I’m going to especially miss it since its the last gasp of a level of involvment by Michelle Malkin and other illuminaries here at Hot Air that we haven’t seen in a long while.

However, I would like to mildly chide my fellow readers- I personally hesitate to assume that Ms. Malkin is asking Dr. Spencer to move for any reasons other than professional. She has been a persistent fighter against Islamic creep in all its forms, and I feel certain that this move is for reasons that she and Dr. Spencer worked out together for their mutual benefit. Until and unless we are otherwise enlightened, it is churlish of us to assume motives that are otherwise.

StoneHeads on August 25, 2008 at 4:00 PM

Sorry, I’ve been trying to think of one “professional” reason for this weekly feature to be shuffled off. I suppose if Mr Spencer were being compensated for his work here it might make sense in some way but that has never been mentioned. Somebody needs to say something non-cryptic about this if they don’t want the worst to be assumed. Wouldn’t that be “professional”??

Like many of the other posters, I’m pretty disappointed by this move. Guess I’ll add Jihad Watch to my IE startup list then.

However, I would like to mildly chide my fellow readers- I personally hesitate to assume that Ms. Malkin is asking Dr. Spencer to move for any reasons other than professional. She has been a persistent fighter against Islamic creep in all its forms, and I feel certain that this move is for reasons that she and Dr. Spencer worked out together for their mutual benefit. Until and unless we are otherwise enlightened, it is churlish of us to assume motives that are otherwise.

In the meantime, I wish to add my voice to thank Ms. Malkin for hosting the ‘Blogging the Q’uran’ series (and all the other content that Allahpundit and Captain Ed provide) and Dr. Spencer for his monumental work in putting this series together for our education. I look forward to its continuance at the Jihad Watch site.

Thanks Mr Spencer we all appreciate your scholarship.

It seems a bit odd that, a week after some numb nuts posted how stupid and boring this series was, suddenly it is no longer welcome here?

I usually don’t get to visit this site until Monday mornings, but one of the only reasons I made it a point to visit was this Blogging the Qur’an series.

I sure wish Michelle, et al, would post the reason for this move. I am sure (or at least hopeful) that it has a rational basis.

Thank you very much Mr. Spencer for sharing your knowledge and insight with us. This was really the only “reader friendly” way I had of finding out exactly what the Qur’an said, but alas . . . . .

See you over at JW.

I will definitely follow you to Jihad Watch, and I am extremely disappointed in this site’s decision to bump this most excellent, interesting, informative, and in this day and age, critically important series.

So, may I just say thank you, Mr Spencer, for making the effort to write these weekly articles and answering the questions that arise.

I believe you once remarked that you had a strong affection (my words, not yours) for the Qur’an which rather amazed me. I did try to read your articles each week but I confess that I do find the Qur’an itself to be a dreary, soul-destroying read and the supposedly special teachings of Islam to be tediously evil and foolish. I am glad that you have been able to grapple with it without, it seems, becoming depressed by your contact with it.

Thank you again for your contributions here, and the effort that you have put into this project.

That’s a bad Michelle!

:)

Because of MM, Mr. Spencer you have sold several (dozen) books as I continue to buy them and give them to my friends.

Mr. Spencer, in your own words you stated your intentions thus:

So over the course of the next few months, I’m going to read it, and discuss it in a series of columns. All of it. Not “cherry-picked” or “out of context.” The whole thing, beginning to end. Some of you may be familiar with David Plotz’s series on Slate, “Blogging the Bible.” This series will be similar to that one, but rather than just write about what I think or feel about a certain passage, I will, unlike Plotz, refer to commentaries – all Muslim ones – on the Qur’an. I’ll try to explain how mainstream Muslims who study the Qur’an will understand any given passage, and what its import might be for non-Muslims.

Well I guess a few months turned into years but by continuing the series you show yourself to be a man of your word and an all around class act. Many people of accomplishment are not recognized in their own time. I hope (and pray) that it will not take another 9/11/01, or something much worse for the public opinion to think that of your work.

Most Sundays I read your post, Robert, though I don’t comment. Thanks for blogging for us.

- The Cat

*looks at pic* sorry you were saying?

sven10077 on August 24, 2008 at 8:52 AM

Word. Who is the talent?

What’s really sorta comical about this is that I wouldn’t even know about Hot Air is it weren’t for Jihad Watch. I followed a link from there to here a few months after Hot Air went online. It was great fun to go back through the archives and watch all the daily videos to get caught up.

Once those stopped this site did get pretty boring.

Maybe she can’t afford the bandwidth because of all the links? I don’t know how this stuff works, but I hope she explains herself. She must have known that she was committing herself to a couple of years when she agreed to do it.

Well, maybe they don’t care about their page hits on Sundays. I have no reason to come here on Sundays anymore.

Don’t think so. Might be internal politics, a.k.a. ambiguity to the outside.

MDE, I agree. Unfortunately we will probably never know :( Robert is too class to say.

I guess this is part of the right wing shift to protecting Islam by censoring any negativity in order to curry favor with the restive folk in places like Iraq and Dearborn.

BL@KBIRD on August 24, 2008 at 12:33 PM

Don’t think so. Might be internal politics, a.k.a. ambiguity to the outside.

Considering that neither presidential candidate knows their elbows from their nether regions when it comes to Islam, I suppose there is no reason to consider America has any chance against Islam so they may as well censor Islam at HotAir so as not to appear racist to independents or Hillary waifs who might vote for McCain and whatever advisers Saudi Arabia provides him.

Apparently, stories about balloon and bunting fund raising and transitory meaningless election trivia is the rule of the day.

I, too, will follow the series at JW, I already check in several times a week. Thank you, Robert, for your diligence and hard work!

There is ambiguity in every business/house.