[ April 20, 2024 ]
I missed posting my column this week — if you missed it, go here.
DEFENDING THE WEST
I'm offending 'savages'? Guilty as charged
Exclusive: Pamela Geller fights latest effort to censor her organization's anti-jihad adsAfter my organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), won a historic victory in our First Amendment lawsuit
against the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority, after it
refused to run our pro-Israel ads, we moved forward with our
counter-jihad offensive to run our ads across the country, in every city
that ran the anti-Israel campaign. We did not expect any further restrictions on our First Amendment rights. We had won. But once again we ran afoul of dhimmi officials anxious to comply with Shariah restrictions on free speech.Story continues below advertisementOur ad said: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage,
support the civilized man. Defeat jihad. Support Israel.” We submitted
this ad to run on New York subway platforms and in Washington, D.C.,
Metro train dioramas. The contracts were signed and the ads were paid
for up front. They were scheduled to run this week, and that was
particularly apt; in light of the cold-blooded murder of Ambassador
Chris Stevens, as well as that of two former Navy SEALs and another
American in Libya, what else would you call jihadists but “savages”? Why
is this controversial? The ads should be papered across America. Also,
it’s funny how the word “savage” entered the vernacular after the latest jihadist blowups across the world.Nonetheless, on Rosh Hashanah, the D.C. Transit Authority canceled
(“postponed”) our pro-Israel ads. D.C. Transit said, “Due to the
situations happening around the world at this time, we are postponing
the start of this program.” They claimed that “the reason for this
decision is one of security and safety for the commuters using the D.C.
Metro rail system.”This is exactly the reason why our pro-freedom ads should run.
It is precisely because of the current political situation that it is
important that I be able to express my message now, and I consider any
delay to be government censorship of my political speech.Clearly, D.C. Transit is kowtowing to the threat of jihad terrorism.
Their cowardice does not make commuters or Americans safer. On the
contrary, it puts us in more peril to the whims of violent Islamic
supremacists.And dhimmi D.C. Transit is not alone. Others have criticized the use
of the word “savage.” But it is entirely apt. They claim that the ad
refers to all Muslims, or all opponents of Israel. It doesn’t. It refers
to those 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.D.C. Transit’s excuse was that if the ads ran, passengers would be
unsafe. But that is kowtowing to violent intimidation. People have been
writing to me, blaming me for the violence they think could happen if my
ads ran. Yet if any violence ensues, it is the responsibility of the
ones who commit it, and no one else’s. The responsibility for one’s
actions lies with the one who acts and no one else. Islamic supremacists
and their allies in the mainstream media are trying to get us to accept
the idea that we are responsible if Muslims riot and kill and blame
what we say. Yet there is nothing you could say to me that would make me
riot and kill. The responsibility is theirs, and they are the only ones
who deserve condemnation – if the media were doing their job. There
will always be an ad, a movie, a cartoon, a teddy bear – something that
makes Muslims fly into violent rages and demand restrictions on the
freedom of speech. This is a war on freedom. I refuse to sacrifice my
freedom so as not to offend savages.Dhimmitude at the D.C. Transit Authority. The message they are sending is that terrorism works.
But we are not going to cower before violent intimidation. My ace legal
team, David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise of the American Freedom Law
Center (AFLC), filed suit against D.C. Transit to reclaim our
free-speech rights.Yet the enemedia coverage supported the pro-Shariah message. New York
Magazine snarked at the “timing,” as if there were a good or better
time to “blaspheme” and say something Muslims dislike. When, then? After
the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, when there were no
“provocations”? After the USS Cole bombing? After the 7/7 bombings in
London? After the 3/11 bombings in Madrid? After the Fort Hood jihad
murders? After the Times Square attempted jihad bombing? After a teacher
inadvertently named a classroom teddy bear Muhammad (at the students’
request) and became a target for death and the object of rioting across
the Muslim world? After the brutal jihad murders of the Fogel family in
Israel? After Ambassador Stevens and three U.S. diplomats were murdered?
After a YouTube video that insults Muhammad? After cartoons of
Muhammad?When is it OK to blaspheme under the Shariah? Any time. I will never self-censor before violent thugs. I will speak out more loudly than ever.
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11 Comments
11 years ago
Islam is at war with the West. Ridicule of Mohammed as with the cartoons and video is our most effective propaganda weapon against this aggressive ideology. We need lots, lots more blasphemy, not less.
Why abandon our most effective and non-violent WMD against the enemy’s beliefs? The State Dept’s willingness to implement OIC blasphemy laws will effectively disarm our ability to de-indoctrinate the enemy.
If we can destroy the credibility of Mohammed, either by reason or ridicule, then we have destroyed the roots of Islam and the tree will rapidly wither before it can bring forth much more of its poisonous fruit.
11 years ago
No Muslim with young children would allow a person with Muhammad’s reputation to sleep one night at their home. The “Blood Libel” was once used as an excuse to murder Jews now it has been turned into The “Muhammad Libel”, but the hatred stays the same.
11 years ago
@Najis Kuffar,
Hmmm. How ’bout some “WMB’s”? Weapons of MASS BLASPHEMY! Yes! Thanks for the idea. Print & broadcast media would be okay and the “interwebs” are alright – so far as they goe. But I just wish there were some way to make use of those “mysterious noises in the sky” [lol!] that people keep talking about. Something that NO media censor or internet filter could stop… (where’s my tin-foil hat?) Anybody here know anyone who works for HAARP? Hey, it’s a thought. ROFL!
KAFIR AND PROUD!!
11 years ago
Pamela, time to up the ante. Keep going with the campaign, but put up actual pics of their savagery, e.g. heads hacked off, face after acid attack, stonings, hanging gays from cranes, amputations, etc. It will be hard for them to refute that. The MTA may reject the ads as harmful to kids or something. If so, a new website, devoted solely to documenting their savagery would be great. You could refer to it in every debate. Take care of yourself. You are a real hero and true American.
11 years ago
As mentioned, one way to inoculate Islam would be to flood the world with tens of thousand of Mohammed movies and cartoons. The truth will set them free.
Keep bombing them Pamela, and don’t take any prisoners!!!
11 years ago
I can’t decide which is funnier: your outlandish racist rhetoric, or the fact that you actually think you’re accomplishing something.
People are laughing at your ads. They’re a national joke.
11 years ago
No Andrew Gibson, no one is laughing at the ads.
You are a joke.
11 years ago
Plug your ears and hum harder, David. I only even heard about these things because people were laughing at them on the internet. Even Pamela has admitted that the media is ‘rubbing their hooves with glee’ in people’s reactions to these things. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is all some elaborate post-modern performance piece. It’s that ridiculous.
But, hey, you keep fighting the good fight! More entertainment for the rest of us. Everyone loves watching the local nutjob walk down the street arguing with their invisible friend.
11 years ago
No one is laughing at the ads. In fact the ads are making leftists and islamic supremacists angry, which means they are effective. If they and Pam were such a joke as you proclaim, David, then they wouldn’t feel the need to try to get them stopped.
11 years ago
Sorry David, I was addressing Andrew.
I don’t see any laughter, I see rage coming from those that oppose the ads. If they weren’t taking them seriously, they wouldn’t be trying to get them removed and vandalizing them. Indeed, you are the joke Andrew and so are the clowns who are defacing the ads and laughably proclaiming jihad to be a personal struggle. I’m sure all the non-muslims suffering under islamic rule would define jihad as a “personal struggle”.
11 years ago
Islam is growing because its the religion of God. After 9/11 more than 20 thousand Americans became Muslims because they researched the religion themselves and found it to be the truthful religion. Google it yourself:Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world..multiplying by each day. Jesus was Muslim. The jews all know that. Go and spread your hateful message. Islam will soon take over.
