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Pamela Geller’s Critics Are Proving Her Point
NRO ^ | David French

Posted on 05/08/2015 10:17:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

et’s be clear: The great freak-out over Pamela Geller’s “draw Muhammad” contest isn’t about love for Islam or for robust and respectful religious pluralism. Indeed, many of those expressing anguish over blasphemy against Islam show no such concern over even the most vile attacks on the Christian faith. Beyond that, they’re among the leaders in movements designed to banish religious liberty — including Muslim religious liberty — to the margins of American life. Instead, the fury against Pamela Geller is motivated mostly by fear — by the understanding that there are indeed many, many Muslims who believe that blasphemy should be punished with death, and who put that belief into practice. It’s motivated by the fear that our alliances with even “friendly” Muslim states and “allied” Muslim militias are so fragile that something so insignificant as a cartoon would drive them either to neutrality or straight into the arms of ISIS.

That’s why even the military brass will do something so unusual as call a fringe pastor of a tiny little church to beg him not to post a YouTube video. That’s why the president of the United States — ostensibly the most powerful man in the world — will personally appeal to that same pastor not to burn a Koran. They know that hundreds of millions of Muslims are not “moderate” by any reasonable definition of that word, and they will,in fact, allow themselves to be provoked by even the most insignificant and small-scale act of religious satire or defiance. After all, there are Muslim communities that will gladly burn Christians alive to punish even rumored blasphemy.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: geller; islam; muslims; pamelageller
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

Jade Helm has nothing to do with military bases shutting down gates and raising the security threat level.


21 posted on 05/08/2015 10:53:53 AM PDT by Marie Antoinette (:)
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To: alloysteel

Exactly. Today it’s a cartoon offense, tomorrow it’ll be some other blasphemy. Only the politically correct are too stupid to see what’s happening to our country.

If the bully wants your lunch money, it’s easier just to pay him than to stand up and kick him in the gonads. We are being bullied by the ROP. Some of us understand what sharia is, and some don’t.

Every time we comply with the whims of the ROP, we are submitting to their will. That’s sharia.

One other proof that the PC crowd is spineless will be that as the ISIS threat on US soil grows, so will the PC crowd’s demands that we not offend ROP followers.

And that’s a very dangerous attitude, just look across the ocean to the UK so see why.


22 posted on 05/08/2015 10:55:21 AM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: alloysteel
Wow. You hit it square on the head.

I agree, let's make them even ANGRIER. Let's draw them out and kill them on spot. I'm still anticipating another large mass attack. Hope they don't, but it will awake some Americans that they are no longer to be tolerated.

23 posted on 05/08/2015 10:59:22 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: DesertRhino

Agreed! I’ll never forget the few hours of sanity we had on 9/11, in which the networks carried video of ROP followers celebrating gleefully in the streets all over the world as the twin towers fell.

These are many of the same people our government seems to think are “allies”.

Within days the networks conspicuously quit broadcasting such inflammatory truths.


24 posted on 05/08/2015 10:59:38 AM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: elcid1970
" Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev warned, “Following a thermonuclear war, the survivors will envy the dead”."

Didn't he also say, "We will bury you within" as in slow steady slope to socialism and then communism? Well, the prick was right. Here we are knee deep in socialism, next step...

25 posted on 05/08/2015 11:05:29 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: RoosterRedux

Is the lesson we are to draw (pun intended) from all this that when Christians and Jews start killing some of those who go out of their way to offend our religious sensibilities their cohorts will stop doing it and warn others not to?


26 posted on 05/08/2015 11:05:42 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: RoosterRedux

I can understand if, for tactical reasons, a military leader or a negotiator or a pro American foreign leader, might keep their fingers crossed or even request that nothing the inflames the enemy happens during a critical time frame. However the strategic goal has to be a society where cartoons are not censored, women can dress in any polite manner but not under a burka, where freedom applies to both genders and all classes. What we’re getting is creeping Sharia Law.


27 posted on 05/08/2015 11:14:47 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: A Navy Vet

Well.....Nikita K. said “We will bury you!” to Richard Nixon at the Kitchen Debate, meaning Soviet economic power would eventually dwarf that of the West (snicker).

He later said during his U.S. visit, “Your grandchildren will grow up under communism” meaning on a Soviet model under Soviet domination. Well, Khrushchev is dead and so is the Soviet Union.

I believe your point is closer to that of Pogo:

“We have met the enemy, and he is us.”

Abraham Lincoln observed that as safe as the United States was from foreign aggression, its most pernicious enemies were those boring from within.


28 posted on 05/08/2015 11:15:33 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am a free man, O Muslim. There's nothing you can do about it.")
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To: zipper

“The “moderate” Muslims who celebrated the downing of the twin towers include that 1 percent, and a much larger block of them too.”

There isn’t such a thing as a “moderate muslim.” There are just those who are crazy enough to kill someone for their beliefs and those who haven’t the balls to do it, but stand around clapping when someone else does. ALL of them need to be deported.


29 posted on 05/08/2015 11:15:36 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: RoosterRedux

Of course. They can’t have it both ways. You can’t claim violent Muslims have nothing to do with Islam and support banning criticism of Islam because it’s inevitable that there will be violence. It makes no sense.

The left are just cowards. They’d never apply this sensitivity toward Christianity. Although they know the Democrats won’t get the Christian vote, they want to appeal to Muslims as though they care, just to get Democrat’s votes.

They don’t see the conflict with Muslims and the LGBT crowd being under the same tent. At some point they’re gonna have a problem.


30 posted on 05/08/2015 11:16:32 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: RoosterRedux

These people are “on the wrong side of history”.
Something is going to happen and it is because of their cowardly stance. We should be rounding up Muslims and deporting them.


31 posted on 05/08/2015 11:17:15 AM PDT by right way right
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To: RoosterRedux

32 posted on 05/08/2015 11:28:50 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: elcid1970
ELCID

DAY OF WRATH by William Forstchen is a very disturbing book too.

33 posted on 05/08/2015 11:29:46 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Liberals cheer “brave” homosexuals for coming out and announcing their desired perversion when everyone knows they are absolutely safe in doing so. Yet when the opportunity to show real bravery and publicize the cartoons of Mohammed, they cringe in the corner and lash out at anyone who does.


34 posted on 05/08/2015 11:37:03 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A free society canÂ’t let the parameters of its speech be set by murderous extremists.)
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To: pallis

“Islam is an ignorant, intolerant, evil religion, and it deserves our scorn”.
I think you meant ignorant, intolerant, evil CULT of MURDERERS didn’t you?


35 posted on 05/08/2015 11:57:39 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: vette6387
There isn’t such a thing as a “moderate muslim.” There are just those who are crazy enough to kill someone for their beliefs and those who haven’t the balls to do it, but stand around clapping when someone else does. ALL of them need to be deported.

That's why I put quotation marks around the word 'moderate'.

It's not a constitutional act to deport someone because of their religion, but we can deport them for their actions if they're not already citizens. And we can place restrictions on where our immigrants come from, as we have done throughout American history (with the notable exception of most of the last 50 years). But most of all our immigrants must assimilate, and be limited to a number that can be assimilated without societal upheaval.

36 posted on 05/08/2015 12:08:44 PM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: fuzzylogic

“They don’t see the conflict with Muslims and the LGBT crowd being under the same tent. At some point they’re gonna have a problem.”

Because both are working to undermine and overthrow the foundations of Western society. They actually believe that they will convert Muslims to socialists, when they need to, because their triumph is inevitable.

Yes they are that self deceiving.


37 posted on 05/08/2015 12:49:10 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: GeronL

Why not. They blamed a video on the Benghazi terror attack.


38 posted on 05/08/2015 1:24:53 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: zipper

“But most of all our immigrants must assimilate, and be limited to a number that can be assimilated without societal upheaval.”

Unfortunately, until Obama is gone, he’s going to do everything in his power to flood the country with the world’s crap, with special emphasis on Mexican crap and Muslim crap. And white folks better get a clue and start having children or they are going to be just a footnote in the world’s history. The two groups mentioned are inveterate procreators, Mexicans because the are illiterate and don’t know any better and Muslims because they know that it’s what it takes to take over.


39 posted on 05/08/2015 1:42:07 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: A Navy Vet
Are they really peaceful Muslims? Is a hand drawing all it takes to turn a head scarf into a time bomb?
40 posted on 05/08/2015 3:27:59 PM PDT by conservativeimage (Own your challenges without blaming others for them. Bide your time and hold out hope.)
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