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Charging On With Clarity and Distinction

"It's dangerous because increasingly we are abridging our freedoms so as not to offend savages. The fact that we have to spend upwards of $50,000 in security speaks to how dangerously in trouble freedom of speech is in this country [United States]."
"And then we have to get on these news shows and somehow we are -- those that are targeted, those that were going to be slaughtered -- are the ones who get attacked [by the media]."
"[The only] moderate Muslim is a secular Muslim. [When Muslims] pray five times a day ... they're cursing Christians and Jews five times a day."
"The mosque-ing of the workplace where you're imposing prayer times on union contracts, non-Muslim workers have to lengthen their day .... These demands are a way of imposing Islam on a secular society."
"They say I'm a racist, Islamophobic, anti-Muslim bigot. I'm anti-jihad. ... I don't see how anyone could say I'm anti-Muslim. I love Muslims."
"We decided to have a cartoon contest to show we would not kowtow to violent intimidation and allow the freedom of speech to be overwhelmed by thugs and bullies."
"The Islamic jihadis are determined to suppress our freedom of speech violently. They struck in Paris and Copenhagen recently, and now in Texas. This incident shows how much needed our event really was. The freedom of speech is under violent assault here in our nation. The question now before us is -- will we stand and defend it, or bow to violence, thuggery, and savagery?"
Pamela Geller, blogger [Atlas Shrugs], anti-Islamist jihad activist

She is adamant, forceful, determined to force the issue that no one -- or at least very few, for fear of being labelled as she has been, racist and bigoted -- wants to face head on; the gradual Islamization of Western society, wherever large numbers of Muslims migrate throughout Europe, North America, Oceania and elsewhere. Muslims organize themselves in assertive blocs of entitlement to demand that the laws of any nation that they settle in also recognize Sharia law and make room for Islamic values and customs.

In so doing they fail to recognize the laws of the country they have migrated to, they insist on the superiority of their religion over all others, they agitate for recognition of Islamic values over the cultural and social mores of the welcoming society, and in the process they actively dilute the prevailing culture, denigrating its values as inferior to those that Muslims hold dear. As though that isn't quite enough, they also bring with them their vitriolic hatred for Jews in very particular, leading to a surging anti-Semitism.

So if Pamela Geller sounds like a drama-queen, a hysteric over her alarm in reflection of what she sees happening around her, she can be forgiven, as far as many, though not all of her countrymen and women are concerned. She is recognized as one of the most aggressive, perhaps shrillest voices in the United States against what she terms the Islamization of America. President of both the American Freedom Defense Initiative and the Stop Islamization of America activist groups, her voice has the power to motivate others to speak in their own defence.

Her goal is to have enough Americans sit up and take notice and take her accusations as seriously as they deserve to be taken. And to create a backlash against the very real potential of America turning out a mirror image of France, of Germany, of the Netherlands, of Norway, of Sweden, and in fact pretty well most of Europe, with its too-late groundswell of popular dissatisfaction with the dissolution of their nations' social culture and religious direction.

As to her claim that Muslims "are cursing Christians and Jews five times a day", as incredible as that sounds, it is perfectly true. Any Muslim who attends daily prayers does just that. Here's the word from Canada's Tarek Fatah, himself a considerable, influential and dogged critic of violent Islamism who has faced death threats, but continues to write about the infiltration of Islamism in Canadian society and his fears over its eventual actualization into something approximating an Islamist Canada:

"One of the reasons I avoid attending Friday congregations at mosques is a specific ritual prayer uttered by most Mosque Imams just prior to the formal Friday prayer we Muslims refer to as the Juma’a. In the prayer, the clerics ask Allah among other things to give “victory to Muslims over the ‘Qawm al-Kafirun’ the Arabic phrase that lumps all non-Muslims, that is Jews, Hindus, Christians, Atheists, Buddhists and Sikhs into one. I was hoping this particular prayer would not be uttered on the day Islamist Jihadi Terrorists killed four Jews in Paris in the name of Islam and just two days after the Charlie Hebdo massacre."              Tarek Fatah, January 10, 2015

Pamela Geller was herself prodded to action when in the shadow of Ground Zero after the Islamist attack of 9/11 in New York, the proposal was put forward for the construction of a huge mosque/social centre complex; an act of incredible arrogance which its funders declared to be innocent of any intention to give offence. In the wake of the Paris Charlie Hebdo atrocity and the concomitant attack on the Jewish supermarket, she again rose to the occasion.

Deciding to hold a Mohammad cartoon contest in Texas. And putting in place appropriate security, correctly judging that some crazed Islamist would decide to express 'disappointment' at the deliberate slur against the Prophet whose image replication is strictly forbidden. And so Elton Simpson, a convert to Islam, and his companion Nadir Soofi, both wearing body armour, arrived at the contest venue suitably armed to make their disapproval known. Aiming at a security guard they were themselves killed by an armed policeman.

Islamic State has since boasted that the attack, albeit foiled, was their work. And Pamela Geller's critics have a field day deploring her actions and activities, her claims and her warnings: "She's relentlessly shrill and coarse in her broad-brush denunciations of Islam and makes preposterous claims", the Southern Poverty Law Centre states. They have added her name to its list of "hate group" leaders, speaking of her as the "anti-Muslim movement's most visible and flamboyant figurehead".

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Labels: Conflict, Islamism, Threats, United States

posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, May 06, 2015