Hey, isn’t creating sacrilegious images brave? That’s what we heard years ago when at issue was “art” such as a crucifix immersed in a glass of urine or a Virgin Mary picture smeared with feces. But that wasn’t quite the response to pundit Pamela Geller’s Mohammed cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, was it?
Instead, after her affair was attacked by two AK-47-wielding Muslim jihadists, everywhere was the implication that she brought it on herself. As The New American’s Charles Scaliger reported, “New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi tweeted, ‘Free speech aside, why would anyone do something as provocative as hosting a ‘Muhammad drawing contest’?’” Donald Trump was likewise befuddled, asking, “What are they doing drawing Muhammad? Isn’t there something else they can draw? … They have to be in the middle of Texas and on Muhammad? ... I don’t know, maybe she likes risk. What the h--- is she doing?”
Of course, a fellow smart enough to make and lose and make untold millions of dollars ought to be able to figure it out. Agree or disagree with her methods, Geller appears to have two goals: to illustrate the problem of violence in Islam and to send a message that First Amendment rights won’t be stifled in deference to what is essentially a foreign faith. And let’s be clear on something:
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Cowards see no reason for brave people to be brave.
Posted by: Ike | May 12, 2015 at 03:01 PM
The problem with Pamela Geller is that she is NOT courageous in any way . She is a bigoted hate and fear monger who fosters mindless fear and hatred of Muslims . Yes, there are SOME extremely dangerous fanatical Muslims, but Geller invariably paints with too broad a brush and stereotypes over a billion people, who vast majority of whom are peaceful people who mean no one any harm .
Geller is not courageous ; she is despicable . There is a small number of fanatical Christians in America , and some have murdered doctors, bombed women's health care clinics and gay bars and done violence to gay people,but the overwhelming majority of Christians in America are peaceful and law-abiding . Stereotyping os wrong no matter which group of people it is applied to .
Posted by: Robert Berger | May 20, 2015 at 09:24 PM