By J.M. Phelps (One News Now)
The founder of Jihad Watch asserts that an activist who was recently arrested in Britain for “breach of the peace” is, in fact, the victim of a government that wants to quash any public criticism of Islam and its influence on society.
The determination to silence British journalist and activist Tommy Robinson (real name: Stephen Lennon) is a movement that’s already happening in America. Whether one believes the recent imprisonment of Robinson was unjust or just, the incident calls attention to a relentless pursuit to silence individuals who speak out against Islamic terror.
Tommy Robinson is one of the few, for years, who has been calling attention to an epidemic of Muslim rape gangs in Europe. Ironically, Robinson was forbidden to report outside the trial of one of these rape gangs, and was given a suspended sentence for disobeying. Recently, he violated the terms of the suspended sentence and was thus imprisoned about a week ago.
Robinson, says Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer, “has been the victim of the British government’s attempts to cover up the massive, nationwide scandal of Muslim rape gangs. And they justify this according to the Quran’s permission to take sex slaves from among infidel women.”
Spencer goes on to say the prohibition on Robinson’s reporting outside trials was unjust to start with. “Reporters stand outside trials and report all the time. That’s all that Tommy Robinson was doing,” he relates.
And when asked about the equality of the law as applied to those reporting, Spencer says, “If a far-left person was reporting outside a trial and had been treated in the same way as Tommy has, then everybody should be just as indignant and angry as they are now.
“There are those who have singled him out and say he’s on the so-called far-right,” Spencer explains. “This is really just a label that the government and media use for anyone and everyone who opposes jihad terror and opposes the devastation that the massive Muslim migration is bringing to Britain.”
The Jihad Watch director argues that those who disagree with Robinson should recognize the larger implications of the case.
“… And [they should] realize that he is essentially being prosecuted for having opinions that the British government finds unacceptable,” he attests. “That’s the way a totalitarian state behaves. It’s a very, very dangerous precedent.”
He believes the government’s decision will have extraordinarily damaging consequences for Britain’s future, unless it is repudiated and Robinson is freed. “The precedent will be set that if the British government doesn’t like what you are saying, then they can make various conditions and place various conditions upon you arbitrarily. If you violate those conditions, then they can throw you in prison,” he tells OneNewsNow.
“What’s happening is much larger than just what is happening to Tommy Robinson,” Spencer continues. “[He] just happens to be the one to whom it is all happening, but that’s all. Perhaps it’s a pity that it’s happening to someone who is so widely hated—often unjustly—because it obscures the real issues here.”
In Spencer’s opinion, Robinson committed no real crime. “He was simply silenced for exercising the freedom of speech, which is something the British government is supposed to be respecting,” he adds.
According to Spencer, this is also occurring in America – unbeknownst to the common citizen.
“Groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its allies are trying to do the same thing in the United States that has been done to Tommy Robinson,” he explains. “Anybody who speaks out against the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, Sharia oppression, or the phenomenon such as the rape gangs that are justified within Islamic teaching – they are branded as racists, bigots, or Islamophobes.”
Spencer says instead of refuting individuals on the merits of what they say, groups like CAIR try to discredit people like him, for example, using ad hominem attacks.
“They make us so toxic that nobody wants to have anything to do with us, because they don’t want the association,” he concludes. “The thing is that anyone and everyone who speaks honestly about this threat is subjected to the same treatment. It really becomes clear that what CAIR and other Islamic organizations are trying to do is make sure that nobody will dare to speak out about the jihad threat.”
And in Spencer’s opinion, that what’s happening in Europe – and, relatively speaking, is already happening in America.
J.M. Phelps is a Christian activist and journalist based in the Southeastern U.S. He is also editor and publisher of the website Lantern of Liberty.
Originally published by One News Now on Wednesday, June 6, 2018.
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