2010: The Atlas Year in Review

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THANK YOU ATLAS SHRUGGERS FOR A KILLER YEAR.

I thought readers might like to see a quick overview of the real progress that we made in the war against America. Many groups yap a lot, promise a lot, fight amongst themselves a lot …… we have no time for such things.

The clock is ticking. We are on the march. Help fight in the coming year — contribute to [email protected] at Paypal.com. Regular Atlas readers have followed my work and are aware of our organization's extraordinary accomplishments this year.

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Here are some Atlas highlights:

We kicked off the new year by saving Rifqa Bary's Christmas (and Rifqa too, no doubt).

We held a Christmas card drive for Christian convert out of Islam, Rifqa Bary. Rifqa christmas CAIR We fought successfully for her freedom and made sure her persecution was front and center in the public eye.

The Atlas Christmas drive sent hundreds, if not thousands, of Christmas cards and gifts to Rifqa. Rifqa was grateful to all of us.

Her parents' lawyer, Omar Tarazi, tried to seize and ban the Christmas cards, but failed in court. Rifqa Bary escaped the clutches of the sharia, the Hamas group CAIR and her fatal home life.

Rifqa Bary: Teenage Apostate in America

Her parents' lawyer, Omar Tarazi,  is now suing me for $10,000,000 in a lawfare "defamation" suit. To be continued.

Ex biggie smalls is summarily defeated by a….. girl 🙂

In February, I kicked off the inaugural American Freedom Defense Initiative event at CPAC: Jihad: The Political Third Rail.

FULL VIDEO: FDI at CPAC, "Sept 11 was a Tragic Moment in the History of Our Nation, but the Infiltration of Islam is of Equal Concern" [Bumped]

It was standing room only, and regrets to those who couldn't get in (Sammy over at Yid with Lid and Melissa Clouthier, sincere regrets). This despite the fact that we were off to the side and were going against Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Congressman Stephen King, Congressman Mike Pence, stealth jihadist Grover Norquist and several other panels.

While the agenda for day 2 of the CPAC conference featured a long list of additional conservative speakers and panel discussions, I will be focusing here on what I believe to be the single most important event of this three-day conference. Jihad: The Political Third Rail, was a panel discussion presented by Freedom Defense Initiative, a new activist organization started by Pamela Geller of atlasshrugs.com, and the Freedom Center’s own Robert Spencer, who runs jihadwatch.org.

This panel featured several American and international resistance fighters working to stop the spread of Islamic supremacism and most importantly, America’s infiltration by Muslim sympathizers.  The central focus of the event was the Islamic jihad against the West and how Islamic organizations are working to silence free speech both in Europe and America.   Security was very tight for this event, and it drew a standing-room only crowd, as you can see in the photo below.

Pamela Geller started the discussion while video was shown of Muslim radicals rioting in multiple cities across Europe and North America over the past couple of years.  She pointed out that this is not being reported in the major media, and that fully TWO THIRDS of the jihad attacks since 9-11 happened in 2009.  As Pamela stated, there is a cover-up in progress and  ”Truth has become the new hate speech.”

First to speak was Wafa Sultan, author of A God Who Hates, and one of three witnesses approved to testify for Geert Wilders in his hate speech trial.  Ms. Sultan is a former Muslim and outspoken critic of Islam.  She stated that she has had countless fatwas issued against her.  After listing several recent jihadist attacks, including the Fort Hood massacre and the media’s unwillingness to connect the dots, she asked:  ”Jihad – is this a word we dare not speak?”  Sultan pointed out that Islam is not merely a religion – it is a dangerous totalitarian political ideology.

After pointing out that President Obama has appointed a special envoy to the OIC, Sultan explained that this envoy is closely associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.  She asked: “Is this man’s loyalty to Islam or to the U.S.?”  She explained as well that this envoy has been working for some time now to stifle speech critical of Islam.

Body scanners were her next topic.  Sultan stated that she believes this machine could be employed against Muslim radicals as a powerful psychological weapon because of its potential for humiliation.  It should be noted that Sultan is trained as a psychiatrist.  Unfortunately, she stated, after a fatwa was issued claiming these scanners violate Muslim teachings regarding modesty, our TSA agreed to capitulate and substitute pat-downs by members of the same sex for Muslims.

Finally, Sultan explained that Saudi Arabia is a mastermind of Islamic terror, and that Saudi King Abdullah has the power to enforce changes in Muslim behavior if he is brought under enough pressure from the U.S. government.  ”September 11th was tragic, but infiltration of Islam is a subject of equal concern” she said.  ”We must fight it.”

Robert Spencer introduced the next speaker –  Stephen Coughlin – a former Pentagon Islamic law specialist who was fired from his job for his analysis of Islamic infiltration.  Coughlin provided a clear and cogent analysis of the Islamic threat.  He explained that the question of whether or not these terrorists are following ‘true’ Islam is irrelevant from a fact-driven perspective.  They have repeatedly told us these are the reasons they fight jihad.

A vital part of Coughlin’s discussion dealt with the doctrine of abrogation within Islam.  This doctrine states that Mohammed was given progressive revelation of Allah’s will, and that the later Koranic verses supersede and nullify earlier contradictory more peaceful verses.  This is something that is recognized by all schools of Islamic jurisprudence.  Coughlin also demonstrated that since the 9-11 commission report, political correctness has expunged words such as Muslim, enemy, Al-Qaeda and Islam from official government documents including the Ft. Hood massacre report.  Coughlin: “The 9-11 commission has been completely undermined.  You cannot defeat an enemy you are not allowed to define.  By definition, this administration has no strategy to defeat this enemy since they refuse to define it.”

Go. Read it all.

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Pamela Hall was at our inaugural event and has a compelling post at the Vigilant Squirrel Brigade. And the intrepid blogger videoed the entire event. Speakers included:

Wafa Sultan, the courageous ex-Muslim and author of A God Who Hates.

Steve Coughlin, former Pentagon key analyst, threat doctrine and sharia litigation specialist/lawyer.

Anders Gravers, Danish Leader of Stop the Islamisation of Europe.

Simon Deng, former slave in Sudan, Human Rights Activist, Leader of Freedom March.

 Incredible, historic remarks by Lt Colonel Allen West (introduction Pamela Geller). 

Reader and attendee John wrote in the comments:

Readers, I was at the event. These photos do not do justice to the size of the audience; it was standing room only to the back door in a huge hall. In the audience shots above, the distance from the back of the heads to the stage was very large and that was perhaps a third of the width of the event. Very impressive.

Many expressed to me afterward that it was the most informative two hours they have ever spent, more confessed to having wept during some of the personal narratives.

Pamela Hall wrote:

Just returned from CPAC 2010. The high point was the inaugural event presented by Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs.

Once again, they've done a great public service for America. The TRUTH about "Jihad: The Political Third Rail" from unfiltered witnesses". In 2009, Geller and Spencer brought the honorable and very brave Geert Wilders to CPAC. This year, there were even more heroes in this War against Jihad; leading voices of truth and it was a riveting two hours. (We could have stayed there for another two hours.)

Geller said when announcing the event"…. we have created an organization to stand up against this silence that threatens to our existence and render us defenseless as our freedoms and way of life are eroded away. We are launching the Freedom Defense Initiative, a new activist group, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2010, with a conference entitled "Jihad: The Political Third Rail — What They Are Not Telling You."

Our nation is at war, and yet our politicians pretend that that war isn't happening. Barack Obama is intent upon trying enemy combatants in that war in civilian courts and making concession after concession to our enemies as if those concessions will make them love us. The mainstream media, both liberal and conservative, and the entire government and law enforcement apparatus appear determined to obfuscate and deny the truth about the enemy's ideology and belief system. This has the effect of minimizing in the minds of Americans the threat just as it is greater than ever and of rendering us blind to very real threats from people and groups that officials seem intent upon assuming to be innocuous.

And on CPAC she also said "….I find it most distressing that the largest gathering of conservatives in America does nothing to address the single greatest threat to our national security, our Constitution, our very way of life…… Our event, on the other hand, will feature the first public appearance of the Steve Coughlin: Former Pentagon Islam specialist, fired after pressure from Islamic infiltrators (1st public appearance). Also speaking will be Wafa Sultan: Author, A God who Hates, viral video star of Al-Jazeera debate with Islamic cleric, Simon Deng: Ex-slave, leading human rights activist against jihad in Sudan Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff: facing "hate speech" charges in Austria for telling the truth about Islam, Lt Colonel Allen West: War hero, Congressional candidate (FL 22nd district), future national leader, Robert Spencer and myself (Pamela Geller)"

There is a deliberate cover-up by incompetent media and government officials who have imposed the Islamic (sharia) law of slander across all systems of communication. According to Islamic law, the definition of slander is saying anything that someone doesn't want known. That means that for Islamic supremacists, slander is anything that does not praise Islam.

Lots of pictures here and here.

 

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Spencer, Atlas and Wafa Sultan

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Keith Undershtupper has a thang for Atlas: Countdown to the End of the World ………. calls me "Worst Person in the World," what? Four times now? Here and here and here and here — kinda).

Book launch announcement! The Post American Presidency: The definitive Obama book — lots of cribbers, but PAP is the original

April: Pamela Geller organizes and kicks off Stop Islamization of America

SIOA Nationwide Ad Campaign Kicks off Freedom campaign in Miami: "Leaving Islam" Bus Ads Hit the Streets

Miami Transit Pulls SIOA "Leaving Islam" Ads: Living Under Sharia

WE ARE SUING MIAMI-DADE TRANSIT

ATLAS VIDEO: Catch the B-Cast With Pamela Geller, 'Leaving Islam' Bus Ads Trigger Miami Showdown

SIOA LEGAL VICTORY! BIG WIN FOR FREE SPEECH! HUGE CAIR DEFEAT! LETS ROLL! MIAMI BUS ADS ROLL OUT IN BIGGER NUMBERS THAN BEFORE

SIOA: Victory for Free Speech — Religious Liberty Bus Ads Restored to Miami Buses

Freedom Bus Ads Hit the Streets of San Francisco!

Our Freedom bus ad campaign hit the streets of California!

Pamela Geller on FOX and Friends: SIOA Freedom Bus Campaign

Join our group here: Stop Islamization of America

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SIOA Sues US government: SIOA Trademark Sharia Enforcement

SIOA Rally Calls for Halt to Plans for Ground Zero Mosque

May 9: SIOA CAMPAIGN OFFENSIVE: STOP THE 911 MOSQUE!

SIOA Rally Calls for Halt to Plans for Ground Zero Mosque

Excelsior! Upwards of Eight Thousand Protest 911 Mega Mosque on D Day! UPDATE: More Coverage, Photos, VIDEO

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Despite weather forecasts of thunderstorms and rain, the skies were clear and beautiful — but not as beautiful as this patriotic crowd of great Americans and Europeans. It was a real cross section of humanity ………. every race, creed, color and religion were out in all their glory.

Robert and I were expecting 500; imagine our wonder when close to 5,000 showed up. Some estimates ranged as high as 10,000. This is just the beginning. We are going to sue to designate the Burlington Coat Factory building a war memorial. There is a large piece of a 911 airplane in that building. That is a war memorial. Instead of a mega mosque at ground zero, let's build a 911 war memorial to the victims. The current plan for a 911 museum is several floors underground, like a dungeon. And the mosque plan calls for the mosque to be on the top floor, looking down triumphantly on the burial ground of Ground Zero. 

I don't think so. The Burlington Coat Factory building must be a war memorial, an historic landmark. We will sue to make that happen. We will protest again in September, and stage sit-ins in front of the mosque should they try to break ground. Three thousand good and decent Americans did not die in vain.

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The gathering crowd

On Sunday, June 6th, a multi-ethnic, multi-racial coalition of Americans opposed to Islamic violence and intolerance rallied at the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. Part I and Part II.

9/11 families were joined by immigrants from India, Russia, Egypt, Israel, Africa, Iran and Europe to show opposition to the construction of a mega-mosque at Ground Zero. Others flew in from overseas to speak or just to share their particular ethnic communities’ experiences at the hands of moslems.

These are parents and spouses of firefighters killed on 9/11. The rally took place just a minute’s walk from Ladder 10 Firehouse, where their loved ones were stationed for duty that terrible day. Ladder 10 lost seven firefighters.

Crowd estimates ranged from 5,000 (NYPD) to 10,000. The crowd overflowed the police barrier enclosures that ran the full length of two city blocks. This photo shows the enclosure in front of the stage at the intersection of Liberty and Church Streets. The second enclosure ran the length of the next block and can be seen on the other side of the traffic lights.

Pamela Geller, Executive Director of Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), was the rally’s principal organizer. Geller’s Atlas Shrugs blog is one of the top 30 political blogs in the nation.

Geller is one of the foremost voices for freedom standing up against the tyranny and denial of human rights that Islamization brings. She has been a vocal and vigorous defender of religious freedom in the face of the spread into America of Islam’s death penalty for those who leave the religion.

Thousands of additional participants filled the treed area of Zuccotti Park.

Pamela Geller:

“Ground Zero is a war memorial, Ground Zero is a burial ground. We are asking for sensitivity…It is unconscionable to build a shrine to the very ideology that inspired the jihadist attacks at Ground Zero, right there. We are asking the imam Rauf and Daisy Khan to be sensitive. For mutual respect and mutual understanding that is demanded of us every day.

There’s a hair-trigger sensitivity in the muslim world, you can’t run the cartoons, you can’t say Mohammed, this is offensive. This is an offensive mosque. To build a shrine, an Islamic flag of conquest on the sacred ground the cherished site, of a conquered land. This is historic, this is Islamic history. It’s what they do. The St. Sofia in Turkey, the al-Quds, at the holiest Jewish site in Israel. Not here. This is where we take a stand. We must take a stand. We must say no.”
Continue reading Stop the Mosque at Ground Zero – Part II

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The crowd was so huge that it filled the police pens and Zuccotti Park, and overflowed to the other side of the street. American Sheepdogs with an SIOA banner were down the block,  across the street, right outside

Urban Infidel was there and has great coverage.

Before It's News was there.

 More fantastic coverage — here the People's Cube; and more pics here.

El Marco had this:
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Pamela Geller, the co-founder of Stop Islamization of America, speaks passionately about jihad, sharia, and why the idea of a mosque in this spot is so wrong.

“We are here today in honor of D-Day, when the Allied Forces began to defeat Nazism. And the symbolism should not be lost. Not only should the symbolism not be lost, but we’re on the corner of Church and Liberty.

Ground Zero is a war memorial. Ground Zero is a burial ground…We are asking for sensitivity…

This is part of the plane that went into the Trade Center, that’s in the Burlington Coat Factory (the building that was bought with mysterious funding for the mosque). Designate it as a historic landmark, like Pearl Harbor. We are going to sue the U.S. Government to get a designation of war memorial status.”

Debating Muslim Brotherhood proxies:

 

60 Minutes on the Ground Zero Mosque

The New York Times: Outraged, and Outrageous

Top row from left: RT America; Atlas Shrugs; ABC News; Atlas Shrugs. Second row: Fox News; Canadian Broadcasting Company; Atlas Shrugs; MSNBC. Third row: CNN; Atlas Shrugs (Three photos). Bottom Row: CBS NEWS; CNN; Atlas Shrugs (2 photos).

MEDIA COMMODITY Pamela Geller inspires, infuriates and influences with hyperbole as well as bikini shots.

We defeated the Muslim Brotherhood mosque in Staten Island here.

In July: SIOA Honor Killing Taxi Ads Hit New York City, Chicago, Boston, Philly

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The SIOA honor killing victims awareness and aid campaign rolled out in New York City.

Stop Islamization of America's (SIOA) next campaign to reach and educate the American people hit the streets of Chicago, which was the first city in a nationwide campaign: taxitops! I thought it was a perfect medium to get our message to the people who are hungry, tired of the lies and starving for information that the media is too afraid to provide.

HONOR KILLING AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

The taxis were a powerful medium to pull the curtain back on the obfuscation and deception on honor killings. Kudos to Jeff at the Verifone Company for understanding this new use of an old medium to spread the truth.

Phase III of SIOA's (Stop Islamization of America) pro-freedom ad campaign was twofold. Primarily it was to help girls in trouble, but it was also meant to raise awareness of the rise of honor killings in the West. Young Muslim girls must know that there is an escape from their homemade concentrations camps. This is a sub-campaign and logical follow-up to the "Leaving Islam?" bus campaign, which is soon to break in another major US city.

In 2010, a beautiful young Muslim actress, Harry Potter star Afshan Azad, was badly beaten, but thankfully escaped death when her father and brother attempted to honor murder her. She was dating a non-Muslim.

It is important to note that “both [Azad’s] parents were born and educated in the U.K.” They were not unassimilated immigrants, which the media and the apologists always associate with honor killings in the West.

What does Islamic Law dictate as punishment for a parent who kills his or her child?

Consider  Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law: here

FACTS

91 percent of honor killings worldwide are done by Muslims

84 percent of honor killings in US done by Muslims

These girls will not have died in vain. These girls are not invisible. Their terrible, miserable existences will be known, and their stories will save the lives of other girls and boys in trouble. Such misogyny was unheard of this country 30 thirty years ago — the appeasement of Islam and the sharia will only serve to advance this grotesque ideology.

And according to one expert, honor killings are on the rise.

And while we see in rare instances in other cultures, it is clear that the Islamic legal toleration for honor killings leads to an increased rate of such killings among them.

This is  growing problem that is being hidden and obfuscated by the big liberal press. It needs the spotlight of truth to expose the ugly terrible reality behind the wretched existence of these girls living under siege. The West is reluctant to speak of it, media whitewashes it, but knowing what we know about Aqsa Parvez's homelife (read the whole horrible account here) and Amina and Sarah's wretched home life (read here), it is time we stood up for these girls. This cannot stand in America.

We must give these girls shelter from the storm.

Don't be afraid. Fight back. We have people who can and will help. Today we launched a freedom campaign in Chicago for victims and potential victims of honor killings in the West.

Here were the first in a series of ads targeted at girls who are at risk of death, Gulsum, Banaz, Noor, Amina and Sarah ………….. there are  thousands of tragic victims. Needless to say, the ads went through a number on "edits" before the taxi company would run them, but I drew the line at removal of the phrase "honor killing victims." We will not kill these girls again by remaining silent — attempting to whitewash and remove that distinction invariably means that ……….. you support gender apartheid. We are raising money for these ads and we will go nationwide.

 

 

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Amina and Sarah Said ran away from their brutal home life and their "devout father," only to be lured back by their mother on Christmas day and then brutally tortured and murdered not 24 hours later, in an honor killing on New Years day. Autopsy here. Full Atlas coverage here.

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Noor Almalaki was run over in an honor killing last November in Arizona by her father for being "too Americnaized" and not Muslim enough. She hung on to dear life for three days before succumbing to her wounds.

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Gülsüm Semin was severely beaten (repeatedly), scared to death of her family (and rightly so), and ultimately brutally beaten beyond recognition and "honor" murdered because she refused forced Islamic marriage in Turkey.

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Banaz Mahmood was killed in her apartment in London by her father, Mahmood, and his brother Ali Mahmood and 4 others because they didn't approve of her boyfriend. She had dishonored her Muslim  family by falling in love with the "wrong" man. So they stomped on her, then strangled her to death. Her body was then moved 100 miles to Birmingham, where she was buried in a suitcase in a garden behind a house. They had tried to kill her before. Watch this video of Banaz days before her death, telling of the attempts to kill her.  

Banaz had reported to the police 4 times that her family was trying to kill her.

Her sister, who narrowly escaped death herself and now lives in fear of her life, breaks her silence. Every time Bekhal Mahmod leaves the safety of her home, she wears the hijab with a black veil covering her face — even though she would give anything for the freedom not to have to.

The stories are endless, and these girls have nowhere to go. Why in the case of Tulay Goren did police send her home to die at the hands of her violent father? Tulay Goren, a Muslim schoolgirl, was murdered by her father in an "honour killing." She repeatedly told police in the days before her death how she was being threatened and assaulted.

 

Our next SIOA ad campaign went up on a fleet of taxis in the busy city of Chicago.

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And of course the Ground Zero mega mosque developers appear to support the death fatwa on offspring as well:

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We filed a lawsuit against the city of New York. Here is the complaint: Download Complaint–FDIvMTA–Filed_Stamped

The city had refused to run my SIOA "Preservation of Ground Zero" bus campaign.

It seems that Mayor Bloomberg invokes certain freedoms when it serves his 2012 agenda. Doing away with term limits wasn't enough (which is why we are still suffering under his no-salt, no-transfat regime). He  is now widening his ayatollah-like power grab to imposing blasphemy laws (Islamic sharia laws) on the secular marketplace. Bloomberg's frenzied Ground Zero mosque push may have inspired Al-Azhar clerics to oppose the Ground Zero Mosque, calling it a "a zionist plot."

I signed a contract with CBS Outdoor to run a "Preservation of Ground Zero" bus ad campaign. The campaign was paid for in full.

Here is the ad I submitted:

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The ad was refused. I asked on what grounds. CBS Outdoor told me that the city said that "images of 911 were not allowed." I was floored. I said, "It is American history. How can it be banned? What about Pearl Harbor? Is that censored too?" I said, "On what grounds are 911 images banned?" It is unconscionable. Will of CBS said, "You can't run the plane."

I asked CBS/MTA to provide me with the guidelines for these seventh-century censorship restrictions. They never did. And so, with the help of talented and singular Big Fur Hat, I removed the plane and submitted this ad with the following note:

Will, Still waiting for the MTA guidelines. Please respond to my previous queries. Here is the new art …… please know that I strenuously object to you changing my artwork and my message in the process. It's American history. I am floored. However, since you and/or the MTA are unwilling to change your position, I have no choice but to run the advertisement with your edits.

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CBS refused this ad as well. They said I had to remove the smoke. "The smoke?"

When I spoke to CBS's representative concerning the second rejection of my Ground Zero bus ad, he said that the MTA "doesn't want to associate the new building with Ground Zero." The showing of the burning buildings "hurts people." "Hurts people?" I find bus ads proselytizing for Islam hurts apostates, are you going to take those bus ads down?

I said, "Are you saying images of the largest attack on American soil are censored? Are Pearl Harbor images censored? Gettysburg, too?"

He said, "The people behind the new building say it has nothing to do with Ground Zero." I said, "So what? That's what they say. Others think differently. You are telling me they have said it has nothing to do with Ground Zero. But they are on record repeatedly as saying they want it there for Ground Zero 'healing' and 'outreach.'"

I said, "Who cares what they say, what do they (Imam Rauf and Daisy Khan) have to do with running my ad? They dictate what can and cannot run?"

He said, "It's controversial." I said, "How? Where are the guidelines that point to this, where are the guidelines that I have been asking for over a month? Give me the guidelines and I will adhere to them."

He said "I have been having a hard time getting the guidelines out of the MTA." I said, "A hard time? Aren't they written somewhere or posted somewhere? What are they?"

I said, "And what's controversial? The ad merely says, 'Why there?'" He said, "You are implying……….." I said, "Implying what? You are now going to tell me what I am thinking? Who is making these decisions? Who at the MTA or CBS is making these decisions? The MTA is a government agency — and you can't provide me with guidelines but I am being held hostage to the capricious whim of some flak at the MTA? I am an advertiser. I bought and paid for an ad a month ago and you cannot point me to any substance or set of rules for the basis of ad rejection."

I said, "I took out the plane as requested — now what's the problem?" He said, "the flames."  I said, "What would be ok? Just the towers alone?" He said yes. I said "OK, I will create another ad with just the towers." He said, "Before you do that, let me run down the hall and ask if that's OK." I said, "With who?" He said, with "his VP."

And so I took out the smoke and submitted this ad:

 

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CBS, on behalf of the MTA, said, "Remove the plane."

Will of CBS said he was "meeting obstacles" but he was "trying to help me." He said, "Get me an ad a/s/a/p without smoke, without any flames — just the towers."

 

 

And so, I submitted another planeless ad, stating emphatically,

"I object to this censorship, which is effectively editing the viewpoint I am attempting to express in my message, but if this is the only choice you are giving me, then run the ad without the plane. It's a plane in the sky, far removed. Planes do fly in the sky."

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My legal team of David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise filed suit on our behalf against NYC.

The complaint against the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has now been filed. It alleges violation of FDI’s (and Pamela Geller’s and Robert Spencer’s) Free Speech rights under the First & Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

In essence, and it is laid out clearly in the complaint with clear illustrations in the exhibits, the MTA decided that it was going to accept the “viewpoint” of Imam Rauf and his Islamist co-conspirators – to wit, that their plan to develop the Ground Zero Mosque has nothing to do with marking the “victory” marked by the destruction of human life and property on 9-11. Literally, the MTA made it its business to decide which of many viewpoints it would deem politically correct speech for advertisements on its buses.

What makes this jihad against free speech so egregious is that the MTA has run any number of controversial religious and political ads without batting an eyelid. But as soon as the Shariah-faithful cowed Mayor Bloomberg and the MTA into dhimmi-like submission, the First Amendment to the Constitution gave way to Shariah’s blasphemy laws. How long before the Mayor’s office begins issuing fatwas against those who dare counter the “noble and peaceful outreach” narrative?

Mr. Mayor and your colleagues at the MTA and the Landmark Commission: New Yorkers will not forget 9-11 and we will not be cowed into submission or silence. You might not want to hear our voices, but the federal courts will require you to listen. You claim the mantle of the Constitution as a basis for supporting a Shariah-Islamist mosque at Ground Zero, yet the MTA—a government agency of the City—cavalierly denies “infidels” freedom of speech. Enough is enough. (David Yerushalmi)

UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal reports:

Meanwhile, on Friday, a group sued the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in federal court, saying the agency has refused to run its bus advertisement in opposition to the proposed mosque.

The American Freedom Defense Initiative sought to run an ad that said "Why There?" and depicted the Twin Towers burning and a plane headed toward them, according to the lawsuit.

An MTA spokesman said, "No decision has been made on this ad."

August 2010: Ground Zero Bus Ads Hit NYC Streets

After successfully fighting and winning against the embargo on 911 images enforced by a sharia happy MTA (under Bloomberg), the FDI/SIOA Ground Zero bus campaign finally hit the streets, after a month of wrangling. It asks the essential question, "Why there?"

The banning of 911 images deserves serious examination. The whitewashing of history to "spare the feelings of those directly affected by 911" (weren't we all?) flies in the face of these very same people who advocate for a Ground Zero mosque on the site of a building partially destroyed by the attack.

Seen in Brooklyn:

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Backstory: SIOA Lawsuit against NYC: Bloomberg's MTA Refuses to Allow 911 Images: Bans Ground Zero Bus Campaign

WPIX: "what's more insulting and offensive — that image of truth, or a 15 story mega-mosque looking down on the sacred ground of Ground Zero?"

November election: 600 legislative seats won and my great friend and long time Atlas candidate victorious:

Victory! Seattle Transit Drops Jewish Blood Libel Bus Ads Pamela Geller, Big Government

Antisemitism is coming into fashion again, and anti-Israel bus ads had been set to start running on twelve buses in Seattle this Monday. The ads featured the hateful slogan, “Israeli War Crimes: Your Tax Dollars at Work.” But two days after my organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, announced that we would be running king-sized pro-Israel ads on Seattle buses to counter their hate ads, King County Metro Transit folded: Transit officials issued a statement Thursday saying that they would be refusing the anti-Israel, antisemitic ads. They were “changing their policy.”

The annihilationist bus ads were rejected!

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It was a bad day for Nazis and Jew-haters, and a huge victory for all lovers of freedom.

The AFDI ads were singular and hard-hitting: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Islamic jihad,” and “One Billion Dollars to Hamas. Your Tax Dollars at Work.”

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And this one:

 

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As for the Jewish blood libel being sponsored by the notorious antisemite Ed Mast, Seattle Mass Transit is having second thoughts.

Our objective was achieved: the Jew-hate ads were dropped after we exposed the hypocrisy of the Seattle Transit authorities. But wait. It gets better. King County Metro Transit has also now changed its ad policy. Isn’t that special? This policy change enabled them to refuse AFDI’s pro-Israel ad as well. King County Executive Dow Constantine explained that the policy change was made because “the escalation of this issue from one of 12 local bus placards to a widespread and often vitriolic international debate introduces new and significant security concerns that compel reassessment.”

And who was introducing the vitriol and the significant security concerns, as far as King County Metro Transit was concerned? Me, of course. Who else? They were OK with a Jewish blood libel but hid under their desks when truth demanded equal time.

Sharron Shinbo of King County Metro Transit stated that my AFDI ads would “pose an unacceptable risk of harm, disruption and interference with the transportation system and other breaches of the public safety, peace and order.”

So now anti-jihad ads denouncing a terrorist group that all decent people should revile “pose an unacceptable risk of harm, disruption and interference with the transportation system.”

Truth is the new hate speech.

This is the heckler’s veto. Remember, King County Metro Transit was down with the Jew-haters and their vile advertisement. They were even going to charge me more than they were charging the antisemites. According to Seattle’s KING 5 News, Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign paid $1,794 to run the ads. However, King County Metro Transit would not offer me that price. I asked for the same deal as the Jew-haters received, but was told that the price in the article was “misquoted.” They quoted me a price of $2,760 per ad.

Seattle Transit officials also dragged their feet in approving my ad from the beginning. At one point they demanded that I put my phone number and address on the bus ads. I get my fair share of hate mail and threats, as you might imagine, but in the past the brazen hate and annihilationist dreams were kept in check by good men who stood for good over evil. The ascent of Islam and the voluntary abdication of the West as a force for good has unleashed the forces of evil from their hiding places of hell. How about putting a big giant target on my back, clowns?

And remember: now they’re saying that both the Jew-hate ad and my ads violate their guidelines, but they had already accepted the antisemitic ad. Seattle had no hesitation depicting Jews defending themselves as a war crime until we placed our counter-ad. “Palestinian” Muslims have fired over ten thousand rockets into southern Israel, but now Seattle won’t allow ads condemning the actual war crimes.

The Jew-hating, anti-Israel ad didn’t “pose an unacceptable risk of harm, disruption and interference with the transportation system and other breaches of the public safety, peace and order” until we responded with fierce truth. And then they said, never mind. But they won’t get off so easy. This is actionable. Legally actionable.

We will pursue this battle legally and roll out the pro-Israel bus ads elsewhere. My life-saving bus ads for Muslim apostates were banned in Detroit. We had to sue to get them up in Miami. We had to sue New York transit to get Ground Zero bus ads up.

Read the rest …………….

In November, Pamela Geller wins the The Annie Taylor Award for Courage 2010 — excerpt of my speech:

These are small things, but they’re important.  Because, as this past year has seen, you don’t need an enormous amount of people or money to make the difference.  You take the enemy’s playbook, and you shove it right down their throat.  And that’s what I did.

Very briefly — the Freedom bus ads — you know, I was covering the Rifqa Bary case.  And this was the — back story is a Christian convert out of Islam.  Father threatens to kill her, she runs away.  So now she’s in Florida, and they’re trying to bring her back to the household, the devout Muslim household, that wants to kill her.  Mind you, there are girls who run away by the millions.  They’re doing drugs, they’re selling bodies; nobody’s looking for them.  But this little virgin, the straight-A student — they’re tracking her like a serial killer.

So when I was in Florida, I would see these bus ads proselytizing for Islam — “Come to Islam,” “Why Islam?”  And I thought, what about those that want to leave Islam?  And that’s how it started.

And the reason why it was so pivotal was because on these television shows, where they’d say, you know, they’re anti-Islam, these are anti-Islam ads — I’d say, “How are they anti-Islam ads?”  If I did an ad for spousal abuse, that’s like every husband in America saying, “Hey, I’m insulted.”  We got to say things that were never said in the media.

The Ground Zero mosque — sadly, we know they’re going to go forward.  Listen.  Listen, you have to understand that we’re in a war.  We are at war now.  It’s not coming, it’s not around the corner; it’s now.  The Ground Zero mosque is the second wave of the 9/11 attack.

And when I appear on television, and I say things like, “It’s an Islamic pattern to build triumphal mosques on the cherished sites of conquered lands.” People never heard that.  People never heard, why build a shrine to the 270 million victims of jihadi wars, cultural annihilations, land appropriations and enslavements?  People never heard that before.  It’s a teachable moment.

And I’m sure it’s gotten quiet at the Ground Zero mosque because they have to show the money.  Here he’s a slumlord, Imam Rauf, whose buildings just went into receivership.  But he’s building a $150 million mosque.  And Sharif El-Gamal, the developer on it — he was just thrown out of his offices in Soho, SOHO Properties.  And he’s building a $150 million mosque.  They know that the flashlight is on them.  And so they’re going to have to move very carefully.  And yes, when they break ground, there’s going to be moms and their kids, with little strollers, standing up there — “Move us.”

We are under attack.  Obviously, the violent jihad, the academic jihad, the sociological jihad, the cultural jihad, the academic jihad — we have been infiltrated at the senior level of the DOD, the Department of Defense.  I mean, look at what you’re put through to travel.  Look at what you’re put through to travel.  And yet, not one time in the Department of Defense’s report on the Fort Hood jihadi — not once was religious motivation mentioned.  Yesterday, we had the verdict in the first Gitmo trial — acquitted of 280 counts, guilty of destroying property.

So what does this mean?  It means that — understand that it was doctors and lawyers, and moms and dads and kids, and aunts and uncles — they were the target in 9/11 and beyond.  They were the target.  They are the soldiers.  We are the soldiers now.

This is not a conventional war.  Each one of you must fight this war.  I cannot impress this upon you enough.  You are each activated.  What does that mean?  It means you have friends, you have an e-mail list, yes?  You have — when you wake up in the morning, and you throw your legs over the bed, and you rub the sleep from your eye, you ask yourself, what am I going to do today to save the Republic?  I mean it.

Restoration award

The 2010 Jihad Watch Award Winners

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American Anti-Dhimmi of the Year 2010: Pamela Geller National leader of resistance to Ground Zero mosque and other causes of freedom 

And all of those Atlas TV appearances — I missed a couple this week. Away with the kids for Christmas. 🙂

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Coming in 2011:

Join me again PROTEST THE GROUND ZERO MEGA MOSQUE ON JANUARY 12

NYC Council hearings former Emigrant bank building, 49-51 Chambers St. 12:45pm

AND JOIN US AT CPAC FOR DEBATE AND A PREMIERE SCREENING OF AFDI/SIOA'S DOCUMENTARY

The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 911 Attacks

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MUSLIM SUPREMACISTS WILL CELEBRATE SEPTEMBER 11TH with Durban III in NYC:

After UN Votes for Durban III, Battle Lines Are Drawn — Marcy Oster
When the original UN anti-racism conference, held in Durban, South Africa, in 2001, devolved into an anti-Israel hate fest, Jewish groups around the world were caught unawares. So when the Durban Review Conference was called for Geneva in 2009, Jewish activists started their fight early, convincing numerous countries to boycott the conference, dubbed Durban II, effectively blocking it from becoming a repeat of Durban I. Now, with last week's UN vote to authorize Durban III – a UN General Assembly session planned for September 2011 to commemorate the original Durban conference – the battle lines again are being drawn.
    The vote was 104-22 in favor of the special General Assembly session; 33 countries abstained. Voting against the Durban III session were Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech R epublic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, the Netherlands, Palau, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Macedonia, the UK and the U.S. Among the countries abstaining were Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Hungary and Spain.
    "The vote of the UN General Assembly, while not unexpected, sets the stage for a celebration of the outrageous events that took place during Durban I, which were permeated by manifestations of bigotry and hatred," said a statement from the leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Canada announced in November that it would boycott the Durban III session. The American ambassador to the UN, Susan E. Rice, said in a statement: "We voted 'no' because the Durban Declaration process has included ugly displays of intolerance and anti-Semitism, and we do not want to see that commemorated."  (JTA)
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Jacqueline
Jacqueline
13 years ago

No doubt Pamela you did & doing a great mission.
You are in my prayers & all your group.
Keep on the good work & God bless you
Wishing you & all your family & friends a Blessed New Year.

Schvach
Schvach
13 years ago

Give to the ‘Have Pity for Keith Undershtupper Fund’, and you’ll have to give generously, because he needs it. One must have understanding for Undershtupper – he attended Cornell U. as a youth. I once had a room mate who attended SUNY Cornell – Oy!, what an experience, perhaps the worst experience of my life. What an abominable untermensch he was, a veritable urban peasant of the worst sort. So you see, I have at least a modicum of understanding for all those unders (undies?)

DeeDee
DeeDee
13 years ago

Pamela’s becoming an absolute icon of Freedom and Truth.

dcat
dcat
13 years ago

HooRAH Pamela! :+:

mike
mike
13 years ago

thank u pamela for speaking out! your words have been on my mind for quite some time now. i wish your actions and courage spread to europe as well. we need it!

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a
13 years ago

pamela,
G-d bless you for all your great work.
it’s really amazing all you have accomplished…for rifqa, the victims of honor-murders,for the families of 911….when i see those photos…how their faces show the pain…it is incredible to me the cruelty of the megamosque advocates.
may you be blessed to keep up the great work.
be safe and stay strong Gd bless you and robert and all those that help you!

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a
13 years ago

pamela gelluh, we love huh!

DaTechGuy
DaTechGuy
13 years ago

My only regret at CPAC was getting to your event late, but meeting you and having you on my radio show last month was a great highlight to my year.
I trust that next year will bring even more victories for you and for truth.
May God bless you and may your courage and honor inspire a generation of Americans to exhibit those same values.
See you at CPAC.

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