“Pamela Geller: The Bête Noire of Progressive-Left Jewry”

Here is a brilliantly argued defense of my work, and I am very honored and grateful to Mike Lumish of Algemeiner for writing it. So few in the media take any time to examine the truth behind the smears that the left and Islamic supremacists endlessly repeat.

This is a superb piece, but note also that Lumish says he is a "reluctant supporter of Pamela Geller." He writes, "The reason that I find myself a reluctant
supporter of Geller is because I am not so familiar with the body of her
work that I know that her critics are entirely wrong." He loves my ad and yet is reluctant to support me wholeheartedly, because he unconsciously accepts the very demonization he decries. This shows how effective those smear tactics are — which is why the left constantly uses them.

"Pamela Geller: The Bête Noire of Progressive-Left Jewry" Mike Lumish, Algemeiner

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recently disinvited
to give a talk on the subject of Sharia at Great Neck Synagogue on Long
Island.  The reason for this is because progressives constantly tell
one another that Geller is a racist.  And if the progressive-left
despises Geller as a racist, no one on the planet despises Geller more
than progressive-left Jews.  Your average progressive Zionist, i.e.,
your average left-wing Jewish pro-Israel activist, despises Geller far
more than he or she despises even the most genocidal of Israel’s
enemies.  They quite literally loathe Geller more than they do Muhammed
Morsi, who has compared Jews to apes and pigs, and they hate her more
than Hamas which calls quite clearly for the genocide of the Jewish
people.

How is this possible?  It’s possible, although
still wrong-headed, for progressive-Zionists to despise Geller more
than even Hamas because they believe, and constantly tell one another,
that Geller is an “Islamophobe” that spreads hate speech toward Muslims.

David Wood has some words on the matter that I would recommend people give a listen to.

For myself, I have tended to be a rather reluctant supporter of Geller.

The reason that I find myself a reluctant
supporter of Geller is because I am not so familiar with the body of her
work that I know that her critics are entirely wrong.   What I do know
for certain is that there is nothing the least bit racist or bigoted in
the subway advertisements that her group, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, put up last year.

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There is nothing racist or bigoted or
“Islamophobic” about the sentiments in the above ad.  By “savage” she is
not referring to Muslims, in general, but to those within the Muslim
population who believe that they have a theological obligation to kill
Jews and to spread an Islamic caliphate across the planet.  She is
referring to the people who committed 9/11.  She is referring to the
people who slaughtered the Fogel family
and chopped the head off of their three month old baby daughter.  She
is referring to those imams in the mosques throughout the Middle East
who continually and perpetually call for the murder of the Jewish people
wherever we may be found.

Excuse me, but are those people not savages?

Furthermore, when Geller says “Defeat Jihad” she is obviously not referring to the tradition within Islam that Jihad
refers to the personal struggle for greater spirituality and relations
with the deity.  She is not referring to the notion currently being
spread in the United States, within a series of advertisments, that Jihad can refer to jogging or efforts at weight-loss.  Rather, she is referring to the the tradition within Islam that Jihad refers to Holy War – the kind with actual blood.  When the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad decided to name itself Islamic Jihad they were not thinking of prayer, nor the building of bridges through friendship, but of the blood of the infidels.

Ironically, and mister Wood points this out in
the video linked to above, it is not Pam Geller who is the bigot, but
her detractors who tend to be because they suggest, or imply, that
violent Jihadis represent all Muslims.  If Geller calls out the violent
Jihad, and her detractors claim that this is an insult to all of Islam,
and therefore an insult to all Muslims, this can only mean that her
detractors conflate Islam with the violent Jihad.

Now that truly is racist because it implies
that Muslims, in general, are no better than the worst terrorists in
Hamas, which is to suggest that Muslims are savages.

If Pamela Geller is a racist I have yet to see
the evidence.  What I see is a much maligned woman standing up to the
enemies of the Jewish people and to the enemies of the infidel west.
 What I also see are a whole bunch of moral cowards who defame this
woman even as they turn a blind eye to the rise of political Islam
throughout the Muslim Middle East.

The rise of political Islam during the Obama
administration may be the single most significant geo-political event in
world history since the demise of the Soviet Union.  The Muslim Middle
East is moving from a period of secular-authoritarian nationalism, as
exemplified by people such as Gamal Abdel Nasser, to a period of rising
theocratic-authoritarianism in the name of Islam.  This, it should be
emphasized, is not an improvement.  On the contrary.  While Hosni
Mubarack may have been a dictator he, at least, did not believe in some
Allah-given right to slaughter Jews and he did not set himself up as an
enemy of the United States and the west.

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This is what the Muslim Brotherhood has done and it is precisely what Geller opposes.

Of course, it should be something that anyone
who believes in secular democracy should oppose, but they don’t.
 Mainstream media throughout the United States and Europe largely
pussy-foot around political Islam despite the fact that it represents
everything that the secular west allegedly opposes.  Devotees of
political Islam (or “radical Islam” or “Islamism”) oppress women, hang
Gay people from cranes, and promises the slaughter of the Jewish people
and they do so in the name of Allah.  What’s not to like?

Ask Pam Geller, she’ll have some words.