Cartoonists are Controversial and Murderers are Moderate

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Daniel Greenfield skewers the fashionable moral inversion of our time (and especially of this week).

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“Cartoonists are Controversial and Murderers are Moderate,” by Daniel Greenfield, May 8, 2015:

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Controversial, intolerant and provocative. Mainstream media outlets broke out these three words to describe the “Draw the Prophet” contest, the American Freedom Defense Initiative and Pamela Geller.

While the police were still checking cars for explosives and attendees waited to be released, CNN called AFDI, rather than the terrorists who attacked a cartoon contest, “intolerant.” Time dubbed the group “controversial”. The Washington Post called the contest, “provocative.”

Many media outlets relied on the expert opinion of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a multi-million dollar mail order scam disguised as a civil rights group, which had listed AFDI as a hate group. Also listed as hate groups were a number of single author blogs, including mine, a brand of gun oil and a bar sign.

The bar sign, which hangs outside a bar seven miles outside Pittsburgh, appears to be made out of metal and plastic. It is reportedly unaware that it is a hate group and has made no plans to take over America.

The SPLC’s inability to conduct even the most elementary fact checking did not stop news networks from inviting its talking head on to suggest that AFDI got “the response that they — in a sense — they are seeking.” Neither CNN nor MSNBC were impolitic enough to mention that no AFDI supporter had used its materials to plan a killing spree, while at least one of SPLC’s supporters had done just that.

But being “controversial” and “provocative” has nothing to do with who is doing the shooting. It’s a media signal that the target shouldn’t be sympathized with. The Family Research Council, which was shot up by a killer using the SPLC’s hate map, is invariably dubbed “intolerant”. The SPLC, which targeted it, is however a “respected civil rights group” which provides maps to respected civil rights gunmen.

A contest in which Bosch Fawstin, an ex-Muslim, drew a cartoon of a genocidal warlord is “controversial” and “provocative”, while the MSA, which has invited Sheikh Khalid Yasin, who has inspired a number of terrorists, including apparently one of the Mohammed contest attackers, is a legitimate organization that is only criticized by controversial, intolerant and provocative Islamophobes.

Khalid Yasin has held such controversial and provocative views as claiming that the US created AIDS, that gays should be stoned to death and that women should be beaten. But the mosques and MSAs that he has appeared at have not been described as controversial, intolerant and provocative for inviting him.

Elton Simpson, the first gunman, attended the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix. The mosque was listed as being controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood’s North American Islamic Trust front group.

The Muslim Brotherhood holds such controversial and provocative views as “waging Jihad” against American infidels, “raising a Jihadi generation that pursues death” and “destroying the Western civilization from within”. Despite these extremely provocative and intolerant views, the Muslim Brotherhood is usually described by the media as a “moderate” group.

The Brotherhood’s American arm believes in launching a “Grand Jihad” to Islamize America. Its final phase calls for “Seizing power to establish their Islamic Nation” in the United State.

Some might say this is a slightly more controversial activity than drawing cartoons of a dead warlord.

The Islamic Community Center of Phoenix featured an appearance by Lauren Booth, a convert to Islam employed by Iran, who has been photographed with the leader of Hamas, and holds such controversial and provocative views, as the Boston Marathon bombing being faked and attacks on Jews being justified as “a frustrated backlash.”

Some might say Booth’s views are controversial, provocative and intolerant. And that the gunman’s mosque was intolerant for inviting her. But don’t expect the media to call out terrorist intolerance.

Booth came as part of a fundraising effort for the Muslim Legal Fund of America, which funded the defense for Islamic Jihad boss Sami al-Arian and aided some of the terrorists involved in the provocative and controversial Fort Dix terror plot to “kill as many soldiers as possible”. If the two Mohammed cartoon gunmen had survived, the Muslim Legal Fund of America might be having Lauren Booth spout Jewish conspiracies to fundraise on their behalf.

But if you believe the media, cartoonists are more controversial than killers. A former Muslim sketching a cartoon of Mohammed is bigoted, but justifying attacks on Jews is moderate. Plotting to overthrow the United States and replace it with an Islamic theocracy is right up the alley of your local civil rights group, but a cartoon contest threatens the nation and all of creation by bringing down the wrath of men who spent their time at moderate and Muslim organizations which only occasionally support terrorism.

Cartoons can be provocative, but the only people inspired to kill over them, are killers. No one took a shot at Gary “Punching Up” Trudeau, despite decades of mocking conservatives. None of the assorted arts projects that involve defiling and mocking the sacred symbols of Christianity and Judaism resulted in gunmen in body armor trying to storm a cartoon competition. And yet it keeps happening with Islam.

Satire exposes sociopaths and sociopathic ideologies. And it’s the very attack on the “controversial” and “provocative” contest that shows why exposing them is so important.

Elton Simpson had already been on the radar of the FBI. He should have been in jail, but Judge Mary H. Murguia, a Clinton appointee who has been bandied about as a possible Obama Supreme Court nominee, chose to believe a claim by his public defender that when he was taped talking about Jihad, it might have meant “an internal struggle to maintain faith”, instead of killing non-Muslims.

Simpson had said that Allah loves those who fight non-Muslims, that Jihadists go to paradise and stated, “I’m tellin’ you man. We gonna make it to the battlefield… it’s time to roll.”

But that was just too ambiguous for Judge Murguia, who wrote, “It is true that the Defendant had expressed sympathy and admiration for individuals who “fight” non-Muslims as well as his belief in the establishment of Shariah law, all over the world including in Somalia. What precisely was meant by “fighting” whenever he discussed it, however, was not clear.”

“Neither was what the Defendant meant when he stated he wanted to get to the ‘battlefield’ in Somalia,” she added.

If nothing else, events like these help clarify the question of just what “fighting” non-Muslims involves, and whether it’s an internal struggle to maintain faith or an external struggle waged with assault rifles.

Satire helps expose the idiocy and absurdity of our betters, whether it’s Gary Trudeau or Judge Murguia. Every act of Islamic terror discredits them and their dishonest worldview even further. And they know it.

We cannot fight Islamic terrorism until we deal with it and we cannot deal with it as long as we are burdened by a political establishment that frantically censors any mention of its existence or its agenda.

The two gunmen did not attack the cartoon event simply because they were offended, but because they believed that their religion gave them a mandate to impose Islamic law on Americans. Until we deal with this supremacist reality, any effort to fight Islamic terrorists will be futile and will ultimately fail.

The Mohammed cartoons are so vital because they expose the theocracy at the heart of Islamic terrorism. When Muslim terrorists attack cartoonists, they’re not fighting our foreign policy; they are killing and dying to impose the foreign policy of the Muslim Brotherhood and its numerous daughter groups, such as Al Qaeda, Hamas and ISIS, on us.

The controversial and provocative cartoonists go into battle with pencils in their hands. The terrorists come with body armor and assault rifles. This clash is what real political dissent looks like.

The cartoonists believe in the controversial, intolerant and provocative idea that America should not be a theocracy. But the only people who should be provoked by that provocative idea are the Jihadists who want to impose a theocracy on America and the useful idiots lying and denying on their behalf.

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A Patriot
A Patriot
8 years ago
Petrucio14
Petrucio14
8 years ago

The ‘wise Latina’, Judge Murguia decided that the clear words of a jihadist couldn’t possibly mean what they so obviously did. No wonder Muslims think they can manipulate American freedoms to forge our chains. These quislings must be removed from positions of power. Their cowardice aids and abets the homicidal Muslims among us.

kookooracharabioso
kookooracharabioso
8 years ago
Reply to  Petrucio14

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/700694

Yes Here Come the Judge, leader in the National Council of Racists certainly has been busy hasn’t she? Besides supporting illegal invasion and intentional bankruptcy corollary, what else has she been doing to burn this bitch down, bleed the beast, or however it is named this week?

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DelorisAOsborn
8 years ago

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Dennis
Dennis
8 years ago

As usual, your commentary is right on. The most obvious fact is that Islam, as practiced by those that are called Extremists, although some of us would simply refer to them as faithful followers, HAVE DECLARED WAR on the non-Muslim free world. That is the reality. Yet, many of the free world’s spokes people ignore those facts and instead claim that conduct which actively responds to the madness and warlike conduct of those who would cavalierly cut off our heads, are referred to as people who are of “bad behavior,” because Islam should never be insulted. Something is terribly wrong with this scenario. When we were at war with the Nazis and Fascists and Japanese war machine, would anyone conclude that nothing could or should be done to insult those who were our enemies or could become players in those wars. I think not. I keep repeating that we are seeing history repeat itself, and that our seeming refusal to appropriately strike back appears to me to be the failure to act of COWARDS. No reasonable person should be in favor of war, but when it has been declared against you, one would expect conduct that would not only defend oneself, but would destroy the enemy. That is simple logic, and I cannot believe that logic can be disputed. While I cannot claim to be a military expert, I believe that this country now possesses the hardware to take the fight to the enemy, before their armies are on our shores. I do not think that the enemy out there is leaving this country with any choice, and I am saddened by those who ignore what is actually happening, and wrongly accuse those who recognize the coming catastrophic events and are willing to speak out. Pam is one of those people and our leaders need to follow her lead.

mtmla
mtmla
8 years ago
Reply to  Dennis

The problem: Islam hides under the cloak of religion even though its a totalitarian political ideology. We have freedom of religion…without really defining what a particulat religion calls for- in the case of islam , world domination and death of the non believers. ISIS follows the teaching and example of the prophet, and the politicians don’t know about it or pretend not to know out of convenience. The ME has oil and tons of $ and lots of influence.This country has been innundated by mahommedans and we have over 3k mosques, breeding grounds of jihad. The country has over 35 jihad training camps waiting for the call. If you see what ISIS is doing, and a few jihadis have done in this country, just imagine what they’ll do when they get the word to act. Obama is bringing in 800 somalis / month on top of all the ones that are already here. Obama said he was going to fundamentally change America, and he was voted twice.No matter what the muslims do, there are tons of people excusing them, that the violent ones don’t represent islam, a religion of peace. CAIR, a branch of the muslim brotherhood is in the WH and is calling the shots. We are in for a lot of problem. Hopefully the next president will have enough resolve to change the direction this country is going. We need first of all to stop the islamic invasion.

Demsci
Demsci
8 years ago
Reply to  mtmla

//”The ME has oil”//

Yes, but at least on that score, things are looking up, now that America has ramped up it’s own (shale) gas and oil production which in turn brought the price of oil, and so ME-Islamic influence crashing down!

Darrell Standing
Darrell Standing
8 years ago

http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1671/4700/original.jpg?w=320&h

There they are marching for tollllllerance … no wait … that never ever happened!!!?

Demsci
Demsci
8 years ago

I heartily laughed seeing this one, Darrell!

And eh …Why should Muslims march against terrorism???

When Islam and they, who love Islam more than anything
and want it to win, and be free from ridicule, denigration and criticism,

(while Muslims themselves remain free TO ridicule, denigrate and criticize all other religions, which they do plenty).

Sarcastically meant.

bill reitzes
bill reitzes
8 years ago

Awesome.

Darrell Standing
Darrell Standing
8 years ago
JacktheRipper
JacktheRipper
8 years ago

In this blog Pam captured the essential “everything” that so troubles me about these bad actors for islam and the dhimmi media that aid their cause. If the media would even take an impartial stance, but no, she’s the bigot, the hater, the islamophobe, the intolerant one, the racist, an extremist, because she has the audacity to condemn antisemitism, jihad murder, and other crimes that any sane person would condemn.

Anyone that condemns Pam, who clearly is for the good, brands their self as a hater of good morals and decent humanity. The media aid the terrorists and radical islam with this undue criticism. By condemning Pam they grant a kind of legitimacy to the terrorists and their agenda. If Pam can be criticized in her humanitarian efforts, then the other side–the jihad side–must have a POV worth respecting, and this provides a kind of safe haven for islam’s evil intent. But religious fanatics that kill for an ideology that is no better than nazi supremacy are not worthy of respect. They deserve only condemnation and death. This is what the dhimmi media protect.

Take care Pamela Geller.

CatherineSKempton
CatherineSKempton
8 years ago
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Darrell Standing
Darrell Standing
8 years ago

http://cdn1.eaglerising.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/no-moderate-islam.jpg

This little sweetie (actually evil) … at least shouts out the truth about Islam!!!

mtmla
mtmla
8 years ago

Today I heard somebody on CNN calling Pam Geller “odious” and other descriptive adjectives, but no similar criticism of the 2 would be assassins.

mtmla
mtmla
8 years ago

Christians have been persecuted and slaughtered in the Middle East by ISIS, Al Qaida, Boko Haram in Africa, and in Pakistan. Did they offend the muslims by drawing cartoons of the prophet ? Oh, I get it! They deserved to be killed for being Christians…

Theodorick C
Theodorick C
8 years ago

Massacre Memory Lane…
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Theodorick C
Theodorick C
8 years ago

Massacre Memory Lane…
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putra agung
putra agung
8 years ago
Reply to  Theodorick C

hi dog..
dont post my prophet muhammad like this..

Theodorick C
Theodorick C
8 years ago
Reply to  putra agung

Putra, why would you want to have a “prophet” who tells you that you need to hate and fight the 5 billion non-Muslims of the world who don’t want anything to do with the hate-religion of Islam? Why do you think someone who spent ten years raiding, pillaging, and making war on all the communities in the Hijaz who wouldn’t submit to him, deserves to be called a “prophet?” What benefit do you get from being a “slave of Allah” – the make-believe god who is just as non-existent as every other god invented by con artist “prophets?” Just wondering.

putra agung
putra agung
8 years ago
Reply to  Theodorick C

you try to read history , you try to read your book . whether there is a history that says that our prophet slaughter of a people . surely the answer is no . Islam never fight a people . if the people themselves do not start it . religion is not to debate. religion is the creator of human affairs . so I ask you not to harass our religion including our prophet .

Walter Sieruk
Walter Sieruk
8 years ago

That those Muslim men in Pakistan actually view those two violent jihad minded thugs and that A.F.D.I. event as “martyrs” is both sad and tragic for the Pakistan Muslim men For this show just how Islam can warp the mind and soul of people too the extreme so that in their twisted cognition those men in the above top picture think that those two men of violence were in the right. Those Muslim men in Pakistan need help. For the reality is that those two jihad Muslims who came to that cartoon event with murderous intentions brought their own death on themselves by their own terrible actions. Therefore they are not “martyrs.” To put in another way , by their own violence they brought disaster down on themselves. As the Bible reads “may disaster hunt down men of violence.” Psalm 140:11. [K.J.V.]

Theodorick C
Theodorick C
8 years ago

After “Prophet” Muhammad moved to Medina,
he drove the Jewish Banu Qaynuga out of their homes.
The Banu Qaynuga did not apologize.
Then Muhammad drove the Jewish Banu al-Nadir
out of their homes.
The Banu al-Nadir did not apologize.
Then Muhammad slaughtered the men of the Jewish
Banu Qurayza, and took the women and children as slaves.
The women did not apologize.

1400 years later, the notorious Jewess Pamela Geller
caused two attempted mass-murderers to be
gunned down in their jihadist prime.
Pamela Geller refuses to apologize.

Does anyone see a pattern here?
WHY do Jewish people find it so hard to apologize?
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bill reitzes
bill reitzes
8 years ago
Reply to  Theodorick C

And,, one thing that you forgot to say, is that Mohammed STOLE the Jewish lands in Medina.
Please remind this fact, to every progressive and Muslim, who falsely accuses Israel, of land theft of Palestinian lands.
Islam was started on land that was stolen from the Jews.

putra agung
putra agung
8 years ago

together is not necessarily the same . although different we can be together . This is my country Indonesia . differences unite us . unlike in other countries .
“ALLAH IS THE GREATEST”

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