Posted on 06/06/2015 7:49:31 AM PDT by markomalley
Political activist Pamela Geller was the target of Boston jihadi Usaamah Abdullah Rahim who sources say plotted to behead her, but when he decided to attack the Boston Police instead, he was fatally shot by authorities Wednesday.
Geller, a controversial figure in the free speech movement, set off a series of debates over the years relating to stories about Islamists and their allies in the United States. From fighting the proposed Ground Zero mosque to proposing metro ads critical of Islam to Muhammad art exhibits, Pam Gellar has been an effective free speech activist for a number of years. The Daily Caller sent Geller questions via e-mail Thursday and she returned the following responses:
TheDC: How do you think the left has changed on the subject of free speech?
GELLER: From the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, it has been a long descent — or perhaps a long revelation of the left’s authoritarianism and hypocrisy. The left is not interested in free speech or free discourse. It wants to crush all dissent.
TheDC: You mentioned there would be more Muhammad art oriented exhibits in the near future. Is there an estimate as to how many are currently scheduled or are in the planning process?
GELLER: We have several new initiatives in defense of free speech that we will be announcing soon.
TheDC: Some critics of these art exhibits say the works showing images of Muhammad are “offensive” to Muslims. Is it the fact that just an image of Muhammad (whether with ill will or good intent) was created that’s the offense? Can you explain this?
GELLER: Yes, Islamic law forbids making images of Muhammad, but this prohibition was often ignored in Islamic history, particularly in medieval Persia. The fury over Muhammad cartoons today is an attempt to force the free world to accept Sharia blasphemy laws, and establish the precedent that Western law and mores must give way to Sharia.<-- Mobile_Inline -->
TheDC: Has there been any positive reaction from your efforts from Muslims around the world? Please describe the most interesting responses.
GELLER: Many Muslims and ex-Muslims, those who live both openly and secretly, have written me with immense and touching gratitude and relief, thrilled that someone is at last exposing the violence, hatred and hypocrisy that deformed their lives, and about which they finally woke up and from which they were finally able to free themselves.
TheDC: Do you wear body armor? If yes, how often?
GELLER: For obvious reasons, I do not comment on my security measures.
TheDC: How often do you receive threats? Is it mostly via internet, social media?
GELLER: Quite frequently, usually via email and often also via comments on my website.
TheDC: Have you received the threats any other way outside of the internet? Please describe.
GELLER: The FBI and police have informed me of several threats, as well as of the chatter last week that turned out to be the Boston jihadis’ plot.
TheDC: What about close friends and family? Have they been threatened as a result of their association to you?
GELLER: For obvious reasons, I have no comment on this.
TheDC: What about lawsuits? Are there any pending against you as a result of the art exhibits? Have you filed any 1st amendment lawsuits yourself?
GELLER: No lawsuits are pending against me. How could there be? It is not illegal under American law to show Muhammad. And we took every precaution to protect those who attended our Garland event — and our precautions worked. Yes, we have filed many First Amendment lawsuits regarding various transit authorities’ refusal to run our ads — and we have won.
TheDC: How did you initially find out you were the target of this jihadist who wanted to behead you? Did authorities inform you before the media reported it?
GELLER: I was first informed by CNN, when they asked me for comment about the plot against me. Authorities had told me in general terms, but not specifically.
TheDC: How supportive has law enforcement been of your cause?
GELLER: They have been professional, thorough, and helpful.
But I thought dissent was patriotic?! That’s what they said when Bush was president.
Geller stands up for women’s right more than Hillary and all the liberals combined. Most are willing to look the other way on how muslims treat women.
What is fair for the left is a crime for the right. You should know that by now!
Yep!
Someone needs to play a loop of Shrillary - shrieking about dissent being patriotic and slap it on EVERYTHING.
A new form of crime has been invented, and the prosecution proceeds along some very unusual channels. This is what happens when there is an attempt to incorporate Shari’ah law into the existing state and national codes of law.
Dissent is no longer patriotic. Shortly, it may not even be legal.
In many parts of the world, one is guilty until proven innocent.
In very recent years, this has come to include the territory once known as “the United States of America”. And the charges can be brought on hearsay alone, no further evidence needed. Any required “Facts” or “Evidence” may be manufactured at a later date.
The bottom line will be that non-muslims are "offensive" to muslims.
What’s wrong with being offensive to muslims? Muslims want to kill us and take over our country, and we are not supposed to offend them? Who made that ignorant rule?
Wasn’t it the left that taught us that the desecration of religious symbols was not only free speech, but ‘art’? Would they now argue to protect a crucifix or a photograph of the Blessed Mother? Who are they really afraid of-the religious right, as they claim to be, or the Jihadi’s?
Diversity is the promotion of chaos by the destruction of Good.
>http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2014/07/diversity-destruction.html<
...Diversity is an anti-religion, and anti-ideology, a nepotism which promotes everything except one’s own family.
Diversity therefore equals the destruction of any and all religions and of all positive ideologies.
Because Diversity can only be destructive: whatever IS is insufficiently or inexactly diverse.
Whatever IS must therefore be destroyed in order to make it MORE Diverse.
And there is no conceivable or measurable end to it. Yesterday’s Diversity is today’s intolerable lack of Diversity.
Diversity is the destruction of Good; and it is the destruction of all types of Good - however defined. All are chewed up and spat out by Diversity.
Diversity is the promotion of chaos by the destruction of Good; and then there-naming of chaos as Good.
I love this woman.
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Has the IRS gone after her yet? I assume our thugs are faster than ISIS....
Geller for House Speaker.
Finally someone who doesn’t need to buy a clue.
For Marxists dissent is patriotic in a concentration camp or in front of a firing squad.
Pray America is waking
This woman has balls.
Geller has the ability to verbally b-slap her critics who tend to be apologists for Mohammedanists.
In other words, they're hoping that if they're supportive of the savages, the savages will come for them last.
Mark
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