Pamela Geller, American Thinker: Mona Eltahawy vs. Free Speech

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"Mona Eltahawy vs. Free Speech" Pamela Geller, American Thinker

Author's
note: I sent this article to Matt Seaton of the Guardian in response to
Mona Eltahawy's defamatory piece there, justifying her vandalism of my
ad in the New York
Blog_ Mona Eltahawy vssubways: "In any war between the civilized man and
the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad."
Seaton responded: "I don't see how the article was defamatory, but in
any case I would welcome it if you wanted to post in the discussion
thread under Mona's article. Alternatively, I think you have a
well-followed blog; plus you did have your say in the subway ads in the
first instance."

So only one side gets a say in the
Guardian. I am not surprised that it would be the side trying to justify
the infringement of my freedom of speech. 

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In her Guardian piece
justifying her vandalism of my ad in the New York subway and
infringement of my freedom of speech, Mona Eltahawy claims that five
days after her hateful and malicious act, "a man set fire to my
brother's local mosque." Then she says of her vandalism: "I broke the law, yes. So what?" What would Eltahawy say if the person
who set fire to the mosque said the same thing? While claiming to
uphold the freedom of speech and rule of law, Eltahawy reveals her
hypocrisy, and her contempt for both.

Eltahawy
goes on about her "love of the first amendment," while demonstrating
her abysmal lack of understanding of what the freedom of speech is, how
it works, and why it is important. How is destroying private property
free speech? Vandalism is not freedom of speech, it's barbarism; in a
word, it's savagery. If Mona Eltahawy wanted to exercise her freedom of
speech, she could have bought her own advertisement and expressed
herself any way she wished. Attacking people with toxic spray (and yes,
she did spraypaint Pamela Hall, as the video shows, contrary to her
claims in her piece), and destroying property is not freedom of
expression or any legitimate form of protest.

But
it isn't just the First Amendment that she doesn't get: clearly Mona
Eltahawy's grasp on the facts, and reality in general, is tenuous at
best. "When Islamophobes in Europe," she writes, "Geert Wilders and the
English Defense League – unite to come to visit Geller
and meet with mainstream Republican heavyweight such as Andrew Bolt and
Newt Gingrich, you must understand it is for the purpose of vilifying
all Muslims." Andrew Bolt is a mainstream Republican heavyweight? The
only Andrew Bolt I know of is a journalist in Australia; I haven't met
him.

Eltahawy
claims that if she had wanted to block my freedom of speech, she would
have torn down my ad, not spraypainted over it – a transparent dodge
obviously designed to aid her defense when she comes up on criminal
mischief charges in November. And then she, who spraypainted over my ad,
has the gall to call me a "bully." But I wasn't the one out there covering over her message with spray paint.

"Resist
the disingenuous argument," Eltahawy says, that I am "speaking out
against 'Jihad' and not Islam." But she offers no reason, no argument in
favor of such "resistance." We are constantly told that the vast
majority of Muslims abhor the jihad terror that is committed worldwide
in the name of Islam; why, then, would Eltahawy take a call to defeat
jihad as referring to all Muslims?

Eltahaway
also decries my use of the word "savage" as "racist" and
"dehumanizing." But is any use of the word "savage" really some kind of
thinly veiled call for genocide, as she strongly implies? Nonsense.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt called the Nazis "savages." And they were.
Would Mona Eltahawy spraypaint him as well?

Nor
does Eltahawy have anything at all to say about the very real savagery
that is committed in the name of the jihad against Israel. The ad refers
not to all Muslims, but to to those jihadis who rejoice in the murders
of innocent civilians. The war on Israel is a war on innocent civilians.
The targeting of civilians is savage. The murder of Ambassador Chris
Stevens was savage. The relentless 60-year campaign of terror against
the Jewish people is savage. The torture of hostage Gilad Shalit was
savage. The bloody hacking to death of the Fogel family was savage. The
Munich Olympic massacre was savage. The unspeakable torture of Ehud
Goldwasser was savage. The tens of thousands of rockets fired from Gaza
into southern Israel (into schools,
homes, etc.) are savage. The vicious Jew-hatred behind this genocide is
savage. The endless demonization of the Jewish people in the
Palestinian and Arab media is savage. The refusal to recognize the state
of Israel as a Jewish state is savage. The list is endless.

This
kind of savagery goes on in the name of jihad on a daily basis around
the world – and my ads are the problem? Mona Eltahawy demonstrates a
moral myopia of truly immense proportions, mistaking fascist denial of
the freedom of speech with the exercise of the freedom of speech, and
identifying the resistance to savagery as worse than the savagery
itself.

And
even worse are all the polite, well-dressed savages behind her,
applauding her fascist thuggery and giving it a platform in publications
like the Guardian.

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sheik yer'mami
sheik yer'mami
11 years ago

Hahahaha!
Andrew Bolt is a mainstream Republican heavyweight?
Mona Eltahowitzer is well and truly deranged and obsessed. Andrew Bold used to be mildly critical of Islam and writes Australia’s most read blog at the Herald Sun.
However; since he and the HS lost a court case (something about white trash moochers who claim to be Aboriginies) under Australia’s Orwellian hate-speech laws he hardly touches Islam these days.

Gleaner1
Gleaner1
11 years ago

That “Newspaper” Pam is the kind of publication that values ALL points of view EQUALLY as long as they’re the same as the staffs.
Of course, you knew that when approached. Really though, it does become SO frustrating when they refuse to use the ONE thing they believe they themselves have in ABUNDANCE – Intellect. All THEY have is policy, and the purity of that must be protected, even when it’s wrong.

cassandra
cassandra
11 years ago

Mona and all writers from the Guardian suffer from a kind of brain-cancer. My poor hamster suffered from it when I was a kid, it just kept going round and round, just one way (to the left)endlessly, as if there was no other way, eventually dying. This what these dirtbags do, no mention of the hideous anti-semitic filth on the ads already up, just round and round the same old lies and blood libels!!

Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
11 years ago

I recognize the need for public people to distinguish hatred of jihadists from a more easily assailable hatred of Muslims, or of “all Muslims.”
This will remain a treacherous rhetorical pitfall in an escalating Civil Cold War in this and all other good, white Judeo-Christian countries being quickly submerged in sharia. But the truth is that the pull of cultural inertia is so strong and with Stockholm Syndrome is such full effect, and given the natural fact of the standoff between the nations of Isaac and Ishmael, West and East, Light and Dark, Peace and War, Freedom and Savagery, the chips will always all be down and everything will always be at stake, so we have to always hate them all.

Edde
Edde
11 years ago

Mona Elhataway is a fascist. An Arab fascist. An Egyptian fascist.
When has Mona ever protested against Al Qada, CAIR?

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