For more than two decades Congress has been avoiding the courageous scholar Robert B. Spencer. Finally, this week, he publicly gave expert testimony before the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government. His expertise is unmatched internationally: militant Jihad and how blind, foolish, irrational and ignorant Western nations are being culturally, spiritually and politically conquered by traditional Islam. Present tense.
The link is below. It's a four minute read. I asked A.I. to summarize it and Spencer's words were too hot for them to touch. The politically correct robots were as cowardly as US congressmen have been for the last quarter century.
In 2016 I contacted the Trump transition team immediately after the election to formally recommend Spencer for Secretary of State, giving my endorsements directly to Ed Meese (Chairman) and Becky Norton Dunlop, the keeper of resumes. Why Spencer? Because International Islam is the greatest geopolitical threat in the world, and has been for 1000 years. Just ten years ago, the American Secretary of State could have adequately warned every nation which was then being overrun by "advance Islamic operating bases" called Mosques, in preparation for an invasion of peaceful-looking Muslim men of military age.
Thanks to Chip Roy for bringing Mr. Spencer before the cameras and the Congressional record. Read the record here:
HHRG-119-JU10-Wstate-SpencerR-20260210
PDF (docs.house.gov)
A selection of Spencer's books is here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=books+by+robert+spencer&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1201&oq=books+by+Robert+Spencer&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgAEAAYgAQyBwgAEAAYgAQyCwgBEAAYFhgeGMcDMgoIAhAAGIAEGKIEMgoIAxAAGIAEGKIEMgoIBBAAGIAEGKIEMgoIBRAAGIAEGKIE0gEINTk5NWowajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Precious in the sight of the LORD Is the death of His godly ones.
Psalm 116:15
Rod Dreher asks, "I don’t understand why the government doesn’t deploy the army and shoot rioters until they stop. Philippe Lemoine, a Frenchman, says it’s not that simple."
Excerpt:
"We have let things rot for so long that, at this point, relying primarily on force to restore order would require a degree of violence far greater than what people realize and what is politically feasible.
It's possible to contain a riot using only moderate force when the number of police officers is high relative to the number of rioters, but when riots are so widespread and involve so many people because you have allowed this kind of things to happen for so long, that's just not possible and you have to use extreme violence to make up for the lack of manpower.
I know people on the Internet will say that it doesn't matter and that we should just do it, but the reality is that most of the people in charge are not prepared to use that kind of force and neither would most ordinary people if they saw ...
Even Marine Le Pen’s recent statements track this line: personal Islamic practice is compatible with the Republic; replacing French law with Sharia is not. French Muslims who are simply citizens practicing their "religious faith" “have no reason to worry” about a Le Pen election victory.
But can one be a practicing Muslim without demanding and practicing Sharia?