Spencer - The Complete Infidels Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies)

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The COMPLETE INFIDELS GUIDE to FREE SPEECH (and Its Enemies)

Robert Spencers The Complete Infidels Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies) is the most important book on the most important right by the most courageous defender of free speech in America today.

DAVID HOROWITZ, founding president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and author of Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey and Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left

The War on Terror has nothing on the jihad against free speech. The ability to express ideas and information is essential to a functioning democracy, which is why snuffing it out has been the top agenda item of Islamic supremacists, abetted by useful idiots in the West. Fortunately, it will not be enough to silence Robert Spencer, who turns his characteristic clarity and scholarly rigor to a compelling defense of our most precious right.

ANDREW C. McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor, bestselling author, and National Review contributing editor

A tour de force. A precise and irrefutable defense of our foremost and foundational freedomand an extraordinary expos of how deeply threatened it is. Must reading for all elected officials and anyone who is even contemplating public office, as well as for every patriot in the land.

PAMELA GELLER, president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative

Robert Spencer has written a courageous and enormously important book, analyzing Islams global effort to destroy free speech. This is the most important book of the year. Read it and act! The choice is simple: Speak out against Islam or lose freedom forever.

GEERT WILDERS, member of parliament in the Netherlands and leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV)

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CONTENTS

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Did you know?

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation is making real progress toward imposing Islamic blasphemy law on the West

An imam used inflammatory images never published by the Jyllands-Posten to gin up the Danish cartoon riots

Core Islamic teachings make criticism of Islam punishable by death

T he man who summed up the entire ethos of the war against the freedom of speech was none other than Mohamed Atta, the most prominent of the 9/11 hijackers.

On September 11, 2001, Atta boarded American Airlines flight 11 in Boston, bound for Los Angeles. Once he and his fellow jihadis had hijacked the plane, Atta told passengers: Just stay quiet and youll be okay.... Nobody move. Everything will be okay. If you try to make any moves, youll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet.

The passengers heeded his warning and stayed quietbut they werent okay. Atta flew American Airlines Flight 11 to New York City and crashed it into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

Atta had unwittingly uttered an epigram: the contrast between his words of reassurance and the passengers horrifying fate is emblematic of the global effort to destroy the freedom of speech.

As the global jihad advances, we are told in innumerable ways that if we just stay quiet, we will be okay.

Spearheading these efforts is a little-known organization that comprises most of the Muslim governments around the world today. The foremost foe of the First Amendment right to free speech, and of the freedom of speech in general, in the world today is the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (formerly the Organization of the Islamic Conference), which is made up of fifty-six member nations plus the Palestinian Authority and constitutes the largest voting bloc at the United Nations, has been working for years to try to compel the West to restrict the freedom of speech, and particularly the freedom to criticize Islam.

Essentially, they want to impose a key principle of Islamic Sharia lawwhich forbids blasphemy against Allah, Muhammad, and Islamon the entire non-Muslim world. That prohibition explains why the Islam world has no tradition of free speech. The West does, and our tradition of freedom must be extinguished in order to advance the Islamic agenda worldwide.

Muslims will never accept this kind of humiliation. The article has insulted every Muslim in the world. We demand an apology!

The OICs initiative against free speech began in earnest in the wake of the publication of twelve cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on September 30, 2005. The paper wasnt trying to be gratuitously provocative; in the wake of the jihad murder of Theo van Gogh, Danish author Kre Bluitgen had found it difficult to find an illustrator for his book about Muhammad: Danish artists were all too afraid of jihadis. Frants Iver Gundelach, president of the Danish Writers Union, decried this submission to violent intimidation as a threat to free speech, and the largest newspaper in Denmark, Jyllands-Posten, took up the challenge. Flemming Rose, Jyllands-Postens culture editor, approached forty artists asking for depictions of Muhammad.

In response, Rose received the twelve drawings he published, nine of which were eminently forgettableand immediately forgotten. The other three pointed out the link between Islam and violence; one of the three, a drawing of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban by Danish illustrator Kurt Westergaard, became notorious.

Editor-in-chief Carsten Juste explained his papers decision to publish the cartoons: We live in a democracy. Thats why we can use all the journalistic methods we want to. Satire is accepted in this country, and you can make caricatures. Religion shouldnt set any barriers on that sort of expression. This doesnt mean that we wish to insult any Muslims.