hate is the right's new "truth" On Sep 27, 4:38 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > *« Islamic (Sharia) Law: Stoning Video Surfaces from Pakistan **Graphic > Warning** Stoned to > death*<http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/09/islamic-shari...> > | *Main* <http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/> | *OCTOBER 9 > FDI/SIOA and VAST PROTEST! GROUND ZERO MOSQUE THUG DEVELOPER AT HAMAS-LINKED > CAIR DINNER > »*<http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/09/october-9-pro...> > Saturday, September 25, 2010 > CRITICISM OF ISLAM IS NEW FRONT IN PC WAR, MEDIA EXPERT SAYS > TRUTH IS THE NEW HATE SPEECH, SAYS PAMELA GELLER > > This is the sharia. The silence on Islamic jihad in the media, on the > college campuses, in the government, etc., is sharia. I will ask this for > the zillionth time. Why is CAIR, named an unindicted co-conspirator, a known > Hamas-linked, Muslim Brotherhood front, given senior status on media outlets > everywhere? Their unindicted co-conspirator status came from their support > for the Holy Land Foundation, that was funding Hamas, and CAIR co-founder > Nihad Awad was vocal in his support of the genocidal, Islamic jihadist > group. This was entered into evidence in the largest terror funding trial in > American history, the Holy Land trial. > > But they get the mainstream media megaphone to spew their Islamic > supremacist hate and defamation. CAIR hates me because I speak the truth > about jihad and Islamic supremacism. CAIR hates me because I help Muslims > whose lives are in danger. CAIR hates me because I have aided and assisted > in an underground railroad for those leaving Islam. I have worked to mark > the graves of honor killing victims left to rot in unmarked graves. We have > planted a grove of trees in Jerusalem for honor killing victims across the > world. What have the Islamic imperialists and supremacists done for the > victims of jihad? Name one thing. > > CAIR hates me. Islamic supremacists hate me because I am free. They hate > freedom. > > The media has been irresponsible in their aiding and abetting of the stealth > jihad. Where are the voices of Wafa Sultan, Ibn Warraq, Bat Ye'or, Ayaan > Hirsi Ali, etc? Why are they not given equal time? > > Molly Norris, an unknown Seattle cartoonist, must go into witness protection > because she dared to initiate "Everyone Draw Muhammad Day," a response to > the Muslim death threats against the producers of Comedy Central (they dared > to say Muhammad and put him in a huggy bear costume). So Norris has to > change her name, leave her job, her home, her life, *at her own **expense**, > * because savages were ........... offended. President Obama, how about you > use a smidge of the trillions in stimulus and keep Norris safe at the White > House? We should be footing that bill. Norris should get the best protection > our free, Western money can buy. > > I have one word for CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, MAS and all the other Muslim > Brotherhood fronts and their media shills. One word. *America. *That's > right. America. America is waking up. Subversives and outlaw organizations > like CAIR will face prosecution one day. Mark my words. > > As for for the highly defamatory and notoriously leftist smear machine Media > Matters calling me a bigot, I wear it as a badge of honor coming from the > propaganda machine of the king of the Nazis, George Soros. > > *Criticism of Islam Is New Front in PC War, Media > Expert*<http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/24/criticizing-islam-harvard-profes...> > Says > Joshua Rhett Miler, FOX > > The mere act of criticizing Islam has become an act of politically incorrect > hate speech, a media analyst and free-speech advocate says, citing several > incidents in recent weeks where people have been lambasted publicly for > their remarks. > > *"We're living in a 'here and now' where no one's allowed to say anything > bad about Islam, it seems,*" says Dan Gainor, vice president of business and > culture at the Media Research Center. > > The most recent transgressor, he says, is Marty Peretz, the editor-in-chief > of The New Republic and a former Harvard professor, who has come under > attack for a Sept. 4 blog post in which he wrote: "Muslim life is cheap, > most notably to Muslims," and questioned whether Muslims deserved protection > from the First Amendment. > > Peretz apologized for the posting nine days later, saying he deeply > regretted the statements and that he was genuinely embarrassed. But that did > not stop Harvard students, faculty and alumni from writing an open letter to > Harvard President Drew Faust in which they protested Peretz's appearance, > scheduled for Saturday, at a Harvard anniversary ceremony. > > Harvard has also drawn criticism for accepting an undergraduate research > endowment fund created by relatives, former students and colleagues in > Peretz's name. The fund's proposed amount has recently increased from > $500,000 to $650,000, leading some social studies professors to interpret > the increase as an indication of support for Peretz, Simon Sternin, a > Harvard alum and an organizer of the petition, told the Harvard Crimson. > > The most recent transgressor, he says, is Marty Peretz, the editor-in-chief > of The New Republic and a former Harvard professor, who has come under > attack for a Sept. 4 blog post in which he wrote: "Muslim life is cheap, > most notably to Muslims," and questioned whether Muslims deserved protection > from the First Amendment. > > Peretz apologized for the posting nine days later, saying he deeply > regretted the statements and that he was genuinely embarrassed. But that did > not stop Harvard students, faculty and alumni from writing an open letter to > Harvard President Drew Faust in which they protested Peretz's appearance, > scheduled for Saturday, at a Harvard anniversary ceremony. > > Harvard has also drawn criticism for accepting an undergraduate research > endowment fund created by relatives, former students and colleagues in > Peretz's name. The fund's proposed amount has recently increased from > $500,000 to $650,000, leading some social studies professors to interpret > the increase as an indication of support for Peretz, Simon Sternin, a > Harvard alum and an organizer of the petition, told the Harvard Crimson. > > But Gainor says criticism of Peretz's comments has gotten out of hand. > > "We're fighting a war against radical Islam," Gainor told > FoxNews.com<http://foxnews.com/>. "For > radical Islam, life is cheap, both for their lives and our lives. The left > has become so indoctrinaire that they're more concerned about being > politically correct than they are about protecting our nation." > > The media is complicit, too, Gainor said, accusing them of "zooming in on > anybody who is saying anything critical of Islam." > > To illustrate his point, Gainor recalled* Derek Fenton, the **New Jersey** man > who lost his job of 11 years at NJ Transit, the state's public ** > transportation** corporation, after he burned a Koran outside the site of > the planned "Ground Zero Mosque" on Sept. 11. Fenton, 39, was not arrested, > but he nevertheless lost his job because NJ Transit said his actions > violated their code of ethics.* > > *"The lack of media indignation on that one is astonishing," *Gainor > said. "Our media allegedly embraces free speech, but it doesn't. It only > embraces free speech that doesn't possibly offend Islam. If he had been > fired for burning a Bible, he would've been on every evening network news > show. It's free speech. It's not something I would do, but it's still free > speech." > > Gainor also pointed to the case of Pastor Terry Jones, the Gainesville, > Fla., minister who threatened to burn the Koran on Sept. 11 but changed his > mind after a call from the White House. Jones' threat became global news, > inciting protests and threats of reprisal in Afghanistan and elsewhere. > > "Again, it shows how PC we've become," Gainor said.* "Some idiot can burn a > book anywhere in the country, but if you dare burn a Koran, it becomes an > international incident."* > > Just last week, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said he's not prepared > to conclude that the First Amendment condones burning the Koran. > > "[Oliver Wendell] Holmes said it doesn't mean you can shout 'fire' in a > crowded theater," Breyer told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News. "Well, > what is it? Why? Because people will be trampled to death. And what is > the crowded theater today? What is being trampled to death?" > > The issue "will be answered over time in a series of cases," Breyer said. > > Meanwhile, Ari Ravin-Havt, vice president of research and communications at > Media Matters strongly disagreed with Gainor's assertion that "no one's > allowed to say anything bad" about Islam. > > *"If that were true, bigots like [blogger] Pam Geller would not be > consistently given a platform on television to spew their hate, and Marty > Peretz wouldn't be editor-in-chief of The New Republic," Ravin-Havt said.* > > He said Peretz has the right to say "something incredibly offensive, > inaccurate and wrong," by suggesting that Muslims are not entitled to the > same constitutional protections as other Americans. > > "And other people have the right to tell you that what you said was wrong, > and to assemble with others to collectively send that message," he > continued. "Our freedom of speech is our most important right and it works > two ways." > > Gainor also compared Peretz's case to that of Molly Norris, the > Seattle-based cartoonist who has gone into hiding after declaring May 20 to > be "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day!" and calling for people to draw caricatures > of the Prophet Muhammad. That led to death threats and the placement of > Norris on an execution list by Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. > > *Gainor said the fact that Norris has reportedly gone into hiding to protect > herself from reprisal attacks is another example of political correctness > gone awry when it pertains to Islam.* > > "The media is making it seem like Americans are the ones who are wrong and > backwards," he said. "But it's the reaction that's wrong and backward."
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