The Daily Caller on the New York Times’ Craven Hypocrisy

More fallout over the unmasking, uh, unmosqueing of the The New York Times. Mark Steyn opines on the cowardly hypocrites here: The Quit and The Dead.

Neil Munro over at the Daily Caller has an excellent piece on the New York Times exposed. "Bob Christie of The New York Times declined to discuss the paper’s decision" with Munro: more craven cowardice. This, too, is Islamic law in America. The Times' refusal to run our ad is adhering to the blasphemy laws under the sharia.

Times nixes anti-Islam ad, runs anti-Catholic ad 

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Daily Caller, Neil Munro, March 14, 2012

Executives at The New York Times have rejected a full-page anti-Islam advertisement that mimicked a controversial anti-Catholic advertisement they published on March 9.

According to a Mar. 13 letter sent by the Times to the ad’s sponsor, anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller, the $39,000 anti-Islam ad was rejected because “the fallout from running this ad now could put U.S. troops and/or civilians in the [Afghan] region in danger.”

Bill Donohue, the president of the Catholic League, accused the Times of having a double standard and told The Daily Caller that The Time’s was based on “either [anti-Catholic] bigotry or fear [of Islamic violence], and they’ve painted themselves into that corner.”

Donohue said the frequent claims of intellectual honesty by Times employees would compel them to address the double standard if they weren’t “shameless.”

TheDC asked Robert Christie, the Times’ senior vice-president for corporate communications, if the Times’ decision is a surrender to violence and also an incentive for additional threats of violence.

However, Christie declined to discuss the paper’s decision, and referred TheDC to the letter sent by the Times to Geller and her organization, Stop the Islamization of Nations.

The Times’ letter included a commitment to “consider the ad … for publication in a few months,” and the claim that “we publish this type of advertising, even those we disagree with, because we believe in the First Amendment.”

Geller scoffed at the Times’ conditional commitment. She told TheDC she believes the Times will never publish a criticism of Sharia, or Islamic law, because “when is it ever a good time to blaspheme under the Sharia?”

On multiple occasions since the 1980s, Islamist groups have murdered fellow Muslims and non-Muslims following Western criticism of Sharia, Islamic texts, or even the Western production of cartoons about Islamic violence.

At least two U.S.-based Muslims have been jailed for threatening American media professionals who produced criticism of Sharia. In 2010, a U.S. cartoonist, Molly Norris, went into hiding to evade threatened Islamist attacks.

In February, groups of Afghans — reportedly led by Taliban-aligned Imams angry at the burning of Korans by American soldiers — spurred street riots that killed roughly 24 Muslim Afghans.

When the Times ran an anti-Catholic ad produced by the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, however, no one was attacked.

That ad called on Catholics to quit their religion, and asked “why send your children to parochial schools to be indoctrinated into the next generation of obedient donors and voters? Can It you see how misplaced your loyalty is after two decades of sex scandals involving preying priests, church complicity, collusion and cover-up going all the way to the top…Join ‘those of us who put humanity above dogma.”

According to Donahue, “no rational person can maintain there is anything but injustice” in the Times’s decision to run the anti-Catholic ad but not Gellar’s anti-Islam one.

Geller designed her anti-sharia ad to mimic the Mar. 9 anti-Catholic ad in appearance, tone, structure and words.

For example, Geller’s ad called on Muslims to quit their religion, and asked “Why put up with an institution that dehumanizes women and non-Muslims … [do] you keep identifying with the ideology that threatens liberty for women and menaces freedom by slaughtering, oppressing and subjugating non-Muslims… Join those of us who put humanity above the vengeful, hateful and violent teachings of Islam’s ‘prophet.’”

Geller’s mimicry also included a paragraph that asks Muslims to “think of the acute misery, poverty, needless suffering, social evils and deaths that can be laid directly a the door of Islam’s antiquated doctrine that commands jihad and genocide.”

That passage replicates a paragraph from the Time’s anti-Catholic ad, that declared “think of the acute misery I poverty I needless suffering I unwanted pregnancies I overpopulation, social evils and deaths that can be laid directly at the door of your church’s pernicious doctrine that birth control’ is a sin and must be outlawed."

Read the rest here.

New York Times Publishes Anti-Catholic Ad, Refuses to Publish Anti-Islam Ad

Posted on March 14, 2012 by admin

National Review is full-page anti-Islam advertisement sponsored by anti-jihad activist and blogger – and AFLC client – Pamela Geller. The ad was a mimicry of a vile and offensive full-page anti-Catholic ad published by the Times last week and sponsored by the atheist Freedom from Religion Foundation. In a letter written to Geller from Bob Christie, Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications for the New York Times, the reason her anti-Islam ad was rejected was that running the ad would cause a “fallout” and could put “US troops and/or civilians” in danger.

So, it’s okay to run an ad attacking the Catholic Church, but running an ad criticizing Islam is off-limits? This hypocrisy is a prime example of civilization jihad, as put forth by radical Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Richard

12 years ago

What is going on with the cartoon in this post? The first two panels are from the anti-Islam cartoon but the third panel is from the anti-Catholic cartoon and the woman is missing her head. Could it be that she was beheaded for blasphemy? That is a pretty strange snafu.

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Infidel Task Force

12 years ago

This is good!! Keep the pressure on now that we are gaining momentum.
The bottom line for the NYT is that, they are scared. Plain and simple, they are scared.
The NYT does not want to have their name brought up in court by CAIR. They do not want media attention due to muslims protesting the ad. They are afraid of retaliation or even violence. Islamaphobic is the title that will be thrown at them and the papers officers.
Man…I could go on and on.
Basically the Times has no balls, no courage, no pride, no self-esteem, no patriotism. All they want is to put out their rag they call a paper and get the money. It is living off a reputation of better times. Those days are gone.
They are scared. That’s it.

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Richard

12 years ago

The third panel appears correctly after I open the comments. Seems to go back to the headless woman when I close the comments for this post. I’m drinking green tea, so it’s not the booze. Weird.

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Richard

12 years ago

Well, it’s all fixed now. I should get back to work anyway, somebody has to make toothpicks out of these logs.

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benjie

12 years ago

What about Dan Barker and Ms. Gaylor? They’re keeping a low profile – strange considering their desire to run a full page ad in the NY Times to begin with.
If they don’t support Pamela Geller’s ad – loudly and openly – then they’re hypocrites and cowards too.

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