- Because Robert Spencer is a fraudulent individual who claims to be a ”scholar” and “expert” on Islam and Muslims, when in fact he is an anti-Muslim polemicist and activist who seeks to foment hate and distrust of all Muslims, especially those living in the West.
- Because Robert Spencer employs a number of deceptive arguments and tactics in his polemics that often go uncontested in the blogosphere including but not limited to:
- projecting the actions of an individual as an inherent trait of the entire group
- taking the most extreme opinions and interpretations of Islam and asserting them as correct, normative and mainstream
- conflating culture with religion, guilt by association, regurgitating Orientalist ideas, and weaponizing, revisiting and at times forging history to suit his arguments.
- Denying the Bosnian genocide or claiming it as an exaggeration
- Consistently promoting conspiracy theories about “Stealth Jihad,” “Eurabia,” the eminent “Islamization of America,” and the infiltration of Congress by “Muslim spy interns.”
- Because Robert Spencer preys on the gullible, confused, and fearful in order to stoke the flames of hate and intolerance in their minds and hearts against Muslims at large, and Islam as a religion – rather than against terrorism and terrorists.
- Because Robert Spencer claims to be so right, that no one dares prove him wrong, despite the numerous rebuttals of his shoddy slap-stick “scholarly” writings posted here, at LoonWatch, and elsewhere.
- Because Robert Spencer claims to be so right, everyone is afraid to debate him and prove him wrong; yet, he consistently prefers to play dumb in turning a blind-eye to our calls for a debate, knowing that it would spell the end of his 15 minutes of fraudulent fame and deception.
- Because we wished to grant Robert Spencer’s wish in responding to his false claims objectively, consistently, with universal logic and scholarly evidence. This site is simply an online database of the above for easy access and use.
- Because the West needs a website that will consistently expose Robert Spencer’s simple-minded analysis of Islamic and Muslim events.
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What They Say About Robert Spencer:
"The principal leader…in the new academic field of Islam-bashing."
"Spencer's readers are carefully steered away from all contact with the Islamic interpretative tradition, which equals or exceeds that of any other religion, because any scholarly knowledge about Islam would expose all his extremist interpretations to ridicule."
- Robert Crane (Ex-Nixon Aide, author)
______________________ "[Robert Spencer] has no academic training in Islamic studies whatsoever; his M.A. degree was in the field of early Christianity"
“The publications of Spencer belong to the class of Islamophobic extremism that is promoted and supported by right-wing organizations, who are perpetuating a type of bigotry similar to anti-Semitism and racial prejudice. They are to be viewed with great suspicion by anyone who wishes to find reliable and scholarly information on the subject of Islam.”
- Carl Ernst (Islamic Scholar UNC)
______________________ “[Robert Spencer] uses the Internet to spread misinformation and hatred of Islam and presents a ‘skewed, one-sided, and inflammatory story that only helps to sow the seed of civilizational conflict’."
- Benazir Bhutto (Late Prime Minister of Pakistan)
______________________ “When it comes to Robert Spencer scholars of Islamic studies outright dismiss him and his body of work. They call him an unreliable ideologue at best and a divisive bigot at worst.”
- Michael Kruse (Writer St. Petersburg Times)
______________________ “After looking at your website, I was quite surprised to see how much hate, venom and misunderstanding you are fostering.”
- M. Cherif Bassiouni (Law Professor, Scholar, Humanitarian)
______________________ “Robert Spencer is an extremist, right-wing anti-Muslim rabble rouser.”
- Robert Dreyfuss (Nation Magazine Editor, Contributor to Rolling Stone and Mother Jones)
______________________ “Mr. Spencer espouses a view of Islam as a system of belief which is essentially violent, undemocratic, totalitarian, exclusive and at war with all non-Muslims. Mr. Spencer in fact goes as far as to equate Islam with fascism.”
- Group of ALA Librarians, scholars and academics
______________________ “There is no doubt The Little King [Robert Spencer] ‘plagiarized,’ and therefore is a ‘plagiarist’.”
- Andrew Bostom (Close friend, ally and blog collaborator)
______________________ “Robert Spencer is an anti-Muslim blogger…And yes, I do mean ‘anti-Muslim’ — Spencer long ago crossed the line from simply criticizing radical Islamists to relentlessly demonizing all Muslims. And the bigoted, hateful comments he allows at his website are beyond disgusting.”
- Charles Johnson (Former Ally, Friend and Blog Collaborator)
______________________ “Spencer's historical argument is dubious. It emphasizes violent passages in the Koran, while downplaying the passages that urge peace and goodwill. It applies a moral standard to Islamic empires that certainly could not be met by the Roman empire or the empires established by the Portuguese, the Spanish, the French and the British. In the Spain of Ferdinand and Isabella, for example, Jews had three choices: convert to Christianity, leave the country, or be killed. No Muslim empire legislated or systematically enforced such a policy toward its religious minorities."
"Spencer glibly jumps over entire centuries in linking, say, the savagery of the Ottomans in Constantinople with the savagery of Hezbollah in Lebanon or the Taliban in Afghanistan."
- Dinesh D’Souza (Conservative scholar, pundit and author)
______________________ “According to Mr. Spencer, Judeo-Christianity is fundamentally and qualitatively superior to Islam, so to suggest that there could be a degenerative least-common-denominator into which all three religions could converge under any conditions, reeks of cultural relativism, because it denies Judeo-Christianity’s irreducible superiority.”
“I find it curious that Robert Spencer closes both eyes to atrocities perpetrated by Serbs, because if it had only been Muslims on their receiving end, I would understand now (but of course not justify it) seeing where Spencer is coming from, but Serbs have also fought against Croats and Slovenes —their fellow Christians. Yet he takes the side of the most historically aggressive representatives of his own ‘Religion of Peace.’ Could it be that while ostensibly and quite irrationally denying any violence within Christianity, he in fact secretly and perhaps subconsciously admires violent Christianity?”
- Kejda Gjermani (Commentary Magazine author)
______________________ “Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued that violence and terrorism employed by Muslim extremists is rooted in the Quran and its message. Spencer calls the Quran, a book sacred to Muslim, ‘the jihadists’ Mein Kampf,’ in reference to Hitler’s memoir.”
- Louay M. Safi (Islamic Scholar)
______________________ “The widespread ignorance about Islam in the West makes many vulnerable to Spencer’s polemic; he is telling them what they are predisposed to hear. His book is a gift to extremists who can use it to ‘prove’ to those Muslims who have been alienated by events in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq that the west is incurably hostile to their faith."
- Karen Armstrong (Author)
______________________ “Spencer thinks, ‘Islamist fundamentalist drive European politics’.”
“Spencer and Bat Ye’or “lack academic seriousness.”
- Ivan Jablonka (Scholar)
______________________ “Words like Islamophobia and phrases like anti-Muslim bigotry are bandied about too liberally…But the real thing does exist, and it frequently takes the cover of anti-jihadism. Jihad Watch...traffics fairly openly in such stuff.”
- Cathy Young (Writer with Reason Magazine)
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It’s time Robert Spencer got schooled – the hard way.
-RefutingActs17
Btw,
I just thought I leave a YouTube video where Robert Spencer collectively names all American Muslims as deceivers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwbFBGtPT_M
Enjoy. If posting a YouTube link is against website protocol, please remove my post immediately.
It looks like Spencer is standing on his little tippy-toes to reach the mic.
thanks to loonwatch and spencerwatch.com…the day is not far when even his supporters would shun him.
No honest person will be taken in by this website.
So you lecture us on honesty? See for yourself how honest Spencer is:
http://spencerwatch.com/2010/07/06/robert-spencer-i-am-never-wrong-even-when-i-am-wrong/
And is that your only response to this site? Is that all you can say? Spencer has been unable to refute even one sentence of this site. He tried but then he failed, miserably.
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What about his arguments? Aren’t you going to refute them? Are you going to show the world what is wrong with him or are you just going to declare things by fiat and then think the rest of us will believe you?
Instead of making graphs of showing how US interests have been supported by our military, how about making other graphs that show wars among various sects of Islam? It’s not new. In fact, it’s as old as Islam itself, and probably even older than that.
Booger,
Why don’t you read the other articles on this website? They do refute his arguments.
Im very interested in your claims that Spencer is giving wrong information about islam. You simply have to prove things like Muhammeds life story by Spencer wrong. As far as I can tell you are right about one thing, he concentrates on the dark parts of islam and says they are mainstream. If you want to prove yourself right, you have to prove all this huge amount of dark staff in islam doesnt happen, like child marriage, slavery, rape victims convicted of crime etc. I dont think you can, cause it does happen. Spencer excacirates, but tons of dark staff happen still in istam. Prove me wrong. And why all the ex-muslims say islam is horryfying like on islam-watch. And why dont you go after them also, or perhaps they know more about islam than you do. Prove yourself right and then I am very interested in your message. Sorry for my spelling mistakes ,but Im not a native speaker.
We here at Spencerwatch feel the site speaks for itself. If you have preconceived and/or erroneous beliefs about Muslims and Islam, we invite you to read our articles, or even better yet, visit our sister site and read their articles and the subsequent comments
Its just not true. You can never hear here such arguments I described.
Actually, there are numerous articles here refuting Islamophobes’ false understanding of Islam. For example, you mentioned that rape victims are punished under Islamic law. Here’s an article proving why that is not true:
http://www.loonwatch.com/2009/12/testimony-of-rape-victim/
Seriously, have a look around and you’ll see plenty of good articles.
Anna: You simply have to prove things like Muhammeds life story by Spencer wrong.
According to Spencer, Muhammad did not even exist! How can I prove or disprove the claims made about the life story of a non-existent person?