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EXCLUSIVE AFDI VIDEO: New Yorkers say ISIS in the US is fake news

Dec 22, 2016 10:39 am By Robert Spencer

AFDI Unveils Shocking New Video Showing New Yorkers Consider ISIS in the U.S. “Fake News”

NEW YORK, December 20: The human rights advocacy group the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) today unveiled a shocking new video, filmed in Grand Central Station, showing that in the city most targeted by Islamic jihadis, most New Yorkers have no idea of the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat.

AFDI President Pamela Geller noted: “It wasn’t just 9/11: New York City has been targeted by jihadis numerous times. The NYPD is on heightened alert for the Christmas season because of the all-too-real possibility that ISIS or other jihadis will carry out a major jihad terror attack during the holiday season. But in Grand Central Station, crowded with holiday shoppers, people were more worried about ‘fake news’ than about the Islamic jihad threat.”

“New Yorkers were asked which they believed to be “fake news,” ISIS or Russian election hacking. Their responses are astonishing. Most of them dismissed the ISIS threat as exaggerated or nonexistent — even as jihad attacks and threats against New York have been ongoing and increasing in frequency. And this is why we do the work we do. AFDI works to increase awareness of the grave threat that we face.”

Geller explained: “We sent AFDI reporter Laura Loomer to one of the jihadists’ prime targets — Grand Central Station – and found the people there remarkably unconcerned about jihad terror. Ironically, people feel more threatened by Russia, which has not attacked us, than by the jihadists, who have repeatedly attacked us, and are openly plotting to do it again.”

Loomer is a new addition to the AFDI team. Said Geller: “Recently a number of courageous writers and journalists have created blockbuster videos that changed the political discourse in America. I am very happy to be able to inform you that one of them, Laura Loomer, has just joined AFDI. She is coming aboard to produce original videos exposing how the left destroys this nation.”

Geller continued: “You probably came across her high-quality work when she was with Project Veritas: she was, among other things, the burqa-clad woman who posed as Huma Abedin and was offered a ballot to vote in New York without being asked to produce proper ID. Laura is now bringing her courageous and incisive investigative journalism to AFDI. The Grand Central video is the first of many blockbuster videos that she is planning to produce in conjuction with AFDI’s production staff.”

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AFDI stands for:
• The freedom of speech – as opposed to Islamic prohibitions of “blasphemy” and “slander,” which are used effectively to quash honest discussion of jihad and Islamic supremacism;
• The freedom of conscience – as opposed to the Islamic death penalty for apostasy;
• The equality of rights of all people before the law – as opposed to Sharia’s institutionalized discrimination against women and non-Muslims.

 

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  1. mortimer says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 11:09 am

    This sort of survey revealing the lacuna of knowledge about the jihad doctrine should be repeated in many cities across Western countries. There is a questionnaire by Mark Dice in which Californians were asked to support Hillary Clinton’s plan to impose Sharia law. Most people signed the petition, having no idea of the discriminatory and draconian nature of Sharia!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKosd0xJadE

    Shaming the uninformed may be of some benefit. It seems these sheep are trying to avoid taking responsibility for their own safety.

    The denial of the threat is whistling past the graveyard. We saw this sort of denialism in the 1930s during the rise of Nazi military power and even after the invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Ruhr and Austria.

    Even the existence of the ISIS caliphate does not alarm those who slumber on.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 8:55 pm

      Yes–I remember that shocking video, Mortimer.

      Clearly, *no one* knows what Shari’ah law is–worse, only one person admits it, and unless there is something off-camera, she doesn’t ask what it is, either.

  2. Bill says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 11:20 am

    These are the uber intelligent elite that fancy they know better than everyone else and ought to, through Hillary, run the country. When they are not creating the fake news, they are eagerly consuming it. They are the same people than cannot understand, not even begin to fathom, how Hillary lost the election and figure that it had to be some superior force like the Russians.

    When the next attack hits NYC, and odds favor it will eventually, these same people will blame it on Trump’s racist rhetoric, the failure of racist white people to welcome refugees, and the Second Amendment. They are walking around in a cocoon of denial. These are intelligent people and competent in their jobs, they just are not very smart.

    • CrossWare says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 11:35 am

      Perfect material for the NWO. They are the future citizens of the “Capital”. Their own version of the Hunger Games.

    • SteveFinSC says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 11:40 am

      “These are intelligent people and competent in their jobs, they just are not very smart.”

      Actually, they are not wise. True wisdom comes from God and most of them don’t know God or deny that he exists at all. So, it would be unlikely that they would see truth even if they had 200 point IQs.

    • common sense says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 12:25 pm

      Well that sums it up Bill. CBS aired some do do bird in Canada who brought in 50 refugee families to his neighborhood and said the Muslims are just the next group of migrants to be “picked on or discriminated” when its obvious they share none of our values and every other culture without exception comes here, works and pursues their collective liberty and happiness. Its infuriating that no counter argument was made by the interviewer detailing Islam’s propensity for supremacy and jihad was not even mentioned. That’s CBS talk radio in the SF bay area for you.

      • Bill says

        Dec 22, 2016 at 3:01 pm

        They will run that neighborhood within 3 months time. Nothing about that neighborhood will ever be the same.

  3. Jayke says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 11:40 am

    Can we get a fact check on this purported list of targeted churches:

    http://www.vocativ.com/386579/isis-lists-u-s-churches-to-attack-during-the-holidays/

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 1:10 pm

      Jayne, while I was unable to locate a list of the targeted churches, I was able to find this relevant information:

      “LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – According to Vocativ, the terrorist organization has a social media group called Secrets of Jihadis, where they posted a list late Wednesday night.

      That list targeted thousands of U.S. churches, each named in the post.

      One user with the name Abu Marya al-Iraqi called “for bloody celebrations in the Christian New Year” then announced lone wolves would be used to “turn the Christian New Year into a bloody horror movie.”

      The targeted churches appear to have been chosen from public directories spanning the nation.”

      http://www.catholic.org/news/national/story.php?id=72671

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        Dec 22, 2016 at 1:12 pm

        Again, the predictive text surfaces! Sorry … My reply should read, “Jayke,” not “Jayne”. I apologize.

        • Jayke says

          Dec 22, 2016 at 8:48 pm

          Thanks for the info Cecilia. Jayne is my sister’s name so I didn’t even notice. You’re very kind.

  4. Marken says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 11:48 am

    Excellent video. It is not an effort in humiliating low-info people or simply stirring up anger against people who are continually propagandized by MSM. It has a professional feel and appeal to it.

  5. miriamrove says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 11:59 am

    I work in NYC. It is sickening how PC people are here. M

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 9:22 pm

      I’m in the San Francisco Bay Area, miriam–I know *exactly* how you feel.

  6. JIMJFOX says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 12:00 pm

    The guy in the wheelchair is a Brit- so no wonder he dismissed it as “Rubbish- don’t believe a word of it”
    Ignorant old fart will have a hell of a time getting head-down-ass-up from his wheelchair when he gets back to Britainistan- assuming he converts to survive…

    • JP McNellie says

      Dec 23, 2016 at 7:23 pm

      UNfortunately, You are entirely correct! I
      am an American Vet whoLives In the UK,and it is just as bad-if not worse here–I see it everyday! Most have not a clue or are ‘Apologists’ and others are simply lost as members. Of the “Conferation of Morons” that i see growing all the time…until an attractive happens they seem to be fast asleep…or they wake up one day and are living under Sharia Law!!! SAD, SAD state of affairs!!

      • JP McNellie says

        Dec 23, 2016 at 7:24 pm

        Make that–until an attack happens–

  7. DFD says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 12:14 pm

    That is why I am worried about the upcoming elections in Europe. Considering the Trump won only narrowly….

    We might be in a bigger pile of sh..t than we think.

  8. Wellington says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 12:26 pm

    This just further validates what I wrote years ago here at JW, to wit, I would sooner (by far) have the people of West Virginia run America for the next ten years than the people of New York City (and particularly those of Manhattan, which borough of NYC long ago I started calling “the Isle of Fools”). There is a wonderful line said by Lee J. Cobb in the film, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit, about how people in cities are not as sharp as those in small towns. I am in full agreement with this assessment, also the one by Thomas Jefferson, who opined that cities are the breeding ground of filth and pessimism. Breeding ground too, I would add, of true stupidity.

    Well, I guess it’s obvious by now that I am not fond of cities. Never have been. Never will be. And for sundry reasons. Oh, I don’t deny they have some attributes but the negatives far outweigh the positives IMHO.

    • common sense says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 1:00 pm

      TJ was correct 100%. Your opinion is actual fact Wellington. I moved out of the SF bay proper 15 years ago to a smaller town and just do the commute, its much much better although the beast’s filth is spreading.
      It is funny to hear the libs cry about property values in SF and surrounding cities. A million bucks gets you a condo.

  9. common sense says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 12:38 pm

    These are the people that take their orders on how to speak and what to think from the hive mind of Marxism and to tell them that inconvenient truth gets us flayed with the ‘label of ‘fascist’.
    Real patriots speak with their own voice based on observation of our govt’s own words, policies and deeds. Most of all we can see that 911 was that shot that broke our nose and blinded the US and we’ve been peppered with political Islamic jabs since and a times with a nasty jihad right cross that knocks us back to the ground.

    Mrs Loomer is a courageous soul and did rare and excellent work for PV exposing the lies and dirty tricks of the extreme leftists. I constantly do my own peppering with the facts she uncovered about the DNC AKA, Delusional. Neurotic. Communists.

  10. TH says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 1:38 pm

    They swallow crude propaganda because that is the diet they receive daily from the MSM and they are poorly educated and incapable of critical thinking or of applying basic logic to what the propaganda they are served daily. They are acting like morons

  11. Angemon says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 2:05 pm

    The girl interviewed around the 0:50 mark talks about Berlin and “fake news”. From that interview to now, Berlin was the stage of the latest jihad attack in European soil and left-leaning German groups are pushing to create a state organ that determine what’s “fake news” and what isn’t. And, what a coincidence!, their examples of what constitute “fake news” are overwhelmingly websites with a conservative political view:

    http://www.bento.de/today/fake-news-was-ist-das-und-wie-koennten-sie-den-wahlkampf-in-deutschland-beeinflussen-1058758/

  12. Tim says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 2:06 pm

    The accent reveals that most of these fools are socialist Europeans, not actual New Yorkers. So no wonder they are thick as a barndoor.

  13. Dry Academy says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 2:47 pm

    This is why I am firmly against universal suffrage. Do you really want retards like these people to determine your destiny?

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 9:34 pm

      Uh huh. If the franchise were truncated, what makes you think that it would be people with more common sense who would retain the vote? Chances are more likely the “basket of deplorables” would be winnowed out in some test of ideological purity.

  14. scott says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 5:09 pm

    Just brain dead oblivious people, plain and simple.

  15. John Thomas says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 5:34 pm

    They’ve all forgotten JFK saying “ich bin eine Berliner”. The Boston marathon. They can strike anywhere at any time.

  16. Matthieu Baudin says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 7:40 pm

    People living in very large cities live their lives surrounded by strangers and have to put suspicion and insecurity to the back of their minds. It’s all about coping with uncertainty, but I can’t help thinking that there is a large traumatised scar running through the psyche of New York following 9/11. None of this is healthy, but what can you do about it?

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 9:42 pm

      There are smart, tough-minded people in cities, too–if you had gone to NYC fifty years or so ago, I don’t think you would have run into the same degree of willful denial as you find now.

  17. Troybeam says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 7:50 pm

    That is what they think OK, guess when the next Islamic attack hits New York they’ll say its fake as well and ask to meet the make up dept. assigned to stage carnage around them.

  18. gravenimage says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 8:37 pm

    EXCLUSIVE AFDI VIDEO: New Yorkers say ISIS in the US is fake news
    ………………………

    As soon as I heard this “fake news” meme, I knew it would be aimed at all sorts of things that were actually true.

    This is disturbing, in any case–unless something is actually libel, then stamping out “fake news”–even if it actually *were* fake–is just wrong.

    People should not be shut down for believing that Elvis is still alive–they should be corrected, and perhaps ridiculed, but not censored.

    Mostly, this will be a way for Leftists to silence their critics.

    More specifically, that New Yorkers appear to have forgotten bombings that happened in New York City and New Jersey just three months ago–and whose trial is going on *right now*–reveals a truly shocking level of denial:

    “Muslim accused of jihad bombs in New York City and New Jersey pleads not guilty”

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/12/muslim-accused-of-jihad-bombs-in-new-york-city-and-new-jersey-pleads-not-guilty

    But what floors one for sheer irony is the woman just returned from Berlin who scoffs at the idea that a Jihad terror attack could happen there.

    “Germany: Truck plows into Christmas market in ‘deliberate attack,’ nine dead”

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/12/germany-truck-plows-into-christmas-market-in-deliberate-attack-nine-dead

    ISIS has since claimed credit for the atrocity.

  19. SoliDeoGloria says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 11:29 pm

    Those interviewed seem to have tunnel vision, a narrow view of reality.
    How tragic and sad.

    “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision”
    Hellen Keller, blind & deaf educator and journalist

  20. quota raven says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 12:18 pm

    New Yorkers, subject to enormous amounts of leftist and Marxian propaganda, have a lot on their minds. Sometimes, their minds are so bizzy and crowded-up with input that they mistake nonsense for truth and vice versa. They have no time to reflect.

    That is the only way I, having spent most of my adult life in NYC, can make sense of what these people say. That, and of course the generally pc, mc and leftist politics that have dominated that great city, especially since Bloomberg was elected, and only made more impenetrable by this commie, de Blasio and the serious establishment of NYC (under Bloomberg) as a “sanctuary city”.

    Cheers!

    quota raven

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