Watch Record Setting NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Return to Earth Tonight. NASA astronaut and biochemist Peggy Whitson will return to Earth as the planets new record holder for longest time cumulatively spent on space by an American or a woman this weekend, touching down in a Russian Soyuz capsule in Kazakhstan at 7 2. Eastern. Whitson has spent the last nine and a half months in Earth orbit on the International Space Station, per the Washington Post, and counting her previous flights, will have logged 6. During her current mission, she also set the world record for oldest woman in space at 5. As the Post noted, she is also the only female astronaut to have commanded the ISS twice. According to the Post, one of the colleagues returning with her has spent even longer in the aether Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, who has cumulatively spent eight more days aloft than Whitson at 6. The current world record holder, cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, spent some 8. Russians have long dominated both cumulative and single flight durations in space the single longest spaceflight record holder is Valeri Polyakov, who spent just short of 4. As Tech. Crunch noted, Whitson was scheduled to return in June but happily accepted an invitation to stay on the ISS longer when Russian space agency Roscosmos canceled a joint mission to the station earlier in 2. Also accompanying Whitson and Yurchikhin on their way home is US astronaut Jack Fischer, who will have spent 1. Whitson wrote she will hugely miss the freedom of floating and moving with the lightest of touch, especially those first few days after my return when gravity will especially SUCK, the Post reported. She will also miss the enchantingly peaceful limb of our Earth, adding, Until the end of my days, my eyes will search the horizon to see that curve. Watch Whitson, Yurchikhin and Fischers return in real time via NASAs live feed below. Tech. Robert Spencer author Wikipedia. Robert Bruce Spencer born February 2. Watch Einstein And Eddington Online (2017). American author and blogger and a key figure of the counter jihad movement in the United States. He appears frequently on Fox News2 and has given seminars to various law enforcement units in the United States. Spencer, a self proclaimed expert on radical Islam,4 has published a number of books on the subject including two New York Times bestsellers. In 2. Jihad Watch, a blog which he describes as containing news of the international jihad, and commentary6 which is dedicated to bringing public attention to the role that jihad theology and ideology plays in the modern world, and to correcting popular misconceptions about the role of jihad and religion in modern day conflicts. He has also co founded Stop Islamization of America SIOA and the Freedom Defense Initiative with blogger Pamela Geller, with whom he also co authored a book, The Post American Presidency The Obama Administrations War on America. His viewpoints have been described as anti Islamic or Islamophobic,8 while he denies this and says he focuses his criticism on radical Islam and its violence. In 2. UK Home Office has barred Spencer and Geller from travel to the UK for 3 to 5 years for making statements that may foster hatred that might lead to inter community violence. Background. Spencer is a member of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, the Eastern Catholic Antiochian Greek Catholic counterpart of the ancient Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch. RT delivers latest news and current events from around the world including special reports, entertainment news and exclusive video. NASA astronaut and biochemist Peggy Whitson will return to Earth as the planets new record holder for longest time cumulatively spent on space by an American or a. At a press conference on Sunday, angry citizens ran off Jason Kessler, the organizer of a disastrous rally for white supremacists, neoNazis and other members of the. Secret Weapons US Will Use in War versus Russia Guided Bullet and DroneLike Nuclear Bomber. It is a sui iuris church of the Catholic Church whose adherents are, according to Spencer, mostly concentrated in Lebanon and Syria, also in Jordan and the Palestinian territories. In a 2. Spencer stated that his grandparents were forced to emigrate from an area that is now part of Turkey because they were Christians. According to a 2. New York magazine, Spencers father worked for the Voice of America during the Cold War, and in his younger days, Spencer himself worked at Revolution Books, a Maoist bookstore in New York City founded by Robert Avakian. International Business Times is the leading provider of business news and financial news from the US and around the world. Watch War, Inc. Online Ibtimes' title='Watch War, Inc. Online Ibtimes' />Spencer received an M. A. in 1. 98. 6 in religious studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His masters thesis was on Catholic history. He has said he has been studying Islamic theology, law, and history since 1. BibMe Free Bibliography Citation Maker MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. He worked in think tanks for more than 2. Free Congress Foundation, an arm of the Heritage Foundation. Spencer named Paul Weyrich, also a Melkite Catholic, as a mentor of his writings on Islam. Apple-Watch-2-Reuters-Beck-Diefenbach.jpg' alt='Watch War, Inc. Online Ibtimes' title='Watch War, Inc. Online Ibtimes' />Spencer writes, Paul Weyrich taught me a great deal, by word and by example  about how to deal both personally and professionally with the slanders and smears that are a daily aspect of this work. Views on Islam. Spencer does not believe that traditional Islam is inherently terroristic but says he can prove that traditional Islam contains violent and supremacist elements, and that its various schools unanimously teach warfare against and the subjugation of unbelievers. However, he rejects the notion that all Muslims are necessarily violent people. He has said that among moderate Muslims, there are some who are genuinely trying to frame a theory and practice of Islam that will allow for peaceful coexistence with unbelievers as equals. Spencer co founded Stop Islamization of America SIOA and the American Freedom Defense Initiative AFDI with Pamela Geller in 2. Both organizations are designated as hate groups by the Anti Defamation League1. Southern Poverty Law Center. In an interview with The Washington Post he was. Spencer chuckled. Why not he asked. Its fun. 2. 2The Council on American Islamic Relations has also condemned Robert Spencer on various occasions. Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto accused Spencer of falsely constructing a divide between Islam and West. She said he was using the Internet to spread hatred of Islam by presenting a skewed, one sided, and inflammatory story that only helps to sow the seed of civilizational conflict. Spencer stated that the passage Bhutto cited was written by Ibn Warraq. Karen Armstrong has criticized Spencers work as showing entrenched hostility towards Islam, and contends that his citations of Islamic scripture are cherry picked,2. Spencer never cites the Korans condemnation of all warfare as an awesome evil, its prohibition of aggression or its insistence that only self defence justifies armed conflict. She concludes that His book is a gift to extremists who can use it to prove. Spencer responds Yet the verse she quotes 2 2. Persecution is worse than killing. Spencer accuses Armstrong of context dropping by omitting the fact that this was a defense for Muhammads war in response to his persecution. Abraham Foxman of the Anti Defamation League ADL called Spencer and Geller American anti Muslim writers because their writings promote a conspiratorial anti Muslim agenda under the pretext of fighting radical Islam. This belief system parallels the creation of an ideologicaland far more deadlyform of anti Semitism in the late 1. He continued, we must always be wary of those whose love for the Jewish people is born out of hatred of Muslims or Arabs. The Institute on Religion and Democracy said about him Spencers comprehensive understanding of his Christian faith and Islam along with lucidly insightful writing give the lie to his international notoriety as a bigoted Islamophobe. Dinesh DSouza, of the Hoover Institution, wrote that Spencer downplays the passages of the Quran that urge peace and goodwill to reach one sided opinions. He contends that Spencer applies a moral standard to Muslim empires that could not have been met by any European empire. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting FAIR listed Spencer as a Smearcaster in an article in 2. Islamic texts and commentaries, Spencer concludes that Islam is innately extremist and violent. During a chapter of ACTAmerica in Mission Vejo in 2. Spencer said that When we see the Islamic State ISIS, we see not only that they embody Islam as I have explained here in this, thats all in the Quran what they do, but also that they embody what may be, the foremost evil force that the world has ever seen. Steve Bannon praised him Hes one of the top two or three experts in the world on this great war we are fighting against fundamental Islam. Reverend C. John Mc.