By now everybody knows how about the thwarted attempt to murder Pam Geller at her “Draw Mohammed” contest in Texas by two Islamic fanatics. What was most disturbing was how our “free” press mostly curled up into a fetal position and bravely begged to be killed last. As Mark Steyn summarized:
The Washington Post offered the celebrated headline “Event Organizer Offers No Apology After Thwarted Attack In Texas”, while the Associated Press went with “Pamela Geller says she has no regrets about Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest that ended in 2 deaths”. The media “narrative” of the last week is that some Zionist temptress was walking down the street in Garland in a too short skirt and hoisted it to reveal her Mohammed thong – oops, my apologies, her Prophet Mohammed thong (PBUH) – and thereby inflamed two otherwise law-abiding ISIS supporters peacefully minding their own business.
It’ll be a long time before you see “Washington Post Offers No Apology for Attacking Target of Thwarted Attack” or “AP Says It Has No Regrets After Blaming The Victim”. The respectable class in the American media share the same goal as the Islamic fanatics: They want to silence Pam Geller. To be sure, they have a mild disagreement about the means to that end – although even then you get the feeling, as with Garry Trudeau and those dozens of PEN novelists’ reaction to Charlie Hebdo, that the “narrative” wouldn’t change very much if the jihad boys had got luckier and Pam, Geert Wilders, Robert Spencer and a dozen others were all piled up in the Garland morgue.
If the American press were not so lazy and parochial, they would understand that this was the third Islamic attack on free speech this year – first, Charlie Hebdo in Paris; second, the Lars Vilks event in Copenhagen; and now Texas.
The mainstream left in the Washington Post and Associated press were hardly alone. Even the increasingly maddening Fox News joined the echo chamber, with Bill O’Reilly and Greta Van Sustren chiming in:
On her Tuesday show, Greta Van Susteren echoed O’Reilly’s take, saying that such events put police lives at risk.
“Everyone knew this event would unglue some who might become violent. And the police had no choice but to do their job and be there to protect against violence,” she said.
These apologists have come under fire for obvious reason, but it was NRO’s Jonah Goldberg who brought the point home (emphasis mine):
“While we have freedom of speech,” a New York Daily News columnist insisted, “we also have freedom of religion, which shouldn’t be impinged upon.” CNN’s Chris Cuomo, a law-school grad, tweeted that Geller’s “hate speech” isn’t protected by the Constitution. At first Cuomo suggested proof of this could be found in the Constitution itself. He then hastily clarified that it fails the “fighting words” doctrine of the Supreme Court. I’m dubious about that. But if he’s right, the lesson is clear: Violence pays. I doubt that’s what he intended to say. But what do I know? I think these people are nuts.
If we are to believe the members of the press and the rest of the Muslim apologists, at the end of the day the sole criteria for how we judge a group is how likely they are to hurt us. If conservatives truly want the left to start treating them fairly the simple answer is to kill a few of the more outspoken left wing entertainers and journalists and the rest will promptly fall in line. Before any lefties reading that last sentence start screeching obviously I am absolutely not serious about suggesting that. For that matter, it wouldn’t matter if I did – the reason Christians, Conservatives, Tea Partiers, etc. aren’t the violent lunatics that leftists fantasize about is because of the values associated with being Christian, a Conservative, or a Tea Partier. People on the right reading that last sentence are probably just nodding in agreement while lefties probably are probably shaking their heads or shouting at that statement that contradicts the beliefs they hold so dear. Bill Whittle said it well in one of his videos (I don’t recall which) when he basically said, “Yes, we could resort to violence to shut the left up, but that would mean completely giving up who we are.” The left freely exercises their anti-Christian bigotry because it’s safe to do so. And they coddle or ignore Islamic offenses out of their own cowardice. Or as I like to summarize by paraphrasing Han Solo:
“Because Tea Partiers don’t rip people’s arms out of their sockets when you criticize them”
“I suggest a new strategy. Let the Muslim win.”
— brother bob (@Brother_Bob) January 12, 2015
Cross posted from Brother Bob’s Blog
