Score one for the freedom of speech.
“First Look: Pamela Geller Bus Ads for ‘Can’t We Talk About This? The Islamic Jihad Against Free Speech’ (Exclusive),” by Pamela Geller, Breitbart, September 5, 2017:
Thanks to a Muslim hate group, my organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), can run our pro-freedom ads again in New York City.
AFDI has tangled with New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority on more than one occasion. They refused to run our ads, we sued multiple times, and we won multiple times. So for the first time in NYC transit history, the MTA banned political and issue related ads: the Geller ban.
But then a Muslim hate group wanted to run ads for their political film despite the ban, so they, too, sued the city, claiming that their political movie, The Muslims Are Coming, was not a political or issue related ad. They sued and they won, and all I can say is thank you.
Because of this Muslim lawsuit, we can run our ads again. And so we have. And they are brilliant.
My new ads announce the imminent release of Can’t We Talk About This? The Islamic Jihad Against Free Speech, a shocking new film and follow-up video series detailing the concerted effort by international organizations to compel the U.S. and other Western countries to curtail the freedom of speech and criminalize criticism of Islam.
Featuring exclusive new interviews with me, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Geert Wilders, Mark Steyn, Douglas Murray, Ezra Levant, Lars Vilks, Garland Muhammad cartoon contest winner Bosch Fawstin, and many other heroes of freedom, this web series will be the first ever to expose the war on free speech. It is certain to shock the American public and awaken many. These interviews reveal events at Garland and its aftermath that have never before been made public, and demonstrate how far advanced the war on free speech really is.
In this film, we’re setting the record straight about our Garland free speech event, at which we were not only targeted by Islamic jihadis but apparently by the FBI as well. But we’re doing much more as well: we’re telling the whole, as-yet-untold truth about the war on free speech.
Hollywood will never tell this story. The media will never tell this story. Our public schools and universities will never teach our children what happened. The truth must be told.
Can’t We Talk About This? is a follow-up to AFDI’s acclaimed 2011 documentary, The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks. This much-needed new web series gives viewers the inside story of what happened in Garland and why, and lays out the full and appalling details of the all-out assault on the freedom of speech that is taking place today – and why this may be the most crucial battleground today in the war for the survival of the United States of America as a free republic.
The web series also features seldom-seen news footage and revealing details not only of the Garland event and the jihad killers who wanted to wage jihad there, but also of the many other battlegrounds in the war for free speech that led up to the Garland attack, including the death fatwa issued in 1989 by the Islamic Republic of Iran against Salman Rushdie for his supposed blasphemy in The Satanic Verses; the assassination of Theo Van Gogh by a Muslim on an Amsterdam street in November 2004 for his alleged blasphemy; the Dutch newspaper Jyllands Posten’s cartoons of Muhammad, published in September 2005, which touched off international riots and killings by Muslims – and most disturbing of all, calls in the West for restrictions on the freedom of speech; the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s years-long struggle at the UN to compel the West to criminalize “incitement to religious hatred” (a euphemism for criticism of Islam); and the U.S. under Obama signing on to UNCHR Resolution 16/18, which calls on member states to work to restrict incitement to religious hatred.
Can’t We Talk About This? also covers lesser-known skirmishes in the war against free speech as well, such as Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris’ “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day” in 2010, after which Norris was forced to go into hiding and change her identity after threats. And it traces what immediately led up to the Garland event – most notably, the January 2015 massacre of Muhammad cartoonists at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris and the subsequent “Stand with the Prophet” event in Garland, at which Muslim groups gathered in the wake of that massacre not to defend free speech, but to complain about “Islamophobia,” while AFDI members and supporters protested outside.
We set out the media firestorm that followed the Garland event, as well as the attempts to kill me, and explain why the event’s detractors were all missing the point: the freedom of speech doesn’t apply only if you like the message; it applies to everyone. And if it is gone, so is a free society.
Can’t We Talk About This? tells the whole horrifying story of how advanced the Islamic war on free speech is, and how close leftist and Islamic authoritarians are to final victory and the death of the freedom of speech and free society.
Don’t miss the exclusive advance screening of Can’t We Talk About This? on September 5 on VIMEO. And if you’re in New York City, watch for our truth-telling ads. And please help us meet the massive expenses of our truth campaigns: contribute here.
DogOnPorch says
My dear Winston Smith…what will the Ministry of Love think about such a film?
gravenimage says
Life is more Orwellian in what should be the free West all the time.
Erik Bink says
Correction: the Jyllands Posten is not a “Dutch newspaper” but a Danish newspaper.
Stop Kafirophobia says
What an awesome poster — perfect title and image.
mariam rove says
What a great ad! M
Irene Brekelmans says
That the Dutch ambassador was expelled by Hungary for his pro muslim remarks was nowhere to be seen in Holland and not brought outside, I believe, but don’t know for sure.
Today the EU has made the decision that Hungary, chichi and Polen have to take in the amount the EU has dictated them. Those countries will take it up in the higher Court, which will take one to two years.
Hungary is very angry and will fight this till the end, I think. Good luck for them.
In Holland they want to up the taxes for health insurance, of course, because we can’t keep up all those health insurances in.with thousands of people more who do not pay in. We all expected that, but Dutch people who live just under the poverty line can absolutely not afford that. And in the meantime the leftists/globalists tap each other on the shoulder how much `christian they are.
What will happen? I can only pray, and as my God has said, that no race or ideology can conquer another country. They either go along with everybody else to live in a world of peace, or they stay behind in a different place and hope that everybody will forgive them, THE RELIGION OF PEACE. And so it is !!!
gravenimage says
First Look: Pamela Geller Bus Ads for ‘Can’t We Talk About This? The Islamic Jihad Against Free Speech’
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Fine bus ad, and fine trailer. Bravo, AFDI!
traci94 says
How do we see the entire film? I went to the VIMEO link and just saw the trailer for the film.
Guest says
Gruesome but necessary
Relic says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjkJ9-pAXHY
Matthieu Baudin says
“… the freedom of speech doesn’t apply only if you like the message; it applies to everyone. And if it is gone, so is a free society…”
This is so true. During the Argentinian Dirty War a common attitude to torture was much the same; if it was administered to the ‘right side’ then torture was morally wrong, but if it was carried out against the ‘wrong side’ then it was morally right. Plain speech and free speech has a universal and positive value of its own just as torture is a morally negative force whoever perpetrates it.
Elisabeth Nielsen says
Jyllands Posten is a Danish Newspaper. (The famous Mohammed Drawings)
John A. Marre says
The left has been ignoring the constitutional protection given to speech for as long as it has suited them. You will lose your job for having unacceptable opinions, or for calling a man “he” when he wants to be called “she.”
Muslims know this, and take advantage of the left’s annihilating of free speech to persecute any non-Muslim who tells the truth about Islam.
Keep telling the truth, Pamela!
eduardo odraude says
Donation given. I hope everyone will donate something.
larry says
Pam has big brass balls. I don’t know where she keeps them, but she’s got em.