Pamela Geller, WND weekly column: Leftist brownshirts and their Islamic thugs

Pamela Geller opens the SION World Freedom Congress, September 11, 2012. Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media (left) and David Yerushalmi, American Freedom Law Center prepare remarks.

While we were conducting our hugely successful International Freedom Congress on free speech in the age of jihad, our embassies were being viciously attacked in the continuing war on ….. free speech.

Here's my column this week for WND. It was written prior to the
conference and the jihadist attacks on our embassies in Egypt and Libya
(Egypt still has not apologized, but we have and our apology is still on
the US embassy's website).

I will have much more on the conference (videos, coverage etc.) as time permits, but the acts of war in the Middle East and Noth Africa have taken priority.

Swedish
artist Lars Vilks (who lives under constant death threat) speaks as
Pamela Geller (left) and Robert Spencer, Lars
Hedegaard and Anders Gravers listen. "Jihad Jane," a Philadelphia convert to Islam, is projected on the screen. She was convicted of an assassinaton plot against Vilks (one of many)

Leftist brownshirts and their Islamic thugs

Exclusive: Pamela Geller holds conference on free speech at kowtowing U.N.

Deadlines require that I write this column before the International
Freedom Congress of my organization Stop Islamization of Nations, set
for Tuesday, Sept. 11, at the U.N. Plaza Millennium Hotel. But the big
story going into the Congress is the left’s increasing thuggishness and
the necessity for defenders of freedom to take ever-greater precautions
to protect themselves and enable their message to be heard.

The event was a first great counter-offensive in the war on free
speech – the first international attempt to counter the Organization of
Islamic Cooperation’s bid to impose restrictions on free speech under a
global blasphemy law. The International Freedom Congress represented a
quantum leap in media action, as it discussed, beyond rhetoric,
practical steps to address the phenomenon of the Islamic war against
free speech. The world’s leading forces for freedom were there. And so
were the enemies of freedom, determined to stop us.

Security concerns were intense surrounding our event. We hired our
own security team, at great expense, and they had to undertake extensive
preparations with the New York Police Department and hotel security.
I’m told that New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly even held a
meeting solely to discuss how to handle it. The focus of concern was
Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist who was one of our featured speakers,
and who has had to endure numerous death threats and attempts on his
life since drawing a cartoon of Muhammad. Certainly leftist and Islamic
supremacist thugs would do their best to get to Vilks.

Even before the Congress began, Vilks was targeted for being there. A
group of leftist Swedish artists pulled out of an exhibition rather
than appear with Vilks, just because he was standing for freedom with
us. It’s funny (not) how those in the art world fashion themselves as
cutting edge, outside the box, brave culture warrior, when in fact they
step an’ fetch it for Islamic supremacists and leftist totalitarians.
They are neither brave, nor virtuous, nor talented. They are on their
bellies at all times.

And in a supreme act of cowardice and dhimmitude by the Swedish
museum Jamtli in Östersund, they disinvited Vilks to present his work at
the exhibition. Lars Vilks is singular in his courage and steadfastness
for human rights, freedom of expression, freedom of speech and equality
of rights under the law. He has received hundreds of death threats,
suffered assassination plots and been physically attacked. He is a true
hero and artist who stands for human rights.

Museums gleefully show a crucifix immersed in urine (Andres Serrano)
or elephant feces desecrating the Madonna, mother of Christ (Chris
Ofili) but a Muhammad cartoon? Fuggeduhbouddit.

Nor was it just Vilks who had the leftists in a rage over the
International Freedom Congress. United Nations security personnel also
held a meeting about my event, and my source who was present at the
meeting told me, “You sure don’t have any friends over there.” Good. I
would consider it an indictment of my work if I did have a friend in
that collective negation of humanity. But it’s indicative of how much
the U.N. is in thrall today to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
(OIC) that they consider someone who tells the truth about jihad and
Islamic supremacism to be their enemy. The corruption and compromise
with evil at the U.N. in New York City is extensive; is that where they
transferred all the sex offenders from the Congo?

The left is increasingly bent on shutting down and shutting up
freedom fighters, and yet there has been scarcely any discussion of this
creeping fascism in the public sphere. We are relinquishing our most
cherished freedoms, our unalienable rights, with nary a whimper. What is
wrong with everyone? When Simon Deng, Nonie Darwish, Robert Spencer and
I spoke recently at Temple University,
they shouted, chanted, cursed and yelled, determined to silence and
intimidate us. It reminded me of the storm troopers disrupting the
classes of non-Nazi professors in 1930s Germany. And there is going to
be more and more of that, so long as there is no outcry against it. And
where is such an outcry going to come from, with the mainstream media on
the side of the leftist brownshirts?

America is entering a dark and difficult time.

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f. s.

11 years ago

Words of warning from an Iranian filmmaker exiled from his homeland. IS this the future of Egypt? Libya? Tunisia?
… the U.S?
Parviz Sayyad’s final statement at UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema [excerpt]
“I refuse to forget how the Islamic Regime of Iran came to power and established itself by burning movie theaters and in one instance with a live audience.
During the last six months prior to the Revolution, Islamic radicals burned 32 movie theaters in Tehran and 88 around the country, one of which was the Rex cinema in Abadan where 389 people lost their lives while watching a movie, meaning a product made by us, the family of cinema. Therefore as a member of the family of cinema I believe that the government of the Islamic Republic in which the conspirators of Rex cinema tragedy are still holding top jobs, is neither eligible nor entitled to have a film industry in the first place let alone participate in film festivals and cultural centers around the world with its so called quality films.
As an exiled filmmaker who has been shunned by film festivals for my anti radical Islamists film Checkpoint, I have witnessed how in the past quarter of a century most film festivals and art centers around the world turned a blind eye towards the constant violations of Human Rights in Iran simply to get a handful of films for their annual programming. Finally, I keep asking myself what is happening to the conscience of the world? There were times when artists who refused to work under fascist governments such as Nazi Germany met with great respect. For example we are now sitting in a movie theater named After Billy Wilder, a German screenwriter who fled to America in the early days of Hitler and became one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of American Cinema.’
http://cinemawithoutborders.com/news-issues/3042-parviz-sayyad’s-final-statement-at-ucla-celebration-of-iranian-cinema.html

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Björn

11 years ago

I, and probably many more Swedes are looking forward to more material from the conference! Vilks has been mentioned in some medias here in Sweden, were he is regarded as a racist and SION were mentioned “muslim critic”. There is however, many people behind him in our country, even though it doesn’t show in mainstream media. Vilks is a freedom fighter, which we need lots more of!
Also, I see the swedish journalist Janne Josefsson in the picture above. He mostly delivers strong truths about injustice in Sweden, but gets his salary from the national television, SVT. Therefore I’m surprised to see him, did he cover the conference on film?
Keep up the good work!

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H.Kristensen

11 years ago

My wife and I like to say THANK YOU to Pamela, Spencer as well as to all the speakers for a great afternoon, very informative. I’m ready to “RACING” toward the future, a future western world, without ISLAM. OK, so call me a racist!!
Remember, it is at the voting boot you are powerfull. Don’t be stupid!!

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Sandy

11 years ago

Warning from Allah:
SYLHET, Bangladesh (AP) — At least 13 devotees have been killed by lightning outside a mosque in northeastern Bangladesh. Local police chief Bayes Ahmed said the imam who led the prayers was among the dead.

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John Kenneth Press

11 years ago

Please see my commentary on your wonderful SION event here:
http://culturismnews.blogspot.com/2012/09/reflections-of-sion-international.html
I think mine is an important suggestion.
Thank you!
John Kenneth Press, Ph.D.
http://www.culturism.us

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goldburg

11 years ago

isreal is everything wrong with the middle east, they play the victim card while they opress everyone around them. ive been to isreal and met many people from there and most of them are isolationist assholes. all have an attitude problem. probably coming from living in a police state their whole lives. everyone in isreal is resonsible for the atrocities of their government due to the mandatory idf en listment. there is a reason people hate you and your country. as an american im sick of seeing my politic whore class beg isreal for campaign donations and money for their campaign. im sick of the isreali leaning and owned media covering thrir ass all the time. you have no right to establish an isreali state at gunpoint.and i hope you assholes go into iran by yourselves and get stomped. instead of throwing our children in another meat grinder of a war so your priviledged children dont have to.

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Lisa Jacob

11 years ago

Islam is growing because its the religion of God. After 9/11 more than 20 thoisand 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.

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Richard

11 years ago

Pamela Geller, I just discovered you today. I love the name of your blog, and I appreciate what you are doing, speaking up against the islamization of nations. In my blog I had written a related post asking why it is that Muslims are perceived as easily triggered to violence. I think that their many acts of terrorism around the world have had the desired effect on us. We, the United States, have become a nation of Kowtowing cowards, willing to give up almost anything in order to NOT rock the boat.
This is how Hitler took over Germany and killed millions of Jews. The people who knew better were afraid to speak up. Each increment of intrusion into personal liberty was aggravating and upsetting, but not bad enough to do anything about it. The creeping evil worked its way in until it was too late.

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