[ April 19, 2024 ]
"I happen to agree with [Zahra] Billoo on the offensiveness of Geller's
campaign" — Debra Saunders
So says Debra Saunders, "Token Conservative" columnist in San Francisco. Saunders buys right into the leftist/Islamic supremacism speech-crushing device: the idea that truth is offensive.
If this represents the Conservative voice, then the fat lady is singing (more like screaming). Perhaps I should have entitled my column this week "Limping to Oblivion" instead of "Marching to Oblivion."
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In the above statement, Saunders is referring to Zahra Billoo, the Executive Director for Hamas-CAIR San Francisco. Zahra Billoo was behind CAIR-California's notorious "Don't talk to the FBI" poster. She claims to reject jihad terror but doesn't want law enforcement to do anything to stop it.
The ads depict real statements by real Muslims about jihad. If Zahra Billoo and CAIR reject them, they should put their MyJihad ads in Cairo and Karachi, not Chicago and San Francisco. And her quarrel is with those Muslims who are waging violent jihad, not with me. Billoo is open and direct about her radical views toward law enforcement, American policy and Israel. More on Zahra here.
Poor Debra Saunders, she's on our side but she isn't.
She agrees with me but she doesn't
She likes the ads but she doesn't
I am right but I am wrong
I am a hater but I am a lover
My neck hurts — whiplash
What galls me is that this conservative gumby never tried to contact me.
(Geller, by the way, did not contact me in response to an email request for an interview for my Thursday column.) (more here)
Everyone else in the media from NY to LA had no trouble reaching me for a statement. Badly done, Saunders. It's [email protected].
Saunders implies that I am extremist for running actual quotes from high-profile Muslims like the Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The quotes may be extreme, but my pointing them out in an age of unimaginable deception is not. Hamas-CAIR's MyJihad ads are not reform or a challenge to "extremism," as they do not refute or reject the doctrines of armed jihad that are rooted in the Qur'an and Hadith and that Muslims have acted upon throughout Islamic history. Jihadis today make recruits and justify their actions by citing chapter and verse of the Qur'an, along with Muhammad's example. Posters that say jihad is going to the gym do nothing to challenge any of that.
Debra Saunders: Sanctimony city LA Daily News
Pamela Geller, most famous
for fighting what she called the "Ground Zero Mosque" in New York,
bought ads on the sides of 10 Muni buses that feature hateful quotes
from Osama bin Laden, accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan and failed
Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad – under the headline, "My Jihad.""Jihad, holy fighting in Allah's cause, with full force and weaponry
is … an obligation and duty in Islam to every Muslim," reads the
Shahzad quote. And underneath: "That's my Jihad. What's yours? "San Francisco City Hall responded in knee-jerk fashion – holding a
news conference drenched in sanctimony. "Hate has no place is our city,"
announced Mayor Ed Lee, flanked by fellow camera-happy officeholders.
Because the First Amendment essentially prevents the city from censoring
ads because of ideology, Muni will run the posters – but will give the
$5,000 in revenue to the city's Human Rights Commission to study the
ads' impact on the city's Arab and Islamic community.Geller's campaign is a spoof on a campaign launched by a Chicago
Council on American-Islamic Relations staffer to promote a broader,
kinder definition of jihad, an Islamic term for "struggle." In one
"MyJihad" ad, a woman in a head scarf asserts, "My jihad is to stay fit
despite my busy schedule." As Zahra Billoo of the local branch of the
council explained, the campaign was designed "to reclaim the word
jihad," which had been "narrowly defined by extremists on both sides. "
Billoo has denounced the Geller ads as "Islamophobic and racist" as
"they wrongly suggest that all Muslims are defined by extremism and
violence. "I happen to agree with Billoo on the offensiveness of Geller's
campaign. Though Geller has a point in challenging the notion that one
can put a happy face on violent jihad, her American Freedom Defense
Initiative feeds on hyperbole. As Billoo noted, Geller's billboards
amplify the terrorist message in a way that "ignores the fact that every
major American Muslim organization has condemned time and again the
very acts of terror that she attempts to attribute to the Muslim
community. "For me, that's like 2012, when Democrats seized on one deluded
candidate's view on "legitimate rape" and accused the GOP of being
like-minded even as Mitt Romney and every other major Republican
denounced that view. Oh, wait, I forgot. It's OK to define the right by
its extremists.Of course the news conference is really about politics. Lee and
company never pass up a chance to use tax dollars to lecture on what
they see as wrong thinking on the right.Now, I think the $5,000 would be better spent on buses. Maybe spring
for a few steam cleanings. Muni doesn't think so. Spokesman Paul Rose
told me that even though Muni has to run the ads, "we don't want to
accept revenues from an ad campaign that has such a hateful message." So
Muni is transferring the funds to the HRC, to be used, Lee spokeswoman
Christine Falvey told me, on "education and outreach. "Exactly how? HRC Chairman Michael Sweet told me the commission hasn't
decided how to spend the funds. What did you do with the $5,000 Muni
sent you last year after Geller ran ads on a few buses? Sweet answered,
"It hasn't yet been committed to a specific resource. "A news conference – for Lee & Co., that's my jihad. What's yours?
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9 Comments
11 years ago
OT VIDEO – allahu akbar!!! Democracy in post-Gaddagi Libya – Flogging of alcohol drinkers on a public place in Sirte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDKbck4FyKc
11 years ago
Wasn’t the whole point to be offensive? To remind people about jihadi murderers? Am I missing something?
11 years ago
Isn’t it forbidden to say anything critical about Muhammad or Islam? So just saying anything critical Muslims will see as an attack. Clearly Freedom of Speech is not a Muslim value.
11 years ago
Ms. Saunders is just one more confused soul walking down the dhimmi path …
11 years ago
Though Geller has a point in challenging the notion that one can put a happy face on violent jihad, her American Freedom Defense Initiative feeds on hyperbole.
Where does Saunders get off dismissing Pamela’s quotes as “hyperbole”?
The messages of hate and murder are acted upon daily my Muslims acting in the name of their religion. Muslims conduct their campaigns of murderous intolerance with very little pushback from Muslim clerics, as they have for over 1000 years. In fact, often, it is with the encouragement and participation of Muslim clerics.
11 years ago
The ancient strategist Sun Tzu advised:
You may advance and be absolutely irresistible, if you make for the enemy’s weak points.
The campaigns in left-wing territories such as San Francisco could benefit from this insight.
The San Francisco campaign should have started with a first phase denouncing Muslim murder and oppression of gays, as well as ONGOING ENSLAVEMENT of black Africans by Muslims in countries such as Mauritania, Mali, the Sudan etc.
Such a campaign would indeed hit the enemy’s weak points and greatly hamper the ability of islamo-fascists and their media dhimmis to launch attacks before a largely “progressive” audience.
Having established AFDI’s name and aims in the public eye, a second phase can then go on to highlight matters such as religious persecution, oppression of women, etc. Again, care should be taken to mention non-Christian victim groups such as Buddhists in Thailand and Burma, Druze in Syria and Lebanon, minority Muslim groups such as Hazara in Pakistan and Afghanistan alongside the numerous Christian and Jewish groups.
11 years ago
‘American Freedom Defense Initiative feeds on hyperbole’
Ah but can’t this woman think a little further?
Yes it may very well be hyperbole but whose?
The ads neatly twist CAIR’s sly and deceptive kumbaya around the meaning of jihad, and using quotes from those who view jihad not quite encased in the pink fluff CAIR tries on, reveal a more real and currently accepted Islamic definition.
When sources from Nidal Hasan, Osama bin Laden and Recep Erdogan all as steeped in Islam as it can possibly get, spout the core truth in inflammatory language who is the inflamer?
They are the ones who created their words. Not Pamela Geller.
11 years ago
Word association is becoming more difficult thanks to bullsh***ers muni-pulating the information industry.When will muslims demand to rewrite the entire dictionary to suit their agenda? Facts = conclusions = opinions = action. Getting the facts straight is primary and that is what muslims are attacking. They do not want accountability to get in their way.islam is not a race,it is an organization hell bent on global domination.
11 years ago
I’ve been reading Debra Saunders for years… she is not a conservative. Never was, never will be. She is a squishy libertarian. She’s someone that liberal editors like to call conservative so that their newspapers seem fair and unbiased. She hates the Tea Party and praises pot. She has too maintain her fairness “aura” so that liberal talk shows in the Bay Area will continue to have her on as a guest.
