This is why I call the Daily Mail the worst paper in the Western world: it reports with unusual accuracy about jihad plots and attacks, but then it turns around and vilifies anyone and everyone who actually opposes jihad terror. Geert Wilders and I have been its targets in the past, and now it’s Pamela Geller.
Look at all the qualifiers in the Daily Mail headline: yes, an ISIS recruit plotted to behead Pamela Geller, but she is “Islamophobic,” and her “Prophet” Muhammad cartoon contest was “offensive.” So you can see how she had it coming, eh, Daily Mail?
The Daily Mail follows the universal establishment media practice of referring to Muhammad as “Prophet Muhammad,” as if he were everyone’s prophet now. Well, he isn’t, and the actual name of the event was the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest. Its purpose was not to be “offensive,” but to take a stand against violent intimidation, and to show that at least some people in the West will not be silenced by bullying.
We were standing for the freedom of speech, and the Daily Mail calls that “offensive.”
“Rovinski, of Warwick, Rhode Island, testified against Wright, telling jurors that Wright said Geller ‘deserved to be beheaded’ because she insulted Mohammad.”
Apparently the Daily Mail agrees with them.
The Daily Mail is a key indication of why we are in such a fix in the West today.
“ISIS recruit is convicted of plotting to behead ‘Islamophobic’ conservative blogger Pamela Geller for sponsoring offensive Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in 2015,” by Megan Sheets, Dailymail.com, October 18, 2017:
An ISIS recruit was convicted of plotting to behead a conservative American blogger for organizing a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest on Wednesday.
Jurors found David Wright, 28, from Massachusetts, guilty of all charges, including conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries.
The 28-year-old who authorities say fell under the influence of ISIS faces up to life in prison for plotting to behead Pamela Geller.
In a statement to DailyMail.com, Geller said: ‘I am deeply grateful to the jury. The evidence against Wright was quite clear. What is astonishing is that there isn’t more general indignation in the mainstream media against someone who tried to kill me for exercising my freedom of speech.
‘Instead, most Western media outlets have internalized the idea that the response to violent intimidation from Muslims is to do what they want, and conform our behavior to their sensibilities. That is the path of submission and subjugation. I refuse to take it.’
Prosecutors said Wright, his uncle and a third man conspired to kill Geller because they were upset she organized a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Dallas, Texas, in 2015.
In May of that year, Wright met with his uncle Ussamah Rahim and Nicholas Rovinski, of Warwick, Rhode Island, for more than two hours on a secluded Rhode Island beach and discussed plans to kill Geller, according to the indictment.
Days later, Rahim told Wright he couldn’t wait to attack Geller and decided instead to go after ‘those boys in blue,’ referring to police, Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie Siegmann told jurors Wednesday.
Wright encouraged his uncle to attack police and die a ‘martyr,’ instructing him to destroy his cellphone and wipe all the data from his computer….
Rovinski, of Warwick, Rhode Island, testified against Wright, telling jurors that Wright said Geller ‘deserved to be beheaded’ because she insulted Mohammad.
john spielman says
the DAILY MAIL – just an other leftist islamaniac friendly group of ‘useful idiots ” (to use Joseph Stalin’s words) that will ultimately be slaughtered just like the rest of us if islam takes over and shariah law reigns
Kris T says
“Offensive to Muslims….” would be more accurate – not offensive to rational/thinking people, however.
Carolyne says
Threatening to behead someone is much more offensive than holding a cartoon contest. What is wrong with these people?
gravenimage says
+1
Linde Barrera says
My premise is that the Daily Mail is comprised of Islamist jihadi journalists whose main job is to promote jihad. Writing articles is their second job. I wonder if this could be proved?
Jayell says
I once submitted a comment to a Daily Mail blog relating to some story to do with Muslims in the UK in which I suggested that there might be muslim involvment in the infamous celebrity sex-scandal witch-hunts which curiously occurred at the same time as the grooming-gang stories were going public, and I also suggested that Islam was totally incompatible with Western values. I got a terse email back from them telling me not to post on their site again or else my rmployers would be informed of my attitudes. Well, I’m self-employed, so they were already informing me of what I already knew and approved, so tough! Who else would exhibit such a stupid, bigotted, hysterical reaction to a common sense observation about Islam apart from a muslim? That could be your proof.
j_not_a says
Daily Fail also now will not allow comments on any article about any muslim accuseed or suspect criminal or jihad plot ongoing investigation. All other nationalities, religions or races are of course, they let people have at it.
gravenimage says
I doubt it, Linde. I think they are more dhmmi tools than actual Jihadists.
mortimer says
DOES THE DAILY MAIL THINK THAT IT’S FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION WILL NOT ALSO BE ATTACKED BY JIHADISTS?
The Heckler’s Veto was defined by an American judge as : “… an IMPERMISSIBLE content-based RESTRICTION on speech where the speech is prohibited due to an ANTICIPATED DISORDERLY or VIOLENT reaction of the audience.”
The heckler’s veto has also been defined as a “…calculated assault characterized by loud, one-sided conversations, shouted interruptions, JABBERED FALSE FACTS, THREATS and PERSONAL INSULTS”.
The heckler’s veto is nothing but VIGILANTE LAW or the LYNCH LAW imposed by a MOB. No group attempting to administer a self-made law which vetoes the freedom of expression of others enshrined in the constitution should be tolerated. The heckler’s veto is a crime against the majesty of the law in the constitution which is the supreme, dominant authority controlling the conduct of everyone, however exalted or high his power.
The heckler’s veto is an attempt to overthrow free speech which is the law of the land, and in its place to set up mob law, lynch law, and to substitute lawlessness for the law enforcement which obtains in civilized countries.
Michigan State University professor of political science William B. Allen has referred to the Heckler’s Veto as “VERBAL TERRORISM”.
Writer Ross Douthat wrote: “If a large enough group of someones is willing to kill you for saying something, then it’s something that almost certainly needs to be said, because otherwise the violent have veto power over liberal civilization, and when that scenario obtains it isn’t really a liberal civilization any more.”
MESSAGE TO DAILY MAIL: Today they’ll take my rights, but tomorrow they’ll come for yours.
LeftisruiningCanada says
“Geller said: ‘I am deeply grateful to the jury. The evidence against Wright was quite clear. What is astonishing is that there isn’t more general indignation in the mainstream media against someone who tried to kill me for exercising my freedom of speech.
‘Instead, most Western media outlets have internalized the idea that the response to violent intimidation from Muslims is to do what they want, and conform our behavior to their sensibilities. That is the path of submission and subjugation. I refuse to take it.”
Glad they printed that…..most people in UK who read the Mail will agree completely with it.
Benedict says
“….because she insulted Mohammad.” –
It’s the mark of a true prophet and his followers that they can bear insults and even persecution with magnanimity. Muslims have chosen a fake prophet and a pathetic, despicable role model to the detriment of the whole world.
MFritz says
Offensive pc-garbage written by a child for fake news. Just look at Megan Sheets’ profile on Twitter.
Jackson03 says
Actually, with the exception of the idiotic freedom ophobic headline, the article appears to describe the situation rather accurately and without blaming Pamela Geller in the text for anything. And headlines are often written by editors or writers other than the articles’ author.
Makes me wonder: Maybe all the folks at the Daily Mail aren’t sh*t heads after all.
Robin says
You are correct,. THe DM is the most honest of the Brisistan MSM media, compared to the Brit Bullshit Collusion and other newspapers which just about never allow through a chink of truth. But they have to be wary of the fascist regime just down the road in Westminster.
Lydia says
Oh of course! Why, pardon us for thinking, for exercising freedom of thought, freedom of speech, facts, truth, evidence, proof, logic, critical thinking, intelligence and detective skills, and freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, and of the press, etc.!
Of course, that makes it all our fault that those terrorists wanted to brutally butcher an intelligent, bold, and outspoken woman! What terrorist wouldn’t want to massacre such a pesky woman who insists on speaking up for the truth and the facts and history?!? How dare she!
(sarcasm!) THAT is how stupid these fools are! They must be losing thousands of brain cells a day!
Ric says
What does one expect from the Mail? Lost in a self-made bubble of self-righteous, leftist propagandists. The Mail and others, of the little Island that was, should check the trash (being polite) in their backyards before pointing the fickle finger of contempt at Pamela Geller. Free speech is a no-no within the borders of the once Great Britain. Choosing to placate, mollycoddle the Cult of Barbarity/Islam betrays the gutlessness of not only the Mail but the entirety of Britain’s MSM, government, its agencies and the demagogue Overlords.
The UK is on life-support, a step away from its death-knell; this, however, it is simpler to censure others than to face the consequence of one’s shallowness.
Danforth says
Hear, hear Ric! Well spoken.
The UK is indeed on life support with Muslims flooding in on the basis of instructions from EU higher-ups in Brussels. No wonder Brexit happened. The common man in the UK happens to possess, apparently, all the commonsense on the island.
To the Daily Mail: have a close look at the Muslim compounds being set up in your cities. Enter them and tell those who will listen to conform to British law and moral standards. Better put some chain mail around your neck before you take the first step.
Don’t want to go in there? Cowards!!
Stan Lee says
I wonder if the Daily Mail would continue to offend and demonize individuals who do not fit the D.M.’s moral requirements, if that news rag would not mind very much if an individual the D.M. turns its editorials to constant insult of any particular individual, and that individual warns that a certain tragedy will befall the D.M.s Editor, if the D.M. would justify the Editor’s potential destruction that it was that Editor’s poison pen to bring about mortal retaliation and that Editor’s inevitable murder?
When the threat is onto that Editor, acting in behalf of the newspaper, would the Fatwa declared upon the D.M. employee also be considered deserved by the irritated party?
Georg says
“Genocidal Muhammedan with mentality making a 5-year-old look like a monument to intellectualism is granted absurd leniency after not being drawn and quartered for plotting a genocidal hate crime against ‘21st Century 1st Amendment Supporter’ not giving in to murderous supremacist threats, blogger Pamela Geller for sponsoring civilizational retort to followers of 7th century desert backwater gangster-pedophile congenital liar cartoon contest in 2015,” by Megan Sheets-for-Brains, Dailyfail.com, October 18, 20-freakin’-17, for crying out loud:
fbijihadidefender says
Offensive free speech ? Telling the truth about Muhammad is ‘Offensive’ ?
Robin says
Well, yes that is how it appears to the members of the personality cult of their “prophet”. You have to approach this with subtlety – asking what they believe about their “prophet” and **WHY** they believe that. What they think of the (really stupid) quran verses and hadith verses which point to the truth. Treat Muslims as if they might be sensible rational questioning people and they then more often than you thinky will become just that. Treat them as if they are fools and they will continue to react to you likewise. “Muslims” are very rarely subjected to calm, respectful, but informed demolition of their nonsenses – we need to get out more doing just that as per http://www.IslamHoax.com and http://www.BecomeaTerrorist.com
underbed cat says
In Islam it is forbidden to talk about the facts of the doctrine. It is called slander. It is the only religion, if you want to call it that, that needs to be as they say be “underground” or under the radar or not known….so that it can come into a country and sell itself and set itself up to subvert. The need to protect the doctrine comes from the pages of the Quran. In the U.K. they unfortunately did not see what was hidden and almost refugee”ed themselves non existent with the help of the fantasy Islam of the royals ….as dress up day, and think that the 1400 year old methods of terror will just fade and if they criminalize the facts and criminalize citizens from speaking their concerns based on facts, the terror won;t be activated….so more silencing that only a brief reading of the Quran reveals threats to non muslims in the form of commands. So no kidding some one who dares to challenge sharia law and then almost gets killed kind of contradicts the tolerant and justice fib. Even our FBI is a little into fantasy Islam and certainly has a rouge diversity member. Pamela knew more than the FBI she needed protection and she had the right people at the event.
underbed cat says
Daily mail straight out of the U.K. so shhhhhh. don’t speak. But is just got worse.
Laura says
I’m surprised he didn’t just get a ‘rehabilitation order.’
Creole Gumbo says
What difference does it make even if the event was to be offensive? That is what the 1st Amendment is all about. There is a constitutional right in this country to be offensive and the person who feels offended has no legal right to prosecute or to inflict injury upon the person offending him or her.
Carolyne says
I think a lot of Americans don’t understand that point. The First Amendment does not restrict speech to that which is inoffensive. I am offended almost every day reading the slanted news, but still I understand the right these people have to offend me. No violence is called for or permitted because I am offended. Idiots.
gravenimage says
Very true. If free speech is not “offensive” to at least some people, there is no need to protect it.
Dacritic says
#notmyprophet
staffsgt7 says
1. Do you believe that slavery is OK?
2. Do you believe that sex slavery is OK?
3. Do you believe that polygamy is OK?
4. Do you believe that domestic violence is OK?
5. Do you believe that it’s OK to kill if people change religions?
6. Do you believe that extortion is OK?
7. Do you believe that it’s OK to call others others dirt (kufar/kafir), pigs and apes?
8. Do you believe that it’s OK to kill gays?
9. Do you believe it’s OK to kill mothers, sisters, daughters, and women for “honor”?
10. Do you believe it’s OK to kill others for insults, either real or perceived?
11. Do you believe it is OK to lie to fool people and trick them into reverting to islam, or just accepting it as an ok ideology?
12. Do you believe it is OK to mutilate girl’s genitals in dangerous procedures that is not even necessary? And yes, it is in Sharia law and it says to remove the clitoris in Arabic.
If you replied ‘NO’ to any of the above then you are an islamophobe.
Henner720 says
not paramount. ch. 3 v 28 allowed jihadis to pretend when caused by non believers
Henner720 says
accused
Henner720 says
do not look for cracks, there are non.1400 years of perfecting.hit them with there shithole civilisations and fanatic spirituality.
LeftisruiningCanada says
bingo
Henner720 says
left is dna restrained in perception. Irans engeneeres spirituality like we construct machinery. A subset of humans will eventually take the nonsence litterally.that weapon is deliberate. a spiritual engeneered construct.the left is reversely racist , as they consider them poor iznogood sandniggaz, but will have there heads just as much dismantled, bewildered over the opponents capacity.
John Forbes says
The DAILY MAIL is a RAG & a bad one actually ! The TAGS of ISLAMOPHOBE are used now for anyone who questions anything about ISLAM & its abuse & accompanying violence !
What we are now seeing is LESS of the LIES of ISLAM is a RELIGION of PEACE BEING PARROTED & this MAY signal a shift in understanding the lies & that they are LIES !
I hope so ! Pamela Geller is a brave individual who never stops attacking the LIARS of this IDEOLOGY & she is one who certainly does understand the dangers of this most violent of IDEOLOGIES that Masquerades as a religion ( and certainly not of PEACE)
She is well aware of the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AGENDA for American & Canada & has often pointed out that MUSLIM advocate JUSTIN TRUDEAU is a TOOL of SOROS & the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD & is hated for this ! BUT SHE IS RIGHT !!!
Robin says
John Forbes – It is my experience that there has already been a HUGE change since I became an “Islamophobe” back in 2003. The situation now is that most people can see there’s something seriously wrong with Islam and that there’s a lot of cover-up going on. Just the “superior” people of the Westminster regime and their poodle fake media are still in denial and trying to suppress the tide. The cat of “prophet” Mohammed is out of the bag and no amount of “hate crime” pressuring is going to put it back in.
Robin says
It is also not lost on millions of “Muslims” that no other “faiths” need to terrorise their members against apostasising. People tend to be wary of being forced into a position, it raises doubts in their minds and is constributingi to the fastest growing faith being EX-muslim (along with for the first time in history millions of free copies of the claptrap “perfect” book and for first time millions of “muslims” able to read the claptrap for themselves. There’s a lot of pathological denial in Muslim psychology but it is not universal and infinite. Especially the stupid verse 18:86 liberates some from their cult-following. But VERY important to put in context of the “clear book” verses listed in http://www.IslamHoax.com and http://www.BecomeATerrorist.com
gravenimage says
Daily Mail blames “Islamophobic” Pamela Geller for jihad plot to behead her over “offensive” free speech event
…………………..
Repulsive blaming of the victim.
And note that the Daily Mail considers it “offensive” to expose the “Prophet” Muhammed as a pedophile and warlord.
The awful truth says
I think Daily Mail readers can look beyond headlines. It is better to have a headline “X accuses Islam of being a bad influence” or “Is Islam a bad influence?” Instead of “We think Islam is a bad influence”. When anything from 1/10 to 1/3 people are Muslim; when the Saudis have a government investment reserve if 500 billion and that’s just a fraction of what the ME has earned through oil, deployed and continue to deploy … and who gave them that money? We all did. So capitalist papers have to be nuanced – please Jihad Watch have some objectivity. The Independent among others is far worse when it comes to craven subservience to the call to prayer. We live in world of pretending to be liberals and only have a tiny bit of power to excercise at the ballot box and in how we spend our money. I salute Pamela but the DM is small fry.
Robin says
Well said.
Stephen Silverstein says
Coming next week in the Daily Mail, after rapist is convicted, woman is criticised for being a woman.
Pamela Geller is not allowed into the UK when we have jihadist scum all over the country repeating their bile over and over again.
I used to get the Daily Mail, never again!
Robin says
Two comments on this.
Firstly, the DM is rightly criticised over this particular report, but it has often been the only part of the MSM giving airtime to “Islamophobic” views, whereas the other uk newspapers endlessly churn out fake news and fake analysis.
Secondly, people should be free to mock this “prophet”, and certainly not threatened or treated as if it is their own fault. BUT – organising such insulting events serves no useful purpose other than to inflame. The Muslims do not learn anything as a result, they just get more angry. Instead, approach Muslims as if they just might be rational people trying to get out of their medieval shells – present factual and rational challenges to their ignorance. Ask them why they believe what they do. Ask them whether they believe quran 18:86 which declares that the sun sets in a muddy spring – they aren’t going to have a riot about that because if they did the joke would be on themselves. More sensible things to raise with Muslims at http://www.IslamHoax.com and http://www.BecomeATerrorist.com.
Harlan says
Well, that just makes me shake my head and think that maybe Allah, he ain’t that akbar after all.