Pamela Geller, WND Column: Rewarding Muslim thuggery in Nassau County

Months after Muslim supremacists used their public office to strong-arm a synagogue into canceling a talk by a human rights activist (me), nothing has changed. Islamic supremacists should be stripped of their power to impose sharia blasphemy restrictions. Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano has a lot to answer for. He took the craven and cowardly way out.

Photo: Free Speech rally calling for Habeeb Ahmed’s ouster. Hundreds rallied for his ouster.

DEFENDING THE WEST
Rewarding thuggery in Nassau County
Exclusive: Pamela Geller exposes ‘forcible suppression of freedom of speech’

The county executive of Long Island’s Nassau County, Ed Mangano, was sworn in for his second term last week. And he continues to tolerate and reward a massive injustice, by keeping Habeeb Ahmed on the Nassau County Commission on Human Rights.

Last April, Habeeb Ahmed strong-armed a Long Island synagogue into silencing free speech and enforcing the Shariah by canceling my scheduled speech there. It is always a very sad day for freedom-loving peoples when fascist tactics trump free speech. Leftist goons, pushed and prodded by Islamic supremacist Habeeb Ahmed and his co-conspirators, threatened a march on the shul (among other things) on the day I had been scheduled to speak, which was a Sunday. Imagine how terrorized the Sunday school children would be. What was outrageous was that this Islamic supremacist would be telling a synagogue that a fellow Jew couldn’t speak.

Rabbi Yoseph Geisinsky of Chabad of Great Neck invited me to speak at his synagogue instead, and I addressed to an overflow crowd there – but that didn’t make Ahmed’s smear campaign and attempt to silence me forcibly any less outrageous. Ahmed’s conduct was so far out of bounds that the Nassau County Attorney’s office opened an investigation to determine whether he “misused his title” in his thuggish campaign against free speech and the truth about Islam and jihad.

He certainly seems to have done so. He organized a coordinated leftist/Muslim campaign to intimidate Great Neck synagogue officials (read these emails). Throughout this campaign, Habeeb Ahmed identified himself in his emails as an official of the Nassau County Human Rights Commission. He used the power of his position deploy a small coterie of leftists and Islamic supremacists in a covert effort to strong-arm the shul. Ahmed and his accomplices ordered their minions to make calls and pressure the synagogue leaders to cancel a proud Jew scheduled to speak at their synagogue (more here).

Pamela Geller’s commitment to freedom from jihad and Shariah shines forth in her books – featured at the WND Superstore

Then he said that he didn’t mean to imply by identifying himself as an official of the Human Rights Commission that his attempt to get me banned was an official HRC activity. But the implication was clear. Not that I believe him, but if he really didn’t mean to violate any laws and was only using his title “for identification purposes only,” ignorance of the law is no excuse.

As a result of this egregious violation of the public trust, the investigation was opened. But instead of removing this thug from office, Ahmed remains on the Nassau County Commission on Human Rights. He is one of four Muslims on that board (out of a total of 12 commissioners), along with Board Chairman Zahid Syed and Dr. Usman Khan M.D. and Mohammed Z.A. Siddiqui. No wonder Ahmed was exonerated of wrongdoing in getting my talk canceled.

Why are there so many Muslims – fully a third of the board? Is a third of the population of Nassau County Muslim? Where is the Jew? The Greek? The Thai? Why are Muslims so overrepresented?

Read the rest here.

The Truth Must be Told

Your contribution supports independent journalism

Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.

Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.

Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.

Please contribute here.

or

Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.

• $25.00 here
• $50.00 here
• $75.00 here
• $100.00 here
• $250.00 here