Suicide journalism: “San Fran Media Attacks Pamela Geller over New Anti-Jihad Bus Ads”

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Warner Todd Huston exposes the twisted, vicious bias of the San Francisco media in a piece over at Breitbart. They may have tried to destroy me, but in the end, they destroy themselves. Go, now, read the whole thing here.

"San Fran Media Attacks Pamela Geller over New Anti-Jihad Bus Ads" Warner Todd Huston, Breitbart


Without allowing for a response, the San Francisco Examiner,
for instance, gave the space to attack Geller to one Nathan Lean,
editor in-chief of Aslan Media, a left-wing, progressive site dedicated
to pushing Muslim issues. Aslan is also heavily influenced by Iran and
its Mullahs.

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In his March 20 piece,
Lean claimed that Geller and partner Robert Spencer "desire to ignite a
culture war along faith lines" and equated the pair to Osama bin Laden
because both considered themselves "freedom fighters." Lean also said
that Geller-Spencer are supporters of the violence in Britain
perpetrated by some members of the English Defense League and that the
advertisement campaign is "destroying" the cause of liberty.

Lean also promulgated the known false story that a Youtube video
sparked mass terror attacks across the Middle East last year. Absurdly,
he linked Geller-Spencer to that video with tangential "evidence."

Geller and Spencer wrote a response to the Lean piece but feel confident that the San Francisco Examiner
will not publish it. In an interview, Geller noted that the paper did
not contact her about Lean's editorial ahead of time or offer her any
room for response.

While Lean pontificated on how Geller is "destroying" the "cause of
liberty" and freedom of speech with her ad campaigns, he has himself in
the past been an advocate for stopping people from speaking out against Islam, has enlisted the support of hackers to "take down" Robert Spencer's site, Jihad Watch, and hinted that he could expose the home addresses of anti-jihadists to intimidate them into silence.

One constant theme of the coverage by the SF Examiner is to call Geller and Spencer "anti-Islamic."
This is a mischaracterization. With their work, the pair speak out
against radical Islam specifically, not Islam in general. They are
anti-jihadism, not anti-Islamic.

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart, Geller said that the San
Francisco media "are really twisting the entire message and the news
coverage is a fiction. And why? Because maybe too many people will agree
with me."

Geller brought up the claims by Theresa Sparks, head of the Human Rights Commission in San Francisco, that it is easier to get a transgender operation in Iran than it is in the U.S. For her misleading claim, Geller called Sparks a "useful idiot."

"Well it is [easier] because gays are not allowed in Iran. You are forced to get a transgender operation in Iran. Not all gay men want to be women," Geller said.

"It's a difficult war we face. It's like David and Goliath with the
media," Geller said. "The media is hostile to the voices of freedom and
the truth. This is a war in the information battle space and the media
is just hostile."

"They are afraid of the truth. They are afraid that people will come
to agree with us and they constantly advance a mythical narrative of
Islamophobia every time and always it's an ad hominem attack," Geller
insisted.

At one point in Lean's San Fran Examiner piece, he claimed
Geller and Spencer have a "desire to ignite a culture war along faith
lines." Geller called this "hysterical."


"My desire is that all people should be free," she said. "I am a
human rights activist. I elected to do this work despite that my name is
smeared and I'm marginalized because I know this work is righteous. My
work is dedicated to freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and
individual rights. And I make no apology for this, either."

Lean equated Geller and Spencer to Osama bin Laden because the
terrorist also considered himself a freedom fighter. "Bin Laden viewed
himself in precisely the same way," Lean said, essentially portraying
Geller and Spencer as somehow just like the murderer. This sort of
illicit moral equivalence is typical of the tactics leveled against
Geller.

"I'm fighting bin Laden's message of death and violence and because
I'm fighting that it equates me to him? This is devoid of any kind of
moral compass, but this is the narrative of Islamic supremicists,"
Geller told Breitbart News.

"This is the art of the smear taken to the next level. They always
use the word 'extreme' in a negative way, but is extremism in the
pursuit of the truth or in love a bad thing? I don't think so. They are
trying to make all passion and belief a bad thing."

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Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
11 years ago

What exactly is “a faith war along culture lines” and more importantly, WHO is igniting it?
Our enemy-sympathizing MSM is so politically correct today as to be effectively incompetent.
I just watched AC360 “cover” the cold-blooded assassination of a Colorado state prison official and subsequent high-speed chase and attempted murder of a Texas patrol officer — without ever once even uttering the suspect’s ridiculous muslim name.
He’s dead — which is the good news — and they still won’t speak his name or show a picture.
We’re all indebted to Pamela Geller & Robert Spencer for exposing these dupes for the zombie-traitors they are.

Bezelel
Bezelel
11 years ago

A war of faith along cultural lines? Faith in what? Commandment #1- Have no other Gods,especially not idols like that rock in mecca. Don’t bow to it, Don’t eat food that’s been sacrificed to it. If they want to, that’s their business but they have no right to impose their delusions on anyone else yet that is also part of their faith,forced conversions under penalty of death for refusal to accept them as superior.That is just for starters but it is enough to declare irreconcilable differences.Cultural lines? What culture? Barbarism? They destroy culture everywhere they go.

dave
dave
11 years ago

It struck me that these people are helped when you say they are “politically correct” when they lie by omission. I propose that we actually say “lie by omission” instead of letting anybody get away with “politically correct” when we mean “lie.”

jdow
jdow
11 years ago

Theresa Sparks seems to have tossed most of the LBGT crowd under the bus. It may be easy to get a boy to girl surgery in Iran. My understanding is that the other direction is utterly out of the question. And to top that off she obviously does not think the lesbians, bisexuals, or gays matter. Only her precious boy to girl transsexuals matter. She’s loyal to her own, I suppose. But the others are discovering the hangings and stones that rest under her bus. Shame Shame Shame on her. That creature is a very bad creature.
{^_^}

elitist
elitist
11 years ago

Open letter to Theresa Sparks, emailed on wed 20 march
As someone who has lived openly as a gay man since the 1970s, I am nauseated, offended, revolted, disgusted, insulted, shocked, repelled, and horrified by your outrageously false imputation that gays have any rights at all in Iran.
http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2007/05/change_sex_or_d.html
To force or coerce a man into undergoing a sex change operation is not an instance of “gay rights,” it is simply an atrocity – citing it as an instance of “gay rights in the Muslim world” is like citing female genital mutilation as an example of “women’s rights in the Muslim world.”
Homosexual acts are punishable by death everywhere in the Muslim world – and that includes London, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Berlin, where the beating and even murder of gay men by Muslims have become part of the daily routine.
Back here in the real world, an alarming percentage of Muslims believe that the Jews should be exterminated, that women have fewer rights than dogs, that homosexuals are vermin, that democracy is a form of insanity, free speech of perversion, and all other forms of religious contemptible.
A European Muslim – and fortunately there are many – who admires the Jews, regards homosexuality as acceptable, believes in equal rights for women, and admires European and democratic forms of government would be well advised to stay in the closet as well: many if not most of his coreligionists will regard him as a traitor.
I’ve noticed a lot of Muslims in San Francisco are protesting the bus ads.
How many Muslims in San Francisco – or anywhere – have you seen protesting the persecution of homosexuals throughout the MUSLIM world? The persecution of Jews throughout the MUSLIM world? Of Christians or other religious or ethnic minorities throughout the MUSLIM world?
Let’s try a little dose of basic logic here, shall we??
If the bus ads highlighting Muslim homophobia were defamatory, then we would see a large number of Muslims PROTESTING HOMOPHOBIA AMONG THEIR CORELIGIONISTS.
Where are they????
2+2 equals 4.
If Muslims want us to believe that Islam is not intrinsically homophobic, that the majority of Muslims are not homophobic, then they need to be on the streets, day in, day out, protesting homophobia AMONG MUSLIMS. Demanding a changed attitude toward homosexuality AMONG MUSLIMS. Demanding homosexual rights in MUSLIM SOCIETIES. Demanding that MUSLIM teachings about homosexuality be changed in mosques around the world.
That is how we defeated homophobia in the West: by protesting, day in, day out, year in, year out.
When millions of Muslims pour onto the streets protesting homophobia, then Pamela Geller’s bus ads will no longer be needed.
I support Pamela Geller and her “this is my jihad” bus ad campaign wholeheartedly.
Your breathtakingly dishonest statement, your mindbogglingly bad faith, your betrayal of the gay community in San Francisco, the US, and in the Muslim world, and everywhere, has inspired me to send a contribution to keep the bus ads running as long as possible.
As for public officials and the media making believe that they understand the ads to be “homophobic,” I simply cannot find the words to express my contempt for such dishonesty:
Just imagine it’s 1942, and a Jewish organization is running bus ads quoting Hitler as saying
“Hey everyone, were killing all the Jews, isn’t it great??!!”
with the intention of impelling the FDR administration to intervene.
What would you think of someone who deliberately distracted from the real issue – the Nazis are killing the Jews – by shooting the messenger, pretending that the Jewish organization protesting the genocide, and not the Nazis, is anti-Semitic?
Wouldn’t you find it positively vomit-inducing?
Well, that’s how I feel about the media and officialdom of San Francisco, including yourself, who only NEVER protest the horrific persecution of homosexuals in the Muslim world, but even refer to Iran, which has executed boys as young as 14 for homosexual acts, as a paragon of gay rights (sic, sick, sicker, sickest!!!), but are shocked, shocked, shocked, by Pamela Geller calling attention to reality.
Ian Pepper

Walter Sieruk
Walter Sieruk
11 years ago

It’s a very good thing that thoses bus ads are being made known to the public. The truth about the many dangers of Islam the public needs to be aware of. To get down to the essential question “What is Islam?” One good answer is that Islam is a false religious/political/cultural system that controls the minds and lives of millions of people around the world. Many things as may be seem the the news and also from this site expose the results of the mind control by this system had led to many evil outcomes of murder, mayhem and misogyny. So it a good thing bus ads and other things are being done to try to get people to wake up. Thomas Jefferson put it best when he wrote “I have sworn upon the alter of God eternal hostility against every from of tyranny against the minds of men.”

Terry
Terry
11 years ago

Very well put, Ian. I only hope that more gay people will think for themselves and come to the same conclusions. We need to make the self-proclaimed and self-righteous “gay rights/human rights” activists accountable for their hypocrisy and betrayal of the gay community. That’s what their constant defense of the muslim atrocities and attacks on the people who report them, amounts to.
As a gay man, I agree with you 100% and I also wholeheartedly support Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer.

Laura
Laura
11 years ago

One constant theme of the coverage by the SF Examiner is to call Geller and Spencer “anti-Islamic.” This is a mischaracterization. With their work, the pair speak out against radical Islam specifically, not Islam in general. They are anti-jihadism, not anti-Islamic.
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This defensive posture bothers me. It is ok to be anti-islam. In fact it is a moral imperative. Islam in general is bad. There is no such thing as radical islam, there’s only islam. And jihad is a doctrine of islam.

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