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1 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 26, 2011 6:23:50pm

Yeah it’s just a conspiracy to make anti Muslim bigots like you look bad Spencer. Sheesh, are Spencer and his asshole friends forgetting that innocent people were murdered by a man who didn’t like what they stood for politically. That’s terrorism pure and simple.

2 CuriousLurker  Tue, Jul 26, 2011 6:43:12pm

If any of these so called counter-jihadists actually gave a damn about preventing terrorism instead of stuffing their pockets with money by scaring people with their lies and hateful spewing, they’d acknowledge that they’ve been going over the line and promise to find a better way to get their message out. They are contemptible.

3 Gus  Tue, Jul 26, 2011 6:56:01pm

Gotta love it. Robert Spencer is a 7/22 truther. He’s right there with Alex Jones. Robert Spencer, alleged “scholar” on Islam. Hope they think twice the next time they invite this buffoon to a university to speak.

4 CuriousLurker  Tue, Jul 26, 2011 7:01:36pm

re: #3 Gus 802

I’ll tell you what, I have to admit that I’m totally enjoying the pile-on as viewed through the numerous Google alerts coming through my inbox. There are apparently a LOT of people who loathe the entire bigot brigade. I’m not yet convinced that they’ll be able to spin their way out of this one.

5 ProBosniaLiberal  Tue, Jul 26, 2011 7:03:06pm

Face it Spencer. Your operations in Europe are finished. Norway was a ended up as a sacrifice to show your ugly bigotry.

6 moderatelyradicalliberal  Tue, Jul 26, 2011 8:30:34pm

Good Lord, these people really do live in their own reality.

7 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Tue, Jul 26, 2011 8:34:29pm

Scrambling like roaches when the light comes on.

8 Lidane  Tue, Jul 26, 2011 8:56:44pm

Hey, Robert—

Grow a pair and admit that this Norwegian douchebag took everything that you and Crazy Pam and all your fellow “counter-jihad” bloggers have written for the past decade to its logical conclusion.

He’s your fanboy. You own this. Deal. With. It.

No love,
Me

9 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Wed, Jul 27, 2011 4:19:51am

Robert Spencer joins the illustrious group of right-wingers using conspiracy theories to deflect charges of similarity, e.g. Alex Jones, Michael Savage, David Icke, Webster Tarpley.

Another big segment of the conspiracy theorists allege that Norway was attacked because it had been anti-zionist and pro-palestinian, making Breivik out to be a zionist agent. Wonder what Spencer thinks about that line of “reasoning”…

10 eightyfiv  Wed, Jul 27, 2011 7:54:47am

The problem with the blame game — arguing overwhose side a criminal terrorist “belongs to” — is that it completely avoids the issue of actual importance: What are people going to do to prevent a recurrence?

In this case, there’s plenty Spencer et. al. could do in cleaning up their rhetoric, but I do get a bit annoyed with everyone, the moderate right especially, but the left included, for favoring ideological ownership snits over constructive responses. This happens every time… Joe Stack, Jared Loughner, etc.

11 darkagegirl  Wed, Jul 27, 2011 8:01:02am

I read a great article this past year on the psychology behind conspiracy theories. One of the statements that stood out to me was that conspiracy theorists are believers in an ordered universe - that they’re rebelling in a way against a world they can’t control, because there are too many forces at work for anyone to control it. This is like a classic example of conspiracy theory as defensive reaction. They put their ideas out into the world, someone took them to their logical conclusion, and now they’re freaking out and trying to invent another explanation out of whole cloth.

12 Lidane  Wed, Jul 27, 2011 8:03:52am

re: #10 eightyfiv

Nice attempt at deflection, but no. Breivik is wholly a product of the far right wing “counter-jihad” movement. He swallowed their rhetoric wholesale. He cites it at length in his “manifesto”. His entire worldview was shaped by their hateful rhetoric about Islam and liberals and multiculturalism and by the far right echo chamber that fed his resentments and anger.

They own it. They own him. He is the logical conclusion to all their hate.

Also, Joe Stack was absolutely a right wing terrorist in my book. If he’d chosen to go after the FBI instead of the IRS, he would have slammed his plane into the building next door, which has a satellite campus for my university in it. He could have hurt people I know. The building he hit is now just a steel frame, BTW. He destroyed far more than just the IRS offices in his rage.

13 Bulworth  Wed, Jul 27, 2011 8:04:18am
The problem with this guy is that he has has brought discredit on a legitimate line of thought.

Hah


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