FrontPage Magazine Interview: Pamela Geller

Please go over to Front Page Magazine and check out my interview with Jamie Glazov:

Is Islamic Jihad Not “Savagery”? November 26, 2012 By Jamie Glazov

 

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Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Pamela Geller, the founder, editor, and publisher of AtlasShrugs.com.
She is the executive director of the American Freedom Defense
Initiative (AFDI) and Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), and is a
regular columnist for World Net Daily, the American Thinker, and other
publications. She is the author of Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.

FP: Pamela Geller, thank you for joining FrontPage interview today.

Pamela Geller: Thank you, Jamie.

FP: Pamela, you have placed ads nationwide saying:
“In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the
civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad.”

These ads have attracted a great deal of controversy. How Come?

PG: Jamie, this ad touched off a nationwide
firestorm, with pundits and activists all over the country excoriating
me for using the word “savage” to describe Islamic jihadists and
supremacists. Leftists and Islamic supremacists denounced them as
“racist” and “offensive.” For example, Ahmed Rehab of the Hamas-tied
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) recently denounced the ad
on Chicago television, saying that since jihad is central to Islam,
therefore “Defeat Jihad” means “Defeat All Muslims.” Then he says that
because the ad refers to all Muslims, it is racist. These are two
immense leaps of logic. We’re always told that the vast majority of
Muslims reject jihad violence, but now suddenly when it comes to my ads,
to refer to jihad means to refer to all Muslims. And of course Islam is
not a race, and Muslims are not all members of a single race.

Rehab was not the only one. Dhimmi Jewish groups joined in as well.
Leftist Christians and Jews put up counter ads. And most notoriously,
CNN “journalist” Mona Eltahawy attacked the ad and my associate Pamela
Hall with a can of spray-paint in the New York subway. She has since
then stoutly defended her action on the grounds that my ad was “racist.”
After her little act of fascism she had the gall to claim that she was
merely exercising her freedom of speech.

However, recently the hypocrisy and double standards of the leftists
and mainstream media has become clear. It turns out that using the word
“savage” is not always racist and offensive.

Go on. Read the rest here.

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