Robert Spencer, Andrew McCarthy, and John Solomon on Obama and the jihad

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Here is the video of the panel discussion “Obama and the Jihad,” featured at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 2013 West Coast Retreat, which was held February 22-24, 2013 at the Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes, California. And here is a transcript of my remarks:

Robert Spencer: The Egyptian magazine that Jamie mentioned in his introduction, that was boasting about Muslim Brotherhood influence in the United States — what it actually said — these are the exact words from the article — that Muslim Brotherhood infiltrators into the US government have transformed the US from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Now see, it’s bitterly ironic, isn’t it, that Michele Bachmann is ridiculed and pilloried for calling for an investigation into Muslim Brotherhood infiltration in the government.  And then, over in Egypt, they’re boasting about Muslim Brotherhood infiltration in the government and naming as the infiltrators many of the same people that she adduced as evidence for the need for such an investigation.

Now, the thing about Barack Obama is that he has, of course, enabled this, encouraged it, and continues to do so.  Witness the Brennan appointment and the Hagel appointment, and so many others.  But as Andy has pointed out, it began far before he became President.  And George W. Bush stood in 2001, right after the 9/11 attacks, in a mosque in Washington, D.C.  And right behind him was Nihad Awad, the head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which is a Muslim Brotherhood group in the United States.  And George Bush, of course, famously proclaimed Islam is a religion of peace.

Now, Bush was also sanguine about the infiltration of Muslim Brotherhood operatives into the United States.  And there are photographs of him in meetings with Abdulrahman Alamoudi, who was the great friend of Grover Norquist, who is now serving 23 years in prison for financing al-Qaeda.  That is, Alamoudi is, not Norquist.  Unfortunately, Norquist is not yet in prison

(Laughter)
But this indicates that while the undeniable fact is that Obama and the jihad are friends and allies, and the evidence for this grows every day, this problem is far deeper than just Obama.  And it is bipartisan.  Both parties have been infiltrated.  Both parties have been compromised.  The Democrats, of course, are actively, at this point, aiding the jihad. So I don’t think that the Egyptian paper was exaggerating or making an empty boast when they said that the United States was now the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.
But because of Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform, and the fear of Republican politicians to confront him because they want to be on the right side of fiscal responsibility and tax issues, the Republican Party has also been compromised.  The Conservative Political Action Conference, the largest gathering of conservatives in the country, is coming up again in March.  And the American Conservative Union runs it.  The American Conservative Union has on its board Grover Norquist; Suhail Khan, his protégé, who is the son of Mahmood Khan, who was one of the leading founders of the Muslim Students Association, which is another Muslim Brotherhood organization in the United States.

And you will look at the agenda, if any of you are going.  Or even if you’re not, I encourage you to look at the agenda, and then look back online at the agendas of the Conservative Political Action Conference for the last few years.  You will see nothing about the gravest threat that this nation faces today; in other words, nothing about the Islamic jihad, nothing about Islamic supremacism, nothing about the attempts to bring Sharia into the United States.  Nothing whatsoever.  For the American Conservative Union, the flagship of conservatives in the country — the Conservative Political Action Conference, which gets 10,000 or so people there every year — this is not an issue.  It doesn’t exist.

Now, we saw this coming for a long time.  Barack Obama, after all, said in one of his autobiographies — I forget which one, I think it was “The Audacity of Hope” — but it’s amazing that he wrote two autobiographies before he ever did anything — and in one of them, he says that if the tide turns in an ugly direction, he will side with the Muslims.  And he has.  As Jamie quoted — the future will not/must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.  And he’s making sure that this is happening now.

Now, this is a very, very serious thing.  We know about Brennan. We know about Hagel.  We know that there are grave foreign policy issues involved in that regarding Iran and our response to the Iranian nuclear threat and regarding Israel and its position vis-à-vis Iran as well as vis-à-vis Hamas, Hezbollah and Egypt, which is of course rapidly re-Islamizing and is probably going to, as soon as it can, get out from under the Camp David Accord and go to war with Israel.  Certainly, they have made it abundantly clear — that is, the Muslim Brotherhood regime there — that that’s what they want to do.

Those things are obvious.  Those things are well known, I think.  But much less well known and much more serious in the long run, actually — assuming that the Iranians don’t actually nuke us all — but much more serious for the survival of our nation in the long run is the threat to the freedom of speech.  And this is part-and-parcel of Obama’s friendship with the jihad, and the deep-rooted alliance with jihadis, Islamic supremacists and Muslim Brotherhood operatives on the part of leaders of both parties.  Because Islam forbids criticism of Islam.

Jamie mentioned the definition of slander in Islamic law.  It is actually that you do not say something that the person you’re talking about does not want known.  So it may be completely true.  But it must not be said.  If it’s said, it’s slander.  This is why people like Andy and me are often charged with slandering Islam just for telling the truth about it.

But criticism of Islam is especially unacceptable when it comes from non-Muslims.  Now, this is a direct assault on the freedom of speech.  If we cannot talk about this problem, then we cannot resist it.  If we cannot speak out against the tyrant, which is why freedom of speech is in the Bill of Rights to start with, then the tyrant wins.  And this is exactly what is being put in place.

Hillary Clinton told the father of one of the agents who were killed in Benghazi — she said — we’re going to get that filmmaker arrested and imprisoned.  Why the filmmaker?  We know now that it had nothing to do with the filmmaker.  And we still don’t know all the details of what happened.  But one thing we know that they did not kill Ambassador Stevens and the others in Benghazi for was because of this video about Mohammad.

So think about the implications of Obama and Hillary Clinton, and Susan Rice and Jay Carney, and all the rest of them, going out repeatedly and saying it was all about this video.  What they were in essence doing was blaming the freedom of speech, and saying if we would just be quiet and stop talking about Mohammad, and stop noticing that he was a warlord and a pedophile and everything else, then everything would be okay.  It’s our responsibility to make them behave by not insulting them, and therefore by only saying the things that they want us to say, in which case we are accepting Sharia restrictions on the freedom of speech, and we have already surrendered, and the jihad can proceed unimpeded.

And the imperative of the jihad, the point, is not just to blow up buildings.  The point is to impose Sharia upon the world and make us submit to the rule of Muslims, as inferiors denied basic rights, including the freedom of speech.  So this whole thing is a Sharia initiative.
And as was pointed out during Hillary’s testimony, much-belated testimony about Benghazi, the only person who is in prison for the Benghazi attacks, to this day, is that poor filmmaker.  Now, of course, he has a rap sheet, and he seems to be some sort of unsavory character.  And he violated his probation.  He violated the terms of his probation by going on the Internet to upload the video, because he wasn’t supposed to go on the Internet.  And so he is in prison.  He’s been in prison now for months.

Now, let me ask you this — don’t you think that there are almost certainly many more severe violators of probation out on the streets today, and nobody cares?  People get released from prison all the time and are out there and commit more crimes.  I mean, this is, of course, a national problem.  But we’ve got to get this filmmaker into prison.  Obviously, he is, for whatever may be on his rap sheet, a political prisoner.  And he is a political prisoner for the freedom of speech.  He is a political prisoner for the imposition of Sharia restrictions on the freedom of speech in the United States.  And this is the work of Barack Obama having transformed the United States government into, as the Egyptian magazine said, the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.

And so, what can we do now?  Well, I think that in the first place, we have to confront the rot where it is.  And it is in our own house.  And every Republican politician that is afraid to stand up to Grover Norquist and the infiltration he has enabled has to be called out on it.  And Grover Norquist himself has to be confronted with this and his influence ended in the party.  And if the Republican Party isn’t going to do this, then we’re going to have to do something else, and make a new party.

The stakes here are very high, and the time is very short.  America is possible to be saved.  But if we do not arrest this erosion of the freedom of speech within the next few years, then we won’t have the chance to do so anymore.  Because it will become an arrestable offense to speak out against what’s going on.  And if you don’t think that can happen — and people tell me all the time, you know, we have the First Amendment, and so that can never happen — the First Amendment doesn’t enforce itself or protect itself.  It’s words written on a piece of paper.  It is up to all of us to act to make sure that that First Amendment remains a live and active law in the United States.  All it takes is five Supreme Court justices on the side of Barack Obama saying that so-called hate speech is not protected speech under the First Amendment, and we’re done.

And you would say — well, I don’t commit any hate speech.  Well, neither do I.  But that’s what they call what we do.  And that’s how they will outlaw it.

And so I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news.  But it is up to us all to act.  Nobody else is going to do it.  And so I encourage you all, wherever you are and whatever your resources, and whatever your situation, to do everything you can, to call upon your elected officials, or to get them out and get in new elected officials who will confront this issue, confront it head-on, confront it hard, and clear out the Republican Party or start a new party that will deal with it before it’s too late, which it will be very soon.
Thank you very much.

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