Pamela Geller, Monday’s WND Column:
Pure deliciousness! ‘Uninvited’ at CPAC

_{Photo courtesy Pamela Hall}

Al Cardenas,  chair of the American Conservative Union that puts on CPAC,  is asked if "Pamela Geller would be invited to CPAC next year." He said,
"Maybe. We have not begin that process yet." Blazing Cat Fur send me the audio clip: Download Pamela cpac-1

As for Grover's New York [Jew] remark, Big Fur Hat has a brilliant takedown here (read the whole thing). Everyone knows what Grover Norquist is (Grover Norquist and the Iran Lobby). And this is hardly new; Franklin Foer was warning us of Grover Norquist's ties to jihadists right after September 11th here.

My column for WND Monday is what I saw at the CPAC circus:

DEFENDING THE WEST

Pure deliciousness! 'Uninvited' at CPAC
Exclusive: Pamela Geller shares exceptional debate of hot-button issues

It was particularly delicious that I was invited to speak at the
Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, at the invitation of
the Breitbart organization. The Breitbart event, “The Uninvited,” was a
special two-hour session of hot-button issues, including global jihad,
the ongoing global persecution of Christians and the gutting of the
American military. Breitbart is here, indeed.

The event was standing room only. And I was overwhelmed by the rush
of applause and folks who stood up when I walked into the room for the
event. It was mind-blowing. These people get it.

The theme of my remarks was “The War on Free Speech.” Truth is, the
new hate speech according to our betters – the enemedia and political
elites. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation is attempting to
intimidate the West into criminalizing criticism of Islam, and what is
shameful is the eagerness of the Western mainstream media, the left and
even many conservatives to do their bidding by censoring themselves when
speaking about Islam and demonizing and marginalizing those who dare to
speak the truth about the jihad and Islamic supremacism. By their
silence and weak response to the attacks, defamation and libel of voices
of freedom, the right has sanctioned this speech-crushing device of the
left and Islamic supremacists. Silence is sanction.

Suhail Khan is a foremost instrument of this demonization of voices
of freedom. The enemedia got into an uproar when I said, “Am I saying
that Suhail Kahn is as bad as [Anwar] Al-Alwaki? He’s worse. I knew when
I said it that the media tools would jump all over it as a “gotcha”
quote, and the hopeless Alex Seitz-Wald at Salon again and BuzzFeed got
right on it. And just to show you what dishonest merchants they are,
Matthew Boyle reports at Breitbart News
that Salon’s Jillian Rayfield had written a good bit of her story,
including charges of “Islamophobia,” before the panel even began. There
was no need for her to actually watch the panel to apply the enemedia
spin.

Of course Khan’s stealth jihad is more dangerous. Awlaki is dead.
Suhail is working his treachery every day, under the guise of a
“conservative” mask. Anwar al-Awlaki, too, was a moderate Muslim before
he wasn’t. He was praised in the New York Times. Abdurrahman Alamoudi, a
friend of Norquist and Khan, was also a moderate before he wasn’t.
Alamoudi was Suhail’s mentor before he went to prison for terror-related
crimes. Alamoudi was al-Qaida’s largest secret financial courier.
Suhail Khan is tightly linked to jihadists who want to take down this
country. Here is the background.

These attacks on me and my work are not about Pamela Geller. There is
nothing personal in this war against me; it’s the subject matter. So
when conservatives allow the attacks and marginalization of my work,
they sanction the war on free speech. All of my colleagues have had
their names dragged through the mud, their reputations ruined, their
ability to make a living destroyed. Yet many conservatives remain silent
(including some who were at “The Uninvited” event). They think they can
do it better, softer – make the argument more saleable. But no one who
touches this subject will be spared.

I have been dive-bombing into CPAC since 2008 – holding events on
subjects that this body of the conservative movement refuses to address.
And what CPAC omits is immense. There was little or no discussion of
jihad in America; Shariah (close to half of the state legislatures are
currently enacting or considering foreign law – why no discussion at
CPAC?); the rise of Islamic supremacist regimes throughout the Middle
East and Africa; the case for Israel, the only democracy in the Middle
East with a shared value system of governance: life, liberty, individual
rights; how college students can handle the vicious anti-American bias
on university campuses – the list goes on and on.

But more than this, at CPAC there is no discussion of philosophy. And
without a basic understanding of our system of thinking – the nature of
knowledge – we are cooked.

Indeed. Tocqueville wrote in “Democracy in America” that no country
in the civilized world had paid less attention to philosophy than the
U.S. He observed that Americans had no philosophical school of their own
and little interest in those of Europe. But this was our genius,
because our philosophy was our sense of life. We shared the same
premise, conducted our understanding in the same manner, governed by the
same rules – without taking the time or trouble to define the rules.

We must first go back to square one and learn why capitalism is the
greatest and most benevolent of all economic systems. Capitalism is
individual rights. We should have taught the 10,000 great Americans who
came to CPAC why we think the way we do. Our story is a great one, the
greatest. Individual rights. The U.S. the first really moral government
in history based on that premise. And everything glorious and
magnificent and supreme that we achieved was a rational fidelity to that
principle.

Individual rights is the basis of my work. Individual vs. statism.
This is the unending battle of the human condition. Communism, Nazism
and now Shariah. There is no individual soul under Islam. And the
Shariah is diametrically opposed to freedom.

Please read the rest.

Robert Spencer, Steven Bannon and Larry Solov of Breitbart

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ChristianForIsrael

11 years ago

Pamela, it is glorious to see you there, though, “Uninvited” in a sense. The “Uninvited” indeed!
What you say, that America never developed its own philosophy and simply took its position without a “formal” philosophical background is basically true.
And I am sure that you, Pamela, agree beyond that challenge, that we all know, or should know, that the Constitutional principles that guided us both outwardly and innately were as close to a secular version of God handing down the 10 Commandments as is possible on earth.
It was primarily, historically, Judeo-Christian spiritual values that gave the inner heart and soul and spirit to all that America conducted in governance and outward secular conduct. This was not simply an America that made up the rules as it went along.
The rules that guided the morality of America came from our weekly morally refreshing sessions in churches and synagogues. It was the old stories of God’s dealing with all of his people that informed us on Monday through Friday as to how we would choose to conduct public life.
Yes, America developed an exceptional liberty that will never be equaled by any nation ever, but, that liberty was nurtured by a benign active faith.
Even the most secular of us, even the non-practicing Jew or Christian, owed our inner compasses to the greater nurturing faiths of believers.
For that reason, a return to the Liberties that the Founders intended, must necessarily return to embrace our Faiths that point to all goodness and humility and courage from above.

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Bloodless Coup

11 years ago

As an adovcate for free speech Pamela Geller should have treated Orly Taitz with much more respect. Pamela Geller, I am completely ashamed of you. I think you should make an amends to Orly Taitz, she has always been a big supporter of Atlas Shrugs. Don’t be a gutless taitor towards those who question Obama’s birth certificate. You are better than that.

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Always On Watch

11 years ago

Go, Pamela!
I am with you in spirit.

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Joe Six-Pack

11 years ago

Thanks for all the hard work. Keep it up!!
One of the biggest problems we Americans face is that it is politically advantageous for our political leaders and parties to undermine American values and principals. The Democrat party in particular. President Obama is just the most recent one in the path toward that objective. After all, his major goal is “Fundamental CHANGE of America”. I guess our country does not measure up. Funny, history tells me otherwise. However, it is easier to justify spending other people’s money if you can point to some flaw or other that needs ‘fixing’.

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BUTSeriously

11 years ago

The vast media of Islamic, European and now coming to America have exposed themselves as a true enemy of humanity – they are playing the Nazi’s VE VERE NOT AVARE syndrome and you can’t wake up those pretending to be asleep.
These fake, suspicious media bandits should have been relentlessly kicking up firestorms many years ago against ‘Killing Jews [or anyone else] is worhip to God.’ How they ever stretched to kicking Pameller Geller instead is an existential shock.

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Charles

11 years ago

I appreciate Ms. Taitz relentless effort to bring light to this issue, but her intervention was inappropriate on Saturday, and that’s all that Pamela said. The Breitbart people offered to meet separately to answer Ms. Taitz’s specific question as to why Breitbart was silent about the issue. I don’t believe Ms. Taitz’s stayed for this later discussion with Breitbart’s people.
I disliked the Breitbart guy referring to this issue as the “birthers” because, at least to me, it sound patronizing and insulting, when in reality this is a very valid issue, although probably the truth will never come to light.
But choosing this venue to bring up the question was the wrong move. There was not enough time to deal with the issues already on the table. Two hours were not enough, and many of us left with many questions unasked for lack of time.
Ms. Taitz’s very valid issues should be brought up on a one on one basis with Breitbart people. They must have good reasons not to dive into it. But I believe Ms. Taitz’s cause and arguments are valid. I hope she continues her quest, and wish her success. I believe she is on the right track. Nevertheless, her intervention at “The Uninvited” was inappropriate.

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Dagny Taggart

11 years ago

I have to agree with Bloodless Coup. You know how much I respect your work, Pamela. And while I’ve never been a fan of Orly’s spearheading the argument I cannot comprehend why she was shut down re: the social security number issue which is wildly valid. Y’all reacted as if the matter was radioactive/toxic.
Very perplexed. Perhaps, as Charles wrote, it wasn’t the time or the place.

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Dagny Taggart

11 years ago

Hmm, my comment didn’t post. Will try again. Pamela, you know I have the utmost respect for all that you do. While I’ve never been a fan of O r ly spearheading much of anything (although I give her credit for tenacity) the SS# is an extraordinarily valid issue. Y’all reacted as if it was radioactive/toxic. Perhaps it wasn’t the proper venue, but it was the panel’s reaction that was stupifying.

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sharia observer

11 years ago

Bless you Pamela.
The enfeeblement and compromising of our elected representatives by Saudi Sharia money and influence is bad enough. Now we also have Obama and his pro-sharia appointments, eg Brennan, Holder, and their Muslim Brotherhood friends like Magid, Awad and Wahhaj, to contend with as Sharia continues to creep into our society and bully and dominate the narrative.
If America is to survive Islam’s attempt to criminalize criticism of Islam, i.e if our freedom of speech is to be protected from the OIC’s political, ideological assault, then our country may make it.
On that day, you and Robert Spencer, together with many champions of truth and liberty, will be a big part of the reasons America survived.
When in the history of the world ever did a free, well-informed people willingly submit to an absolute lie and fraudulent, fanatical evil the likes of Islam?
I stand with you and Robert and all freedom loving Americans. I say the future of America and the world must not belong to those who champion, lionize or legitimate the prophet of Islam.
SO

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