“We will not be intimidated and we do not negotiate with terrorists,” affirmed Wax.
Well, that’s rare these days. Cowardice is pandemic today, masquerading as prudence, and no one would have been surprised if the New York Republican Club had caved to the pressure, as did Eventbrite.
But why is Eventbrite taking orders from Hamas-linked CAIR? If Eventbrite really wants to stand against hate, it would refuse to sell tickets for CAIR events, not Pamela Geller events. CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush in 2017 called for the overthrow of the U.S. government. CAIR’s national outreach manager is an open supporter of Hamas.
It’s evidence of how insane the public discourse has become that organizations such as Eventbrite think it’s “hate” to stand, as Pamela Geller so courageously does, against jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others. And so one more outlet that should be viewpoint-neutral jumps into lockstep with the Leftist initiative to shut down everyone who dares dissent to the slightest degree from the hard-Left agenda.
“Pamela Geller Event to Proceed Despite Eventbrite Blacklisting,” by Alana Mastrangelo, Breitbart, August 12, 2019:
An event featuring conservative commentator Pamela Geller will proceed as scheduled, despite being blacklisted by the ticketing service Eventbrite over supposed violations of the platform’s “community guidelines.” The group had been using the platform as its main source for organizing ticketing for the event.
The New York Young Republican Club plans to proceed with hosting its event featuring Pamela Geller, despite backlash by the online ticketing service, Eventbrite, which warned the group that any further attempts to create an event listing featuring Geller could result in the group’s account being banned from the platform.
The event is scheduled for Thursday, August 15 at the Women’s National Republican Club in New York, New York.
“Eventbrite was the only ticketing option available for this event. We are now selling tickets directly on our website,” New York Young Republican Club president Gavin Wax told Breitbart News. “We believe CAIR put pressure on Eventbrite to get the event canceled on their platform.”
The club president elaborated by explaining that the group believes CAIR — the Council on American-Islamic Relations — has been “behind the entire manufactured outrage” over the event, in an effort to smear the group and its event speaker.
“It’s very sad that Eventbrite would cave to an organization of such ill repute as CAIR,” said Wax. “They are an organization with strong ties to Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist groups, with CAIR themselves being labeled as a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates. They are an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holyland case.”
“Their tactics to shut down speech they don’t like is thuggish and anti-American at its core,” added the club president. “In the last week or so we have been inundated with hate mail and threats, many of which had strong anti-Semitic overtones as half of our Executive Board is Jewish.”
“We will not be intimidated and we do not negotiate with terrorists,” affirmed Wax….
andrew mckendrick says
Republicans acting like Republicans…good!
Rufolino says
“Cowardice masquerading as prudence.”.
Very well put, Robert.
Eamonn Gavin says
Western Civilization is committing SUICIDE. The Eventbrite decision is just the latest example of the race over the cliff.
Steve Souchet says
Let’s help them “over the cliff” Boycott Evenbrite
Emilie Green says
“These colors don’t run”
Except when worn by Eventbrite employees.
Kerry Clark says
Eventbrite employees are wearing cheap knock-offs so, their colors do run! lol
revereridesagain says
No wonder there’s a low level of concern about another 9/11 type attack here in the US — Islam is getting everything it wants through the cultural jihad and political infiltration thanks to dhimmified cowards such as those at Eventbrite.
CRUSADER says
In 2007, Muslim Brotherhood made that same observance!
Good perception by you, Revere!
CRUSADER says
———————-
Tom Holland on : ‘De-Radicalising Muhammad’ ….
Historian and documentarian suggests that since there isn’t much to know
about Mohamhead, and that the Hadith were fabricated for political purpose,
the West should not be interfering, but, instead, should be stepping away and
allowing the Islamic world to go through the throws of their own version of
the Thirty Years War, fighting amongst each other… to allow for Muslims to
resolve their problems which arise from incompatibility of practice of Islam
in modern civilization. Islam, as it has officially been expressed, really
is NOT suited for this world.
Holland seems to think it best, during this era of ISIS, for the West to sit it out;
allow the Islamic world to destroy itself in order for there to be religious reform
— much in the style of Western Reformation. Allow Islam to work it out to accept
innovation, and do away with harsh interpretations, and brutal applications, etc.
from its “Middle Ages” roots.
(Problem is that we in the West are now living with Islamists in our midst!!!)
Much as we piece together Shakespeare from what he wrote, we can learn
about Mohamhead from what is in the Koran rather than learn about him from
what got speculated about him in the Hadith, which is mainly propaganda
and unverifiable.
We know far more about Jesus — who can be substantiated historically —
than we ever will know about Mohamhead!
It seems we can criticize Allah more than it is made possible to critique
the man Mohamhead, which the historian says isn’t right — because we
need to criticize historic figures if we are going to learn about them and
establish that they lived! It’s as if Islam is trying to prevent people from
knowing the real Mohamhead, as if something is purposefully hidden from us
about him. As if the official story taken literally about him hides the better meaning.
( —> most salient part of video is its final 14 minutes or so:)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I5slk97ss2Q
KWJ says
Thanks for the link. The video is from 2015 so I hope Tom Holland has become wiser in the last four years. He sounds naive thinking we can just step away from it and let Muslims sort it out when Islamic countries are repeatedly becoming more fundamentalist such as Brunei, Indonesia, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, for example, and the attempts on Egypt, Algeria, Sudan, Lebanon, Turkey, and so on. The clerics are always trying to make countries more conservative plus Arabization. Then there’s geopolitics and their being in our midst, the UN attempts at universal blasphemy laws and the crushing of free speech in England.
I’m not crazy about Tom Holland’s style. Maybe he tries to take the less offensive root and academic postulations while JW realizes it’s a direct threat. The woman facilitator on stage with him said she’s talked to terrorist group members and mentions the tiresome and misguided colonialism excuses and that they feel humiliated by the West’s incursions in Muslim lands, etc. That is a very superficial and lazy view that should be addressed; it ignores prior history and besides it wasn’t “colonialism” in the Middle East. If anything, they’re humiliated and jealous because they haven’t offered much to the world in commerce except for the geographical luck of oil which they didn’t even have the means to extract and develop. That’s besides this notion some Muslims have, including Erdogan, that lands they once occupied are lands to be re-taken for Islamic rule and wherever Muslims live they are to be “liberated” by living under sharia law.
An Indian scholar said that “Muhammad” was just some 7th century businessman who got into tribal warfare. A Persian chemist noted that when asking Muslims about their religion they would become angry not just asking about Muhammad maybe because they couldn’t even explain it except to “fight in the name of Allah.” Clearly the religion was cobbled together long after Abu Al-Qasim existed. Perhaps a problem is that the ahadith and biographies make Muhammad look bad in many cases, even more so than the contradictory Qur’an and Muhammad was not receiving revelations but saying convenient things such as he was allowed more wives than his followers and such expedient verses. To point that out causes Islam to fall apart like the shattered Black Stone they circle around. That in itself would cause some kind of humiliation. Muslims I talk to online just aren’t good about arguing or debating about Islam.
Deserttrek says
mohammedanism is not compatible with a civilized society
StreetKillaz2019 says
I’ve never had the good fortune of meeting Pamela Geller.
But I’ve seen some of her videos online, and I have a lot of respect for that brave woman.
may she continue to speak some hard truth to the masses, that will accept her words of wisdom.
gravenimage says
+1
Angemon says
Good to see someone with some backbone, here’s to a very successful event. 🙂
gravenimage says
NYC: Pamela Geller event to proceed despite Hamas-linked CAIR-induced Eventbrite blacklisting
……………………
Good for the brave Pamela Geller. She is a real hero.
Linde Barrera says
God bless Pamela Geller.
God bless Gavin Wax.
God bless JihadWatch.org writers.
The Jews are God’s Chosen and that makes many people jealous. Tough tacks for those who are jealous.
I will attempt to contact Eventbrite and voice my opinion in a polite way that they should not be influenced by CAIR. ?
Ed says
Would be an interesting exercise to use the experience of ticket sales for this event as momentum to springboard the growth of a new company offering competition to Eventbrite. Wouldn’t that be the American way?
Linde Barrera says
I just got off the phone with a sales person at Eventbrite. Their number is 855-326-9945. The lady who took my call said she had nothing to do with the decision to cancel with NYYRC but she would forward my message to the people who made the decision to terminate with NYYRC. She did not ask for my name, number, etc and wished me a good day.
LindaK says
I’ve never heard of Eventbrite cancelling events of the anti-American left and Islamists that work thought them. The anti-American insurgency has been in full swing out there for a long time. Good idea to boycott them. Hopefully there is an alternative, because it is a needed service.
Pam is wonder woman and a truly good and decent human being. It is a real tribute that the enemies of America that she faces up to daily have not been able to break her wondrous spirit or impact her work. America owes her a debt of gratitude and a medal. Robert, too.
What is sad is many of our representatives on both sides of the isle capitulate to enemies, such as CAIR, which is Hamas in America, a terrorist group permitted to operate here. We need our reps to stand up and do their job to protect the Constitution and the American people or leave office, it’s as simple as that. Enough with their corruption and self-serving interests that are destroying us from within. I am fed up with Congress and am disgusted that Schumer is my state’s useful idiot. Meanwhile, Schumer, de Blasio and Cuomo take down NY.
To complement learning from Pam, see former FBI trainer John Guandolo’s Understanding the Threat website, http://www.understandingthethreat.com. He has great material, excellent videos of classes for law enforcement, etc., and he too is a dedicated counter-jihadist.
Tay says
Fair play to Pamela Geller x