“Pamela Geller Versus CPAC”

The notorious left wing blogs heads are exploding over my remarks at our CPAC event on the corruption of CPAC leadership. Justin Elliot over at The War Room at Salon turned on his camera after my Ground Zero mosque event. In the accompanying article, Elliot writes, "At Geller's insistence, one of the 9/11 family members who she brought to the event stood by her during the interview." Justin, in accordance with left wing "journalism" standards, is being patently dishonest. I was just emerging from an emotionally draining two hours with many 911 family members, and Rosaleen Tallon was with me. When Elliot wanted to do his guerrilla interview, I agreed, and said he ought to interview Rosaleen about why she came to CPAC. He sneered ……

Contemptible. 

Salon interview at CPAC

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Pamela Geller versus CPAC Justin Elliot, salon

The notorious blogger brings her anti-Park51 campaign to CPAC, even as she denounces the conference for Muslim ties

Late yesterday, blogger Pamela Geller, originator of the Park51/"ground zero mosque" controversy, held an unofficial panel at CPAC to preview her new movie, "The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 911 Attacks."

There have been tensions between Geller and the leadership of CPAC, particularly American Conservative Union board member Grover Norquist, the anti-tax activist. Norquist has been a target of Geller and her cohort for years because of his friendly ties to Muslim leaders. In my interview with Geller (watch below), she accuses Norquist of actually being a Muslim Brotherhood stooge.

In any case, Geller was still able to get access to a conference room at the hotel during CPAC, though it was not sanctioned by conference organizers and did not appear on the official schedule. Her event, which featured several 9/11 family members who are fiercely opposed to Park51, drew a couple hundred people; there were few empty seats. Each family member told their Sept. 11 story and then denounced the plans to build the Islamic center near ground zero. One woman said, "This is like spitting on the grave of my son." Another: "If we have to stand there and protect that building physically — with Pam Geller first — we will."

The American Muslims behind the mosque were routinely referred to as "terrorists" and Geller seemed to speak for most of the crowd when she said, "What is a moderate Muslim? A secular Muslim." The tone and popularity of the event contrasted with the argument by Suhail Khan, the Muslim Republican leader I interviewed Thursday, that the conservative movement is a welcoming, inclusive place.

I spoke to Geller after the event about the alleged radical infiltration of CPAC, the events in Egypt (she has been notably supportive of Hosni Mubarak in the past), and 2012 (she likes John Bolton). At Geller's insistence, one of the 9/11 family members who she brought to the event stood by her during the interview.

Justin is being patently dishonest. I suggested he interview her about why she came to CPAC. Perhaps Justin Elliot hasn't read all of my pieces on the issue of Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan. David Horowitz gives  a crash course, Justin, in his remarks at CPAC, earlier today:

Go to minute 7:40 if you can't watch the whole thing, but it's only 12 minutes, so watch it.

It is spectacular.

UPDATE: Leftwing Politico has this:

Freshman Rep. Allen West also drew thunderous applause in his keynote speech about the threat to America posed by Islam and other security threats. And as Republican candidates define their national security stands in the 2012 elections, conservative discomfort with Islam in America will be a feature of the debate.

“We are also faced at home and abroad with a mortal threat in political Islam,” conservative activist David Horowitz said in his address to the conference. “Political Islam is a totalitarian movement that seeks to impose Islamic law on the entire world through the seizure of states by stealth and electoral means where possible and by terror where necessary and sometimes by a combination of the two. There are hundreds of millions of believers in political Islam.”

CPAC organizers attempted to address this dual dynamic by holding an official panel on the threat of sharia law, with several other affiliated, but unofficial events on inclusion, religious liberty and the so-called ground zero mosque controversy, featuring the controversial blogger Pam Geller and Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer.

“Sometimes when you hear snide comments about Jews in the ’50s or Muslims today — we’ve been through this. The Republican party chased away the Catholic vote for over a hundred years,” said Grover Norquist, an ACU board member and a tax activist who has tried to bring Muslim voters in to the GOP for more than a decade. “You chase away people politically. The thing about the political effects of bigotry — it can last generations. It’s tough to fix.”

“The answer is some people are and some people aren’t,” Norquist later told POLITICO about whether Republicans were making an effort to court Muslim voters. “Certainly, Chris Christie in New Jersey is. George W. Bush was.”

Bush’s outreach to the Muslim community netted him the single largest share of the Muslim vote in 2000, but nearly all Muslim voters drifted back toward Obama in 2008. Relations between the GOP and the Muslim community reached an all-time low when many prominent members of the GOP took public stands against the building of a mosque in Lower Manhattan. 

The tensions broke most clearly to the surface in a small panel on religious freedom sponsored by the group Muslims for America and moderated by the American Conservative Union’s only Muslim board member. The discussion was interrupted several times by attendees questioning the moderator, Suhail Khan, about radical ties and sympathies.

Khan faced repeated and hostile questions about his ties and his parents ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, as a handful attendees with video cameras and recording devices crowded the rear of the room to pressed him on the terror issues.

“These are smear tactics that have circulated against me for the last 10 years,” said Khan, responding to audience questions by a participant about alleged ties to radical organizations — ties that Khan has ferociously denied, pointing to his service in the Bush administration and his security background vetting by the Department of Justice and the Secret Service for those sensitive political positions.

“My record is clear,” said Khan to the audience. “Pam Geller, Robert Spencer — they’re not part of the conservative movement. Everywhere they turn, the conservative movement is turning their back on them.” (Read the rest)

No, just the Muslim Brotherhood faction and the RINOs. I like that.

Previous at Atlas: Grover Norquist Hiss – Atlas Shrugs (March 2010)

Benedict Grover: Norquist Fights for the Jihad in Afghanistan … (January 2011)

Pamela Geller, American Thinker: Grover Norquist's Jihad – Atlas …March 2010

Pamela Geller, Frontpage Magazine Interview: Grover Norquist …(Feb 2010)

Needed CPAC Insurgency: Oust Keene, Khan, Norquist …. – Atlas Shrugs

Norquist Nexis: Newsmax Nixes Atlas – Atlas Shrugs

CONSERVATIVES MUST SHUN NORQUIST- Atlas Shrugs

UPDATE: Here's a transcript of Horowitz's remarks:

The Transcript:

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We are also faced both at home and abroad with an existential enemy in political Islam. Political Islam is a totalitarian movement that seeks to impose Islamic law on the entire world through the seizure of states by stealth and electoral means insofar as possible, and by terror where necessary, and sometimes by a combination of the two. There are hundreds of millions of believers in political Islam, and it is growing force within the Islamic world itself.

In Egypt, 85% of the population is on record approving of the death penalty for apostates who leave Islam. The same people also believe that the death penalty for defectors from the faith is a form of democracy and religious freedom. There is nothing new in this apparent contradiction. Communist totalitarians also worked through the electoral process wherever possible and through violence when necessary. They called the police states and gulags they created “people’s democracies.” The Soviet Constitution was described by its creators and by the progressive movements that defended it as “the most democratic in the world.”

The Muslim Brotherhood, which is the fountainhead of political Islam and has spawned 12 terrorist armies including al-Qaeda and Hamas is a political force in Egypt that is also willing to participate in elections and in the civil institutions of society. The Holy Land Foundation, a creation of the Muslim Brotherhood was the largest Islamic charity in America until it was raided by the FBI and put on trial in Texas for funding Hamas. One of the documents seized in a concealed basement at the Foundation headquarters and put into evidence by the FBI was the Muslim Brotherhood’s plan for America. The stated goal of this plan was to “destroy the American civilization.”

The plan called for building a secret leadership in America and for the creation of a series of Brotherhood front groups that would appear to be participants in America’s democracy until the time came when and where force would be necessary to accomplish the Brotherhood’s goals.

When I read the document, it reminded me of the Communists in America who were on trial for conspiring to overthrow the government, which they surely were, but who described themselves as Jeffersonian democrats. I knew several of them personally, including one who went underground to prosecute the violent revolution. Thanks to the imprudent tolerance of our courts, their convictions were all overturned.

The front groups that the Muslim Brotherhood set up were identified in the captured document. Among them were the Muslim Students Association, the Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim American Society, and the Council on American Islamic Relations or CAIR. The latter was set up to be a so-called civil rights organization whose purpose was to use the American Constitution to advance the Brotherhood’s aims. The Communist Party had several similar fronts, including the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee and the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born as well.

The late Mahboob Khan was an American Muslim, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and one of the founders of the Muslim Students Association. He was also instrumental in creating the Islamic Society of North America. Mahboob Khan’s widow today sits on the board of one of the regional organizations of the Muslim Brotherhood front CAIR.

Mahboob Khan also founded three mosques in California, which preach the totalitarian doctrines of the Brotherhood. In 1993 Mahboob Khan and one of his mosques hosted the “Blind Sheik” Abdul Rahman just two months before the Sheik’s terrorist group blew up the World  Trade Center, killing six people and wounding more than a thousand. In 1995 Mahboob Khan and his mosque in Santa Clara, California hosted and held a fund-raiser for Ayaman al-Zawahiri, a member of the Brotherhood and the number two man in al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden.

The Muslim Brotherhood has been wildly successful in its plan to become part of America’s civil culture and to infiltrate the institutions of America’s civil government, including the White House and both political parties, and the conservative movement as well. Suhail Khan is the proud son of Mahboob Khan and his protégé, as he is also the protégé of the convicted terrorist Abdurahman Alamoudi.

Sponsored by his longtime patron Grover Norquist, who has been a pillar of the conservative movement, Suhail Khan was given a White House appointment in the Bush Administration and facilitated Alamoudi’s access to the president. Suhail then became an Undersecretary of Transportation where he received a top security clearance. With Grover’s support Suhail has also been made a board member of the American Conservative Union and was the moderator of a panel on Religious Liberty yesterday at this event.

Suhail Khan used his offices in the Bush White House with Grover’s connivance to carry water for the terrorist Sami al-Arian in an attempt to ban the use of secret evidence in terrorist trials – a proposal that thanks to Grover’s immense political influence was actually endorsed by President Bush and was only thwarted by the 9/11 terror attacks.

Over the last ten years the influence of the Brotherhood has spread throughout our government. There is nothing new in this sad reality. In 1938 Whittaker Chambers attempted to warn President Roosevelt that one of his White House advisers, Alger Hiss, was a Soviet agent. When Roosevelt was given Chambers’ information, he laughed and disregarded it. Alger Hiss remained as the president’s adviser until the House Un-American Activities Committee flushed him out.

In the midst of the current crisis in Egypt, our biggest ally in the Middle East, both Secretary of State Clinton and the present director of national intelligence have given the Muslim Brotherhood an imprimatur as a peaceful, moderate and democratic organization. FBI directors appear at the annual dinners of CAIR, and the president has appointed members of the Islamic Society of North America to top positions in the Department of Homeland Security.

Frank Gaffney has been the courageous bringer of the bad news about Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan to the board of the American Conservative Union. Many good conservatives on the board have refused to believe the evidence of Suhail Khan’s Brotherhood allegiances and agendas. They are of the opinion that Suhail’s public appearances with Alamoudi and the Muslim Brotherhood fronts took place a decade ago, and that he doesn’t promote violent agendas. I understand this. My parents were Communists in the heyday of Stalin. The Party’s slogan was not “Bring on the dictatorship of the Proletariat” or “Revolution Now.” But that is what they believed. The slogan of the Communist Party was “Peace, Jobs and Democracy.”

As for the question of whether Suhail Khan believes now what he openly said then, my answer is this. When an honest person has been a member of a destructive movement and leaves it, he will feel compelled to repudiate it publicly and to warn others of the dangers it poses. This is a sure test of whether someone has left the Muslim Brotherhood or not.

I urge conservatives to school themselves in the nature of the Muslim Brotherhood and the networks it has spawned. And to be vigilant against its spread into the ranks of the conservative movement and the government of the country they love.

Editor’s Update: See David’s rebuttal to Suhail Khan’s response here.

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Newshawk

13 years ago

Pamela, you were great. But an Issue I think ought to be mentioned is that you do not believe a DEMOCRACY will in fact arise from Egypt but that an Oligarchy of the Muslim Brotherhood, poised for jumping into the vacuum that will be left behind, will be the new form of government which will be detrimental to the people of Egypt and the world (as I understand you)

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AuntieMadder

13 years ago

You typed “democracy” in all caps as if it’s a good thing, the way that liberty is a good thing (which is the reason the US is not a democracy).
Sultan Knish explains it well enough.
“Freedom and democracy are not synonymous except in political speeches. Polls show that most Egyptians are less committed to freedom, than that they are to Islamic law. If that is the case, then democratic elections will lead to less freedom, not more. Democracy is not the same thing as freedom, and conflating the two is empty rhetoric. It sounds good in a speech, but fails as an argument.”
You really should read the rest here: http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2011/02/conversation-with-neo-conservative.html

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AuntieMadder

13 years ago

Since you brought it up, I’ve been thinking that there must be something amiss with CPAC since Fox News reported that Ron Paul and Mitt Romney lead the straw poll for 2012 at CPAC. Neither of those two are particularly popular among the rest of us. The majority of CPAC attendees are obviously not average conservative Americans nor do they represent our views.

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AuntieMadder

13 years ago

Correction: A better choice of words, and what I actually meant to say, is that the majority of CPAC attendees are obviously not average conservative Americans nor do they share our views.

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1389

13 years ago

CPAC has no business having ANY Muslims on its board whatsoever.
Anybody who believes in Islam is our enemy, and that’s that.

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John Brooks

13 years ago

The problem is Pamela is the majority of these people at CPAC along with the traitor Grover Norquist, is that CPAC is took over by a group of Ron Paul looney tunes who would rather put their head in the ground like an ostrich and wait for the Islamists to cut their own head off with a knife. They fail to see that the Islamists like Yuri Bezmenov can not be subverted. Because they control the media, they use their money to take over schools, media, and tell us if we do not leave we will kill you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN0By0xbst8

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Madeleine

13 years ago

Grover Norquist’s bottom line seems to be the voter base for the Conservative/
Republican line. Pam is telling the truth and he wants so badly to stifle
the truth because he doesn’t want to lose the Muslim voter base.
Nice, real nice! That idiot thinks that he can pretend to not notice the severe,
and extreme measures taken by Muslims to play both sides of the fence, both
using each other to complete their own selfish mission, their own means.
The anger I feel concerning this Benedict Arnold Norquist’s indifference, his
blatant refusal to admit that he is engaging the enemy, it’s beyond boiling point!
I really liked what David Horowitz has to say, and this needs to be said
over and over again, until the liars concede. I’m afraid however, that even
when the swarm of Muslims have entered into our nation through every crack in
the foundation they can find, and when they are standing over the likes
of someone like Grover with a knife to his throat, he’ll still refuse to
tell it like it is.
Pride goes before the fall, someone should tell him that. Pam you are the
energizer bunny, and once again, thank you for being you, answering the call,
the very G-d given call to do what he gave you talent to do. I don’t post on
Jihad Watch but if Robert Spencer is a reader I hope he knows that my husband
and I feel the same about him too and Steve Emerson too, actually all the
fighters of freedom currently out there standing up and saying what needs to be
said and risking so much in this “intolerant” day and age.

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Vern Parker

13 years ago

Great job, Pam and great speech by David Horowitz.

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Bunkerville

13 years ago

Back in 2009 they were already trying to plant muslim interns on key staffs. It was well documented.
CAIR memo says, in part:“We will focus on influencing congressmen responsible for policy that directly impacts the American Muslim community. (For example, the judiciary, intelligence, and homeland security committees.) We will develop national initiatives such as a lobby day and placing Muslim interns in Congressional offices
http://bunkerville.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/breaking-cair-tries-to-plant-muslim-interns-on-key-hill-staffs/

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Poosh

13 years ago

Why do these leftists and liberals lie in such obvious and easily-disprovable ways !? They should put better effort into their deceptions.

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dee dee

13 years ago

Norquist married a moslem. that can’t happen without conversion to ROP!

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Sherab Zangpo

13 years ago

I listened to Horowitz’s speech from the video you posted and it is truly amazing.
Thank you for posting it.
Norquist is the best example of what I have the habit to call “the CHIMERA”, the alliance of islamists, internationalist subversives, and elitists. Of course he is one of the “elitists” … ingredient.
The advisers who told Bush to call islam a “religion of peace” are obviously on the same boat of Norquist.
They think they can ride the tiger (islam) for their purposes of political power. Certainly they must get a lot of money for that.
Without these allies INSIDE the West, islam would be stopped TODAY.
They think they are super-fine strategists. Truth is, they have their hands dirty with the blood of ALL the victims of islam, anywhere.
Thank you Pamela.
G-d bless you.

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gotta tell ya

13 years ago

’cause the lazy, the willfully ignorant, and the outright stupid will generally always believe them – especially when they’re told they’re entitled to the same stuff that (the evil) rich people have
purty easy buying votes from the onion heads, ain’t it
that’s what hi-speed rail is ALL about

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dawning

13 years ago

SO the norquists of the world want the vote of the isslimes? The only way they will get them is with the loss of the true conservitive vote. So all they are doing is splitting the party and adding their votes to the demos. Whose side are they really on? Seems like stealth jihad to me.

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Stuart Kaufman

13 years ago

For those fools who don’t believe that Sharia adherent Islamists are attempting through stealth jihad to infiltrate and co-opt American society and culture, I ask you with all due respect to pull your heads out of your fundaments. Islamists are the most significant danger that we face. Grover Norquist represents a clear and present danger to the conservative movement because he has insinuated himself into the top levels of the conservative movement. By bringing Suhail Kahn into that circle, he has insinuated the Muslim Brotherhood into the epicenter of our national political efforts. By casting as outliers and extremists those of us who are attempting to expose Norquist and his slimy friends, The Politico is giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States. David Horowitz, Pamela Geller and the others who are sounding the alarm are bravely doing the work that others are too cowardly or too blind to do.

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wtd

13 years ago

At times it’s been difficult to listen to Horowitz speak, his voice not carrying well or being too raspy. However, this speech was truly one of his clearest & best — if not the best. I will be sure to send a link to all. Well done!

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Mac-101

13 years ago

First I saw this. Does he attend Mosque functions with her? Does she still attend without hassel?

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JewishOdysseus

13 years ago

test

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tanstaafl

13 years ago

Read the Qur’an and stop listening to America’s dhimmis.

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lilredbird

13 years ago

Awesome smackdown by Horowitz of Norquist and the capital-L Looney Libertarians. Having been a member of the NYC LL Party back in the 1970s I know from personal experience that these people are nutty as squirrel poo, and now that they have insinuated radical Islam into the conservative movement they are downright dangerous. I get a bitter chuckle out of the “conservatives” who will jump to marginalize us heathen-godless-Objectivists, but go party with the likes of Norquist and Paul, who would sell us down the road to Islam. And yet potential candidates like Pawlenty and Daniels are busy telling everyone who will listen that it’s “godless atheists who caused the Holocaust and are what is wrong with America!!!”
I will probably have to vote for one of these idiots, but I will neither work for nor contribute to anyone who calls me a second-class American for not worshipping their god, any god.

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Tyler

13 years ago

CPAC shouldn’t allow anti-intellectual, knuckle-dragging, provocateur rags like Salon into the event. It contributes nothing, and they blatantly have no objective purpose at the event other than to instigate conflict.

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joshcomm

13 years ago

Wow, talk about a rude awakening. Thank God for Geller, Horowitz, and others. Thank you for posting those videos and for speaking truth no matter what the cost. We have much to do in so short of a time.

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Liberty Rising

13 years ago

Another problem is John is…
We “Ron Paul looney tunes” would rather NOT “put our head in the ground like an ostrich” and trust that the Leviathan state will respect our essential liberties, which we “looney tunes” choose NOT to trade for a little temporary security. The other problem,of course, is that we can use the English language properly. Try it sometime 🙂

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