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Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch
- “Last Wednesday I gave two two-hour seminars on the belief-system of Islamic jihadists to the Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force, and once it was all over, I stopped by Virginia Beach to greet Neptune, god of the sea.
It was a good and encouraging day, on which I met many conscientious agents determined to understand the jihad threat and resist it in all its forms.”
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“Our nation’s law enforcement personnel should not receive training from the head of a hate group that seeks to demonize Islam and to prevent American Muslims from exercising their rights as citizens,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. “Robert Spencer is the same individual who claims in his new book that President Obama is waging ‘war on America.'”
He noted that Spencer recently co-authored the book, “The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America,” that sounds a “wake-up call for Americans to stop the Obama administration from limiting our hard-won freedoms, silencing our democratic voices, and irreparably harming America for generations to come.”
Hooper said the United States Patent and Trademark Office refused to grant SIOA a trademark because: “The applied-for mark refers to Muslims in a disparaging manner because by definition it implies that conversion or conformity to Islam is something that needs to be stopped or caused to cease.”
SOIA has come to prominence through shrill opposition to the building of American mosques, anti-Islam bus and taxi advertising campaigns, support for European far-right groups and Islamophobes such as the English Defence League and Geert Wilders, and bigoted anti-Islam statements by its co-leader, Pamela Geller.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."