Any Loonwatchers Near Steubenville, Ohio? Robert Spencer to Speak at Franciscan University

Anti-Muslim activist Robert Spencer is expected to speak at the Franciscan University on Tuesday, November 8th at 7 pm. Admission is free and there will be a question and answer session. If any loonwatchers live in the area or can make the drive it would be great.

Franciscan University will be a hostile environment, so it will be like walking into the lion’s den. The universities supporters believe they are in a kulturkampf with the Obama administration, and Spencer has already spoken to an approving crowd in the past where he delivered a triumphalist message in militaristic tones.

Ultimately it is only Jesus Christ that can fight against this [Islam]~Robert Spencer

Here is the advert from Franciscan University:

STEUBENVILLE, OH—Robert Spencer, the internationally known founder of Jihad Watch, will speak at Franciscan University of Steubenville on Tuesday, November 8, at 7:00 p.m. on the topic ”Islam’s View of Christianity: Why It Matters.” The talk, which will take place in the Tony and Nina Gentile Gallery of the J.C. Williams Center, is free and open to the public.

Spencer will speak on the peculiar understanding of Christianity contained in the founding texts of Islam, how that view has shaped Islamic/Christian interactions down to the present day, and what we as Catholics and Christians can do in the face of this resurgent religion.

Spencer has studied Islamic theology, law, and history for over three decades. He currently serves as the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Spencer has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the U.S. intelligence community.

He is the author of 10 books, including Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t, a refutation of moral equivalence and call for all the beneficiaries and heirs of Judeo-Christian Western civilization, whatever their own religious or philosophical perspective may be, to defend it from the global jihad.  He is coauthor, with Daniel Ali, of Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics, and editor of the essay collection The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims.

His articles on Islam and other topics have appeared in a wide array of newspapers and Web sites.

Spencer has appeared on the BBC, ABC News, CNN, FoxNews, PBS, and many other media outlets as well as on numerous radio programs including Vatican Radio.

Following his talk, Spencer will answer questions from the audience.  For more on Spencer at Franciscan University, watch a clip from his remarks at this summer’s Defending the Faith Conference.

If any loonwatchers go and record Spencer and or would like to submit a piece about their experience we will run the article with all due credit. Let us know if anyone is interested. Feel free to comment below or email us at:info@loonwatch.com.

Bob Beers: Loonwatch Writers Brains are “Mushy”

No Head

Bob Beers, a garden-variety Islamophobe who writes for the racist right-wing rag, known as theCanada Free Press, wrote a while ago that the brains of LoonWatch writers have gone to “mush” because we are too progressive. (If anything, our brains have gone to mush because we have to read the crap that Islamophobes spew daily.)

If you are scratching your head and wondering who the hell Bob Beers is, I don’t blame you. He is mostly a no-body who we did a piece on (Bob Beers: How about we bomb Mecca) a few months ago to highlight the obsession on the part of many maniacal Islamophobes and Muslim haters with destroying Mecca and Medina. It is something we call the nuclear card.

We exposed his ridiculous logic and moved on. Beers obviously read what we wrote and had this to say,

Too Dumb to believe Liberalism Works

There is a site called “Loon Watch”. On it, I and a great many other conservative writers, some as lofty as Glen Beck (whose research is always impeccable by the way) are called out as being somewhat less than rational because of our “non-progressive” views. The example they use for me is where I suggested that America use “the threat of”, not the actual act of, nuking of Mecca to forestall any further terrorist attacks against our citizens and cities. It seems that the progressives don’t like the idea of our government standing up for its people in the face of the threats of fundamental Islam. Loon Watch is yet another example of how mushy a so-called progressive brain can become.

As lofty as Glen Beck? Whose “research” is always impeccable? Is he joking? Seriously, I hope he is joking. This kind of sick, excessive and unseemly jocking of wing-nut Conservo-stars in the hopes of getting noticed is pathetic.

Beers proves himself to be as cowardly and slim of conviction as most right-wingers. He now claims he only wanted to “threaten” to destroy Mecca. A distinction without a difference in my book, but the truth is he dreams of the destruction of Muslim holy places. This is what he wrote,

If I were President this is what I would tell the Saudis, If one more terrorist incident happens in the US by any sect of your religion, even if you didn’t order it, say goodbye to your temple. Do you think there would be a few orders sent out to the training camps?

Well, at least I can dream.

A sicko, wouldn’t you agree? Oh well, maybe now Beers will receive an audience with his idol Glenn Beck or maybe even…hold your breathe… Rush Limbaugh!