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Mona Eltahawy has to pay restitution in AFDI ad vandalism case

Dec 28, 2014 2:12 pm By Robert Spencer

mona-eltahawy-arrestThe “proud savage” has to pay for her savagery. The mainstream media, however, is unlikely to get a clue about this deeply unbalanced, unhinged individual.

“Free Speech Victory: ‘Proud Savage’ Mona Eltahawy Has to Pay Restitution In AFDI Ad Vandalism Case,” by Pamela Geller, Breitbart, December 27, 2014:

On September 25, 2012, CNN “journalist” Mona Eltahawy was arrested after spraying pink spray paint over one of my American Freedom Defense Initiative ads in the New York subway.

On Friday, she declared victory, tweeting: “My attorney @StanleyCohenLaw just wrote to tell me that my spray painting case has been dismissed in the interests of justice.#ProudSavage.” Not surprisingly, Eltahawy was lying: the case wasn’t dismissed outright “in the interests of justice”; rather, she has to perform community service and pay restitution. The judgment is a victory for AFDI and free speech.

As she vandalized the ad, Eltahawy also spray-painted my associate, Pamela Hall, and broke her glasses. Her vandalism caused an international brouhaha – her spray-painting made the front page of the New York Post and headlines in national and international newspapers. Tellingly, to defend her she hired the notorious Hamas lawyer, the anti-Semitic Jew Stanley Cohen. The Assistant District Attorney in charge of prosecuting the case told hall that what Eltahawy actually got was an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal, which means that the case will be dismissed in six months if she stays out of trouble. Although this is not a conviction, Eltahawy had to complete two days of community service and pay restitution of $794.60 to Hall for her broken glasses. Hall remarked: “Mona has thrown in the towel, giving up on her bogus claim to free speech, and finally agreed to do her community service as required for spraying graffiti in the subway.”

The ad Eltahawy vandalized read: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad.” Eltahawy has taken to calling herself a “proud savage” – an appellation I will not disagree with – and claims that the ad refers to all Muslims. It does not, of course. The ad refers not to all Muslims, but to those jihadis who rejoice in the murders of innocent civilians. The war on Israel is a war on innocent civilians. The targeting of civilians is savage. The recent murder of four rabbis in a Jerusalem synagogue is savage. Palestinians celebrating those murders by passing out candy is savage. The recent hit-and-run attacks by Palestinians against Israeli civilians were savage.

Jihad frequently contains an element of savagery. The murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens was savage. The relentless 60-year campaign of terror against the Jewish people is savage. The torture of hostage Gilad Shalit was savage. The bloody hacking to death of the Fogel family was savage. The Munich Olympic massacre was savage. The unspeakable torture of Ehud Goldwasser was savage. The tens of thousands of rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel (into schools, homes, etc.) are savage. The vicious Jew-hatred behind this genocide is savage. The endless demonization of the Jewish people in the Palestinian and Arab media is savage. The refusal to recognize the state of Israel as a Jewish state is savage.

The list is endless. But Eltahawy has nothing to say about the very real savagery that is committed in the name of the jihad against Israel. She is effectively carrying water for those who advocate a new genocide of the Jews and celebrate the murders of innocent civilians. Nor does she have anything coherent to say about her fascist attack against my ad: in a Guardian piece justifying her vandalism, she wrote, “I broke the law, yes. So what?” Eltahawy goes on about her “love of the first amendment,” while demonstrating her abysmal lack of understanding of what the freedom of speech is, how it works, and why it is important. How is destroying private property free speech? Vandalism is not freedom of speech, it’s barbarism; in a word, it’s savagery.

If Mona Eltahawy wanted to exercise her freedom of speech, she could have bought her own advertisement and expressed herself any way she wished. Attacking people with toxic spray and destroying property is not freedom of expression or any legitimate form of protest.

While claiming to uphold the freedom of speech and rule of law, Eltahawy reveals her hypocrisy, and her contempt for both. But now she has had her day in court: she initially refused community service because she wanted just that, so as to demand her free speech rights to make graffiti in the subway.

But what she did was illegal, fascist, and wrong, and now she has been made to pay. Free speech has won again.

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Filed Under: American Freedom Defense Initiative, Featured, free speech Tagged With: Mona Eltahawy, Pamela Hall, Stanley Cohen


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  1. Jovial Joe says

    Dec 28, 2014 at 2:40 pm

    Typical Islamic savagery and stupidity – ‘If you say I’m not peaceful I’ll kill you’. Kudos to Pam and AFDI as always.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 28, 2014 at 3:01 pm

      Yes, a typical NOBLE SAVAGE of the type so BELOVED by Leftarded Cultural Marxists such as Ben Affleck.

      The Leftards want to ride the Muslim (noble savage) TIGER, but haven’t given any thought about how they will DISMOUNT from that tiger!

      • Huck Folder says

        Dec 30, 2014 at 4:02 pm

        “The Leftards want to ride the Muslim (noble savage) TIGER”

        The sinislamists say #illridewithyou.

  2. Champ says

    Dec 28, 2014 at 2:41 pm

    Community service? …good, make her clean graffiti!

    • Champ says

      Dec 28, 2014 at 4:02 pm

      …and have her clean toilets with a toothbrush–preferably her own! lol! 😀

  3. cs says

    Dec 28, 2014 at 2:43 pm

    She is one of the few feminists who speaks up about hijab and niqab.

    This Stanley Cohen is a moron big time.

  4. Bezelel says

    Dec 28, 2014 at 2:48 pm

    I remember when this happened, Good for Pamela’s Geller and Hall. Mona is knowingly co-signing all the atrocities committed in the name of islam and attempting to pervert the rule of law. I cannot understand people like her.The fact that they walk among us unnoticed is not comforting. Having an elitist government that excuses them is irresponsible.Pamela Hall could have suffered worse.Maybe a nationwide class action lawsuit against obola would wake him up.

  5. Kathy Brown, Esq. says

    Dec 28, 2014 at 2:52 pm

    Stanley Cohen-the loathsome ‘lawyuh’ of loathsome client Mona, is due to surrender himself to prison on 1/6/15. Federal prison, that is. For tax evasion, to the tune of $3 mil.

    Of course, he blames the Zionists.

    Don’t know if he’s an official Muslim, but he may as well be. Birds of a feather…

    What I don’t know is, is it possible for a Jew to [effectively] convert to Is-Slime? More to the point: Wouldn’t the bloody jihadists still want to kill him?

    • cs says

      Dec 28, 2014 at 3:09 pm

      It is possible, he would still be a Jew, Muslims love this propaganda crap though, they are all wanna be Jews inside them.

  6. Richie says

    Dec 28, 2014 at 2:56 pm

    can this disgusting creature be deported?

  7. mortimer says

    Dec 28, 2014 at 3:07 pm

    How far will this jihadic terrorist go to defend Islamic SUPREMACISM, Islamic CENSORSHIP and Islamic MISOGYNY?

    Mona Eltahawy is a terrorist.

  8. Isabella says

    Dec 28, 2014 at 3:36 pm

    It is a victory and you will not hear that on CNN, but you know that already.

  9. BlueRaven says

    Dec 28, 2014 at 4:25 pm

    She is a wretched and disgusting human being, she doesn’t understand the value of the freedom of speech. A typical Mohamedian displaying her true color and enraged about other people’s opinion that she can’t agree to. A typical wicked Mohamedian personality.

  10. Champ says

    Dec 28, 2014 at 5:22 pm

    Mona “Mouth” Eltahawy lied? Shocka!

  11. steakman says

    Dec 28, 2014 at 6:00 pm

    Just another Cunned Stunt from your Main Stream Media…

    …a two bit Anti-Semetic Disgusting little Harpie. ie; waste of skin…

    Now, how I really feel is this……………

  12. Islam_Macht_Frei says

    Dec 28, 2014 at 11:05 pm

    Suggit Biotch!

  13. Foolster41 says

    Dec 28, 2014 at 11:45 pm

    You see, it’s wrong to shout down, vandalize or assault someone, unless they disagree with YOUR (a far-leftist) position. Ugh. This is sadly the type of thought in the far-left. Sad.

  14. Wallace Klinck says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 2:56 am

    Violence against persons or property is not justified by the essential right to freedom of speech. When anyone expresses a particular belief or opinion any normal listener will regard it as opinion, to be examined and accepted or rejected within the mind or privately or publicly. In a free and open society the debate goes on without intimidation by use of force. Only in this manner can truth emerge triumphantly above confusion and falsity.

    Some of your commenters exhibit a rather low level of education, however. The use of the political term “anti-Semitism” is ignorant and uneducated. The term is spelled “anti-Semitism and not anti-Semetism. The term applies to peoples referred to as Semitic. Thee is no such thing as a Semetic racial or cultural group. Arab peoples in general are categorized as Semitic and the Jewish population is overwhelmingly not Semitic but rather Ashkenazic–only a very few such as the Sephardim being of Semitic origin.

    Any objective observer should perhaps investigate the number of Israelis killed relative to the number of Palestinians (Semites, by the way) since the brutal Zionist conquest of Palestinian territory during the mid-20th Century. As to the term “anti-Semitic” perhaps it would be wise to study some of the early Zionist literature to learn something about the origins of the term and the political uses for which it was intended to be exercised.

    The educational level of a large mass of Americans can be absolutely appalling and can only be explained by many decades of mind-conditooning propaganda issued by the established media and other organs of American public opinion.

    • Huck Folder says

      Feb 12, 2015 at 1:32 am

      @Amer (= Bitter):

      “Some of your commenters exhibit a rather low level of education, [projection] however. The use of the political [?] term “anti-Semitism” is ignorant and uneducated.”

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism

      “Antisemitism (also spelled Anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against JEWS as a national, ethnic, religious or racial group. A person who holds such positions is called an “antisemite”. As JEWS are an ethnoreligious group, antisemitism is generally considered a form of racism.

      While the conjunction of the units anti, Semite and ism indicates antisemitism as being directed against all Semitic people, the term was popularized in Germany in 1873 as a scientific-sounding term for Judenhass (“Jew-hatred”), although it had been used for at least two decades prior, and that has been its normal use since then. For the purposes of a 2005 U.S. governmental report, antisemitism was considered “hatred toward JEWS – individually and as a group – that can be attributed to the JEWISH religion and/or ethnicity.””

      “The terms “anti-Semitism” and “antisemitism” are both in use. Some scholars favor the unhyphenated form … in order to “[dispel] the notion that there is an entity ‘Semitism’ which ‘anti-Semitism’ opposes.”

      And here’s just the latest example of antisemitism:

      http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/outrage-over-anti-semitic-dut-call-1.1816540#.VNw4rvnF98E

      “The Secretary of the SRC, Mqondisi Duma, said: “As the SRC, we had a meeting and analysed international politics. We took the decision that Jewish students, especially those who do not support the Palestinian struggle, should deregister.””

      Back to Amer:

      “The educational level of a large mass of Americans can be absolutely appalling and can only be explained by many decades of mind-conditooning [sic] propaganda issued by the established media and other organs of American public opinion.”

      You must have lots of American friends – leftards and dhimmicrats.

      I think that that propaganda (taqiyya) is finally failing, and the MSM (Moslem Socialist Media) is being forced to reveal that fire-bombing ‘youths’ of France (Algerian/Tunisian/Moroccan?) and the pedophile racist ‘Asians’ of the UK (mostly Pakistani and Bangladeshi) are in fact koran-karrying moslems. When the scales finally come off their eyes, they will come looking for you and your bitter friends.

    • Huck Folder says

      Feb 12, 2015 at 1:45 am

      Don’t know where that ‘Amer’ came from, these words of appreciation should have gone to Wallace Klinck, a good ‘Sieg Heil’ sounding name. Give my warmest regards to your pal Haj Amin al-Husseini.

      For anyone NOT familiar that name, just Google | haj a | and read the first citation.

  15. Centurion_Cornelius says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 4:19 am

    …everywhere we look,

    the BATTLE LINES are being drawn.

    do you SEE THEM?

    Which SIDE are YOU on?

    THINK, ACT, RESIST, FIGHT!

  16. Darius Jeddburgh says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 5:15 am

    must….not….laugh….so…. hard….I ….fall…..off….couch…..OWWWW!

  17. Darius Jeddburgh says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 5:16 am

    STILL CAN’T STOP LAUGHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  18. Mo says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 7:46 am

    Now that’s some good news to wake up to in the morning!

    • Champ says

      Dec 29, 2014 at 6:40 pm

      Indeed!! 😀

  19. Steven Bauman says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 9:15 am

    At what point do immigrants get deported for behavior like this?

    It seems to me, if you are an immigrant, good, legal behavior should be required for continued citizenship! At some point, there will need to be a vow taken to adhere to the culture of American and to b come part of America, not a cancer. Anyone violating these should be shown the door….

  20. bobtherrien says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 9:35 am

    i’m glad she had to pay…after she did this act…she called it freedom of expression…made me want to spray paint a mosque and in huge letters stating “mona eltahawy calls this freedom of expression”…

  21. cs says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 12:00 pm

    comments on the guardian are interesting.

  22. ApolloSpeaks says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 12:55 pm

    Mona El’awy, Mona El’awy we abhor you.

    You’re so unlady like with your vicious Moslem bile

    Is it only ’cause you’re phony, that we hate you

    Or are you so deranged you can’t help being vile?

    Do you sieg Heil to Adolf Hitler. Mona El’awy?

    Are you a secret nazi in your savage heart?

    Are you warm, are you real, Mona El’awy?

    Or just a cold and lethal, ugly jihadist?

    http://www.apollospeaks.com

  23. Angemon says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 1:50 pm

    Nor does she have anything coherent to say about her fascist attack against my ad: in a Guardian piece justifying her vandalism, she wrote, “I broke the law, yes. So what?”

    In that piece, “ProudSavage” says:

    “Five days after I spraypainted over a racist and bigoted advertisement in the New York subway, a man set fire to my brother’s local mosque.”

    By her logic, that man was exercising his first amendment rights.

  24. Hope Lawrence says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 9:10 pm

    How is her lawyer anti-Semitic? Cohen is a Jewish last name, is it not? One stemmed from the tribe of Levi, I believe.

    • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

      Dec 29, 2014 at 9:31 pm

      Hope: Cohen is a Muslim/Muslim sympathizer. He describes himself as ‘a self-hating Jew’.

      He is as bad as any jihadist; along the lines of Doogie Hooper (CAIR). He uses his law license (soon to be revoked, God willing) to further the bloodiest acts of the ‘Slimes.

      Just google him. You’ll see.

  25. Mark says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 9:47 pm

    So does cnn still employ this dishones, vancal and criminal woman?

  26. Kathy Brown, Esq. says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 10:02 pm

    Mark: Not that I know of. Anybody?

    I can’t imagine Mona’s vandalism being grounds for anything other than a raise. Given the far-Left rags she writes for, appears on.

  27. T Amer says

    Feb 11, 2015 at 11:01 pm

    But killing 100,000 Egyptians crushing them under tanks while prisoners letting them dig their graves and thousands of Lebanese civilians women and children while asleep at night with daggers and weapons by the Israeli army is not savage. Amazing civilisations.

    • Huck Folder says

      Feb 12, 2015 at 1:49 am

      Reliable citations please.

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