Pamela Geller Maligned Over Counter-Jihad Ads
By Gina Miller
RenewAmerica.com
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On Monday, I read a column at BarbWire.com by Pamela
Geller of the American
Freedom Defense Initiative. In it, she
reported on the insane backlash in New York against
her group's counter-jihad ad campaign that simply
tells the truth about this diabolical movement.
Elsewhere, on September 20th at Freedom Outpost, she
announced the ad campaign in her column, "New
AFDI Ad Campaign Exposes Truth about Islam & Jihad
that the Media & Government Ignore":
The series of six ads will run on 100 New York
City buses beginning next week. One key new ad
points up the uselessness of the distinction between
"moderate" and "extremist" Muslims, depicting two
photos of Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, a London-based
Muslim who pursued a career as a rap artist until he
turned to jihad and went to the Islamic State. The
first photo shows Abdel Bary as a rapper; the second
just before he beheaded
American journalist James Foley. Abdel
Bary's face is masked in the second photo, but
British intelligence has identified him as the
murderer of Foley. The ad bears the legend,
"Yesterday's moderate is today's headline."
Due to a request
from James Foley's parents, and out of
sympathy for their grief, the photograph in that ad
was changed to a different one with the barbaric
Bary holding someone else's severed head.
The ads are right on the money. They're simple,
common-sense declarations of the truth of what we
face with hell-born Muslim conquest around the
world. However, the deluded adherents to "political
correctness" among us refuse to tell the truth about
Islamic jihad, and instead, attack those of us who
do. Rather than acknowledge the dangerous reality we
face in demon-possessed Islamic drones who are
hell-bent on spreading the bloody cancer of Islam,
they revile the watchmen on the wall who warn of the
imminent threat of this evil movement.
In her column at BarbWire.com titled, "Jihad
Double Standard – How the Media is Paving Way for
Islamic Chaos in US Streets," she focuses
on a hit
piece in the New York Daily News in which
the dhimmi writer
blasted her and the ad campaign as "fomenting fear
and hate." The writer, Rajdeep Singh, who is a Sikh,
claims that the ads could threaten innocent Muslim
lives. I wonder if he thinks the ads are more
dangerous to innocent Muslims than their fellow
Muslims who are killing them by the thousands.
He attacks Ms. Geller personally, calling her
"obnoxious" and a "messenger of hatred," and
labeling the ads as "Islamophobic tripe" and
"troubling." He cites an anecdotal story of a Muslim
family who gave shelter to his grandparents in the
late 1940s in the India-Pakistan region. While it's
nice that his family received help from a Muslim
family almost seventy years ago, this in no way
negates the truth of Pamela Geller's ads that tell
it like it is about Islamic jihad in our nation and
world today.
Mr. Singh invokes the canard of the elusive
"moderate" Muslim in defending his disdain for
Geller and the ad campaign, as he writes:
There are fringe extremist groups in many
religious communities throughout the world. ISIS, Al
Qaeda and others are real threats to Americans. But
they constitute a tiny fraction of the total
population – which, in the case of Muslims, totals
up to 1 million in New York City and more than 1
billion globally.
Nor is it the case that moderate Muslims are failing
to condemn extremists. The devout Muslims I know are
disgusted with these groups.
By pandering to the lowest common denominator,
Geller is failing to acknowledge the devout Muslims
who are working full-time to combat extremism and
promote secular, pluralistic democracies in
Muslim-majority countries.
Where are these "devout Muslims" who are "working
full-time to combat extremism"? Where are they
working to "promote secular, pluralistic democracies
in Muslim-majority countries"? Maybe they're all
over the place, but they just don't get any press
coverage. Yeah, that must be it, because I've never
seen or heard from any of these "moderate, devout
Muslims" speaking against "extremist" Muslims. In
truth, what the Left calls "extremists" are simply
devout Muslims, Koran-thumpers, if you will, who
actually follow the teachings of their book.
As for his claim that the ads pander to the "lowest
common denominator," let's take a look at what
some of the ads say:
"In any war between the civilized man and the
savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.
Defeat jihad."
"Yesterday's moderate is today's headline. It's not
Islamophobia. It's Islamorealism."
"Hamas is ISIS. Hamas is Al-Qaeda. Hamas is
Boko-Haram. Hamas is CAIR in America. Jihad is
jihad."
"Christians are becoming extinct everywhere in the
Middle East except Israel. 2/3rds of all US foreign
aid goes to Islamic countries. End US aid to Islamic
countries."
These ads are what the Daily News writer claims
pander to the lowest common denominator. I would bet
that the vast majority of people reading this fully
agree with those ads. Does that mean we are the
lowest common denominator? No. We're just realists
who are not swayed by the senseless tyranny of
"political correctness."
We see what the Muslims are doing in our nation and
around the world. We see the Muslim sympathizer in
the White House (who has allowed Muslim
Brotherhood operatives into his administration)
downplay Islamic terror in our nation, mislabeling
the jihadi terror attack at Fort Hood as "workplace
violence." We have seen Barack Obama (or whatever
his name is) arm and finance Islamists in the Middle
East. We have seen him leave our southern border
wide open to illegal aliens and Muslim terrorists.
We have seen him allow our Ambassador and others to
be murdered by Islamists in Benghazi. We have seen
him purge our military and intelligence communities
of rational reference to Islamic dangers and forbid
them from monitoring mosques – all this while he
decimates our military and floods it with "out and
proud" homosexual deviants.
We have watched Obama set the Middle East on fire
for the Islamists he favors over the ones he
doesn't. I have no idea which Islamists are the
"good guys" in his warped mind, nor do I care. What
little stability there was over there when he took
office has been obliterated by his evil
machinations.
Sentient Americans see Islam for what it is: a
satanic, militant-political ideology couched in a
religion. It is a disease on the face of the earth,
and everywhere it exists it brings brutal, violent
oppression. Telling the truth about this evil belief
system is not "hatred" or "Islamophobia." Pamela
Geller's ads are spot-on, and we need many more like
her. Nowadays, wherever real truth is told, haters
of truth will always spit and hiss – and lie. Such
is the case with the ones who are blasting her ads
as they slavishly bow to the tenets of Muslim Sharia
law that stand in stark opposition to everything
that the United States of America represents.
© Gina Miller