CAIR Goes After Robert Spencer

By Roger Simon ...

Speaking personally, I have always learned from Robert, whom I know slightly, and never found him to be racist or anything close, even though his style and mine are far from the same. To some I may seem confrontational, but compared to Spencer, I’m a shrinking violet. He is one of the ideological point men in the global war on terror. He keeps telling us what a lot of us — including me — don’t always want to hear, reminding us that there are real issues at stake. Is he always right? I don’t know. Is anybody?

But I am hardly surprised to hear he is the subject of a new campaign from CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR is evidently tremendously upset that a few weeks ago Spencer gave a lecture on jihadism to the FBI’s Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force, a group the brings FBI agents together with local law enforcement officials.

Frankly, I was pleased to hear the FBI was welcoming the likes of Spencer, especially since our Department of Justice (as has been reported at PJM and elsewhere) has gone out of its way to ignore radical Islam as a motivation for terrorism even when it couldn’t be more obviously so. From Ft. Hood to Times Square, it hasn’t been just the thousand pound gorilla in the room, it has been every gorilla in every room from here to Beijing and back.

But not to Eric Holder and Company. To them, “Allahu Akbar” — the words shouted by Major Hasan as he murdered 12 of his fellow soldiers — evidently translates not as “God is Great!” but as “I’m unemployed, I’m discriminated against and I can’t find a girl on eHarmony who will date a nice Pakistani guy who already has three wives and six children back in Islamabad. So I think I’ll kill a few people.” Or something like that.

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CAIR, not surprisingly, doesn’t see it my way. To them, Spencer — and all of those who are trying to educate us about the dangers of jihadism — is anathema. They have written FBI Director Robert Mueller to demand an explanation why such a man — the member of a “hate group” — had been allowed to speak to FBI agents and to receive the director’s assurance that such a horrible thing would never happen again. In keeping with our contemporary fixation, they want Mueller to apologize. CAIR has even enlisted that noted expert on Islamic studies, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, in their cause. (I know. You’re shocked.)