On this week's edition of The Watchman, we sit down with Islam expert Robert Spencer to discuss his new book, "The Complete Infidels' Guide to ISIS." We also discuss ISIS among the Muslim refugees of Europe with Austrian counter-jihad ...
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Erick: AND WELCOME TO
"THE WATCHMAN."
YOU KNOW, FOLKS, IN MY
TRAVELS AROUND THE
COUNTRY, I'M ASKED A LOT
OF QUESTIONS ABOUT ISIS.
WHERE DID ISIS COME FROM?
WHAT DO THEY WANT?
ARE THEY REALLY A THREAT
TO AMERICA?
AND WHY SHOULD I CARE?
WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT
IT?
WELL, "NEW YORK TIMES"
BEST-SELLING AUTHOR ROBERT
SPENCER ANSWERS ALL OF
THOSE QUESTIONS, AND MANY
MORE, IN HIS NEW BOOK,
"THE COMPLETE INFIDEL'S
GUIDE TO ISIS."
IT IS A GREAT TITLE AND A
GREAT INFORMATIVE BOOK
THAT YOU NEED TO PICK UP
TO TRULY UNDERSTAND THE
ISIS THREAT AND WHAT IT
MEANS FOR AMERICA.
I SAT DOWN WITH ROBERT
RECENTLY TO DISCUSS THE
BOOK AND WHAT IS NEXT IN
THE GLOBAL JIHAD.
TAKE A LOOK.
AND WE ARE JOINED RIGHT
NOW BY OUR GOOD FRIEND
ROBERT SPENCER.
WELCOME BACK TO THE SHOW.
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE NEW
BOOK.
IT IS A GREAT ONE.
THANKS, ERICK.
IT IS A PLEASURE TO BE
BACK.
Erick: I TELL
EVERYONE, IF YOU WANT TO
KNOW ABOUT ISLAM, PLEASE
READ ROBERT SPENCER.
I THINK A GREAT PLACE TO
START, AND SO MUCH TO TALK
TO YOU IN THE TIME WE
HAVE.
A GREAT PLACE TO START,
YOU DELVE INTO THIS IN THE
BOOK, WESTERN LEADERS TELL
US THAT ISIS AND
EVERYTHING THEY'RE DOING
IS NOT ISLAMIC.
ROBERT, IS ISIS, THE
ISLAMIC STATE, IS IT
ISLAMIC?
IT IS QUITE ESSENTIALLY
ISLAMIC.
THEY BASE EVERYTHING THEY
DO ON ISLAMIC TEXT AND
TEACHINGS, ON THE QURAN
AND THE EXAMPLE OF
MUHAMMAD.
THIS KIND OF DENIAL FROM
WESTERN LEADERS IS
DISASTEROUS.
YOU CAN'T DEFEAT AN ENEMY
YOU REFUSE TO UNDERSTAND.
THEY ARE PRETENDING THIS
GROUP IS OTHER THAN WHAT
IT IS.
30,000 FOREIGN FIGHTERS
FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
HAVE GONE TO IRAQ AND
SYRIA TO JOIN THE ISLAMIC
STATE.
THEY DID THAT BECAUSE THEY
BELIEVE THAT IT IS
ISLAMIC.
THEY BELIEVE THAT IT IS
THE TRUE ISLAMIC STATE,
THE ONLY LEGITIMATE
GOVERNMENT FOR SUNNI
MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD.
OUR POLICY-MAKERS AND
INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS
OUGHT TO BE STUDYING THAT
AND DEVISING WAYS TO
COUNTER IT.
INSTEAD, THEY'RE JUST
IGNORING IT AND PRETENDING
IT IS NOT HAPPENING.
Erick: THE FIRST RULE
OF WAR: KNOW YOUR ENEMY.
KNOW THE IDEOLOGY.
YOU TALK ABOUT IT IN GREAT
DETAIL IN THE BOOK, THE
WESTERN RESPONSE OR LACK
OF RESPONSE.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE
STATE OF THE WEST, IN
TERMS OF WESTERN
LEADERSHIP, DEALING WITH
THIS THREAT?
ERICK, WE'RE
DISASTEROUSLY VULNERABLE
AND IT IS BY OUR OWN
DOING.
THIS REFUGEE CRISIS THAT
IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW, AND
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF
PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO GET
INTO EUROPE, AND BARACK
OBAMA JUST SAYING TODAY HE
IS GOING TO TAKE 10,000,
AND I'M SURE HE WILL BE
TAKING MORE BEFORE THIS IS
OVER.
LAST FEBRUARY I THE ISLAMIC
STATE SAID IT WOULD FLOOD
EUROPE WITH REFUGEES.
AND THERE WAS AN ISLAMIC
STATE OPERATIVE WHO
RECENTLY GAVE AN INTERVIEW
TO AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST,
AND HE SAID WE'VE SENT
4,000 OF OUR MEN INTO
EUROPE WITH THE REFUGEES.
AND WE'LL BE CARRYING OUT
PLANS TO CONQUER ROME AND
ISLAMIZE EUROPE.
Erick: THERE IS A
PIPELINE GOING FROM EUROPE
TO SYRIA AND BACK AGAIN.
WE HAVE SEEN THOUSANDS OF
EUROPEANS GOING TO SYRIA
AND IRAQ TO JOIN THIS
CALIPHATE.
A LOT OF PEOPLE ASK ME,
ROBERT, HEY, WHAT IS THE
ATTRACTION FOR A
WESTERNER?
WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON THAT?
THE ATTRACTION FROM
WESTERNERS WHO LIVE IN
THESE PROSPEROUS SOCIETIES
GOING TO JOIN THE BARBARIC
ISLAMIC STATE.
BECAUSE THEY CLAIM TO
BE THE CALIPHATE, THE ONLY
LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT FOR
ISLAM'S WORLDWIDE.
SEE, THIS IS A SPIRITUAL
APPEAL, A RELIGIOUS
APPEAL.
THIS IS ONE THING THAT
WESTERN POLICY-MAKERS SEEM
DETERMINED NOT TO
UNDERSTAND.
SO JUST YESTERDAY IT WAS
ANNOUNCED IN MINNEAPOLIS,
THEY'RE GOING TO OPEN UP
YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS
TO PREVENT YOUNG MUSLIMS
FROM JOINING THE JIHAD.
WHAT IF YOU HAD A CHANCE
TO BECOME A WARRIOR OF GOD
ALMIGHTY, AND ONE OF HIS
ELECT, WHO WERE
IMPLEMENTING HIS TRUE
GOVERNMENT HE WANTS IN THE
WORLD, VERSUS RUNNING A
BASKETBALL TEAM?
Erick: I'VE SPENT
TIME IN THE COMMUNITIES
THERE, AND DANGEROUS
STUFF.
YOU CAN SEE A GLIMPSE OF
HOW THE REFUGEE CRISIS IN
EUROPE CAN AFFECT US HERE.
LOOK AT THE SOMALI
REFUGEES.
IT HAS BECOME A TERROR
HOTBED IN THE TWIN CITIES.
JUST MOVING ON A BIT,
ISLAMIC PROPHECY, I THINK
THIS IS A FASCINATING
ASPECT OF THE BOOK.
YOU GET INTO -- WE TALKED
ABOUT IDEOLOGY.
BUT IT IS DEEPER THAN JUST
JIHAD AND SHAR'IA FOR
ISIS.
THEY BELIEVE THEY ARE
WARRIORS FOR THE END
TIMES, FULFILLING ISLAMIC
PROPHECY, RIGHT?
THESE GUYS THINK
THEY'RE GOING TO BRING
ABOUT THE END OF THE
WORLD.
THEY HOPE BY 2025, 10
YEARS FROM NOW, TO BRING
ABOUT THE FINAL BATTLE,
THE FINAL SHOWDOWN BETWEEN
THE MUSLIMS AND THE
NON-MUSLIMS.
THEY THINK AT THAT TIME,
THE AMERICANS AND WHATEVER
REMAINS OF THEIR ALLIES --
THEY THINK THEY WILL HAVE
CONQUERED QUITE A FEW OF
THEM BEFORE THAT.
THAT THE AMERICANS WILL
COME TO THE TOWN IN
NORTHERN SYRIA CALLED
DABIK, AND THAT IS WHERE
MUHAMMAD IS SUPPOSED TO
HAVE SAID THAT WILL BE THE
FINAL BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD
AND EVIL, AND THE MUSLIMS,
OF COURSE, BEING GOOD.
AND JESUS, THE MUSLIM
PROPHET, WILL DESCEND FROM
PARADISE AND CONQUER AND
IISLAMIZE THE ENTIRE WORLD.
IT IS JUST A TOWN OF 3,000
PEOPLE, AND THEY THINK
THEY'RE GOING TO BRING
THIS ABOUT IN 10 YEARS.
Erick: THEIR ONLINE
MAGAZINE IS CALLED DABIK.
IT SHOWS YOU THE ISLAMIC
PROPHECY TO WHAT IS
DRIVING ISIS.
ROBERT, A LOT OF AMERICANS
I SPEAK TO AT TIMES SAY,
LOOK, IT IS HORRIBLE WHAT
ISIS IS DOING.
THEY'RE KILLING CHRISTIANS
AND BEHEADING THEM, BUT
WHY SHOULD I CARE?
THEY'RE THOUSANDS OF MILES
AWAY?
WHY SHOULD AMERICANS CARE
ABOUT ISIS?
ERICK, JUST IN AUGUST
ALONE THERE WERE ARRESTS
IN CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK,
AND MISSISSIPPI OF YOUNG
MUSLIMS TRYING TO JOIN THE
ISLAMIC STATE.
AND THERE HAVE BEEN
ARRESTS ALL LAST YEAR
SINCE ISIS DECLARED THE
CALIPHATE OF MANY MUSLIMS
PLOTTING TO CARRY OUT
TERROR ATTACKS IN THE
UNITED STATES, IN
FULFILLMENT OF CALLS BY
THE ISLAMIC STATE.
THEY'RE HERE.
THEY'RE GOING OVER THERE
TO LEARN JIHAD.
AND THEN COME BACK HERE.
SOME ARE EVEN STAYING HERE
AND CARRYING OUT THE ORDER
ORDERS OF THE ISLAMIC
STATE TO CARRY OUT ATTACKS
AGAINST POLICEMEN AND
OTHERS.
Erick: THAN THINK ABOUT
WHAT al-QAEDA WAS ABLE
TO DO IN 9/11.
YOU CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT
ISIS IS DOING IN SYRIA AND
IRAQ, AND WITH THE ADDED
BENEFIT OF THOUSANDS OF
WESTERN RECRUITS.
ROBERT, I WANT TO ASK YOU
ABOUT THE PERSECUTION, THE
SLAUGHTER OF CHRISTIANS
AND YAZIDIS.
TALK ABOUT HOW THIS DOES
NOT COME IN A VACUUM.
ISIS DID NOT JUST CREATE
THIS.
TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE
ISLAMIC HISTORY IN TERMS
OF PERSECUTION OF
CHRISTIANS.
ISLAMIC LAW IS VERY
SPECIFIC: YOU HAVE TO
CONVERT TO ISLAM, OR
SUBMIT TO ISLAMIC RULE AS
A PROTECTED PERSON, DENIED
BASIC RIGHTS, AND FORCED
TO ENDURE
INSTITUTIONALIZED
DISCRIMINATION OR DIE.
CONVERSION, SUBJUGATION,
OR DEATH ARE THE THREE
CHOICES FOR CHRISTIANS AND
OTHER PEOPLE CONSIDERED
THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK.
YAYAZIDIS WHO ARE NOT
CONSIDERED PEOPLE OF THE
BOOK ARE WORSE.
THEY HAVE TO SUBMIT OR
DIE.
FOR 1400 YEARS AGO, OR A
1,000 YEARS IN THE MIDDLE
EAST, THE CHRISTIANS AND
YAZIDIS DID SUBMIT TO THE
ISLAMIC RULE AND PAID THE
TAX SPECIFIED IN THE QURAN
AND THEY ACCEPTED THE
DENIAL OF RIGHTS FOR THE
PRIVILEGE OF BEING ALLOWED
TO LIVE.
NOW THOSE LAWS WERE SET
ASIDE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
19th CENTURY UNDER THE
OTTOMAN EMPIREMENT AND THE
CHRISTIANS AND OTHER
NON-MUSLIMS ENJOYED
RELATIVELY EQUAL RIGHTS IN
SYRIA AND IRAQ IN
PARTICULAR.
BUT THE ISLAMIC STATE CAME
IN AND WANTED TO REASSERT
THE LAWS SPECIFIED IN THE
QURAN FOR THE SUBJUGATION
OF THE NON-MUSLIMS.
SO THEY WERE CONSIDERED
INFIDELS AT WAR WITH
ISLAM, AND THEY HAD TO BE
KILLED.
SO SO MINU MANY HAVE BEEN
KILLED.
Erick: THERE IS A
GENOCIDE AGAINST
CHRISTIANS OPENLY, AND
YAZIDIS, AND WESTERN
ELITES JUST WHISTLE AND
LOOK THE OTHER WAY.
ROBERT, WE HAVE ABOUT A
MINUTE AND A HALF LEFT.
PRESIDENT OBAMA, HOW
DISASTEROUS HAS HE BEEN
FOR THE WAR AGAINST
ISLAMISM AND JIHAD?
HE SAID IN ONE OF HIS
AUTOBIOGRAPHYS THAT THE
POLITICAL WIND SHIFTED
OUTSIDE WITH THE MUSLIMS.
AND PEOPLE DISMISSED THAT
AND POOH-POOHED IT, BUT IF
YOU LOOK AT HIS
PRESIDENCY, HE HAS DONE
THIS IN EVERY PARTICULAR.
HE KILLED BIN LADEN, BUT
THAT WAS IN PROCESS BEFORE
HE BECAME PRESIDENT.
HE HAS AIDED THE PEACEFUL
IMPOSITION OF ISLAMIC LAW
EVERYWHERE HE COULD.
Erick: CLEARLY VERY,
VERY FOND OF ISLAM.
ROBERT, YOU'RE OPTMISTIC,
PESSIMISTIC?
WHAT DO YOU THINK IS
COMING NEXT IN THE FIGHT
AGAINST ISIS?
WILL IT HIT A TIPPING
POINT WHERE THE WEST WAKES
UP?
I HOPE SO.
I WAS BORN IN SOUTH
CAROLINA, AND THE STATE
MOTTO IS "WHILE I BREATHE,
I HOPE."
BUT IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD
FOR US NOW.
THE ISIS PEOPLE SAY WE
LOVE DEATH MORE THAN YOU
LOVE LIFE, AND THAT GIVES
ME HOPE BECAUSE LIFE
ALWAYS KWO CONQUERS OVER
DEATH.
Erick: THE BOOK IS
CALLED "THE COMPLETE
INFIDEL'S GUIDE TO ISIS."
ROBERT, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
GOD BLESS YOU, MY FRIEND.
KEEP IT UP.
YOU, TOO, ERICK.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Erick: UP NEXT, THE
SO-CALLED REFUGEE CRISIS
IN EUROPE AND WHAT IT
MEANS FOR YOU.
STICK AROUND.
Erick: AND WELCOME
BACK.
IF YOU WANT A GLIMPSE OF
WHAT THE FUTURE LOOKS LIKE
FOR AMERICA IF IT
CONTINUES ON ITS CURRENT
COURSE, LOOK NO FURTHER
THAN WESTERN EUROPE.
THE LARGE AND GROWING
MUSLIM POPULATION THERE IS
RESTLESS, AND IN MANY
CASES UNASSIMILATED AND
RADICALIZED.
THOUSANDS OF EUROPEAN
MUSLIMS HAVE TRAVELLED
OVERSEAS TO JOIN ISIS, AND
NOW THOUSANDS OF MUSLIM
REFUGEES ARE DESCENDING ON
EUROPE, WHICH MEANS WE
WILL SEE MORE CULTURE
CLASHES IN THE VERY NEAR
FUTURE.
I RECENTLY SAT DOWN WITH
ELIZABETH WOLFE, A LEADING
COUNTERJIHAD ACTIVIST IN
AUSTRIA TO FIND OUT WHAT
THIS ALL MEANS FOR THE
FUTURE OF EUROPE AND FOR
YOU.
TAKE A LOOK.
AND WE'RE JOINED NOW BY
ELIZABETH WOLFE.
WELCOME BACK TO CBN NEWS.
ERICK, IT IS SUCH A
PLEASURE TO BE BACK.
THANK YOU, ERICK.
Erick: YOU WERE MY
EXPERT GUIDE IN VIENNA A
FEW YEARS AGO.
WE HAD MANY REPORTS ON CBN
FROM THAT AUSTRIA TRIP.
SPEAKING OF VIENNA, NUMBER
ONE, IT IS GREAT TO HAVE
YOU HERE IN WASHINGTON,
D.C.
SPEAKING OF VIENNA, RIGHT
NOW VIENNA AND AUSTRIA,
WHERE YOU'RE BASED, ARE
KIND OF GROUND ZERO FOR
THIS MIGRANT CRISIS AS IT
IS BEING CALLED IN EUROPE.
GIVE US, ELIZABETH, KIND
OF A FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT AND
VIEW OF WHAT IS GOING ON
RIGHT NOW IN EUROPE WITH
THESE REFUGEES COMING FROM
SYRIA, IRAQI, AFGHANISTAN,
AND GOD KNOWS WHERE ELSE.
POOX I WOULDN'T CALL THIS A
REFUGEE CRISIS.
THIS IS A FULL-BLOWN
INVASION.
THESE ARE PEOPLE COMING IN
FROM ALL OVER THE PLACE.
THESE ARE YOUNG MEN.
THESE THES ARE NOT WOMEN AND
CHILDREN.
I WOULD ARGUE, BY LOOKING
AT THE PICTURES THAT WE
SEE ON TELEVISION AND IN
NEWSPAPERS, THAT THESE ARE
YOUNG MEN, PROBABLY FROM
SYRIA, A LOT OF THEM FROM
PAKISTAN.
YOU WONDER WHAT IS GOING
ON IN PAKISTAN.
THERE IS NO WAR IN
PAKISTAN.
AND YOU ALSO HAVE A LOT OF
THEM FROM SOMALIA.
AND, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT
SYRIAN.
I WOULDN'T CALL THIS A
SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS.
AND I WOULD ALSO ASK, CAN
WE PLEASE SEPARATE THE
TERMS.
WHAT IS A MIGRANT?
WHAT IS AN IMMIGRANT?
AND WHAT IS AN
ASYLUM-SEEKER?
IT IS A VERY CRUCIAL
DISTINCTION BECAUSE THE
GENEVA CONVENTION HAS VERY
STRICT RULES REGARDING
ASYLUM-SEEKERS.
AND ONE OF THOSE RULES AND
REGULATIONS ARE BEING
BROKEN EVERY SINGLE DAY.
IF YOU HAVE MIGRANTS, OR
WHATEVER YOU WANT TO COME
THEM, ENTERING AUSTRIA
FROM HUNGARY, THEY ARE
BREAKING NUMEROUS LAWS
ALREADY.
THEY SHOULD NOT BE IN
AUSTRIA WITHOUT A VISA,
WITHOUT SOME SORT OF
IDENTIFICATION.
THEY SHOULD BE
FINGERPRINTED IN THE FIRST
COUNTRY THEY ENTER WITHIN
THE EUROPEAN UNION OR THE
SHINANG AREA.
GERMANY AND AUSTRIA ARE
CERTAINLY NOT THE FIRST
COUNTRIES THEY ARE
ENTERING.
THEY WOULD BE ENTERING
EITHER HUNGARY, MALTA, OR
ITALY.
AND WHERE ARE THEY?
THEY'RE MARCHING FOR
BUDAPEST TO VIENNA,
DEMANDING ENTRANCE INTO
AUSTRIA.
IF I WERE KNOCKING ON THE
DOOR AT DULLES AIRPORT
SAYING I DEMAND TO BE LET
INTO THE UNITED STATES, I
WOULD BE LAUGHED OUT OF
TOWN.
Erick: AND DEMANDING
TO BE SENT TO A CERTAIN
STATE.
RIGHT.
THEY HAVE NO RIGHT UNDER
THE GENEVA CONVENTION TO
SAY I'M AN ASYLUM-SEEKER
AND I DEMAND TO BE BROUGHT
TO MY FRIENDS IN BERLIN OR
WHAT HAVE YOU.
THEY MUST STAY IN THE
FIRST COUNTRY OF ENTRY.
Erick: NOW YOU HAVE
SERIOUS CONCERNS,
OBVIOUSLY, ABOUT THE
CULTURE CLASHES THAT COULD
ENSUE FROM THIS.
THE POSSIBILITY THAT
JIHADISTS AND THE LIKES OF
ISIS, WHICH ALREADY HAS AN
EXTENSIVE NETWORK IN
EUROPE, COULD INFILTRATE
HERE, RIGHT.
THESE ARE MUSLIM REFUGEES.
YOU KNOW EXACTLY
FROM -- WHEN YOU AND I
WENT UNDERCOVER IN VIENNA
AND WE CHECKED OUT THE
MOSQUES, YOU KNOW HOW MANY
SO-CALLED AUSTRIANS HAVE
LEFT TO JOIN THE JIHAD.
WE HAVE VERY HIGH NUMBERS.
WHY DO WE HAVE THOSE HIGH
NUMBERS?
BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF
BOSNIANS FROM THE LAST WAR
IN BOSNIA.
THESE ARE REFUGEES WHO
CAME IN FROM, DURING, AND
AFTER THE BOSNIAN CRISIS.
AND NOW A LOT OF THEM ARE
IN THE MOSQUES.
THEY'RE BEING RADICALIZED,
AND THEN THEY SHIP
THEMSELVES AWAY, OFF TO
SYRIA.
AND WE HAVE A MINISTER OF
INTERIOR WHO TELLS US,
WE'RE GOING TO PREVENT
THEM FROM LEAVING BECAUSE
OBVIOUSLY I WOULD QUITE
HAPPY IF THEY LEFT THE
COUNTRY AND NEVER
RETURNED.
Erick: RIGHT.
REVOKED THEIR CITIZEN
SHCHSHIP,AND WE SAY THE SAME IN THE
U.S.
AND THIS IS VIENNA, ONE OF
THE GREAT CITIES OF
WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
THIS IS AUSTRIA, WHERE
THIS IS ALL GOING DOWN.
TALK ABOUT THE CULTURE
CLASHES RIGHT NOW THAT ARE
INCREASING IN AUSTRIA,
ELIZABETH.
YOU'RE THERE.
YOU LIVE THERE.
YOU SEE IT FIRSTHAND.
I DO.
I SEE THE MOSQUES.
I SEE THE RHETORIC.
I SEE, YOU KNOW -- YOU
WERE IN VIENNA, WHAT, FOUR
YEARS AGO?
Erick: YES.
YOU WOULDN'T RECOGNIZE
IT NOW.
THERE ARE SO MANY
JIBAD-CLAD WOMEN.
THE STREETS ARE FILLED
WITH REFUGEES, AND IT IS
FILTHY.
WHEREVER THE THESE PEOPLE
GO -- I LIVED IN KUWAIT
AND LIBYA, AND THESE
PLACES ARE FILTHY AS WELL.
AND NOW THIS IS BEING
BROUGHT INTO EUROPE.
THE FILTH.
Erick: WE'LL LEAVE IT
RIGHT THERE.
MUCH MORE COMING BACK WITH
ELIZABETH WOLFE.
MUCH MORE COMING UP AFTER
THE BREAK.
STICK AROUND.
Erick: AND WELCOME
BACK.
WE'RE TALKING TO ELIZABETH
WOLFE, A BOARD MEMBER IN
CHARGE OF INTERNATIONAL
AFFAIRS, AND THE AUSTRIA
CHAPTER LEADER FOR A GREAT
GROUP CALLED "ACT FOR
AMERICA."
ELIZABETH, THIS WASN'T
YOUR FOCUS.
YOU'RE A MOM.
YOU WERE ALWAYS FASCINATED
BY THIS AND OBVIOUSLY
INVOLVED, BUT YOU REALLY
BECAME AN ACTIVIST, I
SHOULD SAY, OVER THE PAST
SEVERAL YEARS.
TELL US HOW YOU HAVE
DEVOTED YOUR LIFE TO THIS
CAUSE, THIS CAUSE AGAINST
JIHAD AND PRESERVING
WESTERN CULTURE.
YOU SEE, I GOT INTO
THIS BECAUSE I SAW THE WAY
AUSTRIA HAD CHANGED
ALREADY IN THE 1990s.
I WAS LIVING IN KUWAIT AT
THE TIME.
I WAS WORKING THERE AT THE
AUSTRIAN EMBASSY.
AND WHENEVER I RETURNED
HOME, I WOULD RIDE THE
TRAIN AND I WOULD LOOK AT
HOW IT HAD CHANGED.
AND IN JUST ONE YEAR, YOU
WOULD SEE SO MANY
HIJAB-CLAD WOMEN AND EVEN
MORE AND MORE AND MORE.
AND AFTER MY RETURN TO
AUSTRIA, AND I HAD MY
DAUGHTER, WHO IS THE FOCUS
OF MY LIFE, WHICH IS WHY
I'M MENTIONING HER, AND I
THEN STARTED READING A
BOOK AND THAT CHANGED MY
LIFE.
Erick: WHAT WAS THE
BOOK?
THE BOOK WAS CALLED
"GABRIEL'S WHISPERINGS,S,"
WRITTEN BY AN INDIAN
ATHEIST.
HE COMPLETELY CHANGED MY
LIFE BECAUSE IT WAS A BOOK
WRITTEN SOLELY ON ISLAMIC
SCRIPTURE AND ISLAMIC
TEACHING.
NOTHING EUROPEAN OR
NOTHING WESTERN.
IT CHANGED MY LIFE.
SOMEHOW GOD INTERVENE, I
SUPPOSE, AND BROUGHT ME TO
A WONDERFUL GROUP, CENTER
FOR SECURITY POLICY --
Erick: FRANK GAFFNEY.
YES, FRANK GAFFNEY.
AND MY STAR IN THE JIHAD
AREA ROSE BECAUSE I'M
BILINGUAL.
AND BECAUSE I'M A
TRAVELLER BETWEEN THE
UNITED STATES AND EUROPE,
KNOWING BOTH SYSTEMS VERY
WELL, PEOPLE LIKED HAVING
ME AROUND.
I LIVED AND GREW UP IN THE
U.S., AND I HAVE A GREAT
LOVE AND RESPECT FOR THE
U.S. CONSTITUTION, THE
GREATEST PIECE OF PAPER
EVER WRITTEN.
Erick: WE HAVE A
FIRST AMENDMENT HERE IN
AMERICA.
YOU HAVE NOTHING LIKE THAT
IN AUSTRIA.
IN SPEAKING OUT ABOUT
THESE ISSUES YO, YOU HAVE
PAID A PRICE.
I HAVE PAID A PRICE.
BUT THIS PRICE FOR ME,
PERSONALLY, WASN'T HEAVY.
BUT FOR EUROPE IT HAS BEEN
VERY HEAVY.
WHY HASN'T IT BEEN HEAVY
FOR ME?
BECAUSE I'M NOW ABLE TO
SPEAK OUT WITHOUT THIS
LAWSUIT THAT WAS BROUGHT
AGAINST ME, I WOULD NOT BE
SITTING HERE WITH YOU
TODAY.
Erick: THE LAWSUIT
WAS A FEW YEARS AGO,
BASICALLY CHARGING YOU
WITH HATE SPEECH.
IF IT WAS HATE SPEECH,
AND THEN IT WAS
DENIGRATION OF RELIGIOUS
TEACHINGS.
AND I WAS TOLD TO PAY A
FINE, WHICH I DID.
AND BASICALLY FREEDOM OF
SPEECH IS DEAD IN EUROPE.
IT HAS BEEN DEAD FOR A
WHILE.
AND IT IS REALLY, REALLY
DETERIORATING EVEN MORE.
Erick: AND THAT'S WHY
AMERICANS SHOULD CARE,
RIGHT, ELIZABETH?
ABSOLUTELY.
Erick: BECAUSE THAT
COULD COME HERE.
WE SEE THAT CREEPING IN
HERE ALREADY.
THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS
I WANTED TO HAVE YOU ON
THE SHOW.
YOUR STORY AND WHAT IS
HAPPENING IN AUSTRIA IS A
CAUTIONARY TALE FOR THE
UNITED STATES.
NOT ONLY THAT, I'M NOT
THE ONLY PERSON.
PEOPLE ARE BEING ROUNDED
UP AND BEING SNITCHED ON
BY THEIR CO-WORKERS FOR
SAYING THINGS THAT ARE
NOT --
Erick: POLITICALLY
CORRECT ABOUT ISLAM.
-- POLITICALLY CORRECT
ABOUT ISLAM.
YOU HAVE A CERTAIN
CORRIDOR, WHAT YOU CAN
SAY.
IF YOU LEAVE THAT
CORRIDOR, YOU WILL LOSE
YOUR JOB.
WUL BE REPORTED TO THE
AUTHORITIES.
YOU WILL BE PROSECUTED.
Erick: YOU'RE A HATE
MONGER AND A BIGOT.
WE'RE SEEING THAT IN THE
UNITED STATES ON CERTAIN
ISSUES AS WELL.
AND YOU, PLEASE -- I
BEG YOU, EVERY TIME I COME
TO THE U.S., YOU MUST
FIGHT FOR THE FIRST AMEND
AMENDMENT.
BECAUSE AFTER AMERICA,
THERE IS NO PLACE TO GO.
WE NEED TO PRESERVE
AMERICA.
THE GOOD OLD AMERICA, NOT
THE ONE THAT THE PERSON
PRESIDENT VOWED TO CHANGE
DRAMATICALLY.
Erick: WE HAVE 30
SECOND LEFT.
BUT EUROPE, YOU'RE NOT
VERY OPTMISTIC.
NO.
Erick: BUT YOU'RE
GOING TO KEEP ON FIGHTING?
I HAVE NO CHOICE.
I HAVE A LITTLE GIRL.
I WILL FIGHT TO THE END
FOR THE FREEDOM FOR MY
LITTLE GIRL.
I SHARE IT WITH SO MANY
PEOPLE, AND I SALUTE THOSE
PEOPLE.
WE'RE IN THIS FIGHT
TOGETHER, AND I SALUTE YOU
BECAUSE YOU'RE ALSO DOING
THE SAME THING AND IT IS
SO IMPORTANT.
FREEDOM COMES AT A COST,
BUT IT IS WORTH IT.
Erick: IT IS.
ELIZABETH, THANK YOU SO
MUCH.
GOD BLESS YOU.
KEEP IT UP.
ACactforAmerican.org AND
SHE IS THE BOARD MEMBER AT
PACK SHEROPA.
MUCH MORE AFTER THE BREAK.
STICK AROUND.
Erick: AND WELCOME
BACK.
THANKS TO ROBERT SPENCER,
ELIZABETH WOLFE FOR
JOINING US TODAY AND
SOUNDING THE ALARM ABOUT
THE GATHERING THREAT AT
THE WEST'S DOORSTEP.
AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING
US HERE ON "THE WATCHMAN."
UNTIL NEXT TIME, GOD BLESS
AND REMEMBER, NEVER HOLD
YOUR PEACE.