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#243067 by Badstrat
Sun May 10, 2015 3:15 pm
6 Reasons Pamela Geller’s Muhammad Cartoon Contest Is No Different From Selma
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism ... han-selma/

by John Nolte9 May 20150

When you are dealing with the mainstream media, it is always difficult to tell if you are dealing with willful ignorance or just plain old ignorance-ignorance. There are plenty of moronic savants in the national media who have cracked the “hot take” code to please their left-wing masters but have no fundamental grasp of history, or much of anything much of else.

The act of willful ignorance in the media manifests itself through bias, and lies of omission conjured up to serve that bias. These dishonest liars know they are dishonest liars, and willfully choose to not tell the world pertinent facts like, say, Baltimore has been run by Democrats for a half-century, Hillary Clinton is in favor of legally aborting infants born alive, Ted Kennedy abandoned a drowning woman, and George Zimmerman is Hispanic.

Anyone who knows anything about history understands that tactically and morally, Geller’s provocative Muhammad Cartoon Contest was no different than Dr. Martin Luther King’s landmark march from Selma to Montgomery.

The first thing the spittle-flecked will scream upon reading the above is that I am comparing Geller to King. I did not know King. I do not know Geller. I am not comparing anyone to anyone. What I’m comparing is one righteous cause to another.

The second thing the spittle-flecked will scream is that King never would have held a Draw Muhammad Cartoon Contest … which brings me to the first reason there is no moral or tactical difference between Garland and Selma:



1. The Oppressor Chooses the Form of Protest, Not the Protester

Whether it is a bully stealing lunch money, an abusive husband “keeping the little woman in line,” a government passing unjust laws, or religious zealots demanding fealty from all, oppressors come in all shapes and sizes.

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Oppressors do, however, share three important things in common: 1) The use of the threats of everything from shaming to instituting unjust laws to violence. 2) The goal of stripping others of their rights. 3) The choosing of the design and structure of whatever defiant protest might take place against them.

The protester has absolutely no say in this matter.

The only way to defy and protest against the bully who takes your lunch money, is to not give him your lunch money. Through his own actions the bully has designed the form of protest. The same is true for the abusive husband. If he is using the threat of violence to keep you “in line,” a defiant protest can only come in one form: doing the exact opposite of what he tells you to do or not to do.

If an unjust government passes a law making it illegal to sit in the front of the bus, the only way to protest the unjust government is to sit in the front of the bus.

Martin Luther King did not choose his form of protest in Selma. Racist Southern Democrats did.

Pamela Geller did not choose her form of protest in Garland. The jihadists did.

The day that changed America is called “Bloody Sunday.” On March 7, 1965, five-hundred-plus civil rights activists provoked violence from their oppressors by defiantly gathering on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

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It was the oppressor who chose this form of protest, not the protestors. Racist Democrats who ran Selma and the state of Alabama refused to authorize the march and pledged to stop it. Therefore the only righteous way to defy these racist Democrats who refused to allow Americans to exercise their God-given right to protest for their God-given rights, was to go ahead with the march.

What was true in Selma 50 years ago also was true in Garland 5 days ago.

It was the jihadists who told us they would oppress us with violence if we exercised our God-given rights to draw and satirize Muhammad. Therefore, to righteously defy this oppression, Pam Geller and the 200 others had no other choice but to draw and satirize Muhammad (more details on this below).



2. The Deliberatively Provocative Symbolism of the Site of the Protest

The launch point of the historic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery was no accident. To poke a finger deep in the eye of their racist Democrat oppressors, civil rights organizers deliberately chose the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The bridge is named after a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, a confederate Civil War general, and a Democrat U.S. Senator.

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Starting their civil rights crusade in such a place was an intentional taunt, an open insult to a diseased culture, and an obvious act of cultural blasphemy.

For the same righteous reasons, Geller chose the site of The Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, to hold her defiant cartoon protest. Just two weeks after the Charlie Hebdo massacre in France, a Stand with the Prophet in Honor and Respect event was held at the Curtis Calwell Center. The Islamic event was a horror show of extremism.

An unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings was invited to the conference — a barbarian who has declared the F.B.I. a terrorist group and preaches, “This so-called democracy of America, will crumble and there will be nothing. The only thing that will remain will be Islam.”

The organizer of the event, Malik Muhammad, has advocated for Sharia Law here in America.

The entire event was premised on “defeating” those who disrespect Muhammad. This was all couched under the politically correct term of “Islamophobia,” but here is the rub:

“Frustrated with Islamophobes defaming the Prophet?” the event materials ask. … “Remember the Danish cartoons defaming the Prophet? Or the anti-Islam film, ‘Innocence of Muslims’?”

Like I said: it is the oppressor who chooses the form of protest.



3. A Righteous Cause for Civil Rights

In the face of a very real danger, Martin Luther King, his fellow organizers and hundreds of free Americans, stood up and defied their savage oppressors in defense of their God-given rights.



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They provoked violence, taunted, and broke the law, all in furtherance of a righteous cause.

In the face of a very real danger, Pam Geller, her fellow organizers and hundreds of free Americans, stood up and defied their violent oppressors in defense of their God-given rights.

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They provoked violence, taunted, and obeyed the law, all in furtherance of a righteous cause.



4. I Come In Peace

The Selma protesters defying their violent oppressors, did so peacefully. Their only provocation was exercising their rights.

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The Garland protestors defying their violent oppressors, did so peacefully. Their only provocation was exercising their rights.



5. Democrat Bigots Victim-Blame

While much of the national media sided with the Selma protestors, local Democrats in the media and the political establishment blamed and demonized King, and his followers, for rocking the boat, provoking violence, insulting the local culture, and causing the violence to happen.

Last week, Democrats in the media (New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, and even some sorry corners of Fox News) and the political establishment blamed and demonized Geller, and her followers, for rocking the boat, provoking violence, insulting a culture, and causing the violence to happen.

The 1965 Democrats and today’s Democrats are also bigots. The same CNN that protects Islam from offense by blurring the Muhammad cartoons, does not blur the Piss Christ.

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The same New York Times that blasts those who offend Islam, profits from Mormon bashing.

Every one of these present-day media Democrats are silent in the defense of satire and mockery directed Christianity, or they enjoy and defend it. The opposite is true of satire and mockery directed at Islam. And that is the very definition of bigotry.



6. For the Righteous Cause of Freedom, People Risk Their Lives

In 1965, defying racist Democrats posed a legitimate threat to your life.

In 2015, defying jihadists poses a legitimate threat to your life.

Martin Luther King knowingly risked his life. Pamela Geller knowingly risks her life.



In both good and evil ways, Sunday in Garland, Texas, history repeated itself.

The national media is hiding that fact because they are either too bigoted, cowardly, and biased to tell the truth, or too ignorant to see the truth.
#243073 by Paleopete
Sun May 10, 2015 4:53 pm
Interesting. I started to read this article last night and I was too bleary eyed, I was off to bed a few minutes later. We played last night and I got online and poked around a little till I started nodding...had a pretty good gig though...

One thing I notice here, he uses a word I've seen associated with this cartoon event before.

Defiance.

That's what this was. And it's a concept that's been used in this country time after time. All the way back to the Boston Tea Party. John Hancock signing the Declaration of Independence in huge script so the king "could read it without his spectacles". The Selma march. Four dead in Ohio. Sit ins and peaceful demonstrations in the 60's. The gyrocopter mailman...

Americans have always had a tendency to stand up to oppressors. Defiance is one of their main means of doing so. The Islamic State says you can't do this or we'll kill you, the only thing to do is stand up to them and do it anyway. I did it many times as a kid. School bullies were mentioned. I started school at age 5 and was small for my age, so every school bully in sight wanted to push me around. The smallest kid in sight of course. They never pick on someone their own size. I'd do exactly what they tried to force me not to do. And sooner or later I'd have to knock somebody twice my size on his ass. Probably should have usually done t a lot sooner, they would never bother mne again once they found oout I would stand up to them, but I'd tolerate it until I'd had enough.

I see little difference here in the situation I found myself in around 4th grade. The idiot who had been doing his best to terrorize me all year shoved me against a wall in the hall with two of his buddies, all 3 twice my size, and told me if I didn't show him my test answers in class they would all 3 whip my ass. I told him I'll find all of you at one time and I'll start with you, shoved him out of my way and walked off. I held a blank sheet of paper over my test and grinned at him every time I wrote down an answer and hid it.

Next day I got off the bus with a baseball bat in my hands, all 3 were waiting for me. I chased the ring leader around the school. I'm pretty sure he could feel the wind off the bat every time I swung it when we got back around to the front and the coach and principal grabbed us. I was called into the principal's office, he told me he was going to take my bat. I told him I'd bring another, I had a dozen. He said I couldn't chase people around with a baseball bat. I told him I couldn't let 3 guys twice my size force me to cheat or all 3 beat me up either. He never gave in, I didn't either. But I noticed the bat he took was back in the bat bag a few days later, someone went to school and got it back, and the 3 boneheads never gave me any more trouble.

That's how you handle bullies. These Islamic jihadists are bullies. They think they can tell us what we can and cannot say, even thought our bill of rights says we can say it. They have no respect for us or our laws, they hate anyone who has guts enough to stand up to them, and whether the people of this country like it or not they WILL continue to attack us, and they need no provocation. All you have to do is be an American and you're a target. All you have to do is say nope, I[m not Muslim, and they want you dead.

Defiance. That's what this was about. Defiance is what caused the Boston Tea Party. The British government was trying to prop up the East India Tea company, sent 3 ships full of tea here at prices that even undercut the tea smuggled in by the colonists, then charged a tariff. The governor refused to send the ships back tariff unpaid, so they dumped the tea into the harbor. Defiance.

Give me liberty or give me death...defiance.

If we try to play this incident down, the terrorists have won, they've silenced us. If we blame the people who stood up against them, they have won. Nobody has been shot because some so called artist put a crucifix in a jar of urine...even though it was considered incredibly offensive to Christians.

I won't go into whether this was no different from Selma, I don't know that much about Selma, but it is about something that its a long standing tradition in this country. Defiance of the oppressor.

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