[ April 19, 2024 ]
My colleague Robert Spencer explains what’s at stake:
“Je Suis Pamela Geller,” by Robert Spencer, FrontPage Mag, May 8, 2015:
Story continues below advertisementI was standing next to Pamela Geller just after our American Freedom Defense Initiative/Jihad Watch Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest ended last Sunday in Garland, Texas when one of our security team ran in and told us that there had been a shooting outside. As the audience was led to another area inside the building and the outside was swept for bombs and additional jihadis, Geller and I were hurried to a safe room. It was the last time since then that Pamela Geller has been safe.
The Islamic State quickly issued a communiqué that included this:
The attack by the Islamic State in America is only the beginning of our efforts to establish a wiliyah [actually wilayah, administrative district] in the heart of our enemy. Our aim was the khanzeer [pig] Pamela Geller and to show her that we don’t care what land she hides in or what sky shields her; we will send all our Lions to achieve her slaughter. This will heal the hearts of our brothers and disperse the ones behind her. To those who protect her: this will be your only warning of housing this woman and her circus show. Everyone who houses her events, gives her a platform to spill her filth are legitimate targets. We have been watching closely who was present at this event and the shooter of our brothers. We knew that the target was protected. Our intention was to show how easy we give our lives for the Sake of Allah.
On top of that, instead of rallying to her defense and to that of the freedom of speech, the mainstream media, both on the Left and on the Right, has spent the week excoriating Pamela Geller for daring to “provoke” the poor jihadis, as if the two Muslim gunmen who showed up at our event would have become fiercely patriotic stockbrokers if only we hadn’t shown those cartoons.
It is therefore clear that if, God forbid, anything does happen to Pamela Geller, the talking heads will look soulfully into the cameras and say, Of course we are shocked…Of course we condemn….but…wellllll…she had it coming…she should have submitted to Sharia blasphemy restrictions like the rest of us…
The reality is that if the gunmen were “provoked” by the Muhammad cartoons, they would have been “provoked” by something else. What had the Jews in the Hyper Cacher supermarket in January done to “provoke” the Muslims? They dared to be Jews. What had the people in the Lindt Chocolat Cafe in Australia done to “provoke” the Muslims? Dared to be non-Muslims.
People who say our cartoon contest deliberately tried to provoke a violent reaction are under the apparent delusion that if we abide by Muhammad Atta’s advice to the passengers on his doomed plane on September 11, 2001, all will be well. Atta told the passengers, “Stay quiet and you’ll be OK.”
They weren’t.
The jihadis are already “provoked.” As I show in my forthcoming book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS, they were already planning and preparing for massive jihad attacks in the United States long before our cartoon show was ever considered. No amount of submission on our part is going to change that. In fact, the more we submit to violent intimidation, the more violent intimidation we are going to get. Why should the jihadis abandon a winning formula?
The world rallied to proclaim “Je suis Charlie” after the massacre of Muhammad cartoonists in Paris in January. But when those jihadis targeted our Muhammad cartoon event last Sunday, few were saying “Je suis Pamela Geller.” What’s the difference? The Charlie Hebdo cartoonists were reliably Leftist, while Geller is identified with the Right. And now it is clear: the Leftist intelligentsia would rather see the freedom of speech restricted, and Sharia censorship imposed, rather than stand with someone whose opinions they find unacceptable.
That really isn’t any surprise. The Left in America is increasingly authoritarian, intolerant, and opposed to the freedom of speech. Leftist thinkers speak only to each other, dismissing challenges from the Right with ad hominem attacks or ignoring them altogether. It would be easy for those who live in that echo chamber to think of the Garland jihadi gunmen, Ibrahim Simpson and Nadir Soofi, as ideological kin: assassins rather than character assassins, but with the same goal in mind.
Those who understand, however, that the freedom of speech, and free society in general, cannot possibly survive the imposition of censorship to avoid offending a group that reacts with murderous violence to being offended, are indeed saying Je Suis Pamela Geller today. If the free world ever remembers that obeying someone who will kill you if you disobey only reinforces your slavery, it will owe her a debt of gratitude of awesome proportions.
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50 Comments
8 years ago
Great news with the Tories winning in Britain! Guess the native Brits didn’t take kindly to Mileband threatening to make “islamophobia” a criminal offense. I hope this is a preview of 2016 in US.
8 years ago
Reply to
sandra schmidt
Brits and Israelis finally saw the light! The writing is on the wall. Only dhimmis, and arrogant fools can excuse the unexcsable!
8 years ago
Reply to
sandra schmidt
The Tories are just as clueless about islam as Labour. Just like here in the US the Democrats and Republicans alike are both totally ignorant about islam.
Cameron has done nothing to stop the muslim rape gangs in the UK. He is reaching out to islamic leaders to try and stop jihad. Well, the islamic leaders are the ones responsible for the jihad. He is trying to get help from the snake that is biting him. He believes that there is radical islam and then there is islam. Well, he is wrong. There is just islam. He is as stupid as the rest of them.
8 years ago
Reply to
vlparker
Correct, from the other side of the pond. Wait till you see the new
legal restrictions on OUR resistance to Jihad. Vote Ukip.
8 years ago
Reply to
vlparker
At least he is not threatening to make “islamophobia” an aggravated crime like Miliband did…
8 years ago
Reply to
sandra schmidt
Sandra, David Cameron’s government barred Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer from coming to the UK. For UKIP’s four million voters – including myself – there is little to celebrate.
8 years ago
Reply to
Sean
Sorry, I was not aware that David Cameron was behind that. If I were a Brit, I would send that video of Pamela and Choudary on Fox News (where he threatened her with death) to some of the more nationalistic Tory MPs (if there are any) and let them know that now that the conservatives do not have to kowtow to form a government, that it is time to clean up the country before the only tourists who wish to come are Pakis and ISIS members.
In fact, I am going to start sending links of the interview to the various tourist promo organizations and letting them know that we Americans expect the Brits to get people like Choudary off the street before we vacation there. Take care, Sean.
8 years ago
Reply to
sandra schmidt
Thanks Sandra.
Choudary radicalized the jihadis who carried out the murder of Lee Rigby; he should have been deported years ago. Or maybe he could be left alone with Pamela’s security team for a few minutes?
OT After posting my first comment I went for a walk to sample the cultural delights of the area in which I live and on the way back I saw a punch-up between men of a certain ethnic persuasion. Multiculturalism in all its glory just over the road from my flat. I’ll say no more as I may be required to make a statement to the police. If I were a younger man I’d leave the UK asap.
8 years ago
Reply to
Sean
Sorry to hear you have to see those beasties fighting in the streets. I have a couple of British friends who immigrated to the states (many years ago) and were very happy to have done so. They felt there was more opportunity and less classism here. Both did very well for themselves and are now happily retired.
Have you considered moving to the country? Some of my ancestors who came over to America in the 1700s were from a place called Wigglesworth. I believe it is in North Yorkshire. I have researched it online and it looks like a beautiful little village. Do you know if it has been ruined yet by the followers of the pedophile?
8 years ago
Every American needs to see which party of this death threat obama has sided with.
The “president” has sided with the enemies of our First Amendment and those foreign thugs who directly, publicly threatened the life of an American citizen.
Every member of Congress and the judiciary who enable this traitor are likewise enemies of the United States and will face their own Nuremberg trials with him.
8 years ago
Their target is all of us. United we stand divided we fall.
8 years ago
Reply to
Countryflowers
8 years ago
Robert is spot on again….
8 years ago
I’m beyond myself with what’s happening. How can people like O’Reilly and Ingraham take that position? What’s wrong with people?
8 years ago
Reply to
Charles Martel
They’re afraid. This is nothing new. When the Nazis were coming to power in Germany many people were afraid, and so they appeased and collaborated with the enemy. That is what you are seeing from O’Reilly, Ingraham, McCallum and van Susteren.
8 years ago
Reply to
Charles Martel
NOt many are aware that All the main media get their direction from the CIA;;including FOX News
8 years ago
I have replied to the arrogant IS communiqué on another site. It went like this:
“Dear IS:
Don’t bother to try to save face, your goose is cooked.
Maybe you ordered the attack on Ms. Geller, maybe not, for the only time you don’t lie is when your mouth is shut tight. Usually though, one will harp on a resounding success, not on a dismal failure.
Anyway, if you thought your attempt would terrorize us, as usual you are sadly mistaken. On the contrary, we are glad to have given you a little demonstration of what we can do when we are determined to protect our lives, our faith, our freedom and our property.
As to Ms. Geller, she doesn’t “hide” in any land, she is home among us Americans, in America. And before you can “achieve her slaughter”, you would have to start it first.
And as to your “young lions” (who looked rather like hopeless asses in this instance), “eager to give us their bodies in plain view”, it’s not that we particularly relish the spectacle, but if you insist, fine, by all means let them come, the more of them join their predecessors in the netherworld, the better. “
Ms. Geller had already been insulted and her life threatened many times before. If I am not mistaken at least one fatwa has already been issued against her. The only salient fact that emerges from this latest incident is the incredible baseness of the media collabos. All of us in our right minds knew what to expect from them: condemnation of Ms. Geller and clamor for more appeasement toward the jihadis, but this time they really have outdone themselves. They would love to see the ancient blasphemy laws that were rescinded more than 2 centuries ago in Europe revived in America – on behalf of islam alone, of course. They are truly and definitely beyond contempt.
This is America. If muslims can’t take an “offense” without feeling entitled to create a blood bath, as the rest of the civilized population does, tough luck, then they should return to their dar al islam and leave us in peace in our own land. Because we Americans will not suffer this indignity without opposing it and defending our lives, our faith, our freedom and our property any which way we see fit.
8 years ago
Done
8 years ago
Everyone of us is at risk. That is why ALL of us need to conceal carry. That is why ALL of us need to monitor our local mosques, watch our neighborhoods, watch our schools and businesses – watch every single Muslim that comes across our paths.
8 years ago
Reply to
Cate
We also ALL need to enter a drawing in the next contest, whether we have any drawing ability or not. It’s not about winning the contest, it’s about telling islam to go to hell.
8 years ago
..and what did Ilan Halimi do to ‘ provoke’ being tortured, burned and ultimately murdered by a boat load of apartment dwelling Muslims..tortured, by the way, for three fucking weeks!? Did the Rabbis little daughter at the Toulouse school provoke the Algerian Muslim to grab her hair with one hand and blow her brains out with a 45 in the other?
The kapo site, mondoweiss.net, has a provocative open letter to Pam by Kate Miranda. Pam, you should reply.
8 years ago
Reply to
Sifter
Just posted this in reply to a comment at your link:
How absurd. It is Muslims who “foment hatred of Muslims.”
There’s only one people on Earth detonating their shoes, underwear,
intestines, and breasts in efforts to maim and murder “unbelievers.”
If Muslims stop raping, enslaving, and slaughtering non-Muslims who
refuse the “invitation” to convert, then — poof! — no more “hatred.” – See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/05/letter-pamela-geller/comment-page-1#comment-766598
8 years ago
Reply to
Santiago Matamoros
..and of course your post is not showing as of 3 pm.. Not that they censor or anything 🙂
8 years ago
Reply to
Sifter
Here’s my reply to Miranda:
Katie Miranda’s a decent illustrator but a clumsy and murderous liar.
Ad hominems, straw men, outright lies … there’s nothing of substance to her offensive, provocative, racist, and hate-mongering cartoon.
Even if her imam’s a funny guy, even if most Muslims don’t follow Shari’a strictly, that has nothing to do with what Islam’s leaders declare. The genocidal pedophile Muhammad commanded, “kill the pagans wherever you find them” (Qur’an 9:5); most Muslims aren’t actively trying to do so.
As for Geller’s implied hypocrisy, Blacks are not “monkeys,” and the Holocaust actually occurred (funny how easily those examples come to your mind); that’s why no decent person would be involved with either of those.
But Muhammad did murder those who criticized him — just ask Asma bint Marwan and Abu Afak — and his followers do the same, which Miranda’s coreligionists prove regularly.
And why wouldn’t any honest person oppose both The 99 and Al-Jazeera? They’re propaganda pieces for the most vile and depraved ideology in the history of Man (and that’s saying something).
So, is it the genocidal anti-Semitism, the child sex slavery, or the religious and gender apartheid that attracts Katie to Islam?
“The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter […]” (Qur’an 5:33).
Islam’s great exegete Ibn Kathir says of this verse: “‘Wage war’ mentioned here means, oppose and contradict, and it includes disbelief, blocking roads and spreading fear in the fairways. Mischief in the land refers to various types of evil.”
So, Muhammad requires execution, crucifixion, or cutting off hands and feet from opposite sides for “disbelief.”
That’s what Miranda’s obfuscating for, and that’s what Geller — and every decent human being — opposes.
8 years ago
Reply to
Santiago Matamoros
Looks like my comments there are on an automatic filter now, so I left this:
Cowards silence truth.
Just like Muhammad.
8 years ago
Well said Robert, thank you to one and all.
8 years ago
If all of us who are determined to preserve our most precious possession, the freedom of speech, were to post a link to a “Prophet” Muhammad cartoon everyday, they would become so ubiquitous that it would become obvious even to the Mohammedans that the idea of stopping the cartooning with jihad attacks was a lost cause. Free Speech lovers outnumber the Mohammedans by far. Let’s take advantage of it and put an end to this barbaric lunacy.
8 years ago
No! I am Spartacus!
8 years ago
We are all pam!
8 years ago
Just thinking, the above top picture of those four good people who are dedicated to the right cause in the right way have shown courageous fortitude and strong conviction towards letting the public know and understand the truth about this vicious enemy we have. So the four people in the above picture who stand together for what is right brings to mind that the Bible reads in Amos 3:3. ” Can two walk together ,except they be agreed ?” [K.J.V.]
8 years ago
Je ne suis pas Pam Geller.
8 years ago
Amen, and, Amen!
8 years ago
Extraordinarily important, powerful and true words here by Mr. Spencer for all of America and western civilization. The courage of Ms. Geller and Mr. Spencer courage is remarkable. We must all find a way to unite and support them and other stalwarts of Democracy and Freedom!
8 years ago
For some reason, it is only after reading this article that I started to wonder what my tough, quiet old father would have thought of this situation with the islamic state and their supporters. My father was a Staff Sergeant in the Marines who fought throughout the Pacific and finally at Iwo Jima in 1945. He taught me how to shoot a rifle, and how to care for knives, but had no instructions about fighting for any kind of social causes. His only remarks about the war had to do with taking care of his fellow soldiers, nothing more. In any conversation about politics, he had little to say. I can visualize what his reaction would be at the announcement by the islamic state that they were sending their zombies to kill anyone in his general area. He would just laugh a little. There wouldn’t have been any question about what he would do if confronted. He might say something about “mowing them down”.
I have some tough old co-workers in the casino biz who kind of remind me of him.
I also see some of him in Pamela and Robert.
8 years ago
“Provocation” aside, I understand that one of the jihadis was already on a no-fly list, so
he would have performed jihad anywhere – it just happened to be on this occasion.
Stand strong Pamela!
By the way, I like this “circus” idea. If you guys have future events, please do call some of it the Freedom Circus. Magic acts of democracy and acrobatic feats of freedom for the world’s pleasure!! I mean, you already have to juggle the idiocies of the media, so why not make it a part of all Freedom Fests?
Look forward to it! 🙂
8 years ago
You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, “There is a price we will not pay.” “There is a point beyond which they must not advance.” …You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.
8 years ago
Shame on America under Obama…The sooner he is taken down the better, for the sake of USA as a lighthouse of Freedom of speech and Democracy…we should threaten to nuke ISIS to make them scared not the other way round !!
8 years ago
Mosque are not churchs. Islam is not a religion! islam Is a political system wrapped around a pedophile’s plagiarized materials from several sources and from imagination
during drunken stupor. Goals of the islamofascist movement, which
encompasses all mullahs, al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim
Brotherhood, and many others, is to promote a political ideology that
seeks to subjugate all the world’s peoples, by physical force,
under the supreme governing authority of islamofascist law, in every
area of life and thought. The islamofascist goal is to enforce
submission in body and mind—on pain of death. When considering
taqiyya and kitman, one realizes that there is only one outcome
between islam and infidels and that is a fight to death.
