainstream
media, as long as you’re slamming Christianity in some way — look at the
media adoration of Reza Aslan. But if you mock Muhammad, suddenly the
mainstream media dons a hijab and goes silent. “CNN Policy: Charlie
Hebdo Muhammad Cartoons Forbidden, ‘Piss Christ’ […]
Jan 07, 2015 05:30 pm | Robert Spencer
The gunmen screamed “Allahu akbar” and declared, “We have avenged the
Prophet Muhammad” as they murdered people in the offices of a
publication that had mocked him. They couldn’t be Muslim terrorists! But
Howard Dean says, “They have no respect for anybody else’s life, that’s
not what the Koran says.” Well, let’s look at what […]
Jan 07, 2015 05:06 pm | Robert Spencer
New York Times editors are scratching their learned, judicious heads.
Let’s see. The gunmen screamed “Allahu akbar” and declared, “We have
avenged the Prophet Muhammad” as they murdered people in the offices of a
publication that had mocked him. What on earth could have been their
motivation? Right-wing extremism? A last, desperate response to
institutional […]
Jan 07, 2015 04:48 pm | Robert Spencer
They were born in France but they learned Sharia. France, like the rest
of the countries in the West, has staked its future on the proposition
that the Muslims in their countries are moderate, democratic pluralists.
No amount of evidence to the contrary will convince them that they were
wrong. And that only ensures that […]
Jan 07, 2015 04:05 pm | Robert Spencer
The Financial Times piece has been edited. The Daily Beast points out
that it used to say this: “If the magazine stops just short of outright
insults, it is nevertheless not the most convincing champion of the
principle of freedom of speech….This is not in the slightest to condone
the murderers… it is merely to […]
Jan 07, 2015 03:27 pm | Robert Spencer
As always, the Leftist media is not concerned about Islamic jihad
except insofar as a (generally nonexistent) “backlash” affects Muslims
and encourages “racism.” What race is the jihad mass murder of
cartoonists again? “Gunmen Kill 12 at French Satirical Magazine Charlie
Hebdo,” by Elsa Keslassy, Variety, January 7, 2015: …The Charlie Hebdo
carnage will likely […]
Jan 07, 2015 03:04 pm | Robert Spencer
The UK’s witless dhimmi Telegraph is having a wonderful day. After the
Charlie Hebdo jihad mass murders, it ran a story with the headline
“France faces rising tide of Islamophobia.” And now this one: “Charlie
Hebdo attacks: Anti-Islam parties are now on the march across Europe.”
You might think that in the wake of an […]
Jan 07, 2015 02:14 pm | Robert Spencer
This is rich. The Hamas-linked terror organization known as the Council
on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) claims to support the freedom of
speech? Hamas-linked CAIR is an inveterate and committed enemy of the
freedom of speech, tarring and smearing anyone and everyone who dares to
utter a critical word about jihad terror as a “racist,” “bigoted” […]
Jan 07, 2015 02:05 pm | Robert Spencer
Clearly a highly organized, carefully planned outbreak of mental
illness. “Charlie Hebdo: witness, they said ‘we are Al Qaida Yemen,'”
ANSAmed, January 7, 2015 (thanks to Insubria): (ANSAmed) – BARI, JANUARY
7 – ”Al Qaida Yemen, sortez de la voiture” (get out of the car), two
terrorists reportedly told a man before stealing his car […]
Jan 07, 2015 01:40 pm | Robert Spencer
“No barbarous act will ever extinguish freedom of the press,” said
Hollande. But it was an empty bluff. The free press is today busy
extinguishing itself. “Charlie Hebdo attack: 12 dead in Paris, manhunt
on,” by Greg Botelho, CNN, January 7, 2015: …• The gunmen said “Allahu
akbar” and that they were avenging the Prophet […]
Jan 07, 2015 01:03 pm | Robert Spencer
Do these fools at the Daily News think that they will be spared? Do
they think that if they adopt Sharia blasphemy laws forbidding mockery
or criticism of Muhammad, that they will avoid the jihad onslaught? And
if they adopt Sharia restrictions on freedom of expression of their own
accord, does it even matter if […]
Jan 07, 2015 12:37 pm | Robert Spencer
Avenging Muhammad, while Western authorities temporize and retreat.
Unless things dramatically turn around, and soon, this could herald the
end of the freedom of speech. Video thanks to Pamela Geller.
Jan 07, 2015 12:12 pm | Robert Spencer
Indignant Britons have written to me in recent weeks, saying I am being
too hard on the UK. Clearly I am not being hard enough. It has
surrendered to the jihad agenda. Might as well turn out the lights and
close the books on what was once a great nation. The Telegraph’s
headline wins the […]
Jan 07, 2015 11:58 am | Robert Spencer
Jihad is coming to France in full force. Will Hollande denounce another
outbreak of “mental illness”? “The Paris version of Metro reports that
this event was an incident unrelated with the attack at the magazine.”
How do they know that? Even if there is no connection of personnel or
organization, there could well be an ideological […]
Jan 07, 2015 10:53 am | Robert Spencer
One of the jihad murderers in Paris shouted, “We have avenged the
prophet Muhammad,” making it abundantly clear that this was a jihad
attack and a response to Charlie Hebdo’s daring to mock Muhammad. It is
virtually certain that the mainstream media response to this heinous
mass murder will be calls for the West to […]
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