“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.

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.

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.

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Infidel Task Force

11 years ago

This is absolutley outstanding. This commentary puts into words, what we have been trying to tell the liberal left.
I will post a link to this commentary on the ITF.

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Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog)

11 years ago

Thanks Pamela!

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Xavier

11 years ago

Well written and accurate. Much of this could be used, with a few word substitutions, to explain the issues that exist between Conservatives and minorities – and the fact that liberals who see racism everywhere are the true racists.
Congrats, Pam, and you have the wholehearted support of thousands who recognize the truth you speak.

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Mike Lumish

11 years ago

Pamela, thank you for featuring this peace at Atlas Shrugs.
You are an inspiration and I appreciate your work.
If you could link to my blog, Israel Thrives, that would be greatly appreciated.
http://israel-thrives.blogspot.com/
Keep up the good fight.
You probably have considerably more friends than you realize.
Peace to you, please, dear lady.
Mike L.

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Chervil

11 years ago

Well done Mr Lumish.

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mcd

11 years ago

The liberal left isn’t listening. they have an agenda and it doesn’t include changing the their way of thinking.

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poetcomic1

11 years ago

Clear as Rocky Mountain spring water. Every word irrefutable. Does it matter? Of course not. The very idea of ‘Truth’ has been dumped by our ‘progressive elites’ – there are only ‘competing narratives’.

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ML/NJ

11 years ago

Really sorry that this Conservative Jew was unabable to drive down to Edison on Sunday. (I was in Kentucky.)

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Rudy Bowen

11 years ago

You keep doing what you are doing.
You are reaching more people, and only by winning hearts and minds can we avert a religious war that will make the twentieth century look like a picnic.
I can’t do much, but I will certainly keep pointing seekers for the truth to this site.

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Pussy's Bow

11 years ago

I shared this article in my blog.
http://pussysbow.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/not-all-muslims-are-devious-jihadis-this-is-somehow-a-surprise-to-progressive-leftists/

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Perfected democrat

11 years ago

“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.”
A qualifier like that, which should have began with “Of course, the reason that…”, along with adequate patter using the words sustainability, climate change and greed, plus a slur against Fox News for good measure, might still get you through a lib-left cocktail party unscathed…

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zaba

11 years ago

Mike wrote:
For myself, I have tended to be a rather reluctant supporter of Geller.
I am not so familiar with the body of her work that I know that her critics are entirely wrong.
Mike, I don’t agree w/ your reasoning.
Although checking out Pam’s blog is also a good move,(you might even be surprised by the movies!), you’ve eloquently laid out the essence of her work: Supporting Freedom and Liberty while exposing the evil that is islam.
Yup, you hit the main points.
Everything else…. is commentary.

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mjazzguitar

11 years ago

In AA we are supposed to make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Christians are also exhorted to examine themselves, and I am sure that Judaism also has a tradition of self awareness. Likewise the meditations of Buddhists and Hindus.
But does anyone seriously believe that the butcher of islam and his god meant that jihad is referencing the same type of introspection?

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InfidelForLife

11 years ago

A very good piece indeed. The question is: will any “progressive” actually be able to comprehend it? But it does show, Pamela, that you are doing excellent work and that even some in the media (which is exceptionally stupid in Europe) are starting to notice and to THINK.
And that’s a good thing.

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Rita

11 years ago

Your enemies, dear Pamela, are the ones who also have gang-raped words like: “Human Rights” and “Progressive”. The latter should, ethymologically, never be used in the same sentence as “the Left”, let alone, next to it.
And, before I even read this, I had posted this (with one of my favourite photos of you):
http://littlenotesfromparis.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/in-defense-of-pamela-geller.html

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logdon

11 years ago

Algemeiner is actually one of the good guys and source of many truths around Islam.
In a Europe mesmerised in equal parts by multicultural pc and Arab money, finding an msm media source which actually tells the truth about Islam is as likely as a wine tasting in Mecca.
They, like another, The Local are wising up to the fact that something is rotten, not only in Denmark but right across the continent.
His slight caveat is neither here nor there in the grand scheme.

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Brabosh.com

11 years ago

Go on with your fine work Pamela! It maybe hurts some infidels and that should be like that.
Flemisch Friends of Israel
(Vlaamse Vrienden van Israël)
http://brabosh.com
Antwerp/Belgium

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