Osama bin Laden. Anwar al-Awlaki. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Robert Spencer? BY ROBERT SPENCER 2020-04-06T14:06:34 If we all agree to ignore the passages in the Quran that enjoin believers to be violent toward non-Muslims, theyll go away, right? If we deny that such passages even exist, jihadis will cease acting upon them, wont they?