Robert Spencer is an expert on radical Islam, a frequent guest commenter on Fox News, and has given seminars to various law enforcement units in the United States. An author of a number of books on Islam, including two New York Times bestsellers, Spencer is the founder of the Jihad Watch blog.

In a post on Jihad Watch, Spencer wrote that on May 11, 2017, shortly after he had delivered a lecture on the jihad threat in Reykjavik, Iceland, he was poisoned by a „young leftist” who approached him in the Grand Hotel’s bar.

Spencer writes:

It happened after the event, when my security chief, the organizers of the event, and Jihad Watch writer Christine Williams, who had also been invited to speak, went with me to a local restaurant to celebrate the success of the evening.

At this crowded Reykjavik establishment, I was quickly recognized. A young…