Notes by Pamela Geller and me about the free speech rally today in Garland, Texas:
Despite the media’s smear attack on those of us who are standing for freedom, we were unbowed. Today in Garland, Texas, thousands of freedom-loving Americans took a stand for the freedom of speech. Block after block, row after row, Texan after Texan, American after American, said No to the restrictions against free speech as mandated under Islamic law (Sharia). Leaders of the Muslim community in America held a conference in support of Muhammad and the restriction of “Islamophobic” speech — working for the same goal as that which was held by those who killed twelve people at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris last week: the pun. And yet, the superintendent of schools allowed a treasonous, anti-American group to hold a “conference” agitating for an abridgment of the First Amendment. Despite the mass slaughter of the editorial staff of a French magazine that did not adhere to the draconian Sharia blasphemy laws, mandating death for criticism of Islam. The Islamic law on restriction of free speech has no place in the American public sphere. It is anathema to the principles upon which this great nation was established.
We’re not alone in this understanding of the American idea. Thousands of Americans joined us to oppose the most radical and extreme ideology on the face of the earth. They demonstrated their indomitable commitment to freedom. We will never give in, and never submit, and never be subjugated.