CAIR Trying To Shut Up Pamela Geller (Atlas Shrugs) And Robert Spencer (Jihad Watch)...Angry About Their 'Jihad-The Political Third Rail' Session At C-PAC
From Weasel Zippers:
Via ATLAS SHRUGS: From FOX News:The session appears to be attracting attention on both sides of the issue. While CAIR and a few blogs have blasted CPAC for putting on the event, co-host Pamela Geller said she's already gotten hundreds of RSVPs.
"It really will be enormously informative," she said. "Conservatives want to know."
Geller, publisher of the AtlasShrugs.com blog, is putting on the talk with Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer. Both are fierce critics of Islam.
Geller said CPAC and the American Conservative Union, which sponsors it, do not do enough to draw attention to the issues being discussed and have tried to avoid such topics in the past.
Referring to a Saturday session titled, "You've Been Lied To: Why Real Conservatives are Against the War on Terror," she said it was "incredible" that the only other related session at CPAC was taking the opposite approach.
Arguing that self-imposed censorship is crippling U.S. understanding of the wars it is in, she noted that the Pentagon's recent report into the Fort Hood shooting did not mention possible religious motivations behind the attack.
"When nowhere in that document was Islam or Jihad mentioned, then Houston, we have a problem," Geller said. "People need to understand what is the motivation."
Geller is a lightning rod for controversy, even without a forum on Islamic Jihad. Her Web site ranges in content from critiques of the Obama administration to alerts about Muslim terror attacks to more conspiratorial and outrageous postings. One blog last August questioned why the media were not reporting President Obama's "strange sexual predilections" and suggested that Obama traveled to Pakistan in the 1980s "for the drugs and came back with Jihad."
Geller said she anticipated being depicted as anti-Muslim for the CPAC session, but was not concerned about the event drifting over the line from thoughtful discussion on political correctness to virulent tirade on Islam as a whole.
"I'm not worried, because if everything is racism, then nothing is racism," she said.
7 comments:
Heh.
I'll be sure to attend now.
Maybe TMW too.
Wish I could.
What sort of idiot "conservatives" don't recognize the danger of Jihad?
Hey, check it out -- FOX is covering the story!
Awesome. Glad to hear it.
Our radio show will have a rep there.
These battles are probably far more important than most of us imagine.
It sure seems like the enemy understands so by their hysterical reactions.
You're missing the real joke here, and it's on CAIR
SHUT
UP
PAMELA?
I mean, really.
What freaking planet are THEY on?
That's very funny, Epa.
I used to talk to Pamela on the phone almost every day.
Funny thing, when I would call her, she would pick up the phone and start talking as if we were already in the middle of a conversation. It was like she never stopped ... ever.
She is a force of nature. Like a verbal volcano.
Good luck to CAIR.
;-)
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