Apr 24, 2015: One News Now: Lesson learned: Poor intelligence = deadly error
Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, found it "very strange" the president took responsibility since he typically doesn't. "He usually tries to deflect it from himself," Spencer explains. "And so I suspect that he simply had no choice in this matter – that maybe it was going to come out and he calculated that it would make him look worse unless he took responsibility for this."
Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, found it "very strange" the president took responsibility since he typically doesn't. "He usually tries to deflect it from himself," Spencer explains. "And so I suspect that he simply had no choice in this matter – that maybe it was going to come out and he calculated that it would make him look worse unless he took responsibility for this."
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Jan 15, 2012: Daily Kos: Loonwatch.com and Radical Islam
It seems that Loonwatch is pretty much exclusively concerned with exposing the perceived enemies of Islam, including a compulsive and obsessive tit for tat over anything that Robert Spencer, of JihadWatch.com had to say.
It seems that Loonwatch is pretty much exclusively concerned with exposing the perceived enemies of Islam, including a compulsive and obsessive tit for tat over anything that Robert Spencer, of JihadWatch.com had to say.
Jan 13, 2010: Loonwatch: Raymond Ibrahim and the Islamophobic Cash Cow
Raymond Ibrahim is a friend of Robert Spencer and used to be a regular contributor to JihadWatch, he was one of the many who took advantage of the “Islamophobic cash cow” that took off after 9/11 and overnight transformed from “research librarian” into “Islamic scholar” and “Middle East Expert.”
Raymond Ibrahim is a friend of Robert Spencer and used to be a regular contributor to JihadWatch, he was one of the many who took advantage of the “Islamophobic cash cow” that took off after 9/11 and overnight transformed from “research librarian” into “Islamic scholar” and “Middle East Expert.”
Robert Spencer and JihadWatch:
Here’s what you need to know about Spencer: he’s not just a “critic” of Islam, he’s a radical anti-Muslim extremist at the center of a cottage industry of Islam alarmists/conspiracy theorists bloggers. His blog, Jihadwatch.com is a picture of the stacked evidence fallacy. He cites example after example of alleged stories of violence, hate, and crime committed by Muslims globally, implying or stating outright that in each incident Islam is real culprit. While many of these examples are real and horrible (radical Islam is, after all, a serious and real threat to human rights and lives), it is not uncommon for some of these stories to be unverified, or unverifiable, or to be misrepresented, or to involve unsubstantiated conclusions about the role of Islam.
For example:
Here’s what you need to know about Spencer: he’s not just a “critic” of Islam, he’s a radical anti-Muslim extremist at the center of a cottage industry of Islam alarmists/conspiracy theorists bloggers. His blog, Jihadwatch.com is a picture of the stacked evidence fallacy. He cites example after example of alleged stories of violence, hate, and crime committed by Muslims globally, implying or stating outright that in each incident Islam is real culprit. While many of these examples are real and horrible (radical Islam is, after all, a serious and real threat to human rights and lives), it is not uncommon for some of these stories to be unverified, or unverifiable, or to be misrepresented, or to involve unsubstantiated conclusions about the role of Islam.
For example:
- A story of a murder-suicide by committed by a Muslim father against his family is necessarily an Islam-mandated “honor killing” to Spencer, regardless of whether or not there is any evidence.
- Spencer reported the story of an 8-year-old girl who was raped and killed by her Muslim “husband” in Afghanistan and cited it as evidence of the evil of Islam, even though the source of the story is an unassigned “combat journalist” who can’t actually verify the story: “The close friend of [husband], who knew everything, was very upset and shared the story with my source that then called me and told me the story.”
- His blog reported that the Muslim Brotherhood was crucifying its opponents in Egypt, which was not true.
