Geller in Breitbart: San Bernardino was Garland Without Guns

This is the take-away from the latest horror:

“Geller: San Bernardino was Garland Without Guns,” by Pamela Geller, Breitbart News, December 8, 2015

The similarities between the jihad attack on our American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) free speech event last May in Garland, Texas and the San Bernardino jihad slaughter are both striking and unnerving. Both events – our Muhammad Cartoon Contest and the San Bernardino Christmas party — offended Muslims. Both events violated the sharia: one was an art exhibit with depictions of Muhammad in art and literature over the past 1400 years, and the other celebrated a Christian holiday. Both deeply offensive to Muslims.

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The jihadis in both attacks trained at shooting ranges. The jihadis in both attacks were also “radicalized” long before they plotted and executed that jihad.

Both attacks were Islamic State (ISIS) attacks in America. Some have downplayed this connection to other jihadis, saying that the attack was inspired, but not directed, by ISIS. That is a distinction without a difference. ISIS has directed devout Muslims to “think globally, act locally.” They have directed Muslims who accept their authority as the caliphate to kill American civilians on U.S. soil. That is their explicit directive, and that is exactly what this cell did. These are ISIS fighters.

Both jihadis, Ibrahim Simpson at Garland and Syed Rizwan Farook in San Bernardino, were linked to American ISIS recruiter Mohammed Abdullahi Hassan, also known as Mujahid Miski. Why Obama’s FBI and counter-terror agencies didn’t make his capture a priority is deeply disturbing.

The jihadis in Garland, Texas and the jihadis in San Bernardino both extensively prepared for and plotted their acts of war. As they did so, they all came under suspicion and were feared by many. But nothing was done: to have acted upon those suspicions and fears would have been “Islamophobic.” The Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) would have made sure that they became notorious, and possibly even the subject of an Obama Justice Department investigation, as is the school now where young Ahmed Mohamed brought a clock that looked like a bomb, was rightly arrested under the nationwide zero-tolerance-for-weapons policy, and then cried “Islamophobia.”

Even more disturbing is that the Garland Muslims and the San Bernardino Muslims were both known to law enforcement and both were of concern, but law enforcement officials did nothing, either. The Garland jihadi Ibrahim Simpson and the San Bernardino jihad Syed Rizwan Farook both attended mosque daily, and were very religious, and then their mosques in both cases covered for them, downplaying their presence there.

The reaction by the media and the elites to San Bernardino is the same as it was to Garland: blame the victims. Linda Stasi of the New York Daily News vilified one of the victims as a hate-filled bigot, likening him to his killer and calling him “the male equivalent of Pamela Geller,” as if that justified his murder. She was not alone. The media tried to pin the attack on this victim, since he was “right-wing,” calling Farook “disgruntled” and claiming that this man’s supposed insults to Islam drove Farook over the edge. 

The jihad attack in Garland last May 3 should have been the catalyst for new counterterror programs. But nothing was learned from Garland. The victims were blamed in Garland by the media and Islamic supremacist groups, just as now the victims are being blamed in San Bernardino. While media outlets such as the New York Daily News defame and libel the dead, Obama, Hillary, and the left are trying to make this jihad mass murder all about gun control. Do they really think that Islamic jihadists will obey gun control laws and not obtain weapons illegally?

The only difference between Garland, Texas and San Bernardino was that in Texas, a state that allows for an armed citizenry, we were armed. And the difference between what happened at our event and what happened in San Bernardino couldn’t be more horrible and more stark. The lesson is that citizens must be armed for their own protection and the protection of those around them. The lesson learned from Garland and San Bernardino should be that more guns save law-abiding citizens.

Our event in Garland, Texas saved lives. The jihadists who attempted to kill hundreds of people at our free speech event drove 1000 miles from Phoenix to Garland to kill in the cause of Allah. They had been training at gun ranges before we even announced that we were doing an event. If we had not staged that event, what other event, and who, would the Garland jihadists have targeted? They would most likely have chosen a softer target, and as a result, how many would have been slaughtered? Who knows how many people are alive today who would not be had it not been for our event in Garland.

That’s the take-away from the San Bernardino rampage. Guns are the solution, not the problem. Gun control will only serve the jihad agenda. Gun control laws certainly will have no impact on Muslims such as the Boston Marathon jihad bombers, who used rice cookers, or the Canadian jihadists who wanted to develop biochemical weapons of mass destruction in order to kill 100,000 people.

Nor would they have had any effect upon the San Bernardino bomb makers.

What is most worrisome is the reaction to the San Bernardino attack is the same as it was to the Garland attack despite the “unspeakable carnage” in California. Again, the victim is blamed. Again, the President, the media and the cultural elites are warning us about non-existent Islamofauxbia and “fear of reprisals,” even though FBI hate crime statistics debunk ludicrous claims of “anti-Muslim” backlash. Anti-Semitic hate crimes are close to 60% but that elicits nary a yawn.

The response to San Bernardino is sharia enforcement. Our Garland event was a violation of the sharia and the media elites came after us and blamed us. That’s sharia. The San Bernardino Christmas party was a violation of the sharia. NBC’s Kerry Saunders suggested that the workplace “Christmas party” could have offended the Muslim shooter. That’s sharia. Some in the media blamed the victims who criticized Islam. That’s sharia.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch promised Muslim groups that she would prosecute “anti-Muslim” rhetoric. That’s sharia. And President Obama warned Americans not to discriminate against our Muslim “neighbors, our co-workers, our sports heroes.” Obama warned us not to criticize Islam. More sharia. So you can make the case that jihad terror is working. Devout Muslims wage jihad to impose the sharia. And they are succeeding.

I have seen the future, brother, it is murder.

Pamela Geller is the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of PamelaGeller.com and author of The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. Follow her on Twitter here. Like her on Facebook here.

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US.Patriot1776

8 years ago

Obama Covered Up Intel of Terrorists Exploiting Refugee Program

We’ve been lied to yet again by this administration

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) revealed portions of a classified letter from the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) on Monday, which offered new claims not previously disclosed by the Obama administration.

The NCTC has identified “individuals with ties to terrorist groups in Syria attempting to gain entry to the U.S. through the U.S. refugee program,” the intelligence agency told McCaul in a letter.

“The refugee system, like all immigration programs, is vulnerable to exploitation from extremist groups seeking to send operatives to the West,” the agency added, noting that a small number of Iraqi refugees were arrested on terror charges in 2010.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/261061/obama-covered-intel-terrorists-exploiting-refugee-daniel-greenfield

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Dennis

8 years ago

The problems that we are facing go even deeper than what is contained in this commentary. The political correct supporters and, from my perspective COWARDS, are denigrating Trump’s reasons for his comments seeking a temporary ban on those whose belief system is Islamic. Though not politically correct, I consider his reasons and the present state of happenings world wide, to be appropriate. Until we can get an adequate handle on the problems represented by believers of Islam, I wonder whether we have any other choice. Assuming that you agree that we are at WAR with radical Islam, I would expect that you would also agree that some in the Muslim community can also be radicalized to sacrifice their lives while conducting acts of barbarism, as recent current events have established. Yet, have any of you seen any active and loud conduct by the Muslim communities anywhere REJECTING radical conduct of Jihad. I haven’t. POTUS seems to believe that is happening, but he is clearly looking thru rose colored glasses. If the Muslim community will not stand up and reject the radicals notion of their belief system, why would we be foolish enough to JEAPORDIZE ourselves by trusting them, while they continue to allow preaching and promotion of world domination thru Jihad here and throughout the world. Would we have invited Nazi sympathizers into the U.S. during WWII. If not then, why now, I ask. I have reached the conclusion that we must shut our doors until we can first see from our Muslim community their STEADFAST REJECTION of Jihad, and create a more certain ability to monitor that their leaders and religious teaches are not promoting radical conduct as supposedly supported by their belief system, and after creating a better method of determining who the crazies are within their society. Do we really have any other choice available to us? Our do nothing Pres. is a big part of the problem that we face. We have a right to be fearful, but we also have the right to fight back and do what is necessary to protect and preserve this country.

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atl slayer

8 years ago

Reply to  Dennis

Yes, a simple start

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wilypagan

8 years ago

Reply to  Dennis

Well reasoned. Go Trump!

He may have his faults (Pamela can always educate him on the Second Amendment issue), but he is bringing issues of this administration’s failure to secure our borders and our national security into the conversation.

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Parks Curtis

8 years ago

Reply to  wilypagan

DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HW DEEP AND HOW MANY THE FAULTS ACTUALLY ATE AS YOU CHEER MUSLIM ENABLING TRUMP ?

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joker

8 years ago

Reply to  Dennis

To wake you up, we are not in war with radical islam but for the last 1400 years with islam. Today we can solve the war but nobody is willing to push the button.

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Parks Curtis

8 years ago

Reply to  Dennis

” RADICAL ISLAM ” IS THE POPULAR P C TERM DO YOU SEE IT ? I HAVE BEEN BEGGING PAMELA TO ADRESS THIS FOR YEARS

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US.Patriot1776

8 years ago

Newly declassified documents obtained by the Clarion Project show
that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) misled
members of Congress in 2012 about its involvement with Muslim
Brotherhood-linked entities. Further, the documents show that there were
even a number of internal communications within the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence expressing concerns about the
Brotherhood links of these entities.”

There is no doubt that this current administration is very close to
groups such as the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and
Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).

http://www.allenbwest.com/2014/05/obamas-intel-chiefs-lied-congress-muslim-brotherhood-connections/

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Mahou Shoujo

8 years ago

The non lame stream,media would do America a favour by publicizing how shari’a law will affect the day to day lives of those subject to it. The logical snide liberals cannot come up with a legitimate support of it as even the profoundly stupid know they will be given opinions and violently punished for not adhering to them.

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wilypagan

8 years ago

Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Why is Paul Ryan growing a beard and trashing Trump? Has Ryan converted to Islam?

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Mahou Shoujo

8 years ago

Reply to  wilypagan

Men get kinda pissy when their wives use their razors, probably just trying to demonstrate who’s boss.

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joker

8 years ago

Reply to  wilypagan

Who is Paul Ryan? (I am Western European and fairly proud of it, hopefully no offence to the muslims and the rest).

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wilypagan

8 years ago

Reply to  joker

He is Speaker of the House of Representatives in the US. A RINO (Republican in Name Only) who replaced another RINO John Boehner. Americans are getting fed up with all the Muzzie ass kissing by our leaders. When will we bash back against these retrograde retards?

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atl slayer

8 years ago

Some of us are ready and waiting, not to attack but to defend, ourselves and others, doing the job that others have been scared into not wanting to acknowledge much less DO.
stay safe everybody
high five for freedom 🙂

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conan_drum

8 years ago

Aside from the car park incident which we know was about parking space not religion, has there been one incident where Muslims have been physically attacked
by non Muslims? I have not heard of any. Yet they are always complaining about victimisation.

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Drew Matthews

8 years ago

(Drew the Infidel) — Add to the discussion that both the cartoon contest and the Christmas party are freedoms of free expression and are protected by the First Amendment. And the Second Amendment (the right to keep and bear arms) protects all the others.

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Arkansas MIke

8 years ago

The Garland, TX jihadi termination incident should be a message to jihadists everywhere: We are armed and we will send you to meet your moon god in hell. Our bullets are lubed with PORK grease, for your displeasure. Think about that muhammad, with both brain cells. You lose everything if you attack us.

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ramrodd

8 years ago

HEY Pamela – was this guy suffering from depression too……………

American Muslim Man Tries To Hijack Plane And Crash It Down, Screaming, “I
Want To Meet Allah”, Two Christian Men Then Tackle Him Down And Beat Him
Uphttp://shoebat.com/2015/12/06/muslim-man-tries-to-hijack-german-plane-and-crash-it-down-a-group-of-christian-men-take-him-down-and-beat-him-up/

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Michael Baugh

8 years ago

Make no mistake I am against Islam and I don’t believe Muslims that say there is a distinction between “mainstream Islam” and “radical Islam”. The Koran, which forbids lying except to infidels will always keep me distrustful of the “peaceful religion”. This means that Muslims have complete religious license to completely lie in your face so they can stab you when you turn your back to them.
Having said that, I want to address a separate matter. Those on the right who continue to drone on about Obama being incompetent or naïve or ideological are simply ignoring the inescapable truth that is staring them right in the face. From the day he said “The United States no longer a Christian nation” he was telegraphing something very important to both the citizenry as well as his Muslim brothers. Think about his most recent speech. He continued to lecture the American people about what Islam is and is not. In other words, he is an apologist for Islam. Please Americans wake up and understand this: Obama IS a Muslim. He has done everything he can possibly do without being discovered for the traitor he is. He is NOT naïve, uneducated, or incompetent. He knows exactly what he is doing, and given the power he has freely exercised while in office, he has always planned to work in concert with international terrorists against the US because he has an arrogant disdain for our country and our roots.
It may be too late already because our country is in fact bankrupt while we are opening our doors to thousands of our enemies and paying them through our social entitlements. How convenient the enemy is welcomed in and paid a small stake so they can set up camp and wait for the order to attack us from within. Follks, you better get your guns while you still can because the front lines of this war have moved to your neighborhood.

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Parks Curtis

8 years ago

SacredTruth IT DOES NO GOOD TO SAY THAT THEN NOT SPECIY THE LIE … CAMERON /CRUZ /TRUMP AND EVERYSINGLE ONE OF THEM HAS SAID THE LIE JUST CONFIRMED BY OBAMA ” RADICALIZED ” / PERVERTED FORM OF ISLAM ” … EVIL IS NOT BEING ” RADICALIZED ” MERELY FOLLOWED AND US NOT SPEAKING UP AND INSISTING WE ADMIT OUR ENEMIES ARE OUR ENEMIES IS THE REAL ISSUE . WHAT GOOD DOES IT SAY ” YOU GOT DECEIVED ” THEN NOT REPORT THE DECEPTION TO MAKE IT PLAIN ? PEOPLE ARE ON HERE REFEREING TO FEDERAL RESERVE ETC …. THIS HURTS US ALWAYS DEFELECTING FROMTHE PRIORITY AFRAIND TO JUST SAY THE PLAIN TRUTH . MUSLIMS DECLARE THEMSELVES OUR ENEMIES THEN WE COVER FOR THEM . PRETENDING ” BIG MISUNDERSTANDING
‘ JUST LIKE OBAMA DOES THEN JUST LIKE PEOPLE SAT ” ITS THE EVIL FEDERAL RESERVE/ CORPORATIONS ETC ” OBAMA DIVERTS ” ECOSYSTEM IS WARMING UP THATS THE MAIN ENEMY ” … THERE MAY BE ELEMENTS OF TRUTH BUT PRIORITY TRUTH IS ISLAM HATES US AND WE FALL FOR EVERY TRICK ESECIALLY ” RADICAL ISLAM ” THAT MAKES IT SEEM LIKE YOU ARE ” HELPING ” WHILE ENABLING THE DECEPTION THAT ISLAM IS NOT RESPONSIBLEV…. WHEN IT IS

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