Robert Spencer is the modern-day equivalent of Paul Revere, seeking to awaken the American people to a threat that is closing in on us and which we must fight to the death.
In 1775 the American people awakened and a great nation, the greatest on earth, was born.
In 2008, whatever new awakening may have taken place in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, seems to have run its course. Americans by and large have gone back to sleep. We have forgotten, if we ever grasped it in the first place, what the aims were of those true believers of Islam who brought mass murder to America.
We aren't fighting a Global War on Terror. We are the target of a Global War of World Conquest being waged by the true believers of Islam, who are carrying out Mohammad's command to make the world subject to Islamic power.
So what is our modern Paul Revere Robert Spencer saying and doing? He is feeling a bit despairing:
[W]hen it comes to the problem of Islamic terrorism, more Americans believe that it is not a significant threat than at any time since before 9/11 -- thanks to the surge, and to the absence of any large attack in the U.S. since 9/11.But amid all this confidence few Americans are aware of the stealth jihad ...Islamic organizations are doing [things] much more cannily and effectively this year: they have compelled Canadian Human Rights Commissions to go after Mark Steyn for speaking accurately about the Islamic jihad. They have compelled the United Nations Human Rights Council to forbid speaking about Islam in connection with practices sanctioned by Muslims and justified by some Islamic jurists, such as female genital mutilation and honor killing. They are trying to bring pressure upon Western governments to modify existing "hate speech" laws in order to make it impossible for non-Muslims to speak openly about the ideology of those who have vowed to destroy us.
And amid all this, even conservative and self-proclaimed politically incorrect media figures have completely internalized CAIR's highly dubious contention that any honest discussion of the elements of Islam that jihadists use to justify violence and supremacism, and of what can be done about them, is "bigotry" and not to be countenanced. Even when they do deal with issues related to this, they do so in a misleading way: I didn't see it, but several people told me that during Fox's recent show on honor killing O'Reilly couldn't repeat often enough that the practice had nothing to do with Islam. Now, why would anyone care whether he did or not? Because Islamic law actually specifies that a parent who kills his or her child is subject to no penalty, and unless that is confronted, the practice will continue -- simply asserting that it is un-Islamic doesn't accomplish this. Meanwhile, some of freedom's former friends and supporters have gone wobbly, and the venues in which one can speak grow scarcer and scarcer as the Islamic assault on free speech and related issues continue to grow.
I am never going to give up, no matter what. And I am sorry to throw cold water on the parade. But our freedom of speech is in grave danger, and once that goes, the agenda of those who have, in their own words, embarked upon a "kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions” will be that much more difficult to resist. The CAIR assault on free speech at [the Young America's Foundation conference in] 2007 was just a stalking horse for a much more sophisticated and comprehensive initiative in the same direction. But will anyone wake up to this before it's too late?
Spencer will have an important new book out in the fall entitled “Stealth Jihad,” which addresses how Islam's internal war against the United States is being fought. It can be pre-ordered now at Amazon.com.
John McCain has called the threat of Islamic supremacism the “transcendent challenge” of our times. Barack Obama feels we can talk away the problem.
