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Pamela Geller, Breibart News: “What’s Wrong with Donald Trump”
July 11th, 2015
Donald Trump is wrong on the First Amendment. He’s wrong on the cornerstone of our democracy. The freedom of speech is elemental. If he doesn’t get that, he couldn’t possibly be a good President.
For a man who so very much enjoys his freedom to speak, his attack on our defense of it is curious. Trump calls me a “terrible messenger”; how would he know? Based on what, exactly? He hasn’t read my books, my blog, or the cases of our numerous First Amendment lawsuits. He opposed the Ground Zero mosque, a battle on which we were on the forefront.
Donald Trump has catapulted to the top of the Republican Party Presidential polls because he saying in plain language what so many are thinking about immigration. Immigration is out of control, and even most Republicans are so afraid of the “Latino vote” that the immigration issue has become the third rail. But Trump has numerous weaknesses – notably a huge blind spot about the jihad threat, including a disturbing willingness to kowtow to jihadist intimidation and surrender the freedom of speech.
And as always with Trump, it all goes back to his business interests.
After the jihad attack on our free speech event in Garland, Texas, Trump fumed:
I think it’s terrible, and we have to act very strongly. But I will say, I watched Pam prior, and it looked like she’s just taunting everybody. What is she doing drawing Muhammad?…And it looks like she’s actually taunting people — and it’s disgusting that it happened and everything else. But why are they doing [sic] drawing Muhammad? Isn’t there something else they can draw?”
He also said:
I mean it’s disgusting. Isn’t there something else they could be doing? Drawing Muhammad?…They can’t do something else? They have to be in the middle of Texas doing something on Muhammad and insulting everybody? What is she doing? Why is she doing it? It’s probably very risky for her — I don’t know, maybe she likes risk? But what the hell is she doing?
Megyn Kelly subsequently asked him about those remarks, and he said: “I think Pam Geller is a terrible messenger. I think she’s terrible. We have enough problems without taunting and driving everybody crazy.”
Kelly gave him the opportunity to reconsider his sharia outburst. Perhaps Donald had time to rethink his initial knee-jerk reaction and give thoughtful consideration to the implications of his dangerous position. He had weeks to investigate and educate himself between his initial remarks on May 4 and his appearance on The Kelly File on May 21. Weeks. But no, he dug himself in even deeper.
Kelly challenged him: “What do we stand for as Americans if not for freedom of speech, ability to express yourself, this speech in particular which was in defiance, it’s like the cartoon that won the contest it had Muhammad standing there saying you can’t draw me and the person looking up to him saying, that’s why I draw you.” But Trump doubled down, insisting: “I’m not the only Conservative Republican that feels this way. They’re lucky to be alive. Why with all the problems we have, why taunt?”
It isn’t about taunting, Mr. Trump. It’s about defending the freedom of speech against violent intimidation.
Trump, meanwhile, is under fire for his remarks on Mexican immigrants. Because of them, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has launched a comprehensive investigation of Trump holdings. Trump said: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”
Trump was taunting Mexicans, was he not?
And while what de Blasio is doing is outrageous and wrong, Trump cannot complain. He’s a “terrible messenger.”
The case of Donald Trump is one of the basic freedom of speech, in New York and in America in general. For everyone, not just for the Donald.
What Trump clearly doesn’t understand is that the freedom of speech is the foundation of a free society. Without it, a tyrant can wreak havoc unopposed, while his opponents are silenced.
Putting up with being offended is essential in a pluralistic society in which people differ on basic truths. If a group will not bear being offended without resorting to violence, that group will rule without any opposition being possible, for all others will be living in fear, curtailing their activities to appease the violent group. This results in the violent group being able to tyrannize the others.
Islamic law forbids criticism of Islam, Quran, and Muhammad. If they cannot be criticized in the United States, then we are in effect accepting Islamic law as overriding the freedom of speech. Is that what Donald Trump wants? This would establish Muslims as a protected class and prevent honest discussion of how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism.
What is behind Trump’s willingness to abandon the freedom of speech? Money – lots of Trump money, in Muslim countries. Arabian Business reported in 2014 that in Dubai, “the Trump Estates includes more than 100 luxury villas overlooking a Trump-branded golf course.” When a journalist asked him, “Mr. Trump, the workers who build your villas make less than $200 a month. Are you satisfied?,” Trump refused to answer.
Trump has extensive holdings in Dubai. His golf club there was voted “the Best Golf Development in the Middle East.” Lawrence Glick, the executive vice president of strategic development for The Trump Organization, explained how Trump sees Dubai as a huge money-making opportunity: “When you take a look at our database, which is millions of customers that buy two-plus homes all over the world, one of the places they want to come to is Dubai. It’s kind of like a Beverly Hills meets Las Vegas.”
And that makes it clear why Trump, while addressing immigration, doesn’t speak about the hundreds of thousands coming over from Muslim nations unvetted, battle-hardened from jihad. And while he viciously attacks me for refusing to adhere to Islamic law, what has he said about the Indian national who was charged in the United Arab Emirates with “insulting Islam?” Dubai is the UAE’s most populous city. He has also not said a word about the American who was jailed in the UAE for “cyber slander against Islam.”
At his announcement of his presidential candidacy, Trump said this about the Islamic State (ISIS): “And, I can tell, some of the candidates, they went in. They didn’t know the air-conditioner didn’t work. They sweated like dogs. They didn’t know the room was too big, because they didn’t have anybody there. How are they going to beat ISIS? I don’t think it’s gonna happen.”
The fact is that Donald Trump struck a chord when he spoke out on immigration. He said a lot of things that a lot of people are thinking, and the fact is that immigration is a critical issue, particularly now, with our national security hanging by a thread.
But he’s wrong on the First Amendment. He’s wrong on the cornerstone of our democracy. The freedom of speech is elemental. If he doesn’t get that, he couldn’t possibly be a good President.
America would be hard-pressed to trust a President with extensive investments in sharia nations.
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Muslim Cartoonist in Support of Ideology that Executes Cartoonists
February 6th, 2015
By Pamela Geller.
Our ads of truth are like the silver cross to Dracula.
It is remarkable how quick the Muslim community and the left are to deface and destroy our ads of truth. The vicious anti-Jewish ads that the Muslims and/or the uber-left run across the country always remain untouched.
But Evan Sernoffsky of the San Francisco Chronicle gleefully reported last week, in an article titled “Anti-Islam San Francisco Muni ads defaced … with messages of love,” that “a clever street art activist in San Francisco transformed anti-Islam banners on the back and sides of Muni buses into action-packed messages of love. The controversial ads, which equate Islam with Nazism, were plastered over with pictures of Kamala Khan, Marvel’s first Muslim character, as well as new taglines railing against the posters’ hateful message.”
That’s right: The San Francisco Chronicle called these acts of vandalism “love.” The fallout of a decaying city. San Francisco, Haight-Ashbury – and all that jazz – now carrying water for the most anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-Jewish, anti-freedom ideology on the face of the earth. You can’t make this stuff up.
The Chronicle is clearly on the side of the vandals, but the commenters on Sernoffsky’s article – the people – are not. Read the comments.
The supremacist criminals who did it call themselves “Street Cred.” They should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We have filed a police report. And a reader of my website, PamelaGeller.com, wrote a brilliant series of letters to the Chronicle, pointing out to Evan Sernoffsky that he was encouraging the commission of a felony.
Sernoffsky and those who committed the felony vandalism should be arrested and prosecuted. In America, we are still a nation of laws, despite the best efforts of those like Sernoffsky, who want us to become a nation of thugs.
But it isn’t just Sernoffsky. Numerous people in the media and academia are lauding the defacing of our ads. Are we to understand that the media and academia are encouraging vandalism of speech we don’t like? It certainly seems so. So it would stand to reason that if you don’t like the creed apartheid, Islamic Jew-hatred, gender apartheid and other hate speech in the Quran, the media seem to be suggesting that you should vandalize mosques.
Coming so soon after the Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre, this cheering-on of anti-free speech vandalism is gruesome. In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre, the president of the United States should have gone before the world and said that it is now incumbent upon every freedom-loving person, news organization and media outlet to run those cartoons of Muhammad. Instead, he said nothing to erase the bitter memory of the fact that, two years ago, amid other Islamic attacks on free expression, he said, “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
And now vandalism of ads that are critical of Islamic Jew-hatred is chic. Our ads were defaced with images of the Marvel Comics Muslima “superhero,” Kamala Khan. What is most ironic about this Muslima “superhero” is that she isn’t fighting female genital mutilation, honor violence under Islam, honor killings, misogyny, gender apartheid, creed apartheid or the sub-class status for women under the Shariah. No, she is fighting truth. She is attacking free speech. She is enforcing the brutal and extreme Shariah.
Now that is funny – and telling – that this is what a Muslima superhero would end up really fighting.
Meanwhile, the media’s portrayal of Kamala Khan as anyone’s superhero is absurd. How many Khan comic books did they sell? This is the most action the propaganda character has ever gotten.
The Muslima convert “artist’ who created this comic book joke of a character tweeted: “Some amazing person has been painting over the anti-Muslim bus ads in SF with Ms. Marvel graffiti. Spread love.”
A cartoonist is carrying water for the ideology that kills cartoonists. A Muslima superhero is designed to promote a positive image of Muslims being used against the freedom of speech. The Charlie Hebdo slaughter was the Sept. 11 attack on free speech and free men. G. Willow Wilson and her Kamala Khan have enlisted on the wrong side. Kamala Khan has become a symbol of the war against the freedom of speech.
But in the case of my ads, in a certain sense, I am applauding the vandalism, too. Because it accomplishes just the opposite of what these leftist fascists want. First, the publicity gets our message out to a much wider audience. Second, we are currently negotiating with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, or SFMTA, for recompense and additional free ad space.
Thank you, haters of truth!
These makeovers are so well done and numerous that clearly this vandalism was an organized operation, and likely with an insider’s cooperation to get at the buses for the time it took to deface our ads without detection. This is suspicious in the extreme.
It took the SFMTA nine months – nine months – to run these ads. It initially refused, and it was not until we filed a lawsuit that the ads were allowed to run. And it allows this? We want free ads and recompense, or we will sue.
We will be heard. The thuggish foes of free speech will not prevail.
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