{"id":68800,"date":"2015-05-19T13:54:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T21:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68800"},"modified":"2015-05-19T13:56:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T21:56:18","slug":"why-pamela-geller-is-hated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68800","title":{"rendered":"Why Pamela Geller Is Hated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes<\/a>:
\nGeller and her group are widely labelled as \u201chaters\u201d and \u201cIslamophobes\u201d for caricaturing Muhammad. But the highly successful producers of the hit Broadway show that mocks Mormonism, \u201cThe Book of Mormon,\u201d are not labelled \u201chaters,\u201d let alone \u201cMormon-phobes\u201d. Similarly, the \u201cartist\u201d who created \u201cPiss Christ,\u201d the infamous photograph of a crucifix in a jar of his urine, is also not labeled a hater or a \u201cChristiano-phobe.\u201d
\nWhy is that? Because neither Christianity nor Mormonism produces evil that needs to be fought. The Muslim world, however, is producing tens of thousands of murderers and millions more sympathizers; and those who criticize Islam and confront Islamism are hated because those who don\u2019t fight evil hate those who do.
\nAnother example of moral confusion is that Geller is accused of \u201cprovoking\u201d Islamists to murder people. Even some conservatives have taken this position.
\nTo best show this poorly reasoned logic, let\u2019s imagine that some Mormons murdered members of the audience and some of the actors at a performance of \u201cThe Book of Mormon.\u201d Who do you think The New York Times editorial page would have blamed \u2014 the producers of the show that mocked Mormonism (for \u201cprovoking\u201d the murderers) or the Mormon murderers? The murderers, of course. Again, imagine that some Christians had murdered museum curators at whose museums \u201cPiss Christ\u201d had been displayed. Would the Times editorial page have blamed the \u201cartist,\u201d Andres Serrano, and the museum curators (for \u201cprovoking\u201d the Christian murderers) or the Christian murderers?
\nReason Three: Lack of Courage
\nAmerica calls itself, in the final words of the National Anthem, \u201cthe land of the free and the home of the brave.\u201d This description no longer applies \u2014 not only to the left-wing intellectual and media elite but also to the increasingly large segment of the American people that the left has influenced. Many Americans no longer cherish freedom as Americans always have and too many exhibit little courage.
\nContrast American reactions to Pamela Geller with European reactions to Charlie Hebdo. After Islamists murdered 12 editors and writers of the Charlie Hebdo staff, millions of French citizens gathered to protest the murders and announce \u201cJe suis Charlie.\u201d There were very few French voices blaming Charlie Hebdo for \u201cprovoking\u201d the murderers, or for being \u201chaters.\u201d And, it is worth noting, some of the caricatures of Muhammad published in the French magazine were truly obscene \u2014 unlike the caricatures produced by Pamela Geller\u2019s contest which, so far as I\u2019ve seen, were only caricatures and cartoons.
\nLikewise the month after the Charlie murders, courageous Danes organized a public event called \u201cArt, blasphemy and the freedom of expression\u201d to show support for Charlie Hebdo and for freedom of speech. That \u201cprovoked\u201d an Islamist to murder two people and wound five police officers that day and the next. But Danes supported the organizers of the event.
\nAnd a German newspaper was firebombed after republishing some of the Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cartoons.
\nBut in America, there were no comparable demonstrations on behalf of Pamela Geller. Instead, there were widespread condemnations. The New York Times editorial page even denied that her cartoon contest was done on behalf of freedom of speech. And hundreds of left-wing members of PEN, the worldwide writers\u2019 organization dedicated to freedom of speech, vehemently protested the decision of the American chapter of PEN to give its Freedom of Expression Courage Award to Charlie Hebdo.
\nThis combination \u2014 of the steep moral decline of the American left; the inability of too many Americans to reason morally; and the greater value increasingly placed on protecting (certain) people\u2019s feelings than on protecting freedom of speech \u2014 is why a woman who did nothing more than organize a contest to draw cartoons of Muhammad may be the most reviled American alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes: Geller and her group are widely labelled as \u201chaters\u201d and \u201cIslamophobes\u201d for caricaturing Muhammad. But the highly successful producers of the hit Broadway show that mocks Mormonism, \u201cThe Book of Mormon,\u201d are not labelled \u201chaters,\u201d let alone … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68802,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68800\/revisions\/68802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}