Robert Spencer, director and co-founder of Jihad Watch, has documented the violence of Islam, and explained the theological and legal reasoning behind it, going back decades.
Interviewed after the recent terror attacks, Spencer told the “Washington Watch” program those four attacks can be added to 49,000 terror attacks around the world that have occurred since the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001.
“People like to say, 'Oh, every religion has extremists', but Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, you don't see people who hold to those religions carrying out terror attacks at all, much less 49,000 of them in 25 years."
AFN has previously reported on the recent attacks that include homemade bombs tossed by teenagers at a counter-protest in New York City, a Lebanese-born U.S. citizen whose truck bomb crashed into a synagogue and a terrorist felon who targeted a university ROTC class, where the instructor was killed and two others hurt.
The worst attack of all came March 1 in liberal Austin, Texas, where a gunman killed two and wounded 14 others outside a bar.
Police officers responding to the scene shot and killed Ndiaga Diagne, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Senegal, who was wearing a “Property of Allah” shirt.
'I won't be silenced about this'
On the Jihad Watch website, the nonprofit operates as an Islamic watchdog for the West with news articles from around the world. The website also attempts to explain Islam’s ties to violence based on the interpretations of the Qur’an, known as Tafsir, and the Prophet Muhammad’s recorded sayings known as the Hadith.
Spencer, now 64, has studied Islamic theology since the 1980s and has become a hated enemy of Islamists and their liberal defenders in politics and the news media.
Even though Spencer has debated Islamic scholars over the Qur'an and its texts, the typical counter-argument from the other side is name-calling and shaming.
That was the tactic used against Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the Alabama Republican, after he wrote "The enemy is inside the gates" in reference to New York City's communist, Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called Tuberville's comment "Islamophobic hate" that is "fundamentally un-American."
"Calling Radical Islam out for being a CULT doesn't make you an 'Islamophobe.' Radical Islam is NOT compatible with the Constitution and has NO PLACE IN AMERICA. I won't be silenced about this," Tuberville, replying to Schumer, later replied.
Explaining the four recent attacks, Spencer flatly said Islam has 1,400 years of “violent history” that prove it’s not just another religion. People keep choosing to ignore that, he warned, and keep paying a price for it.
“They also ignore the fact that Islam does have a developed doctrine and theology and legal system mandating warfare against unbelievers. No other religion has anything like that,” he said.
