Posted on 05/06/2015 1:47:39 PM PDT by shove_it
Liberals claim to be the world's boldest defenders of freedom of expression, which is, of course, nonsense. Here's another canard: Liberals also claim to be the most offended against anyone "blaming the victim." What liberals possess is an ideological system which identifies favored groups as victims and supports squelching the free speech of anyone challenging them.
One of those favored groups is Muslims. Over the weekend, the American Freedom Defense Initiative held the Muhammad cartoon contest in Dallas, obviously a provocative event. But it wasn't meant to result in two Islamic extremists showing up with assault rifles, later shot to death by police after they opened fire.
Two men identifying as ISIS have now attacked America -- in our homeland. So how did the press respond? Liberal journalists deplored AFDI's exercise of free speech and blamed the targeted victims for the attack.
Within hours, ABC described AFDI as "notorious for its anti-Islamic views." The shooters were not "notorious," the shooting targets were. On the Monday evening news, all three "objective" networks were repeating a leftist group's highly emotional "hate group" designation.
"It happened at a Dallas suburb where a group [that has been] labeled an anti-Islamic hate group was holding a Prophet Mohammad cartoon contest," announced NBC anchor Lester Holt.
Washington Post national reporter Lindsey Bever wrote a highly negative article labeling AFDI leader Pamela Geller as an "incendiary organizer" of a Muhammad cartoon contest. The Post, too, went to that same highly emotional leftist source for a smear. Geller was labeled the "anti-Muslim movement's most visible and flamboyant figurehead." In addition, "She's relentlessly shrill and coarse in her broad-brush denunciations of Islam and makes preposterous claims."
On MSNBC, Chris Matthews blamed AFDI for "causing" or "provoking" the shooting. NBC terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann even claimed they were not holding a free-speech event: "These people are not standing by that principle; they're standing by the principle of hatred for other people. That's their guiding light. That's what they do. They are intentionally trying to provoke a response from the Muslim community."
This spin is obnoxious and offensive. By this standard, MSNBC spends most of its waking hours operating on the "principle of hatred of other people," people who define themselves as conservatives.
Activists like Geller and her partner Robert Spencer are making a provocative point about how free speech is being uniquely curtailed out of sensitivity to Muslims, who apparently "earn" this sensitivity by being violent or making threats of violence. Liberals and their media outlets have no such sensitivity toward Christians or Jews.
Freedom of speech, not religious sensitivity, was the mantra for the media when the National Endowment for the Arts subsidized the maker of "Piss Christ" in the 1990s, as it was when museums hosted Chris Ofili's dung-spattered "art" work on the Virgin Mary, as it was when the National Portrait Gallery promoted a video of a crucifix with ants crawling over the body of Christ.
But freedom of speech for criticizing Islam? There's apparently no room for that in America. They won't even show the cartoon.
And who was their source, anyway? The Southern Poverty Law Center -- yes, that group that has also labeled the Family Research Center a "hate" group for supporting traditional marriage, leading to an assassin using their "hate map" to go to FRC's building and open fire, seriously wounding a security guard, with the intent to kill as many staff as possible, before being subdued.
The leftist media know that. And still use SPLC as their source.
Fortunately for them I am not commanded to murder them.
This prevents me from becoming a MURDERER. Praise Yahweh!
You know, I think there are more than a few people in the US who are now anti-Muslim. I dunno...lopping off heads because someone is a Christian and your a Muslim just doesn’t sit right with some of us.
” I dunno...lopping off heads because someone is a Christian and your a Muslim just doesn’t sit right with some of us.”
Yeah, I’m funny that way.
I beg to differ. It was not meant to provoke violence, but rather, what was highlighted by the terrorists' act was that ISIS and others justify murderous violence directed at the free speech we in America have long enjoyed under the Constitution.
Freedom of speech is not merely for favored speech or favored speakers. Those will never need protection. It is particularly for speech and speakers that might be disfavored.
The AFDI would be doing nothing if only presenting favored speech, so they let disfavored speech be aired. Americans of every stripe let them have their say. Islamists, on the other hand, considered this a provocation and opportunity for legally-justified murder under their Sharia law.
There is no place in our society for anyone that believes as those Islamists do. OUT!
HF
Limbaugh made a great -- and obvious point -- Islamists are offended by homosexuality as much as any other insults to the Prophet Muhammad's commands.
So IMO that means that employees of the media are just as "bad" as Ms Geller -- the difference being that the employees of the media will cease immediately all favorable treatment of gay issues.
I guess employees of the media will demand removing support for homosexuality soon to avoid insulting and provoking followers of the Prophet Muhammad. Good for them and great example for Ms Geller to follow.
Do I really need a /s ?
Of course. That’s what these progressive hypocrites do.
All three “objective” networks are hate groups, as is SPLC.
Trump has disqualified himself as a Conservative candidate on this issue alone.
“Political Correctness” must go the way of the buggy whip.
“Out, out, damn spot.”
We’re seeing the rise of Hitler’s propaganda ministry in the US. It’s way past time to name the MSM practitioners as what they are - Nazis.
“I wish that as a nation there were more and more of our leaders that had the same kind of courage that this woman [Pam Geller] has,” said Lt. Gen. Boykin (ret.), who is the executive vice president of the Family Research Council (FRC). “[S]he’s a very brave woman and I think that what she did was upholding and standing for our First Amendment rights. And I don’t think she went too far at all.”
The American “Dhimmi” media, cowed by Islamic violence, has accepted total submission to the mandates of the Islamic terrorists.
Pamela Geller, Gert Wilders, and Bosch Fawstin (the winner of the contest) are real heroes that have not accepted to be intimidated by Islamic terrorists. It is denigrating for the American media to see their pundits attacking the freedom of expression of those opposed to the Islamization of U.S.
On January 17,2015 and in the same public school center, there was a “Stand with the Prophet” rally by Muslims, a provocative pro-Shariah law event, by supporters of Al-Qaida and Isis organized by one of the terrorists implicated in the bombing of the garage of the NY World Trade Center in 1993.
I wonder if those who try to blame the organizers of the “First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest,” for the Muslim terrorist attack would have justified if a patriotic American had irrupted in the Muslim rally on January and made a massacre of Islamic terrorists. After all, Americans are profoundly offended by their provocation and the abuse of our freedoms by those who made the Muslim rally in support of the savages that decapitate, crucify and burned Christians alive.
The “Dhimmi” media, scared by Islamic violence, auto-censors itself and tries to justify the terrorist attack in Texas because the Mohamed cartoons contest offended the sensibility of Islamic terrorists.
On January 2015, radical Islamists desecrated the holy soil of Texas. Do not mess with Texas!!!
ISIS Comes To Texas – This Is War
Noisy Room ^ | May 4 2015 | Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3286035/posts?page=2
Iranian Commander: We Won’t Rest Until US is an Islamic Republic
Don’t allow Obama and the media fool us, radical Islam officially declared war against U.S. on 9/11/2001.
In Switzerland everybody is drafted and they keep their arms in home in case they need to defend their country. It is imperative that all American arm themselves, the jihadists are already in and can attack any time our churches, malls, theaters, slaughtering innocents men women and children as they are massacring Christians in Africa and the Middle East.
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