Over at Frontpage, Jamie Glazov interviews my SIOA colleague Pamela Geller about the bus ad initiative in Miami:
Geller: Last Tuesday (April 13), Stop Islamization Of America and the Freedom Defense Initiative, the new organization I have begun with bestselling author and Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer, rolled out our "Leaving Islam" ad campaign on Miami buses. But on Friday (April 30), in an outrageous denial of our free speech rights, Miami-Dade Transit pulled our ads - because they might be "offensive to Islam."At the behest of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an un-indicted co-conspirator in a Hamas funding case, Miami-Dade Transit took our SIOA ads off the buses in South Florida because they offended Muslims.
Miami-Dade Transit was bowing to Sharia, Islamic law, which forbids non-Muslims to insult Islam. But ultimately free speech won out: after we threatened a lawsuit, Miami-Dade Transit agreed to restore our ads and add them to twenty new buses at the cost merely of printing the new posters. Our lawyer, David Yerushalmi, did a superb job, with the aid of the Thomas More Law Center's Robert Muise.
FP: What was the motive of your campaign?
Geller: Jamie, this campaign was and is in defense of religious freedom. Our ad asks, "Fatwa on your head? Is your family or community threatening you? Leaving Islam? Got questions? Get answers! RefugefromIslam.com." This is the first time anyone offered public help to people threatened under Islam's death penalty for apostasy. America is the land of the free, and apostates must know they are free here. Safe here. Government and law enforcement should be on this. But they aren't. So we are. It is time for free citizens to stand for freedom -- or lose it.
Miami-Dade Transit's kowtowing to CAIR, even though it ultimately reversed itself, shows how close we are to losing it....
Great interview and great work !
I hope you'll tell us how many calls you get - presumably more than just CAIR shills.
The message will and shall always be that Islam and sharia law are fully, and completely contrary and incompatible with American Values,its Judao/Christian heritage , and the US Constitution. American values cannot be defined in any way as secular in nature, to do that would deny its heritage.
The archaic ideology that is Islam and sharia reflects the worst of civilized man. It denigrates and defiles women,and it suppresses the God given desires of freedom of expression, its totalitarian ideology is designed to allow for control over people at every level. It spreads hate and antisemitism where ever its roots appear.
America must always stand firm against this tyrannical ideology and its continuous efforts to impose itself on us.
Our Achilles heals is our political correctness,and multiculturalism that is driven by way to many outrageous lawsuits that we face in America from trial lawyers and the ACLU. Muslim groups like CAIR recognize this outrageous vulnerability and take full advantage of these frivolous lawsuits in efforts to control us.
Unfortunately the stealth jihad is alive an well, so the struggle to awaken this sleeping giant is a never ending one.
It is time for free citizens to stand for freedom -- or lose it.
She's right. Freedom: use it or lose it.
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There is no middle ground.
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But what if somebody might be offended when you use it? What if that person stands in front the 6th Pillar of Islam? What then?
"But what if somebody might be offended when you use it? What if that person stands in front the 6th Pillar of Islam? What then?"
Click, klack.
About 20 years ago I began to notice the change from American owned gas stations to that of Middle Eastern people owning and running most of the gas stations around where I live. How the hell did this happen? FYI, one neighborhood gas station owner was caught in a sting with his own employees stealing credit card numbers and sending money to offshore terrorist accounts.
For a while I often thought that with so many of these gas stations owned by Muslims it would be a perfect situation for these radicals to torch the underground tanks to explode in our neighborhoods. Does that sound crazy or what?
Great website btw.
I am disappointed.
Would Liberals, dhimmis, or other kafir have stopped their lawsuits? I think not. This was a golden missed opportunity to establish precedent for separation of church and state *against* Islam. After all, if we can have this potent invention used against us, why not use some legal judo to turn it against *them*?
Goose. Goodness. Gander. Some assembly required.