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The Right Getting it Wrong

The response to the jihad against America is either the left's Stockholm Syndrome sympathy for the devil or the Right's hear no jihad, see no jihad, speak no jihad. Not only will the right not discuss the greatest threat to our national security, but they keep a good distance from those of us who do.

But then inevitably, they all become "experts" when a jihadi attack befalls this great nation. The pity is that when they do so, they continue to get it wrong, and they get it wrong at the only time that these critical issues are being discussed. It was mildly amusing yesterday to see National Review's Rich Lowry, who is a stranger to these parts, write an editorial for the NY Post, "Jailed for blasphemy — in America." Yes, Lowry is finally speaking about the enforcement of the blasphemy laws in America. In his column, Lowry speaks about the filmmaker who has been jailed for a silly youtube video in the wake of the Islamic attack on our embsssy in Libya.

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula deserves a place in American history. He is the first person in this country jailed for violating Islamic anti-blasphemy laws.

Nakoula has been a political prisoner for so many months. My headline on September 15, 2012 was  Political Prisoner: US Sharia police pick up Muhammad filmmaker. Robert Spencer wrote on September 17 in PJ Media, before Nakoula was jailed: "Nakoula has a checkered past, reportedly including methamphetamine dealing and bank fraud. But if he is indeed sent back to jail because of this video, no matter what priors he has, no matter how checkered his past, make no mistake: he will be a political prisoner. He will be in prison not for the meth or the fraud or for the technicality of the probation violation, but for insulting Muhammad. His imprisonment will be a symbol of America’s capitulation to the Sharia."

Where has Lowry been for the past eight months? What took him so long? And why does the right suppress voices that speak to this subject? I can assure you that if I or one of my colleagues had submitted such a piece to the Post or any other major publication in September 2012, it would not have run. Why must the mainstream right forever play catch-up, instead of leading?

It is because of the restrictions on discussion on this subject that so many get it so wrong. Take, for example, many of the "experts" who have lately taken to the airwaves to discuss the coverup on the jihad in Libya. The right's designated expert on Islam and the one they feel most comfortable with, Andrew McCarthy, gets it wrong again. Don't misunderstand me: McCarthy is a crack prosecutor, a fine legal mind, but he is no expert on Islam and jihadic doctrine. And it shows in his latest piece, in which he describes Libyan President Al-Muqaryaf as “a liberal in the classic sense." That's as delusional as Obama's depiction of the Arab Spring as a freedom movement. McCarthy means well, but he gets it wrong. The problem is that many on the right take their lead from his writing -- since he is the sole expert that the right will sanction as an expert on Islam. He ain't. He's a lawyer. But it was not surprising that big voices on the right were reading McCarthy's take on Al-Muqaryaf to millions of his listeners. *Sigh* Another rare opportunity to teach the American people blown.

Robert Spencer should be on the Islam beat at NRO, but I haven't seen a piece from him there in years. It is time that the elite right start listening to those who have been right all along, and stop going back again and again to analysts whose analyses have been proven wrong, disastrously wrong, for years now.

Libya's 'Classical Liberal' Sharia Supremacist Leader

But notwithstanding Al-Muqaryaf’s steadfast refusal ^[4] to abide the Obama Administration’s deceitfully redacted, false scenario—constructed to uphold its politically-contrived Big Lie about “the demise of Al Qaeda”—unwarranted hagiographic assessments of the Libyan leader have been put forth by typically informed conservatives. For example, although nested within a harsh overall critique of the Libyan intervention, this romanticized assessment of  Al-Muqaryaf himself was provided by National Review’s Andrew McCarthy ^[7]:

He [Al-Muqaryaf ] was among Qaddafi’s most prominent enemies, and is reputed to be a liberal in the classic sense, supporting free elections and free speech, as well as equality among citizens and between the sexes. 

McCarthy’s characterization of Al-Muqaryaf as “a liberal in the classic sense,” was subsequently repeated by Rush Limbaugh ^[8], verbatim—sans the weak qualifier “reputed.”

Stated bluntly, these romantic characterizations do not withstand scrutiny. Al-Muqaryaf is not a “classical liberal.” Rather, he is a Sharia ^[9] supremacist, in both his words, and conduct of Libyan state affairs...

Libyan President Muhammad Al-Muqaryaf should be characterized as the (sadly) commonplace Sharia supremacist Muslim leader he in fact appears to be. As such, Al-Muqaryaf is the apotheosis of the “(Bernard ^[19]) Lewis doctrine ^[20]’s” failed utopian aspirations. He most assuredly does not represent the unfulfilled realization of that misbegotten policy construct, cynically ^[7] undermined ^[8] by the machinations of the Obama administration.

Ace and Weasel's #1 Source on Islamic Curriculum Denial is Holocaust Denier David Cole, Mea Culpa?

Atlas readers will remember when the nasty misogynist over at Ace of Spades and the appropriately named weasel [zippers] viciously attacked me for exposing the Islamic curriculum Rick Perry had helped institute in the Texas schools.

Back in August 2011,  I did my first post on the controversial Aga Khan/Rick Perry school curriculum on Islam for Texas public schools, I published the links (URLs) to the Muslim Histories and Cultures Program (MHC). The MHC page said proudly: "In April 2004, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and UT-Austin finalized a grant proposal that created the partnership that became known as the Muslim Histories and Cultures Program (MHC).... Governor Perry was instrumental in getting this program off the ground."

There was no Christian program or Jewish program, no Hindu program, etc.

After I wrote extensively on the Islamic Texas curriculum, the right wing blogos went nuts. Vicious and unhinged, they attacked me for exposing their dream candidate, Rick Perry. Their sole source for refutation was David Stein. This man from out of nowhere -- with no history or blog cred or anything was the club they attempted to use.  David Stein, who today was exposed as Holocaust Denier David Cole (more here).

Ace called Stein’s post “the greatest rejoinder in the history of blogdom.” Stein nee Cole (much thanks to Zilla):

As a combative twentysomething with tousled black hair, he was a vilified guest on chat shows hosted by Phil Donahue, Montel Williams and Morton Downey, among others, and was depicted as a neo-Nazi on news shows such as 60 Minutes and 48 Hours.

[...] the recanting was fake, he said. Cole today still challenges established Holocaust scholarship, including the certainty about Nazi gas chambers. (more at the Guardian)

And this despite The NY Times recent article that there over 42,000 Nazi concentration camps across Europe.That was Ace's idol.

Weasel weaselly scrubbed his site of the defamatory posts. Hillbuzz wrote at the time:

Even one of my absolute faves, Weasel Zippers, jumped onto the Ace bandwagon to bash Pamela, but I still love the Weasel and I promise I will never stop reading his blog because it is awesome in a million different ways and, well, I just love it. Bottom line, my comments are all made in good faith with the rest of my conservative friends and colleagues and our hope for the future of our country.

I have already expressed my concerns regarding Perry’s views on immigration as I have witnessed personally in my family some of the consequences of poor immigration policy. I admit I come into this biased on the immigration issue and decided early I couldn’t support him as my choice in the primaries for that reason. (And basically because I was all Palin to begin with anyway.)

But I was really freaked out when Perry earned the much-coveted CAIR endorsement earlier this year. Why weren’t more of us worried about that? Surely this is something that should capture the attention of any conservative concerned about the rise of radical Islam in America and throughout the world.

So, without just posting links, I will do my best to explain why, after reading all of Ace’s postings, and all relevant writings from Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs, Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, Justin Elliott from Salon, David Stein from Counter Contempt, Dave Reaboi from PajamasMedia, Moe Lane at RedState, Alana Goodman from Commentary, Tancredo on the Daily Caller, and many others, I have come to the conclusion that Governor Perry owes us an explanation. I do demand a serious explanation.

It was interesting to see the beclowned Red State, Ace, and the increasingly irrelevant Commentary jump all over me because I exposed Rick Perry's dawah curriculum served up to our young children in the public schools of Texas. It's telling that the "leading lights" of the rightwing blogosphere were so eager to rip me, to the point of journalistic malpractice, without so much as a cursory look at the evidence. Commentary is soft, we know, but did they throw research out along with integrity?

Big Fur Hat rips 'em a new one here

I went over to Ace of Spades, and Weasel Zippers, to see if there is a post about their boy, David Stein. I can’t seem to find one.

Let me tell you why this name, and the story, should be important to them.

Remember when Pamela wrote the story about Aga Khan, the Muslim who courted Rick Perry and convinced him to include an Islamic curriculum in Texas schools that taught a revisionist whitewashed history of Islam?

Remember how Ace channeled Little Green Footballs and urged his morons to call Pamela all sorts of vile names because he was going to destroy anyone that dared vet his chosen candidate Rick Perry, and remember when Zip fell in line and told Robert Spencer that he would no longer link to him if he continued to link to Atlas Shrugs?

Remember how the stories of concerned Texas parents came pouring through the news cycle as their kids were asked to don burqas when the Islamist push began appearing in the schools? Remember how Ace and Zip ate a bit of crow and wrote their mea culpa articles about how Pamela was right? (Ya, I don’t remember that one either.)

Well, David Stein was their go-to boy that they linked and quoted in order to refute Pamela’s claim that Perry was approving a white-washed Islamist soul kiss that was going to be included in our children’s teachings.

Well, Stein was wrong.

But, who the hell is Stein?

I remember at the time Pamela asking, “who is this guy that these two are holding up as this authority? Who the hell is David Stein?”

Well, this weekend we found out.

David Stein, the founder of Republican Party Animals, and the owner of the site, Counter Contempt, was revealed to be the famous Holocaust Denier, David Cole, who went into hiding in 1998.

UPDATE: Zilla nails it here. Sssssizzzlin'

Craven Toronto School Board sics police on sarcastic blogger

Blazing Cat Fur, an Atlas favorite, is the object of an intimidation campaign. Arnie Lemaire has done seminal work exposing the subversive and dangerous agenda of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), the largest school Board in Canada and the fourth largest in North America.

Lemaire does the work that reporters and journalists used to do -- investigative journalism -- and what he has exposed is jaw-dropping. You didn't think those fascists were going to take exposing their depraved curriculum lying down, did you?

The Toronto Sun reports:   

Can writing a sarcastic but clearly tame blog comment really land two cops at your doorstep?

It happened to Blazingcatfur blogger Arnie Lemaire Wednesday for musing "OISE and the TDSB need to be purged, or burnt to the ground whichever is more effective."

He's, quite rightfully, upset about it.

But, often critical of the Toronto District School Board and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Lemaire said he will not back down from efforts to "intimidate" him.

"Dear TDSB, You Can't Silence Me," was a headline on the blazingcatfur.blogspot in response.

But, what they clearly can do, is bring in the police to investigate.

In what can be described as more TDSB theatre of the absurd, an obscure six-week-old blog comment resulted in police visiting his home like one might see back in the day of the Stasi in communist East Germany.

"We received a knock at our door a little after 8 a.m.," said Lemaire. "Two detectives from Toronto Police Services identified themselves and asked if they could come in to discuss a matter."

Enter Det.-Consts. Irene Liska and Sergiy Lobanets, from 32 Division.

They presented "a photocopy of my post about the TDSB teaching children that the Black Panthers were a harmless social justice organization link" and specifically the "OISE and the TDSB need to be purged, or burnt to the ground" stinger.

TDSB sics police on sarcastic blogger

"In what can be described as more TDSB theatre of the absurd, an obscure six-week-old blog comment resulted in police visiting his home like one might see back in the day of the Stasi in communist East Germany...



"That said, I have to wonder why a non-threat was reacted to with near hysteria by the TDSB and investigated while death threats to Tarek Fatah do not merit consideration by the TPS?" asked Lemaire. "To my mind this was simply an effort by the TDSB to intimidate me into silence and is plainly an abuse of power. It won't work, but I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that an organization that holds up psychopaths such as Che Guevara and the Black Panthers as role models for children would resort to such thuggery."

(Lord I hate that photo.)

Missing Breitbart

Last night I attended a private screening of the documentary “Hating Breitbart,” hosted by filmmaker Andrew Marcus. Bloggers, writers, and citizen journalists flew in from across the country to pay tribute to a legend. It was bittersweet to see old friends and colleagues, wonderful and sad. Urban Infidel was there, Pamela Hall, Jim Hoft, Rebel Pundit, IOTW, James Taranto, Karol S (Alarming News), Toots Sweet, Jeannie DiCarlo, and so many others.

The movie was a shock to the system. We all know how fearless and magnificent Breitbart was, but to ride shotgun and be there with him was overwhelming. The movie is brilliant. I could not move after the credits ran. Kudos to filmmakers Andrew Marcus, Evan Coyne Maloney, and Maura Flynn.

Our loss profound. Unrecoverable.

The group held up Breitbart posters before the movie.

The producers of the film: Andrew Marcus, Maura Flynn and Evan Coyne Maloney

Jim Hoft, Pamela Geller, Sam Nunberg

Iranian activist Banafsheh Zand and Jim Hoft. Urban Infidel has great coverage and videos here:

I was very honored to attend a private screening tonight of the phenomenal new documentary film, Hating Breitbart. Directed by Andrew Marcus and produced by Maura Flynn and Evan Coyne Maloney, Hating Breitbart is like being in the front seat of a race car at the Indy 500 with Andrew Breibart at the wheel. I love documentaries and this one really delivers. Seeing Andrew on the big screen, bigger than life and taking no prisoners it almost felt like he was still here. The film crew follows Breitbart through Tea Party gatherings, various appearances at CPAC and SRLC, a pro-Harry Reid demonstration in Nevada, and his epic battle with the leftwing media, who are featured throughout the film. How they hated him! There are clips and interviews with vile leftist media types like Max Blumenthal, Chris Hayes and others of their ilk from The New York Times, Huffington Post and the Columbia School of Journalism. I loved the film. I hope you get to see it. It was funny, inspiring, depressing, exhilarating and infuriating.

UPDATE: Pamela Hall has some great shots here:

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Jim Hoft (Gateway Pundit), filmmaker Andrew Marcus, Katie O’Malley, a contributor at Human Events and I got together and toasted Andrew (photo above). 

In memory of Andrew Breitbart’s death, Marcus is holding a private screening of his film “Hating Breitbart” in Times Square tonight.

There are also Facebook groups planning memorials today in honor of Andrew.

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"The New Queen Esther"

Chag Sameach Purim! I am humbled and honored by this post -- "The New Queen Esther" -- more on the Queen Esther award here:

Yesterday was the Fast of Esther, a fast that leads up to the joyous holiday of Purim.The story goes like this. With the help of her cousin Mordeccai and the pleas for G-d’s intervention the beautiful Queen Esther saved her people from Haman’s dastardly plot to kill all the Jews of Persia. Today that country is called Iran and it still wants to destroy all the Jews of Israel. When that job is complete – all Americans.

A few years ago I said to my husband that we need a contemporary Queen Esther. Now we have one. Kol Ha Kavod (all my respect) to the Creative Zionist Coalition for honoring Pamela Geller for the courage, intelligence, and sheer chutzpah she has demonstrated warning the American people about our most insidious enemy.
I don’t remember what year I started reading her blog Atlas Shrugs but it was still when she had her Supergirl-like logo, which I loved. Reading her blog answered the many questions I had about the spread of Islam throughout Europe as well as to the sovereign shores of the USA. Through her informative posts I was introduced to Bat Yeor’s essential tome Eurabia and the plan for a new Caliphate.
Ms. Geller didn’t stop with a blog, even after lawsuit after lawsuit. She didn’t stop even after murderous threats and emails. Instead she found her Mordeccai, David Yerushalami, and together they fight the Arab-Islamic forces that practice jihad by force or taquiya to destroy our country and make us second class citizens. She, with co-founder Robert Spenser created the organizations Stop the Islamization of America and the Freedom Defense League which have caused a lot of belligerency,kvetching, and lying from the ” Religion of Peace.”
She has stood shoulder to shoulder with the men of the EDL that are now in a British jail for standing up for their country. She has stood resolutely with Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, and almost singlehandedly brought down the Muslim crook Imam Rauf and his group of thugs and their plan to build the victory mosque on the blood of the Twin Towers.

If you are going to be in or around the environs of LA. come to the Purim gala honoring Steve Goldberg,  Robert Spencer, and me. It's a once-in-a-lifetime.

Speaking of Purim, check out these shots of Purim in Israel: (thanks to Jean)

Bangladesh moves to ban main Islamic party

It's rare when a country stands up against Islamic supremacism. It's a survival move. Bravo!

More on this story: Counter-Jihad blogger beheaded in Bangladesh

Bangladesh moves to ban main Islamic party Dawn, February 17 2013

In this Feb. 16, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi mourners carry the coffin containing the body of blogger Rajib Haider for funeral in Dhaka. -AP Photo

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s parliament Sunday amended a law to allow the prosecution of the country’s largest Islamic party Jamaat-i-Islami for war crimes in a move that could pave the way to it being banned.

News of the move was greeted by loud cheers from tens of thousands of protesters in central Dhaka who have been demanding a ban on Jamaat, whose leaders are on trial for war crimes allegedly committed in the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.

Law minister Shafique Ahmed told AFP that under the new law, “any organisation including Jamaat can be prosecuted” by a special court for war crimes and if found guilty “it can be banned” from politics.

Previously only individuals could be prosecuted for war crimes.

“It’s one step towards banning Jamaat,” deputy law minister Qamrul Islam told AFP.

The move comes after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday indicated that she would back a ban on Jamaat, whose members are suspected in the murder of an anti-Islamist blogger, as it had “no right to be in politics in Bangladesh”.

Demonstrations championed by online activists have seen thousands take to the streets for the last two weeks demanding the execution of Jamaat leaders accused of genocide, murder and rape during the 1971 war.

Rival protests by Islamists demanding a halt to the trials of Jamaat leaders have turned violent, leaving 13 people dead.

Clashes between police and Islamists have intensified since last week after a senior Jamaat leader was sentenced to life imprisonment for mass murder.

Jamaat and the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party have said the trials are based on bogus charges and are part of a wider political vendetta.

Both parties boycotted parliament, which passed the amended law less than a week after it was approved by the cabinet.

The government rejects the accusations and says the trials are needed to heal wounds from the nine-month war in which it says three million people were killed, many by pro-Pakistani militias whose members allegedly included Jamaat officials.

Parliament also amended war crime laws to ensure the Jamaat leaders can be swiftly executed if convicted and the verdict challenged if the sentence is less than death.

It set a 60-day limit for the supreme court to dispose of appeals.

Cyber war on counter-jihad websites

In what is the worst cyber attack to date, Jihad Watch is still experiencing serious technical difficulties due to a malicious and unprecedented cyber attack. It illustrates the totalitarian nature of the enemy. They control big media ans have infiltrated senior levels of the Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches of the US government, but a couple of counter jihad blogs keep them up at night. I love that.

Political Islam by Dr. Bill Warner is down due to hacking as well.

Here's the latest from Robert Spencer:

I apologize for how long it is taking to get the site fully up and running again. This morning I am able to post, albeit with difficulty, but comments and some other features are still disabled. I ask for your patience: the problems have proved deeper and more intractable than anyone expected, but we are working on them....

An indication of how desperate the jihadis and their enablers are to shut down Jihad Watch comes from this note I received from one of the tech experts who are currently working on repairing the site:

You have to understand that this is a unique attack, inasmuch as this vulnerability has never been exploited before, not only that it was done within a month, also YOU were targeted. Movable Type is used by government agencies and some quite high profile sites around the world. MT will want to fix this for their own reasons. A director at MT wants a conference call to glean what he can, and they may want access to logs, my report etc. This issue may escalate quite a bit, including involvement of government security agencies. We have certain obligations to assist in any investigation.

Counter-Jihad blogger beheaded in Bangladesh

This blogger who wrote against jihad and sharia was found "with his head hacked apart with a machete." Ahmed Rajib, aka Thaba Baba, had been "threatened frequently" by jihadists who were angry at his role in the anti-jihad protests and his writings against the religion.

The silence of the complicit lambs. Where is the media on this? If the Puff Ho covered this, they'd blame the blogger. The motto of the media is free speech for me, but not for thee.

Anti-Islamist blogger killed in Bangladesh: police NDTV (thanks to Suneil)

Dhaka: A blogger who had been critical of Bangladesh's Islamist groups was killed in the capital late on Friday, police said, a day after he attended a big rally against leaders of the country's largest Islamic party.

Protests championed by the country's bloggers have seen thousands of people take to the streets demanding the execution of leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami party who are under trial for war crimes.

Clashes between police and Islamist protesters demanding the trials be halted have also rocked the capital.

Police found the body of Ahmed Rajib, 35 -- better known by his online identity Thaba Baba -- near his home in Dhaka's Pallabi suburb, with his head hacked apart with a machete.

"We recovered the machete. It is clear the attacker wanted to murder him. They did not touch his laptop or other valuable objects," police official Sheikh Motiur Rahman told AFP.

Police have not commented on a possible motive for the killing, but Rahman, citing Rajib's relatives, said the blogger played a large role in organizing the anti-Islamist protests.

Rajib's brother, who declined to be named, told AFP his sibling had been "threatened frequently" by Islamists angry at his role in the protests and his writings against the religion.

"In recent months he stopped writing against Islam and concentrated on the war crime issues," he added.

At least 13 people have died during clashes over the ongoing trials in which a host of senior Jamaat figures -- including the party's leader and deputy leader -- are being tried over their role in the 1971 independence war.

The clashes have intensified since last week after a senior Jamaat leader was sentenced to life imprisonment for mass murder.

Jamaat and the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party have said the trials are based on bogus charges and part of a wider political vendetta.

The government says the trials are needed to heal the wounds of the nine-month war in which it says three million people were killed, many by pro-Pakistani militia whose members allegedly included Jamaat officials.

The killing late on Friday was the second fatal attack in Dhaka against a blogger critical of Islamist groups in less than a month, after the stabbing death of a self-styled online "militant atheist" by three unidentified men near his office in the upscale Uttara district.

Oldest Republican Club in the Nation to Honor Pamela Geller

What a wonderful moment. The oldest Republican Club in the nation will be honoring me this evening with the "Patriot of the Year" award. There is no higher tribute than to be hailed as a patriot for the most magnifcent country on earth.

Oldest Republican Club in the Nation to Honor Pamela Geller

QUEENS VILLAGE, January 21, 2013: The Queens Village Republican Club, will be honoring Pamela Geller as the “American Patriot of the Year” at its 138^th Anniversary Lincoln Dinner on February 10^th. Ms. Geller is an author, investigative journalist, activist, captivating speaker and founder, editor and publisher of Atlas Shruggs.com a breaking news blog, and executive director of American Freedom Defense Initiative (ADFI) and Stop Islamization of America (SIOA). She is perhaps best known for spearheading the protest against the Ground Zero mosque, organizing several mass rallies to halt the construction of Park51, the Islamic Cultural Center near Ground Zero, which according to Geller, the majority of Americans, 70%, find deeply insulting.

She has been hailed as a “dynamo of energy and a paragon of courage and fearlessness” (Robert Spencer, author) and “one of the nation's most vigorous opponents of bigoted violence” (John Hinderaker, Powerline).  She has been the subject of a profile on 60 Minutes, and of a cover story in the Sunday New York Times. A frequent guest on talk radio, she has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows and her articles and op-eds have been published in publications throughout the country.

The GOP Club’s annual dinner will be held on February 10, at the famous Antun's of Queens Village, where almost every New York State governor, mayor, and president of the United States has been present since the 1950s. A lavish cocktail hour with an abundance of food and open bar starts at 3 PM, and the sit-down dinner starts at 4 PM along with the award ceremonies and keynote address, and goes to 8 PM with a Viennese Table of delectable and exotic deserts accompanied by patriotic music and dancing at the end.

Every year the historic Club, which was founded in 1875, when Queens was mostly farmland, honors unique and outstanding individuals who have made significant contributions to the community. Pamela Geller’s award for patriotism is due to her courageous and unwavering stance as a major proponent of free speech. Whether we agree or disagree with her ideas and opinions, true patriotism is having the guts to speak out and champion our First Amendment rights without surrendering to intimidation, threats, and violent acts. Ideas can change the course of history and the Freedom of Speech protects all ideas, whether we like them or not, and if this freedom was lost, someone else will dictate what’s right and what’s forbidden for us.

Geller claims that America’s free press, the bulwark against tyranny, has been compromised and people have been silenced by the threat of Islamic terrorism. With over 20,000 deadly terrorist attacks since 9-11, this, she asserts is the gravest threat that civilization faces. Geller has simply been calling attention to the perpetrators of these terrorist attacks, church bombings, honor killings, bus bombings, and the ideology that inspires them. For this, she, rather than the perpetrators of these acts, has been the focus of outrage from many media outlets. 

However, Ms. Geller has courageously stood her ground and continued to tell the truth. Truth, she says “is the new hate speech “and it’s even come to the point where “telling the truth is a radical act.” Exercising her fundamental rights, she has recently been in the news for a massive campaign of subway ads calling for support of civilization against the savagery of jihad: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad” The MTA rejected her ads, while she noticed many negative anti-Israel ads were accepted. She sued the MTA and won in court with the judge ruling that the MTA violated her First Amendment rights.

We agree with Michael Coren, Sun TV host who said "I honestly think that one day historians will write about the defense of Western values and virtues in the 21st Century and speak of heroes. And one will be Pamela Geller." Another hero, Lt. Col. Allen West, former congressman from South Florida, was honored at a past Lincoln Dinner and delivered a fiery keynote speech. He said that it is the duty of the Queens Village Republican Club, the oldest continuously active Republican Club in America, to carry the torch for the Republican Party and its core principles for the whole nation. That’s a tall order, but one that the Club takes seriously and carries out proudly. For her heroic defense of freedom of speech and Western values, the Queens Village Republican Club is proud to present Pamela Geller with the American Patriot of the Year award.

Queens Village Republican Club
138^th Anniversary Lincoln Dinner
Sunday, February 10, 20133 - 8 pm

 

#myjihad apologizes: Muslim who forced "Jews out of pool" hosts Zionist event at own expense, honoring Geller & Spencer

It's a first -- a Muslim apologizing for their anti-semitism and underwriting a pro-Zionist event. Baruch HaShem!

Zionist group to honor anti-Islam activists at Hotel Shangri-La By Jonah Lowenfeld, Jewish Journal

When the Muslim part-owner of a Santa Monica boutique hotel was found guilty last year of discriminating against a group of Jewish patrons, the hotel announced it would host a party for a Jewish group as part of its efforts to repair its reputation. Now, the Zionist group whose party is scheduled to take place at the hotel on Feb. 24 plans to use the occasion to present awards to two of the United States’ most outspoken anti-Islam activists -- Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer.

Orit Arfa, former executive director of the Western Region of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), is organizing the party as a benefit for her new organization, Creative Zionist Coalition (CZC).

In August, a jury found the Hotel Shangri-La and its part-owner, Tehmina Adaya, guilty of discriminating in 2010 against 18 plaintiffs -- most of them young Jews -- when she disrupted a party organized by the local youth division of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. In response to the verdict, Arfa and ZOA National Vice Chair Steve Goldberg announced plans to hold a protest outside the Shangri-La, but cancelled the protest when Adaya, who is of Pakistani descent, agreed to host a party at the hotel for leaders of the Jewish and pro-Israel community.

Earlier this month, lawyers for Adaya and the Shangri-La filed a motion requesting a retrial of the case, but the party planning appears to be proceeding unabated.

According to an email sent by Arfa on Jan. 18, the Feb. 24 event at the Shangri-La will be a costume party and “a celebration of Jewish heroism in the face of Jew-hatred,” taking place on the evening after Purim. At the event, Geller will receive the “Queen Esther Award for Jewish Heroism,” and Spencer will be honored as “Righteous Gentile.” Both are expected to attend, Arfa said.

A third award, named for Haman, the villain of the Purim story, was also announced in the Jan. 18 email; it will be presented in absentia to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, “for Jew-hating villainy.”

Geller is the prolific blogger who led opposition to the construction of an Islamic center in Lower Manhattan, which she dubbed “the Ground Zero Mosque.” She also made headlines in 2012 when one of her organizations, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, posted pro-Israel ads in the New York City subway system referring to enemies of the Jewish state as Jihadist “savages.”

Geller is a divisive figure in the Jewish community, as well. In June 2012, the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles barred Geller from delivering a speech about “Islamic Jew-Hatred” at a ZOA-sponsored event that had been scheduled to take place at its Wilshire Boulevard headquarters.

Arfa organized a protest outside the Federation building on the morning that Geller was prevented from speaking there. Subsequently, in November, Arfa was fired from her position at ZOA after internally questioning ZOA’s leadership’s decision to, in her words, “conceal” its loss of tax-exempt status earlier that year. The ZOA’s Western Region’s office, which had ben located in Federation headquarters, is currently in the process of relocating to San Francisco.

The ZOA, which has filed all the papers necessary for reinstatement of its tax-exempt status, had planned to co-sponsor the Shangri-La event with CZC, but it pulled its co-sponsorship a few weeks ago. Nevertheless, Goldberg said, plans for the party are moving ahead, and he said he does not expect any resistance from the hotel.

“They didn’t say, ‘We have to approve who’s going to come,’” Goldberg said. “The hotel’s actually been very cooperative.”

“What are they going to do?” he added, “say ‘This is too pro-Jewish?’ They’re going to throw another Jewish group out?”

Ellen Adelman, chief development officer at the Shangri-La said in an emailed statement that the hotel “is committed to enhancing understanding and cooperation between people of all backgrounds and cultures, and to embrace differences.

“Our hope is that we can come together and celebrate the theme of their party - Purim - a holiday designed to bring people together,” Adelman wrote.

Creative Zionist Coalition to award "Queen Esther Award for Jewish Heroism" to Pamela Geller

I am so honored to be given the "Queen Esther Award for Jewish Heroism" by the Creative Zionist Coalition, a newly formed, fiercely passionate Zionist organization. This very special event takes place on February 24, 2013 at the Shangri-La Hotel in Los Angeles. What make this event historic is that the Shangri-La Hotel is Muslim-owned and the site of a grotesque, anti-semitic incident.

Two years ago, a number of twenty-and thirty-something Jews planned to raise money to send children of fallen IDF soldiers to camp with a charity event at the Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica, California.

On the morning of July 11, 2010, Ryan and others arrived at the hotel and began setting up Friends of the IDF banners, literature and piles of shirts for the event guests.

But the event was aborted after, according to one employee’s sworn testimony, the hotel’s owner told staff members, “Get the [expletive deleted] Jews out of my pool.”  Then the hotel security and other employees began removing the materials and ordering the guests to leave.

Ryan said,  “Anyone wearing a blue wristband,” which identified them as being with the Friends of the IDF, “was asked to get out of the swimming pool and the hot tub.”  In fact, no one who was identifiable as Jewish was so much as “allowed to dip their feet in the water.”

So fierce was the blowback and condemnation that the owner of the Shangri-La hotel, Tehmina (Tamie) Adaya, a Pakistani-American Muslim, not only apologized profusely, but offered to hold a Zionist gala for free. 

It is a rare instance when Muslims apologize to Jews for their vicious anti-semitism (I don't know of any other time) and then underwrites a Zionist event honoring a fierce Zionist like me -- and Robert Spencer. It's a first. A Muslim underwriting an event honoring one of the leading voices against Islamic anti-semitism. This is a major event, because instead of whining about trumped-up Israeli "atrocities" against "Palestinians" and claiming them as a justification for their Jew-hatred, a devout Muslim is acknowledging that Islamic antisemitism is wrong, and offering to make amends for it. Taqiyya? Maybe, but how sincere they are is not the point: the point is that they're publicly admitting that Islamic Jew-hatred exists and is wrong. We're going to make the most of it, with a proudly Zionist event in which we will talk forthrightly about the roots of Islamic antisemitism in the quran and other Islamic texts.

 The Jewish Journal covers the award here.

CZC Events

The Shangri La Purim Ball! February 24, 2012, 5 pm

"The Jews enjoyed light and gladness, happiness and honor"   - Scroll of Esther      Creative Zionist Coalition Requests your presence at its royally Zionist Purim ball   Purim 2013/5773 - February 24, 2013  6 pm: Buffet & Hors D'oeurvres (kosher optional)  7 pm: Program & dancing   Attire: Costume!  Open wine and beer bar     And the rule for drinking was: "No restriction!"   In the tradition of Purim, the evening will be a celebration of Jewish heroism in the face of Jew-hatred   "This is what is done for the man whom the king desires to honor!"   Queen Esther Award for Jewish Heroism  Pamela Geller   Shushan Award for Righteous Gentile Robert Spencer     Haman Award for Jew-hating Villainy  Mahmoud Abbas    Click here to purchase tickets* $72 General Admission $54 Young Professionals Royal Courtier: $180, includes 2 tickets + e-Tribute Scroll message + listing in program Royal Adviser: $306, includes 4 tickets + e-Tribute Scroll message + listing in program    *Does not include processing fee. Ticket purchases are tax-deductible.     For more information, contact Orit Arfa at oritarfa@gmail.com or (310) 415-2349.

"Oldest Republican Club in the Nation to Honor Pamela Geller"

Fabulous press release from the Queens Republican Club. Come! It promises to be a spectacular night.

Oldest Republican Club in the Nation to Honor Pamela Geller

QUEENS VILLAGE, January 21, 2013: The Queens Village Republican Club, will be honoring Pamela Geller as the “American Patriot of the Year” at its 138^th Anniversary Lincoln Dinner on February 10^th. Ms. Geller is an author, investigative journalist, activist, captivating speaker and founder, editor and publisher of Atlas Shruggs.com a breaking news blog, and executive director of American Freedom Defense Initiative (ADFI) and Stop Islamization of America (SIOA). She is perhaps best known for spearheading the protest against the Ground Zero mosque, organizing several mass rallies to halt the construction of Park51, the Islamic Cultural Center near Ground Zero, which according to Geller, the majority of Americans, 70%, find deeply insulting.

She has been hailed as a “dynamo of energy and a paragon of courage and fearlessness” (Robert Spencer, author) and “one of the nation's most vigorous opponents of bigoted violence” (John Hinderaker, Powerline).  She has been the subject of a profile on 60 Minutes, and of a cover story in the Sunday New York Times. A frequent guest on talk radio, she has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows and her articles and op-eds have been published in publications throughout the country.

The GOP Club’s annual dinner will be held on February 10, at the famous Antun's of Queens Village, where almost every New York State governor, mayor, and president of the United States has been present since the 1950s. A lavish cocktail hour with an abundance of food and open bar starts at 3 PM, and the sit-down dinner starts at 4 PM along with the award ceremonies and keynote address, and goes to 8 PM with a Viennese Table of delectable and exotic deserts accompanied by patriotic music and dancing at the end.

Every year the historic Club, which was founded in 1875, when Queens was mostly farmland, honors unique and outstanding individuals who have made significant contributions to the community. Pamela Geller’s award for patriotism is due to her courageous and unwavering stance as a major proponent of free speech. Whether we agree or disagree with her ideas and opinions, true patriotism is having the guts to speak out and champion our First Amendment rights without surrendering to intimidation, threats, and violent acts. Ideas can change the course of history and the Freedom of Speech protects all ideas, whether we like them or not, and if this freedom was lost, someone else will dictate what’s right and what’s forbidden for us.

Geller claims that America’s free press, the bulwark against tyranny, has been compromised and people have been silenced by the threat of Islamic terrorism. With over 20,000 deadly terrorist attacks since 9-11, this, she asserts is the gravest threat that civilization faces. Geller has simply been calling attention to the perpetrators of these terrorist attacks, church bombings, honor killings, bus bombings, and the ideology that inspires them. For this, she, rather than the perpetrators of these acts, has been the focus of outrage from many media outlets. 

However, Ms. Geller has courageously stood her ground and continued to tell the truth. Truth, she says “is the new hate speech “and it’s even come to the point where “telling the truth is a radical act.” Exercising her fundamental rights, she has recently been in the news for a massive campaign of subway ads calling for support of civilization against the savagery of jihad: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad” The MTA rejected her ads, while she noticed many negative anti-Israel ads were accepted. She sued the MTA and won in court with the judge ruling that the MTA violated her First Amendment rights.

We agree with Michael Coren, Sun TV host who said "I honestly think that one day historians will write about the defense of Western values and virtues in the 21st Century and speak of heroes. And one will be Pamela Geller." Another hero, Lt. Col. Allen West, former congressman from South Florida, was honored at a past Lincoln Dinner and delivered a fiery keynote speech. He said that it is the duty of the Queens Village Republican Club, the oldest continuously active Republican Club in America, to carry the torch for the Republican Party and its core principles for the whole nation. That’s a tall order, but one that the Club takes seriously and carries out proudly. For her heroic defense of freedom of speech and Western values, the Queens Village Republican Club is proud to present Pamela Geller with the American Patriot of the Year award.

Queens Village Republican Club
138^th Anniversary Lincoln Dinner
Sunday, February 10, 2013
3 - 8 pm
Antun’s of Queens Village
96-43 Springfield Blvd., Queens Village, NY
$100 per person

Web:  qvgop.org
Facebook: Queens Village Republican Club, Inc.

"The Blogger’s Rules For Defeating Liberals"

BC over at the blog 1'm 41 contacted me in a quest to ask

"50 of the brightest minds in the conservative blogosphere their views, so that I can compile a set a blogging best practices to help act as a guide for the thousands of grassroots conservative bloggers -- so that as a group we can be more effective at attacking liberals."

I gave BC a short summary of what I thought needed to be done in the face of a vicious left, a gutless, mealy-mouthed right, and a culture at war with American values and morality.

Kudos to BC for assembling 18 rules by getting a wide range of comment from an interesting mix of right bloggers like The Lonely Conservative, Jimmy Z,  Zilla,  Wolf Files, Angry White Dude, Kathy Shaidle, The Black Sphere, Blazing Cat Fur, The Looking Spoon, Chicks On The Right,  Waznmentobe  McCain  and Moe Lane.

It s a great read. So yeah, read it all.

"The Blogger’s Rules For Defeating Liberal"

After losing to Obama twice, I decided to ask some of the best bloggers what they thought we could do differently.

Below is a short summary of what they feel like would be the best approach (tips, tactics, what to do, what not to do, attack strategy) for enabling conservative bloggers to help conservatives win more elections.

“War!” Andrew Breitbart

I will add the rest as they come in…

Rule 1 – Pamela Geller (Atlas Shrugs) - A complete reevaluation of the opposition strategy is needed. The Republicans have failed. The Republican Party has failed. The left controls the media, the government, the educational system, and the pop culture. Obama’s reelection is the fruit of 50 years of hammering at the American psyche to destroy American exceptionalism.

Those who are left who still believe in it have to go over the heads of all the centers of power, appeal directly to the people, and formulate new groups and organizations that bypass the corrupt and compromised entities.

The Tea Party did this but failed when the media crushed it. Our only hope is to attempt such an organization anew and decisively throw off old attitudes and perspectives and ways of doing things, refusing to accept the media paradigms, and forming a world view and perspective that is a true alternative to socialism and statism. If we cannot or do not do this, all is lost.

Rule 2:  Dave Blount (Moonbattery) – Here’s my advice for countermoonbat bloggers:

Be relentless. Liberalism is like rust; it never stepscorroding every aspect of society. That’s we why can never stop fighting it. If our attention flags, readers will inevitably wander away. Hammer away with everything you’ve got, day in and day out, not just when you feel particularly inspired.

Be honest. Let the Fox News analysts come up with politically expedient compromise positions. Honesty is what we have to offer that they don’t. Bloggers are the spine and the conscience of the conservative movement. If we sell out, it’s all over. Unite. We don’t all have to be on the same page on every issue; we would go stagnant if we were. But we are all pushing in the same direction, so we should promote each other whenever possible.

Find your angle. There isn’t much difference between 1,001 blogs and 1,002 blogs all shouting the same thing. Ideally every blog will find something slightly different to bring to the table.

Keep your sense of humor. It isn’t easy to laugh these days, but no one is going to read you if you don’t stay entertaining.
Dave

Rule 3: BigFurHat (It’s BigFurHat) - There is no denying that American culture is on the decline. Most people. left and right, agree. Where we split politically is which way the finger of blame points. I think it’s important to be able to lay all societal ills at the feet of progressivism, where it rightly belongs.

No matter what problem you see it is to be labeled “progressivism in action.”
If you encounter racism in our own ranks, teach them that they should NEVER use derogatory terms for any minority. This is the only arrow the left has in their quiver, to call us racists, that is why they are using it so much lately. Do not play into that hand.
Purge our side of racists by reeducating them to be able to articulate their frustrations by blaming the real enemy – progressives.

Remind everyone that when they are witnessing a decline in culture, like a flash mob or a wilding event, it is the corruption of good people by “progressivism.” They are merely victims of progressive policies. Stress that the removal of progressivism will be the first step toward repairing our broken society.

Rule 4: John Hawkins (Right Wing News ) - The Short, Sweet Three Step Guide For Brand New Conservative Bloggers

1) Take the time to see what else is out there and then do something different — enough so that you will stand out.
2) Reach out, link, meet people, market, use social media and try to cross-post as much as possible. It doesn’t matter how good you are if you can’t get anyone’s attention.
3) You don’t build an audience overnight. Be consistently and persistently good over a long enough period of time to draw eyeballs.

There's a lot more, get all 18 rules here.

18!

Chai! I am loving my rank on the top The 60 Best Conservative Blogs For 2012 (6th Annual) over at Right Wing News.  I rank 18. Can you beat that? Chai (חי) is a Hebrew word and symbol that means “life. ... a numerological value to Hebrew letters, the letters Het (ח) and Yud (י) add up to the number 18.

18 means life. La'chaim! Onward and upward. Much thanks to the inestimable John Hawkins for compiling this list. Check it out.

Newsweek Quits Print: One down, hundreds to go

Dismantling the enemedia, one publication at a time. Good riddance to bad rubbish

Newsweek Goes Digital -- Who's Next?

Newsweek Quits Print Wall Street Journal

After 79 years chronicling American life, Newsweek magazine will publish its last print edition at the end of December and become digital-only.

The switch will make Newsweek the most widely read magazine yet that has given up on the print media, a signpost of how traditional print news outlets are being battered by an exodus of readers and advertisers to the Web.

Since 2005, Newsweek's circulation has dropped by about half to 1.5 million and advertising pages plunged more than 80%, while the magazine's annual losses had lately reached roughly $40 million.

Founded in 1933 by a former Time editor, Newsweek was ever-present on the coffee tables of many American homes for decades, keeping people abreast of everything from the Vietnam War to movie reviews. In 1961, it was bought by

Atlas Spotlight on ....

Tonight's bloglight spotlight is on one of my favorite blogs. I have been a fan since I started blogging back in November 2004.  The Religion of Peace.com is a masterwork, displaying a little-seen commitment to comprehensive jihad coverage that has become an invaluable resource for counter jihadists the world over.

Today's jihad report:

• 2012.09.02 (Gao, Mali) - A kidnapped Algerian diplomat is executed in captivity by al-Qaeda.
• 2012.09.01 (Baghdad, Iraq) - Terrorists set off a bomb outside a coffee shop, killing two patrons.
• 2012.09.01 (Wardak, Afghanistan) - Twin suicide bombers incinerate over a dozen people including a child and two women.
• 2012.09.01 (Hazar Ganji, Pakistan) - Sunnis pull five Shia vegetable seller off of a truck and calmly shoot them to death.
• 2012.09.01 (Narathiwat, Thailand) - Muslim bombers tear off the legs of two plantation workers.
• 2012.08.31 (Peshawar, Pakistan) - A dozen Pakistanis are torn to shreds by a Taliban bomb near a mosque.

My source for our islamorealism ad campaign of over 19,000 jihad attacks since 911 is The Religion of Peace.com -- where every single attack is listed and complied.

List of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 30 Days

Previous years

Islamic Terror Attacks for First Part of 2012

Islamic Terror Attacks for 2011

Islamic Terror Attacks for 2010

Islamic Terror Attacks for 2009

Islamic Terror Attacks for 2008

Islamic Terror Attacks for 2007

Islamic Terror Attacks for 2006

Islamic Terror Attacks for 2005

Islamic Terror Attacks for 2004

Islamic Attacks from September 11th, 2001 through 2003

Sunday Spotlight on Atlas: The Muslim Issue

Every Sunday afternoon, I will continue to highlight a blog I like that fights and expose jihad. The week's featured blog is The Muslim Issue. Excellent site. Here's their recent posts:

KSA: Young filmmaker arrested for merely making a program about poverty in Riyad

Arabia: How young Saudi prince treats the ordinary citizens

France: French woman dies after Arab prince refute paternity battle over kidnapped daughter

Palestine: Arab lecturer: “Beating And Killing Women Are Part Of Palestinian Identity”

Palestine: Arabs fund fake Israeli attacks on Palestinians to dupe Middle Eastern and International media!

Sweden: Jews march against rising anti-Semitism and hate-crimes by Muslims in Sweden

USA: Taqiyya in full action: The Hamas leader son and his two faces — one for the west, and one for the east

USA: Muslims push Sharia law in Minnesota — spreading creeping Islamization

USA: Muslim sex trafficking ring in Minnesota and Tennessee

E.U: Politics and Islam in Dhimmi Europe