The talks were videoed and should be on YouTube soon, but in the meantime, here is a typical mainstream media report on my talk in Calgary. Typical, that is, in being viciously biased and unfair — but because it is so typical, it is worth examining a bit. This is supposed to be an article about my speaking in Calgary, but it contains not a word about what I actually said in Calgary. Instead, it is mostly about what a terrible fellow I am. Comments interspersed below.

First, note the headline: “U.S. anti-Muslim blogger Robert Spencer draws hundreds in Calgary as critics condemn ‘dangerous speaker.'” The mainstream media typically defames all foes of jihad terror as “anti-Muslim,” and the charge is as false as it is revealing. The usage indicates that the mainstream media considers opposition to jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women, gays, non-Muslims, etc. to be “anti-Muslim.”

That in turn implies that the mainstream media is well aware that these things are Islamic. Yet in the same breath, the mainstream media claims that none of these things are genuinely Islamic, and that the overwhelming majority of Muslims oppose them. If that is so, then why is opposition to them “anti-Muslim”?

“U.S. anti-Muslim blogger Robert Spencer draws hundreds in Calgary as critics condemn ‘dangerous speaker,'” by David Bell, CBC News, April 28, 2016:

A controversial American author and blogger who slams Islam drew more than 200 people to a Calgary speech Thursday evening along with a cross-section of critics who say he incites hate towards Muslims.

Actually, it was well over 300. Note also that although I spoke for nearly an hour and took questions for another, not a single example is quoted of my supposedly inciting “hate towards Muslims.”