Pamela Geller, WND Column, Jihad-accommodating CPAC

My latest column at WND on the CPAC jihad against voices of freedom:

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Jihad-accommodating CPAC
Exclusive: Pamela Geller shares why she was axed from annual conservative conference

For the first time in five years, I won’t be at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

This year I wanted to hold an event entitled, “The War on Free
Speech.” After the historic free-speech legal wins in Washington, D.C.,
and New York, the bus ads and the ongoing fight to run our counter-jihad
campaign, what could be more timely? I applied to CPAC and met with
their signature wall of silence. I tried to partner with the tea party
(as I had done last year), but no dice.

It has always been a challenge to hold an event at CPAC, which is
sponsored by the American Conservative Union (ACU). The CPAC events that
we organized were always fraught with difficulty. Most folks didn’t
understand why I worked so hard to hold an event there. A number of
people have questioned my choice of venue for our historical counter-jihad events.
Many feel, and rightly so, that the ACU – the political right’s largest
and most influential grass-roots umbrella organization – has abandoned
conservative principles and morphed into some fleshy, ambiguous,
compromised political machine doling out money and favors for cronies,
when it is doing anything at all.

I agree. Wholeheartedly. It has been co-opted. Jihadist operatives Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan,
board members of the ACU, made sure jihad and related topics were
omitted from the program, year in and year out. But that is exactly why I
held the event at CPAC, and in the early years held my tongue over the
difficulties I experienced in bringing my events to CPAC. It was too
important that the presentation be made in order to educate everyone.
Years ago, when I first met the great historian Bat Ye’or, I asked her,
“What can I do?” She answered, “Learn everything first.” That was the
purpose of our CPAC presentations. Many people were shocked by them, but Americans needed to know, and need to know, what we are up against.

There’s nothing conservative about soft-pedaling jihad. CPAC 2008,
2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 had little in the way of addressing the war we
are engaged in and the enemy threat doctrine. That again was why I held
my event there. Every year CPAC gets progressively worse. Silly, even.
CPAC chief Cardenas said: “This year we decided not to invite Pamela
Geller for comments she made at CPAC critical of our officers. In each
of these cases, their ad hominem attacks denigrate the debate and
distract from the real point of CPAC.”

What I exposed about Norquist was not “ad hominem.” Norquist and Khan
seem to be in charge at CPAC – no CPAC event goes on that doesn’t
reflect their perspective. Norquist and Khan are serving the purposes of
the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Islamic organization that has
infiltrated the U.S. government and media to such an extent (as Stephen
Coughlin explained
at our CPAC event) that it controls the information and dissemination
of everything you see, hear and read on Islam – unless you do your own
research, your own study and frequent blogs like mine and Robert Spencer’s.

Journalist Paul Sperry says that Norquist’s strategy has been to
“dress Islamists up as patriotic Republicans so they can infiltrate the
government.” According to the Investigative Project on Terrorism:

Grover Norquist hoped to … harness votes from the
country’s growing Muslim population by creating the Islamic Free Market
Institute in 1998. He did so with significant financial help from
Abdurahman Alamoudi, then one of America’s most influential Muslim
activists and head of the American Muslim Council. Today, Alamoudi is
serving a 23-year prison sentence after admitting to illegal
transactions with Libya and being part of a plot to assassinate the
then-Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Alamoudi was also found to be a
long-time secret financial courier for al-Qaida while at the same time
being routinely invited to the Clinton White House for receptions and
meetings.

But the 10,000 great Americans who attend CPAC are not
Shariah-compliant. The patriots attending CPAC are not pro-jihad. They
were not willing to hand America over to Shariah (Islamic) law. We
needed to reach them. We needed to educate them. They know they are
being deceived. They look around their towns and cities and see the
unremitting capitulation to Islamic supremacism.

Arm them with knowledge, I say, and what better way than to bring the
leading authorities across the world to speak honestly and directly to
the American people? This had to be done if we are to have any shot at
saving America. And so this is what we brought to CPAC:

• CPAC 2008: Introducing Mark Steyn
• CPAC 2009: Pamela Geller Brings Geert Wilders to CPAC
• CPAC 2010: FDI Inaugural Event, Jihad: The Political Third Rail
• CPAC 2011: Ground Zero Mosque
• CPAC 2012: Islamic Law in America

Apparently, the tea party came under enormous pressure last year when
they helped me hold our event. A confidential source told me the
pressure to cancel was ongoing. This year, no go.

This shows the power of the Norquist-Khan cabal among conservatives. Last year Suhail Khan
bragged out loud that he (and his other operatives) had successfully
kept my colleague Robert Spencer and me from being invited to speak. He
went so far as to warn people not to attend our events
or read our books. That happened after I took on Norquist and his
powerful influence over CPAC in several articles, most notably here and here.

Read the whole enchilada.

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Baruch

11 years ago

“The War on Free Speech” indeed.
They must be lost in the irony.

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James

11 years ago

Great article.Definitely a war on free speech that is unless you’re a liberal.

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Betty

11 years ago

Pamela move to FLORIDA we could use you here.

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Shy Guy

11 years ago

Pamela, move to Israel. This is your true home.

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Shy Guy

11 years ago

Philistines upon you, America.

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Bloodless Coup

11 years ago

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Hubcap

11 years ago

It is reprehensible how we the people are being mistreated and verbally assaulted. Day after day, the questionable president in the oval office has ignored our legal and social heritage. He has heaped verbal abuse upon American workers and tax payers who simply wish to work and find a little peace for themselves and their families. For over 4 years we the loyal Christian Americans are being subjected to emotional exploitation and manipulative extortion. We have suffered and endured the mental torture of the torment of never knowing from day to day what the oval office will do next. The Congress and the senate refuse to uphold their oath of office to protect our laws and it appears the abusive methods from the oval office are beyond propaganda as he mentally tortures we the Christian Americans who give our children up to the military to fight for peace where countries hate America. Are there no rules of decency in the Oval office?
More:
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/can-obama-be-stopped/
Obama has a very simple playbook. 1. Create anxiety about an issue. 2. Demand action on it. 3. Hammer the Republicans for their inaction. Every morning the news stories are largely a reflection of one of the three phases of that strategy.
In this game, Republicans can either take the initiative or defend their lack of action on the Obama agenda. What we are seeing lately is a Republican Party that is constantly on the defensive, trying to explain why they haven’t yet done what Obama wants them to do and how they would have done it already if he didn’t keep on interrupting them.
The Republican Party does need to “evolve.” It needs to evolve into becoming a predator, instead of its prey. What it doesn’t need to do is adopt a Democratic agenda. That way lies one defeat after another as every game becomes an away game played by rules that make winning all but impossible.
The very act of “evolving” on a position is an admission of defeat. It concedes that the other side is setting the policy priorities and the best you can do is try to jump on their bandwagon. If you find yourself having to evolve on a position, then you’re allowing yourself to be drawn into the wrong argument.
Winning an argument against Obama is not impossible, but it begins with the basics. People respond best to their own dollar-and-cent issues. Reagan understood that vision has to be grounded in daily life. The votes that count begin not with the big issues, but the little ones. The politicians who can connect to the little issues are seen as caring. Those who cannot may have the right answers and the better vision, but they also have the uphill battle in any election.
When Bush I faced off against Clinton, he couldn’t handle a ridiculous question about how the national debt had affected him personally that Reagan would have finessed and that Clinton did fineness with his infamous, “I feel your pain” line. It was a shameless moment, but Republicans who can’t handle that question have no business even trying out for the top spot.
Obama can be stopped and his policy agenda can be slowed down, but doing that will require not just talking about small government, but thinking in small government terms. Too many of the politicians who preach small government, talk and think like big government. Small government doesn’t begin with big plans, but with small ones. It begins with helping people by taking on an issue that they care about.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/can-obama-be-stopped/

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Joe Six-Pack

11 years ago

I agree with you on most accounts. I would like to expand a little on this part:
“addressing the war we are engaged in”
As you have seen, we are NOT actively engaged in a war. However, our Islamic nationalist enemies are engaged in war against US. Until this CHANGES, we will continue to lose.
Keep up the hard work. We need to recognize that we need to actively engage our enemies or the war will come here. (It is already here, but so many are still ignoring it.)

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Janice

11 years ago

“He went so far as to warn people not to attend our events or read our books.” When someone says something like this, it just makes me want to attend or read! Hopefully, that attitude is bringing more to seekers to Pamela and Robert.

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Carmen

11 years ago

If anyone else holding an event at CPAC had the cojones to boycott until you and Robert Spencer were welcomed then CPAC would have to cave in and ignore the wishes of their islamo-fascist masters.
If we refuse to stand up for each other then evil wins.

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Kufar Dawg

11 years ago

From what I understand of Israel, Pamela’s frank stance on Islam might not go over well w/the authorities in Israel. I read about a young Jewish woman who was thrown in jail for daring to negatively depict the holey prophet of Islam in Israel.

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lovezion

11 years ago

This is SO scary! Like an episode of Twilight Zone where even your most intimate friends are REALLY your enemies in disguise. The conservatives have shown their cowardly, soft brains not only in this case of rejecting a real patriot, but see how they fare also in other parts of the American politics! DISGRACE!!! Now we have NO PARTY to fight for America’s Freedom! Pamela and the other wonderful Freedom Soldiers are doing the fight all alone, so we must support them more than ever…with money (the signs are extremely expensive) and with word (let’s spread her articles to the 4 corners of the world! :o)

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Shy Guy

11 years ago

Israel wasn’t built in a day. We need people like Pamela to fight the fight. There’s plenty messed up in the US when it comes to Islam, too. Just read this blog. And it’s only going to get worse.
But there are many other reasons why Pamela’s home is here in Israel. And not just Pamela.

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