A long war, and a hard-won victory: after a decade-long battle, we have won our free speech lawsuit against Detroit for our ads offering help to people who had left Islam or wanted to leave Islam and were facing threats. “After Ten Years, Court Strikes Down Ruling Banning Ads Offering Help to Those Leaving Islam,” […]
AFDI Applauds the Drone Strike That Killed Iranian Military Leader Qassem Soleimani
NEW YORK, January 3, 2020: The American Freedom of Defense Initiative (AFDI), one of the leading human rights organizations in the United States, on Friday applauded President Trump’s decision to target General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of the Iran-backed militias […]
On Giving Tuesday, America’s Foremost Defender of Human Rights Needs Your Help
#GivingTuesday is devoted to aiding organizations that work for truth and justice. That’s why there is no more fitting recipient of your tax-deductible donation today than the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), America’s foremost human rights activist group. AFDI is groundbreaking and unique among human rights organizations. Since our founding, AFDI has been a gamechanger […]
They’re Coming For Us
For years now, the hate-filled Leftist propaganda group known as the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has defamed our American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), one of the foremost organizations fighting to preserve freedom in America today, as a “hate group.” The smear has been irritating, but ultimately ineffective in stopping our work. Now, however, House […]
AFDI Applauds the Banning of Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from Israel
NEW YORK, August 15, 2019: The American Freedom of Defense Initiative (AFDI), one of the leading human rights organizations in the United States, on Thursday applauded the Israeli government’s decision to ban Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) from entering the country. The Israeli government announced that Tlaib and Omar would be […]
EU election day: tens of millions turn out to vote in battle between “populists” and “globalists”
“Tens of millions of Europeans in 21 countries are voting Sunday [today] in the European Parliamentary election in a continent-wide battle between euroskeptic populists and proponents of closer EU unity.” French leader Emmanuel Macron “whose country has been rocked in recent months by the populist yellow vest movement, has called the elections ‘the most important […]
Miscarriage of justice: Judge dismisses lawsuit alleging FBI role in 2015 jihad attack on AFDI free speech event
The FBI clearly knew the attack on our free speech event was coming (although it didn’t bother to inform us or our security team), as this undercover FBI agent was right there, following behind the jihadis, whom he had encouraged to “tear up Texas.” But even though they knew the attack was coming, they didn’t […]
Free speech victory: 9th Circuit rules that Seattle’s rejection of AFDI anti-terror ad violates First Amendment
An important victory for the increasingly embattled freedom of speech. Read Pamela Geller’s reaction and background on this case here. “AFLC Victory Over Government Apologists for Islamic Jihad: Ninth Circuit Unanimously Rules that King County’s Rejection of ‘Faces of Global Terrorism’ Ad Violates the First Amendment,” American Freedom Law Center, September 27, 2018: Seattle, Washington […]
Video: Key free speech case argued, American Freedom Defense Initiative vs. Seattle King County
This video shows Robert Muise of the American Freedom Law Center arguing that when Seattle refused to run our AFDI counter-terrorism ad, it violated our First Amendment rights. Our ad was a close copy of an ad that the FBI had originally run, before it was taken down after complaints from Leftists and Muslims. Both […]
AFDI Responds to Absurd Seattle King County Claim That We Are AGAINST Free Speech In Trying to Run Counterterror Ad
This all started back in 2013, when the FBI was running a terrorism awareness campaign featuring bus ads depicting photos of sixteen of the world’s Most Wanted Terrorists. This was a publicity campaign sponsored by the Joint Terrorism Task Force for the State Department’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program. The ad featured the world’s leading […]
AFDI lawsuit: “Speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend”
One of the reasons why we have such a cult of victimhood in today’s society is because being offended is currency. It buys things for you. But only for some people. If conservatives are offended, it matters not a whit. But if Muslims are offended, everyone jumps to mollify them, in part to stave off […]
Undercover FBI agent who urged jihadis to “tear up Texas” claims he didn’t know they were going to do so
This is the first time that the FBI has offered any explanation at all of some extremely strange facts: an undercover agent was in contact with the jihad terrorists who were targeting our AFDI/Jihad Watch Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Garland, Texas on May 3, 2015. He told them to “tear up Texas.” […]
FBI, DOJ argue for dismissal of suit about their foreknowledge of Garland, Texas jihad attack
This case should not be dismissed. I was co-sponsor and co-organizer of this event and spoke at it, and was there when the jihadis began firing. And this case is bigger than Bruce Joiner, which is not to say that his case is not of cardinal importance. The FBI clearly knew the attack was coming […]
Pamela Geller: One day left — my end-of-year appeal to you
[Note from Robert Spencer: I urge you to give generously and support my colleague Pamela Geller’s groundbreaking and unique work. We have entered into a new age, in which the defenders of freedom are no longer forever on the defensive. Now is the chance to make genuine headway against the forces of oppression. But when […]
Daily Mail blames “Islamophobic” Pamela Geller for jihad plot to behead her over “offensive” free speech event
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 […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The Jihad Against the Freedom of Speech is Advancing
New film reveals the shocking truth of how far it has advanced. My latest in FrontPage: Most people don’t realize how much the freedom of speech has already been eroded. It is already taken for granted by all too many people that one must not criticize Islam, or Muhammad, or the Qur’an. Many people have […]
Watch it now: AFDI’s shocking new movie, Can’t We Talk About This? The Islamic Jihad Against Free Speech
Can’t We Talk About This? from “Can’t We Talk?” Homepage on Vimeo. Can’t We Talk About This? The Islamic Jihad Against Free Speech is 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 freedom of speech and criminalize criticism of […]
Pamela Geller: AFDI/SION 2011 Warnings Unheeded, Christian Communities Annihilated in Syria, Iraq
At the end of 2011, my organization and our international partners in Europe called upon the United Nations and the international human rights community to act quickly and decisively to save the Christians of Syria, who are being increasingly threatened and victimized by Islamic supremacists. It’s not as if anyone could say that it was […]
Fighting Back: AFDI’s HUGE CUNY #CancelSarsour Protest and Attendant Fake News Blitz
There has been enormous press coverage surrounding my demo against CUNY’s obscene invitation to, as Milo succinctly put it, “sharia-loving, terrorist-embracing, Jew-hating, ticking time-bomb of progressive horror,” to keynote their commencement ceremonies. The event was a smashing success, a triumph. Thousands came out in the pouring rain and cold to protest the monstrous invite to […]
Zuhdi Jasser’s assistant attended Garland jihad shooters’ mosque in Phoenix
Yesterday I cited professional moderate Muslim Zuhdi Jasser’s endorsement of pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist Alija Izetbegovic as an example of the problematic aspects of the entire moderate Muslim enterprise. Here is more. At Jasser’s American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) website, the “Our Team” page contains biographies of two people: Jasser himself and Courtney Lonergan, AIFD’s […]