[ April 19, 2024 ]
Mona Eltahawy sprayed our AFDI pro-freedom ad with spray paint because she objected to the word "savages" being used of Islamic jihadists who murder Israeli civilians and celebrate their murders by passing out candy. Eltahawy describes herself as a "liberal Muslim," and everyone assumes that that means that she is worlds from the Muslims who commit such savagery, and only "Islamophobes" would consider them to be in the same camp. But now Eltahawy has retained Jewicidal leftist lawyer Stanley Cohen, who represents the Hamas savages, as her attorney in the criminal case against her for destroying my ad.
Six degrees of separation? This is no degree of separation. Eltahawy hates that I called the jihadis "savages" and then retains the savages' lawyer. Cohen says: “If I don’t support the politics of political clients, I don’t take the case.” So Eltahawy is a "liberal Muslim" who is outraged that I called jihadi "savages," and she has a lawyer who supports jihad terror against innocent Israeli civilians, the bloody murder of the Fogel family, the mass murders of Israeli civilians in buses and restaurants, etc.
Lawyer for Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian-American writer busted for spray-painting pro-Israel subway ad, calls action free speech Janon Fisher and Pete Donahue, New York Daily News, September 26
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A lawyer for an Egyptian-American columnist charged with spray-painting
over a pro-Israel subway ad used an odd hypothetical example to argue
his client was merely exercising her right to free speech.
“My client decided to take a stand based on principle,” Stanley Cohen
said of Mona Eltahawy, who was arraigned on misdemeanor charges,
including criminal mischief, in Manhattan Wednesday. The ad she defaced
implies Muslims are savages.“I wonder how New Yorkers would react to a poster with an oven that said, ‘Not enough Jews,’ ” Cohen reasoned.
Cohen "reasoned"? More like "Cohen viciously propagandized." My ad doesn't call for killing anyone. It doesn't justify violence, it denounces violence. It never mentions Islam or Muslims. For Cohen to make this invidious comparison shows what he is all about.
But his true colors were abundantly clear already. Cohen has made other vile comparisons before, invoking the Holocaust to argue for giving jihad terrorists a break. He also attended the Al-Quds International Forum in Istanbul, where Hamas and Hizballah were also present, and speakers demanded that Jerusalem be seized from Israel by force. And here is more from Discover the Networks:
In his office today, Cohen displays a picture of himself alongside the late Sheik Ahmed Yassin, former spiritual leader of the terrorist group Hamas.
In Cohen’s view, Hamas is an organization composed of freedom fighters
and martyrs who nobly give their lives in the pursuit of liberty and
justice.In 1995 Cohen aided Hamas’ senior political leader, Moussa Mohammed Abu Marzook – who co-founded both the Islamic Association for Palestine and the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
— in his legal battle against extradition from the U.S. to Israel.
Cohen visited Marzook almost nightly in his jail cell for nearly two
years, and ultimately mounted a successful defense for his client. “If I
don't support the politics of political clients,” said Cohen, “I don't
take the case.”Also in the 1990s, Cohen, Kunstler, and Stewart teamed with Ramsey Clark to defend Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and leader of the Islamic Group, an Egypt-based terrorist organization with close links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.
Cohen also has represented members of the Peruvian terror group Shining Path; the cop-killer and leftist icon Mumia Abu-Jamal; a militant Muslim charged with torching a New York synagogue; Moataz Al-Hallak, an imam from Texas with suspected ties to al-Qaeda; Imam Kariye, a black Muslim suspected of terrorism; Hazem Ragab, who co-founded the Global Relief Foundation and was named as a co-conspirator to the 9/11 attacks; and Abdelhaleem Ashqar
and Ismail Elbarasse, both of whom refused to testify before a grand
jury investigating allegations of money laundering in support of Hamas. Moreover, Cohen has asserted that the confessed traitor John Walker Lindh, who went to Afghanistan to fight against American troops in 2001, was innocent.Immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Cohen told the Village Voice, “If Osama bin Laden arrived in the United States today and asked me to represent him, sure I'd represent him.”
Mona Eltahawy will have to do for now.
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24 Comments
11 years ago
While I wholeheartedly support your ad campaign, I think it would be more effective without invoking Israel. The issue of jihad is a threat to all of Western civilization and as such, stands on its own.
11 years ago
It’s good to see Pamela Geller confronting the insanity within her own tribe, because it’s an undeniable fact that the leftist disease has been disproportionately spread by Jewish people. Until this powerful element within our society is defanged, we will be fighting the enemy within as much as the enemy without.
Where does this suicidal liberal/leftist self-disarming impulse come from? From Western civilization, in particular the “slave religions,” Judaism and especially Christianity. What the people of the West really need is an ideological replacement for the slave religions, something more along the lines of Nietzschean or Randian philosophy, to rearm them against the promoters of guilt and cultural suicide in our midst.
11 years ago
Brillant ad. Can some copies of this be pinned next to the other ad in the subways.
11 years ago
Sussannah Reich
True, but the ad is in response to the ani-Isreal ads. supported by the left and Islamists.
Which democracy would be the first to be destroyed with millions killed if Jihad savages had their way?
11 years ago
Mona Eltahawy speaks with a fancy British accent, an indication that she comes from a very privileged background in Egypt, perhaps educated in Great Britain. Such a woman cannot be comfortable living in a burka and not driving, obeying all the sharia laws for women. Her only way to attempt to reconcile the freedom she has enjoyed (how many Egyptian women have the funds to study English and speak as she does?) is to be a spokesperson for, ironically, a lifestyle she herself would never want to live.
11 years ago
So this female acted like a savage to protest the description did it hit to close to home?
11 years ago
One wonders. Do they make hot pink burkas for Eltahawy to wear?
11 years ago
I have a great idea. Why don’t the opponents of your ads take out more ads of their own refuting what you say? Like soft drinks, but ideas.
How is it the anti-Israel ads you were responding to never make it into the news articles?
Rhetorical of course.
11 years ago
I think what really upsets these people the most is not the word savage, but 2 other words in your ad:
Support Israel.
Let these savages rage and try to destroy the first ammendment. Hopefully all of their noise will wake some people up.
Pamela Geller — you are a true patriot. Keep up the hard work!
11 years ago
Well…birds of a feather.
11 years ago
This sounds like another losing case. Her lawyer has represented people who are now locked up supposedly for life. David Yerushalmi always seems to win his cases. I think the best thing for her to try to avoid jail time is to plea bargain down to one charge and probably pay a fine. If she claims she has a right to spray over public property, she is going to get a worse sentence and maybe on all three counts.
They might end up thinking she is crazy even and try to lock her in a mental ward. She made her point that she wants to be an anarchist style savage, but now she has to pay the price. If she pulled this kind of stunt in Egypt, they might be giving her lashes or something. They cut off people’s hands for stealing in these conservative sharia law nations.
Just because she doesn’t respect our laws, that doesn’t mean that they don’t exist. She still has to obey them, like it or not. As far as Jews being insulted, people are all the time saying things like the holocaust didn’t happen or that Jews are some sort of criminals out to destroy the world. Jews see swastikas spray painted all the time on their property and even tombstones. Do they retaliate with cans of spraypaint aimed next to a lady’s eyes and so close to her clothes that it lands on her coat?
Mona was wrong. Mona broke the law. Mona is going to lose if she doesn’t fess up.
11 years ago
Mr. Cohen wonders how New Yorkers would react to ads invoking the Holocaust. He actually makes a powerful point, because I can see such disgusting and provocative ads as those he hypothesizes being defaced in New York.
To me this goes straight to the heart of this Mona dust-up and the larger issue of Islam in the West.
New York is the greatest American city, home to a large number of Jews — who indeed arguably more than any other single group made New York what it is. So Cohen’s hypothesis is analogous to the anti-jihad ads in their specific language being placed in Cairo or Kabul or any other Arab capital. It’s not a freedom of speech issue per se. It’s more glaring evidence of how truly incompatible Islam and it’s beliefs are with us and our entire American history, culture and way of life. The only Muslims who will be able to live here in any kind of peace and mutual respect are those who take off the scarves, pray in the privacy of their homes and basically submit themselves to the world they probably have been taught to hate. Because as much as most Americans can’t understand how hatred for an entire world of people could be part and parcel of a child’s upbringing — basically their social studies — they are all taught at early ages to hate us. So submitting to a Judeo-Christian culture will always be maddening and impossible to the dominant agenda and central thrust of Islam — which is hyper-patriachial radicalism resorting to violence.
It’s all about dominance and submission to them. Not co-existence. Not cooperation. Their supremacy is all they can accept.
So, like every aspect of our nation and society, freedom of speech can’t survive here with too many Muslims around.
11 years ago
I fear Cohen is a sick dilusional man..using the propaganda of ovens which killed millions of his own people. Has his heart turned against God and His people?
11 years ago
I have no problem with the ads as they appear.
What Eltahaway ignores is that she represents the prince of the earth, and not the God of this world. The law of this prince is to destroy and murder, utilizing every form of lie and deceit at his disposal. Only the blindness that is in her may be thought cause that she ignore the very real fact that the savage murders his own family members and others without regard showing no mercy. Truly it has been said, “you are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you shall perform…”
Sadly, we have another liar in the Whitehouse who if left to his neferious devices, will behave in the same tyrannical manner as his master.
Personally, I believe this country is under judgement for the transgression of its people. Our fellow countrymen put obama in the presidency , didn’t they? In the most shocking failure of discernment, an enemy of the people of the United States is at the helm.
To me, that speaks of the corruption of the people.A large enough segment of population put us all at risk. It is not only those who actively voted for him but those also who neglected for one reason or another to not demand godly leaders.
We just do not know how.
Am I one who would have a theocracy in the United States? Well, think about it, if a person neglects his duty and responsibility to God, he will forget what manner of man he is. Theocracy begins here with me, here, now. How I am ruled and by what power I am ruled, makes me the person that I am, not what others make of me. It is how it is with every man and woman. You see the results of such wilfull submission in those who identify as Christians all the day long in countries distant from us.
And it shall happen here.
The death of Jews and Christians is not far from these shores and the calamities of the Russians during the uprisings of the early 20th century shall enforce themselves in the United States as well. The holocaust of Germany shall pale in comparison.
Eltahaway is only a synmptom of an eruption of the considerable horror to come.
It does not get any simpler than this, “Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me”.
Though a Christian may defend, a Christians first duty is to serve and if necessary, suffer.
People mistake the power of the United States with that exercised by warring nations. It is one thing to possess a sword. It is another thing all together to live by the sword which islam more than competently wields.
Look at the flag of Saudi Arabia.
And we must not let it escape us, we are informed by the Book of the Children of Israel and not that of a fraud and an imposter.
11 years ago
If being Jewish means anything positive to this man why would he take this case? I’ve had a problem with lawyers for years because of their mercenary attitudes, getting guilty people off and prosecuting those who plainly have reasonable motives.
This woman is certainly a very unpleasent one indeed and completely untrustworthy in my view.
Whilst complaining about rough treatment in Egypt, at the hands of her fellow muslims, she then reverts to type and attacts non-muslims, ignoring jewish victims of hatred and violence in particular.
It’s still fashionable to talk about people being the same the world over and that no distinction should be made for differing races or classes. I don’t buy it.
When at school many years ago, we kids had a saying we used when we felt someone had been unfair or a bully, we said to the guilty party, ” play the white man ” meaning be fair ,honest and worthy of trust. And you know what, that little referee inside each one of us stopped and listened, because to be accepted by ones peers was terribly important to us all.
In an age when EVERY sort of behavior has a “cultural” excuse, and NO judgments may be made for fear of giving “offence”, an urge to be a shining standard of goodness based on Christian values and reason is LONG overdue, and yes, this does mean judging people and giving offence when it’s deserved. This is the dicipline of the playground, and when it’s allowed to work, it works every time.
11 years ago
Pamela, I believe I “understand” people like Stanley Cohen.
We all have a great need to be LOVED. Not just by family or friends but by Everyone.
I have met many Jews, too many, who have swept aside all common sense in a desperate bid to be LOVED. Stanley Cohen feels that he will in some way be vindicated and SPARED and even “loved” by his self-sworn enemies.
He wants to extend his own self-adulatory love by devoting his talents to “PROVE” to Muslims that he is NOT TRULY JEWISH, therefore “above ethnicity”, supremely superior to “ordinary Jews”. Stanley Cohen desperately wants to be accepted and LOVED by Muslims who he feels indebted to.
I can understand him from this perspective. In my own heart I want to love all people, all faiths and for them in turn to love ME. I feel a deep compassion for Muslims and a natural affection for Muslims when I meet them in daily life and relationships. There are cultural qualities that I admire and respect and fervently wish that in these appreciations alone we could all just live in Peace and shared values.
But even though these are my inclinations and natural outpouring of love to each and all in my own heart I have to face some disturbing, shocking, tragic realities in the USA.
As a born-again, Spirit-filled, fundamental Christian, follower of Jesus Christ as Messiah, I welcome that all of my spiritual blessings and connection to God, the God of Moses, Isaiah, Abraham — praying to Elohim, Yahweh, Jehovah, the God of Israel — all that I trust comes because God first declared Himself to the people who were to become known as Jews.
As a spiritual Jew, according to the declarations of predominantly Jewish writers of the New Testament, I know that an Evil spirit is at work in the persecution of Jews, Israel, and “true” Christians ( mainly outside of the more secular “Christian” denominations ).
The storm is roiling and insanity is rampant. Even now in America we have seen the completely demonic twisting of persecution to now victimize the victims — Jews, Israel, Christians — and instead laud the vicious behavior, the savage monstrosity of Muslim ideology.
The whole world has gone mad as we see how blindly eyes have been turned to the daily, hourly atrocities perpetrated by practitioners of the Muslim ideology in all its variants.
And we have always had the Judas Iscariots who were willing to sell their own souls for money, acclaim, and a perverse need to prove that they are not truly worthy or indeed deserving of Muslim hate.
Stanley Cohen can not wash away his Jewishness with the Jewish blood his legal clients and friends have shed. Stanley Cohen allies himself without shame with the enemies of his Grandparents; Cohen kisses the cheeks of cold-hearted men and women, savages, who are sworn to loose a red torrent of Jewish blood streaming through the streets of Jerusalem.
Stanley Cohen hopes to escape the purge of Jewdom that Muslim believers embrace as a core principle of their hearts and minds.
Pamela, you wage a war of logic and rationality and humaneness against a most evil foe.
And now we know the sad truth that many of our enemies have voter identification cards, drivers licenses, U.S. Birth certificates, and are both Jewish and White Anglo Saxon Protestants and Catholics.
11 years ago
I can easily picture Mona showing up to court in a fashionable hijab and then claiming that her religious convictions led to her actions and this is why free speech should be curtailed if it offends Muslims. Otherwise, there is no case. Vandalism and violence are crimes unless there is a cultural shift and we start believing that offending Muslims is a worse crime.
Wasn’t that the case of the Halloween Zombi Muhammad in PA — the Muslim who committed the assault was excused of the charge because he was overcome with rage and humiliation at the offensive costume and he assumed he had the right and obligation to defend his faith. The victim was lectured by the judge to not be so ignorant. I believe the judge ultimately received some disciplinary action, but the violent Muslim did not.
11 years ago
Pamela Hall is suing Eltahawy for damages. Someone else named Pamela should sue her for the costs related to replacing the ad.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2209227/Mona-Eltahawy-EXCLUSIVE-Woman-attacked-defending-anti-jihad-subway-ad-plans-sue-activist-sprayed-HER.html#ixzz27gWUB6Lp
11 years ago
Stanley Cohen in action defending savagery : http://youtu.be/jtUxa3iCiSA
11 years ago
A gun rights group once published a booklet titled “Gun Control Is Racist”. In it they show a connection between gun control and racism.
What does this proof? – In any sane world, it would prove that racism is wrong. In our insane world, it proves that gun control is wrong. It is even the most effective way to show that gun control is wrong, in our world.
11 years ago
MOMA ElLTAHAWY = SAVAGE MENTALITY
11 years ago
CFI, I don’t think Stanley Cohen becaame a laywer because he is looking for love, I think he is looking for money. I think he is looking to gain power and fame. That is what drives lawyers, not love. Law is like a blood sport. You have to like to battle and argue and tear people to shreds. It is also a money game where the more cases you win or throw for the right people, the more money you make.
Lawyers are generally very crooked from what I have seen. He is probably just flocking together with birds of his own feather. Muslims don’t seem very loving so it would be very pathetic for a lost soul to go looking there for some love, especially as a Jew, their mortal enemy.
He may have an emptiness in his heart that he uses money to fill, I wouldn’t know, but to say he needs Muslims to love him, I am sure he couldn’t care less.
11 years ago
An Arab woman spraying a white woman is not deemed racist. The word “racist” does not even cross the minds of those in authority.
Now reverse the situation and imagine what would happen if a Muslimn was preventing a placard saying “Behead all those who insult Islam” from being sprayed and was deliberately paint-sprayed as a result.
By the way in England anybody burning a koran is jailed. It’s happened at least twice to my knowledge. However, a Muslim man shouting to mothers and children leaving school “All Jewish children must die” was not jailed.
11 years ago
Not to worry about Stanley Cohen. Why? Because someday, this black hearted person will be pleading his final case before God.
“In Any War Between the Civilized Man and the Savage,
Support the Civilized Man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”
