Posted on 02/02/2015 1:22:30 AM PST by Reverend Saltine
Predictably, the UK’s far-Left Guardian is thrilled that authoritarian thugs defaced Pamela Geller’s AFDI ads calling attention to Islamic Jew-hatred in San Francisco buses. They either do not realize or do not care that once the principle is established that an unpopular group’s freedom of speech can be forcibly silenced, it can be turned on them: one day they may be in the group that is out of favor, and then they will regret the position they took against the freedom of speech. But at that point it will be too late.
Anyway, as these Leftist goons applaud the extinguishing of the freedom of speech of a group they hate, there are a couple of other points worth bearing in mind:
1. The AFDI ad features a real photo of Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, meeting with Adolf Hitler. Al-Husseini worked energetically to aid the Nazi cause during World War II, exhorting Muslims on Islamic grounds in radio broadcasts to ally with the Nazis. The ad says, truthfully, that Islamic Jew-hatred is in the Qur’an. It calls for an end of aid to Islamic countries, just as numerous ads sponsored by Leftist and Islamic supremacist groups call for an end of aid to Israel.
In response to this, the fascist* vandals wanted to project a positive image of Islam. Very well. Did the plaster the AFDI ads with images of the Muslim Mother Theresa, the Muslim Martin Luther King, the Muslim Gandhi? No, they covered the AFDI ads with images of a Muslim fictional character. They didn’t have anyone real to posit against the truths the ad told.
2. Kamala Khan, the Muslima Marvel Comics superhero, was created by a convert to Islam, G. Willow Wilson (who is herself a fascist foe of the freedom of speech) in order to counteract negative images of Muslims — that is, the association of Islam with terrorism, which Wilson and other Muslims would like us to forget that Islamic terrorists, and not “Islamophobes,” are responsible for creating. And so how does she end up fighting negative images of Muslims? By forcibly silencing those she thinks are propagating them. Kamala Khan has never gotten much notice since she was created — until now. Now she is most famous as a tool of fascist thugs, on a jihad against the freedom of speech. It is peculiarly fitting that the Muslima superhero’s biggest, most prominent struggle would turn out to be an effort to silence forcibly those who say things that Muslims dislike: the Organization of Islamic Cooperation must be thrilled.
*Yes, the vandals are fascists. They are the children and heirs of the Brownshirts who shouted down and menaced foes of the Nazis in the early 1930s.
“Meet the Muslim superhero fighting bigotry on San Francisco buses,” by Andrea Letamendi, the Guardian, February 1, 2015 (thanks to Maxwell):
At the start of the year, the extremist anti-Islamic group the Freedom Defense Initiative purchased 50 controversial ads to be displayed on San Francisco city buses. The ads – perceived as out of step with the city’s largely liberal metropolitan community – called for an end to aid to Islamic countries and depicted a Muslim leader consorting with Hitler, essentially equating Islam with Nazism. In response to these Islamophobic messages, street artists affiliated with the Bay Area Art Queers Unleashing Power acted quickly to cover the ads with vibrant images of Pakistani-American superhero Ms Marvel along with comic-style blurbs trumpeting messages of equality: “Calling All Bigotry Busters,” “Stamp Out Racism” and “Free Speech Isn’t a License to Spread Hate”.
The bus art has been called “graffiti”, “defacement”, and “supremacist criminality” by some, but for an overwhelming majority the culture-jamming demonstration holds a powerful significance. For the first time ever, Muslim Americans have a visible, mainstream superhero they can call to arms. As a major Marvel character, Kamala Khan (Ms Marvel’s alter ego) stands alongside Wolverine, Captain America, Iron Man and the X-Men. Her image is synonymous with her message: freedom of speech belongs to everyone. Ms Marvel comic co-creator and writer G Willow Wilson, a Muslim American herself, likened the bus art to a freedom of speech “call and response”, ultimately summing up her sentiments with a tweet that ended with “Spread love.”…
The U.K. is UN-KIND to liberty and free speech. Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller are champions of freedoms. They are among the Paul Reveres of our time. The United Kingdom, however, has sunk deep into the quicksand of Islamic insanity and repression.
Apt description, and FR has been running threads for years about the premeditated penetration of the comic-book realm (coveting its evocative power over tweener and teeny minds) and insertion of queer propaganda in Stan Lee's house. Several queer actors have been appearing in comics for half-a-dozen years now.
This is more fruit of Hunter Madsen and Marshall Kirk's After the Ball / "Guide to Overhauling Straight America" strategy, aping that of the Nazi supermen Goebbels and Hitler, of jamming some cultural messages while insinuating their own fetor into a pop-cultural medium.
In every picture I’ve seen of G. Willow Wilson, she’s wearing the full Muslim headcovering with a blonde tress dangling jauntily across her forehead. Muslim chic. I don’t know that she would survive very long if she traveled to Syria.
It ought to be pretty interesting when the homos and the jihaders do a comic book collision.
It's been longer than that for DC Comics - the Superman series has had an open lesbian cop since the 90's.
I’m glad I got to grow up reading comic books where Captain America was fighting the Red Skull who was an agent of Hydra (a thinly veiled guise of the soviet union). So the only subliminal messages I ever got was red/commie was bad, America was good.
Think of all the irony here:
1. Use of the feminist marriage liberating Ms.
2. This fictional woman is powerful, independent of her Muslim identity.
3. She dresses like a dominatrix call girl on her way to visit Charlie Sheen.
4. She’s a recycled character using powers not her own.
When will the fatwa be issued?
Or is this just the cartoon form of taqiyya?
Everyone remembers Nazi Stormtroopers, the SA, Sturmabteilung (Attack Department), who greeted each other with Heil Hitler! and the Roman Salute. Sound familiar?
One role of the red shirts and brown shirts was to break up the meetings of their political opponents.
The progressives, left-wingers of today would deny to high heaven that they are following the model of the Nazi Party and early the German Communists. Shut up political opponents, prevent them from presenting their message to the people/voters and use violence to intimidate their political opposition.
I say, call the today's political thugs, 'brown shirts', which is what their are. They are the political thugs for a totalitarian political movement.
When I saw Stan Lee speak last year, he was championing every ethnicity that was going to have a Marvel super-hero now (including east indian/asian).
So much for ‘the house of ideas’.
More corporate liberalism.
DC had a gay editor in charge for awhile too.
Misguided ethic. A shame. There’s an article on where it comes from. I’ll look it up and post it under “stan lee” and “marvel comics’
How can a superhero do anything of note while having to ask permission and be accompanied by her father, husband, or a male relative?
The Marvel Universe is a polytheistic world with many gods. What do the muslims make of it?
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