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In this episode of the "Conscience of Kansas" I interview New York Times bestselling author, Ronald Kessler about his new book, "The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack." I also talk to Robert Spencer, director of JihadWatch.com about his books and articles on terrorism. We talk about his new upcoming November release "Stealth Jihad."

During the recent Tyson Chicken controversy, I published an article at FrontPage in which I argued that Tyson and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) should not have agreed to make Eid al-Fitr a paid day off for employees at the Tyson plant in Shelbyville, Tennessee, on the grounds that it set a bad precedent for accommodation of Islamic practices at a time when the Muslim Brotherhood is pressing forward a stealth jihad agenda of trying to impose Islamic Sharia law bit by bit and make American businesses and individuals grow used to the idea that Muslims must...

We live in an invisible atmospheric sea of water vapor, Earth's primary greenhouse gas. Our atmosphere could hold much more water vapor than it does, which would then lead to a much warmer Earth -- but it doesn't. So, why is the greenhouse effect limited to its current value? We don't know; scientists simply "assume" that it magically stays that way. Current computerized climate models that predict large amounts of global warming only do so after making very crude assumptions about why the Earth's natural greenhouse effect is limited to its present average value. In the following article I will...

Robert Spencer is used to being called an Islamophobe. And when the noted director of Jihad Watch travels to a speaking engagement, he has the bodyguards to prove that he takes his critics seriously. In 2006 lieutenants of Osama bin Laden named him in what amounted to a fatwa, calling on him, President Bush, and others to join Islam or die. Other death threats arrive by email, he told WORLD recently, and matter-of-factly. But his most noted attacker of late is the now-dead former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. In her posthumous book Reconciliation, released last month, she spent a...

Read Roy Spencer's Fabulous New Book March 20, 2008 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: As you know, the official climatologist of this program is Dr. Roy Spencer at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, and he has just completed a book. The book is now orderable at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. It's called Climate Confusion. I'm holding it right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. There it is for those of you watching on the Dittocam: Climate Confusion, How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians, and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor. It's not a large book,...

For over eighty-five years, America has been incrementally conquered by the same madness-inducing demon of hatred and violence that earlier took over Russia, China, Germany, and Italy. Rabbi Aryeh Spiro concurs, “There is a madness in today’s liberal thinking. It insists on policies that tie our hands to defend ourselves while given free reign to the jihadists intent on killing us. It is dangerous because it is becoming the law, and thinking of the land in the western world. (Liberal Madness is Deadly, www.caucusforamerica.com (1/24/08) This demon is embodied in “enlightened” Liberals and the West’s transnational “elite,” both of which...

The so-called war on terror (a term now banned in British government) “is a misnomer.” Terrorism, as Spencer reminds us, is a tactic, a means to an end. Back in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s, the terrorists who made for popular movie villains were Russians and disaffected Eastern Bloc types who threatened to blow up trams full of people if they didn’t receive the millions of dollars they demanded (with Sylvester Stallone or Bruce Willis coming to the rescue). But in real life today, Jihadists threaten to kill us if we do not bow to Sharia law and Islamic supremacy...

MSM DoesnÂ’t Care About GoogleÂ’s Pro-Jihadi Censorship By Matthew Vadum | November 6, 2007 - 16:41 ET As Islamic scholar Robert Spencer can tell you, the mainstream media has barely noticed that Google, the Internet search engine giant, is now deciding for its users which ideas are acceptable and which are not. ItÂ’s never been a secret that Google leans left and wonÂ’t tolerate ideas it doesnÂ’t agree with. The company hired global warming profiteer Al Gore as senior advisor and has a history of purging content based on ideology. More evidence of the companyÂ’s thinly-veiled, warm and fuzzy politically...

As Islamic scholar Robert Spencer can tell you, the mainstream media has barely noticed that Google, the Internet search engine giant, is now deciding for its users which ideas are acceptable and which are not. It’s never been a secret that Google leans left and won’t tolerate ideas it doesn’t agree with. The company hired global warming profiteer Al Gore as senior advisor and has a history of purging content based on ideology. More evidence of the company’s thinly-veiled, warm and fuzzy politically correct authoritarianism keeps popping up. Now Google Video has suppressed a video of a speech that Spencer,...

What could the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) possibly have in common? CAIR founders had close ties to Hamas, Palestinian Sunni Islamic extremists. NIAC and its main spokesman, Trita Parsi, have become apologists for the regime in Tehran, which exports a rival Shiite brand of Islamic extremism. Sunnis and Shias. We all know the story. They hate each other worse than Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants. Right? Well, no. As I pointed out in Countdown to Crisis: the Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran, Sunnis and Shias get along just fine when it...

Joe Sandler (sandler@sandlerreiff.com) of the Washington law firm Sandler, Reiff, and Young just had a very bad week. It started with his failed attempt to help a group of Consistently Arrogant Islamic Radicals (CAIR) threaten and intimidate leaders of the Young America’s Foundation (YAF) into relinquishing their First Amendment Rights. Specifically, Sandler failed in his efforts to stop YAF speaker Robert Spencer, author of “The Truth about Muhammad,” from publicly criticizing CAIR at an annual conference for students in Washington, D.C. After publicly displaying his shortcomings – as an attorney and as an American - Sandler is now threatening me...

As a Senator, he took marching orders from James Zogby of the pan-Islamist Arab American Institute, opposing profiling of Arabs, the use of secret evidence against Muslims (at the behest of Muslim groups), attempting to repeal the Clinton counterterrorism package, refusing to fund computer tracking of student and other foreign aliens, giving millions in our tax money right to Hezbollah, and putting CAIR on the map on Capitol Hill (taking the group's officials around to meet other Senators and Members of Congress). He took campaign contributions from the relatives of Hezbollah-backed top Lebanese officials after he got the group millions...

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My buddy Bob Spencer editor of the blog Jihad Watch/Dhimmi Watch has been invited by the FBI Indianapolis field office to provide some balance to the “PC machine” that has allowed groups like CAIR and the ISNA to spread their Muslim Brotherhood doctrine around the venerable national law enforcement group engaged in domestic counter terrorism activites. The ISNA spokesperson quoted in this Indianpolis Star report objected to the FBI invitation to Spencer said: “to talk of Islam is akin to bringing an anti-Semite to talk about Jews or a Ku Klux Klan member to talk about race.” But the good...

 The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that Barack Obama’s campaign seems to be modifying its earlier affirmation that “Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago.” In a statement to The Times on Wednesday, the campaign offered slightly different wording, saying: “Obama has never been a practicing Muslim.” The statement added that as a child, Obama had spent time in the neighborhood’s Islamic center. His former Roman Catholic and Muslim teachers, along with two people who were identified by Obama’s grade-school teacher as childhood...

A few C-SPAN Book TV presentations that may be of interest to FReepers this President's Day weekend: Marvin Olasky, Hirsi Ali, Gingrich/Schumer, Robert Spencer ======================== On Saturday, February 17 at 10:15 am and Sunday, February 18 at 12:00 am Compassionate Conservatism Marvin Olasky Description: Marvin Olasky, author of "Compassionate Conservatism," discusses President Bush's use of the term "Compassionate Conservatism" at a dinner banquet in Santa Barbara, California hosted by the Young America's Foundation. ======================== On Saturday, February 17 at 7:00 pm and Sunday, February 18 at 12:00 pm and Monday, February 19 at 11:30 pm Infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali Description:...

Lores Rizkalla hosts a debate between Dinesh D'Souza, author of The Enemy at Home and Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch. Listen this Sunday evening, January 28th at 7pm PST (that's 10pm EST). Listen to the Lores Rizkalla show LIVE on-line here - http://www2.krla870.com/listen/ --- ---

Lores Rizkalla talks with Robert Spencer, author of " The Truth About Mohammed", this Sunday, January 14th LIVE at 7pm Pacific on KRLA 870am. (link to listen on-line below) Book Description In this startling new book, New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer, provides a warts-and-all portrait of the Prophet of Islam and draws out what his life implies for reforming Islam and repulsing Islamic terrorists. Spencer relies solely on primary sources considered reliable by Muslims and evaluates modern biographies to show how Muhammad has been changed for Western audiences, lulling them into consoling but false conclusions. From the Inside...

Western policymakers need to "undertake a systematic study" of Islamic theology and law before they can understand the goals and motives of terrorists who are working to subjugate or convert non-Muslim populations, a scholar on Islam told a gathering in Washington on Tuesday. It would be a mistake to assume that Islam has been "hijacked," argued Robert Spencer, the author of a recent book on the prophet of Islam, Mohammed. Terrorists and extremists targeting American interests today are making use of the actual text in the Koran and the teachings of their prophet, he said.... "It is untrue that jihadists...

A new documentary Islam: What the West Needs to Know has recently been released. An examination of Islam, violence, and the fate of the non-Muslim world, the documentary features numerous experts. Today we have invited three of them to discuss the new film. Our guests are: Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist who has become an ardent Zionist and evangelical Christian. He is the author of Why I Left Jihad. The Root of Terrorism and the Return of Radical Islam. Serge Trifkovic, a former BBC World Service broadcaster and US News & World Report correspondent, foreign affairs editor of Chronicles,...

The Truth About Muhammad By Brigitte Gabriel FrontPageMagazine.com | October 30, 2006 “Freedom of inquiry and speech, the quest for truth, should not be cowed into silence by violent intimidation or the acceptance of half-truths and propaganda meant to appease freedom’s enemies. One thing is certain: if no one is willing to take such risks, freedom of speech will swiftly become a relic of history.” These are the words of author Robert Spencer, who is risking his life to educate Westerners about the life of the founder of Islam. He has just come out with a new book, The Truth...

Hillary Clinton is pouring money into a re-election campaign many consider a foregone conclusion, prompting speculation she is gunning for a scene-setting landslide ahead of a 2008 bid for the White House.The New York senator spent nearly $7million (£3.7million) from her senate campaign account between Aug 24 and the end of September, one of the largest amounts ever spent by a senate candidate in such a short time, despite the fact she is trouncing her opponent in the polls ahead of the vote on Nov 7. Commentators say she could be trying to emulate the emphatic gubernatorial victory secured by...

Link The Journal News is the Gannette Snoozepaper for most of New York City's northern suburbs. Due to Gannett's idiotic no excerpt policy, I can only supply a link. No excerpts are allowed. No hits to Gannette Snoozepapers' websites are often deserved.

New York's candidates for U.S. Senate met Sunday morning at the WABC-TV studio for a one hour debate sponsored by Eyewitness News, Univision and the Buffalo News. The candidates: Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and the Republican nominee John Spencer. Asking the questions this morning were Dave Evans, political reporter for Eyewitness News, Bob McCarthy, political reporter for The Buffalo News, and Antonio Martinez, an anchor with Univision. Eyewitness News' Dave Evans asked the first question of Hillary Clinton, saying she had promised six years ago to server out her full term, and asking "If re-elected, can you make that same...

It was 1969, and John Spencer, a 22-year-old first lieutenant in the Army, was returning home from combat in Vietnam when he received an abrupt lesson in how America, as he put it, was being “ripped apart” by the war. “We had a layover in O’Hare Airport in Chicago, and me and a couple of other soldiers stopped into a little bar there,” Mr. Spencer, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate in New York, recently recalled. “We were told, ‘We don’t serve soldiers here.’ ” Mr. Spencer is trailing badly in the polls behind the incumbent Democrat, Hillary...

John Spencer v. Hillary Clinton Debate John Spencer http://www.spencerforsenate.com/, God bless you, for hitting the nail on the hammer. Clinton refuses to take responsibility for anything, not even her senate seat. Time and time again, Clinton’s rallying cry resonates the same. Blame. Blame the President, blame the Republicans, blame anyone but herself, even though she has the favorable ear of every journalist, every major newspaper and media outlet, and the senate seat for six years. In particular, Clinton’s failure to keep her campaign promise six years ago to bring 200,000 new jobs to upstate New York, and guess who she...

Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig framed by shadow of Adam Gadahn Last month, American al-Qaeda operative Adam Gadahn issued a “convert-to-Islam-or-die message to U.S. President George W. Bush, Daniel Pipes, Michael Scheuer, Steve Emerson and Robert Spencer. This attempt at forced conversion to Islam followed the “conversion” at gunpoint of the two kidnapped Fox News reporters Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig. What exactly was the significance of these events? On the one hand, these attempts at forced conversion were in clear continuity with Islam’s long history of calling people to convert before waging war on them. But how exactly...

The latest claim from Senator Clinton's camp is that her campaign chest has swelled to $15.8 million. So, what is she doing with it? There hasn't been much evidence that it's being spent on the Senate race, and her opponent's spokesman, Rob Ryan, says the real purpose of the money is to fund her 2008 presidential race. Amazingly, I just received an e-mail from a member of the Conservative Party's executive committee, Jim Kelly, who states with all seriousness that Republican John Spencer can win the Senate race. The idea of Mrs. Clinton losing is so unlikely that at first...

This week's Jihad Watch videoblog at Hotair explores the controversy that Jack Straw, of all people, has kicked up in Britain by suggesting that he'd rather Muslim women didn't wear the niqab when they come see him.

Straw UnveiledBy Robert SpencerFrontPageMagazine.com | October 10, 2006Jack Straw, the leader of the UK’s House of Commons and one of the most prominent members of the British Labour Party, has enraged British Muslims by saying on a BBC radio program that he would prefer that Muslim women not wear the hijab. Replying to a question to that effect, Straw said: “Yes. It needs to be made clear I am not talking about being prescriptive but with all the caveats, yes, I would rather.” Straw explained: “Communities are bound together partly by informal chance relations between strangers -- people being able...

Spencer on the Redeker death threats at HotairTwo guys they want deadToday's Jihad Watch videoblog at Hotair deals with the strange contradictions of the death threats against French philosophy teacher Robert Redeker

The Philosopher and the FatwaBy Robert SpencerFrontPageMagazine.com | October 2, 2006 It has happened again. On the heels of global Muslim rage against Pope Benedict XVI – which led to riots and three killings of Christians – a teacher in France has gone into hiding after receiving death threats. His offense? He published a column in the French newspaper Le Figaro in which he characterized the Muslim prophet Muhammad as “a merciless war chief, plunderer, slaughterer of Jews and a polygamist.”Redeker said that one of the threats he received stated: “You will never feel secure on this earth. One billion,...

John Spencer, Conservative and Republican Party candidate for United States Senate against incumbent Hillary Clinton in the November 2006 election, has been traveling New York State talking about conservative values and real change for New York. Tired of the hate America crowd that rejects traditional marriage and Christian-Judeo beliefs, Spencer is delivering a message that says love of God, family and country is not lost by New Yorkers. A Vietnam War veteran and two-time mayor of Yonkers, the 4th largest city in New York, Spencer has been involved in public policy and public service for much of his lifetime. Growing...

The Guardian of Islamic ExtremismBy Robert SpencerFrontPageMagazine.com | September 21, 2006 As the global Muslim reaction to Pope Benedict XVI’s recent remarks on Islam threaten to eclipse last winter’s Cartoon Rage in irrationality and violence, there has been the usual and by now predictable undercurrent of sympathy on the Left for those breathing threats and murder against the Pope and the West. Notable among the spokesmen for appeasement and accommodation of violent Islamic intimidation was Karen Armstrong, author of the popular books Islam: A Short History and Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet. Armstrong on Monday published a piece in...

Thomas M. Long, Queens County Chairman Raquel Lacomba Walker, Political Affairs Chairwoman For Immediate Press Release Contact: Thomas M. Long (718) 359-7898 **FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Queens County Conservatives urge your support for Conservative Party candidates in the November 2006 election. Join us on Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 8:00 P.M. at the American Legion Continental Post #1424, located at 107-15 Metropolitan Avenue, Forest Hills, New York. “It’s important that Queens Conservatives volunteer at campaigns, by giving out literature or making phone calls.” said Queens County Chairman Tom Long. “We understand that the odds are difficult, but that doesn’t mean we...

Correction Appended The former Yonkers mayor, John Spencer, defeated Kathleen Troia McFarland last night in a fiercely contested Republican primary for United States Senate, setting the stage for an uphill struggle against Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. As widely expected, Mrs. Clinton soundly defeated her Democratic opponent, Jonathan Tasini, based on unofficial returns. With 98 percent of precincts reporting, Mr. Spencer had 60.2 percent of the vote, to Ms. McFarland’s 39.8 percent. The Republican race, which devolved into personal attacks involving marital infidelity, out-of-wedlock children, mental stability and personal revelations about past parental abuse, inspired little turnout. Last night, during his...

From Jihad Watch: Robert Spencer has a guest piece today at Michelle Malkin's video blog, Hot Air. He points out that "because of the religious derivation of the ideology that confronts us, analysts are generally reluctant to identify it properly or fully. They think that to speak of its roots would be bigotry or racism. But the jihadists themselves are doing their best to make sure we don’t forget the religious roots of their actions."

This is an expansion on debg's summary of Adam Gadahn's Al Qaeda videotape, available for download at http://www.lauramansfield.com/j/nnnnmn-1.rm. debg: He spent a long time saying we are ignorantGadahn did indeed spend a long time calling us "ignorant." After Zawahiri's introduction, he also accused us of "rapturously applause" when Israel wages war, of assenting to our governments' "atrocities in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere in the Muslim world." He also accuses us of "voicing our approval" of the so-called desecration of the Koran at Gitmo, and of our "yellow press and tele-evangelists insulting the 'Prophet' Muhammad [piss be upon him - my...

The "Azzam" Threat: A prelude to Future Jihad in AmericaOver at the Counterterrorism Blog the ever-insightful Walid Phares has posted a preliminary explanation and analysis of the new videotape from Azzam the American, aka Adam Yehiye Gadahn. A few choice details: [...] In short, the “Azzam” video reconfirms clearly, in an English language that academic translators won’t be able to distort, that al Qaeda’s movement worldwide and in the United States is seeking total annihilation or conversion of the enemy: American and other democracies. 4) Argumentation tactics: The “speech writer,” emulating many commentators on al Jazeera or al Manar, hopes...

Journalists' Forced Conversion Not Contrary to Islamby Robert Spencer Posted Aug 30, 2006 The most bizarre element of the two weeks of captivity suffered by Fox News reporter Steve Centanni and photographer Olaf Wiig was the video that surfaced depicting their conversion to Islam. Even before the journalists revealed that their conversions had been coerced, there were indications that they were not acting freely. While reading a statement he himself had ostensibly written, Centanni stumbled over words, appeared to puzzle over the handwriting, and seemed to grimace after pronouncing the words “peace be upon him” after the name of the...

After August 22 August 23, 2006 FrontPageMagazine.com Robert Spencer Iran drew concern worldwide for refusing to respond in a timely fashion to the West’s offer of an incentives package in exchange for Tehran’s abandonment of its nuclear program. Iranian officials brushed aside the June 29 deadline set by the West and said Iran would respond on August 22. Some, including Farid Ghadry of the Reform Party of Syria (as I reported several weeks ago) and Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis, suggested that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the mullahs in Iran’s inner circle may have chosen that date in order to...

Less than a month before the Republican primary, Senate hopeful Kathleen "KT" McFarland announced Monday she is temporarily suspending her campaign. In a statement, McFarland says the decision follows her daughter's shoplifting arrest on Long Island. McFarland's spokesperson says she is be no means dropping out of the race, just taking time off to deal with the situation with her daughter, Camilla. The 16-year old was arrested on Saturday, caught shoplifting from two stores in Suffolk County. Camilla McFarland has been charged with two counts each of petty theft and possession of stolen goods. In a statement, McFarland says: "My...

NEW YORK -- Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., took time out from an event commemorating 9/11 to take a swipe at a campaign commercial by John Spencer, her likely Republican opponent in November. In the commercial, slated to run in New York City and on suburban cable stations, Spencer, the former mayor of Yonkers, accuses Clinton of being soft on national security issues and as such, aiding al-Qaida strongman Osama bin Laden. It was Clinton who helped lead the Democratic attempt to filibuster the renewal of the Patriot Act, though she eventually voted for it. The controversial Spencer commercial proceeds to...

The two Republicans seeking to unseat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton clashed ferociously last night in a debate that centered far more on questions of marital infidelity, nepotism and other personal attacks than on what either candidate would do if elected. Kathleen Troia McFarland, a former official in the Reagan-era Pentagon, repeatedly hammered John Spencer, a former mayor of Yonkers, for having an extramarital affair with a city employee while he was mayor, having relatives on the city payroll, and raising property taxes. Mr. Spencer fought back, accusing her of distorting his record with “lies and innuendos and half-truths” while ignoring...

ALBANY - GOP Senate candidate John Spencer has hopped out to his biggest lead yet over rival Kathleen (KT) McFarland, but a new poll finds many Republicans aren't embracing either one of them. Spencer, former mayor of Yonkers, drew the backing of 36% of Republicans, leaving McFarland in the dust at 15%, according to the poll released yesterday by Marist College and WNBC. But 49% of Republican voters remain undecided with less than two months to go to the primary election that will determine which of the two will face Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) in November. In May, a Marist...

The GOP candidate seeking to unseat Hillary Rodham Clinton outed her gay brother dying of AIDS to her family and blamed his sexual orientation on her father - before cutting off family ties, New York magazine reports. Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland, 54 - who once briefly declared Clinton's helicopters were buzzing her beach house to take pictures - shot off long, angry letters to her parents shortly after she discovered her brother Michael Troia had AIDS, the magazine is reporting in its new issue. "Have you ever wondered why I have never had anything to do with Mike and have...

NEW YORK - The Clintons are no strangers to political soap opera, yet all the drama in New York revolves around the Republicans. Accusations of bigamy and child abuse, illegitimate children and a tabloid description of one candidate curled in the fetal position after downing half a pint of ice cream sound like top-rated, daytime fiction. Instead, it's the GOP Senate primary between a former Yonkers mayor, John Spencer, and a Reagan-era Pentagon official, Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland. On top of a vivid clash of ideologies and social class, the two have given New Yorkers more than the usual amount...

Advisers to Republican Senate hopeful Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland said Thursday they will launch a petition drive to place her name on an independent line on the November general election ballot _ a move that could keep her candidacy alive if she loses the Sept. 12 GOP primary. But an aide to McFarland's GOP primary rival, former Yonkers mayor John Spencer, dismissed the move as "desperate" and said it would only help Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton win re-election.

Sean, You spent a couple of months kissing Janine Pirro's arse - even though she is ever-so-slightly to the right of Hillary. We now have the opportunity to get behind a real conservative and your silence on John Spencer is stunning. I am tiring of your cheerleading for the Republican party, and as a conservative New Yorker, I am tired of being disenfranchised in the US Senate. Conservatives have made great strides on the Federal level but those battles are meaningless if we trade one set of shackles for another.

...one Canadian Muslim leader asked Canadian officials why they hadn't informed Muslim leaders about the plot, so that those leaders could have stopped it. But there is mounting evidence that many Canadian Muslims did know -- and yet did nothing to notify Canadian authorities of the plot.