Pamela Geller: A Response to My Critics—This Is a War

Time.com ^ | Pamela Geller

[RoosterRedux]

Some are saying I provoked this attack. But to kowtow to violent intimidation will only encourage more of it.

Sunday in Garland, Texas, a police officer was wounded in a battle that is part of a longstanding war: the war against the freedom of speech. Some people are blaming me for the Garland shooting — so I want to address that here.

The shooting happened at my American Freedom Defense Initiative Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest, when two Islamic jihadists armed with rifles and explosives drove up to the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland and attempted to gain entry to our event, which was just ending. We were aware of the risk and spent thousands of dollars on security — and it paid off. The jihadis at our free speech event were not able to achieve their objective of replicating the massacre at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine last January — and to go it one better in carnage. They were not able to kill anyone. We provided enormous security, in concert with the superb Garland police department. The men who took the aspiring killers down may have saved hundreds of lives.

And make no mistake: If it weren’t for the free-speech conference, these jihadis would have struck somewhere else — a place where there was less security, like the Lindt cafe in Australia or the Hyper Cacher Kosher supermarket in Paris.

So, why are some people blaming me? They’re saying: “Well, she provoked them! She got what she deserved!” They don’t remember, or care to remember, that as the jihadis were killing the Muhammad cartoonists in Paris, their friend and accomplice was murdering Jews in a nearby kosher supermarket. Were the Jews asking for it? Did they “bait” the jihadis? Were they “provoking” them?

[Steely Tom]

I don’t recall anyone saying that the Kent State Four “provoked” the attack.

[Gamecock]

And make no mistake: If it weren’t for the free-speech conference, these jihadis would have struck somewhere else

And, according to the Libs, it would have been our fault.

[Texas Eagle]

I wonder if Geller's critics hold the same view if Tea Partiers had attacked a museum where a crucifix inside a jar of urine was on display.

Probly not.

[Steely Tom]

I can’t bring to mind anyone in the MSM who said Rachel Corrie “provoked” the attack.

[Da Coyote]

I regard our press with the same disdain, revulsion, and vengefullness as I do ISIS.

The time will come for both.

[Texas Eagle]

Dear Pamela Geller critics, remind me again what the soldiers at Ft. Hood were doing to provoke that attack?

[kjam22]

Way too many people have the misguided, stupid, opinion that if we just be nice to radical Islam, everything will be okay. Its just ignorant and flies in the face of what we see happening in other parts of the world.

[Texas Eagle]

Dear Pamela Geller critics, if you think the draw Mohamet contest was provocative, wait till mosques are forced to conduct gay wedding and Bar Mitzvahs here in a few weeks.

[Texas Eagle]

Ape Pee File Photo: Christian Baby Provokes Attack

[Ghost of SVR4]

That is going to be awesome to witness. The “progressives” have painted themselves right into a corner now.

[Robe]

Does anyone have a link to a posting that showed the percent of Islamic population to the effects it has/demands of the host governments ?????

[MrB]

If you ever think you’ll get a liberal to be ashamed by their “hypocrisy”,

you’re going to have to get used to disappointment.

They understand that it’s “agenda uber alles”,
and that the “values” they espouse are only excuses.

[Travis McGee]

[kenmcg]

Good for Geller, she in effect set a trap and killed two jihadists. These media pundits condemning her free speech, ought to re-educate themselves on the first amendment. It was ok when a crucifix was emerged in a jar of urine or when a portrait of the virgin was smeared with elephant dung.

[Ghost of SVR4]

Its not “theirs” I am worried about, its the everyday folk who don’t pay much attention that will do a double take when Christians are forced to conduct homosexual marriage but not those muzzies. It will be a good catalyst to expose islam for not being a religion but a battle plan.

[MrB]

In my opinion,

the left needs to be exposed for what they truly are -

simply anti-Christian.

It’s easily demonstrable through what they support and what they defend. Christians who try to derive their righteousness through works and advocacy then will have to make the choice, whereas now they are simply denying that choosing the left is actually evil and anti-Christ.

[elcid1970]

There is one comment at the Time website:

“You got what you wanted, you stupid woman.”

Ms. Gellar is right: we ARE in a war.

You may not be interested in Islam, my fellow “infidels”, but Islam is interested in you, & its adherents are doing something about it all over the world.

[Dqban22]

SHAMEFUL ATTACKS BY THE DHIMMIT MEDIA TO PAMELA GELLER AND GERT WILDERS

The American “Dhimmitude” media, cowed by Islamic violence, has accepted total submission to the mandates of the Islamic terrorists.

Pamela Geller, Gert Wilders, and Bosch Fawstin (the winner of the contest) are real heroes that have not accepted to be intimidated by Islamic terrorists. It is denigrating for the American media to see their pundits attacking the freedom of expression of those opposed to the Islamization of U.S.

On January 17,2015 and in the same public school center, there was a “Stand with the Prophet” rally by Muslims, a provocative pro-Shariah law event, by supporters of Al-Qaida and Isis organized by one of the terrorists implicated in the bombing of the garage of the NY World Trade Center in 1993.

I wonder if those who try to blame the organizers of the “First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest,” for the Muslim terrorist attack would have justified if a patriotic American had irrupted in the Muslim rally on January and made a massacre of Islamic terrorists. After all, Americans are profoundly offended by their provocation and the abuse of our freedoms by those who made the Muslim rally in support of the savages that decapitate, crucify and burned Christians alive.

The “Dhimmitude” media, scared by Islamic violence, auto-censors itself and tries to justify the terrorist attack in Texas because the Mohamed cartoons contest offended the sensibility of Islamic terrorists.

On January 2015, radical Islamists desecrated the holy soil of Texas. Do not mess with Texas!!!

ISIS Comes To Texas – This Is War

Noisy Room ^ | May 4 2015 | Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3286035/posts?page=2

Iranian Commander: We Won’t Rest Until US is an Islamic Republic

Don’t allow Obama and the media fool us, radical Islam officially declared war against U.S. on 9/11/2001.

In Switzerland everybody is drafted and they keep their arms in home in case they need to defend their country. It is imperative that all American arm themselves, the jihadists are already in and can attack any time our churches, malls, theaters, slaughtering innocents men women and children as they are massacring Christians in Africa and the Middle East.

[Do the math]

What has the left’s panties in a pinch is the fact that the good guys won this battle. They would of loved it if these two muzzies had killed a bunch of defenseless people.