Hugh Fitzgerald is board member of Jihad Watch. Jihad Watch is a website hosted by Middle East author Robert Spencer that aims to to bring public attention to the role that Jihad theology and ideology plays in the modern world. ...

JihadWatch contribution

• JihadWatch is a group founded and directed by Spencer. Spencer has received much criticism for the views of other JihadWatch members and readers, despite the fact these statements are often not made or posted by Spencer. Given that Spencer offers JihadWatch positions to people with more extreme stated views [1], and then posts articles authored by these Board Members, has led to Spencer being associated with, and criticised for, those extreme views.

• • Most notably, articles and comments by JihadWatch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald, whom Spencer describes as "one of the most brilliantly insightful commentators on the scene today, and am honored that he has joined forces with my humble efforts" [2] are seen as particularly incendiary. For example:

• • • "A complete ban on Muslim migration to the Western world (which needs to be undertaken in any case), and limits put on any contact between Muslims living in the West, who may already have obtained citizenship and -- unless they are native-born converts -- their countries of origin." authored by Fitzgerald, posted by Spencer on the JihadWatch website.[3]

• • • "And the first way is to put a complete stop to Muslim immigration, and to find creative ways to deport all Muslim non-citizens. These two measures would be accompanied by the creation of an environment where the practice of Islam is made not easy but difficult."[4], authored by Fitzgerald and posted by Spencer on the JihadWatch website.

• • • "If possible, not only should [muslim] migration be stopped, but life can be made more difficult, if not by the government, then by private individuals, so that Moslems will be discouraged from remaining. What do I mean? I mean that we, as private citizens, do not have to hire Moslems, we do not have to buy their goods, or make their lives, economically, more rewarding. It may seem mean, and many of you may be offended by it, and I am perfectly aware that there are nice Moslems, that there are those who simply ignore the main tenets of Islam. But as a group, the Moslems are a threat to me and those I love. Even the innocent ones, merely by being here, swell Moslem political power."[5].

• • • The West must "Understand how very useless is the concept of the "moderate" Muslim -- because it is impossible to know when someone's "moderation" is real or feigned"[6] and must take "specific moves to limit Muslim immigration. This can only take place if the Idols of the Age, about Diversity and Everyone Wants the Same Thing and Tolerance is Always the Only Conceivable Policy, are undermined, mocked, and shown up as the dangers they are."[7] authored by Fitzgerald and posted by Spencer on the JihadWatch website.