Robert Spencer: Time to stop treating Muslims like children

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In WND this morning I explain how I wrote my new book, Did Muhammad Exist?, out of respect for Muslims:

My new book, “Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry Into Islam’s Obscure Origins,” is out this week, and it has already aroused anger among Muslims: A Muslim writer named Hussein Rashid, who is an instructor at the Center for Spiritual Inquiry at Park Avenue Christian Church, fulminated in Religion Dispatches that my book on Muhammad will win praise only from the “Islamophobia industry” – as if the book itself were a manifestation of hatred and bigotry.I’m reminded of the words of the Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh as the Islamic jihadist Mohammed Bouyeri began sawing his head off in retaliation for his film “Submission” about the plight of Muslim women: “Can’t we talk about this?” No, we can’t.

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Robert spencer video in Perth Australia Nov 2011

Unfortunatly, the camera ran out of power or memory at around 35 minutes into this lecture. But what we have is, as is to be expected, superb. I do hope to get another Camera’s view of this event and upload the entire lecture. But some is better than none. So here it is. Thank you very much Sheik Yer Mami for supplying what footage there is so far.

 

Q&A session after Robert Spencer speech, Melbourne, Nov 26 2011

Typically after an event like this, the Q&A session is a bunch of people who grab the mic and give their own mini-lectures, often forgetting to even up-talk at the end to make it appear like a question.

Not in this case. The questions are interesting, important, and I’m sure, questions that most of us have wondered at one point or another.

Thanks again to the Q Society of Australia for this opportunity.

Eeyore for Vlad:

Thank you Colonel neville for the video

Play these videos to your friends who insist that Islam is peace etc.

This is great watching in that it is not that hard core. It is people who are intelligent, and like many of our friends, decent people who simply cannot let go of the narrative of Islam as a kind of, ‘Curried Christianity’. Some of these people were influential as well, and came to the hard truth through the facts and they express their experiences that brought them around very well.

For many readers of Vlad, nothing new here. But this is a great tool for friends who simply don’t get it yet.

Posting a bit light

Posting is a trifle light today as the video workload is slowing me down a fair amount. I have one more interview with Robert Spencer to process and something went wrong with the video portion of it but the audio is fantastic. I will likely find pictures, headlines and clips to support the audio and upload it hopefully tonight if I can get it all done, but this is very intense and time consuming… so the raw volume of posts will be a bit low till I get them done.

 

Sorry about that.

 

Also there is the actual lecture of Mr. Spencer I am working on as well.

 

Eeyore

Interview #2 with Robert Spencer in Australia

Last night (EST) I had the opportunity again, to interview Robert Spencer via Skype as he is one day away from the end of his 2 week Australian tour. This time like last time, he was with the blog owner-operator from Winds of Jihad, ‘Sheik Yermami’.

I was especially interested in his solution to the burka debate taking place pretty much all over the Western world now, as I have had different opinions than most on the matter. Robert answers it in detail.

Please feel free to send the link out, download and reupload this video to your own youtube channels etc. so long as it is intact.

Jihadwatch Comes To Town.


PJG has written a guest post over at JihadWatch about Robert Spencer’s vist to Melbournistan.

I’ve known PJG for quite some time now, and we’ve attended the occasional demo together, so I’m happy to agree with what s/he has to say. Rather than rehash that, I’ll add my observations of the evening. (This is your opportunity to rush over to JW and read the report!)

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It seems that some Westerners are waking up.

I have been saying since I started this site, that the solution to most of our current day issues concerning islam, leftism and every other attempt to force totalitarian rule upon us, is more freedom not less.

This is a great example of this.  Given the chance, US advertisers chose not to support Islamic propaganda and as a consequence, if freedom is applied, the show will fail. But in Canada, since the CBC gets 1.66 Billion dollars of taxpayers money a year and so far, doesn’t have to account for a penny of it, and is also exempt from all the regulations and organizations which govern Canadian media that all other broadcast media has to abide by, Canada’s preposterous and offensive-to-the-truth Islamic propaganda coup, ‘Little Mosque on the Prairie’ still does very well.

The whole face-covering-in-public thing could also be solved by allowing business to deny access to women wearing burkas should they choose to for their own reasons, and if the government stops making exceptions for people in burkas (I didn’t say women, because sometime it is men disguising themselves as women for criminal purposes) where people in tinted motorcycle helmets would never be allowed.

H/T RIchard