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Contact USA Today for their Epic Failure
Posted on 03 December 2009 by Emperor
Oren Dorell, a reporter with USA Today wrote an article recently on so called “Honor killings,” of which there have been six in the past two years. Unfortunately, his article was rendered inaccurate and ineffectual because of a severe lapse of judgment on his and USA Today’s part in citing Robert Spencer as an authority on Islam and Radical Muslims.
The portion that we are speaking about goes,
“There is broad support and acceptance of this idea in Islam, and we’re going to see it more and more in the United States,” says Robert Spencer, who has trained FBI and military authorities on Islam and founded Jihad Watch, which monitors radical Islam.
Of course, Robert Spencer, per his modus operandi is again lying. There is neither broad support or acceptance of honor killings as an idea in Islam. Two points which Spencer will be hard pressed to prove, especially since Islam expressly condemns the pre-Islamic tribal practice. Spencer also attempts to play prophet here, a role that he has failed at over and over.
This is an especially egregious report in light of the events that played out in the Fathima Rifqa Bary case, a case which Michael Kruse, a reporter for the St.Petersburg Times noted was in part “created” by Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller. Throughout the case, without any of the facts present Spencer was claiming that Rifqa would be killed in an honor killing and that her parents were extremists, he still believes this today regardless of the fact that the authorities investigated the matter and repudiated Spencer and his far right cronies when they sent Rifqa back to Ohio and found the charges against the family to be baseless.
We urge our readers to contact Oren Dorell and USA Today to rectify this epic failure in citing Spencer as an authority on Islam or radical Islam.
Contact Brent Jones, for corrections and clarifications: accuracy@usatoday.com
Contact Oren Dorell: odorell@gmail.com
Remember to be polite and topical.
The fact is Spencer is not taken seriously by academia especially in the field of Islam: He has been repudiated over and over. Take a glance at our archives:
Academics and members of the American Library Association condemn Spencer and his work: Robert Spencer Rejected by Academics, still Supports Geert Wilders
DePaul Law Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni condemns Spencer
His former friend and ally Charles Johnson has also condemned Robert Spencer as an “Anti-Islamic Bigot:”
Robert Spencer goes postal on Charles Johnson
Spencer’s association and fervent support for anti-Muslim European neo-Fascists and supremacists also disqualifies him from being mentioned as a true neutral observer and commenter on Islam or radical Islam:
Robert Spencer Teams up with Euro-Supremacists Again
Spencer has also joined a genocidal Facebook group which called for the extermination of Turks:
Robert Spencer: Wanna be Conquistador
Robert Spencer’s arguments have been shown to be filled with errors and excessive prejudice:
The Church’s Doctrine of Perpetual Servitude worse than Dhimmitude
Robert Spencer Misrepresents Facts — Again
Robert Spencer Worried about ticking ‘Muslim Demographic Time Bomb’
There is more information exposing the bigotry and anti-Muslim motive that mars the work of Robert Spencer in our archives, if USA Today truly cares about what they print and the information they wish to present to readers then they should take a serious look at who they choose to quote as experts.
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