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Register: AFDI/SIOA, VAST to Host Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference in Dearborn, Michigan at Hyatt Regency

Pamela Geller — 2011-12-05T05:18:17-08:00

To register for the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference, please email AmericanFreedomDefense@aol.com with your name, email address and number of people.

AFDI/SIOA, VAST to Host Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference in Dearborn, Michigan at Hyatt Regency Yahoo News

NEW YORK, PR Newswire: The prominent human rights organization American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), its Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) program and the Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force (VAST) will be hosting the first-ever human rights conference dedicated to exposing the plight of women under Islamic law in Dearborn, Michigan on the anniversary of the honor murder of Jessica Mokdad: the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference.

The Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference will be held at the Hyatt Hotel in Dearborn. After bowing to Islamic supremacist pressure and canceling a speech by Pamela Geller that had been scheduled for a Hyatt in Nashville, Tennessee, the Hyatt reversed its stance, recovered its understanding of the American principle of free speech, apologized and offered AFDI space in a Hyatt for a future Conference to make it up the human rights organization. Geller chose the Hyatt in Dearborn to stand in solidarity there with girls who are in danger of being victimized like Jessica Mokdad.

Jessica Mokdad was a 20-year-old Muslim woman in Warren, Michigan, who was brutally murdered in May 2011. Fox News Detroit reported: “Authorities say a Minnesota man killed his 20-year-old stepdaughter in Michigan because she left home and wasn't following Islam.” Jessica’s stepfather, a devout Muslim, tracked his stepdaughter over four states to murder her for bringing dishonor on her family.

AFDI Executive Director Pamela Geller said in a statement: “We’ve named the Conference after her as part of our ongoing campaign to raise awareness and bring a stop to the phenomenon of Islamic honor killing. These girls have rights, too, they’re human beings, and yet they’re completely forgotten in our politically correct culture, in which speech that is offensive to Islam is increasingly forbidden. We’re standing for the human rights of girls like Jessica Mokdad.”

Geller added: “AFDI tried to place ads on Detroit-area buses offering help to people wishing to leave Islam and threatened by their families. Detroit SMART Transit refused the ads, and we sued on free speech grounds. We won, and the ads were scheduled to run, but Detroit SMART still refused to run them – and the same week they were supposed to run, Jessica Mokdad was murdered. Perhaps if she had seen one of our ads, she would be alive today. This underscores the cowardice of Detroit-area officials and the need for this Conference in Dearborn. We welcome women seeking help and resources to escape dangerous and misogynist households.”

The confirmed list of speakers includes ex-Muslim human rights activist Nonie Darwish; Sudanese ex-slave and freedom fighter Simon Deng; and James Lafferty of the Virginia Anti-Sharia Taskforce (VAST), co-host of the Conference. Also speaking will be David Wood of Acts 17 Apologetics, a Christian group that is suing the city of Dearborn for covering up Islamic honor killings performed in the area – that cover-up, and the resulting suit, will also be a focus of the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference

Hosting the Conference and also speaking are Pamela Geller, publisher of the acclaimed AtlasShrugs.com blog, executive director of AFDI and SIOA, and author of Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance (WND Books); and AFDI/SIOA associate director Robert Spencer, the bestselling author and director of Jihad Watch.

Stop the Islamization of America is a groundbreaking new book offering the fruit of a veteran national activist’s years of experience fighting back against Islamic supremacist efforts to erode our freedoms. In it, Geller offers the fruit of her experience as the national leader of the fight against the Ground Zero mega-mosque and of numerous other initiatives to defend freedom against the encroachment of Islamic law. She offers practical, tested, effective guidance on how freedom lovers can stop jihadist initiatives in local communities.

AFDI/SIOA is one of America’s foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.

Join the SIOA Facebook group here.

For more information, contact Pamela Geller at writeatlas@aol.com.

SOURCE: American Freedom Defense Initiative

AFDI/SIOA Concerned About Hamas-linked CAIR's Use of 'Outreach' to Spy On, Bully, Intimidate and Lie to Government Agencies Nationwide

Pamela Geller — 2011-12-01T14:57:22-08:00

The worm turned .... on its head. The Muslim Brotherhood group CAIR is whining about "outreach" being used for other purposes. That's like Captain Renault saying in Casablanca, "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"

You have to love this. The club of "outreach" relentlessly wielded by Islamic supremacist jihadi groups to club the American people into submission is a ....sword that cuts both ways.

CAIR ALERT:

CAIR Concerned About FBI's Use of 'Outreach' to Spy on Muslims
ACLU documents show agents gathering intelligence on those they met

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/1/2011) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today expressed concern about the "chilling effect" on constitutionally-protected activities that may result from the apparent use of FBI community outreach efforts to secretly gather intelligence on American Muslim communities, groups and individuals.

According to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), "the FBI is using its extensive community outreach to Muslims and other groups to secretly gather intelligence in violation of federal law."
[...]

SEE: Obama Orders Clean Up of Islamophobic Terror Training

CAIR chapters nationwide recently filed 87 separate public records requests about possible Islamophobic training of local, state and national law enforcement personnel.

SEE: CAIR Files Multi-State Records Requests on Anti-Muslim Law Enforcement Trainings

The Washington-based civil rights and advocacy organization is seeking information about state-level trainings that may have used federal taxpayer dollars to fund anti-Muslim trainers, a phenomenon highlighted in recent research and media reports.

CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.

The Free Speech Battle Begins: Pro-Freedom Geller Vs. Pro-Sharia MTA

Pamela Geller — 2011-09-22T12:36:34-07:00

The battle for free speech begins. The very idea that the MTA would censor free speech in defense of the blasphemy laws under the sharia speaks volumes as to the success of the stealth jihad in America. How many New Yorkers find the ant-semitic ads the MTA approved offensive, bigoted and incitement against the Jews. But they ran them anyway. Our ads are not nearly as controversial but they are pro-Israel, pro-freedom. I hope the MTA is prepared to go to the Supreme Court because we are.

Here is the latest from legal warrior, David Yerushalmi to CBS/MTA:

From: David Yerushalmi
Subject: Ad submission by AFDI/Pam Geller to CBS/MTA

Dear Mr. Marcus:

My client forwarded to me your email (below) wherein you state the ad copy AFDI submitted violates Section 5.05( C )(2) of the MTA’s Advertising Standards. Presumably you are referring to the word “savage” in the copy. My client is not prepared to alter its ad copy, and specifically not this word. We hereby demand a formal and final determination by close of business on Friday, September 22, 2011. A non-response by that deadline, given the time MTA-CBS has already had to review this copy, will be understood as a formal and final rejection.

Let me be unambiguous. First, the word savage cannot violate the standard you cite because it is patently not demeaning an individual or group of individuals on account of “race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation.” It mentions neither individual nor group and it intends none. Specifically, it is a word in context describing behavior qua behavior. Certainly you recognize that the ad copy does not mention an individual or group of individuals falling within one of the Standard’s rubrics (i.e., “race, color, etc.”). Finally, as a word describing behavior, it quite obviously applies not to any one of Israel’s enemies in any one geographical location, but all her enemies who behave savagely. Precisely because it is a noun describing behavior (i.e., savage behavior), it cannot be demeaning because an individual or group who does not behave savagely is not captured by the word; an individual or group that does behave savagely, is similarly not demeaned because we presume men act in the way they intend and a savage intends to act savagely.

Finally, a word about the Standard itself and the way MTA/CBS is applying it. There can be no question that once the MTA opened up this forum for political advocacy, it cannot use the “demeaning” filter to decide which political speech it accepts and which it does not. The application in this context of the Standard, especially here where as noted above, there is absolutely no reference to one of the categories (i.e., race, religion) but rather to behavior (i.e., savage behavior), the MTA’s rejection of the word “savage” is most assuredly a viewpoint-based censorship, in violation of the First Amendment. If the MTA, as the organ of state authority, now understands itself in the business of toning down and even modifying the viewpoint of the speakers it has invited into this public forum, it has manifestly and egregiously crossed the line clearly drawn by the First Amendment and the jurisprudence promulgated thereunder.

David Yerushalmi
Law Offices of David Yerushalmi, P.C.:
Washington, D.C., New York, California & Arizon
==========================================================================

David Yerushalmi was responding to the official rejection of our pro-Israel ad:

Date: September 21, 2011 3:36:26 PM EDT
To: Pamela Geller <pamelageller@gmail.com>
Subject: CBS Outdoor

Dear Pam,

Thank you for your ad submission; in its current version, we do not approve this ad for the reasons set forth below and the MTA’s Director of Real Estate has concurred pursuant to Section 5.05 ( C )(2) of the MTA’s Advertising Standards. (A copy of those Standards is attached.). Regarding issue-oriented advertisements we do not approve or disapprove such advertisements for display of the MTA’s transit system based upon the viewpoint expressed. As you may know, we have recently accepted for display paid advertisements submitted by organizations on the subject of U.S. military aid to Israel and the Palestinian Authority’s relationship with Israel that have expressed strongly competing views.
Your proposed ad, however, contains language that, in our view, does not conform with the MTA’s advertising standards regarding ads that demean an individual or group of individuals as set forth in Section 5.05(B)(11) of the MTA’s Advertising Standards.

We invite you – as provided in Section 5.05 ( C )(3) of the Advertising Standards – to discuss with us possible revisions to your ad; should you choose to submit a revised ad, we will review that submission promptly. Alternatively, if you do not want to consider any possible revisions, you may ask us to obtain from the MTA its formal and final determination of whether this ad conforms with its Advertising Standards.

Regards,
Howard

Kenneth S. Pober
CBS Outdoor
Vice President
New York Market Manager
212-297-6415

Previously at Atlas: It's Official: Pro-Jihad MTA Bans Pro-Israel Ads, Runs Anti-Israel Ads

VIDEO: Pamela Geller on WPIX News: MTA Bans Pro-Israel Subway Ads, Approves Anti-Semitic Ads

NY Post: "Blogger battling MTA over ads give agency ultimatum"

NY Daily News: "Blogger Pamela Geller vows to sue MTA if subway ad calling Israel's enemies 'savages' isn't approved"

CBS Outdoor/NYC Transit Delays Approval of AFDI Pro-Israel Campaign Despite Approving Anti-Israel Subway Ads

CBS Outdoor/NYC Transit to Run Antisemitic Ads

Posted by Pamela Geller on Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 01:28 PM in AFDI/SIOA Pro-Israel Bus Campaign | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)

It's Official: Pro-Jihad MTA Bans Pro-Israel Ads, Runs Anti-Israel Ads

The pro-jihad MTA is refusing my ad for the word "savage." Just so you know, I will be suing, with the aid of my inestimable legal team, David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise of the Thomas More Law Center. We are what? 4-0, now? Tarazi lawsuit roundly defeated, check. Detroit/SMART Transit on "Leaving Islam" bus ad lawsuit, check. MTA on the Ground Zero Bus ads lawsuit, check. Miami Transit for "Leaving Islam" bus ads lawsuit, check.

I will say this until someone in those clueless ivory towers of the sharia-compliant MTA understands this. "Savage" is accurate. The pro-jihad MTA cannot ban the the truth, particularly in the political arena:

sav·age

1. fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed

2. uncivilized; barbarous

Palestinians throwing rocks at a 20-month-old baby is savage. The targeting of civilians is savage. The relentless 60-year campaign of terror against the Jewish people is savage. The torture of hostage Gilad Shalit is savage. The bloody hacking to death of the Fogel family is savage. Munich was savage. The unspeakable torture of Ehud Goldwasser is savage. The tens of thousands of rockets fired from Gaza into Southern Israel (into schools, homes, etc.) are savage. The vicious Jew-hatred behind this genocide is savage. The endless demonization of the Jewish people in the Pali and Arab media is savage. The refusal to recognize the state of Israel as a Jewish state is savage. The list is endless.

Here is the latest from the quislings:

Dear Pam,

Thank you for your ad submission; in its current version, we do not approve this ad for the reasons set forth below and the MTA’s Director of Real Estate has concurred pursuant to Section 5.05 ( C )(2) of the MTA’s Advertising Standards. (A copy of those Standards is attached.). Regarding issue-oriented advertisements we do not approve or disapprove such advertisements for display of the MTA’s transit system based upon the viewpoint expressed. As you may know, we have recently accepted for display paid advertisements submitted by organizations on the subject of U.S. military aid to Israel and the Palestinian Authority’s relationship with Israel that have expressed strongly competing views.
Your proposed ad, however, contains language that, in our view, does not conform with the MTA’s advertising standards regarding ads that demean an individual or group of individuals as set forth in Section 5.05(B)(11) of the MTA’s Advertising Standards.

We invite you – as provided in Section 5.05 ( C )(3) of the Advertising Standards – to discuss with us possible revisions to your ad; should you choose to submit a revised ad, we will review that submission promptly. Alternatively, if you do not want to consider any possible revisions, you may ask us to obtain from the MTA its formal and final determination of whether this ad conforms with its Advertising Standards.

Kenneth S. Pober
CBS Outdoor
Vice President
New York Market Manager
212-297-6415

Download Advertising Standards

Previously at Atlas: VIDEO: Pamela Geller on WPIX News: MTA Bans Pro-Israel Subway Ads, Approves Anti-Semitic Ads

NY Post: "Blogger battling MTA over ads give agency ultimatum"

NY Daily News: "Blogger Pamela Geller vows to sue MTA if subway ad calling Israel's enemies 'savages' isn't approved"

CBS Outdoor/NYC Transit Delays Approval of AFDI Pro-Israel Campaign Despite Approving Anti-Israel Subway Ads

CBS Outdoor/NYC Transit to Run Antisemitic Ads

Posted by Pamela Geller on Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 11:38 AM in AFDI/SIOA Pro-Israel Bus Campaign, Free Speech Silenced, FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE AGE OF JIHAD | Permalink | Comments (9) | TrackBack (0

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

NY Post: "Blogger battling MTA over ads give agency ultimatum"

I went from controversial to radical in under 24 hours. Who is spiking NY Post's reporter Jennifer Ferminoa's kool-aid? Lay off the Muslim Broterhood sources, Jen.

Now I am a "radical" blogger. Truth is radical. Morality is radical. But a genocidal ideology is not radical or savage. The media is utterly corrupt:

Blogger battling MTA over ads give agency ultimatum NY Post

A radical blogger who claims the MTA is refusing to run her subway ads likening the enemies of the Jewish state to "savages" has given the transit agency an ultimatum.

Pamela Geller's lawyer sent a letter to the MTA today demanding approval of her controversial ad by Friday.

If the MTA doesn't respond by then, Geller said she will take them to court for violating her First Amendment Rights.

"This is fair warning," Geller writes in the letter.

She applied to place her ads in the subway last week, but still hasn't heard from the MTA.

Her strongly-worded ad reads, "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”

Geller -- co-founder of the American Freedom Defense Initiative -- wants to run her ads to run as a rebuttal to billboards from an anti-Israel group.

[...]

Those ads features pictures of smiling children with the message, “We are on the side of peace and justice. End US military aid to Israel.”
Read the rest.

Tell me again why the word "savage" is inaccurate. The targeting of civilians is savage. The relentless 60-year campaign of terror against the Jewish people is savage. The torture of hostage Gilad Shalit is savage. The bloody hacking to death of the Fogel family is savage. Munich was savage. The unspeakable torture of Ehud Goldwasser is savage. The tens of thousands of rockets fired from Gaza into Southern Israel (into schools, homes, etc.) are savage. The vicious Jew-hatred behind this genocide is savage. The endless demonization of the Jewish people in the Pali and Arab media is savage. The refusal to recognize the state of Israel as a Jewish state is savage. The list is endless.

Palestinian "rioters" throw stones today in Israel

Posted by Pamela Geller on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 07:20 PM in AFDI/SIOA Pro-Israel Bus Campaign | Permalink | Comments (14) | TrackBack (0)

VIDEO: Pamela Geller on WPIX News: MTA Bans Pro-Israel Subway Ads, Approves Anti-Semitic Ads

Check out the news report on the MTA ban on our pro-Israel subway ads while running the repulsive antisemitic, anti-Israel ads. The culture is subsumed by evil and the inability or unwillingness to distinguish between right and wrong.

Everyone is shocked (shocked, I tell ya) by the use of the word savage for savages. The targeting of civilians is savage. The relentless 60-year campaign of terror against the Jewish people is savage. The torture of hostage Gilad Shalit is savage. The bloody hacking to death of the Fogel family is savage. Munich was savage. The unspeakable torture of Ehud Goldwasser is savage. The tens of thousands of rockets fired from Gaza into Southern Israel (into schools, homes, etc.) are savage. The vicious Jew-hatred behind this genocide is savage. The endless demonization of the Jewish people in the Pali and Arab media is savage. The refusal to recognize the state of Israel as a Jewish state is savage. The list is endless.

But we are supposed to tiptoe around the savages, so as not to enflame the savages.

Of course the NY Daily News Pete Donahue resorts to Muslim Brotherhood smears like anti-Muslim and anti-Islam when referring to me. It seems left media is unable to accurately report anything. I am counter jihad. NY Daily News: "Blogger Pamela Geller vows to sue MTA if subway ad calling Israel's enemies 'savages' isn't approved"

The NY Post is a bit more even handed calling me "controversial" and describing my ad as inflammatory. Truth is inflammatory.

‘Mideast’ battle on subways

A holy war is brewing on the city’s subways.

“We’re preparing the paperwork as we speak.”

An controversial activist -- incensed at a slew of underground billboards denigrating Israel -- is threatening to sue the MTA if it doesn’t run her counter-ads likening enemies of the Jewish state to “savages.”

“This is an absolute free-speech issue,” said Pamela Geller.

Her inflammatory ad was sent to the MTA a week ago, but she has yet to receive a response.

From past experience, Geller -- co-founder of the American Freedom Defense Initiative -- said it usually takes a matter of hours for approval. But this isn’t just any advertisement.

“In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man,” the ad states. “Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”

The ad is meant as a response to more than a dozen subway-stations anti-Israel billboards put up in by a group called WESPACK since the beginning of the month.

The MTA declined comment.

Read the rest.

Posted by Pamela Geller on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 06:20 AM in AFDI/SIOA Pro-Israel Bus Campaign, Atlas TV | Permalink | Comments (9) | TrackBack (0)

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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

NY Daily News: "Blogger Pamela Geller vows to sue MTA if subway ad calling Israel's enemies 'savages' isn't approved"

The Daily News is covering the prohibition of our pro-Israel ads with their usual anti-Islam submission to the sharia. There is a vote on the story here. Go. Vote. 85% agree with my message, do you?

Blogger Pamela Geller vows to sue MTA if subway ad calling Israel's enemies 'savages' isn't approved New York Daily News

An anti-Islam activist is threatening to sue the MTA if it doesn't approve her bus and subway advertisement calling Israel's enemies savages.

Pamela Geller submitted the proposed ad to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's media management company more than a week ago but still hasn't learned if it has been approved or rejected.

"I will sue," Geller said. "It's a free speech issue."

The strongly worded ad states, "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad."

Geller, co-founder of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, said the message is meant to counter posters in 18 subway stations calling for the end of U.S. military aid to Israel. They were paid for by the Westchester-based WESPAC Foundation and began a one-month run earlier in September.

The MTA already has accepted counter ads from the pro-Israel group Stand With Us. They will run in the same 18 stations from Sept. 26 to Oct. 23, the authority has said. An MTA spokesman declined to comment Tuesday.

Last year, during the debate over plans to build a mosque and cultural center about two blocks from Ground Zero, Geller's group ran controversial bus ads depicting a plane flying toward the burning towers.

"Why there?," asked the ad, which also displayed the star and crescent moon - symbols of Islam - on a nearby building.

In another campaign, the group paid for bus advertisements that read, "Fatwa on your head? Is your community or family threatening you? Leaving Islam?" The ad directed Muslims to a Web site urging them to leave the "falsity of Islam."

Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, agreed Geller has a First Amendment right to broadcast her views.

But, he added, "I don't think this type of over-the-top extremist rhetoric is helpful in seeking a just resolution to the Middle East conflict."

Muslim Brotherhood-tied CAIR calls the truth "over-the-top extremist rhetoric." This from a Hamas front group.

Posted by Pamela Geller on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 07:24 PM in AFDI/SIOA Pro-Israel Bus Campaign | Permalink | Comments (14) | TrackBack (0)

Thursday, September 15, 2011

CBS Outdoor/NYC Transit Delays Approval of AFDI Pro-Israel Campaign Despite Approving Anti-Israel Subway Ads

Last week, CBS Outdoor and NYCTA approved an antisemitic ad campaign for ovr 1,000 subways. Freedom lovers and human rights organization, AFDI, submitted a pro-Israel campaign to counter to Jew hatred and historical revision. CBS and the NYC transit have not approved our ad preferring to hide under their desks.

To: CBS Outdoor

Howard,

It's been two days and no word from CBS/NYCTA on our pro-Israel ads. You told me it usually takes no more than an hour for ad approval. We are now on day two. CBS signed off on anti-Israel, anti-semitic ads. Why the stall on pro-Israel ads? It's disgusting.

Yours in liberty,
Pamela Geller

We are still awaiting approval for our counter jihad counter ad from CBS Outdoor and the NYC Transit Authoritywho have approved an antisemitic ad campaign for NY subways.

If we are denied, we will use. Watch Atlas for updates.

Caroline Glick writes:

As I expected, Pamela Geller is all over the anti-Israel NY subway ad campaign I discussed yesterday.

She submitted the ad above to CBS Outdoor/NY Transit to run on NY subway cars.

Go to Atlas Shrugs to help her finance this effort. In the event that the ad is rejected, she will sue and you are invited to join her.

UPDATE: How can you help to get the anti-Israel ads removed? (thanks to Nurit)

1. The ad placement is handled by CBS Outdoor. Please send an email to emmanuela.chanoine@cbsoutdoor.com to register your concern about this ad campaign.

2. Email the Mayor here

3. Call the MTA at 212-878-7000 and, in response to the prompts, press 1, 3, * and then either 2 for the press office and/or 4 for corporate affairs. Leave a message. You can also email them at here, click

4. GET THE WORD OUT. Forward this email to your friends and family. If we do not act to protect Israel, no one will.

For your ease, a draft email is below:

I have just learned of the anti-Israel ad campaign that has been launched in 18 NYC subway stations by twopeoplesonefuture.org. I am contacting you to express my strong disapproval with this ad campaign. The campaign is supported by the anti-Israel lobby, whose agenda is not peace but the destruction of the State of Israel. Second, it unfairly penalizes Israel for defending itself. New York City should not allow these types of ads to be run in our Transit System

Posted by Pamela Geller on Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 10:41 AM in AFDI/SIOA Pro-Israel Bus Campaign | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack (0)

Monday, September 12, 2011

CBS Outdoor/NYC Transit to Run Antisemitic Ads

Atlas readers are well aware of the antisemitic ad campaign bouncing from city to city. We successfully fought back against racism and judeophobia in Seattle. But the anti-Israel ads have run in San Francisco and DC, while our pro-Israel ads have been rejected.

The Jew-hating ads are scheduled to run later on this month on at least 1,000 subway cars (minimum buy $20,000 - $36,000); who is funding the racist haters?

The ad calls for cutting off support for the Jewish state. Ivar over at News that Matters points out: [edited a bit]

Does Turkey occupy Northern Cyprus? Turkey also slaughters their own Kurdish population in Eastern Turkey.

What about ending military aid to United Kingdom? The UK still occupies a part of the Irish island. Argentina also claim that the UK occupy the Falkland Island.

What about demanding an end to US military aid to Saudi Arabia? The Saudis rule a Middle Age styled kingdom, that cuts the hands of theives, cripples and kills people under the sharia.

Since Israel is surrounded by hostile Muslim nations, why should the US throw the only free and democratic nation in the Middle East to the dogs?

If the Arab Spring was about freedom and democracy, should not nations like Egypt now say “look to Israel?”

Should not Arabs from Tripoli to Baghdad send deletions to Israel, to learn how five million Jews and two million Israeli Arabs manages to build a peaceful and prosperous nation?

Shame on all who target Israel.

I have submitted our pro-Israel ad. I am waiting for ad approval as we speak. Please contribute to Atlas to fund these ads. Paypal funds to writeatlas@aol.com

If they refuse my ad, we will sue. Immediately.

NY subway ads calling for ending US aid to Israel? Caroline Glick

According to JTA (hat tip Arve in Norway) this ad is set to be posted in 18 NY subway stations in Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn starting later this month. Seems to me that New Yorkers who support Israel should be able to speak to the City of New York, the Metropolitan Transit Authority and the New York Transit Authority who all have a hand in running the New York subway and have the campaign cancelled. My friend, the indefatigable Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs was able to get similar anti-Israel campaigns blocked in places like Seattle and has shown that cancelling anti-Israel propaganda campaigns is eminently doable.

Happy hunting!

UPDATE: Here's an email I received from Morris Massel with information on how to cancel the ad campaign:

An anti-Israel group, www.twopeoplesonefuture.org, has just placed the attached ad calling for the end of aid to Israel in 18 subways stations in NYC. They claim to target Israel only because "Israel is the strong party, Israel is the Occupying Power and Israel is the only party that can actually end the Occupation and pave the way for a just peace." IT IS NOT ABOUT PEACE. IT IS ANOTHER THINLY VEILED ATTACK ON ISRAEL. For example, certain of the sponsors of this ad campaign actively support Israel boycotts and general Arab solidarity. This is not about promoting peace; it is about attacking Israel.

How can you help?

1. The ad placement is handled by CBS Outdoor. Please send an email toemmanuela.chanoine@cbsoutdoor.com to register your concern about this ad campaign.

2. Email the Mayor. http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.bd08ee7c7c1ffec87c4b36d501c789a0/index.jsp?doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fmail%2Fhtml%2Fmayor.html

3. Call the MTA at 212-878-7000 and, in response to the prompts, press 1, 3, * and then either 2 for the press office and/or 4 for corporate affairs. Leave a message. You can also email them at http://mta-nyc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/mta_nyc.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php

4. GET THE WORD OUT. Forward this email to your friends and family. If we do not act to protect Israel, no one will.
For your ease, a draft email is below:
I have just learned of the anti-Israel ad campaign that has been launched in 18 NYC subway stations by twopeoplesonefuture.org. I am contacting you to express my strong disapproval with this ad campaign. The campaign is supported by the anti-Israel lobby, whose agenda is not peace but the destruction of the State of Israel. Second, it unfairly penalizes Israel for defending itself. New York City should not allow these types of ads to be run in our Transit System

Posted by Pamela Geller on Monday, September 12, 2011 at 07:41 PM in AFDI/SIOA Pro-Israel Bus Campaign | Permalink | Comments (24) | TrackBack (0)

The AFDI Threats to Freedom Index

Pamela Geller — 2011-08-16T06:17:27-07:00

The AFDI Threats to Freedom Index

by Pamela Geller
Big Government, August 15, 2011

Freedom is more embattled in America today than ever. My group, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), has begun tracking the activities of numerous active groups that are threats to freedom in the United States today on our Threats to Freedom Index. We plan to augment it periodically and publish it annually.

All Threat to Freedom groups have beliefs or practices that attack or malign American Constitutional freedoms and/or lawful initiatives for American self-defense.

My colleague Robert Spencer and I compiled the list from records of Threat to Freedom group statements and activities as they appear in their own publications and websites, as well as from reports from concerned citizens and mainstream media reports.

Threat to Freedom group activities can include misrepresentation of anti-terror and other law enforcement initiatives, attempts to restrict the freedom of speech regarding Islamic jihad or other threats to freedom, defamation of freedom fighters, disinformation campaigns in the mainstream media regarding attempts by the U.S. and Israel to defend themselves, and more.

Listing as a Threat to Freedom group does not in itself imply that a listed group calls for or participates in violence or criminal activities, although it does not rule out their doing so.

Here are the first groups listed on our AFDI Threats to Freedom Index. There is more detail in my book Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition retails jihadist propaganda against Israel, distorting the facts of the conflict and attempting to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist.

Code Pink: Far-Left organization aligned with Communists and Islamic jihadists, masquerading as a “peace” organization dedicated to stopping what it characterizes as unjust wars.

Cordoba Initiative: Stealth jihad organization aligned with anti-Israel jihad organizations and dedicated to building the triumphal Islamic supremacist mosque at Ground Zero.

Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR): Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas-linked organization spreading disinformation about Islam and terror, opposing anti-terror activity, and defaming freedom fighters. CAIR was one of the many Islamic groups that was named an unindicted coconspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas jihad funding trial.

Friends of Sabeel-North America (FOSNA): Palestinian Christians aiding the jihad against Israel and retailing jihadist propaganda against the Jewish state.

If Americans Knew (IAK) spreads disinformation about the Palestinian jihad against Israel and Israel’s efforts to defend itself.

International ANSWER: a far-Left organization that opposes U.S. attempts to defend itself from jihad aggression.

International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT): Muslim Brotherhood organization with numerous documented links to Saudi Wahhabi organizations and jihad terror activity.

International Solidarity Movement enlists Leftist Americans to aid the Palestinian jihad against Israel and impede the defensive actions of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF).

Islamic Circle of North America: Muslim Brotherhood organization preaching a global Caliphate and Islamic law (Sharia) over the U.S. ISNA was another Islamic group that was named an unindicted coconspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas jihad funding trial.

Islamic Society of North America: Muslim Brotherhood organization named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas jihad terror funding case.

Muslim American Society: chief arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S., which is dedicated in its own words to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.”

Muslim Public Affairs Council: Muslim Brotherhood-linked organization that has spread disinformation about the extent of Muslim cooperation with anti-terror efforts, and has encouraged Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement.

Muslim Students Association: Muslim Brotherhood organization creating an atmosphere of intimidation for Jewish students on campuses nationwide, and bringing in speakers who preach jihad and hatred.

Click here for the full list.

American Freedom Defense Initiative Action Plan

Pamela Geller — 2011-07-31T19:50:41-07:00

The AMERICAN FREEDOM DEFENSE INITIATIVE (AFDI) is a human rights organization dedicated to human rights, the rule of law, the dignity of the human person, free speech, the free conscience, and equality of rights for all. There is no incitement to violence in our work. This is my treatise on how to fight supremacism. Robert Spencer and I have joined forces to create a proactive, in your face organization that will get things done.

DONATE HERE

Our first event was at CPAC (not of it). We were most distressed that the largest gathering of conservatives in America did nothing to address the single greatest threat to our national security, our Constitution, our very way of life...... Our event was the first of its kind at CPAC, the largest gathering of conservatives. It featured the first public appearance of Steve Coughlin: Former Pentagon Islam specialist, fired after pressure from Islamic infiltrators. We had the brave former Muslim Dr. Wafa Sultan: Author, A God who Hates, viral video star of Al-Jazeera debate with Islamic cleric (and now living in hiding in the United States), Simon Deng: Ex-slave, leading human rights activist against jihad in Sudan; Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff: facing "hate speech" charges in Austria for telling the truth about Islam; Lt Colonel Allen West: War hero, Congressional candidate (FL 22nd district), future national leader; Robert Spencer and myself.

We have followed up with initiaitives to save Muslim girls from devout Muslim hourseholds threatened with death under the sharia here in America, increased public awareness with bus, taxi and billboard campaigns, and led the opposition to the Ground Zero mosque. Rallies attended by tens of thousands to oppose Islamic supremacism and Islamic law in Ameirca.

The American Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI)

The Freedom Defense Initiative is a new organization launched by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. Our objective is to go on the offensive when legal, academic, legislative, cultural, sociological, and political actions are taken to dismantle our basic freedoms and values.

FDI acts against the treason being committed by national, state, and local government officials, the mainstream media, and others in their capitulation to the global jihad and Islamic supremacism, the ever-encroaching and unconstitutional power of the federal government, and the rapidly moving attempts to impose socialism and Marxism upon the American people.

It acts against these evils by:

• Organizing grass root small groups at the local level to fight specific Islamic supremacist initiatives in American cities – e.g., the November 2009 Rally for Rifqa Bary in Columbus, Ohio, which called attention to the dangers apostates from Islam live under, and to the threats to religious freedom that are advancing in the U.S. right now

• Sponsoring anti-jihad bus and billboard campaigns to counter CAIR’s pro-Islamic bus and billboard campaigns

• Organizing counter protests to anti-Israel, anti-Zionism demonstrations • Touring the country on Freedom of Speech in the Age of Jihad tours – bringing the best, clearest voices to national attention

• Building strategic alliances with activist groups in Europe and Israel to engage in open and stealthy counter jihad measures

• Raising awareness of the depredations of Islamic supremacism not just through articles and conferences, but through activist initiatives – e.g., the effort to supply a memorial for honor killing victim Aqsa Parvez, whose body lay in an unmarked grave. This initiative resulted in memorials being constructed for Aqsa in Canada and Israel, and heightened awareness in the West of the horror of Islamic honor killing

• Supporting Geert Wilders and others who are fighting attacks on free speech by the Leftist/Islamic alliance

• Promoting candidates who understand state’s rights and the necessity to limit the power of the federal government [as legal status permits]

• Promoting candidates who fight against the march of Islamic supremacists [as legal status permits]

• Calling attention to specific acts of capitulation and collaboration to Islamic supremacism by government and law enforcement officials, and pressing for the reprimand and removal of those officials; • Targeting infiltrators of our federal agencies and seeking their removal • Articulating and defending a firm Constitutional basis for genuine limitations on the federal government and the rights of the individual states

• Defending the value of private ownership and firmly opposing the nationalization of U.S. industries

• Defending the rights of the private citizen and opposing everything that increases his status of serfdom to the state.

To achieve these ends the Freedom Defense Initiative will:

• Act through the existing Atlas Shrugs and Jihad Watch websites (which had a combined 22 million page views in the last twelve months) to raise awareness of pertinent issues, using our base (Jihad Watch 30,000 page views per day, Atlas 25,000 page views per day, combined page views two million per month) to build a movement; • Create state organizations that address these issues on a local level (Atlas and Jihad Watch readers will likely head up sub-organizations in each state identifying local issues, targeting specific situations, and developing action plans to fight on the local level);

• Issue Action Alerts through the not inconsiderable reach of Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs, calling people to take a specific action -- whether it be to contact their representatives, write against a nominee (i.e., Harold Koh), attend a hearing, call a rally, etc. • Conduct live coverage of key political, social, and historic events (i.e., the Republican National Convention, and important local, state, and national elections) • Hold seminars featuring as speakers key defenders of freedom;

• Host conferences that educate Americans about Leftist indoctrination and Islam’s quest for domination;

• Host rallies to demonstrate the awareness and power of the American citizen; • Publish books that support our objectives;

• Act through all possible means to create a large-scale resistance to the forces that are moving rapidly to destroy American Constitutionalism and capitalism.

• Turn readers into effective activists who build their own networks in their communities. They either run or put up candidates to run in school boards, precincts, to get back that what was squandered. All politics is local -- and that’s where we must start.

Please donate generously here. 501C# status pending

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911 Freedom Rally at Ground Zero, Tenth Anniversary

Pamela Geller — 2011-07-18T14:35:25-07:00

AFDI/SIOA 9/11 Freedom Rally: Stand Against Ground Zero Mosque, and Durban III, Stand for America

NEW YORK, July 6: The human rights organization American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) will be hosting its second annual 9/11 Freedom Rally on September 11 at 3pm at Park Place and West Broadway.

Free citizens are coming from all over the U.S. to attend the rally. “It is crucial to stand for freedom on this tenth anniversary of the heinous 9/11 jihad attacks,” said AFDI Executive Director Pamela Geller. “We must show the jihadists we are unbowed in the defense of freedom.”

AFDI and its Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) program are encouraging all Americans to stand against the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero and the anti-Semitic Durban III conference that will be held in New York City at the same time, and for American values on the tenth anniversary of the worst attack ever on American soil.

The confirmed list of speakers includes 9/11 family members Rosaleen Tallon, who lost brother Sean Patrick Tallon, a reservist in the United States Marine Corps and firefighter with Ladder Company, Alexander and Maureen Santora, who lost their firefighter son Christopher; Sally Regenhard, whose son Christian was killed on 9/11; Nelly Braginsky, who lost her son Alexander; and others.

Other speakers include former U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton (video message); German MP René Stadtkewitz, leader of Germany’s Freedom Party; the courageous ex-Muslim human rights activist Wafa Sultan; war hero and North Carolina Congressional candidate Ilario Pantano; former prosecutor and bestselling author Andrew C. McCarthy; Alan T. DeVona, a World Trade Center Patrol Sergeant who was on duty during the 9/11 jihad attack; Canadian free speech activist, author, publisher and radio host Ezra Levant; popular radio host Joyce Kaufman; Darla Dawald, National Director of the Patriot Action Network; James Lafferty of the Virginia Anti-Sharia Taskforce (VAST); Coptic Christian activist Joseph Nassralla; Iraqi ex-Muslim Michael Paul.

Hosting the rally are Pamela Geller, publisher of the acclaimed AtlasShrugs.com blog, executive director of AFDI and SIOA, and author of Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance (WND Books); and AFDI/SIOA associate director Robert Spencer, the bestselling author and director of Jihad Watch.

Building the Ground Zero mosque is not an issue of religious freedom, but of resisting an effort to insult the victims of 9/11 and to establish a beachhead for political Islam and Islamic supremacism in New York. Cordoba Initiative board member imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is an open proponent of Sharia, Islamic law, a system that denies the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and the equality of rights of all people before the law. Given the thousands of triumphal mosques that have been built on the cherished sites of conquered peoples throughout Islamic history, the mosque leaders’ claim that this mosque would be understood differently by Muslims worldwide lack foundation.

The Durban III conference follows upon two previous conferences that scapegoated and demonized the state of Israel in service of Islamic jihad and Islamic supremacist interests. The rally will defend Israel against the defamation to which it will be subjected at this conference. It will also call upon the city to remove roadblocks to the reconstruction of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was destroyed on 9/11 and since then mired in bureaucratic red tape that has prevented its rebuilding – in stark contrast to the help Mayor Bloomberg and other city officials have given to the Ground Zero Mosque project.

AFDI/SIOA is one of America’s foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.

UPDATE: Free Speech Icon, Ezra Levant, to Speak at 911 Freedom Rally

We are thrilled to announce that Ezra Levant, one of the leading lights in the West defending freedom of speech against encroaching Islamic blasphemy laws, will be speaking at our Freedom Rally on the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks against America at Ground Zero.

Ezra Levant is a TV anchor, newspaper columnist, author, and lawyer. He was the founding publisher of the Western Standard magazine, the only Canadian media outlet to publish the Danish cartoons of Muhammed. That led to two charges of “hate speech” before the Alberta government’s human rights commission.

There is only one place to be on the tenth anniversary of the bloodiest and biggest attack on American soil in our nation's history -- Ground Zero. Be there; your civilization needs you.

"Justice for Fatima" Protest June 10th, Tampa Florida
Stand Against Honor Killing Cover-Up

Pamela Geller — 2011-05-31T21:05:16-07:00

AFDI/SIOA Rally for Justice for Fatima Abdallah to Call On Tampa Police to Reopen Case of Her Suspicious Death Yahoo News

TAMPA, Fla., May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A prominent national human rights and advocacy organization is calling upon Tampa city and Florida state officials to conduct an honest and thorough investigation into the suspicious death of Fatima Abdallah.

The Florida chapter of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI)/Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) is holding a Rally for Justice for Fatima Abdallah at 2 p.m. on June 10 at Lykes Gaslight Park in front of Tampa Police Headquarters. The Rally will include a news conference.

Speakers will call upon State Attorney Mark Ober, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and Tampa City Council Members to recognize the numerous anomalies in the Tampa Police Department report that ruled Fatima Abdallah's death a suicide, and to open a genuine investigation into the possibility that she was murdered in an Islamic honor killing.

The Tampa Police report claims that Abdallah committed suicide by repeatedly striking her head against a coffee table. AFDI/SIOA Executive Director Pamela Geller said in a statement: "The idea defies logic, belies reality." She announced that the Rally for Justice for Fatima Abdallah would feature a great deal of evidence that the Tampa Police investigation was drastically flawed, and that the Police Department and Medical Examiner ignored numerous indications that Fatima Abdallah did not commit suicide, but was brutally assaulted. Then when challenged, their explanation only exposed more inconsistencies and raised more questions.

Geller also pointed out that Fatima Abdallah was "a Muslim woman shunned by her devout Muslim family for her 'shameful' divorce" – and hence a possible victim of Islamic honor killing, in which a woman who has brought "shame" to the family is murdered in order to preserve family "purity." Neighbors reported that Fatima Abdallah was abused by her family, but that they had been too frightened themselves of the abusers to report it.

"We cannot and will not tolerate the covering up of honor killings in the U.S.," Geller said. "Our law enforcement authorities should be standing up against this practice. The cover-up is criminal, and we must protest the silence and complicity of Florida law enforcement. This looking the other way on honor killing is Sharia law -- if this family weren't Muslim, law enforcement would have handled this completely differently."

Geller also noted that "at the exact same time of Fatima Abdallah's alleged honor killing, Rifqa Bary was not 85 miles away, fighting for her very life under the same deathly system of misogyny and Islamic domination that Fatima had lived under. Rifqa Bary had escaped to Florida after her father had threatened to kill her when he found out that she had left Islam and converted to Christianity. Ohio and Florida law enforcement refused to address the religious motivation behind the death threat made to Rifqa's life. A brutal honor killing of a Muslim woman not 85 miles away would certainly have swayed the court of public opinion. This is the continuation of self-enforcing Sharia law in America."

The confirmed list of speakers at the Rally for Justice for Fatima Abdallah includes Geller, the popular blogger and columnist who publishes the acclaimed AtlasShrugs.com blog and is the author of The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America (Simon & Schuster); AFDI/SIOA's Associate Director, the bestselling author and internationally renowned Islamic expert Robert Spencer; Nonie Darwish, the ex-Muslim human rights activist and author; David Caton of the Florida Family Association, who conducted a thorough independent investigation exposing the numerous errors and falsehoods in the Tampa Police Department report, James Lafferty of the Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force; and Larissa Scott, leader of SIOA's Florida chapter.

AFDI/SIOA is one of America's foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.

Join SIOA's Facebook page here.

Previously at Atlas:

Rifqa Bary Link to Fatima Abdallah Honor Killing Former Prosecutor: "She was Beaten With A Vengeance"

Honor Killing? Initial Investigation of Death of Fatima Abdallah

Honor Killing Cover-Up in Tampa? Muslim Woman's Death Ruled "Accident"

HUGE FREE SPEECH VICTORY: WE WON IN DETROIT! AFDI Protects the First Amendment and Wins big against SMART

Pamela Geller — 2011-03-31T15:52:30-07:00

Freedom buses will run in Detroit!

We won in our free speech lawsuit against Detroit. Huge props to our stealth legal team David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise.

Prideful plaintiff here. Legal warriors nonpareil.

This is a huge win, not just for us, but for the First Amendment. Geller Vs. Detroit

While there are technical aspects of First Amendment law in the opinion that my lawyers question, the result was correct and the judge recognized, as highlighted in the court’s opinion, that SMART hung itself during cross examination. This is a huge win, not just for AFDI but for the First Amendment, and a defeat for all those who claim that I am a hater because I am willing to talk about what is wrong in Islam, including, as in this case, honor killings and fatwas for apostasy.

Perhaps the oppositon will better understand the nature of my work. This is a direct refutation to all those who claim I am a hater or that my lawyers are "haters" for representing me. I love not hate and I fight for love, art, music and freedom!

And, huge kudos to Judge Denise Hood, who protected free speech and did not take any swipes at my message, which she could have (like saying, “while we might despise AFDI’s message, we must protect it…”). She did not do that. Good for her. It took awhile, but the wheels of justice ........

I am thrilled, not just for the protection of free speech, but for those living in danger who will be helped by our freedom buses.

Next stop San Francisco ........

Special mention and whttp://iowntheworld.com/blog/?author=11arm thanks to Big Fur Hat who executes my art, ads etc with his particular brilliance

Want to read the court order? Go here: Download Court Order granting Prel Injunction

Defendants argue that their policy is viewpoint neutral. However, there is nothing in the policy that can guide a government official to distinguish between permissible and impermissible advertisements in a non-arbitrary fashion. Defendant Beth Gibbons testified that there were no other written guidelines or manuals available, aside from the guidelines found in the contract between SMART and CBS. She further testified that, while the atheist advertisement was purely religious, rather than political, there was no manual or language that set forth what distinguished a political advertisement from a religious advertisement. Under Sixth Circuit law, “[t]he absence of clear standards guiding the discretion of the public official vested with the authority to enforce the enactment invites abuse by enabling the official to administer the policy on the basis of impermissible factors.” United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local 1099, et al. v. Southwest Ohio Reg’l. Transit Auth., 163 F.3d 341, 359). “[T]he limits the [government] claims are implicit in its law [must] be made explicit by textual incorporation, binding judicial or administrative construction, or well-established practice.” Id. (internal citations omitted).

UPDATE: Volokh weighs in here.

Upcoming Events

Pamela Geller — 2011-03-28T23:22:45-07:00

Heads up -- I will be testifying in favor of anti-sharia legislation, HB88 Alaska on Wednesday the 30th at 1 PM AST (that's 2 PM West coast and 5 PM East coast). Tune in to the live feed at: http://www.alaskalegislature.tv/

Use Of Foreign Law Sponsored by Rep. Carl Gatto Co-Sponsors: Rep. Bob Lynn, Rep. Wes Keller
“An Act prohibiting a court, arbitrator, mediator, administrative agency, or enforcement authority from applying a law, rule, or provision of an agreement that violates an individual's right under the Constitution of the State of Alaska or the United States Constitution.”

HB 88 aims at preventing "a court or other enforcement authority" from enforcing foreign law in Alaska. The bill will preempt violations of an individual's constitutional rights resulting from the application of foreign law.

HB 88 offers a baseline law that provides a statutory framework for recluding constitutionally objectionable foreign laws and legal systems from finding their way into the state judicial system. One example of an offending transnational law is sharia-authoritative Islamic law that is applied as the law of the land in many countries around the world. Sharia is patently offensive to U.S. and Alaska constitutional law because it criminalizes apostasy (violation of Free Exercise of Religion) and blasphemy against Islam, Mohammed, and sharia itself (violation of Free Speech). Sharia also violates principles of due process and equal protection by discriminating against non-Muslims and women.

Washington, April 1st: Friday, meet me for lunch in DC and fight the expansion of enemy propaganda: Read more here: Stop Al Jazeera’s expansion in the United States -- Pamela Geller, Daily Caller

Wednesday, April 6th, NYC: Join Robert Spencer and me:

Armenian, Greek, Assyrian Genocides to be commemorated in NY

PanARMENIAN.Net - A tribute to the victims of the Greek, Armenian and Assyrian Genocides will be paid in New York on April 6, 2011, the Hellenic League of America said in a media alert.

This year’s commemoration is organized and hosted by Panthracian Union of America ‘Orpheus’ and supported by the Hellenic League of America, HLA, and will feature such guest speakers as two time New York Times bestselling Author and Director of Jihad Watch.org, Robert Spencer; Editor and Publisher of Atlas Shrugs and Executive Director of Freedom Defense Initiative and Stop Islamization of America, Pamela Geller; First Vice-President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Professor Alex Hinton; President of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, Elias Tsekerides and President of the PanPontian Federation of USA and Canada, Dimitris Molohides.

April 9th, Los Angeles, California:

Saturday, April 9th, 2011...at 10AM to 1PM - a screening and in-person presentations by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer

What: The West Coast World Premiere of the important new movie, The Ground Zero Mosque - The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks. Regular admission is $20.00, VIP admission with early entry and free popcorn and a drink is $25.00

Where: Laemmle's Fallbrook 7 theaters, West Hills

When: Saturday morning, April 9th 10 AM (One showing only in the Los Angeles area)

How - For tickets to this event you need to go to the Tea Party website at - http://thenewpatriotguards.com to order online

Additional California screening:

Saturday, April 9th, 2011...at 7PM to 10PM - a screening and in-person presentations by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer - location - Calvary Chapel Mission Viejo, 24821 Chrisanta Drive, Mission Viejo, CA 92691

McAllen, Texas, April 16th:

Saturday The McAllen Tea Party Association proudly presents

Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and the viewing of their film

"Ground Zero Mosque"

City & state: McAllen, Texas

Date: Saturday April 16th 2011

McAllen Civic Auditorium
NW corner of 10th street & Expressway 83

Time 2pm till 5pm

For more information or any questions please
email us at mtp@rgvtp.com

Premiere of AFDI/SIOA Groundbreaking Film at CPAC:
The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 911 Attacks

Pamela Geller — 2011-01-25T22:51:27-08:00

Washington DC World Premiere: February 11th CPAC Movie Theater, Marriot Waldham

New York City: February 20th, at the St. Lukes Theatre, 308 W 46th Street, New York, 7:30 pm

California, Texas, Florida, dates to be announced.

World Premiere of AFDI/SIOA's Ground Zero Mosque Documentary to be Held at CPAC REUTERS

The long awaited world premiere of The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks, a groundbreaking new documentary on the controversy over the planned Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero, will be held February 11 at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C. Demand has been so overwhelming that there will be two screenings at CPAC, on Friday and Saturday.

The premiere will be February 11 at 3pm in the Maryland Ballroom of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. The screening will be followed by a question and action and strategy session on how to stop the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero. Speakers will include 9/11 family member Rosaleen Tallon; Pamela Geller, Executive Director of AFDI/SIOA; and Robert Spencer, Associate Director of AFDI/SIOA. Ground Zero mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife Daisy Khan have also been invited to dialogue. Noted Geller: "Now that Rauf and Khan have been fired from the Cordoba mosque, they should have free time for interfaith dialogue."

Refreshments will be served. The event is open to everyone. A second screening has been scheduled for Saturday at the CPAC Movie Theater.

Geller said in a statement: "The Ground Zero Mosque has become a watershed issue in our effort to raise awareness of and ultimately halt and roll back the advance of Islamic law and Islamic supremacism in America. Although 70% of Americans oppose this insulting victory mosque, the mainstream media continues to propagandize for it, whitewashing the links to jihad terror and unsavory financial dealings of mosque organizers, and smearing the vast majority of Americans who oppose the mosque as racists and hatemongers."

Geller explained that The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks "strikes back against the media liars. This is the first documentary that tells the whole truth about the Ground Zero mosque. Be prepared to be shaken to your core. This movie rips the mask off the enemedia and the malevolent role they play in advancing and propagandizing the objectives of America's mortal enemies."

The documentary includes exclusive footage of AFDI/SIOA's June 6 and September 11 rallies in lower Manhattan against the mosque, featuring speakers such as Dutch freedom fighter Geert Wilders, former Ambassador John Bolton, conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart, popular talk show host Mike Gallagher, Sudanese ex-slave Simon Deng, courageous military vet Ilario Pantano, and many 911 family members and first responders as well as others. It also features brand-new interviews with Geller and AFDI/SIOA Associate Director Robert Spencer, as well as inside details and media footage of the struggle to stop the mosque, and much more.

"It's enlightening, engrossing, and rousing," Geller said, "but above all, The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks is a teaching tool. This film is perfect for showing your skeptical friends and family what we're really up against, and explaining to them how and why we must fight back. It is the first accurate reportage of the number one national and international news story that became national news without the mainstream media. The press has tried to shape the narrative to demonize the freedom lovers and denazify the Islamic supremacists, but the American people no longer trust big media."

AFDI/SIOA is rolling out the film nationwide. The New York City premiere will be held on Muhammad's birthday (according to the Shi'ites), February 20, at the St. Luke's Theatre, 308 W. 46th Street, New York, at 7:30 pm. To attend, please RSVP to GroundZeroMosque@aol.com.

AFDI/SIOA is also calling upon patriots to set up showings of The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks around the country. "This is an unparalleled opportunity for you to raise awareness not only about the Ground Zero mosque issue," Geller explained, "but about the stealth jihad and Islamic supremacism in general. This film could help you kick off your own local activist efforts, and give you a chance to meet like-minded people who will form the backbone of those efforts." Geller and Spencer, along with 9/11 family members, are available to address gatherings showing the film.

"We can't guarantee that you'll convert every fence-sitter to the counter-jihad cause," Geller added, "but everyone who sees this film will come away with a unique look at the unscrupulousness and arrogance of the mosque leaders and their accomplices in the mainstream media and the New York City government - and with an inspiring and informative introduction to those who are fighting back on behalf of freedom, and to the ways in which they counter the lies and distortions of the pro-mosque forces."

If you wish to set up a screening in your town, city, university, public library, shul or church, contact Pamela Geller at groundzeromosque@aol.com.

Join SIOA's Facebook page here.

For more information, contact Pamela Geller at groundzeromosque@aol.com.

See full article from DailyFinance: http://srph.it/gppK59

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Register: AFDI/SIOA, VAST to Host Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference in Dearborn, Michigan at Hyatt Regency

AFDI/SIOA Concerned About Hamas-linked CAIR's Use of 'Outreach' to Spy On, Bully, Intimidate and Lie to Government Agencies Nationwide

The worm turned .... on its head. The Muslim Brotherhood group CAIR is whining about "outreach" being used for other purposes. That's like Captain Renault saying in Casablanca, "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"

The Free Speech Battle Begins: Pro-Freedom Geller Vs. Pro-Sharia MTA

It's Official: Pro-Jihad MTA Bans Pro-Israel Ads, Runs Anti-Israel Ads

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

NY Post: "Blogger battling MTA over ads give agency ultimatum"

VIDEO: Pamela Geller on WPIX News: MTA Bans Pro-Israel Subway Ads, Approves Anti-Semitic Ads

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

NY Daily News: "Blogger Pamela Geller vows to sue MTA if subway ad calling Israel's enemies 'savages' isn't approved"

Thursday, September 15, 2011

CBS Outdoor/NYC Transit Delays Approval of AFDI Pro-Israel Campaign Despite Approving Anti-Israel Subway Ads

Monday, September 12, 2011

CBS Outdoor/NYC Transit to Run Antisemitic Ads

The AFDI Threats to Freedom Index

The AFDI Threats to Freedom Index

American Freedom Defense Initiative Action Plan

911 Freedom Rally at Ground Zero, Tenth Anniversary

"Justice for Fatima" Protest June 10th, Tampa Florida Stand Against Honor Killing Cover-Up

HUGE FREE SPEECH VICTORY: WE WON IN DETROIT! AFDI Protects the First Amendment and Wins big against SMART

Upcoming Events

Premiere of AFDI/SIOA Groundbreaking Film at CPAC: The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 911 Attacks

"Justice for Fatima" Protest June 10th, Tampa Florida
Stand Against Honor Killing Cover-Up

Premiere of AFDI/SIOA Groundbreaking Film at CPAC:
The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 911 Attacks