[ April 22, 2024 ]
The Times of London had the startling revelation on Friday: “Britain has spent almost £200,000 protecting the welfare of the hate preacher Abu Qatada since he was deported to Jordan in 2013.” That’s over $250,000.
“Under terms agreed by Theresa May when she was home secretary,” The Times continued, “the government has paid for the cleric to have appointments with human rights workers and doctors for three years.” Got to keep jihad terrorists healthy, you see. “The payments were agreed despite Mrs May telling parliament in 2013 that ‘significant costs’ to the taxpayer relating to the Abu Qatada case were ‘not acceptable to the public and not acceptable to me.’”
Theresa May’s objections were clearly just empty verbiage, as the payments went ahead. As the UK’s Home Secretary and then Prime Minister, she could have stopped them. She did not.
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“The ‘welfare visits,’” said The Times, “were to ensure that he was not tortured after he was removed from Britain for being a threat to national security, details released under freedom of information laws show.”
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May has likened Pamela Geller and me to Abu Qatada, a leading member of al-Qaeda who was once considered “Osama bin Laden’s top man in Britain,” as The Times called him in a photo caption accompanying Friday’s article. May has boasted, in an address to a Jewish group in Britain: “I kicked out Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada. I stopped Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and Pastor Terry Jones – because Islamophobia comes from the same wellspring of hatred” – that is, the same wellspring as anti-Semitism.
This was a revolting comparison, as neither Pamela Geller nor I are or and have ever been members of a terrorist group. We have never been the assistant to or representative of a mass murderer, and have never called for, condoned, or approved of any violence. But May was busy propagating the fiction that there is a “far-right” threat equivalent to the jihad threat, and she opted to defame Pamela Geller and me as if we were the other side of the coin of jihad plotters Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada. Abu Qatada was convicted of plotting the jihad massacre of Americans and Israelis in Jordan.
“Islamophobia,” she says, of which we are guilty and thus barred from the U.K., “comes from the same wellspring of hatred” as anti-Semitism. And so she was boasting to a Jewish group about banning me, a wholehearted supporter of Israel, and Pamela Geller, a Jewish woman, from Britain, and then claiming that she was against anti-Semitism. Pull my other leg.
May’s implication was that “anti-Muslim rhetoric” — that is, public discussion of the jihad threat and what can be done about it — leads inexorably to the demonization of Muslims and ultimately to genocide. This is ridiculous, overheated rhetoric that only hinders the prospects of any genuine discussion of the salient issues, and that is probably the goal all along. The purpose of May’s equivalence of “Islamophobia” with anti-Semitism is designed to intimidate people into thinking that criticism of Islamic jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others leads to the concentration camps, and thus there must be no criticism of these things. The unstated assumption is that if one group was unjustly accused of plotting subversion and violence, and was viciously persecuted and massacred on the basis of those false accusations, then any group accused of plotting subversion and violence must be innocent, and any such accusation must be in service of preparing for their subversion and massacre.
Could Theresa May herself really believe the nonsense that she spouts? Does she really believe that standing against jihad terror is essentially equivalent to plotting jihad mass murder?
And now it comes out that the British government has spent $250,000 “for the cleric to have appointments with human rights workers and doctors for three years.”
Yet despite likening us to Abu Qatada, May has not directed her government to pay me or Ms. Geller a red cent. In light of May’s equating me with this jihadi, I am going to present the British government with a bill for $250,000 for my medical care and other expenses, and given that May has smeared me as a terrorist, it would only be in her interests to pay up, right? To refuse to do so would be to retreat from her comparison, and she isn’t about to do that.
After all, May clearly thinks of me, or wants others to think of me, as an “extremist.” And she has demonstrated a clear readiness to make sure that “extremists” are in good health and able to continue operations. Ms. May, I’ll take a check.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His new book is The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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45 Comments
5 years ago
We call her Treason May, lol!
5 years ago
Reply to
Thomas Faddis
Apropos, Thomas, the inept and treasonous, May is all you mention and more. The woman was a failure, a betrayer as Home Secretary; she carried on her fetid tradition by destroying the UK. Regarding her banning Spencer and Geller while protecting those of Islam preaching hatred and death for infidels validates May is a treasonous bag of you know. Her despotic nature and evil intent should send her to the Tower, ending with her severed head on a pike at Traitors Gate.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Rh2, of course, I was somewhat histrionical regarding decapitation, but as you mentioned, this woman’s treasonous past and present must be dealt with harshly. Ironically, it will those who may decapitate her are those she professes are the maligned and disenfranchised, Muslims. The meting out of justice for May and others will come swiftly when the worm, Islam turns on their numerous benefactors of which May is one. Nor is merely the British overlords, leaders who will suffer a similar fate; gutless appeasers of the other Western quasi-Democracies will suffer the same fate.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
No, let’s do it properly. Drag her out from under her rock, burn her publically at the stake in parliament square, and then display what’s left of her in a cage on Westminster Bridge (as we no longer have London Bridge)
Then let’s get the rest of the b*stards.
If everyone else is too squeamish to do it, give me the firewood, some accelerant, and a box of matches.
I’ll be more than happy to do my patriotic duty.
5 years ago
Reply to
rickyoo
Thank you, I appreciate that. It might take two of us to get her out out of her hiding place, and then of course we don’t want the other traitors to escape…
5 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
There are plenty of others in the British government the police force and other so called elites that deserve to be mounted at Traitors Gate. They have blood on their hands for ignoring the British public and turning a blind eye to the horrors inflicted by this Muslim filth that has been allowed to run rough shod over the country with few consequences while patriotic Brits are condemned and arrested for daring to speak out about this alien invasion. If it was possible, which I am sure it is to add up the number of non Muslims who have been murdered, lost limbs, raped, lives destroyed through losing loved ones and those affected mentally by the trauma they have had to endure because these Allah loving sub humans were allowed to enter and reside in a civilized country, the figures would be astronomical.
5 years ago
Reply to
rickyoo
Let’s never forget those virtually pimping Britain’s underage girls and young women to the filth that prey on them by doing nothing to protect them or punish the perverts.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Ziggy46
I think it would be more eye opening for her to send her, unprotected and unaccompanied, to a Muslim country where she could experience, 1st hand, the religion of peace. She could then explain to them how they are all misinterpreting Islam and teach them what Islam is all about. And she could tell them how she combat Islamophobia in the UK and how she championed the Islamic cause… then of course, she’d never actually be able to speak, they’d just chop her head off… but that probably won’t change much about her since her brain doesn’t actually seem to function anyway.
5 years ago
Reply to
Thomas Faddis
Funny but you people in the UK have a serious problem on your hands. When you start paying a bribe for a radical cleric to basically stay away from the the UK and you have veterans and people being killed by these same jihadis, you have one hell of a problem that will only get a lot worse.
5 years ago
Trump insulted Pamela Geller saying “Why is she insulting everybody?”
May banned Pamela Geller & Robert Spencer from Britain.
Same thing.
May like Trump sells weapons to Saudi Arabia where Africans are enslaved*, atheists killed & girls clitodirectomized & raped. She gives money to Pakistan & so on, like Trump.
There is a lack justice in them.
The unjust Muhammad-law & war must be eliminated.
*Africans are enslaved in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, North-Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Mauritania, Niger, Somalia, Nigeria in emulation of unjust Muhammad who started the global African slave-trade by saying his unproven deity had turned Africans black so Africans’ descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks.
5 years ago
Reply to
Jay Wizzy
Trump, as mentioned, is not infallible; he deems his attacks on others, pissing-off numerous folks is okay. Geller and Spencer are out to educate the dullards regarding the never-ending attempt of to Islamize the world. Trump should take note, instead of criticizing Geller and Spencer, open self-serving his ears to their foreboding warnings.
Meanwhile in the tradition of the presidency, Trump sells weaponry to those, Saudi Arabia, who, along with others are deeply involved in the Jihad. Oh well, lit is likely he and those suckling on the teat of Islam will never change.
5 years ago
Reply to
Jay Wizzy
When Trump insulted Pam, he insulted all of us who went to Garland, and all our fellow supporters.
5 years ago
I do wish we’d see more of you on Hannity and or Carlson, with this storyline repeated for the general viewers who need it drilled into them, the perfidy that has been going on by her and Britain against its own citizens. I do look forward to a day when you and Robert get to march into Britain, give a selection of speeches and finally address that miserable parliament on the terrible affliction that May and the others have imposed upon britain and it’s future.
5 years ago
For you Brits reading this – YOU are the problem for not defending your country from the internal takeover by the one group that supported Your WW2 nemesis. GOODBY ENGLAND.
5 years ago
Reply to
Cayman
Yes, Britain is finished – and the incompetent and pusillanimous May hangs on by her teeth as PM, because well, because Jeremy Corbyn would replace her.
Goodbye England Indeed!
5 years ago
Reply to
Cayman
Just like the U.S.is at fault for electing mudslimes here. Personal thought here…..nobody who isn’t a natural born American Citizen should ever be allowed to run for any office…..ever. We are done also.
5 years ago
This is simple. All you need to get into the country is an invite from an in country sovereign. I know one. Go there and explore Glastonbury, where Jesus and Mary lived, and embarrass the hell out of them!!!!! Quit complaining!! The UK is a government services corporation operating under color of authority and color of law. It’s listed on Dunn&Bradstreet! Hurling insults from across the pond is embarrassing yourself. Go and walk around on their home turf and position yourself so that they can’t stop you. Shame and embarrassment are the way to treat unruly children.
5 years ago
This is an age-old tactic by Muslims that works extremely well on the weak-minded. They invent a false equivalence between Islamic fascism and opposition to it as being just as dangerous. It’d be like Nazis saying opposing Nazism makes you a Nazi.
It’s another form of war-propaganda and the Liberals and morons like May gladly swallow this nonsense hook, line and sinker. Yet a simple examination of the arguments would reveal that one side is simply showing that Islamic ideology leads to rape-gangs, terrorism and warfare and no one is saying we need to genocide Muslims.
However in order to prevent ourselves from being killed, raped, maimed by Muslim fascists, we must deal with them in some way, deportation would be best but there are other options as well. Be first we must be able to identify the actual problem and talk about it like grown adults.
Additionally it prevents western nations and people from realizing Muslims are waging a global war against the rest of humanity. We may not want to hear it, we may wish it wasn’t true but ignoring reality simply means more people will keep getting raped and killed by muslims until we finally confront this threat head on as we did with Nazism.
We need new leaders. All these old tiny-brained fossils need to retire and we need people who are more intelligent and clued up on Islam in power, to state the obvious.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ban Islam
I do not believe that May is a moron.I believe and the evidence supports my position that she is wholly corrupted by monies and promises of wealth from Muslim Tyrants who have underwritten her rise to power in the UK. She is very simply a traitor that would put Quisling to shame.She is an existential threat to the UK and the USA and all of Western Civilization. She needs to be removed immediately. Hopefully, this Brexit issue will finally galvanize the opposition against her.
5 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
You seem to be more familiar with May than I am. Currently I am at a loss to figure her out with respect to Brexit. Is she working for it or against it? Is she a Conservative or not? And if so, what exactly is meant in England by a Conservative? If you can shed some light on this I would be most appreciative.
5 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
From all her appearances, Brexit ain’t gonna happen while she is in charge…..if ever. GB is under the thumb of the e.u. forever.
5 years ago
Reply to
mztore
Putting May in charge of negotiating Brexit was as deliberate as her subsequent deliberate sabotage of the UK’s exit. I believe on some authority that when the Brexit deal is voted down that President Trump will offer a trade deal to the UK that will remove all barriers,including financial, and will give the UK the same treatment as any US state or possession. He will then negotiate a trade deal for the USA and the UK that will further remove trade barriers, and will force it down the throats of the Eurocrats just like he is forcing the Commiecrats to give him the money to build the wall and to put an Iran by economically strangling the country until the Iranian people rise up and remove the mad mullahs.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ban Islam
As long as we still have elections, and some semblance of democracy, we must continually and consistently vote against any politician who supports Islam in any way.
5 years ago
“Islamophobia” is just a “politically correct” term for “I don’t like your honest assessment of Islam!”
5 years ago
Reply to
Jonathan Swift
If anything, “Islamophilia” is the biggest problem faced by the West today.
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
You’ve hit the nail on the head, R. That’s exactly what it is.
And sadly, our “leaders” all seem to have it the worst.
4 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
Islam cannot be protected as a religion and defeated at the same time.
5 years ago
What is remarkable about Theresa May is how much her pro Islamic Logic sounds like that of Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It should be noted that in 2016 Mr. Trudeau told the “Catholic Reporter” that he had become a Muslim. HIs suspicious “pro Islam only” stance stance has been very apparent since his election campaign in 2014/15 where he did not permit the media to cover his speeches in Muslim Mosques across Canada. Perhaps we may deduce from that that Theresa Mays pro Muslim behavior so similar to that of Trudeau’s supports the contention that May has at the very least become a closet Muslim and therefore works exclusively to support Islam over any other religious groups and cannot support Brexit because that would mean an end to open doors for the ongoing Islamic invasion of Britain. To consider the forgoing as possible finally allows that Theresa May’s behavior towards Islam makes sense.
5 years ago
Reply to
1PierreMontagne1
Nothing closet about it. We don’t call her ‘sharia may’ for nothing.
5 years ago
The fact that sharia May has smeared Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer as terrorists should be grounds for a massive lawsuit resulting in a multi million dollar payout. Take her to court and let her prove you are both terrorists, which she will never be able to do. She is nothing but a spineless coward who is so terrified of upsetting these savages that she would rather support them than face an uprising, knowing that the British people are unlikely to resort to violence as long as she keeps threatening their free speech and imprisonment. It has worked so far, but with her lies and an unacceptable Brexit things may change, hopefully.
5 years ago
I love Mr Spencer’s unique blend of satire and thinking outside the square. I suggest he sends his health care bill to UKIP member Lord Pearson with an invitation for him to present it to Theresa May in Parliament.
5 years ago
The British fear Pamela more than the thousands of radical Pakistanis in their own society, for some reason.
5 years ago
The difference between May and Corbyn is that Corbyn is fairly open about being a racist, Islamist pig while May is much more 2 faced about it. I wish Nigel Farage or Douglas Murray would run as Britain’s PM.
5 years ago
I would insist on cash payment. Theresa May’s credit is two points below a rock. She’s a traitor to her own country. Too bad the UK has no will to revolt like the American colonies did.
5 years ago
Is it ANY wonder Britain is in the dire strait its in – may wearing a headscarf in her own country – showing where her allegiances truly lie.Could she go into a muslim country and have the choice to wear or not to wear? muslims need to be shown they are not special..
5 years ago
Just goes to show how pathetic the UK has become by allowing these payments and by the PM May’s words. One day the citizens of the UK will wake up to see that their lives have been altered for ever as Sharia and the spineless politicians greed for power have destroyed their once shining nation of freedom and democracy.
5 years ago
W T F is she wearing a scarf for?
It’s about as genuine as a white person eating with chopsticks a Chinese restaurant.
5 years ago
Reply to
Thurston Howell III
Why the scarf? It’s called appeasement, something Britain might know something about, you’d think.
5 years ago
Your leaders are betraying you. Stealing your wealth and giving all your money away to fiends and enemies. This will never stop if you keep lauding them. Thrilled to shake hands with them and stand in awe when they pass. They really have learned how to fool you.
Are you stupid or what? Or you just like getting ufcked in the a ss?
