Spencer comes out for ending all Muslim immigration from Muslim countries by Lawrence Auster

For the last couple of years I have been calling on Robert Spencer and other leading Islam critics to go beyond hand-wringing about the Islamic menace and take a position on Muslim immigration that was rationally consistent with their view that Islam represents a mortal threat to our civilization. Such a position, I said in my article, "The Minimum," meant, at a minimum, the end of further immigration of Muslims to the United States. In the interests of making things easier for the Islam critics, I later modified that minimal requirement to a drastic reduction of Muslim immigration. Spencer, as endlessly documented at this website, has consistently refused to take such a position. He has claimed to believe in Muslim immigration restriction, but that turned out to consist only of his idea of screening Muslim immigration applicants for jihadist sympathies, an approach that I said would not work. He has repeatedly alluded to the desirability of Muslim immigration restriction, but has never enunciated that position himself. He has stuck his toe in the water of Muslim immigration restriction but has refused to jump in. Now at long last he has jumped in. He writes today at Jihad Watch:

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