Why Here?

AFDI/SIOA applaud the Bay People. The battle to maintain the integrity of the residential, tree-lined street in Sheepshead Bay moves forward with a protest against the Islamic supremacist mosque on Voorhies Avenue tomorrow. Come out tomorrow and fight back against thuggery and supremacism of the Muslim Brotherhood project.

We will continue to expose government quislings and political cowards who shirk their obligation to the community in craven capitulation to Islamic supremacists.

Kudos to the Bay People. The good people of Sheepshead Bay have fought back against the Islamic supremacist steamroller barreling down their residential, tree-lined street in an attempt to build a giant mosque despite a flagrant violation of city and local laws and ordinances. I have been posting on the flagrant Islamic supremacist violation of work orders and ordinances on a small residential street in Sheepshead Bay, in obvious contempt for the rule of law. The good people of Voorhies Avenue took to protesting every day in front of the wall obscuring the illegal construction of a Muslim Brotherhood mega-mosque on the quiet, tree-lined block. And they wull continue to protest to expose the supremacists and their government shills.

The buildings department and city officials had turned a blind eye to this gross violation of the law. On this quiet street, the illegal construction of a mega-mosque was going up at warp speed, despite violation after violation. The Bay People are fighting these gross violations legally and through the system. We exposed their collusion and corruption, and in early February evening the city halted illegal construction of the Muslim Brotherhood MAS mosque. BTW, the local media calls the mosque an "Islamic Cultural Center," taking their cues from the deceivers behind the Ground Zero mosque.

Please join Sheepshead Bay residents to show your opposition to the illegal Mosque/community center construction

Muslims Invite non-Muslims to Convert

Muslim Brotherhood Axis Calls for Proselytizing/Conversion to Islam as Solution to Ground Zero Mega Mosque Opposition

During the weekend of October 22-24, mosques are asked to hold open houses and welcome non-Muslims to visit and learn more about Islam….

Well, you have to admire the sheer moxie of these subversives. The answer to the 97% of Americans who oppose the Ground Zero mosque because of location is -- proselytizing to Islam. I kid you not. The Muslim Brotherhood axis are asking all mosques to throw open their doors to non-Muslims (non-Muslims are only allowed in mosques by invitation only and for proselytizing). They are emboldened and they are digging in their heels. The decent thing to do would be to move the Ground Zero mosque and show consideration and kindness to those deeply hurt and offended by this Islamic supremacist mosque at Ground Zero. Show the West reciprocity. Mutual respect. Mutual understanding. Not possible for Islamic supremacists.

One opponent of the project dismissed the upcoming week of events at mosques as a “complete diversion.” Jim Riches, whose son, a firefighter, died on Sept. 11, said he wasn’t interested in getting an education on the Muslim religion.

“They’re not addressing the issue. The issue is there’s 9/11 families whose sons were murdered by Muslims,” Riches said. Opposition to Park51 is “not anti-Muslim, it’s anti-location,” he added. (more here)

For a look at the players in this subversive summit, go here. These are the leading Muslim Brotherhood proxies in the United States.

Imam Feisal ducked this presser due to "security concerns." Give me a break. we are getting the death threats and this stealth jihadist is whining about security concerns. Sick. And Feisal didn't show up in court yesterday (he is being sued in Union City for being a slumlord) because he was -- get this -- "stressed out" (must be all those exhausting puff pieces in the NY Times, CNN, Larry King, Christiane Amanpour). The man has never had a tough interview. Sheesh.

During the weekend of October 22-24, mosques are asked to hold open houses and welcome non-Muslims to visit and learn more about Islam….

Notice how Nihad Awad, cofounder of the unindicted co-conspirator, Hamas-linked CAIR, spews that "misunderstanders of Islam" all over us.

"Park51 is not a case, it is a cause," said Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "We believe the entire nation has been engulfed into misunderstanding and misinformation. There has been a campaign against this project that we believe is unfair and unnecessary."

National Muslim Leaders Call For Increased Interreligious Dialogue

By: NY1 News

Muslim leaders from across the country are asking for a "National Week For Dialogue" next month, in reaction to the controversy over a proposed Islamic cultural center near the World Trade Center.

Members of 20 of the nation's leading Muslim organizations asked for tolerance and said that Americans of all faiths have the right to build houses of worship where they please.

During the weekend of October 22-24, mosques are asked to hold open houses and welcome non-Muslims to visit and learn more about Islam.

"It is a hope and desire that these events will help to allay tensions in society caused by the Park51 controversy and will build bridges of understanding that unite and strengthen our nation," said Imam Al-Amim Latif of the Islamic Leadership Council.

"Park51 is not a case, it is a cause," said Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "We believe the entire nation has been engulfed into misunderstanding and misinformation. There has been a campaign against this project that we believe is unfair and unnecessary."

The organizations gathered in Queens yesterday to discuss the controversial Park51 project.

The developer of the community center, Sharif El-Gamal, attended the summit. The proposed center's imam, Faisal Abdul Rauf, did not attend due to security reasons.

The coalition is also encouraging Muslims to reach out and attend services of other religions to increase understanding.
Atlas Shrugs

The MSM Couldn't Make 40,000 Disappear

Tens of thousands descended upon Ground Zero today to remember those we lost nine years ago, and to save the American principles of freedom that the sharia tramples.

Crickets are chirping in taqiya media newsrooms nationwide (although they were all there). There has been no coverage.

We organized a rally of remembrance that dwarfed the opposition. If the America haters had 4,000, we had ten times more. The media is playing the dueling rallies; it was no such thing.

Free people came from all over the country and all over the world to stand in solidarity with the 911 families and to declare our iron determination that no victory mosque will be built on their graves. The crowd was young and old, black and white ........ politics of all stripes. The crowd was beautiful. The crowd was proud and good and decent America. All the speakers were excellent. Rousing.

But the highlights included Geert Wilders, who was greeted as the great hero that he is, and spoke about how a sharia mosque at Ground Zero would be the death New York's proud tradition of Dutch tolerance.

Ambassador John Bolton spoke bluntly and unequivocally via video link about the affront to American values that this mosque would constitute.

Other powerful voices included Joseph Nassralla, who was the unwilling media darling of our June 6th rally, when a misunderstanding was blown out of proportion by the mainstream media as a racist incident. Joseph Nassralla was the Arab who was supposedly in a confrontation at that rally. At this rally we were proud to feature him, and he was so passionate and rousing in his love for America and fierce denunciation of the thousand-year-old Islamic oppression of the Coptic Christians in Egypt that the crowd went wild as Joseph led them in cheers of Gd Bless America!

But his warning was clear. The Ground Zero mosque would be the beginning of the end, and Egypt shows where the presence of Islam leads in a free nation.

Steve Malzberg and Mike Gallagher were greeted by huge cheers. It was an historic day in American history. Here is the first of El Marco's peerless coverage. More pictures and video will be going up continuously. So check back. And El Marco and Pamela Hall will have the definitive post tomorrow (hopefully).

A Tribute to Pamela Geller

Madeleine said...

This is heat? The guy is most likely in his bedroom drooling with his laptop on his lap. All he has done in reality though, is underscore how a gorgeous lady with a lot of talent, brains and moxy can bring this whole national discussion to life, out of the darkness, and into the light, where the evil plans of this Imam and his wife Daisy, are exposed to Americans at large. Pamela didn't need to blog in her bikini, but her life, her thoughts, who she is, where she blogs from, pretty much is an open book to her readers. She has nothing to be ashamed about, nothing to hide, applying make up in her bathroom while talking to her daughter, being a mom, staying up late at night unable to sleep, it's completely believable, and totally relatable, but completely American. What I see is an "American Woman" who juggles being a mother, and all that entails, plus a journalist, and all that entails, plus a daughter, sibling, friend, spokesperson and a down right caring and compassionate human being. This is no small undertaking, her time and her money have been spent on a project to protect the innocent woman of Islam. She has a noble character, something very few people today can even start to relate to. It's no wonder she has my support, with her conservative profile, as hip as she is, as a die hard New Yorker, and lets face it, the likelihood of those two worlds colliding into one chic modern day lady, well it's not typical lets just say that.

Anyone who finds fault with this lady is nothing but a liar, and a pretentious, arrogant, fool! The only people who support this Mosque are those aristocratic, ego centric leaders who have been smudging the beautiful complexion of our nation with their presence in politics and society. They need to go back to where they began in life, and find out where they were when the elementary school teacher was giving the lesson on Patriotism and loyalty to our flag, because they have none. They have nerve being American political figure heads when they sell us out to some Islamic Imam and his wife Daisy Khanartist who have used the doctrine of Taqqia to deceive. Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. Pam, you are a fine example of a multi-tasking momma!

SIOA Condemns Obama's Blessing of Mega Mosque

SIOA Condemns Obama's Blessing of Ground Zero Mega-Mosque; Bolton, Wilders, Gingrich to Speak At 9/11 Rally

SIOA Condemns Obama's Blessing of Ground Zero Mega-Mosque

NEW YORK, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The human rights organization Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) strongly condemns Barack Obama's blessing of the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque to be built at the hallowed ground of the September 11, 2001 jihad terror attack.

SIOA founder and executive director Pamela Geller said in a statement that Obama "has, in effect, sided with the Islamic jihadists and told the ummah (at an Iftar dinner on the third night of Ramadan) that he believes in and supports what will be understood in the Islamic world as a triumphal mosque on a site of Islamic conquest."

Geller noted that in coming out in favor of the mosque, Obama confused the issue by framing it as one of religious liberty, when no opponent of the mosque is calling for restrictions on anyone's religious freedom; ignored the historical record showing that thousands of mosques have been built over the cherished sites of conquered peoples (notably the Dome of the Rock on the site of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem); and also ignored the clear evidence of the mosque backers' duplicity and refusal to condemn the jihad terrorist group Hamas.

"Obama must know," said Geller, "that this is not about religious liberty. No one has suggested abridging the First Amendment to stop the mosque, and to oppose the Ground Zero mosque is not to oppose the First Amendment. There are hundreds of mosques in New York, thousands in America. This is not a religious issue. This is an issue of national dignity and respect for those who were murdered at that site in the name of Islam. Mutual respect is a two way street."

"We, in the West," Geller continued, "are constantly being told to be sensitive to Islamic sensibilities regarding images of Muhammad and so-called 'blasphemy.' We are told that criticism of jihad violence is 'hate speech.' But where is the reciprocity? Where is the Muslim compassion for the grief and the pain of not just the 9/11 families but of all Americans? Every American was a target that day; the 9/11 families took the hit for us."

The Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI) and SIOA will be hosting a rally against the Ground Zero mega-mosque on September 11 at 2pm at Park Place, between Church Street and West Broadway.

The confirmed list of speakers includes 9/11 family members; former U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton; former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich; the Dutch Parliamentarian and freedom fighter Geert Wilders; Gary Berntsen, a candidate for the U.S. Senate from New York; Jordan Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice, which has filed suit to stop the Ground Zero mega-mosque; Ginny Thomas, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's wife; Michael Grimm, a candidate for Congress from New York's 13th district and a 9/11 first responder; and journalist Andrew Breitbart.

Hosting the rally are Geller, the popular blogger and columnist who publishes the acclaimed AtlasShrugs.com blog; and SIOA associate director Robert Spencer, the bestselling author and director of JihadWatch.org. Geller is the author (with Spencer) of The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America (foreword by Ambassador John Bolton), published by Simon & Schuster.

Free citizens are coming from all over the U.S. to attend the rally. Join the largest Caravan in America coming cross-country to the 9/11 Rally.

SIOA is one of America's foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.

Join SIOA's Facebook page.

Islamic Supremacist Mosques: Primer for Protest

Islamic Supremacist Mosques: A Primer for Protest

Islamic supremacist mosques: a primer for protest

Emboldened by their man in the White House, the Hamas-linked Muslim Brotherhood front the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), is ratcheting up their offensive on patriotic Americans who dare to challenge Islamic supremacism and the creeping Sharia (Islamic law) into secular American life.

On Thursday, CAIR published an Action Alert entitled “Action: Report Harassment by Anti-Mosque Protesters.” In it, CAIR (which the Justice Department named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation jihad terror funding case in 2007) calls on Muslims in the United States to “report any harassment of worshipers attending Jummah prayers tomorrow and throughout the month of Ramadan.”

CAIR is using the Goebbels (Hitler’s propaganda minister) method to construct false narratives and bogeymen. There is no harassment.

This is all part of CAIR’s attempt to create from a whole cloth yet again a narrative of victimhood regarding Muslims in the U.S., when it is their Islamic machine that relentlessly smears, demonizes, attacks, and attempts to destroy those who are fighting for basic human rights for all.

The Alert claims that there has been “general Islamophobic hysteria generated in recent months by anti-mosque and anti-Islam extremists” and notes that “on September 11, extremist groups plan to hold a rally in New York in opposition to a planned Muslim community center in that city. The keynote speaker at the rally will be anti-Islam extremist Dutch politician Geert Wilders.” (Actually Wilders will be among a number of prominent speakers, including former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, journalist Andrew Breitbart, 9/11 family members, and others.) CAIR also refers to protests against mosques taking place in Texas, California, and elsewhere.

The vicious CAIR operatives warn Muslims about harassment at anti-mosque protests. The Hamas-linked group tells its minions to be alert and contact police and CAIR “if protesters go beyond the constitutionally-protected right to free speech in a public area -- for example, if protesters trespass on mosque property or physically harass worshippers.”

This is a lie. This does not happen. The only protesters who are ever harassed, victimized or physically assaulted are supporters of Israel, who have been brutalized many times at pro-Israel rallies. There is plenty of evidence and documentation of that.

We have witnessed a number of “recent attacks on mosques” that turned out to have been perpetrated by Muslims.

So be on guard.

That said, this smear campaign is a call to action. CAIR directs Muslims to “take video and still photographs of the protest and send to CAIR.” Why? Because they want to catch someone doing or saying something, or holding a sign, that they can use to defame the entire protest as “racist,” “bigoted,” “extremist” and the like.

Remember: we are at war. We are fighting for our nation, for our values, for the Constitutional principles of freedom that made America great. We are at war for the freedom of speech, the equality of rights of women, and the freedom of conscience – all of which are denied by Islamic law. We are at war, and CAIR is on the other side. The war of ideas is full on.

We are in a war in the information battlespace. Each and every one of us is a general in this war. Think like one. If you are protesting against the building of a mosque in your area, do not play into the hands of the enemy. Do not give the enemy ammunition. Do not carry inflammatory signs. Do not bring dogs, or pigs, or pork chops, or other things that Muslims find offensive to the mosque site. Stick to the facts. Be righteous. Ask yourself, how will the media and the Islamic supremacists frame this?

This is not kowtowing to Islamic sensibilities. This is fighting to win. Focus on the ties to terror groups and Islamic supremacist groups that mosque organizers almost certainly have. Focus on the links to the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization dedicated to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within” – most mosques in the U.S. have some Brotherhood links.

Focus on their refusal to condemn jihad terror groups, as they almost certainly will. Focus on their funding, which will almost certainly be questionable. Focus, in short, on the facts, not on emotional or angry appeals or attacks that CAIR will use to shift the focus away from Islamic supremacism and jihad and onto Muslims as the supposed victims of “bigotry.” Remove infiltrators and plants from your protests whose aim is to make you look bad. FDI and SIOA will have a lot of security at the 911 rally to immediately remove infiltrators, agitators and plants.

In other words, fight strategically. Fight smart. Fight so as to win. We are fighting to defend a civilization dedicated to human dignity and human rights. Let us be worthy in the defense of that great civilization.

Now sing the National Anthem one more time…

Previous related: Also see our SIOA primer on how to fight the Islamic suprem

Stop Islamization of America Exposes Muslim Supremacists

SIOA Exposes the Islamic Supremacists, Foreign Agents, Subversives: Unindicted Co-Conspirator, Hamas-Linked CAIR Hate Group Attempts to Impede FBI

They can hide from us no longer. CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, MSA, MAS.............all the Brotherhood proxies. We are on to the enemies within this country who are seeking to "destroy western civilization from within." They will be brought to justice.

These are foreign agents working to silence and criminalize the American patriots who are fighting to save this great and free nation:

This "explanatory memorandum," as it's titled, outlines the "strategic goal" for the North American operation of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan). Here's the key paragraph:

The process of settlement [of Islam in the United States] is a "Civilization-Jihadist" process with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" their miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who choose to slack.

SIOA: Islamic Supremacist Hate Group Attempts to Impede FBI, JTTF Counterterrorism Training

For background, see this post and CAIR's defamatory press release. Honest Ibe Hooper and his henchmen have been churning out sleazy propaganda like that press release for years, and have gone unchallenged. But now a group has arisen that is unafraid to tell the truth about CAIR and to call Hooper on his fascist intimidation tactics: SIOA!

From Yahoo News:

NEW YORK, July 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The human rights group Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) today called on the FBI and Virginia's Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force to resist efforts by an Islamic supremacist hate group to intimidate state and federal law enforcement officers and dictate how they are to be trained about the Islamic jihad threat.

On Saturday the Hamas-linked Islamic supremacist hate group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on the FBI and Virginia's Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force to explain why they invited Islam expert Robert Spencer to offer training to state and federal law enforcement officers. SIOA respectfully requests that the FBI and the Tidewater JTTF repudiate this attempt by CAIR to interfere with these agencies and impede counterterrorism training.

The Associate Director of SIOA, Robert Spencer is a highly acclaimed expert on Islam and Sharia, the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of ten books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades). Spencer is a weekly columnist for Human Events and FrontPage Magazine, and has led seminars on Islam and jihad for the United States Central Command, United States Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army's Asymmetric Warfare Group, and the U.S. intelligence community - as well as the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force on previous occasions.

Spencer is the coauthor of Pamela Geller's The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War On America, which is set to be released this week by Simon &Schuster Publishers.

Bat Ye'or, the pioneering historian of dhimmitude, the institutionalized mistreatment of non-Muslims in Islamic societies, said: "Robert Spencer incarnates intellectual courage when, all over the world, governments, intellectuals, churches, universities and media crawl under a hegemonic Universal Caliphate's New Order. His achievement in the battle for the survival of free speech and dignity of man will remain as a fundamental monument to the love of, and the self-sacrifice for, liberty."

Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy, a Senior Fellow at National Review Institute, called Spencer "America's most informed, fearless, and compelling voice on modern jihadism." The New York Times noted that Spencer's work is "widely read in conservative foreign policy circles."

CAIR, by contrast, is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case -- so named by the Justice Department during the trial of the Islamic charity known as the Holy Land Foundation.

CAIR has previously attempted to intimidate numerous government agencies and citizens' groups into dropping events featuring foes of international jihad activity, including SIOA's Executive Director Pamela Geller, ACT for America's Brigitte Gabriel, and others. In the summer of 2010 it has embarked upon a concerted campaign of intimidation and defamation to silence public figures who speak out against jihad and Islamic terrorism, including Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), the Rev. Franklin Graham, Florida Congressional candidate Dan Fanelli, and Connecticut Congressional candidate Rick Torres.

CAIR's attempt to intimidate the FBI and JTTF and dictate their choice of speakers contained numerous false charges, defamation, distortions, and outright lies about Spencer, SIOA, and Geller.

CAIR has a long record of duplicity and deception. Although it has received millions of dollars in donations from foreign Islamic entities, it has not registered as a foreign agent as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), despite spreading Islamic supremacist propaganda within the United States.

Although it presents itself as a civil rights group, CAIR actually has numerous links to Islamic supremacist and jihad groups. CAIR founders Omar Ahmad and Niwad Awad (who still serves as CAIR's executive director) were present at a Hamas planning meeting in Philadelphia in 1993 where they and other Hamas operatives conspired to raise funds for Hamas and to promote jihad in the Middle East. CAIR has steadfastly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups.

Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror:

* Ghassan Elashi, founder of CAIR's Texas chapter, in 2009 received a 65-year prison sentence for funneling over $12 million from the Islamic charity known as the Holy Land Foundation to the jihad terrorist group Hamas, which is responsible for murdering hundreds of Israeli civilians
* Mousa Abu Marzook, a former CAIR official, was in 1995 designated by the U.S. government in 1995 as a "terrorist and Hamas leader." He now is a Hamas leader in Syria.
* Randall Royer, CAIR's former civil rights coordinator, in 2004 began serving a 20-year prison sentence for aiding al-Qaida and the Taliban against American troops in Afghanistan and recruiting for Lashkar e-Taiba, the jihadist group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai jihad massacres.
* Bassem Khafagi, CAIR's former community relations director, was arrested for involvement with the Islamic Assembly of North America, which was linked to al-Qaida. After pleading guilty to visa and bank fraud charges, Khafagi was deported.
* Rabih Haddad, a former CAIR fundraiser, was deported for his work with the Global Relief Foundation (which he co-founded), a terror-financing organization.

In 1998 Omar Ahmad, CAIR's co-founder and longtime Board Chairman, said: "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."

After he received unwelcome publicity as a result of this statement, Ahmad denied saying it, several years after the fact. However, the original reporter, Lisa Gardiner of the Fremont Argus, stands by her story.

CAIR's spokesman Ibrahim Hooper once said: "I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future."

SIOA is one of America's foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States

Sarah Palin Opposes Ground Zero Mega Mosque

Gd, I love this woman! She is not afraid of the jackals, hyenas, and vultures who troll her home, her garbage cans, and her most prized possession, her children. She has spine, character, ethics, integrity, and above all, true grit. If she runs, I'll be right behind her.

Here is Sarah's twitter: (hat tip MZ)

Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real

The Islamic supremacist mega mosque is a stab in the eye of every American. The question is, why there? Why did the terror-tied Imam Rauf spend five million dollars to build a triumphal mosque 600 feet from the site of the largest attack, Islamic attack in American history? There have been 15,644 Islamic attacks since 911 across the world. Each one had the imprimatur of an Islamic cleric. What is being done to expunge the koran of the violent texts that inspire jihad?

The response to the overwhelming pain this mosque has caused has been ad hominem attacks. I find the Cordoba Initiative's callousness towards the grief they are causing radically intolerant.

SIOA is holding another peaceful protest against the Ground Zero mega mosque on September 11th. Be there. It's now or never.

And let me add that I am proud to be a National Advisory Board member of Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin.

Freedom of Speech Affirmed in Detroit Courtroom

I thought Atlas readers might enjoy the following observations from self described "Grateful "Girl-illas" Linda and Sue, who were in the courtroom when I testified Tuesday. I would call them "great-ful," I am grateful for their activism and patriotism:

SMART is as SMART Does .............

We were proud to be at the hearing in support of Pamela and her impressive legal team, and in support of the bedrock freedoms they are defending for all of us. We in Detroit are so grateful that Pamela, Robert Muise and David Yerushalmi invested so much of themselves into fighting to preserve our First Amendment rights, curiously being challenged by the SMART transit authority, while other major cities are allowing the identical ads to run on their buses.

Given what is at stake and the important legal ramifications of this case, we were appalled that none of the local news outlets saw fit to assign any of their reporters to cover the hearing, especially since they were all still at the same federal building following former Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick’s arraignment.

Judge Hood asked thoughtful follow-up questions that kept the trial focused on the important issues of the hearing. We were disheartened, however, that the (not so) SMART attorney stooped to launching a personal ad hominem attack against Pamela and the full scope of her work, attempting to discredit her while telling the judge that he hadn’t even bothered to check out the organizations/individuals behind the two other very controversial bus ad campaigns (an anti-abortion ad and a pro-atheism ad) cited often in the hearing as relevant precedents. Though Notso SMART attorney tried to put Pamela herself on trial, her unflappable equanimity and impassioned conviction to the sanctity of religious liberties and free expression carried the day.

After listening to the testimony of Ms. Gibbons from SMART who declared that there was nothing in the content of the Leaving Islam? ads that could be construed as political in nature, we are baffled as to what could have happened between the time SMART initially accepted the ads/ payment and SMART’s subsequent decision to reject the ads. We can’t help but wonder if any outside organizations or influences brought pressure to bear on SMART to deny the SIOA ad campaign. Ms. Gibbon’s only justification for SMART’s refusal to run the bus ads was her reference to a single unfavorable opinion piece originally published by the Miami Herald. It was our sense that the SMART team failed to establish how the content of the ad violated their own policies and practices. Upon requested questioning, Ms. Gibbons could not clearly identify what in the ad met their criteria for political speech.

In his closing arguments, Robert Muise eloquently made the case that free speech cannot be denied based upon the “whims” or “capriciousness” of government officials. We couldn’t agree more that a dangerous precedent would be set and a slippery slope traversed if government officials begin to impose “viewpoint-based” restrictions on the exercise of our enshrined First Amendment rights.

Atlas Shrugs

Honor Killing Awareness

FP: Hi Pamela Geller, welcome back to Frontpage Interview.

Tell us about your new honor killing awareness campaign.

Geller: Thanks Jamie.

The honor killing awareness campaign is Stop Islamization of America’s (SIOA) next campaign to reach and educate the American people. Taxicab ads have hit the streets of Chicago, the first in a nationwide campaign.

Excerpt:

Geller: This is phase II of SIOA’s pro-freedom ad campaign; its goals are twofold. Primarily it is to help girls in trouble, but it is also meant to raise awareness of the rise of honor killings in the West. Young Muslim girls must know that there is an escape from their homemade concentrations camps. This is a sub-campaign and logical follow-up to the “Leaving Islam?” bus campaign, which is soon to break in another major US city.

FP: And there is an urgency here isn’t there?

Geller: Absolutely Jamie, the urgency of the honor killing awareness campaign grows every day. Last week, a beautiful young Muslim actress, Harry Potter star Afshan Azad, was badly beaten, but thankfully escaped death when her father and brother attempted to honor murder her. She was dating a non-Muslim.

It is important to note that “both [Azad’s] parents were born and educated in the U.K.” They were not unassimilated immigrants, which the media and the apologists always associate with honor killings in the West.

Honor Killings Awareness Campaign

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Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Pamela Geller, founder, editor and publisher of the popular and award-winning weblog AtlasShrugs.com. She has won acclaim for her interviews with internationally renowned figures, including John Bolton, Geert Wilders, Bat Ye’or, Natan Sharansky, and many others, and has broken numerous important stories — notably the questionable sources of some of the financing of the Obama campaign. Her op-eds have been published in The Washington Times, The American Thinker, Israel National News, Frontpage Magazine, World Net Daily, and New Media Journal, among other publications. She is the co-author (with Robert Spencer) of the soon to be released, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America (forward by Ambassador John Bolton).

FP: Hi Pamela Geller, welcome back to Frontpage Interview.

Tell us about your new honor killing awareness campaign.

Geller: Thanks Jamie.

The honor killing awareness campaign is Stop Islamization of America’s (SIOA) next campaign to reach and educate the American people. Taxicab ads have hit the streets of Chicago, the first in a nationwide campaign.

The ads aim to educate the American people about the horrors of honor killing. They feature photos of honor killing victims with the question, “Is your family threatening you?” and the URL of the SIOA website LeaveIslamSafely.com.

This is phase II of SIOA’s pro-freedom ad campaign; its goals are twofold. Primarily it is to help girls in trouble, but it is also meant to raise awareness of the rise of honor killings in the West. Young Muslim girls must know that there is an escape from their homemade concentrations camps. This is a sub-campaign and logical follow-up to the “Leaving Islam?” bus campaign, which is soon to break in another major US city.

FP: And there is an urgency here isn’t there?

Geller: Absolutely Jamie, the urgency of the honor killing awareness campaign grows every day. Last week, a beautiful young Muslim actress, Harry Potter star Afshan Azad, was badly beaten, but thankfully escaped death when her father and brother attempted to honor murder her. She was dating a non-Muslim.

It is important to note that “both [Azad’s] parents were born and educated in the U.K.” They were not unassimilated immigrants, which the media and the apologists always associate with honor killings in the West.

Police say that 17,000 women are victims of honor killing in Great Britain every year. And it is happening in the U.S. as well: our campaign features three American honor killing victims. The ads feature photos of these girls:

Amina and Sarah Said: They ran away from their brutal home life and their devout Muslim father, Yaser Said, only to be lured back to their Texas home by their mother on Christmas Day 2007 and then tortured and murdered not 24 hours later, in an honor killing on New Years Day 2008. They were killed for dating non-Muslims. Yaser Said is still at large.

Noor Almalaki was run over by a car driven by her father in an honor killing in November 2009 in Arizona. He killed her for being “too Americanized” and not Muslim enough.

Gülsüm Semin was repeatedly and severely beaten by her family in Germany. Ultimately she was brutally beaten beyond recognition and “honor” murdered because she refused forced Islamic marriage in Turkey.

Banaz Mahmod was killed in her apartment in London by her father and his brother and four others because they didn’t approve of her boyfriend.

The triangle that flanks the ads in the front and in the back reads, “They wanted liberty, they got death.”

FP: It’s important to mention here that Dr. Phyllis Chesler, a noble freedom fighter on the frontlines in our terror war today, has done an exhaustive, unprecedented and priceless study, Worldwide Trends in Honor Killings, which documents all the crucial facts and statistics regarding this crime against Muslim women. I urge all of our readers to resort to it.

So let’s continue.

What are the Islamic foundations to honor killing?

Geller: Jamie, Muslims are not the sole perpetrators of honor killings, but a recent survey showed that 91 percent of honor killings worldwide are committed by Muslims, and 84 percent of honor killings in the United States were done by Muslims.

This is no surprise. A manual of Islamic law approved by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, stipulates that “retaliation is obligatory…against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” However, “not subject to retaliation” is “a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring.” In other words, Islamic law sets no penalty for a parent who kills his child.

Also, the legal codes of Jordan, Syria, and other Muslim countries have substantially reduced penalties for honor murders as compared to other murders, and Islamic clerics have resisted efforts to stiffen penalties for honor killings.

FP: And, without doubt, the fear and hatred of female sexuality that serves as a foundation to Islam engenders the fertile soil for Islamic honor killings.

So why this particular tactic of your new campaign?

Geller: This is a growing problem that is being hidden and obfuscated by the big liberal press. It needs the spotlight of truth to expose the ugly terrible reality behind the wretched existence of these girls living under siege. The West is reluctant to speak of it, media whitewashes it, but knowing what we know about Aqsa Parvez’s homelife (read the whole horrible account here) and Amina and Sarah’s wretched home life (read here), it is time we stood up for these girls. This cannot stand in America.

I thought the taxicab advertising was a perfect medium to get our message to the people who are hungry, tired of the lies and starving for information that the media is too afraid to provide. The taxis are a powerful medium to pull the curtain back on the obfuscation and deception on honor killings. Kudos to Jeff at the Verifone Company for understanding this new use of an old medium to spread the truth.

FP: What do you hope this campaign can help achieve?

Geller: What we hope to achieve is that these girls will not have died in vain. These girls are not invisible. Their terrible, miserable existences will be known, and their stories will save the lives of other girls and boys in trouble. Such misogyny was unheard of this country 30 thirty years ago — the appeasement to Islam and the Sharia will only serve to advance this grotesque ideology.

FP: How can ordinary citizens help save Muslim girls from honor killing?

Geller: SIOA plans to take this campaign nationwide, and is currently soliciting donations to do so. Those who want to help this awareness campaign can donate at sioaonline.com.

We must give these girls shelter from the storm.

Don’t be afraid. Fight back. If you know of someone in trouble or danger of honor killing, contact me at writeatlas@aol.com and Robert Spencer at director@jihadwatch.org. We have people who can and will help.

FP: Pamela Geller thank you so much for standing up for persecuted Muslim women and girls – whose terrible and tragic plight is ignored by Western culture and media for the sake of political correctness. Because of brave and noble people like you, the Aqsa Parvezes of this world will not be forgotten and the chances are increased that innocent Muslim women and girls can be saved from torture, maiming and murder. What a disgrace for leftist feminists to remain silent and stand by while their Muslim sisters are so barbarically oppressed by Islamic gender apartheid.

Thank you Pamela Geller for standing up for the voiceless who need the world’s help and protection. You are a true hero.