Posted on 02/24/2009 7:21:37 AM PST by Shellybenoit
If you are a regular reader of YWL, you will notice that I mention Pamela Geller often. She is not only a good friend but a GREAT blogger.There are people in the world who see a wrong in the world, give a quick "oh that's Sad" and get on with their lives. Then their are People who see a wrong and go all out to right a wrong. Pamela aka the Famous Atlas Shrugs is the second kind of person.
Aqsa Parvez, a Toronto teenager, was strangled to death by her father in December2007 because she refused to wear a hijab. This was a classic dis-Honor Killing. A year later, Pamela read an article talking about Aqsa being buried in an unmarked grave. Pamela sprung into action. She raised money (including her own) to give the murdered girl a Stone by her grave. So people would remember Aqsa, whose life was snuffed out, way too young, by her daddy.
There is the old saying, "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished," Pamela's efforts fit right in with that saying. Last week, Chris Selley of the National Post BASHED her efforts and her motivation. Selly basically described Geller as one of those right-wing, Anti-Muslim crazies whose efforts to memorialize Aqsa was motivated by a quest for Anti-Muslim publicity. Knowing Pamela as I do, having talked to her about Aqsa, it is clear that Selley must have forgotten to take his last few brain booster shots. Ms. Geller is motivated by nothing but her relentless desire to correct wrong done a girl who was killed twice, once by her father, and once by the rest of her family who are trying to blot out her memory.
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