Interview: Glen Reinsford, Owner of The Religion of Peace, a Site that Charts Acts of Terror

Thereligionofpeace.com

After several months of trying to arrange a time that would good for both of us to sit down and talk I finally received the pleasure of catching Glen Reinsford. He runs the website www.thereligionofpeace.com - a controversial website known for it statistical information and constant updates on Islamic terrorism stretching across the globe. Also unique to his site is an absence of individual opinion, replaced with news and spreadsheets, with only a handful of links to editorial pieces.

His diligence in pursuing information, while leaving most of the conclusions to the reader, was what inspired me to interview him.

Chadd: Firstly I've spent a great deal of time looking over your website - it's been both applauded as a source of incredible information and a terrible hate site. What draws me to your site over Robert Spencer's jihadwatch.com is the amount of accurate information with as little injected opinion as possible. So then, where do you get all this precise information from?

Glen: I guess the information comes from a variety of sources (by the way, I'm not a great speller in real time, so be kind). Just about everything in the way of news and opinion pieces comes from the Web. Same with the list of attacks, which are found on Internet News sources. Many of the articles that I write are based on my own reading.

Chadd: What kind of fact checking do you do to insure that your pieces aren't simply Islamic hate with made up numbers?

Glen: That's a good question. Surprisingly the most inflated numbers out there are on pro-Islam sites, such as JihadUnspun. I never use their numbers. Over the years, I have learned to identify which sources are reputable and which aren't. I can also recognize when the best time to get final numbers is, which is usually not in the immediate aftermath of an attack. I often go back and correct the figures as they solidify.