Wouldn't it be wonderful if these same Muslims came out against the slaughter of non-Muslims in Muslim lands? If they were as passionate against the burning of churches in the name of Islam? Imagine protests against Islamic Jew-hatred, gender apartheid, clitorectomoies, honor killlings. Ok, stop laughing. In this video praisng Allah for the arrest of a man for his thoughts, you will hear, "he got lucky." Meaning what? They intended to kill him? Posted by Pamela Geller on Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 03:06 PM in FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE AGE OF JIHAD | Permalink | Comments (66) ShareThis And here in America they are imprisoning Pastors for protesting such things. Muslims in Abu Qurqas have marked their homes with the statement “There is no God but Allah” and pictures of Ka’ba. This is in preparation for tomorrow’s planned attacks on the homes of all Coptic homes in Abu Qurqas, a day they deemed as “Bloody Friday” This also coincides with Holy Friday for the Coptic Christians. For several days, the Christians have been under attack although today after the Thursday liturgy there was an eerie calm. Although security forces have prohibited any filming of damages, the video associated with this article was taken without notice by authorities. While there is no violence today, eye witnesses say that there is a large gathering of Muslims in the Mosques in Abu Qurqas. The Copts are worried for tomorrow. Eye witnesses say there is a build up of Muslims from surrounding regions ready and armed for attacks tomorrow. Cars full of weapons have been spotted including one which was intercepted by securityforces. Until now, Bishop Makarious, the bishop of El Minya and Abu Qurqas estimates 30 Coptic homes have been robbed then burned. Coptic businesses, fields and cars have also been burned costing initial estimates of $3,000,000 in damages. His Grace also expressed concern that no one has been arrested in all these crimes except 15 Coptic Christians which he thought was rather ironic. Approximately 7 are seriously injured and one dead in the last several days in Abu Qurqas. His Grace also states that the Pope has been following the events closely through the news and messages sent to him from those on the scene. You may see other videos of Coptic homes being destroyed here and here. Posted by Pamela Geller on Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 01:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (16) ShareThis Terry Jones was sent to jail over a planned protest outside the largest Islamic Center in the U.S. In America 2011, they threw a guy in jail because he planned to protest. Read that again. The Wayne County prosecutor, Kym Worthy, said fears that Mr. Jones could incite violent counterprotests led them to court. (NY Times) The collusion and coziness between Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy and the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee bears scrutiny. At a dinner, Worthy spoke at at the ADC, and said: "I want people to say when they were in the Wayne County prosecutor's office that they were treated fairly due to our commitment to civil rights and social justice," Not for all, it seems. Terry Jones was sent to jail in Michigan over a planned protest outside the largest Islamic Center in the U.S. I have seen the most vile displays of subversion, anti-Americanism, Jew-hatred and violence at anti-war rallies during the Bush years. No one said boo. It's free speech. The KKK marches, no one says boo, it's free speech. Monsters protest military funerals, it's free speech. Nazis in Skokie? A-OK. But Islamic jihadis launch the most brutal and bloody attack on America on September 11, 2001, and we haven't stopped apologizing. And now we have turned over our soul, the heart of our freedom. Pastor Terry Jones never came close to The Islamic Center of America before standing trial to try and get a permit to protest there. "We definitely will not burn the Koran, we will have no type of burning of Mohammad, those type of things will not take place," said Jones before the trial. But after a short hearing the jury decided his past actions were enough to deny a permit for public protest. The judge in the case ordered Jones to pay a one dollar bond. When he refused, the judge sent him to jail. "We are not here demonstrating against the Koran, against their faith, against their rights, we are demonstrating against that radical element," said Jones. A short time later though, the bond was posted, and Jones went free, with orders from the judge to stay away from the Islamic Center of America for three years. "With freedom comes responsibility. Speak freely, but don't accuse freely," said Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi of the Islamic House of Wisdom. More Islamic bullying propaganda. The collusion and coziness between Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy and the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee bears scrutiny. It is only fair to wonder and ask aloud how objective Worthy could be in deliberation of Terry Jones' right to publicly criticize Islam and sharia in Dearborn, when she was just recently keynote speaker for ADC, one of prime forces behind opposition to Jones. Photo right: Kym Worthy speaking at the ADC. Carefully read "UnWorthy's" comments before the ADC, below. What a hypocrite. She stripped Jones of his constitutional rights in blocking his freedom of expression and freedom of speech by stopping his planned protest. Atlas reader Linda exposes Worthy's hypocrisy: ADC honors "Guardians of Justice" at 9th Annual Judges Night Arab American News (hat tip Linda) DEARBORN — Around 400 people gathered at the Byblos Banquet Hall on Thursday, October 28 in honor of local "Guardians of Justice" at the ADC's 9th Annual Judges Night. The night featured awards given to two local judges, a human rights group, and former members of ADC for their commitments to preserving justice and civil rights. "Even in this difficult financial time, ADC has made it a huge priority that this night take place annually because they value the work of judges around them in Michigan," said Kathleen McCarthy, the Judge's Night committee chair. Fifty judges, as well as government officials and community leaders, attended the event, whose sponsors included DTE and the U.S. Border Patrol. "The theme is perfect for the prosecutor's office: Guardians of Justice. Our role is that of a gatekeeper," Worthy said. "I learned that a prosecutors' most important role is to control what cases get into the system, to ensure that justice is done for everyone." Worthy spoke of 10 points that her office is working on to ensure that the community is aware that the prosecutor's office is committed to conserving justice and engaging the local community in our justice system. She spoke of the safe schools initiative in Dearborn, diversity programs, the possibility of a community court, grant funding from the capital, an anti-bullying statute for Michigan, diversity training for the staff, informational brochures available in more languages, working to relieve the tension between the African American and Arab American communities, diversifying staff by hiring attorneys from different ethnic backgrounds, and handling immigration problems, which she says is the department's biggest issue. "If you commit a crime American-born, and commit a crime not American-born, I think it is unfair that one is deported and one is not just because of where they were born," she said. Worthy spoke of working with the Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) to find a way to prevent deportations for minor offenses. "I want people to say when they were in the Wayne County prosecutor's office that they were treated fairly due to our commitment to civil rights and social justice," Worthy said. A little background on the The ADC (from Discover the Networks): ADC was a co-plaintiff in the first major legal challenge to a section of the Patriot Act -- specifically Section 215, which allows for government access to such information as medical, educational, and library records pursuant to a terrorism investigation. The organization has also endorsed the Community Resolution to Protect Civil Liberties campaign, which tries to influence city councils to pass resolutions of noncompliance with the provisions of the Patriot Act. Posted by Pamela Geller on Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 01:59 AM | Permalink | Comments (51) ShareThis Posted by Pamela Geller on Friday, April 22, 2011 at 08:28 PM in Art that speaks to me | Permalink | Comments (4) ShareThis Check out my oped in today's Big Government. Mind you, this is where I just won my lawsuit to run my bus ads offering help to Muslims in fear of their lives. Dearborn, Michigan has become a Sharia enclave, much like those populating many European countries. The city of Dearborn, Michigan denied a permit Wednesday for Qur’an-burning Pastor Terry Jones’ planned protest outside the Islamic Center of America on Good Friday. Islamic supremacists were handed a victory for their violent intimidation and threats. City spokeswoman Mary Laundroche said that Jones’ permit had been denied for “public safety reasons.” In other words, they’re afraid Muslims will riot. And so the rights of free Americans have to be curtailed. Terry Jones burned a Qur’an. So what? What happened to the freedom of assembly, the freedom of speech, and the freedom of expression? Terry Jones is prohibited from rallying in Michigan for fear of Islamic violence. Is that how far down the Sharia rabbit hole we have gone? Why is it that any time American law comes into conflict with Islamic law, it is American law that has to give way? How dare they prohibit this march? Nazis marched in Skokie. Americans better stand up to this enforced Sharia. The idea that Muslims in America would get violent because of Jones speaks volumes about Muslims in America, does it not? Why don’t we don’t see Muslims taking to the streets every time there is an honor killing, or a church bombing, or an act of jihad, jihad piracy, forced marriage, or child slavery? Where are they? Dearborn is trying to charge Jones for the extra police protection that his rally will require. But he is not the one responsible for that; the Muslims who might get violent are. If Jones had burned a Bible, no one would be threatening violence against him. Dearborn should charge the Muslims for the extra police, not Jones. Once again Dearborn shows itself to be a pro-Sharia city that oppresses Christians. Who can forget the Christians who were arrested for passing out leaflets at a Muslim festival last July? Or the lawsuit that challenges the official cooperation by the city of Dearborn, Michigan with Islamic interests, and makes a stunning allegation: that under the recognized “Shariah” law in the city, there have been “honor killing” murders that have been “covered up”? Wednesday’s court filing against Constitutional freedoms “equates the actions of zealots in Afghanistan with Muslim Americans in Dearborn.” I pulled that quote from Muslim Brotherhood-tied CAIR. Indeed. As for Jones, I don’t like book burning, but so what? I have repeatedly stated my position on this. Jones does a grave disservice to the cause of spreading awareness about Islamic teachings and the threat that Sharia poses to our way of life. The burning of books is wrong in principle: the antidote to bad speech is not censorship or book-burning, but more speech. Open discussion. Give-and-take. And the truth will out. There is no justification for burning books. Nonetheless, if Americans are free and not under Sharia, then Jones can burn any book he wants, and his church and people of like mind can hold any demonstration they want. His freedom and rights should be protected. Islamic supremacists should not be allowed a victory for their violent intimidation — if these people want to stage a protest, they’re free to do so. This is another challenge to the U.S. to stand up for free speech and free expression. Popular speech needs no protection. As such all Americans should support the right of the church to have done this, even if they dislike what they’re doing. Many people have said that Jones’s actions will endanger American troops in Afghanistan. This warning is just another terror tactic. It is based on the assumption that the Taliban and others in Afghanistan are fighting us because we are doing things they don’t like, and so if we stop doing those things, they will stop fighting us. But actually they are fighting us because of imperatives within the Islamic faith. They will never like us unless we convert to Islam or submit to Islamic rule. If we stop doing things they dislike, where will we draw the line? How far will Sharia advance in the U.S., with Americans afraid to stop its advance for fear of offending Muslims and stirring them up to violence? The Muslim Students Association is already pushing for halal cafeterias, segregated dorms, segregated gym facilities on campus. This is incompatible with American freedom. We have to draw the line. I will tell you this: Islamic law (Sharia) cannot, must not, and will not have its way over our free speech. That is worth fighting for, worth dying for. UPDATE: More on this outrage....... Jones may not be sympathetic, but he has every right to assembly, free speech and free expression. What the hell is he doing in a courtroom? And why does he face jail time? I have seen the most vile displays of subversion, anti-Americanism, Jew hatred and violence at anti-war rallies during the Bush years. No one said boo. It's free speech. The KKK marches, no one says boo, it's free speech. Monsters protest military funerals, Supreme Court says it free speech. So what the hell is this? The city of Dearborn's position is that Muslims are so violent and irrational that they won't be able to control themselves if Jones holds a protest? And he has to pay for damages? Why wouldn't the marauding Muslim hordes pay the damages if they are doing the damage? And if they get violent, why aren't they in jail? The assumption that Muslims will go jihad is.....racist-islamophobic-anti-muslim bigotry, is it not? The road to slavery ...... Posted by Pamela Geller on Friday, April 22, 2011 at 07:42 PM in Atlas Articles, Islamic law in America | Permalink | Comments (135) ShareThis This is unimaginable; and consider that the sharia is enshrined in the United Nations Cairo Declaration of [in]Human Rights. A Pakistani victim of a village council-sanctioned gang rape, who became a symbol of the country's oppressed women, says her life is in danger after the Supreme Court acquitted 13 men accused of the crime. The ruling leaves just one of the initial 14 suspects in prison. Mukhtaran Mai was attacked on the orders of a village council in Punjab province nine years ago as a punishment because her brother - who was 12 at the time - was judged to have offended the honour of a powerful clan by allegedly having an affair with one of its women. Mai, aged 30, was an illiterate villager at the time but the seamstress defied taboos and shot to global fame by speaking out about her ordeal and taking her attackers to court. Mai had accused 14 men of being involved in raping her in a stable and in 2002, a court sentenced six of them to death while acquitting the others citing a lack of evidence. But in an appeal, the Lahore High Court not only upheld the eight acquittals but also overturned five of the six convictions. The death penalty for the sixth man, Abdul Khaliq, was commuted to life in prison. Mai appealed to the Supreme Court in 2005 but a three-judge bench rejected her appeal on Thursday, said Gohar Ali Shah, a lawyer for Mai. 'I'm disappointed. Why was I made to wait for five years if this decision was to be given?' said a sobbing Mai in a telephone interview from her village in the eastern province of Punjab shortly after the court announced the decision. 'The accused can kill me and my family when they return home,' she added. 'I have lost faith in the courts, and now I am leaving my case to the court of God. I am sure God will punish those who molested me.' In a further development, the Pakistan Interior Ministry today announced it would provide Mai with security. The Lahore High Court upheld eight acquittals and overturned five of the six convictions. The death penalty for the sixth man, Abdul Khaliq (second from right) was commuted to life in prison Posted by Pamela Geller on Friday, April 22, 2011 at 05:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (26) ShareThis Muslims burn St.George Coptic Orthodox Church in Rafah, Sinai-Egypt, and are cracking Crosses. Written on the wall of the church abroad: No Christians in the land of Islam!! Islamic Army Desert ... Also written: "No God but Allah-Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah..." The church completely burned and stolen - was cracking Crosses from above the tower and domes ... Occurred after the revolution of 25 January, 2011 Posted by Pamela Geller on Friday, April 22, 2011 at 03:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (14) ShareThis More freedom and tolerance, Muslim-style. Obama, the Brotherhood's man in the WH, was unavailable for comment on the 18th hole. Egypt: Christian governor to resign following Muslim protests (updated) Creeping (thanks to Armaros) Religion of peace alert. via Christian governor to resign following Muslim protests | Al-Masry Al-Youm A newly-appointed Christian governor in Egypt intends to resign Tuesday after several days of Muslim protests, the Egyptian news agency MENA reported. Governor Emad Mikhail of the Qena governorate intends to submit his resignation within hours, according to the agency. Mass protests by Muslims in Qena demanded that Mikhail be replaced by a Muslim, threatening to prevent the new governor from doing his job. The protesters have blocked the Cairo-Aswan railroad in Qena since Friday. Prime Minister Essam Sharaf on 15 April appointed 20 new governors. Mikhail, who previously served as Giza’s deputy security chief, replaced another Christian, former Governor Magdi Ayoub. Then there is this news, Muslim Brotherhood Demands Appearance Before US Congress…, and may have already met with them. Update: The hits keep coming, Egyptian Islamists call for release of blind sheik CAIRO – Hundreds of Islamists have staged a protest in front of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo to demand the release of an Egyptian cleric imprisoned in the United States for plots to blow up New York City landmarks. Posted by Pamela Geller on Friday, April 22, 2011 at 03:26 PM in Egypt | Permalink | Comments (5) ShareThis What should be rote, automatic, is now hard-fought. In a victory for free speech, the NJ transit worker who was fired for buring a page of the quran last Septmeber 11th has been reinstated and recompensed. Here's the Atlas post back in Septmeber 2010: NJ Transit Taliban Enforces the Strict Sharia: Fires Employee Who Burned Quran... If he burned a flag or a bible, the left would have had a parade down Fifth Avenue, but in the continuing era of self-enforcing sharia, the infidel was punished. Kudos to the ACLU for fianlly doing something right (even a broken clock is right twice a day.) As for burning the quran, who gives a fig? N.J. Transit Worker Fired for Burning Koran Rehired, Compensated for 'Pain and Suffering' FOX News National Interest N.J. Transit Worker Fired for Burning Koran Rehired, Compensated for 'Pain and Suffering' FOX News A New Jersey Transit worker fired for burning a copy of the Koran near Ground Zero last Sept. 11 is getting his job back– and an extra $25,000 for his troubles. Derek Fenton, 40, who was fired on Sept. 13, 2010 a day after torching the Muslim holy book at the site of a proposed Islamic center near the former site of the World Trade Center, is set to return to his $86,110-a-year job and receive $25,000 for pain and suffering as well as $331 in back pay for everyday since his dismissal, the Newark Star Ledger reported. New Jersey Transit also has to pay the ACLU $25,000 in legal fees for bringing the suit on Fenton’s behalf, according to the settlement. Fenton, who wasn't working that day, was there to mark the ninth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. His protest received national attention as well as criticism from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie who supported his firing. "Our government cannot pick and choose whose free speech rights are protected, based on whether or not they approve of the content of our statements or actions," Fenton said in a statement. "This is the very essence of the First Amendment." Posted by Pamela Geller on Friday, April 22, 2011 at 03:17 PM in FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE AGE OF JIHAD | Permalink | Comments (10) ShareThis As I wrote here earlier, the newly refurbished narrative on the Ground Zero mosque is taking shape, and it's secular. lol. I Called this one back in February when I premiered our film, Ground Zero Mosque, Second Wave of the 911 Attacks, in Boston Which if you haven't seen, get it now, here. Now that the Ground Zero mosque has had their three Islamic radicals, Daisy the Khan, Imam Feisal Rauf and Abdullah Adhami, exposed and removed, the media is aiding and abetting thug developer Sharif El-Gamal in re-framing the narrative by removing the religious component from the mega mosque and eliminating talk of imams and such. Enter stage right, the resurrection of thug developer Sharif El-Gamal, New Yorker, businessman, waiter! Here the Daily News turns over its oped pages to this charlatan. I assure you, no such opportunity has ever been afforded me. They know who and what he is, just look at previous news articles that ran about Gamal in that very same paper. If you want to remove the religious component, remove the mosque. The 92Y, the YWCA, upper Westside JCC etc don't have temples or churches. Right now it is a mega-mosque with amenities (a gym, a pool, a pre-K). Grifter Gamal has defaulted on not one but two hundred thousand dollar bank loans, was evicted from his SoHo office for failure to pay back rent, he owes $21,000 in fines on a property with 13 violations, and has spoken at an event for Hamas-linked CAIR. Thug Gamal has tweeted that he likes ti beat people up for “exercise & stress relief.” And he is lecturing us on tolerance. He is the secular face of the "ccommunity center." In one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s documents delineating its strategy for Islamizing the United States and entered into evidence in the largest Hamas funding trial in American history, it calls for the establishment of “centers” that will function in American cities much like Muhammad’s base in Medina. From Medina, Muhammad conquered and Islamized the Arabian Peninsula. He always mentions that he had a Polish Catholic mother and Egyptian Muslim father. But they divorced over religion, and on her deathbed, his mother allegedly made a death wish that the boys not be brought up Muslim (but after her death, El-Gamal's father got his claws into the boys and took them to Egypt). And the rest is Ground Zero mosque history. The latest idea to move the Ground Zero mosque forward is to paint the Ground Zero Mosquestrosity as a secular (chuckle) enterprise by a real New Yawker. This is part of the morphing mosque narrative. I remember back in early 2010, in the very beginning of this attack on Ground Zero. When the American people first heard of the stab in the eye, the Ground Zero mosque, they were floored and outraged, so Islamic supremacists behind the project said, it's not a mosque (despite the fact that it said it was a mosque on their website), it was a prayer space (a prayer space is a mosque), and then it was a prayer component, and so it goes ....... JOIN US ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2011 TO REMEMBER THE VICTIMS OF THE WORST ACT OF JIHAD ON AMERICAN SOIL AND TO PROTEST THE MOSQUESTROSITY. MARK YOIR CALENDERS, SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY. IT IS THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF JIHAD'S ATTACK ON AMERICA, WATCH THIS SPACE FOR DETAILS AND EXACT LOCATION. 'Ground Zero mosque' developer says it's full steam ahead: Park51 will rise in lower Manhattan Daily News Talk to 10 people about the "Ground Zero Mosque" and you'll get 10 different views of what they think it is and where it is located. Nah, everybody hates the idea of a mega mosque on Ground Zero. About one year after the debate over this project became a national controversy, let's set the record straight, again. First: It is not a mosque, nor is it on Ground Zero. Park51, which is the name of the project, is first and foremost an Islamic community center, modeled after the Jewish Community Center on the upper West Side. First off, it is a mosque. Has he removed the mosque. Aristotle said A is A. Geller says, a mosque is a mosque. Secondly, it is Ground Zero. That very building was partially destroyed in the attacks of 911. It is a war memorial and should be the last place that a triumphal mosque should be erected. And again, the JCC is not a synagogue. But an "islamic center" is part of the Muslim Brotherhood program of Islamic imperialism. When completed, the center will contain a gym, a pool, a pre-K, a daycare facility, an amphitheater, a culinary institute, a 9/11 memorial and more. There will be a separate prayer As with the JCC, membership to the community center will be open to all New Yorkers, The JCC does not have a temple and that area is not residential, it's the financial center. But as clear as our vision is, lots of misperceptions persist. As the developer behind Park51 and the person who has put so much of my own company's resources into realizing this dream, I feel obligated to clear them up. Trash talk from a liar. Nowhere ever did anyone ever say a "Muslim-free zone," but this is what they do. They must lie to cover for the truth. Despite enormous challenges, Park51 has made extraordinary strides since we purchased the land roughly a year and a half ago. Like what? We have applied for our nonprofit status with the IRS. We have been approved to function as a charity by the state attorney general's office. We have developed preliminary architectural designs. We have conducted market research. We have formulated programming and launched a website. We currently have a founder's board and will be expanding this in the coming months In other words, he has accomplished nothing, and we have been successful in impeding the construction of the Ground Zero mega mosque. Looking forward to parsing the names on his "founders board." We will soon hire senior executives, start interim programming within the temporary space, and launch a fund-raising campaign. Man can't pay his taxes or his rent. Where is he getting the dough for this new huge GZM payroll? As we speak, my investors and I are aggressively moving to secure financing, both private and public. It will take time, as any major construction project does - just look at the World Trade Center site. He has no dough and we will fight to make sure he does not get taxpayer money. But Park51 has pledged that our financing will be made public, that we will not take any funds from entities or governments hostile to America. We will work with the relevant government agencies to make sure all our funding is vetted and approved. Like who? Holder? My story embodies the American Dream. I was born in Brooklyn to a Catholic mother and Egyptian father. Here again, he is so dishonest. As if this was a wondeful inter-faith marriage, when in fact his Catholic mother divorced the father because of "religious differences." She demanded, on her deathbed, that the boys not be raised Muslim. We see how that worked out. As a college dropout, I started what has become a successful real estate development company. I met my wife, an all-American girl from the Hamptons, here in Manhattan. My daughters learned to swim at the upper Westside JCC, where we are members. The upper West side JCC does not have a synagogue, and the Jews are inclusive. They do not teach annihilation and ethnic cleansing. Posted by Pamela Geller on Friday, April 22, 2011 at 01:26 PM in Ground Zero Mega Mosque: Takbir! | Permalink | Comments (15) ShareThis You just can't make this stuff up. While Obama sends close to a billion dollars to Hamas, aids the jihad in Libya, abandons our ally in Egypt to help install the Muslim Brotherhood, refuses to prosecute Muslim Brotherhood proxies in the US despite a "mountain of evidence," we are learning that 9/11 Responders will be be screened by FBI's Terrorism Watch List. My question is, why? In Obamaland, who is a terrorist? According to Obama's Homeland Security department, tea partiers, veterans, grandmas, and patriots pose a threat ......... 9/11 Responders To Be Warned They Will Be Screened By FBI's Terrorism Watch List (EXCLUSIVE) WASHINGTON -- A provision in the new 9/11 health bill may be adding insult to injury for people who fell sick after their service in the aftermath of the 2001 Al Qaeda attacks, The Huffington Post has learned. The tens of thousands of cops, firefighters, construction workers and others who survived the worst terrorist assault in U.S. history and risked their lives in its wake will soon be informed that their names must be run through the FBI’s terrorism watch list, according to a letter obtained by HuffPost. Any of the responders who are not compared to the database of suspected terrorists would be barred from getting treatment for the numerous, worsening ailments that the James Zadroga 9/11 Health And Compensation Law was passed to address. It’s a requirement that was tacked onto the law during the bitter debates over it last year. The letter from Dr. John Howard, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, informs medical providers and administrators that they should begin letting patients know before the new program kicks in this July. “This is absurd,” said Glen Kline, a former NYPD emergency services officer. “It’s silly. It’s stupid. It’s asinine.” “It’s comical at best, and I think it’s an insult to everyone who worked on The Pile and is sick and suffering from 9/11,” said John Feal, a former construction worker who lost half a foot at Ground Zero and runs the advocacy group Fealgood Foundation. Posted by Pamela Geller on Friday, April 22, 2011 at 11:58 AM in Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (12) ShareThis Red County has a great piece (here) on our upcoming Ground Zero mosque movie screening in Tampa, Florida. In the area? Don't miss it. Frequent FOX News Contributors Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer to Visit Tampa Bay, Premiere Film, Report on Ground Zero Mosque and the World Trade Center 9/11 Memorial. Pamela Geller, leading opponent of the Ground Zero Mosque, Editor/Publisher of the widely popular and award-winning websitewww.AtlasShrugs.com and Robert Spencer, New York Times bestselling author of nine books on Islam and jihad who has led seminars on those subjects for the US Army, the FBI, and the US intelligence community, and Director ofwww.JihadWatch.org, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, will screen and discuss their new documentary: The Ground Zero Mosque: Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks Pamela and Robert will report the latest on the Ground Zero Mosque and the WTC 9/11 Memorial, which plans to honor the 19 jihadists and demean the memories and remains of the 9/11 victims and the first responders who lost their lives that day. Sunday, May 1 Muvico Baywalk 20 & IMAX 151 2nd Avenue North St. Petersburg, FL 33701 1:30 pm Tickets cost $10 at the door or $9 online at http://groundzeromovieflorida.eventbrite.com. You may contactgroundzeromovieflorida@gmail.com for additional information. Posted by Pamela Geller on Friday, April 22, 2011 at 11:03 AM in Film, Film Screening: Ground Zero Mosque Movie | Permalink | Comments (3) ShareThis Tony Katz is doing a series highlighting conservative women. Yesterday, Katz interviewed me on liberal women vs. conservative real women. I don't believe it is liberal vs. conservative. I believe it's statist women vs. individualists. Here's the link to the video. Pamela Geller: Conservative Women Rule Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs.com talks about being a woman and a conservative. She sees unique, proud women on the right, but sees something much different on the left. Hear what she says about sharia law and censorship in the west. Posted by Pamela Geller on Friday, April 22, 2011 at 10:38 AM in Atlas events, Atlas Interviews .... | Permalink | Comments (2) ShareThis Here's an update to yesterday's piece on "doing the right thing"........ which was a big thank you kiss to Tom Blumer, editor of the leading business blog, Bizzy Blog, and a PJM contributor. The foreign contribution story I broke in July 2008 took months to pull together. It is irritating to listen to people justify what amounts to an intellectual theft. It is wrong. Not only did we go through thousands of pages of FEC douments, but I followed up with David Keene (yes, Grover's boy) in 2008 as well. He was the President of the ACU, and I implored him to file suit against the BHO campaign. I sent Keene all of the evidence I uncovered and he assured me that the ACU would follow up. But I never heard back. I wrote over 53 articles, some of them very lengthy, and all of them the result of hard work and creative investigation. It was all inclusive of serious violations of campaign finance fraud, including contributions from Gaza, gibberish donors, non-existent donors, foreign bundling, the exchange rate fiasco, in which people contributed $9.19 (for crying out loud), the fact that Obama websites published lists of people doing the bundling ... which have never been credited to me, and for which my investigative efforts have never been acknowledged. Here are the 2008 Atlas posts breaking the story. I think people lifting the work without attribution and credit should see how I broke the story and the amount of work that went into it. Here's the timeline: July 19, 2008: CAMPAIGN FINANCE FRAUD: Obama, who is Jeanne McCurdy? July 23, 2008: Obama's Foreign Contributions July 30, 2008: Obama's Anonymous Foreign Donors and Other Bizarre Illegal Activity July 31, 2008: Obama's Gazan Contributions July 31, 2008: Obama, Who is Dr. Okechukwu Dimkpa? July 31, 2008: Obama's Contributors: Good Will? Loving you? UPDATE: Doo da Doo Da August 2, 2008: And then there are Obama's Gibberish Donors .... August 3, 2008: Obama's Fishy "Personal" Fund Raising Pages August 3, 2008: Obama's "Odd" Contributions: More evidence of foreign contributors August 4, 2008: WND RUNS MY OBAMA GAZA CONTRIBUTION EXCLUSIVE August 5, 2008: Poll: AMERICANS DISGUSTED WITH OBAMA'S JIHAD CONTRIBUTIONS August 6, 2008: Gazans Deny Obama Returned their JIhad Dough: No Honor Among Thieves August 6, 2008: "PALESTINIAN" CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION: OBAMA SHIPPED TEE SHIRTS TO GAZA? August 10, 2008: OBAMA'S DONATION OBAMANATION: Saputra, Anton , INDONESIA August 10, 2008: OBAMA'S FOREIGN DONATIONS: THE GLOBAL CANDIDATE FROM IRAN TO BRAZIL TO SOROS August 10, 2008: OSAMA FOR OBAMA! THIRD "PALESTINIAN" BROTHER/DONOR EXPOSED! "GAZAN" CONTRIBUTIONS FLAGGED BY FEC, OBAMA NEVER REPORTED August 11, 2008: Obama Response to FEC: Chicago Style "Plausible" Deniability? August 11, 2008: Obama Contributions: Moving On MoveOn's Money August 13, 2008: To the Best of Obama's Ability August 14, 2008: ATLAS, AMERICAN THINKER..... MEDIA AVERSION August 18, 2008: OBAMA'S CONTRIBUTIONS: I SEE FAKE PEOPLE ... OVER THE LIMIT August 26, 2008: OBAMA LIED: "Palestinian" Campaign Contributions NEVER RETURNED OR REFUNDED September 13, 2008: JUST WHO IS CONTRIBUTING BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA? September 18, 2008: ALSHEIKH, RIYADH CAMPAIGN $$ FOR OBAMA October 1, 2008: More media on Obama's Foreign, Illegal Contributions October 2, 2008: OBAMA'S FOREIGN DONATIONS: Jagan, Son of chief minister of Andhrapradesh October 2, 2008: OBAMA FOREIGN ILLEGAL CONTRIBUTIONS: INFILTRATION AT FEC, DOJ, and FBI October 4, 2008: More Fraud in the Obama Campaign Donations October 5, 2008: OBAMA CONTRIBUTIONS: THE RNC FINALLY BLINKS!, ATLAS GETS RESULTS! NEWSWEAK PLAGIARIZES ATLAS October 6, 2008: MCCAIN MENTIONS GAZA CONTRIBUTIONS October 14, 2008: Atlas Attribution in San Francisco Examiner October 18, 2008: More Obama Campaign Contribution Irregularities October 21, 2008: OBAMA'S CONTRIBUTIONS/EXPENSES: ABSOLUTE CORRUPTION October 22, 2008: "WHO IS JOHN GALT? A CONTRIBUTOR TO COLLECTIVIST OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN, OF COURSE! UPDATE: RNC FILES SUPPLEMENT COMPLAINT TO FEC" October 23, 2008: OBAMA ACCEPTS DONATIONS FROM AL QAEDA LINKED TERRORISTS October 24, 2008: MORE RECKLESS OBAMA CAMPAIGN FRAUD: NO REFUNDS, NO ACCOUNTABILITY, MORE GIBBERISH DONORS October 24, 2008: National Journal: OBAMA'S FEC LOOPHOLES October 25, 2008: ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: OBAMA'S CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ACTIVIST JUDGES October 25, 2008: CONTRIBUTION FRAUD: John Galt, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Bill Ayers - Obama has Charged Your Credit card October 27, 2008: CAMPAIGN FINANCE FRAUD: OBAMA'S LATEST RUSE, DEFLECT/RUN October 27, 2008: I heard Atlas was Cited at FOX this morning on Campaign Finance Fraud October 29, 2008: OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN BOGUS CAMPAIGN FRAUD RESPONSE October 29, 2008: OBAMA CAMPAIGN FRAUD:STILL TAKING FICTITIOUS DONORS, CREDIT CARD FRAUD November 3, 2008: THE BEST ANALYSIS OF CAMPAIGN FRAUD: TOM BLUMER November 11, 2008: OBAMA ABOVE THE LAW:WILL ESCAPE MASSIVE CAMPAIGN FRAUD AND MONEY LAUNDERING Here is the continuing exchange between Ken Timmerman and Tom Blumer, a man I do not know well, but who clearly has enormous integrity. He took it upon himself to right this wrong. Righteous. Perhaps Ken Timmerman's failure to do the right thing was more than anything else what caused my work to be overlooked by those that picked up his story: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On 4/20/11 7:19 PM, Kenneth Timmerman wrote: ++++++++++++++++++++++++ On 4/20/11 4:05 PM, "Pamela Geller" Michelle, Posted by Pamela Geller on Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 02:16 PM in Obama's Contributions: Foreign and Domestic | Permalink | Comments (13) ShareThis Dearborn, Michigan has become a sharia enclave, much like those populating many European countries. The city of Dearborn, Michigan denied a permit yesterday for Pastor Terry Jones' planned protest outside the Islamic Center of America on Good Friday. Islamic supremacists were handed a victory for their violent intimidation and threats. What happened to freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of expression? Terry Jones is prohibited from rallying in Michigan for fear of Islamic violence. Is that how far down the sharia rabbit hole we have gone? Why is it that anytime American law comes into conflict with Islamic law, it is American law that has to give way? How dare they prohibit this march? Nazis marched in Skokie. Americans better stand up to this enforced sharia. The idea that Muslims in America would get violent because of Jones speaks volumes about Muslims in America, does it not? Why don't we don't see Muslims taking to the streets every time there is an honor killing, or church bombing, or act of jihad, jihad piracy, forced marriage, child slavery? Where are they? Once again Dearborn shows itself to be a pro-sharia city that oppresses Christians. Who can forget the Christians who were arrested for passing out leaflets at a Muslim festival last July? Or the lawsuit that challenges the official cooperation by the city of Dearborn, Michigan with Islamic interests, and makes a stunning allegation: that under the recognized "Shariah" law in the city, there have been "honor killing" murders that have been "covered up." As for Jones, I don't like book burning, but so what? I have repeatedly stated my position on this. Jones does a grave disservice to the cause of spreading awareness about Islamic teachings and the threat that Sharia poses to our way of life. The burning of books is wrong in principle: the antidote to bad speech is not censorship or book-burning, but more speech. Open discussion. Give-and-take. And the truth will out. There is no justification for burning books. If Americans are free and not under Sharia, then the church can do this if it wants, and their freedom and rights should be protected. Islamic supremacists should not be allowed a victory for their violent intimidation -- if these people want to stage a protest, they're free to do so. Dearborn denies permit, says Quran-burning minister could face arrest The Detroit News: Dearborn — Dearborn denied a permit Wednesday for Quran-burning Pastor Terry Jones' planned protest outside the Islamic Center of America on Good Friday. Jones could be arrested if he goes ahead with the protest outside the mosque without a permit, said city spokeswoman Mary Laundroche. She added that the permit had been denied for "public safety reasons." Jones said he had not received notification that the permit had been turned down but that he was undeterred. Jones is due in 19th District Court in Dearborn on Thursday to answer prosecutors' claims that his demonstration could cause a riot and demands he post a "peace bond" to cover police costs. Dearborn officials said Jones can still demonstrate at one of two "free speech zones," including City Hall. Before denying the permit, city officials expressed concern about public safety, traffic and disruptions to nearby churches. Jones isn't likely to relent. He's said for weeks that he plans to demonstrate outside the Ford Road mosque with or without a permit. Earlier today, Jones said the mosque is the ideal site for his protest against "radical Islam" and Sharia, or Islamic, law. "There is no place better than there to present this message," said Jones, the pastor of the Dove World Outreach center in Gainesville, Fla. Jones said he is planning to bring a pistol to protect himself in case of violence, but has no plans to burn an Islamic holy book. "We are coming there totally in peace," said Jones, who said he will be joined by several other people including a rabbi. Earlier today, Dearborn Mayor John B. O'Reilly Jr. released a copy of an "open letter" he wrote to Jones in a last-ditch effort to persuade him to cancel his protest. In the three-page letter released to the media, O'Reilly urged Jones to conduct his demonstration at one of the city's "free speech zones." O'Reilly also questioned the logic of protesting Sharia in Dearborn. "Our commitment to the Constitution is unwavering, not merely convenient, which makes your hyperbole about Sharia Law being practiced in the courts or civil law of Dearborn nonsensical," O'Reilly wrote. "So, you are coming to protest against an imaginary threat that doesn't exist in our community. Not in our courts, not at our City Hall, not on our streets and not in any of our places of worship." The mayor also pointed out to Jones that several churches in the vicinity of the mosque will be conducting Good Friday services and Jones' protest outside the mosque will be disruptive to their traffic as well. "The members of the Christian churches on Altar Road asked me last week if they should cancel their Good Friday services because of your planned visit. I assured them that they should not because the Constitution does not allow you to violate their rights. I don't know why you selected Good Friday but it wasn't very considerate of the significant Christian services being held at that time. I assure you that you will not make them forfeit their services," O'Reilly wrote. Posted by Pamela Geller on Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 11:34 AM in Free Speech Silenced, FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE AGE OF JIHAD | Permalink | Comments (124) ShareThis JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Terror suspects arrested Thursday led police to a 150-kilogram (330-pound) bomb buried beneath a gas pipeline near a church just outside Indonesia's capital, officials said. Senior security minister Djoko Suyanto said he believed Islamic militants had been plotting an attack ahead of Easter celebrations, and the U.S. embassy urged Americans to be vigilant. "The army and police are under high alert," he told reporters, adding that troops would be deployed at churches and other strategic locations. "We want to guarantee safety." Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has been battling extremists since 2002 when al-Qaida-linked militants attacked two nightclubs on Bali island, killing 202 people, many of them foreign tourists. There have been several attacks since then targeting glitzy hotels, restaurants and an embassy, killing another 60. Hundreds of suspects have been arrested, convicted and thrown in jail. In recent months, small bands of militants hoping to turn the secular nation of 237 million into an Islamic state have shifted their focus to local "enemies." They've gone after police, members of a minority Islamic sect deemed "deviant," Christians and moderate Muslim leaders. More deception. It's authentic, not deviant. Read the quran, read Islamic history. National Police Chief Gen. Timur Pradopo said the 19 suspects were arrested Thursday, including six accused in a series of mail bombs sent last month to liberal Muslim activists and a former anti-terror chief. Four people were wounded in the parcel bombings, none seriously. The arrested men eventually led police to the gas pipeline 100 meters (yards) from a Catholic church large enough to hold 3,000 people in Serpong, where they found the massive, high explosive bomb. Suyanto said he believed the [Muslim] militants had been planning to disrupt Good Friday celebrations. The U.S. embassy in Jakarta issued a statement urging Americans to be especially cautious over the weekend and to stay clear of demonstrations. "Even demonstrations intended to be peaceful can turn confrontational and possibly escalate into violence," it said. Ninety percent of Indonesians are Muslim, though most practice a moderate form of the faith and abhor violence. A small, extremist fringe has become more vocal, and violent, in recent years. More garbage of this sort -- "small, extremist fringe," all quoting quran, all devout. Posted by Pamela Geller on Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 10:52 AM in Global Jihad 2011 | Permalink | Comments (7) ShareThis Well, there you have it. And Geithner wants to increase the debt ceiling by close to another two trillion. Politics, shmolitics ......it is unsustainable. Period. Atlas reader van opined: They throw these numbers around like it was pocket change. He and Bernanke are simply criminal in their managing of the economy and should be charged as such. They are the main contributors to America's decline and ECONOMIC destruction. They should be in prison. Geithner's arrogance is almost that of Obama's. They are both beyond incompetent and criminally out of their league. Obama is waging war against America. Government Cash Handouts Now Top Tax Revenues FOX Business U.S. households are now getting more in cash handouts from the government than they are paying in taxes for the first time since the Great Depression. Households received $2.3 trillion in some kind of government support in 2010. That includes expanded unemployment benefits, as well as payments for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and stimulus spending, among other things. But that’s more than the $2.2 trillion households paid in taxes, an amount that has slumped largely due to the recession, according to an analysis by the Fiscal Times. And the handouts from the government have been growing. Government cash handouts account for a whopping 79% of household growth since 2007, even as household tax payments--for things like the income and payroll tax, among other taxes--have fallen by $312 billion. That is a tough feeding trough to take away from voters. One of the recurring themes FOX Business has been covering is “how the world has been turned upside down – well, the business world at least,” notes FOX Director of Business News, Ray Hennessey. “In a free market, profit is generated by hard work and enterprise," Hennessey notes, adding: “Because of the labor of the worker, companies generally have the ability to prosper and make more money, both for their employees and their owners," which in turn creates tax revenues. Seems like common sense, right? That’s because it is. But not in our country today. Somehow the DNA of our country is changing. Wealth creation is coming from DC, not from America’s entrepreneurs. In short, Americans have the government, not private enterprise, to thank for their wealth growth. Obviously, there are big implications to this. For instance, Hennessey asks, if indeed more households have the government to thank for their wealth, does that mean those households are more inclined to re-elect politicians who are pushing for more government handouts? Does the workforce erode because it is easier to collect a check than answer to an alarm clock each morning? Is our competitiveness as a nation hurt because profit is generated not by American capitalism but by European-style socialism? Can we, as taxpayers, afford to carry the burden of government-sponsored wealth creation? All this comes at a time when a growing number of Wall Street houses, including JPMorgan Chase (JPM: 44.56, -0.09, -0.20%) and Barclays Capital (BCS: 19.38, +0.25, +1.31%), Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) are cutting their U.S. GDP growth forecasts by as much as a percentage point or more. It also comes as President Barack Obama is already in re-election mode, as he bets his massive spending will woo independents. It also comes as Standard & Poor’s has joined the International Monetary Fund and Pimco, which runs the world’s biggest bond fund, in downgrading their outlook on US debt. Please read the rest and weep for your country, for your future and for free men. UPDATE: U.S. credit rating downgrade: the Armageddon scenario Washington Post A credit rating downgrade for the United States would spell even more financial trouble for the U.S. government, hampering its ability to borrow money as investors demand higher yields to make up for the increased risk. That would cause its national debt to balloon further and increase the need to hike taxes or make even more painful cuts in spending. But the real Armageddon scenario would occur when the impact of a sovereign downgrade hit the rest of the U.S. economy. Posted by Pamela Geller on Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 10:07 AM in Capitalism RIP | Permalink | Comments (8) ShareThis Outreach? During the House Homeland Security hearing last month on the topic of radicalization in the American Muslim community, one exchange between L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca and Rep. Chip Cravaack (R-MN) concerned the relationship between the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department and Hamas terrorist front the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Sheriff Baca told the congressman: We don’t play around with criminals in my world. If CAIR is an organization that is a quote “criminal organization,” prosecute them. Hold them accountable and bring them to trial. But according to a high-ranking source within the Department of Justice, who spoke exclusively to Pajamas Media on the condition of anonymity, Sheriff Baca, a long-time supporter of CAIR, was probably already in on the joke. The joke is that a number of leaders of Islamic organizations (all of whom publicly opposed the King hearings on Muslim radicalization) were about to be indicted on terror finance support charges by the U.S. attorney’s office in Dallas, which had been investigating the case for most of the past decade. But those indictments were scuttled last year at the direction of top-level political appointees within the Department of Justice (DOJ) — and possibly even the White House. (more here) And for "outreach?" PJM had this from a highly placed DoJ source: In all my years working for the U.S. government I have rarely seen anything as mystifying as our outreach to Muslims. Do we really need it? Sure. We need to be reaching out to the Muslim leaders who are working to prevent radicalization, not the ones who are making it happen. But that isn’t what we’re doing. Instead we’re having countless meetings from the Cabinet level on down with groups and individuals that we know are bad guys and who we’ve repeatedly said in court are actively working to support terrorist groups overseas. We even had [FBI General Counsel] Valerie Caproni meeting regularly with these Hamas guys to get their guidance. What advice do you think they were giving her? And she knew exactly who she was dealing with. It was the FBI who went into federal court and said that CAIR isHamas. But at the same time that FBI agents were testifying in the [Holy Land Foundation] trial that CAIR is a Hamas front there was serious disagreement inside DOJ and the FBI about whether we should continue to work with CAIR or cut them loose. So now we do both. We say publicly that we don’t have an official relationship, but CAIR still has most of the staff in [Attorney General Eric] Holder and [FBI Director Robert] Mueller’s offices on speed dial. Don’t think for a minute that we stopped dealing with them. And what exactly is our end game for doing this? Nobody knows. Are we getting anything by reaching out to CAIR? Of course not. Posted by Pamela Geller on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 05:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (50) ShareThis Huge props and deep thanks to Tom Blumer of that gem of a business blog, Bizzy Blog, for cc-ing me on this email to Michelle Malkin and for trying to set the record straight. G-d bless him for taking the time and trouble. I am struck by his consideration in this matter. Bloggers know that credit and atttribution is the currency in which we trade (it sure ain't the dough). I worked for weeks on Obama's foreign campaign contributions and credit card fraud story -- studying thousands of pages of FEC documents. Atlas readers Laura, Cathy, John Jay, Graeme and others provided invaluable analysis and help. All 53 posts dating back to July 2008 are here and here. Set the record and straight and get it right. Here is Tom Blumer's email to Michelle Malkin (completely unprompted by me, though I am enormously grateful): Michelle, Posted by Pamela Geller on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 05:14 PM in Obama's Contributions: Foreign and Domestic | Permalink | Comments (17) ShareThis Jew-hatred goes viral in the age of Obama. It's the culture and the words and actions of the Islamophiliac president have stoked the fires of hate. The damage of Obama is incalculable. Even O's Passover message was incendiary. Officer Howard Hersh, a police spokesman, says investigators haven’t determined whether the act was a hate crime. Imagine, if you will, if this were a mosque and/or Muslim owned businesses. Muslim Brotherhood groups would be calling for hearings to indict and punish (under the sharia, of course) any and all counter jihad voices. This disconnect when the crime is against the Jews is breathtaking. I hardly call this a "childish prank." But hey, it's just Jew-hatred, nothing to see here, folks. Keep it movin'. 14 windows were shot out at the synagogue and local Jewish-affiliated businesses. The Beth Sholom synagogue in Washington DC had its windows shot out on Monday the eve of Passover Unknown elements used a pellet gun to shatter the windows of the Beth Sholom synagogue in Washington D.C. on Monday – Passover eve. They also fired at the window displays of a women’s clothing store and jewelry store owned by Jews. Police have yet to trace the suspects and have not ruled out the possibility the act was a hate crime. The shooting occurred on Monday night when the synagogue was empty. There were no injuries. A synagogue element told NBC News that the motive for the crime was unclear. The jewelry store owner estimated it was a childish prank. Police are currently looking into both scenarios and are working to trace the owners of a car seen in footage from the shopping center’s security cameras. Tow Jewish-affiliated businesses in the area were also shot at. Montgomery County police say someone used a BB gun to shoot holes in several windows at a synagogue in Potomac and at two nearby businesses. The vandalism was discovered early Monday at Beth Sholom Congregation on Seven Locks Road. The Jewish holiday of Passover begins Monday evening. Officer Howard Hersh, a police spokesman, says investigators haven’t determined whether the act was a hate crime. He says the two businesses have Jewish affiliations. They are a jewelry store and a women’s clothing store. Hersh says surveillance video shows the suspected shooter driving up to the stores in a vehicle around 1:20 a.m. Monday Posted by Pamela Geller on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 03:48 PM in Antisemitism:Modern Argument to Age Old Hate | Permalink | Comments (13) ShareThis Here is the much-talked-about Texas television interview that Obama gave to the intrepid reporter Brad Watson. I love Texas! Obama's demeanor and condescension speak volumes, but I was struck by his facial expression and thug-like intimidation at minute 2:05. Watch his face at 2:05. It is no wonder they keep this mental patient away from the press, with the exception of those rare intermittent appearances when he deigns to make a cameo before a lapdog White House press corps. Posted by Pamela Geller on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 02:07 PM in President Hussein | Permalink | Comments (36) ShareThis They should be protesting against the sharia (Islamic law.) They came to America to get away from the oppressive and brutal system of governance, did they not? Or did they come to impose it? Muslims rally at Tennessee Capitol to protest legislation The Tennessean, April 20 (hat tip AB) Several hundred Muslims thronged the state Capitol on Tuesday in protest of legislation that they say takes aim at their religious beliefs, calling on the bill to be defeated. Muslims from across the state — many wearing traditional skullcaps and headscarves — packed a committee room and corridors to hear testimony on a bill that supporters say would help Tennessee stop terrorist plots but opponents believe singles out Muslims who adhere to Islamic law. They urged lawmakers to withdraw the bill, or at least to delay it until it can be rewritten so that groups labeled as terrorist organizations can protest the designation before they are forced to shut down. “These are issues for any group,” said Nadeem Siddiqi, a native Knoxville resident who traveled to Nashville to speak against the bill. “The United States of America is known for its freedoms, known for due process, known for a fair system, and to be able to have a few individuals in a state of panic create this kind of risk to civil society is just inappropriate.” Incredible that they can equate American freedom with the brutal oppression of sharia. The gathering, which was put together by mosques and Muslim civic groups around the state, comes in response to legislation that originally criticized Shariah, the basic set of Muslim religious laws governing everything from warfare and criminal punishments to prayer preparations and family matters. The first version of the bill, which was written by an Arizona organization critical of Islam, labeled Shariah “a legal-political-military doctrine and system” that requires its followers to support the overthrow of the United States government. Several Muslims who turned out Tuesday said that is a distortion. “People have this idea that Shariah is just chopping people’s hands, but Shariah is a way of life for us,” said Arshia Shah, a lawyer originally from Britain who now lives in Sparta and came to the Capitol with her husband and two daughters. “It’s prayer. It’s how we deal with our spouses. And to tell people that they can’t practice this — that they’re doing something wrong — is a great concern.” The bill has since been amended to remove all references to Shariah and Islam. What is left is legislation, known formally as the Material Support to Designated Entities Act, that would let the governor and the state attorney general label groups as terrorist organizations. Once designated, a group’s financial assets could be frozen and its contributors could face criminal penalties. The bill’s sponsors, House Speaker Pro Tempore Judd Matheny, R-Tullahoma, and state Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, say the bill gives Tennessee law enforcement agencies the ability to disrupt terrorist plots. They also say it could be used to disrupt street gangs and neo-Nazi groups, as well as terrorist organizations. “I think it’s a good bill,” Ketron said. “They say it’s duplicative because it mirrors the Patriot Act on the federal level, but local law enforcement see and hear what’s going on locally.” Muslim organizations have been opposed to the legislation from the outset, but Tuesday was the first time they turned out in large numbers, drawing a crowd that rivaled those brought to the Capitol by labor and teachers organizations earlier this session. Related: Text: Pamela Geller's Testimony, Alaska Legislature, Foreign Law ... Posted by Pamela Geller on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 11:25 AM in Islamic law in America | Permalink | Comments (47) ShareThis Interesting how one mainstream guy (Trump) could blow the whole birth certificate issue wide open. It took years (like Obama's millions in foreign contributions) -- both stories Atlas was first on -- to get legs, a stunning indictment of the failure of the "free press." The questions has always been, why not just show the long form? Bah dah bing, bad dah boom. BOOK TO REVEAL OBAMA'S 'TRUE' IDENTITY? Developing...... Related: July 2008: ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: FINAL REPORT ON OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORGERY CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN UPDATE: And this from Atlas, September 2008: And this, Obama admits dual citizenship: From Obama's site, “Fight the Smears,”courtesy of Annenberg-owned Factcheck.org: “When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children. Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship Saturday, April 23, 2011
VIDEO: MUSLIMS PRAISING ALLAH FOR JAILING OF JONES, "HE GOT LUCKY"
Muslim Praising God for the Arrest of Terry Jones Answering Muslims
Why do authorities in Dearborn continue to carry out penalties that happen to line u perfectly with Sharia? Could it be . . . the will of the people?
There are two additional things you might want to note from this video. First, the massive field was the site of Jones' planned protest. Doesn't it look more than sufficient for a protest? Second, people were free to gather in protest, even though Jones was not. Were they arrested? Of course not.NEWLY LIBERATED EGYPT: MUSLIMS RENAME HOLY FRIDAY "BLOODY FRIDAY" FOR CHRISTIANS
Muslims in Abu Qurqas rename Holy Friday "Bloody Friday" for Copts Coptic World 21 April 2011 hat tip Assad Elepty
JAILED JONES PROSECUTOR "UN-WORTHY'S" ALLIANCES
"I learned that a prosecutors' most important role is to control what cases get into the system, to ensure that justice is done for everyone."
The Georgia and San Francisco chapters of ADC were signatories to a February 20, 2002 document composed by the radical group Refuse & Resist, condemning military tribunals and the detention of immigrants apprehended in connection with post-9/11 terrorism investigations. The document accused the U.S. government of rounding up and incarcerating large numbers of Arab, Muslim and South Asian immigrants without cause.
(e) ADC's fifth major objective is “Encouraging a balanced U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East”: In effect, this means discouraging American support for Israel, which ADC views as an oppressor nation that routinely violates the human rights of Palestinians. In August 2006 ADC drew up, for its supporters to sign, a petition that read: “If the United States is to be taken seriously as a peace making nation, it cannot continue to provide the weapons being used by Israel to kill hundreds of innocent people in such brutal and inhumane ways.” In ADC's view, America has more than once been guilty of genocide against foreign populations -- sometimes directly through the use of its own military might, and in other cases indirectly, through Israel.
In 1994, then-ADC President Hamzi Moghrabi said, “I will not call [Hamas] a terrorist organization. I mean, I know many people in Hamas. They are very respectable … I don’t believe Hamas, as an organization, is a violent organization.” Two years later, his successor, Hala Maksoud, defended Hamas’ partner in Mideastern terrorism, Hezbollah. “I find it shocking,” Maksoud said, “that [one] would include Hezbollah in … [an] inventory of Middle East ‘terrorist’ groups.” In 2000, new ADC President Hussein Ibish characterized Hezbollah as “a disciplined and responsible liberation force.” James Abourezk called Hamas and Hezbollah “resistance fighters.”
ADC was a signatory to a MAY 20, 2004 Joint Muslims/Arab-American Statement on Israeli Violence in Gaza, which "strongly condemn[ed]" Israel's "indiscriminate killings of innocent Palestinians, including many children," and its "demolition of Palestinian homes." The organization has also expressed its view that Israel’s security barrier in the West Bank is an illegal "apartheid wall." As noted by Debbie Schlussel, when Israel released hundreds of Hezbollah prisoners in early 2004, Imad Hamad, ADC’s Midwest Regional Director, openly celebrated the freedom of "the Heroes." This sentiment was consistent with ADC's longstanding pattern of praising both Hezbollah and Hamas.
ADC formerly ran ads in its publication ADC Times for the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which in 2001 President Bush shut down for funneling millions of dollars to Hamas.
ADC is notable not only for its programs and campaigns, but also for its open expressions of support for some controversial figures. For instance, in 1987 the Committee honored filmmaker Michael Moore for his “courageous efforts in journalism.” A decade and a half later, when University of South Florida professor Sami-Al Arian was indicted on terrorism-related charges, ADC’s Hussein Ibish depicted FBI investigations of Al-Arian “a political witch hunt, a vendetta, and a kind of very, very ugly post-9/11 McCarthyism.”
ADC and its Research Institute have received funding from George Soros's Open Society Institute.Friday, April 22, 2011
BODY AND SOUL ON AN OPEN THREAD
PAMELA GELLER, BIG GOVERNMENT: ISLAMIC LAW COMES TO DEARBORN
ISLAMIC LAW: GANG RAPE LEGIT -- RAPE AWAY, SAVAGES!
'My life is in danger': Fears of Pakistani woman gang-raped on orders of village elders as 13 out of 14 men are cleared Daily Mail (hat tip David)
women in Pakistan)POST-REVOLUTION EGYPT: MUSLIMS BURN ST.GEORGE COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH, CRACKING CROSSES
EGYPT: CHRISTIAN GOVERNOR TO RESIGN FOLLOWING MUSLIM PROTESTS
FREE SPEECH VICTORY: N.J. TRANSIT WORKER FIRED FOR BURNING KORAN REHIRED, COMPENSATED FOR 'PAIN AND SUFFERING'
space for the Muslim community living and working downtown.
The site is two-and-half blocks north of Ground Zero - next to a McDonald's, several bars and delis. Once completed, you won't even be able to see Ground Zero from the building.especially those who reside inlower Manhattan. This is actually a critical point. Since 9/11, the area has undergone dramatic demographic shifts. There are now more baby strollers there than briefcases. We need this type of facility. That is why community leaders have been so supportive from the start.
As for non-Muslims being welcome, it appears they will be paying more. Go here.
One: Over the past few months, I have regrettably let others present themselves as the face of this center. That was a mistake. From the beginning, I have been, and continue to be, in charge of its direction and implementation moving forward.
In addition, contrary to some confusing statements reported in the press,Park51 will not move its location. It has taken us nine years to find and purchase this unique piece of real estate, and we have worked hard to win approval from Community Board 1.
More importantly, we believe it violates American values to essentially declare what would be a Muslim-free zone here or anywhere else in the country.OBAMA VICTIMIZES THE 9/11 VICTIMS: 9/11 RESPONDERS WILL BE SCREENED BY FBI'S TERRORISM WATCH LIST
GZM IN F-L-A
LIVE! PJTV TONY KATZ INTERVIEWS PAMELA GELLER: CONSERVATIVE WOMEN RULE
Thursday, April 21, 2011
INTEGRITY AND ATTRIBUTION: OBAMA'S FOREIGN CONTRIBUTION AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE FRAUD, THE TIMELINE, THE FACTS, THE WORK
I merely request that the record kept straight. I am alleging no wrongdoing. But I did break tremendously creative ground, performed a public service, and never got credit for it. And it wasn't a couple articles that might have been missed. It was exhaustive.
On Apr 20, 2011, at 9:31 PM, BizzyBlog (Tom Blumer) wrote:
Ken,
Thanks for copying me on your note. It doesn't help when Newsmax changes its article links. The one at Andy McCarthy's Corner item went 404, so I had every reason to believe it wasn't there any more.
Having read your report -- Fair enough on giving credit to Pamela for the foreign contributions element. But otherwise ...
Pamela can defend herself, but it's perfectly obvious to me (and more than a little disappointing) that any reader of your report would come away believing that Newsmax first discovered "Good Will" and that Newsmax did most of the dirty work and was first with the credit-card fraud angle. Neither is the case.
For the life of me, I don't understand why it's so important that people -- left or right, blue or red, MSM or or too many bloggers and talk-radio types -- feel like they can run with content without adequately giving credit or digging deep to find out who really deserves it. You're far from alone, so I'm not really singling you out, and for all I know your editors might have been the ones who watered down Pamela's contributions.
It's a shame, because it looks like Newsmax's treatment served to minimize Pamela's contributions in the minds of others (perhaps including Hot Air, Powerline, Ace, etc.) who jumped on your story. I know as a part-time blogger that when I finally began digging in October of 2008 I had to go about three layers deep before I found who originally did the lion's share of the work. I was appalled that very few knew. I still am.
I know it's spilt milk, but we should all be better than this.
Tom Blumer
BizzyBlog.com
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Hi, Pamela,
I know the feeling. It happens me all the time.
But in this case, you (and your reader) might go back and read the original, where you are cited twice.
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Obama-fundraising-illegal/2008/09/29/id/325630
Ken
Heads up Atlas readers: Timmerman is referring to the first article he published on September 29, 2008 based on my groundbreaking work. And that URL has been moved it's impossible to find. That was the only tme he referenced my groundbreaking investigation. Please see this for example.
Ken, Please correct the record.
Yours in liberty,
Pamela Geller
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From Tom Blumer
To: Michelle Malkin
In your otherwise excellent column today, in the "online donor credit-card fraud" section, you wrote:
Weeks before the 2008 presidential election, investigative journalist Ken Timmerman blew the whistle on rampant phony straw contributors slipping through the Obama donation site.
Timmerman's work, based on the Hot Air link you cited, was published on about September 30, 2008.
Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs, who you did link to in the "Foreign funny money" section of your column, was also on top of the credit-card fraud problem in late July, specifically citing "Good Will" about two month earlier than Timmerman:
HERE
She had an American Thinker column on August 14, 2008 which detailed foreign AND credit-card fraud issues:
HERE
For reasons which perplex me to this day, a host of other commentators and conservative bloggers, I would suspect including Timmerman (whose Newsmax article is no longer available), took the results of Pamela's work and presented it as if it was their own, or at a minimum egregiously downplayed her role in gathering and assembling the damning information.
Because of their reluctance to give credit where due, it's understandable that you might believe that Timmerman, Powerline, and several others who got to the story much later were the story's originators. They clearly weren't.
Pamela Geller was the whistleblower. If we had been paying closer attention (myself included), we might have amplified her whistle loud enough to have stopped the madness we are currently enduring known as the Obama administration.
Regards,
Tom Blumer
BizzyBlog.com SHARIA TRUMPS CONSTITUTION IN MICHIGAN: TERRY JONES DENIED PERMIT TO RALLY, COULD FACE ARREST
Yesterday's court filing against constitutional freedoms "equates the actions of zealots in Afghanistan with Muslim Americans in Dearborn." I pulled that quote from Muslim Brotherhood-tied CAIR. Indeed.
If Jones had burned a Bible, no one would be threatening violence against them.INDONESIA: MUSLIMS PLANT BIG BOMB NEAR INDONESIA CHURCH AHEAD OF EASTER; 19 ARRESTED
GOVERNMENT CASH HANDOUTS NOW TOP TAX REVENUES
As you know, I believe that this is at least as big, or, bigger threat than terrorism. It's the Federal Reserve that is destroying America. The high gas prices are a result of this Fed policy, not Libya, as the enemedia likes to say. The entire Fed policy is a giant Ponzi scheme. They have printed close to a $Trillion in new money, Quantitative Easing, or QE2, as they refer to it and the latest news is that they may continue, causing increased inflation. They are intentionally lying when they say that there is no inflation because the Consumer Price Index (CPI) does NOT measure gas and food, the 2 biggest increases in a typical person's budget!
The average person can't even contemplate a TRILLION dollars, or, a trillion anyting. Here's an example:
A million seconds pass in 12 days.
A billion seconds pass in 31 years.
A trillion seconds pass in 31,688 years!
Here's a personal example: 2 weeks ago, oranges at Walmart Superstore were $.30 each. Last week they were $.48. A few days ago they were $.58. That's a 93% price rise in less than 2 weeks.
This Keynesean economic plan by this Administration is responsible for this assault on America. It is NOT an accident! If these two were R's, they would have been forced out of office. This war has many fronts and this is a threat equivalent to Islam.
We are close to default and at great risk of losing our status of the USD as the world's reserve currency. Life will change instantly IF that happens. Americans better wake up and quickly.Wednesday, April 20, 2011
LA TIMES FRONT PAGE CELEBRATES LAW ENFORCEMENT SUBMISSION TO ISLAM
Yesterday's LA TIMES had a FRONT PAGE picture showing two or three members of the LA County Sheriff's office praying at a mosque with their hands up to Allah as a cheerleading program by Sheriff Baca. Check out the front page of the LA Times the same day Passover begins. LA Sheriffs and their submission to Islam. Sick. (hat tip Jesse James)DOING THE RIGHT THING........ THANK YOU, TOM
In your otherwise excellent column today, in the "online donor credit-card fraud" section, you wrote:
Weeks before the 2008 presidential election, investigative journalist Ken Timmerman blew the whistle on rampant phony straw contributors slipping through the Obama donation site.
Timmerman's work, based on the Hot Air link you cited, was published on about September 30, 2008.
Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs, who you did link to in the "Foreign funny money" section of your column, was also on top of the credit-card fraud problem in late July, specifically citing "Good Will" about two month earlier than Timmerman:
HERE
She had an American Thinker column on August 14, 2008 which detailed foreign AND credit-card fraud issues:
HERE
For reasons which perplex me to this day, a host of other commentators and conservative bloggers, I would suspect including Timmerman (whose Newsmax article is no longer available), took the results of Pamela's work and presented it as if it was their own, or at a minimum egregiously downplayed her role in gathering and assembling the damning information.
Because of their reluctance to give credit where due, it's understandable that you might believe that Timmerman, Powerline, and several others who got to the story much later were the story's originators. They clearly weren't.
Pamela Geller was the whistleblower. If we had been paying closer attention (myself included), we might have amplified her whistle loud enough to have stopped the madness we are currently enduring known as the Obama administration.
Regards,
Tom Blumer
BizzyBlog.comPASSOVER SHOOTING ATTACK ON DC SYNAGOGUE AND JEWISH-AFFILIATED BUSINESSES
Plywood covers the damaged windows at Beth Sholom Congregation in Potomac, Md. (WAMU) Thanks to Jim over at Gateway:
YNet reported:
The Daily Journal reported:UNMASKED
MUSLIMS DEMONSTRATE AT TENNESSEE CAPITOL IN SUPPORT OF SHARIA (ISLAMIC LAW) AND TERROR FUNDING
Large turnout
BIRTH CERTIFICATE BOOK PROMISES EXPLOSIVE REVELATIONS
Wed Apr 20 2011 10:35:52 ET **Exclusive**
This year's high stakes publishing project quietly went to press this week, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
After years of research and digging by the nation's top private investigators, here it comes:
"WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE? The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President."
The street date is a LONG month away, and author Jerome Corsi, the man who torpedoed John Kerry's presidential dreams with SWIFT BOAT, has gone underground and is holding his new findings thisclose.
"It's utterly devastating," reveals a source close to the publisher. "Obama may learn things he didn't even know about himself!"
Does Corsi definitively declare the location of Obama's birth?
Will the president's attorneys attempt to interfere with the book's distribution? [The publisher vows to vigorously fight any legal action that may be taken.]
Will the book finally -- once and for all -- put an end to the growing controversy?
Or will it just ignite new ones!?
"When Donald Trump said he sent PIs to Hawaii to get to the bottom of all this, he meant this book," declares an insider.
[THE CASE ranked #1,341 on AMAZON's hitparade late Wednesday morning.]
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