Posted on 05/05/2015 4:46:16 AM PDT by lowbridge
Americans will defend to the death — and literally had to — Pamela Geller’s right to disseminate images of the Prophet Muhammad. The First Amendment applies even to irresponsible provocateurs.
A Geller-organized event in Texas over the weekend included inviting artists to draw images of Muhammad, an act that has provoked deadly attacks by some Islamists.
In explaining her rationale, Geller pointed to an Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest that drew nearly 1,000 entries, saying “We need to make a similar show of strength of what is right.” Which extended to a drawing of Muhammad anally impaled on a pencil up through his mouth.
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She has set out not to just risk violence, but to provoke it . Pamela Geller n’est pas Charlie Hebdo.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
What these fools at the NY Daily News either can’t or don’t want to recognize is that unless they are willing to convert and conform to the tenants of Dark Ages Islam, they will be provoking these Islamic zealots just as much as any Muhammad cartoon.
Liberals trying to blame Americans for exercising their God-given rights are no different then blaming a women who was raped for dressing “provocatively.”
BTW how is defending the Islamic Terrorism here by the left not Treason? Its lending aid and comfort to the enemy...
Have there been similar editorials in response to works of art that denigrate Christianity?
That street runs both ways.
They are already saying it in Sweden. Young women wearing Western clothes should be berated and even raped. The government just hushes it up.
Remember what we all learned in grade school?
Q: How should you deal with bullies?
A: Stand up to them.
Freedom. Use it or lose it.
EVERY woman looks great in a burqa!
The First Amendment and free speech is the enemy of the left. Everything that stands in their way of controlling the narrative must be eliminated.
It’s a sorry state of affairs in America when defending our freedom of speech is “playing with fire.”
In Muslim enclaves, they feel entirely safe taunting us.
In our enclaves, we should feel the same way.
The fact that this event was taunting hair-trigger, violent Muslims is testimony to the fact that we have too many here.
In Muslim countries, they don’t worry about an enraged Westerner of Texan blowing them away when they burn the flag or spew their hate in celebratory mobs.
Thanks for posting that as I was wondering which drawing had won the prize.
Bull hockey. Anyone who didn’t want to see Mohammed cartoons was free to not attend the event. Nothing was forced on anybody. It was not provocation. Terror is what it is.
Funny, Geller is “playing with fire” by holding an event where some get offended by other people creating pictures that violate their religious beliefs.
But same-sex couples aren’t “playing with fire” by forcing/coercing some to actually violate their own religious beliefs by creating wedding cakes.
Right.
That is not what they teach anymore...
I knew what kind of article this was going to be when I read this “Prophet Muhammad” crap. This Muhammad guy is not my “prophet,” and I will not address him as such. By all historical accounts, he was a pretty unsavory killer, with a taste for little girls.
If the media actually did its job and let people know what Muslims actually believe and practice, there’d be no need for Geller’s provocative stunts to demonstrate it.
She is forcing them to have to deal with the issues they want to ignore, and they want to ignore it in large part because it shines a light on their own cowardice.
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