Greenwich Post rejects reality, shills for jihad

More
irrational heads exploding ……  too much realism for the delusional. Robert Spencer fisks one of many local yokel misunderstanders over at Jihadwatch (scroll down). The Greenwich Post even went so far as to publish an editorial, "Reject Hate." I call upon the Greenwich Post to reject jihad and reject subjugation and oppression of non-Muslims. I call upon the Greenwich Post to reject misogyny. I call upon the Greenwich Post to put their silly PC prejudices aside and better inform their readers. And this, mind you, is a community directly affected by September 11th.

So how do you react to the advertisements placed at all of
Greenwich’s train stations and 46 other Metro-North locations? This
hateful message — and make no mistake it is hateful, with no intent
other than to inflame fear and prejudice — is targeted toward Islam,
claiming that close to 20,000 violent acts have been committed by its
followers since Sept. 11, 2001. The basis of this number is sketchy at
best and the ads serve no purpose except to fuel the delusion behind
them that bloodthirsty Muslim terrorists will kill us all in our sleep.

There
is not a large Muslim population in Greenwich, but hateful words
targeted toward some of us are really targeted toward all of us. And for
a community as impacted by the Sept. 11 attacks as Greenwich was, this
message of hate is particularly unwelcome.

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Behind these
ads is right wing blogger Pamela Geller, notorious for her anti-Islam
rhetoric as well as her associations with extreme hate groups that have
earned her the condemnation of people of all religious and political
backgrounds. Of course to her, criticism of her advocacy just means
she’s being persecuted for speaking out, but that’s not the case.
Condemning her message is condemning hate and says that we, as a
community, will always reject hate.

These are ads that should
never have been accepted by the Metropolitan Transit Authority, and our
residents are not alone in being outraged. The MTA has pledged to review
its policy for accepting ads and that’s something it needs to do
without delay.

Of course, Ms. Geller and others like her have the
right to free speech, just as we have the right to speak out against her
speech. But, just as hate speech is not protected, there is no
constitutionally protected right to have your advertisement displayed.
When the MTA accepts money from a group like Ms. Geller’s it no longer
is about free speech. It’s a business transaction and just as every
outlet has standards for what ads can and can’t be run, there need to be
standards here that reject cynical incitement.

Au contraire. There is a cynical rejection of reality. These numbers are well documented. The oppression and subjugation of non-Muslims is well documented. The hundreds of millions slaughtered in jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural annihilations are well documented. You can avoid reality but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. 

We do not stand for hateful language and religious intolerance here in
Greenwich. We stand up to it. Our local officials cannot tell the MTA
what ads can be accepted and, unfortunately, we probably can’t change
the mind of Ms. Geller and those who stand with her. But we can make it
clear that language like that has no place in our community.

 Truth has no place in the commnity of  hack journalists, it seems.

The media's knee jerk dhimmitude is at complete odds with the emails and letters of support I have been receiving for these ads. It reminds of the Ground Zero mosque fight. The media and the political effete wanted that mosque and actively shilled for it, but over 70% of the American people opposed the mosquestrosity.

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Islamorealism ads enrage "journalist" Ken Borsuk of the Greenwich Post

Greenwich Post tag on this photo: "Offensive sign" — the truth offends them

Truth is not bigotry. There really have been over 19,000 jihad attacks
since 9/11, all perpetrated by people who believed that in murdering
people they were serving Allah and Islam. But the denial and obfuscation
continue.

"Train ads cause furor, charges of anti-Islam bigotry," by Ken Borsuk in the Greenwich Post, August 23:

A new advertising campaign that has been called bigoted and
anti-Islamic is up at all town train stations. Residents and local
officials have condemned the ads, but the group behind them says they
will not be removed.

Do any residents and local officials support the ads? Ken Borsuk
doesn't bother to tell us — and probably after this smear campaign, any
who do will be reluctant to speak up anyway.

New billboard ads that have been posted at Metro-North
stations along the New Haven line, including in Greenwich stations, are
raising eyebrows from residents and condemnation from local officials.

The ads, which are being paid for by a group called the American
Freedom Defense Initiative, which was created by right-wing blogs and
think tanks, have been criticized as racist and anti-Islamic because of
their claims that 19,250 “terrorist attacks” have been carried out by
Muslims since Sept. 11, 2001. The ads post that number while saying
“It’s not Islamophobia, it’s Islamorealism” and they have brought about
quick condemnation from local residents and officials.

What race is Islam again? What race is Islamic jihad terror? And note
that unless you accept the politically correct fiction that jihad
terror has nothing to do with Islam, in the teeth of the innumerable
statements by jihadists themselves justifying their actions with
reference to Islamic texts and teachings, you're anti-Islamic. So we
arrive at the Orwellian point at which the truth about Islam is
anti-Islamic.

As of Monday, the ads were up at both the Cos Cob and
Riverside stations. At the downtown Greenwich station, which is the most
heavily used of the town’s stations, the ad had been up but had been
ripped down by someone, leaving only a tatter of the ad remaining. At
the Old Greenwich station, the ad is not displayed but there is a blank
spot where no ad is currently displayed, leaving open the possibility
that it was vandalized there too.

No condemnation of this thuggery, no defense of free speech here.

Town resident Sarah Littman said she saw the ad at the Cos
Cob Station last week and quickly filed a letter of complaint with both
the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) and the Connecticut Commuter
Rail Council and wrote to all three selectmen as well as the District 8
members of the Representative Town Meeting (RTM) as well as her State
Rep. Fred Camillo (R-151).

“I was shocked and incredibly offended when I saw the ad,” Ms.
Littman told the Post, adding that she has received a lot of support
from those she has written to. “One of the reasons I love living in Cos
Cob is that it has such a small town, bucolic feel to it with a strong
sense of community. To have this kind of dreadful hate speech blasting
you in the face as soon as you drive into the parking lot was shocking
to me.”

The ads are being paid for by blogger Pamela Geller, who lists her
own blog atlasshrugs.com on the signs along with two other web addresses
jihadwatch.org and sioa.us. Ms. Geller has come under heavy criticism
for past statements made on her blog attacking Islam, President Barack
Obama and Democrats in general, but in an interview with the Post this
week she said she is only trying to make people aware “of the nature and
magnitude of the jihad threat” and claims the number of attacks cited
in the ad is a “fact” taken from the website thereligionofpeace.com,
which has also been accused of inflating its numbers and making racist
and unfair criticisms of Islam.

Has been accused by whom, and with what agenda? And with what
evidence of inflated numbers? And what race is Islam again? TROP defends
the accuracy of its tally here.

Ms. Geller has brought this campaign nationally, recently
taking out ads in San Francisco, Calif. with even stronger language,
saying supporting Israel and “defeating jihad” is supporting the
“civilized man” over the “savage.” Those ads have not been displayed in
the area. Last month, a New York judge upheld her ability to run the ads
under First Amendment grounds of freedom of speech when the MTA tried
to block them.

“It is not creating paranoia or calling for discrimination to declare
opposition to an ideology that denies the freedom of speech, the
freedom of conscience, and the equality of rights of all people before
the law,” Ms. Geller said.

She later added, “The core texts and teachings of Islam teach warfare
against and subjugation of non-Muslims. Those who commit violence in
the name of Islam can and do point to those teachings to justify their
actions, and armed group of Muslims are committing violence in the name
of Islam on a virtually daily basis around the world. There are, by
contrast, no armed groups committing violence in the name of Judaism and
Christianity and justifying them by reference to the Torah or the New
Testament, and those religions do not teach the necessity to wage war
against and subjugate unbelievers.”

Statements like that from Ms. Geller have earned her sharp criticism
in the past as have her associations with far-right European
anti-Islamic organizations that have been classified as hate groups
internationally. The Southern Poverty Law Center has her listed as one
of “30 new activists heading up the radical right.”

It is no surprise that Ken Borsuk doesn’t bother to tell his luckless readers that the SPLC is a Leftist organization devoted to demonizing conservative individuals and groups by branding them as “hate groups” and lumping them in with the likes of the Ku Klux Klan.

Nor does Borsuk make any effort to show what exactly is false, much
less offensive, in Geller's statements about Islam, Judaism and
Christianity. He takes it for granted that what she says is false and
offensive because it violates Leftist pieties. However, I challenge
anyone to show that any sect of Judaism or Christianity has any doctrine
comparable to the Islamic imperative to wage war against and subjugate
unbelievers, which is taught by all the schools of Islamic
jurisprudence, or to prove that Islam doesn't have such a doctrine.

Ms. Littman said that what the sign represents and the statements of the people behind the ads are destructive and bigoted.

“As a Jew I find it particularly outrageous,” Ms. Littman said. “If
more people in Germany had stood up when there was anti-Jewish rhetoric
and not just been bystanders, then perhaps my relatives might have
survived. I feel very strongly whenever you see this kind of bigoted and
hate-filled rhetoric. It’s very important for me as a human being and
particularly as a Jew to stand up against it.”

Borsuk lets this smear pass by unremarked. The late Christopher Hitchens
ably took apart the central claim being made here when writing about
the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero: "'Some of what
people are saying in this mosque controversy is very similar to what
German media was saying about Jews in the 1920s and 1930s,' Imam
Abdullah Antepli, Muslim chaplain at Duke University, told the New York
Times. Yes, we all recall the Jewish suicide bombers of that period, as
we recall the Jewish yells for holy war, the Jewish demands for the
veiling of women and the stoning of homosexuals, and the Jewish burning
of newspapers that published cartoons they did not like."

The aim of Borsuk and Littman here (and the aim of all the others who
have repeated this) is to intimidate people into thinking that
criticism of Islamic supremacism leads to the gas chambers, and thus
there must be no criticism of Islamic supremacism. The unstated
assumption is that if one group was unjustly accused of plotting
subversion and violence, and was viciously persecuted and massacred on
the basis of those false accusations, then any group accused of plotting
subversion and violence must be innocent, and any such accusation must
be in service of preparing for their internment and massacre.

The key difference is not only that Muslim leaders worldwide have
made their intention to conquer and subjugate non-Muslims very clear, in
a way that Jews never did in the run-up to the Holocaust; it is also
that anti-jihadists nowhere advocate a "final solution" for Muslims, and
never will — we are merely calling upon them to drop the authoritarian
and repressive aspects of Sharia and obey the laws of the Western
societies in which they live. This is a movement in defense of freedom
and equality of rights before the law.

Ms. Littman is not the only person who has complained and
the issue is not isolated to Greenwich either. The ads are up at several
Metro North stations in Connecticut, Westchester and New York City and
have been denounced as bigoted by the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR), a leading Islamic civil rights and education group.

Borsuk doesn't tell you, of course, that Hamas-linked CAIR is not
just a "leading Islamic civil rights and education group." CAIR is also
an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. Nor does he mention that CAIR operatives have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. He says nothing about how several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror.
Nor does he mention that CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman
(Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made
Islamic supremacist statements, or that its California chapter distributed posters telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI.

Ms. Geller told the Post that she bought the ads in response
to ads she, and others, considered anti-Israel that were purchased for
100 stations by a pro-Palestinian advocacy group. She said her ad buy is
for 50 stations throughout Connecticut, Westchester and New York City
locations and wondered why there hadn’t been a similar sense of outrage
over the anti-Israel ads. She said she is not condemning all of Islam or
all Muslims, only those who support what she says is a jihad against
Western civilization.

Note all the qualifiers: "she, and others, considered"; "she said";
"she says" — the jihad against the West is not real, you see: Geller
made it up.

In a press statement, MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said that
the message of the ads was not endorsed by the agency and that it was
“reviewing” its policy for taking ads. Mr. Ortiz said that all ads,
including these ones, are reviewed by the MTA and its ad vendor CBS
Outdoor “for consistency with our advertising standards.”

“The MTA sells advertising space to raise revenue to support mass
transit operations,” the statement said. “The MTA’s existing policy for
ads carried on subways, buses and trains permits both commercial and
non-commercial paid advertisements. The MTA does not decide whether to
allow a proposed advertisement based upon its viewpoint and the MTA does
not endorse the viewpoint in this or any other paid advertisement. The
MTA is currently reviewing its policy of accepting non-commercial
viewpoint advertisements.”

While the town does not have any kind of authority over the ads
displayed at the train stations, there have been instances where
protests in Greenwich have caused billboards to be removed. In 2000,
residents cried foul over a sexually provocative advertisement on the
Post Road for the short-lived Fox television series The Street and it
was taken down.

Selectman Drew Marzullo said that he was offended by the signs as
well and that while he understood that there is protected freedom of
speech to protest, such as when the extreme Westboro Baptist Church
protests soldier funerals with “sick” and “evil” anti-gay messages,
there is a question of whether that applies here since the MTA, like
with any advertisement, is making a business decision in accepting money
to display the signs.

“All this sign will do is create conflict, elicit hateful feelings
and do nothing to bring good people on all sides together,” Mr. Marzullo
said. “Speech has real consequences and affects real people. Who wants
to be taking the train as a commuter or just enjoying a trip somewhere
and be subjected to someone else’s agenda? The goal should be for people
of different faiths to live in peace and this is surely not the way to
go about it.”

Marzullo did not say anything like this when the anti-Israel ads ran.

Selectman David Theis said he hadn’t had a chance to see the
ad himself since he was out of town when the Post reached him for
comment on Monday, but that he would take a look at it when he returned
this week.

“I am against discrimination and extremism in any form,” Mr. Theis added.

The ad doesn't call for discrimination. And the truth is not "extremism."

First Selectman Peter Tesei said he had been alerted to the
presence of the ads early last week and went to see them himself after
getting complaints from residents. He said he understands the importance
of free speech but there “has to be common sense” and “messages of hate
should not be permissible.” He added this was a case, though, where the
selectmen can do nothing more than speak out against it since the ads
are on MTA property.

Why is it "hate" to state a fact: that there have been over 19,000
jihad attacks, justified by the attackers on Islamic grounds? This
question is key — it is taken for granted again and again in the
mainstream media that the ads are "hateful," but either left unexplained
as to why or explained in ways that are palpably inaccurate, such as
the claims that the ads say that all Muslims are terrorists, or savages.

“This town embraces free speech and diversity both,” Mr.
Tesei said. “It’s not a case where you have to choose one or the other.
But this kind of message is, I don’t think, something that has a place
in our community.”

So are you for free speech or not?

Mr. Camillo told the Post he supports vigilance to protect
Americans but that doesn’t extend to “casting a suspicious eye on
everyone that is Muslim” adding that is “against everything we stand for
as Americans.”

How exactly does this ad cast "a suspicious eye on everyone that is
Muslim"? Unexplained. In a sane world, people would be noting the high
number of jihad attacks and calling upon the Muslim community to reform
and act decisively against the teachings that led to them, and requiring
real action from them, not just words. But in our world, the messenger
is killed instead.

This has attracted the attention of U.S. Rep. Jim Himes
(D-4), himself a Cos Cob resident, who criticized the ads in a statement
to the Post.

“I am greatly disturbed to see the anti-Islamic signs at Metro North
stations,” Mr. Himes said. “Condemning an entire religion for the
actions of its worst extremists is ignorant and wrong. I cherish our
free speech, but hate speech has no place in the public discourse.”

How exactly does the ad constitute "hate speech"? It is a fact that
jihadists justify their actions on Islamic grounds. Instead of
pontificating about "condemning an entire religion," Himes would do well
to call upon the adherents of that religion among his constituency to
show what they're doing to stop jihad attacks. But that, of course,
would be "Islamophobic."

Local religious leaders have also condemned the ads. Rabbi
Mitchell Hurvitz of Temple Shalom in Greenwich told the Post that he did
not support the ad’s message.

“Any language of hostility or hatred is inflammatory and not
productive,” Rabbi Hurvitz said. “Fundamentalism in any form is
dangerous no matter if its Jewish, Christian or Islamic. The messages of
hate should be rejected in any form and instead we should embrace the
teachings of love.”

I'm all for that. But until Jewish and Christian fundamentalists
commit 19,000 terror attacks and justify them by their sacred books, I
cannot take his moral equivalence seriously.

CAIR’s National Communications Director Ibrahaim Hooper told
the Post that CAIR “stands by the First Amendment’s right to free
speech” and noted the organization’s past support of controversial talk
show host Michael Savage when Great Britain tried to bar him from
entering the country due to past comments he made that were
anti-Islamic. Mr. Hooper said they believe even hateful speech should be
heard and, instead, combated with speech about tolerance so there was
no official call for the ads to be taken down, but he did strongly
criticize Ms. Geller.

“She cannot open her mouth without saying something bigoted and
hateful toward Islam and toward American Muslims,” Mr. Hooper said.

Mr. Hooper added that Ms. Geller’s comments and association with
European hate groups had caused her group, Stop The Islamization of
America, to be declared a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center
and for the Anti Defamation League, one of the world’s leading groups
against anti-Semitism, to condemn it.

Ms. Geller responded harshly to the Post, calling CAIR a “
Hamas-linked Muslim Brotherhood front group that engages in smears and
defamation against anyone who opposes the jihad and Islamic
supremacism”, a charge the organization strongly denies, and saying the
Southern Poverty Law Center is “the real hate group.”

Here again, Borsuk pretends that Geller originated the charges
against CAIR, when its Hamas link has actually been certified by the
Justice Department.

“They are intent on demonizing and destroying legitimate
conservative voices by lumping them in with the likes of the KKK,” Ms.
Geller said, adding the Anti Defamation League “… should stop
attacking Jews and redirect their barbs at the enemies of Israel and the
Jewish people.”

Ms. Geller also responded by saying Rabbi Hurvitz “should be more
thoughtful and less silly” and claimed that “ It is no more hostile or
hateful to oppose jihad terror and Islamic supremacism than it was to
oppose Nazism or Communism.”

Ms. Geller said the vandalized signs in town would be replaced and that her contract to run them lasts a month.

A month of politically correct hypocrisy and hysteria.

UPDATE: On Borsuk's Twitter page he says this about himself: "Not the Helen Thomas of the Greenwich press corps, but darn close." Ah. That explains it.

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Alan

11 years ago

We have “jihad deniers” in our midst!

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PorkFatRules

11 years ago

Just a guess…but who wants to bet that Ken Borsuk graduated in the bottom half of his journalism class?
The message we present here is disturbing. The subject we deal with even more so. Was it too difficult for Borsuk to fact check the fugues? Too inconvenient? Or did he not bother because he didn’t want to learn the truth or just didn’t care?

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steiner

11 years ago

When a twelve year old is tortured; the boy’s nose, lips and what not are cut off… stomach ripped out, organs taken and his body set on fire…. AND the official investigation is mainly concerned with whether he committed blasphemy or not…
and when this kind of thinking is explicit in all 46 muslim states where non-muslims are persecuted and prosecuted by those very states,(all of whom back the death penalty for blasphemy)
AND when these very states have led a successful charge in the U.N. to pass laws that persecute those very people that speak out against this inhumanity, this monstrosity,
then it is high time that people like Ken Borsuk begin to inject some honesty in this discussion…

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Larry S.

11 years ago

Behind these ads is right wing blogger Pamela Geller, notorious for her anti-Islam rhetoric as well as her associations with extreme hate groups.
I know this may be the wrong place to ask this question, but can anyone tell me with what “extreme hate groups” Ms. Geller has “associated”? I guess the Greenwich Post reporter feels under no obligation to report such minor details. Has she associated with any group that advocates murder- or indeed any legal sanction- of undesirables of various sorts?
Unless given clear evidence to the contrary, I assume the answer to these questions is, “No”. Based on that assumption, the Post article is a vacuous smear job. What a pathetic example of contemporary journalism that, unfortunately, is all too common today.

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PorkFatRules

11 years ago

“I am against discrimination and extremism in any form,” Mr. Theis added.
Really…Mr. Theis? I have a surprise for you.
So are we.

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Gleaner1

11 years ago

As an Englishman my view is that what should have “no place” in Greenwich is the wilful blindness that refuses to see what is going on in the world with Islamic jihad. I do NOT fear muslims, or their mouthy retards, nor do i fear the leftists or liberals. These people have NO right to be so generous with the lives of others with their disregard for the truth. Didn’t those 198 murdered people on those trains in Madrid deserve to live out their lives in PEACE? Listen you lot, if you “turn the other cheek” to jihadists, they will simply cut that one off too, can you understand that? Those young girls being raped into forced prostitution by jihadists deserve to be left alone and NOT sacrificed to YOUR twisted liberal morality with it’s perverted values. Grow a spine, all of you.

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Choi

11 years ago

@Gleaner1:
I certainly HOPE that is what you wrote/commented/posted on the “Greenwich Post” because you did NOT say that is what that post above is.
IF you’re addressing US,than you must be asked one simple question:
Are you AWARE of Pamela’s WORK to include INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM,ACTIVIST/ORGANIZER/and LEADER?
You seem to be addressing Lefties because the only ones you’ll find HERE deserving of your above post are LEFTY TROLLS WORKING FOR JIHADISTS.
Without CLARIFICATION from YOU that your post was DIRECTED at LEFTY LIMOSINE LIBERALS in Greenich NY(and you FORGOT to preface your post here with THAT information) I think you KNOW the CONCLUSION to be drawn by Pamela and us: It initials are C.T.
DON’T YOU TELL Pamela or anybody else here to:
“grow a Spine”.
UNLESS you’re an EDL member,YOU GROW A SPINE!

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Asha108

11 years ago

Way to go, Pamela, just keep on saying the truth, if the truth offends people and the mainstream media fools, too bad for them.
Many, many more people are awakening to the truth.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the MSM became obsolete by 2015.

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Kufar Dawg

11 years ago

The largest extreme hate group in the world today is pisslam, just ask anyone non-muslime unfortunate enough to live in any of their islamonazi shitocracies.

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Gleaner1

11 years ago

Choi, you got the shitty end of the stick my friend, of course i meant the Greenwich liberals, i have assumed they read these posts, and my comments apply to them. My daughter suffered an attempted kidnap in Turkey 3 years ago, by a rape gang
did yours?

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