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Robert Spencer is the director of [[Jihad Watch]], a project of the [[David Horowitz Freedom Center]]<ref>[http://www.jihadwatch.org/spencer/ Robert Spencer], Jihad Watch, accessed 6 January 2009.</ref>
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Robert Spencer is the director of [[Jihad Watch]], a project of the [[David Horowitz Freedom Center]]<ref>[http://www.jihadwatch.org/spencer/ Robert Spencer], Jihad Watch, accessed 6 January 2009.</ref> He is also the co-author with ultra-Zionist [[Pamela Geller]] of a book on US President Barack Obama. In a joint video message, Geller has referred to Obama as 'the anti-Semite in the White House' who will bring about a 'second Holocaust', a view which Spencer affirms. Yet, despite Spencer's extreme views, he was recently invited to explain Islam to the Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force, one of the law enforcement and intelligence coalitions established and after 9/11.<ref>Robert Dreyfuss, [http://www.thenation.com/blog/37952/anti-muslim-bigot-and-fanatic-explains-islam-fbi-and-tidewater-joint-terrorism-task-force Anti-Muslim Bigot and Fanatic Explains Islam to the FBI and the Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force], ''The Nation'', July 2010</ref>  
  
 
In April 2009, Spencer was invited to speak in Cologne by [[Pro Köln]]. Following criticism by blogger Charles Johnson,  Spencer said "I have not confirmed that I will be attending, and am looking into the group and the people involved".<ref>Robert Spencer, [http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/04/hamas-linked-cair-defames-me-again-again-using-libelblogger-charles-johnsons-little-green-footballs.html Hamas-linked CAIR defames me again, again using libelblogger Charles Johnson's Little Green Footballs talking points], Jihad Watch, 24 April 2009.</ref>
 
In April 2009, Spencer was invited to speak in Cologne by [[Pro Köln]]. Following criticism by blogger Charles Johnson,  Spencer said "I have not confirmed that I will be attending, and am looking into the group and the people involved".<ref>Robert Spencer, [http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/04/hamas-linked-cair-defames-me-again-again-using-libelblogger-charles-johnsons-little-green-footballs.html Hamas-linked CAIR defames me again, again using libelblogger Charles Johnson's Little Green Footballs talking points], Jihad Watch, 24 April 2009.</ref>
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*[[International Free Press Society]] - Board of Advisors
 
*[[International Free Press Society]] - Board of Advisors
 
*[[International Civil Liberties Alliance]]
 
*[[International Civil Liberties Alliance]]
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*[[Stop the Islamization of America]] (SIOA) - jointly established with [[Pamela Geller]]
  
 
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Revision as of 13:50, 28 July 2010

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch, a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center[1] He is also the co-author with ultra-Zionist Pamela Geller of a book on US President Barack Obama. In a joint video message, Geller has referred to Obama as 'the anti-Semite in the White House' who will bring about a 'second Holocaust', a view which Spencer affirms. Yet, despite Spencer's extreme views, he was recently invited to explain Islam to the Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force, one of the law enforcement and intelligence coalitions established and after 9/11.[2]

In April 2009, Spencer was invited to speak in Cologne by Pro Köln. Following criticism by blogger Charles Johnson, Spencer said "I have not confirmed that I will be attending, and am looking into the group and the people involved".[3]

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