Posted on 05/04/2015 2:23:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
A pair of would-be jihadists learned a very important lesson over the weekend – in America, we shoot back.
The men, believed to be radicalized roommates from Phoenix, tried to launch an attack on a gathering of freedom-lovers in of all places – the Lone Star State. It would turn out to be a most unfortunate decision.
The cold hard reality is that we don’t know how many more radicalized Muslims might be living among us – waiting to wage jihad.
It turned out those practicing their First Amendment rights were protected by those practicing their Second Amendment rights. Within a matter of moments – the jihadists were quickly dispatched to the Hereafter thanks to a straight-shooting traffic cop.
Authorities have yet to categorize it as a terrorist attack, but one thing is clear. Police thwarted what could have been an unprecedented massacre on American soil.
The intended target was a contest for cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, hosted by the American Freedom Defense Initiative. Among the speakers were AFDI president Pamela Geller and Geert Wilders, a Dutch lawmaker known for his criticism of radical Islam.
Now, you may not agree with Miss Geller's tactics. Some might accuse her of poking a bear – and that may very well be true.
But Miss Geller does have Constitutional right to poke the bear. She does have a Constitutional right to free speech. And those who disagree with her have a Constitutional right to disagree.
But they do not have a constitutional right to gun down those who might say or write or draw something that disparages the Prophet Muhammad.
And we should be alarmed at the growing number of pundits and talking heads who are blaming Miss Geller for the attempted terrorist attack.
“Free speech aside, why would anyone do something as provocative as hosting a ‘Muhammad drawing contest,’” New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi tweeted.
And yet, the New York Times had no problems with the “Piss Christ” art exhibit – that’s the one where a crucifix was submerged in a jar of urine. The website Newsbusters called the Times’ hypocrisy a “double-standard.”
“Freedom of speech does not extend to insulting the Messenger Muhammad (saw) & hence provoking the anger of ¼ of the world,” tweeted British political activist Anjem Choudary.
He went on to call Geller and Wilders and the American Freedom Defense Initiative “enemies of Islam and Muslims.”
Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich rightly called Choudary an “enemy to human kind.” Amen, sister.
The idea that Ms. Geller is somehow responsible for what happened is absurd.
“The gunmen are fighting against freedom of speech,” she told "Fox & Friends." “The First Amendment protects all speech – not just ideas that we like – but most particularly political speech. Who would decide what is good and what is forbidden? The Islamic State? Muslim Brotherhood groups? This is the key issue of our age.”
Aside from a brief mention in a press gaggle, the White House has been curiously quiet about the attack. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal called on the president to publicly condemn “radical Islam.”
“The truth of the matter is that even though President Obama will not admit it – Islam has a problem, and it is called radical Islam,” Jindal said in a statement. “And the proponents of radical Islam hate our First Amendment, they hate freedom of speech and they want to destroy it and us.”
Jindal also called on Muslim leaders to condemn the violence. He said it’s time for them to step up and “declare that perpetrators of such violence are the enemy, they are wrong, and they will not be rewarded in the afterlife.”
The cold hard reality is that we don’t know how many more radicalized Muslims might be living among us – waiting to wage jihad. Wilders sounded the alarm last week in Washington, D.C.
“I’m warning America,” he said. “Don’t think that what’s happening in Europe today, will not happen in America tomorrow – because it will.”
And it did.
We do in most places anyway.
Don’t mess with Texas. Unless it’s on an Army base where everyone is disarmed.
Maybe they just never should have messed with Texas!
Once upon a time, two terrorists came to Texas. Bang Bang. Enjoy your stay.
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“why would anyone do something as provocative as hosting a ‘Muhammad drawing contest,’”
Because when politeness is interpreted as submission, the only viable option is belligerence.
Colloquially dubbed “the Streisand effect”.
The attendees of the contest were in fact, disarmed.
Somebodies dogma just got run over by some karma. The kind of gun control I like, one that leaves the crazy Muzzy dead. Another minion of Mad Moe in the hole!
These were not terror pros. If they had been well trained and supplied, something would have gone boom. Shooting back won’t stop that.
This is becoming scarier by the day, as our alleged commander in chief gives away the store.
Poke fun at Mohammmy, two jihadists dead. I’d say that was a successful event.
Why all the worry about provoking the Islamists.. they are ALREADY provoked. They provoked themselves.
It was the same during the Cold War. Be nice to the Soviets else you'll play into the hands of the hard-liners, there will be war, and it will be our fault.
Reagan wasn't nice and we won.
Now we need a Reagan who will destroy the Islamists.
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*I* would love to be the first person on *my* block to arrange for a 9th Century knuckledragging jihadi to meet his virgins.
I believe the limits of FREEDOM OF SPEECH were redrawn when Falwell lost his case against Larry Flint in the SCOTUS.
Flint was known for printing the most vile anti-Christian cartoons in his magazine Hustler, and printed a vile add about Falwell.
The Mohammed cartoons were mild compared to those Flint published.
I’m afraid this is only the beginning of the threats coming into action by the muzzie bastards. Perhaps they would stay away if there were real pigs at those “art festivals”. bullets greased with hog lard, etc. I would consider that Free Speech.
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