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Pamela Geller, WND: Jihad: The right is getting it wrong

Today's Geller column over at WND:

DEFENDING THE WEST
Jihad: The right is getting it wrong
Exclusive: Pamela Geller indicts elite 'experts' who have to play catch-up

The response to the jihad against America is either the left’s Stockholm Syndrome alliance with evil 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 these critical issues are being discussed. It was mildly amusing last week to see National Review’s Rich Lowry, who is a stranger to these parts, write an editorial for the New York 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 mission 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 a Sept. 15, 2012, post at my website AtlasShrugs.com was “Political Prisoner: U.S. Shariah police pick up Muhammad filmmaker.” Robert Spencer wrote on Sept. 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 Shariah.”

Where was Lowry while Nakoula was rotting in prison for the past eight months? What took him so long?

Read the rest - all of it --here.

Pamela Geller, WND Column: Boston bombers linked to triple murder of Jews

Three young Jewish men slaughtered Islamic style on the tenth anniversary of September 11th should have set off alarms. If nothing else, it should have been a huge national news story. Muslims slaughtering Jews is hardly new -- it's one of the highest forms of Islamic worship. That's a hate crime. But we never heard about it -- until the families of the dead Jewish boys put two and two together after the Boston jihad bombings. Read my column.

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Boston bombers linked to triple murder of Jews
Exclusive: Pamela Geller reveals facts about brutal slayings that media won't report

The Daily Mail reported shortly after the identities of the Boston jihad bombings were revealed that dead jihadist Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s “only American friend” had his ‘throat slit’ in an unsolved murder in 2011.”  It struck me as odd, especially when the media said Tsarnaev was “changed” after the murders. I was stunned shortly afterward to learn that the boy who had his throat cut was Jewish. Worse still, there were two more victims with their throats slit.

This unsolved triple murder was of three young Jewish men (two devout). It was originally reported that the murders took place on Sept. 12, 2011, but that too was wrong. The bodies were found on the 12^th, but these Jewish boys were murdered on Sept. 11, 2011, the 10th anniversary of jihadi attack on American soil that killed 3,000 people. When I first heard that the older jihad bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was one of the victims’ best friends, it sickened me. The media called one of these Jewish victims the “bomber’s only American friend.”

I knew better. Beheading Jews on Sept. 11? It had to be devout Muslims. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a devout Muslim who opposed the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq because they fought against jihadists. He read Islamic supremacist websites and literature that claimed that the CIA was behind the jihad attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and that (of course) the Jews controlled the world.

I tried to hire a private investigator to look into the case, but no one would touch it. It was white-hot and active. But it only became active after the Boston Marathon jihad bombing, a year-and-a-half after the murders. What took the police so long? If they had solved this murder, there would have been no bombing at the Boston Marathon.

Throat-slitting is a jihad specialty. Under Islam, slaughtering Jews is the most “righteous” of all murder of infidels. Sébastien Selam was a popular disc jockey at Queen, a hot Parisian nightclub. In 2004, a Muslim neighbor of Selam slit his throat and gouged his eyes out. Then he cried out, “I killed my Jew. I will go to heaven!” Ilan Halimi was a young Jewish man kidnapped by a Muslim gang in France. He was targeted, tortured for weeks and ultimately murdered because he was Jewish.

The murder of Ilan Halimi can only be described as an unspeakable horror. A group calling itself the Muslim Barbarians targeted Jewish men for torture and murder. Halimi was held captive for weeks in an Islamic homemade concentration camp that the Muslim Barbarians had set up. Apartment dwellers, all Muslims, heard Ilan’s screams and cries of torture over a period of three weeks, and yet did not call the cops. The screams must have been loud, because the torture was especially atrocious: The thugs cut bits of flesh off the young man. They cut his fingers and ears. They burned him with acid. They poured flammable liquid on him and set him on fire. Not only did the Muslims in the building not go to the police – they did nothing at all. Worse, many took part in the tortures.

It’s not just in Europe or in most obviously and viciously anti-Semitic Muslim countries in the Middle East. It’s here in America. A Muslim gang plotted to blow up synagogues in New York City. Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Snyder said, “These were people who were eager to bring death to Jews. It’s hard to envision a more chilling plot.”

There's much more. Read the rest here.

Pamela Geller, WND: Who polices the police?

Check out my column today at WND:

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Who polices the police?
Exclusive: Pamela Geller warns of cops enforcing Shariah via intimidation ... in Canada

I was set to speak at the Chabad Flamingo Synagogue in Thornhill, right outside of Toronto’s city limits, on May 13. But then two fascist police thugs, Chief Eric Jolliffe of the York Regional Police and Inspector Ricky Veerappan of the force’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Bureau, strong-armed Chabad Rabbi Mendel Kaplan into canceling my speech. Veerappan is, of course, a Muslim, using the full weight of Canadian (Western) law to enforce Islamic law (blasphemy laws under the Shariah).

Shelley A. Rogers of the York Regional Police’s Professional Standards Bureau explained: “As a police agency, we are committed to our values and that all members of York Regional Police, including our volunteers, are cognizant of our values and strive to uphold them on a daily basis.”

Veerappan announced: “If he did (host Geller), then we’d have to reassess our relation with (Kaplan). Some of the stuff that Ms. Geller speaks about runs contrary to the values of York Regional Police and the work we do in engaging our communities.”

Values? The “stuff” that I speak about includes gender apartheid, creed apartheid, Islamic Jew-hatred and honor killing. That runs contrary to their values? What exactly are their values? Imposing Shariah? Because that’s exactly what they’re doing. My value is life. What’s theirs?

The Ottawa Citizen said in an editorial: “The York Regional Police department should be ashamed. … Whether the job threat was real, and whether anyone agrees or not with Geller’s views, Veerappan’s conduct is appalling. Canadians expect police to respect Charter provisions protecting freedom of speech. They are not supposed to act as censors at the behest of a particular community.”

Read the whole thing here.

VIDEO: Pamela Geller Interview on Israel National News

Here's news interview I did with Israel National News (don't miss the end of interview) -- Interview taped by Eliran Aharon, Arutz Sheva TV, New York

"Geller: Norway Weeks Away from being Judenrein" Israel National News

Muslims in Europe are continuing Hitler's work, and it is coming to America, too, Geller tells Arutz Sheva on eve of her talk at Great Neck.

Jewish activist Pamela Geller has no plans to go away – or to be quiet in the wake of what she says is a media campaign to silence her. The media may refuse to acknowledge her message about the dangers of Muslim terror, ideology, and anti-Semitism, but she is not going to stop presenting it.

Geller is co-founder of the American Freedom Defense Initiative and has been at the forefront of championing causes that have to do with democracy, freedom, liberty and justice through her role as a leading blogger at "Atlas Shrugs", a co-founder of "Stop the Islamization of America" and a prolific writer on the subject of the threat to the American value system that she feels is represented by insidious encroachment of Sharia law in the Western world.

Recently, Geller was invited to speak at one of the synagogues in Great Neck, but local Jewish leftist activists exerted heavy pressure on the synagogue, in order to prevent her from speaking.

Members of the local Jewish community told Arutz Sheva that the leftists threatened to take action against the synagogue if it allows Geller to speak there. The rabbi of the synagogue eventually surrendered and cancelled the lecture, they said.

Local Chabad members, however, heard the story and, deciding that freedom of expression is a supreme value, allowed Geller to lecture at one of the local Chabad synagogues. The Chabad members were also threatened but did not give up. The community members said that even when well-respected donors told Chabad they would block financial aid if they let Geller speak, Chabad was not deterred and said it intended, despite the threats, to allow Geller to be heard.

Geller spoke to the Chabad audience last Sunday, and in an interview with Arutz Sheva's Yoni Kempinski before the event, she gave her account of what it was like to be the victim of a “smear campaign. I am not anti-Muslim, she said. Those who call her that are “part of a disinformation campaign, smear and defamation. Nobody talks about the work I do with muslim girls who want to lead a more western life, who are trying to get away from the Hijab. They have to set up a straw man, and portray it as if I hate Muslims.

“Frankly, it's disingenuous,” she said “It's a libel. I am a human rights activist dedicated to equal human rights for all. I don't believe in special rights for special classes of people. Anyone saying that has not read my three books or hundreds of articles, or the 25,000 posts I wrote at Atlas Shrugged. I challenge anyone who makes these accusations to substantiate them. How do you accuse a person with no evidence?”

The media is a complicit player in this smear campaign, she said. “The media refuses to discuss Muslim attacks, even though since 9/11 there have been some 21,000 Muslim terror attacks around the world. When it comes to the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist groups, like CAIR, who are unindicted co-conspirators in the largest Hamas funding case in history, there is full respect, and the media talks them as if they are legitimate. But immediately before my name comes the description 'anti-Muslim.'”

Pamela Geller, WND: Indoctrinating for jihad in charter schools

"When news broke of the Boston Marathon jihad bombings, several students defended the attack and expressed concern for the well-being not of the victims, but of the bombers."

DEFENDING THE WEST
Indoctrinating for jihad in charter schools
Exclusive: Pamela Geller has quotes from insider teacher about 'The Gulen Movement'

The “Turkish Khomeini,” Fethullah Gulen, lives in Pennsylvania. From there he runs a $25 billion international network. He is a prime mover behind the rapid Islamization of Turkey, and he urges Muslims to build schools to indoctrinate an entire generation. He is tied to hundreds of Gulen charter schools right here in the United States. (Texas alone has 36 of these Gulen charter schools.)

I recently heard from a teacher at a Gulen Movement school. “There are so many ethical violations occurring here every day,” he told me, “that it is hard to know where to start.” And worse, there is open support for jihad: When news broke of the Boston Marathon jihad bombings, several students defended the attack and expressed concern for the well-being not of the victims, but of the bombers. “They have also,” said the teacher, “expressed theories that 9/11 was a hoax and that Americans and the West are Islamophobic.”

Beyond that, the educational standards and priorities are abominable. “This school cares little for education and more for PR,” says the teacher. The administration, he says, doesn’t appear to have any background or training in either education or leadership. “Our vice principal has no idea what he is doing; this is evident in the fact that no one can ever find him, and he does not seem to know even basic information about mission statements, curriculum, standards, etc.” The dean of academics “does not even know what is in our curriculum, and he has frequently asked teachers to go easier so that students can get good grades.”

That could be said of many schools. But in this Gulen school, “as far as curriculum goes, the priority is Islam, not education. Evolution and Darwin are forbidden in biology, and literature classes are censored in order to ensure no one talks about relationships. In fact, ‘Persepolis’ was pulled from the classroom because it spoke poorly of veiling (despite being written by a woman who lived through the Iranian Revolution) and because the writer was ‘the wrong kind of Muslim.’ In addition, students asked to see the film ‘The Great Gatsby’ in junior year, as they read the novel in class (obviously). It was forbidden because it was ‘too sexual.’ The movie has not come out yet, of course, but is rated PG-13; the decision was made based on a preview.”

The school doesn’t have a library, teacher evaluations are nonexistent, and “the cheating here is rampant – and encouraged. Students have broken into teachers’ rooms; they not only steal tests but they also think that the entirety of the building exists for them alone.” Not only that, but “in the dorms, the students are ‘chaperoned’ by several young Turkish men who do not speak English. The chaperones are tasked with ensuring that the students adhere to Islam, and they have meetings in the dorms to pressure kids into practicing their faith. School days are planned around Islamic prayer (Fridays are shortened, for example; during the winter months, there is a 90-minute break in the middle of the day for lunch and prayer). The school is registered as nonsectarian, yet every student is Muslim.”

When all of the teachers were fingerprinted and had background checks per state law, the chaperones were not required to do so. It will come as no surprise that the finances of the school are suspicious at best. Staff is paid sporadically, and there have been numerous occasions this year when they were not paid on time.

Pamela Geller, American Thinker: Free Speech Under Fire in Canada

When a Muslim policeman in Canada uses the full force of the state to enforce the sharia -- the West is in trouble.

Free Speech Under Fire in Canada American Thinker--by Pamela Geller    

Here is yet another instance of the Islamic supremacist/leftist war on free speech -- particularly egregious in the wake of the Boston Marathon jihad bombings. The message is all the more crucial now. For years, my colleagues and I labored under the most heinous circumstances. Anyone who opposes the jihad and the Sharia must endure a constant withering attack on one's name, reputation, integrity, and even spirit.

Pamela Geller, American Thinker: Honor Killing in Texas

Islamism in Texas
Pamela Geller
An investigation into a Texas honor killing gets stonewalled. 

Neena Nejad, a Los Angeles-based producer, has been working for almost two years now on a film documentary about Amina and Sarah Said, the two Muslim girls in Texas who were murdered by their father in an Islamic honor killing on New Year's Eve 2008. Nejad and her team have been working with many people and have uncovered some provocative new information about the girls' father, Yaser Said -- information that has never been revealed in public before.

Nejad and her crew just returned to Los Angeles from Texas. While they were in the Dallas area, they visited every place that at some point had been important in the lives of Amina and Sarah, and they talked to many, many people. Most of those people had never before talked to the media. Said Nejad: "It was such an emotional week talking to these people and getting to know Amina and Sarah better."

But then on Monday, April 8, the situation abruptly changed. Now Nejad and her crew felt not only unsafe but the work environment was definitely different.

Pamela Geller, WND: Hamas-CAIR bully teacher in rural America

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Islamists bully teacher in rural America
Exclusive: Pamela Geller defends woman in crosshairs of 'Hamas-CAIR'

Mary Janda is a middle school teacher at the Concrete Middle School in the small town of Concrete in Skagit County, Wash. One of her former students said about her: “I’ve never met another teacher who put so much effort into our education. She put in mile after extra mile.” But on Oct. 29, 2012, she held a class on bullying that ironically has made her a target of the thugs at the local chapter of the Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who have been bullying her ever since.

We see this pattern repeated in small towns and cities across America. Hamas-CAIR, armed with millions of dollars from Islamic supremacist countries, is waging its own stealth jihad in our schools, workplaces and political arenas. They have enormous funds to harass, intimidate and bully small, ill-equipped organizations and individuals who have the audacity to tell the truth about jihad violence and Islamic supremacism. Mary Janda is just one of many.

The Muslim persecution of Mary Janda began with a discussion of bullying in her classroom. A Hamas-CAIR press release claimed that Janda “compared Muslims to Nazis during a class lesson on bullying. The teacher allegedly stated that ‘just like Hitler,’ Muslims train their children from birth to give their lives to Allah and are raised to be martyrs. She also allegedly stated that Muslim children are raised and taught to ‘kill innocents.’”

The real story is that Janda was talking about Hamas and the Taliban, not all Muslims. A student said during the class: “My father is a Muslim and these statements are not true.” Janda recounts what happened next: “I explained to her that I was not talking about Arabs and Muslims in general, but groups that chose to impose their will by training people to intimidate and kill other people. This discussion was not about religious beliefs. It is related to a state mandate that public schools teach students about bullying and not allow it.”

The student’s father brushed aside this explanation and went to the bullies of Hamas-CAIR, who asked for an investigation of the incident and demanded that the Concrete School District “ensure that absolutely no retaliation occurs against the father, student, or any other parents” – while publishing the student’s photo and the father’s name on its website, even as it asked the media to protect the anonymity of the father and the student.

Hamas-CAIR also demanded that the school district “clarify which textbooks and texts are used in the district,” so that they could make sure that books including their propaganda be used; “clarify the religious accommodation policies of the district”; and “institute CAIR-WA’s diversity training for all employees of Concrete School District” – among other demands.

The Concrete School District did investigate and found out that Janda had done nothing wrong. But true to form, Hamas-CAIR was not satisfied. Crying racism, the CAIR thugs even demanded that the Justice Department intervene.

Eric Archuletta, the chairman of the Mary Janda Support Committee, pointed out to me that CAIR-Washington kept its account of this incident on its website even after Janda was cleared by the school district and “even after they were told about making false accusations at their community forum meeting on March 24, 2013.” Archuletta continued:”My committee and I feel that this is one of two things: either CAIR is totally incompetent, or this is a message they are trying to send to their supporters that this incident is indeed a factual event. We all agree it is the latter. Either way it is unacceptable.”

It is most assuredly deliberate. This is what they do: defame, smear and libel anyone who gets in the way of their sinister agenda.

Read it all.

Pamela Geller, WND: A Gruesome Wake-Up Call

DEFENDING THE WEST

A gruesome wake-up call
Exclusive: Pamela Geller defends rights against 'encroachment of bloody ideology'

This was our worst nightmare. Despite our best efforts to raise awareness about the jihad threat, the mainstream media and government denial about its reality has borne terrible fruit: a monstrous Islamic attack took place on the streets of Boston, targeting mothers and children, families and freedom-loving people. The bombs were designed not to blow up buildings but to maim, mutilate and tear through flesh and bone.

Now everyone is suddenly all over the jihad threat. Last week, Bill Maher dared to go off the liberal reservation and note that Islam incited more violence than Christianity – whereupon his politically correct guest needled him with “I have a girl for you, Pam [sic] Geller.” But Maher stood his ground and ultimately said to his guest, “I should introduce you to Pam Geller” – thus implying that I am right to be concerned about Islamic jihad and Islamic supremacism.

And last week Fox News featured its house liberal, Bob Beckel, warning about the dangers of jihad terrorism and even saying that Muslim students should be barred from entering the country (which, incidentally, is something I have never advocated).

The irony was thick. In 2010 I had a sharp exchange with Beckel on Fox when he decried my work sounding the alarm about jihad terror and Islamic supremacism in the U.S. The Boston jihad bombings have been a gruesome, horrible wake-up call, revealing how the American people have been betrayed by the Obama administration, the media and the Homeland Security apparatus which, instead of dealing realistically with jihad terror, have been fixated upon nonexistent “right-wing terrorists” – like me.

The issue here is larger than me or my work. For years now, leftist enablers of jihad and Islamic supremacism have labeled their opponents “hateful,” “extreme” and “right wing” – as if defense of the freedom of speech and the equality of rights for all people before the law were “right wing.”

The defenders of freedom have put up with an appalling level of defamation to educate and warn the American people about the gravest national security threat this great country faces.

Our work is dedicated to human rights – the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience and individual rights. It is a noble cause, a righteous cause. But the defamation of those who work for this cause is a key weapon of leftists and Islamic supremacists. Just recently leftist and Islamic supremacists mounted a smear campaign to intimidate a synagogue in Great Neck, Long Island into dropping my speaking appearance there. Fortunately, two other rabbis with spine stood up to them and had me speak at their synagogues instead. But the pattern was clear: the cancellation by the Great Neck Synagogue sent the message that if leftists and Muslims defame those they hate loudly enough and for a long enough time, they will succeed in getting them silenced.

Key weapons in the arsenal of these foes of free speech are the increasingly defamatory Anti-Defamation League and the notorious communist hate organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC. Both tar with the label “hate group” any organization that differs from their political agenda. Not coincidentally, a follower of the SPLC recently attempted to assassinate Family Research Council, or FRC, head Tony Perkins and other FRC officials because the SPLC had smeared the FRC as a “hate group.” This shows that the real hatred and incitement to violence come from the left – from the very groups that smear counter-jihadists as “hateful.” Nonetheless, the mainstream media constantly use the smears from these groups to marginalize and demonize the resistance to jihad terror.

But now the choice is clear. Those who claim to oppose the ideology of the Boston jihad bombers cannot consistently oppose counter-jihadists, for our work is dedicated solely to defending individual rights against the encroachment of that bloody ideology.

Go and read it all.

Pamela Geller, Algemeiner OpEd: Defending the Defense of Freedom

Defending the Defense of Freedom Pamela Geller, Algemeiner

Over the last few days Fox News has featured its house liberal, Bob Beckel, warning about the dangers of jihad terrorism and even saying that Muslim students should be barred from entering the country (which, incidentally, is something I have never advocated).

The irony was thick. In 2010 I had a sharp exchange with Beckel on Fox when he decried my work sounding the alarm about jihad terror and Islamic supremacism in the U.S. The Boston jihad bombings have been a gruesome, horrible wake up call, revealing how the American people have been betrayed by the Obama Administration, the media and the Homeland Security apparatus which, instead of dealing realistically with jihad terror, has been fixated upon non-existent “right wing terrorists” — like me.

Now, in a lengthy article entitled The Boston Marathon Bombing and America’s So-Called Faith Privilege in Tuesday’s Algemeiner, A. Jay Adler writes:

“Hateful rightwing extremists like Geller, and countless of her type on social media, quickly, objectionably express themselves immediately upon the occurrence of an event like the marathon bombing, and a certain type of leftwing voice finds it more important to establish the Gellers as mistaken and beyond the pale than to respond directly and with clarity to the primary offense.”

Although Adler attacks me personally, the issue here is larger than me or my work. Adler echoes leftists enablers of jihad and Islamic supremacism by labeling their opponents “hateful,” “extreme” and “rightwing” – as if defense of the freedom of speech and the equality of rights for all people before the law were “rightwing.”

And last week, Bill Maher dared to go off the liberal reservation and note that Islam incited more violence than Christianity – whereupon his politically correct guest needled him with “I have a girl for you, Pam Geller.” But Maher stood his ground and ultimately said to his guest, “I should introduce you to Pam Geller” — thus implying that I am right to be concerned about Islamic jihad and Islamic supremacism.

But that was an anomaly. The defenders of freedom have put up with an appalling level of defamation in order to educate and warn the American people about the gravest national security threat this great country faces.

Our work is dedicated to human rights — the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience and individual rights. It is a noble cause, a righteous cause. But the defamation of those who work for this cause is a key weapon of leftists and Islamic supremacists. Just recently leftist and Islamic supremacists mounted a smear campaign to intimidate a synagogue in Great Neck, Long Island into dropping my speaking appearance there. Fortunately, two other rabbis with spine stood up to them and had me speak at their synagogues instead. But the pattern was clear: the cancellation by the Great Neck Synagogue sent the message that if leftists and Muslims defame those they hate loudly enough and for a long enough time, they will succeed in getting them silenced.

Key weapons in the arsenal of these foes of free speech are the increasingly defamatory Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the notorious communist hate organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Both tar with the label “hate group” any organization that differs from their political agenda. Not coincidentally, a follower of the SPLC recently attempted to assassinate Family Research Council (FRC) head Tony Perkins and other FRC officials because the SPLC had smeared the FRC as a “hate group.” This shows that the real hatred and incitement to violence come from the left – from the very groups that smear counter-jihadists as “hateful.” Nonetheless, the mainstream media constantly uses the smears from these groups to marginalize and demonize the resistance to jihad terror.

And so it is with profound regret that despite our best efforts, a monstrous Islamic attack took place on the streets of Boston, targeting mothers and children, families and freedom-loving people. The bombs were designed not to blow up buildings but to maim, mutilate and tear through flesh and bone.

This was our worst nightmare.

A. Jay Adler claims to oppose the ideology of the Boston jihad bombers; he cannot then consistently oppose counter-jihadists, for our work is dedicated solely to defending individual rights against the encroachment of that bloody ideology.

It is a sad day when free people turn against those who are standing up most strongly for the Jews, Israel, and freedom in general. But unfortunately, this problem is pandemic. Even now, in light of the Boston jihad horror, my colleagues and I have been largely bypassed for newly minted experts like Beckel, who have no understanding of these issues. Bill O’Reilly still gives a platform to the Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), allowing them to deceive the American people and proselytize for Islam. The blacklist on consistent and well-informed voices of freedom must end. Now.

 

Pamela Geller, Breitbart OpEd: Boston Bombers' Mosque Should Be Shuttered

The battle-plan in defense of freedom is here. Jihad-promoting mosques should be closed. What say you? Comment here.

OPINION: Accused Boston Bombers' Mosque Should Be Shuttered Pamela Geller, Breitbart

USA Today reported Tuesday that “the mosque attended by the two brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombing has been associated with other terrorist suspects, has invited radical speakers to a sister mosque in Boston and is affiliated with a Muslim group that critics say nurses grievances that can lead to extremism.”

The Islamic Society of Boston was founded by Abdulrahman Alamoudi, the leading “moderate Muslim” in Washington throughout the 1990s. Alamoudi turned out to be an al-Qaeda financier and is now in prison.

And it wasn’t just Alamoudi. USA Today notes that others linked to the Islamic Society of Boston include Aafia Siddiqui, who “was arrested in Afghanistan in 2008 while in possession of cyanide canisters and plans for a chemical attack in New York City”; Tarek Mehanna, who was “sentenced in 2012 to 17 years in prison for conspiring to aid al-Qaeda"; Ahmad Abousamra, who “is wanted by the FBI on charges of providing support to terrorists and conspiracy to kill Americans in a foreign country”; and Jamal Badawi, who “was named as a non-indicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial in Texas over the funneling of money to Hamas, which is the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

Originally a trustee of the Islamic Society of Boston was Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and perhaps the most popular Islamic preacher in the world. He once said on al-Jazeera: “Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler… This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the believers.”

There have been well over 20,000 deadly Islamic attacks since 9/11 (not including thwarted attacks). There has been a shocking number of jihad plots in the U.S. in recent years. Operation fetal position is not a strategy for victory, and make no mistake about it: we are at war.

On Wednesday, my organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) issued an 18-point action plan for defending freedom in the wake of the Boston jihad bombings (read the whole thing here). Two of the points apply directly to the Islamic Society of Boston, where the Tsarnaev brothers went for Muslim prayers: 

•   AFDI calls for immediate investigation into foreign mosque funding in the West and for new legislation making foreign funding of mosques in non-Muslim nations illegal.
•   AFDI calls for surveillance of mosques and regular inspections of mosques in the U.S. and other non-Muslim nations to look for pro-violence materials. Any mosque advocating jihad or any aspects of Sharia that conflict with Constitutional freedoms and protections should be closed.

 

Pamela Geller, WND Column: Free Speech Prevails

In the rush of Boston Marathon coverage, I neglected to post this article about my appearances in Great Neck, which leftists and Islamic supremacists did their best to scuttle. So you may be interested in catching up now:

DEFENDING THE WEST
Free speech prevails on Long Island
Exclusive: Pamela Geller speaks anyway after synagogue was pressured to cancel her

“Her April 14 appearance at Great Neck Synagogue was canceled amid liberal protests,” said the Jewish Daily Forward, “but anti-Islam blogger Pamela Geller got the last laugh: The next morning, two other area synagogues invited her to speak the same day as the canceled speech.”

Note the “anti-Islam” smear. They always have to get that in, even when admitting defeat. And they were defeated. The cancellation by the Great Neck Synagogue sent the message that if leftists and Muslims defame those they hate loudly enough and for a long enough time, they will succeed in getting them silenced. But in contrast, Rabbi Yoseph Geisinsky of Chabad, Great Neck, and Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg of Congregation Beth-El in Edison, N.J., stood up for the freedom of speech and the defense of the Jewish people, the American people and all free people, and had me speak at their synagogues Sunday instead.

Read the whole thing here.

OT related: Geller supporters plan protest of Great Neck Record

Pamela Geller, WND Column: Has America lost her soul?

Check out my column today in WND. Our humanity is not in teddy bears and songs sung and ball games played in the wake of an attack on our country. Our humanity is in proud and fierce defense of our freedom, our values, our nation.

DEFENDING THE WEST 

Has America lost her soul?
Exclusive: Pamela Geller notes absence of outrage about motives of Boston jihadists

n light of the jihad bombings in Boston, and the media whitewash about their real cause that has followed this week, the question is: Has America lost her soul?

The country that was established on the premise of individual rights and freedoms has, in recent years, abandoned the morality that bound us together as a nation. We have lost our reverence for life and liberty. Our armed forces best illustrate this moral code with their honor code of no man left behind. We go to extraordinary lengths to bring back our fallen, never leaving a man (or woman) on the battlefield – so enshrined in our DNA is the exaltation of humanity.

And yet we see a disturbing trend: America did not rally, protest or demand answers when the Obama administration classified the Fort Hood jihad massacre not as terrorism, but as “workplace violence.” No one – not any politician or mainstream media figure of significance – called Obama on his cover-up of the jihad motive in the slaughter of our unarmed soldiers in Texas.

And the same nonchalance was exhibited in the wake of the jihad massacres of Ambassador Chris Stevens and other Americans in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012. Our ambassador and attaches were slaughtered in cold blood in Benghazi, and Obama and several administration officials blamed the First Amendment, saying that it had all happened because of a video about Muhammad. And yet there was still no outcry. Two soldiers held off a jihadi army for over seven hours while calling and begging for help, for cover, and no one came. That was unforgivable. Did America demand answers?

Worse still, the nation re-elected this deceiver.

There was also the sharp spike in “green-on-blue” attacks – murders of American and allied troops by our Afghan “partners.” Soldiers we train are turning on our boys, the same people who are training them, and killing them in cold blood. And still no outcry.

But this? This is a defining moment. Will America turn a blind eye to the motive in the Boston bombing? Mothers, babies and families were targeted for slaughter and mutilation on the streets of a happy, glorious event on Patriots Day. Will the people rise up and demand that Obama address the jihad threat? Will there be any call on Obama to return the now-banned word “jihad” and honest discussion of Islam to counter-terror training materials? Will the American people demand the document regarding the Saudi national al-Harbi, who was questioned and then hastily exonerated over the Boston jihad bombings, and then set for quick deportation – a deportation that was allegedly tied to the Boston bombings?

Or have we lost our soul as a people united in a shared value system that places the lives of Americans above all else?

The fact that the FBI was warned about the jihadi Tamerlan Tsarnaev and did nothing is a reflection of the Obama scrub of counter-terror training materials. They had him, they talked to him – and what did they do? Nothing.

Pamela Geller, WND Column: Jihad is in America

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Jihad is in America
Exclusive: Pamela Geller warns, 'This obfuscation and denial has to stop'

The surviving Boston jihadi has caught, and the mainstream media is now turning to the question of Why? The Washington Post ran a story headlined, “Search for why begins.” Chicago Tribune had “Boston Marathon bombing investigation turns to motive.” The Huffington Post ran as a headline the single word: “Why?”

Why, indeed? Why do the media cover up, obfuscate and mislead the American people about the gravest national security threat this nation faces? Why do the enemedia viciously attack anyone who is brave enough to suffer the libel, defamation and death threats that follow speaking out against jihad and Shariah? This is a sickness – a societal death wish and orgy of self-hatred. The furious rush to sanitize the motive is the sanction of the victim. The enemedia are disarming the American people, inevitably leading sheep to slaughter.

Worst of all was Elspeth Reeve of the Atlantic Wire, who ran a spiteful story titled, “The U.S. Anti-Muslim Crowd Is Quite Pleased with Itself.” As the wounds are still gaping and the baby’s body not yet cold, the ghouls on the left attack those of us who have been warning of this very thing.

This vicious tool should be thanking me and apologizing for the years of smears, defamation and libel that the enemedia have directed against me, my work and my colleagues. Instead, she aids and abets the most gruesome slaughterers ever on American soil.

And there is more enemedia willful blindness from Time: They talk about some of their obvious jihadi ties and then say that there is no evidence that Dzhokhar was motivated by religion – as if the brothers had different motives, and ignoring Dzhokhar’s statement that his “worldview” was “Islam.”

The media’s knee-jerk reaction is to go into full spin mode, not to take a step back and think, or to say to themselves, “Maybe we got this wrong.”

The jihadists told us why. What’s it going to take?

Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have deeply imbibed the jihad ideology that permeates Chechnya and the Muslim areas of the Russia Caucasus in general. And even the mainstream media can’t entirely ignore this: The New York Times reports: ”On Vkontakte, Russia’s most popular social media platform, the younger brother, Dzhokhar, describes his worldview as ‘Islam’ and … lists a verse from the Koran, ‘Do good, because Allah loves those who do good.’”

Apparently targeting, mutilating, and slaughtering women and children falls under the category of “doing good.”

Tamerlan Tsarnaev said: “I’m very religious.” His aunt revealed that he had recently became a devout Muslim, praying five times a day.

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UPDATE: Excellent piece of at Mental Recession: "The Media Owes Boston An Apology"

Pamela Geller, Breitbart: The Jihad Comes to Boston

My take on the Boston jihad: "The Jihad Comes to Boston" Pamela Geller, Breitbart, April 19

Now that we know that the Boston Marathon bombers were Muslims from the Russian Caucasus, it is clear the war is here. Boston is a war zone, yet still the media is disarming the American people by refusing to address the blindingly obvious motive: jihad. As we have seen from Beslan to Baghdad, Libya to Lebanon, Indonesia to India, geography is irrelevant in the struggle of ideology. 

The media is already spinning the revelation of the bombers' identities furiously, confusing the American people with nonsense about “regional conflicts” in the Caucasus. The Associated Press said: “If it turns out that the suspects in the Boston bombings are linked to those insurgencies it would mark the first time the Russian conflict had spawned a major terror attack in the United States.” But the objective of the jihadists in Chechnya is to establish an Islamic state in the Caucasus. As Andrew Bostom observes, “Chechnya is the tip of the spear for al-Qaeda.”

Chechnya is a hotbed of jihad activity. On September 1, 2004, on the first day of school, Muslim terrorists from Chechnya stormed School No. 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia, took everyone hostage, and eventually committed one of the most grotesque and unspeakable crimes (even for jihad) in recent history, murdering 331 hostages, including 186 children. The jihad in Beslan targeted children; the Boston jihadis murdered a child. Beslan was even worse, as the jihadis embarked on a bloody orgy of rape and torture.

The conflict in the Caucasus dates back to 644, when Arab Muslims introduced Islam to the region; the region has been a place of violence and unrest ever since. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev allegedly went to school in Dagestan. According to Bostom, “Daghestan was originally Islamized during the 7th and 8th centuries by the Arab Muslim jihad conquests of the Umayyads and Abassids.” He notes that Naqshbandi Sufis have been expanding Islam’s presence in the Caucasus and waging jihad against the Russians ever since:

Presently, a Sufi Naqshbandi leader , Shamil Basayev, who envisions himself to be in the mold of legendary 19th century Naqshbandi North Caucasus jihadists, such as his namesake Imam Shamil, plays a key role in the ongoing Chechen jihad against the post—Soviet Russian government. Basayev, it should be noted, not only appears to have Caliphate dreams, he orchestrated the brutal Beslan massacre of at least 331 schoolchildren in North Ossetia, September 3, 2004.

Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have deeply imbibed the jihad ideology that permeates Chechnya and the Muslim areas of the Russia Caucasus in general. And even the mainstream media can’t entirely ignore this: the New York Times reports: “On Vkontakte, Russia’s most popular social media platform, the younger brother, Dzhokhar, describes his worldview as ‘Islam’ and... lists a verse from the Koran, ‘Do good, because Allah loves those who do good.’”

Apparently targeting, mutilating, and slaughtering women and children falls under the category of “doing good.” And there is much more regarding the brothers’ jihadi ties. Tamerlan Tsarnaev said: “I’m very religious.” He subscribed to a YouTube channel entitled "Allah is the One الله." It appears he posted a video that hails “the promised emergence of the black flags [of jihad] from the promised land of Khorasan,” and lauds jihadis who are posing “with a flag of the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.” Tamerlan reportedly died wearing a suicide vest. Debka is reporting that the brothers were “members of a Wahhabi cell funded by Saudi al Qaeda.”

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Pamela Geller, Breitbart: Saudi National Deportation

Acts of war do not get diplomatic immunity.

Saudi National Deportation: American People Must Demand the Full Story
Pamela Geller, Breitbart, April 18, 2014

On "Hannity" Wednesday night, Steve Emerson broke the shocking news that a Saudi national, Abdul al-Harbi, who was first questioned in the Boston bombing, is going to be deported on “national security grounds.” A devout Muslim from Medina, anti-Jihad activist and blogger Walid Shoebat reports that he is a scion of a very powerful Saudi family with terrorist ties. 

When al-Harbi was first questioned over his possible involvement in the Boston Marathon bombings, it raised the possibility of jihad in Boston. But then, law enforcement started a succession of extraordinary and inexplicable actions.

The first red flag for me, as events were unfolding, was when Catherine Herridge of Fox News casually mentioned that al-Harbi appeared to be connected to a powerful Saudi family. When I heard that, I became very concerned. And with good reason. I said at my website AtlasShrugs.com early Wednesday, I approximated that he had been investigated for no longer than 15 hours. To investigate all of Abdul al-Harbi’s relatives, friends, acquaintances, and business and school friends in that time would be impossible. Yet, he was deemed merely a "witness," fresh off the heels of a raid on his apartment that resulted in several bags of evidence removed from of his home.

How could law enforcement possibly go through all of that evidence, hard drives, connections, and family and business and school friends, particularly when Walid Shoebat meticulously documented the scores of terrorists likely in his clan?

Shoebat wrote Wednesday: “Perhaps a quick look at the Arabic sources should raise the eyebrows of every American relative to the extent of the problem at hand. Many from Al-Harbi’s clan are steeped in terrorism and are members of Al-Qaeda. Out of a list of 85 terrorists listed by the Saudi government shows several of Al-Harbi clan to have been active fighters in Al-Qaeda.” Remember: directions for how to make a bomb out of a pressure cooker were in a recent issue of al-Qaeda’s glossy Inspire magazine.

Secretary of State John Kerry’s meeting with the Saudi Foreign Minister, Saud Al-Faisal, was abruptly closed to the press on the same day that Abdul al-Harbi was being questioned. There is no doubt in my mind that this was discussed. And according to Reuters, “Barack Obama met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal at the White House on Wednesday and discussed the conflict in Syria, a spokeswoman said.”

I believe the “conflict in Syria” was a pretext for the al-Harbi deal.

And then Wednesday’s embarrassing display of rolling incompetence extended to badly mangled leaks, cancellations of press conferences, misidentified suspects, the promise of an imminent arrest, walking back of the arrest announcement, and more. 

Very suspicious.

We have seen the extraordinary lengths that the U.S. Government goes to, sacrificing our own people and our own national security concerns, to placate this Islamic supremacist regime that promotes jihad around the world. The bin Laden family was flown out of the country in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, although it could be argued that they weren’t culpable in any way. A Miami Herald exposé Wednesday shows how we kowtow to the Saudis. And the Saudis are not our friends.

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Pamela Geller, American Thinker: The Epic Failure of the Intel Agencies on the Boston Bombing

Check out my column over at the American Thinker:

The Epic Failure of the Intel Agencies on the Boston Bombing

Pamela Geller

I find it very disconcerting that thirty-six hours (as of this writing) after the Boston terrorist bombing, law enforcement and counterterrorism officials are running hotlines and calls for "anyone seen with an unusually heavy, dark bag" in the Boston area.  A $50,000 reward has been offered for clues leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator.  Officials are saying that this case is "wide open."

This is where the status of the investigation is.  In Europe, and in Israel, whenever there is a terrorist attack, they have someone or some group in their sights or in custody every time.  Take 3/11 in Madrid, 7/7 in London, the Glasgow jihad plot -- every jihad attack and jihad plot in Europe, European authorities are right on it, identifying and apprehending the perpetrators.  They know exactly who the bad guys are.  They know exactly where to go.  This is a historical first: that America is not dramatically ahead of the curve, but dramatically behind the curve.  So American citizens are now considered expendable, just the way our soldiers are in Afghanistan.

It should bother every American that Europe and Israel are so far ahead of us in intel that we're begging CNN and Fox for clues -- and apparently detaining people who have nothing to do with the bombing, raiding their homes, taking bagfuls of evidence out, and then saying, "Never mind."

Really?  The billions that Americans spend for the CIA, FBI, DHS, NSA, JTTF, and all the other various counterterrorism agencies, and they don't have a clue?  All they have for us is 1-800-CALL-FBI?  This is unconscionable.  If that's where we are, disband these incompetent, inane agencies that call jihad "workplace violence" and name Atlas Shrugs as a "domestic hate group," when in fact Atlas Shrugs is battling violence and mass murder across the world.  How did this happen eleven years after 9/11?

>We know that the bomb mimics the IEDs in Afghanistan and Iraq.  We know that it is the same kind of bomb that Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square jihad car bomber, used to try to murder hundreds, if not thousands, on a crowded Saturday night in Times Square.  News reports from Boston hospitals said that "patients had completely mangled and destroyed extremities."  We know that the recipe for this bomb was published in the al-Qaeda four-color glossy, Inspire magazine.  These bombs were designed to cut through bone and flesh and mutilate as many humans as possible.  And we have nothing almost two days into the bombing?  As an American, I'm ashamed.

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Pamela Geller, WND Column: Muslim women who enable sisters' oppression

Sisters? Not so much. Check out my column in today's WND.

DEFENDING THE WEST

Muslim women who enable sisters' oppression
Exclusive: Pamela Geller hails Topless Jihad Day in support of stoning-threatened girl

A group of courageous women have come out against the oppression of women under Islamic law – and Muslim women are siding with their oppressors.

Last week I reported deep concern for a young Tunisian Muslima who had disappeared after she posted topless photos of herself to protest the Shariah oppression and subjugation she suffered as a Muslim girl. One controversial image showed the young Muslimah, Amina Tyler, smoking a cigarette, baring her breasts, with the message in Arabic written across her chest: “My body belongs to me, and is not the source of anyone’s honour.”

A Muslim cleric in moderate Tunisia called for her stoning death. Tunisian newspaper Kapitalis quoted preacher Almi Adel, who heads the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, saying: “The young lady should be punished according to Shariah, with 80 to 100 lashes, but [because of] the severity of the act she has committed, she deserves be stoned to death.” And: “Her act could bring about an epidemic. It could be contagious and give ideas to other women. It is therefore necessary to isolate [the incident]. I wish her to be healed.”

There were rumors that her family had her locked up in an asylum. Amina now fears for her life.

Such is the life of millions of Muslim girls who want to be free in Islamic society. Thankfully, Amina’s story went viral and gained international attention. One of the more outrageous reactions was from the Ukraine-based feminist group, Femen, which staged a Topless Jihad Day to stand in solidarity with Amina. It’s not what I would do, but I loved the moxie and in-your-face action to call worldwide attention to misogyny under Muslim rule. These feminist activists held “International Topless Jihad Day” in major European cities, including Berlin, Kiev and Paris. They painted their bodies with slogans such as “bare breasts against Islamism,” and they protested outside of mosques in various cities.

“We’re free, we’re naked, it’s our right, it’s our body, it’s our rules, and nobody can use religion, and some other holy things, to abuse women, to oppress them,” Femen member Alexandra Shevchenko said during a demonstration outside a Berlin mosque on a freezing day.

Finally, a well-publicized response to the crushing subjugation of women under the Shariah. But what happened next was … unforgivable. Reminiscent of the Muslim women who hold down their daughters for FGM (clitoridectomy), a group of Muslim women came out against the Amina Tyler supporters. “Muslim Women Against Femen” was formed to show that Femen “does not speak for all members of their community.”

The members of Muslim Women Against Femen encouraged other self-defeating supporters to participate in Muslimah Pride Day. They are posting pictures of themselves on social media, declaring that they are not oppressed. Well, bully for them. Are they really that selfish? Self-absorbed? Inhuman?

If they are not oppressed, then this campaign has nothing to do with them.

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