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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.

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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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Pamela Geller, WND Column: War on Free Speech Comes to Long Island

If the ADL and the other Jewish so-called defense organizations were doing what they were supposed to be doing and not partnering with Hamas supporters like CAIR, while Jewish money goes to fight imaginary "Islamophobia," we would be so much better off.

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War on free speech comes to Long Island
Exclusive: Pamela Geller invites 'freedom lovers' to join her at Great Neck synagogue

You know things are bad when a little Jew can’t even give a talk at a synagogue on Long Island.

Here is the latest on Habeebgate. In my WND column last Monday, I reported on a coordinated leftist/Muslim campaign to intimidate the officials of a Long Island synagogue where I am scheduled to speak on April 14 into canceling my talk. But the Great Neck Synagogue refused to kowtow to intimidation: The talk is still set to go on, and now the Islamic supremacist commissioner of the Nassau County Human Rights Commission, Habeeb U. Ahmed, is in hot water for using the power of his position to try to strong-arm the synagogue into canceling

Almost immediately after learning that I was scheduled to speak, Ahmed wrote to a group of area leftist leaders. Apparently he used his position on the Human Rights Commission as if he were a mob boss, deploying a small coterie of leftists and Islamic supremacists in a covert effort to intimidate the Great Neck Synagogue into canceling my scheduled speech there. Habeeb and his accomplices ordered their minions to strong-arm the shul, make calls and get the synagogue leaders to cancel a proud Jew scheduled to speak at their synagogue. (More here.)

As a result of this egregious violation of the public trust, now the Nassau County Attorney’s office has opened an investigation into Habeeb Ahmed’s conduct. According to Brian Nevin, a senior policy adviser to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, the investigation is attempting to determine whether Habeed Ahmed “misused his title” to strong-arm the synagogue into silencing free speech and enforcing the Shariah. Nevin said: “They are looking to see if any rules in the county charter were broken. It may be that there is no policy – and he has apologized.” (More here.)

He apologized – good. But that is hardly enough. I welcome this investigation and hope the imposition of Shariah blasphemy laws using public office will be punished to the full extent of the law – American law for American courts. Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano should conduct a complete ethics probe and an investigation of Habeeb Ahmed’s abuse of power.

I urge Mangano to remove this thug from office. Habeeb Ahmed must go. Ahmed is attempting to deny our First Amendment rights, using his political power to bully and intimidate. Further, how is the Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Commission Zahid Syed handling Habeeb Ahmed’s strong-arming using the power and influence of his political office?

Habeeb must go.

But he has allies among compromised leftist Jews. The Forward reported: “New York activist groups Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, and Jews Say No! announced their opposition to a speech set for April 14 by Pamela Geller, an activist known for her extreme anti-Muslim rhetoric, at the Modern Orthodox Great Neck Synagogue. In an email sent to JVP activists on April 3, the organization called on members to contact the Great Neck Synagogue and ask it to cancel the event. Rebecca Vilkomerson, JVP’s executive director, told the Forward on April 4 that at least 50 people had contacted Great Neck Synagogue at the group’s behest.”

These are not Jewish groups but anti-Jewish groups which, when they are not attacking Jews, are calling for a kristallnacht against the tiny Jewish state. They promote and sponsor the vicious boycott, divest and sanction (BDS) movement designed to alienate and cut Israel off from the rest of the world.

The Great Neck Synagogue should be proud that it incurred the ire of the viciously anti-Israel cabal of craven quislings – lapdogs for annihilationists.

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Pamela Geller, American Thinker: Gays for Sharia

 

Go over to the American Thinker and read my response to Gay lackeys shilling for sharia:

Gays for Sharia? Pamela Geller, American Thinker, April 5, 2013

Over at Salon, Chris Stedman, the Assistant Humanist Chaplain and the Values in Action
Coordinator for the Humanist Community at Harvard, has published a vicious piece attacking me for calling attention to the persecution of gays under Islamic law. This comes just days after San Francisco's Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution condemning my ads standing up for gays. Stedman and the transgender head of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, Theresa Sparks, could form a new organization: Gays for Sharia.

Stedman is a chaplain? Now that's a mouthpiece: a chaplain who smears and defames. What will Harvard think of next? In Stedman's headline, he calls me a "Crusader," despite the fact that I am...Jewish. That gives you an indication of the quality of Stedman's inflammatory smear.

More indications of how Stedman plays fast and loose with the facts came when he describes me as misrepresenting a proposed Islamic Community Center in lower Manhattan as the Ground Zero mosque. Uh, Chris, it is a mosque, and it's in a building that was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks - that is, at Ground Zero. But don't let the facts get in the way of a good lie. Stedman trots out that venerable leftist, opportunistic, and very well-compensated fundraising machine, the SPLC, that deems every proud patriot a threat (yes, a threat to progressives). And he says that I have spent millions. Not. Even. Close. If I had that kind of money, my ads would be everywhere. In justifying Muslim oppression of gays under the Sharia, Stedman pulls out the old "religion-based bigotry" card, but fails to mention that Christians and Jews are not slaughtering gays under canon law or Jewish law.

It is wild to me that this nasty little man is turning himself inside out to defend an ideology that hangs gays in public, tears their faces off with a razor blade in Gaza and makes them parade down streets with latrine cans on their heads. And he claims I have no support among gays. Let him talk to Michael Lucas, the famous gay adult entertainment magnate. "I just returned from Tunisia (and I travelled half the Muslim world)," Michael wrote me today, "and I think gay Muslims, or I should rather say gay Arabs, would agree with your ads because they know first hand the persecution they undergo on a daily basis, It is a shame that, instead of fighting for the rights of LGBT people in Muslim countries, 'political gays' are fighting against you. You are doing a fantastic job uniting people against evil and waking Americans up. Gays should join your movement."

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Pamela Geller, WND Column: ADL 'covering for annihilationists'

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Jewicidals doing the work of jihadists
Exclusive: Pamela Geller accuses ADL of 'covering for annihilationists'

The notorious Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is taking a break from denouncing Joan Rivers, Seth MacFarlane and Glenn Beck and is actually condemning, although timidly, the vicious Jewish blood libel running on ads that are sponsored by American Muslims for “Palestine” (AMP) – but not before denouncing our American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) counter campaign (which I wrote about in my Monday column). The Anti-Defamation League denounced us despite the fact that ours is the only truly effective response to the Nazi-like tactics of American Muslim groups that are on a jihad against the Jews.

The ADL is outraged by the repulsive anti-Semitic ads AMP is running and by the fact that the Islamic supremacists unveiled these ads as Passover began. The ADL issued a statement about the anti-Semitic ads: “Their ad campaign ignores the complicated nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and is part of the campaign to delegitimize and demonize the Jewish state. It shows a profound lack of sensitivity that they chose the first day of the Jewish holiday of Passover to announce this malicious and false ad campaign.”

They had to say something about the Nazi-like propaganda campaign against Israel to justify the millions of dollars they unjustifiably raise. This is an egregious anti-Semitic act, and if the ADL were silent, they would lose millions. So they make a feeble statement, while the Jews are actually left out to dry. What is that about “the complicated nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”? The war on the Jewish state is not at all complicated. There is nothing complicated about the Hamas charter; there is nothing complicated about the Islamic Jew-hatred that is commanded in the Quran; and there is nothing complicated about the 1,400 years of oppression, subjugation and persecution of Jews in Muslim lands.

There is nothing complicated about the refusal of the Muslims in Gaza and Judea and Samaria, and in Muslim countries around the world, to recognize the Jewish state. There is nothing complicated about the blood libels that have been manufactured throughout history to demonize and dehumanize the Jewish people. Such dehumanization leads to … genocide.

So here yet again, the ADL’s condemnation falls far short of what it should be. Why is the ADL covering for annihilationists?

Charles Jacobs and Ilya Feoktistov noted last year that the ADL “has adopted a policy, consistent with the progressive agenda, not to speak up much about the global tsunami of Muslim anti-Semitism, but instead to campaign against ‘Islamophobia.’ This while FBI statistics show that hate crimes against Jews in America are five times the number of hate crimes against Muslims.”

Jacobs and Feoktistov point out that ADL leader Abraham Foxman’s “policy has led the ADL to stand with people and organizations whose mission it is to defame and harm Jews. To defend its policy of ‘outreach,’ the Anti-Defamation League vigorously defames as ‘bigots’ citizens who question radical Islamists’ true aims.” The ADL does not have the back of those of us who are doing the heavy lifting in this ugly, dirty war. It attempts to marginalize pro-Jewish voices who might draw away their donors. But AFDI does more with a nickel than the ADL does with a million dollars, and their charade is becoming increasingly transparent to the Jewish community.

In line with that, the ADL attacked our earlier ads giving the number of Islamic jihad attacks since 9/11 (over 20,000 worldwide now), falsely claiming that the ads seemed to “stereotype an entire religion based on the acts of extremists.”

And in March 2012, Foxman charged that I am “in many ways no better than Farrakhan or Buchanan.” I am proud of my work as a patriot and a passionate Zionist; to be compared to Jew-haters by a man who styles himself a leader of the Jews is abominable. So now, defending free society from an ideology that makes war against free speech and equal rights for women and non-Muslims is “bigotry.” Defending Jews from an ideology that features a more deeply ingrained and violent anti-Semitism than any other in the world is “hatred.”

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Pamela Geller, WND column: Countering Islamic apartheid

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Countering Islamic apartheid
Exclusive: Pamela Geller exposes oppression of women, gays, non-Muslims

As I noted in my WND column Wednesday, the Islamic supremacist group American Muslims for “Palestine” is running repulsive, anti-Semitic ads in the New York City transit system – beginning on the first day of Passover. The ads accuse Israel of being an “apartheid” state. And now my organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, or AFDI, is responding with a new series of ads of our own, focusing on the real apartheid, Islamic apartheid: the institutionalized oppression of women, gays and non-Muslims under Islamic law (Shariah).

Enemedia coverage has been typical. Newsday said: “Supporters of Israel are striking back at pro-Palestine ads placed at Metro-North stations during the Passover holiday with billboards graphically depicting what it claims is Islamic oppression of gays, Jews and women.” The anti-Semitic ads aren’t “pro-Palestine” or pro-anything; they say “End apartheid now! Stop U.S. aid to Israel.” But Newsday is anxious to present them as positive, not negative, and so they’re “pro-Palestine.” My ads, meanwhile, which depict the actual mistreatment of women, gays, non-Muslims and Jews in Islamic lands, only “claim” to depict “oppression.”

Newsday quotes at length the head of American Muslims for “Palestine,” Hatem Bazian, while including no statement from me, even though I sent one to Newsday reporter Tom Zambito. And of course, the Newsday piece doesn’t mention this notorious statement from Bazian at a rally in 2004: “We’re sitting here and watching the world pass by, people being bombed, and it’s about time that we have an intifada in this country that change[s] fundamentally the political dynamics in here. … They’re gonna say, ‘some Palestinian being too radical’ – well, you haven’t seen radicalism yet!”

But now this self-described radical who called for armed insurrection in the United States and is publishing anti-Semitic ads vilifying Israel in Goebbels-like terms is in the mainstream and gets ample space in Newsday to smear my ads as “racist.” What race is Islam’s legalized mistreatment of women, gays, non-Muslims and Jews?

Yori Yanover in the Jewish Press was even worse: “The American Freedom Defense Initiative, the group that brought you subway ads equating Muslims to savages, is hoping to install yet another round of anti-Islamist posters, this time at Metro-North stations.

Pamela Geller, NYC’s most outspoken Islamophobe and executive director of the AFDI, submitted the ads to the MTA Tuesday.”

My earlier ads did not equate Muslims to savages. They equated jihadists who murder innocent Israeli civilians and celebrate those murders with savages. And yet the Jewish Press calls me an “Islamophobe” and sides with those who are perpetrating a blood libel against Israel. Yanover even goes out of his way to write this: “The MTA, however, will likely include a prominent disclaimer on the ads that reads, ‘This is a paid advertisement sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative. The display of this advertisement does not imply MTA’s endorsement of any views expressed.’” The American Muslims for “Palestine” ad carries the same disclaimer, but the Jewish Press doesn’t mention that, as if to suggest that my ads are so toxic that only they have to carry the disclaimer. But no matter how desperately Yanover tries to obfuscate and sanitize jihad mass murder, he merely comes off as the craven quisling he obviously works so hard to be.

Even Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ran a piece attacking an earlier series of AFDI ads – my ads depicting real statements from real jihadists to counter the deceptive campaign by the Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations to whitewash the bloody meaning of jihad. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty once stood for freedom against Soviet communist tyranny. Now they’ve reduced themselves to a propaganda arm for the latest tyranny to threaten the free world: that of Islamic supremacism. Their article runs interference for Hamas-CAIR’s cynical #MyJihad campaign, which is intended to make Americans complacent about the jihad threat. Shillers for killers.

RFE/RL reporter Heather Maher wrote that I was the same as “extremists” like Osama bin Laden (when did I order any planes flown into buildings?): “The other group of extremists is represented by people like Pamela Geller, who eagerly embraces the word’s [jihad] most violent meaning.” Robert Spencer responded: “This is the basest libel. Pamela Geller doesn’t ‘eagerly embrace’ jihad’s ‘most violent meaning.’ … She is trying to call attention to it so as to increase resistance to it. … This is like saying that Winston Churchill ‘eagerly embraced’ and ‘promoted’ Nazism.”

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Pamela Geller, Wednesday WND column: Vicious, anti-Israel ads in New York subway

Don't miss my Wednesday WND column, here. We will be launching a new campaign shortly. Watch this space. More on the myth of Israeli apartheid here.

Vicious, anti-Israel ads in New York subway
Exclusive: Pamela Geller condemns 'blood libel against Jews on holy day'
Pamela Geller

In typically disrespectful and offensive fashion, Muslim Americans (for “Palestine”) have issued the latest blood libel against the Jews on the holy day of Passover.

The Islamic supremacists announced triumphantly in a press release Friday that an “Israeli Apartheid ad” was going to begin to appear in New York train stations on Monday (Passover began Monday night). “The American Muslims for Palestine” described itself as a “national grassroots organization educating the public about Palestine and its rich cultural and historical heritage” – not an easy job to do for a made-up country and a fictional people.

They said that their new “nationwide outdoor advertising campaign” called for “an end to Israeli apartheid and to unconditional American aid for Israel.” And they said that the New York run was just the beginning, and that the ads would run elsewhere around the country as well.

And so again, with little fanfare and no outraged opposition or media firestorm or condemnation, Muslim Jew-haters are running their fourth repulsive anti-Semitic campaign in the New York City transit system. It is important to point out that it is these campaigns that were the impetus for the pro-Israel and #MyJihad campaigns of my organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, or AFDI. And I can assure you that this latest Goebbels-style demonization of the Jews will not go unanswered. We are working feverishly right now to get ads responding to these ready for submission.

Apartheid? Anne Bayefsky notes that “there were once an estimated 900,000 Jews” in the Muslim world, “but today there are less than a few thousand. They were given a choice: Die, convert or flee.” That’s apartheid. The slaughter of gays across the Muslim world: that’s apartheid. The persecution of Christians across the Muslim world: that’s apartheid. The prohibition of non-Muslims from even entering Mecca: that’s apartheid. Muslims are freer in Israel than in any Muslim country.

This anti-Israel ad is exactly the technique that Hitler’s minions used. If you read the writings of Goebbels, the Nazi narrative was that they were the victims. They were the put-upon ones. That’s how they sold annihilation. And this is the same thing. It’s not surprising that Islamic supremacists would appropriate the propaganda methods of the Third Reich, as they partnered with Hitler and shared the same goal.

This war on the Jews has nothing to do with land. That’s the evil and fallacious narrative that the annihilationists and Jew-haters have appropriated to sell this steaming pile of dung to normalize the genocidal imperative of the Islamic jihad against the Jews.

It’s the Big Lie, and it has been going on since 1948. For that matter, it has been going on for 1,400 years. Khaybar, Khaybar, ya yahud, jaish Muhammad sa yaoud (“Khaybar, Khaybar, O Jews, the army of Muhammad shall return”) is a frequently-heard war chant of genocidal jihadis, referring to Muhammad’s massacre of the remaining Jews of Arabia (the ones he hadn’t already killed, exiled or enslaved) at the oasis of Khaybar. Muhammad also suggested that Muslims could hasten the coming of the end times by murdering Jews, when he said that “the last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him” (Sahih Muslim 6985).

Modern-day Muslims have taken this genocidal bloodlust to heart. One of our ads features a quote from a music video that ran on Hamas’s Al Aqsa TV: “Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah”

We are the only ones who are effectively countering this anti-Semitic propaganda campaign. We will be unveiling a new campaign this week to expose the lies and massive deceit about ongoing Islamic tyranny. Help us keep our pro-freedom ads going: contribute here.

Pamela Geller, WND column:Muslims, leftists plot against free speech

My Monday column is up at WND. Read it: it reveals how leftists and Islamic supremacists conspire to shut down anyone who dares to oppose them.

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Muslims, leftists plot against free speech
Exclusive: Pamela Geller reveals scheme to ban her from speaking engagement

I am set to speak at the Great Neck Synagogue in Great Neck, N.Y., on April 14. But last week, investigative journalist Tom Trento uncovered emails that reveal a coordinated leftist/Muslim campaign to intimidate synagogue officials into canceling my talk.

Within an hour after learning that I was set to speak, Habeeb U. Ahmed of the Islamic Center of Long Island and Commissioner of the Nassau County Human Rights Commission, wrote to a group of area leftist leaders: “Dear Friends, We need to stop her from coming to Great Neck. … Do we do a petition on the stationary of council of churches, The Interfaith Alliance and The Holocaust Center?? Her views are well known. She is the personification of an Islamophobe!!!”

The subsequent email exchange shows how the leftist/Muslim machine operates against freedom fighters. The leftist and Muslim anti-free speech thugs deploy their forces carefully, mirroring Sun Tzu and Muhammad in exploiting the arts of war. They opted, instead of going with a public petition, to go right to the top, target the leadership and apply enormous pressure at the most senior level.

In this case, they set their sights not only on the Great Neck Synagogue, but even on the Chief Rabbi of New York. In the email exchange, Claire Deroche, social justice coordinator of The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Shelter Rock in Manhasset, N.Y., wrote to the group: “The group I was speaking with last night who gave me this information suggested contacting other rabbis in the area who would then contact the Great Neck Synagogue. They also talked about contacting the chief rabbi of the big synagogue in Manhattan and asking him to contact Great Neck Synagogue.”

Their attempt to get Jews to come out against me was understandable – it’s a strategy that has succeeded well in the past. Part of their strategy is to divide and conquer. They have been wildly successful in splitting American Jews and weakening the forces opposing the jihad against the Jews. You never see Muslims protesting Islamic supremacists such as Imam Faisal Rauf or Reza Aslan. But there are always plenty of Jews protesting against defenders of Israel. I have never seen Muslims at pro-Israel rallies. I have seen plenty of Jews at anti-Israel rallies.

Their email campaign shows how this is done – how they use devious tactics to destroy people who speak out against the jihad and Islamic supremacism, mobilize lynch mobs of leftist activists and bully those who support freedom fighters until they cave.

In the Jewish Press, Ahmed later claimed that “Geller goes after Shariah law, and it is like asking an anti-Semite to come into a mosque.” Even worse, he said: “Free speech is not absolute, and Geller’s speech is like yelling fire in a crowded theater – that is not protected.”

What I do is not comparable to yelling fire in a theater – that is the practice of claiming that there is a problem when there is not one. What I am doing is yelling fire when there is a fire. Ahmed is trying to convince people that there is no threat from jihadists and Islamic supremacists, which is like telling people in a burning theater that there is no fire, and they should stay in their seats and watch the show.

Habeeb Ahmed is reportedly the uncle of Farhat “Daisy” Khan, the wife of the Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf, the unscrupulous Islamic supremacist grifter behind the failed attempt (which we successfully blocked) to plant a 16-story victory mosque at Ground Zero. He is also a political appointee, using his political position to harass a rabbi. What would happen to a political appointee who targeted an imam in this way? And who appointed this Islamic supremacist thug to the Nassau County Human Rights Commission?

The fact that Farhat and Habeeb are blood relatives shows that the Islamic supremacists are a small but powerful group that makes up in influence what it lacks in real numbers. They act as if they think they’re Don Corleone, maneuvering behind the scenes, pulling the puppet strings of politicians. When the rock on their scheming over the Great Neck synagogue was lifted, we really saw how this machine operates – like the rackets, like the mafia.

Here’s how: Notice that they decided not to make a public call to cancel my talk. They didn’t go public because they knew that if they did, we would win. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of people would call, write email, counter protest – speaking up and speaking out. And even if the goons and thugs had succeeded in getting the talk canceled, we would have won in the court of public opinion, just as we did when the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles canceled my talk there last summer.

And so instead of going public, this leftist/Islamic supremacist cabal worked in the shadows. Habeeb and his accomplices ordered their minions to make calls and intimidate the synagogue leaders – all on the QT, with nothing public – just some strong-arm calling. They wanted to make the cancellation of my talk happen before anybody knew what hit them.

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Pamela Geller, WND Column: Hussein in Jerusalem

My Wednesday column is up at WND. On the eve of Passover, the modern-day Pharaoh is en route to the Jewish homeland.

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Hussein in Jerusalem
Exclusive: Pamela Geller predicts 'Islamophile' Obama will humiliate Israel during visit

No, not the Mufti al-Husseini of Jerusalem, but Obama. Close enough.

Why is Obama going to Israel? The Muslim Brotherhood advocate in the White House has refused to speak to the Knesset. He caved to Muslim threats and supremacist demands and is not going to the Temple Mount with an Israeli escort. And an Obama administration official has said that Obama will not bring any new Middle East peace plan with him, because he doesn’t think the Israelis are interested in peace. Not the “Palestinians” with their calls for blood and genocide, but the Israelis.

So what is he doing there? He is going on the offensive against Israel, and he is doing it from Israel. Expect the notorious leftist Israel press to applaud Obama’s land confiscation policy.

And Obama is not going over there empty-handed. He brings a cash infusion of 500 million smackers for the jihadists, aka the Palestinian Authority. No money for White House tours or military tuition – but half a billion for the terror statelet and billions and F16s to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

Yet the more he prostrates himself before the Palestinian jihadists, the more contempt they have for him. I wonder how much this will cost the American taxpayers, not to mention Israeli blood and land … and 3G technology. No joke: Muslims in Bethlehem were burning pictures of Obama and protesting, among other things, the absence of 3G communications technology.

And the Times of Israel reported that Israeli Knesset member Nachman Shai “called on students to skip U.S. President Barack Obama’s planned speech to the Israeli public, scheduled for Thursday night, citing the White House’s exclusion of Ariel University from a program to allow students to attend the Jerusalem address.”

Ariel University is in the traditional Jewish homeland of Judea and Samaria. Many of those who attend it are “settlers.” In fact, there is no such thing as a “settler.” A “settler” is a Jew living in the Jewish homeland, Judea and Samaria. As Brandhttp://www.typepad.com/site/blogs/6a00d8341c60bf53ef00d83451c1c069e2/post/6a00d8341c60bf53ef017d421df68c970c/editon Marlon wrote in the Jewish Press: “For Jewish people, the ancient tribal territories of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and west Menasheh – aka Judea and Samaria, or the West Bank – form the very heartland of the Jewish homeland.”

Shai said: “It is shocking to think that you can disqualify students just because they learn in the West Bank. I do not understand how President Obama wants to conduct a dialogue with the Israeli public when he is consciously excluding part of it.” Indeed.

Israel needs this anti-Semite there like a hole in the head. Obama is banning settlers? File this under Obama attempting to render parts of Jerusalem judenrein.

And now he is even erasing established and undisputed (aside from the jihadists) Israeli territory. The Washington Free Beacon reported Monday: “The map of the Middle East displayed in an Obama administration video released days before President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel shows the Jewish state dispossessed of substantial parts of its current territory, including its capital. The map of Israel, displayed repeatedly during the video, shows the Golan Heights, Jerusalem, northern Israel, and areas surrounding what is currently the West Bank as non-Israeli territory. The Golan Heights is shown as part of Syria; Jerusalem is shown as part of the West Bank; and northern Israel is shown as part of Lebanon.”

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Pamela Geller, Monday's WND Column: Pure deliciousness! 'Uninvited' at CPAC

_{Photo courtesy Pamela Hall}

Al Cardenas,  chair of the American Conservative Union that puts on CPAC,  is asked if "Pamela Geller would be invited to CPAC next year." He said, "Maybe. We have not begin that process yet." Blazing Cat Fur send me the audio clip: Download Pamela cpac-1

As for Grover's New York [Jew] remark, Big Fur Hat has a brilliant takedown here (read the whole thing). Everyone knows what Grover Norquist is (Grover Norquist and the Iran Lobby). And this is hardly new; Franklin Foer was warning us of Grover Norquist's ties to jihadists right after September 11th here.

My column for WND Monday is what I saw at the CPAC circus:

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Pure deliciousness! 'Uninvited' at CPAC
Exclusive: Pamela Geller shares exceptional debate of hot-button issues

It was particularly delicious that I was invited to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, at the invitation of the Breitbart organization. The Breitbart event, “The Uninvited,” was a special two-hour session of hot-button issues, including global jihad, the ongoing global persecution of Christians and the gutting of the American military. Breitbart is here, indeed.

The event was standing room only. And I was overwhelmed by the rush of applause and folks who stood up when I walked into the room for the event. It was mind-blowing. These people get it.

The theme of my remarks was “The War on Free Speech.” Truth is, the new hate speech according to our betters – the enemedia and political elites. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation is attempting to intimidate the West into criminalizing criticism of Islam, and what is shameful is the eagerness of the Western mainstream media, the left and even many conservatives to do their bidding by censoring themselves when speaking about Islam and demonizing and marginalizing those who dare to speak the truth about the jihad and Islamic supremacism. By their silence and weak response to the attacks, defamation and libel of voices of freedom, the right has sanctioned this speech-crushing device of the left and Islamic supremacists. Silence is sanction.

Suhail Khan is a foremost instrument of this demonization of voices of freedom. The enemedia got into an uproar when I said, “Am I saying that Suhail Kahn is as bad as [Anwar] Al-Alwaki? He’s worse. I knew when I said it that the media tools would jump all over it as a “gotcha” quote, and the hopeless Alex Seitz-Wald at Salon again and BuzzFeed got right on it. And just to show you what dishonest merchants they are, Matthew Boyle reports at Breitbart News that Salon’s Jillian Rayfield had written a good bit of her story, including charges of “Islamophobia,” before the panel even began. There was no need for her to actually watch the panel to apply the enemedia spin.

Of course Khan’s stealth jihad is more dangerous. Awlaki is dead. Suhail is working his treachery every day, under the guise of a “conservative” mask. Anwar al-Awlaki, too, was a moderate Muslim before he wasn’t. He was praised in the New York Times. Abdurrahman Alamoudi, a friend of Norquist and Khan, was also a moderate before he wasn’t. Alamoudi was Suhail’s mentor before he went to prison for terror-related crimes. Alamoudi was al-Qaida’s largest secret financial courier. Suhail Khan is tightly linked to jihadists who want to take down this country. Here is the background.

These attacks on me and my work are not about Pamela Geller. There is nothing personal in this war against me; it’s the subject matter. So when conservatives allow the attacks and marginalization of my work, they sanction the war on free speech. All of my colleagues have had their names dragged through the mud, their reputations ruined, their ability to make a living destroyed. Yet many conservatives remain silent (including some who were at “The Uninvited” event). They think they can do it better, softer – make the argument more saleable. But no one who touches this subject will be spared.

I have been dive-bombing into CPAC since 2008 – holding events on subjects that this body of the conservative movement refuses to address. And what CPAC omits is immense. There was little or no discussion of jihad in America; Shariah (close to half of the state legislatures are currently enacting or considering foreign law – why no discussion at CPAC?); the rise of Islamic supremacist regimes throughout the Middle East and Africa; the case for Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East with a shared value system of governance: life, liberty, individual rights; how college students can handle the vicious anti-American bias on university campuses – the list goes on and on.

But more than this, at CPAC there is no discussion of philosophy. And without a basic understanding of our system of thinking – the nature of knowledge – we are cooked.

Indeed. Tocqueville wrote in “Democracy in America” that no country in the civilized world had paid less attention to philosophy than the U.S. He observed that Americans had no philosophical school of their own and little interest in those of Europe. But this was our genius, because our philosophy was our sense of life. We shared the same premise, conducted our understanding in the same manner, governed by the same rules – without taking the time or trouble to define the rules.

We must first go back to square one and learn why capitalism is the greatest and most benevolent of all economic systems. Capitalism is individual rights. We should have taught the 10,000 great Americans who came to CPAC why we think the way we do. Our story is a great one, the greatest. Individual rights. The U.S. the first really moral government in history based on that premise. And everything glorious and magnificent and supreme that we achieved was a rational fidelity to that principle.

Individual rights is the basis of my work. Individual vs. statism. This is the unending battle of the human condition. Communism, Nazism and now Shariah. There is no individual soul under Islam. And the Shariah is diametrically opposed to freedom.

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Robert Spencer, Steven Bannon and Larry Solov of Breitbart

Pamela Geller, WND Weekly Column: A happy child's face on mass murder

I neglected to post my Monday column that ran at WND:

DEFENDING THE WEST

A happy child's face on mass murder
Exclusive: Pamela Geller blasts 'enemedia stooges' for advancing jihad propaganda

The war in the information battle-space is raging on the “meaning of jihad,” as the jihad rages in Nigeria, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Israel, Europe, India. How Orwellian.

Slaughter? What slaughter? Nothing to see here, folks.

Enemedia stooges are willingly playing patsy to the unintentionally comical but deceitfully dangerous Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, #MyJihad campaign.

The New York Times has put its special spin on the dueling jihad campaigns, promoting Hamas propaganda to promote Hamas-CAIR’s bizarro fiction campaign versus the real jihad ad campaign sponsored by my organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, or AFDI.

But it’s not just the Times. NPR is also hard at work using our taxpayer dollars to advance the propaganda of jihadists – along with NBC, Fox News and other big media outlets.

Big media stooges are running fallacious “news” stories promoting Hamas-CAIR’s campaign, while Hamas-CAIR uses women and children as human shields, taking a page from its mother organization, Hamas. CAIR’s #MyJihad ads, claiming that jihad is getting in your exercise and making friends, is a whitewash of the Islamic doctrine that sanctions murder and subjugation of unbelievers. The fact that some Muslims don’t associate jihad with violence does not cancel out the fact that so many do.

I will go toe-to-toe on this matter, because it’s an attempt to disarm the American people.

Yet the Goebbels-style ad campaign of Hamas-CAIR is getting enormous support from an outrageously compromised NPR. You can put a happy child’s face on mass murder, but it’s still mass murder.

Our campaign makes the point that minimizing jihad is minimizing mass murder and cultural annihilation. But NPR’s Monique Parsons goes overboard in her fervor to please Hamas in America (CAIR). She hits the ground running in her first sentence about “an advertising battle going on over the Arabic term jihad.” It’s not that “Arabic” is wrong, but it’s misleading. Jihad is a religious mandate, and it’s an Islamic term, it is a religious term. Arabic is the language of Islam.

Parsons said our ads “present jihadists as violent.” Uh, no, they are violent. They are killing non-Muslims and more secular Muslims at mind-numbing speed. Counter-jihad blogs cover the mass slaughter, subjugation, oppression and misogyny every day from Nigeria to Thailand, Ethiopia to Bangladesh, Egypt to Zanzibar, Mali, Malaysia, Iran, et al.

Parsons went on to make the NPR segment about the duel meaning of jihad. Tell that to the hundreds of millions of victims of jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural annihilations and enslavements. She happily goes along with Hamas-CAIR’s ruse of using women and children as human shields as a prop for jihad. The tragic irony here is that countless women and children are victims of the jihadist war on innocent civilians. The horror.

Here again we see the poisonous fruit of the left’s primitive motives: They work only off emotion and not reason. Parson feels and thus acts, despite the body count. Parsons never mentioned CAIR’s unindicted co-conspirator status in the largest Hamas funding trial in our nation’s history or that the U.S. government named them a Muslim Brotherhood proxy in that same criminal court case. Many members of their leadership are serving jail time for terror-related offenses. But in Parsons’s way of thinking (I should say feeling), this is clearly unrelated to a news story on jihad. Got that?

This is astonishing. And it just goes on and on. Beth Parker, reporter for Fox 5 in Washington, D.C., did a news segment on our counter-jihad ads in Washington and didn’t contact me or my colleague, Robert Spencer, or anyone on our side for comment.

No, the only opinion Parker got is from Hamas-CAIR, although Parker never mentions the bizarre and bogus CAIR jihad campaign running in Washington, which was the impetus for our campaign. How could she avoid them? Our ads are running in the same stations as the CAIR ads. It’s why they are there. Is Parker clueless or complicit?

Incompetent tool is what she is – the quintessential useful idiot. Hamas-CAIR is funded by Wahhabi dollars ($50 million here); let’s hope she sold herself for a fat check like so many of her colleagues. Parker gave CAIR’s Islamic supremacist executive director, Ibrahim Hooper, run of the mic to spew his libel and defamation.

Read the rest here.

Pamela Geller, Weekly WND Column: The Right: Marching to Oblivion

My latest column on the low state of the GOP:

DEFENDING THE WEST 

The right: Marching to oblivion
Exclusive: Pamela Geller asks, why didn't Rand Paul bring up Brennan's support of jihad?

Why do free people need a strongman? Weak people need a strongman. Strong people do not need a strongman. The rational, the reasonable and the right in America do not need a strongman. But we do need thinkers and leaders who can clearly and forthrightly articulate our position: why we are right and why we must prevail, and why our argument is based on individual rights and principles upon which our Founding Fathers established this nation. This is the terrible deficiency we are experiencing on the right: There is no one in leadership clearly articulating our position.

And while I join others in applauding the largely symbolic effort of Rand Paul in filibustering against Obama’s CIA nominee, John Brennan, color me skeptical. The man spoke for 13 hours and never mentioned that Brennan supported jihad and called it a legitimate tenet of Islam. Thirteen hours on the war on the West and why targeting Americans is a bad idea and no word on the real enemy our nation faces? Talk about avoiding the 800-pound elephant in the room.

That’s what makes Brennan so dangerous; making him CIA director is like putting drones in the hands of the enemy. Remember that right after 9/11, jihadist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was applauded as a moderate and lunched at the Pentagon. Remember also that Michelle Obama and John Kerry were about to give an award to Samira Ibrahim last week, until it came to light that she is a vicious Jew-hater who applauded 9/11.

And now the same government that makes disastrous mistakes like those is going to decide who gets hit by a drone on U.S. soil? The same government that thinks “right-wing extremists” are more of a threat than jihad terrorists? As CIA director, John Brennan is so dangerous because in his warped mind, who is the enemy? So while Rand Paul had the right idea, even a broken clock is right twice a day – and don’t get me started on his position on Israel.

Rand Paul does not speak for me. And at the end of the day, what was accomplished? Brennan was confirmed. Hagel was confirmed. Kerry was confirmed. And that’s just the tip of the destroyer in the White House’s agenda. He has jacked up our deficit to an unfathomable $16 trillion, enslaving our children and grandchildren to service an impossible debt, but if we dare to implement minuscule spending cuts, he punishes the American people (no more White House tours for you!) and those who protect us.

And while Rand Paul had the right idea, it was for all the wrong reasons. If an al-Awlaki type was drinking coffee in an American coffee shop (instead of one in Yemen) and we knew that he was going to give the operational OK (via cellphone or some other means) to a homicide bomber, what would you do? If Flight 93 had hit the Capitol building and another plane was on the way to the White House, would we have shot it down?

Now, according to Stars and Stripes magazine, the military is ending its tuition assistance program for troops. So Obama is saying that it is more important to spend $750 million (just approved) on jets and tanks for the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas than it is to provide education for those young men and women whom he would send in to fight the massive war against non-Muslims he is currently fomenting in the Middle East. Make no mistake that this is what is happening here.

Obama is the most profoundly immoral chief executive in the history of this nation. The enemy is in full control, and the right is DOA. As for Mitt Romney, he’s a very lovely guy, but he ran a 20th-century campaign. “Father Knows Best” was not going to defeat a vicious collectivist with a war chest rivaled only by that of Muhammad.

There’s a war raging, and the right thinks that if it doesn’t engage or doesn’t show up, then that war doesn’t exist. How irrational. If you don’t show up, you forfeit, and the right is forfeiting. Anytime someone takes a bold or brave stance against statism or collectivism, or against jihad and Shariah, they suffer withering attacks from both outside the movement and inside the movement.

I know this because I have been on the receiving end of internecine warfare on the right. I’m not at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this year. Many on the right are afraid of my message. Essentially, what they’re afraid of is the fight.

Don’t get me wrong. We see many come out in a burst of light, a supernova: Allen West, Sarah Palin, and now Ted Cruz. But we also see the right abandon these same people when the left goes after them like the jackals and the vultures they are. Did the GOP establishment have Sarah Palin’s back?

There'a more. A lot more here.

Pamela Geller, WND Column, Jihad-accommodating CPAC

My latest column at WND on the CPAC jihad against voices of freedom:

Defending the West

Jihad-accommodating CPAC
Exclusive: Pamela Geller shares why she was axed from annual conservative conference

For the first time in five years, I won’t be at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

This year I wanted to hold an event entitled, “The War on Free Speech.” After the historic free-speech legal wins in Washington, D.C., and New York, the bus ads and the ongoing fight to run our counter-jihad campaign, what could be more timely? I applied to CPAC and met with their signature wall of silence. I tried to partner with the tea party (as I had done last year), but no dice.

It has always been a challenge to hold an event at CPAC, which is sponsored by the American Conservative Union (ACU). The CPAC events that we organized were always fraught with difficulty. Most folks didn’t understand why I worked so hard to hold an event there. A number of people have questioned my choice of venue for our historical counter-jihad events. Many feel, and rightly so, that the ACU – the political right’s largest and most influential grass-roots umbrella organization – has abandoned conservative principles and morphed into some fleshy, ambiguous, compromised political machine doling out money and favors for cronies, when it is doing anything at all.

I agree. Wholeheartedly. It has been co-opted. Jihadist operatives Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan, board members of the ACU, made sure jihad and related topics were omitted from the program, year in and year out. But that is exactly why I held the event at CPAC, and in the early years held my tongue over the difficulties I experienced in bringing my events to CPAC. It was too important that the presentation be made in order to educate everyone. Years ago, when I first met the great historian Bat Ye’or, I asked her, “What can I do?” She answered, “Learn everything first.” That was the purpose of our CPAC presentations. Many people were shocked by them, but Americans needed to know, and need to know, what we are up against.

There’s nothing conservative about soft-pedaling jihad. CPAC 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 had little in the way of addressing the war we are engaged in and the enemy threat doctrine. That again was why I held my event there. Every year CPAC gets progressively worse. Silly, even. CPAC chief Cardenas said: “This year we decided not to invite Pamela Geller for comments she made at CPAC critical of our officers. In each of these cases, their ad hominem attacks denigrate the debate and distract from the real point of CPAC.”

What I exposed about Norquist was not “ad hominem.” Norquist and Khan seem to be in charge at CPAC – no CPAC event goes on that doesn’t reflect their perspective. Norquist and Khan are serving the purposes of the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Islamic organization that has infiltrated the U.S. government and media to such an extent (as Stephen Coughlin explained at our CPAC event) that it controls the information and dissemination of everything you see, hear and read on Islam – unless you do your own research, your own study and frequent blogs like mine and Robert Spencer’s.

Journalist Paul Sperry says that Norquist’s strategy has been to “dress Islamists up as patriotic Republicans so they can infiltrate the government.” According to the Investigative Project on Terrorism:

Grover Norquist hoped to … harness votes from the country’s growing Muslim population by creating the Islamic Free Market Institute in 1998. He did so with significant financial help from Abdurahman Alamoudi, then one of America’s most influential Muslim activists and head of the American Muslim Council. Today, Alamoudi is serving a 23-year prison sentence after admitting to illegal transactions with Libya and being part of a plot to assassinate the then-Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Alamoudi was also found to be a long-time secret financial courier for al-Qaida while at the same time being routinely invited to the Clinton White House for receptions and meetings.

But the 10,000 great Americans who attend CPAC are not Shariah-compliant. The patriots attending CPAC are not pro-jihad. They were not willing to hand America over to Shariah (Islamic) law. We needed to reach them. We needed to educate them. They know they are being deceived. They look around their towns and cities and see the unremitting capitulation to Islamic supremacism.

Arm them with knowledge, I say, and what better way than to bring the leading authorities across the world to speak honestly and directly to the American people? This had to be done if we are to have any shot at saving America. And so this is what we brought to CPAC:

• CPAC 2008: Introducing Mark Steyn
• CPAC 2009: Pamela Geller Brings Geert Wilders to CPAC
• CPAC 2010: FDI Inaugural Event, Jihad: The Political Third Rail
• CPAC 2011: Ground Zero Mosque
• CPAC 2012: Islamic Law in America

Apparently, the tea party came under enormous pressure last year when they helped me hold our event. A confidential source told me the pressure to cancel was ongoing. This year, no go.

This shows the power of the Norquist-Khan cabal among conservatives. Last year Suhail Khan bragged out loud that he (and his other operatives) had successfully kept my colleague Robert Spencer and me from being invited to speak. He went so far as to warn people not to attend our events or read our books. That happened after I took on Norquist and his powerful influence over CPAC in several articles, most notably here and here.

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Pamela Geller, WND Column: New York Times jihad on free speech

My Monday column for WND:

DEFENDING THE WEST

New York Times sides with jihad
Exclusive: Pamela Geller blasts newspaper for 'assassinating' victim's character

A Muslim in Denmark recently tried to assassinate freedom fighter Lars Hedegaard. Now the New York Times has done its part by assassinating Hedegaard’s character, smearing him in a notably belated piece on the attempt on the Danish activist’s life.

It’s a pity that lily-livered cowards at the New York Times like Andrew Higgins can’t distinguish between savages and their victims. The Times’ coverage of the assassination attempt was long overdue, but the article just added insult to injury. Hedegaard is a free-speech activist who was targeted for death by Muslims who use brutal violence to impose Shariah. But you’d never know it from the New York Times article, which could easily have run in the Tehran Times.

Higgins immediately rips into Hedegaard, a man of principle and nonviolence, characterizing his opinions as “a stew of anti-Muslim bile and conspiracy-laden forecasts of a coming civil war.”

In his article, Higgins furiously spins a new narrative: that Muslims might rightly despise Hedegaard, but they actually support him. He even includes this claim in his article’s title: “Danish Opponent of Islam Is Attacked, and Muslims Defend His Right to Speak.”

“That Danish Muslims would rally to defend Mr. Hedegaard, a man they detest,” writes Higgins, “suggests a significant shift in attitudes, or at least in strategies, by a people at the center of a European debate over whether immigrants from mostly poor Muslim lands can adjust to the values of their new and, thanks to a long economic crisis, increasingly wary and often inhospitable homes.”

A shift in strategies, indeed. Higgins quotes Karen Haekkerup, Denmark’s minister of social affairs and integration, saying of the Muslim leaders: “They have changed their approach.” He also quotes Imran Shah of Copenhagen’s Islamic Society, saying this of the murder attempt on Hedegaard: “We knew that this was something people would try to blame on us.” Higgins doesn’t explore the implications of these statements about how the Muslim leaders have just changed their approach and strategy out of concern for being blamed, without changing their core beliefs. He doesn’t explain how the Islamic leaders justify discarding Islam’s blasphemy laws, or even question whether they’re really sincere in claiming to support Hedegaard’s freedom of speech.

Even worse, Higgins strongly implies that Hedegaard himself is responsible for the attempt on his life: “The response from native Danes has grown more equivocal over time, with some suggesting Mr. Hedegaard himself provoked violence with his strident views and the activities of his Danish Free Press Society, an organization that he set up in 2004 to defend free expression but that is best known for denouncing Islam.”

Higgins quotes Mikael Rothstein, a religious history scholar at the University of Copenhagen: “I think that Hedegaard wanted this conflict … brutal words can be as strong as the brutal physical act of violence.

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Pamela Geller, Sun Sentinel: "Bruce Warshal: Rabbi for the Jews' enemies"

A month ago, the Sun Sentinel ran a vicious oped by a Rabbi Bruce Warshal, who defamed me and several of my colleagues. I submitted a response and requested, in the interest of journalistic integrity, that they publish it.

Bruce Warshal: Rabbi for the Jews' enemies

By Pamela Geller,  February 20, 2013

Rabbi Bruce Warshal, writing recently in the Jewish Journal, plants himself firmly on the side of the enemies of the Jewish people, all the while patting himself on the back for his self-bestowed moral superiority.

It has recently been revealed that the Muslim Brotherhood President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, has called Jews "descendants of apes and pigs" and said: "we must not forget to nurse our children and grandchildren on hatred towards those Zionists and Jews, and all those who support them. They must be nursed on hatred. The hatred must continue." Yet Warshal calls it "Islamophobia and outright hatred" that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) would dare call for an investigation into Muslim Brotherhood influence in the U.S. Government.

Pamela Geller, WND Column: The Jihad in Thailand

DEFENDING THE WEST

The jihad in Thailand
Exclusive: Pamela Geller reports on slaughter of 'infidels' -- this time Buddhists

You never hear or see the press cover the relentless war being waged by Muslims in Thailand. The enemedia’s silence on the jihad in Thailand is criminal.

Just last week, Islamic jihadists set off at least 12 bombs in Thailand, targeting stores, bars and other public areas, killing at least two people and wounding a dozen more. According to Thailand’s The Nation, “With the attacks happening one after the other, residents feared for their lives and carried their possessions out of their shops.”

My contact in Thailand reports that “Muslim terrorists set off at least 12 bombs over the weekend in southern Thailand. As usual, with the initial confusion and ongoing attacks there are conflicting reports about the numbers of deaths and injuries, with most news stories reporting four dead and another three or four critically injured, with two dozen or more less seriously injured. We’ve heard about some other deaths on the local radio so the casualty list might be revised upward tomorrow. The terrorists targeted stores, bars and public areas aiming to kill and maim as many civilians as possible. This could fairly be called an attack on the local economy with some of the terrorists also pretending to be customers and planting incendiary devices in retail stores. This is in line with the ongoing Muslim terror strategy to drive all Buddhists from Thailand’s south.”

Where are the cries of Islamic Buddhistophobia? Instead, all you hear about from the mainstream media is the ridiculous fiction of Islamophobia. Such suicidal foolishness is without precedent.

The Thai jihad is fierce, bloody and ongoing. In mid-February, according to Agence France Presse, “in one of the most deadly attacks in Thailand’s long-running insurgency, scores of heavily armed gunmen stormed a southern army base Wednesday, authorities said, leaving 16 militants dead. … A shadowy insurgency has been fighting for greater autonomy for the country’s southernmost provinces since 2004, with shootings and bombings occurring on a near-daily basis. More than 5,500 people have been killed, both Buddhist and Muslim, in the bloody conflict.”

“A shadowy insurgency.” Hmmm, who could that be?

None of the major news reports spoke of who attacked the Thai military base. This takes “journalism” to a whole new level – think about it. And it also, of course, emboldens the Muslim army: AFP quoted Matthew Wheeler, an ICG Southeast Asia analyst, saying this of the attack on the army base: “The attack Wednesday is ‘part of a trend’ towards bigger, bolder attacks by militants showing a new ‘willingness on the part of militants to engage the security forces head on.’”

And earlier in February, again according to The Nation, “armed men tied up four Buddhist fruit traders then shot them in the head one by one in the latest gruesome attack in Yala in the deep South early yesterday. Police found the bodies of the victims, who included a woman, with their hands tied behind their backs, in a house in Krong Pinang district at about 1 a.m.”

According to my source in Thailand: “Six Thai fruit buyers came to the south to purchase produce, but according to the jihadists they had one characteristic that meant they should be murdered: they were Buddhists, and therefore infidels. The six were innocent, hardworking people who travelled to the south to make a few pennies on each piece of fruit. But they were Buddhists: the enemy.”

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Pamela Geller, WND Column: Al Jazeera tries to whitewash bloody record

DEFENDING THE WEST

Al Jazeera tries to whitewash bloody record
Exclusive: Pamela Geller urges Americans to oppose terrorist propaganda network

It came to light Tuesday that terror network Al Jazeera has hired a high-powered K Street lobbying firm, DLA Piper, to whitewash its tarnished terror-enabling record among Washington lawmakers.

Al Jazeera clearly believes that politicians are utterly corrupt and can be bought off – hence its hiring of this lobbying firm. And DLA Piper is craven and short-sighted to take the job. Could the Nazis have hired a lobbying firm during World War II and persuaded Congress to allow them to have a television station in the United States?!

Those lobbyists have their work cut out for them. Al Jazeera is the leading terrorist propaganda organization in the world. Jihad murder mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki has praised Al Jazeera, and several years ago one of its most prominent reporters was arrested on terror charges. Al Jazeera also has for years been the recipient of numerous al-Qaida videos featuring Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and American traitor Adam Gadahn. Yet they never seem to be able to trace where these videos are coming from. They have repeatedly been set up at the point of attack right before a bomb went off, so that they could take the picture of the slaughtered, dismembered bodies.

Al Jazeera has provided material support for jihad terrorism. A number in their employ are members of al-Qaida. Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Afghanistan, who interviewed Osama bin Laden, was sent to prison for being an agent of al-Qaida. Al Jazeera’s first managing director was exposed as an agent of the Saddam Hussein regime, and the channel promoted the bloody jihad against American forces in Iraq.

In light of all this, a patriotic broadcaster and activist, Jerry Kenney, has filed complaints with the Department of Justice, citing evidence that Al Jazeera is not complying with the Foreign Agent Registration Act and labeling its broadcasts as foreign propaganda, paid for by the pro-jihadist Arab government of Qatar. The Department of Justice refuses to enforce the law against Al Jazeera.

Yet in the face of all this, the enemedia is silent. Last week I spoke at a press conference on Al Jazeera at the National Press Club. It set the stage for a brutal battle. The room was full to capacity with activists and new media. The enemedia would never cover this. They are aligned with the jihad force. They like Al Jazeera. We held a big press conference that was ignored by the media and worse, by Congress – and in response, Al Jazeera decided to grease the corrupt wheels in Congress and grease those dirty palms, knowing that the priority of all too many lawmakers would be a payoff and not fidelity to the oath they have sworn to protect and defend the American Constitution and people.

We are at war. And there are many theaters in any given war, but the war in the information battle-space is key to conquest and colonization. Hitler and Goebbels understood this. The Nazi government had an entire ministry of propaganda – a war division. The Muslim Brotherhood understands this, too. It has its own ministry of propaganda: Al Jazeera. Muhammad said, “War is deceit.” The U.S. once understood the power of ideas. We had a war department that had Hollywood greats like Frank Capra and John Ford making films for freedom. Where are our cheerleaders now?

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Pamela Geller, The Jewish Voice: Lawsuit: Ground Zero Mosqueteer Imam Rauf Scammed Donors to Finance Debauchery

Lawsuit: Ground Zero Mosquesteer Imam Rauf Scammed Donors to Finance Lavish Lifestyle Pamela Geller, The Jewish Voice

The New York Daily News reported on Tuesday, February 5, that “Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, founder and CEO of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, is being accused of swiping donation money intended for the ‘Ground Zero’ mosque to enjoy a lavish lifestyle.”

Regular readers of my website AtlasShrugs.com will not be surprised at this at all. We are proven right again and again, although the media never admits this. I wrote this in October 2010:

In a piece in Forbes late last year (right before the Ground Zero mosque was announced, Imam and slumlord Rauf extols the riches of fine living. Couture! Sports cars! Cuisine! And the world’s finest prayer rugs (of course). This should solve the riddle of where our two million in taxpayer dollars were going, along with the million from the Dutch government, and his funding from Osama Bin Laden/Al Qaeda-linked Saudi corporation XENEL not to mention our funding his Middle East junkets.

While the tenants in Ground Zero mosque imam’s slums in New Jersey suffer, Imam Rauf enjoys the finest offerings money can buy. Just last week, Rauf was summoned back to court (he didn’t show, of course) as he was cited with more than 200 housing and health code violations over the past two months. A couple of months ago Union City filed suit against Rauf.

Now it comes out that this sinister Islamic supremacist imam was financing this lavish lifestyle not just by ripping off his slum tenants and our taxpayer dollars, but by stealing from Ground Zero mega-mosque donors as well.

Pamela Geller, WND Bi-Weekly Column: "I just did my jihad" Hero's Islamic killer gets off scot-free

This is Obama's idea of victory in Afghanistan. Our sons and daughters........so much collateral damage in the Obama's Post-America.

Here's just one story. One terrible story replayed over and over and over.

The killer of this great American hero in another green on blue attack was Aynoddin, the 19 year old "tea boy" of Afghan District Police Chief Sarwar Jan. He was immediately captured following the shooting of Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley Jr and three of his fellow Marines. "I just did jihad," Aynoddin proudly shouted over and over.

Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley Jr.'s father shared this:

"District Police Chief Jan, who supplied the assault rifle, most likely helped plan and certainly approved the attack was detained. The following day the Taliban claimed responsibility for the murders.
So why then am I still fighting tooth & nail to get justice for my son? In the weeks following his death The Marine Corps concluded their investigation, classifying it as a "Homicide". They then turned the investigation over to Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Since the day NCIS took over I feel we have been stonewalled. And to be perfectly honest I'm running out of patience. ...
I met with an NCIS investigator just last week, and all he seemed interested in was what I knew, & how I found out!
Then he told me I should fill out a Freedom of Information Act request form if I want to learn the results of their investigation, but it could take a year!
Through our own investigation we learned Chief Jan was released & The Pentagon wants to turn Aynoddin back over to the Afghans. Why? Because Our Commander in Chief thinks we must remain "culturally sensitive" to the needs of the Afghanistans! Screw Them!
I know this administration thinks we'll just go away but that will NEVER happen. I will not rest until I know why our soldiers were ordered to be unarmed, but Afghans were permitted to carry weapons on our bases. I will not rest until they explain why they allowed Chief Jan to be released. I will not rest until Aynoddin is tried as the terrorist that he is. And I certainly will not rest until they admit these Insider Attacks are in-fact Terrorist Attacks.

Gd bless this father and his family. We must assist Greg Buckley Sr get justice.

DEFENDING THE WEST

Hero's Islamic killer gets off scot-free

Exclusive: Pamela Geller tells of corporal gunned down by Afghan 'ally'

Sunday evening I had the great honor of receiving the Patriot of the Year Award before a packed house of well over 200 people at the nation’s oldest Republican Club, the Queens Village Republican Club. I received a beautiful plaque that also featured a clock, which I thought apropos in light of our AFDI pro-freedom ads that just ran on 240 clocks throughout the New York subway system, and a citation from the New York City Council recognizing me as Patriot of the Year.

The event was illuminating in many ways. One speaker insistently emphasized that all religions teach the same core values, and another heralded our “nation building” efforts in Afghanistan. But then something happened that showed all that up as the politically correct nonsense that it is: the club presented a Supreme Sacrifice award to the family of Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley Jr., who was murdered by one of our Afghan “allies” while working out in the base gym after a long day of work “nation building” among those allies in Afghanistan. Cpl. Buckley’s father spoke with heart-rending intensity, his voice breaking, about his love for his son, and revealed what his son had told him before he was killed: that the Afghans were not like Americans. They were cold-hearted; they had no gratitude for the Americans no matter now much the Americans did for them; and – most wrenching of all – that he didn’t think he was going to get out of Afghanistan alive.

Cpl. Buckley was murdered two days before he was scheduled to have come home. An Afghan police captain handed his weapon to his “t-boy,” his 19-year-old male companion who had followed him everywhere and done his bidding (in all things) for at least seven years. The Americans, including Cpl. Buckley, were unarmed: they were not permitted to carry weapons on the base, lest they antagonize our Afghan “allies.” The Afghans, in contrast, strutted around with AK-47s. The t-boy used his to shoot Cpl. Buckley in the chest and murder several other Americans before he was subdued.

Buckley’s father found all this out on his own, because our military wouldn’t investigate. He discovered the serial number of the AK-47, tracing it to the Afghan captain, and asked American authorities to arrest and prosecute him. The Americans did nothing. The murderer walked free; to have apprehended him would have again offended our Afghan “allies.” Buckley’s father demanded justice. And he deserves justice. But he has been met with silence.

I wish I could say that I listened to this grieving, weeping father (a tough guy) in amazement, just as most in the audience did. But I was not amazed. This is what I have been warning against for years. The story of Lance Cpl. Buckley is a horrific illustration of exactly why the Obama administration is so wrong, and so criminal, to ignore and obfuscate and deny the reality of jihad and the truth about Islam. Our Afghan policy is based on the core assumption that Islam is peace and that the Afghans are grateful for our “nation building” and happy to help us. Anyone who dares to suggest that the Afghans view us as filthy kuffar who need to be killed, converted to Islam, or subjugated is denounced as a racistislamophobicantimuslimbigot. But what it really amounts to is putting a deadly American-made weapon into the hands of an enemy whose sole objective is to destroy our very way of life and kill anyone who gets in the way of that jihadi objective.

Cpl. Buckley’s death shows that our official stance on Islam is not true. And that it is dangerous and evil, and is putting our American troops in harm’s way needlessly and wantonly. If Cpl. Buckley had gone into Afghanistan with realistic rules of engagement and armed with an honest exposition of the reality of Islam, he would never have been unarmed in the presence of AK-wielding jihadists. His commanding officers wouldn’t have dared to command him to do such a thing. They wouldn’t have been pretending that these jihadists were our allies in the first place. And they would not be pouring American blood and treasure into a futile and self-defeating attempt at “nation building” among people who will never respect, never accept, and never be grateful for the supreme sacrifices of heroes like Cpl. Buckley and so many others like him.

Cpl. Buckley’s family deserves justice. There should be a full congressional investigation into his death, and into why his murderer was not prosecuted. Immediate action should be taken so that there are no more Americans who are sacrificed to our national denial about the reality of jihad. The mission in Afghanistan is a useless exercise in politically correct fantasy. It has to stop. It has to end. Doesn’t anyone in Washington love America anymore? It’s time, it’s long past time, to tell the truth about Islam, to teach it to our soldiers and to realign our foreign policy in light of reality, however unpleasant. To do anything less would be national suicide.

Say what you want about George W. Bush, but he consoled every family that lost a loved one fighting for our freedom. The Buckley family, on the other hand, has been met with a wall of silence from the Obama administration that mirrors the cold-bloodedness of Cpl. Buckley’s killer.

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