The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
Saturday, August 04, 2007

The Speech CAIR tried to prevent: Spencer addresses YAF

Robert Spencer's speech to the Young Americans for Freedom organization--which CAIR went to great lengths to try to stop--has finally been posted, so I can link it now as promised. Enjoy!

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DiscerningTexan, 8/04/2007 01:48:00 PM | Permalink | |
Thursday, August 02, 2007

Spencer Returns Fire

Last night I linked to a story about CAIR's assault on Robert Spencer; well today Spencer got to have his say, and Michelle Malkin live-blogged the event. You'll want to check it out and I will also update with a link to the video of Spencer's speech, once they have that up.

UPDATE: Dr. Rusty Shackleford has more, including a video report of the YAF event from Brit Hume:

Robert Spencer spoke today at the Young America's Foundation despite CAIR's threat that they would sue YAF if Spencer made any defamatory remarks. I guess YAF called CAIR's bluff, eh?

Anyway, most of you already knew this since we all travel in the same blog circles. But since Robert has become something of a friend--in the online sense of the word--then I just wanted to give him some props. Good going man and good going to the people at YAF for standing up the the bullies in CAIR.

The man has a set of cajones much larger than me. Despite death threats he's out there in the public eye criticizing those elements of Islam that are most dangerous, repressive, and violent.

Robert has a roundup here and Michelle Malkin was there to see it live. Lucky. Anyway, it was big enough news that Brit Hume had something to say about it. Video here.

And Stacy McCain has a partial transcript of the speech. Here's a teaser:

If CAIR succeeds in smearing and silencing all those who dare to speak about the elements of Islam that jihadists use to justify their actions, and who dare to call upon CAIR itself and other groups to go beyond vaguely-worded condemnations of terrorism to real efforts to teach against the jihad ideology in schools and mosques, what chance do we have to resist the spread of that ideology? ...

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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

CAIR declares War on Robert Spencer

This isn't just about freedom of speech, although that is certainly important. This--like everything else that the Council on American Islamic Relations undertakes--is for one purpose and one purpose only: to bring the United States and the rest of the world under Sharia law. Obviously removing Robert Spencer from the limelight is a first step in that quest, as Spencer is probably the preeminent authority on Islamism in the world--and therefore one of most likely persons alive to expose CAIR for the terror-sponsoring organization it is. Michelle Malkin has more on CAIR's open warfare against Robert Spencer.

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