OPPOSING HONOR KILLING IS ´ISLAMOPHOBIA´? / Exclusive: Pamela Geller tells of dueling conferences on either side of Shariah (WND-WORLD NET DAILY COMMENTARY) by PAMELA GELLER 05/02/12)
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We held our AFDI/SIOA Jessica Mokdad Human Rights conference last
Sunday in Dearborn, the first honor-killing conference of its kind.
Hundreds converged upon the Hyatt to join Robert Spencer and me and a
full roster of luminaries to educate, elucidate and shine a light on
the ugly and brutal atrocities under the Shariah. As expected, the
goons, thugs and Muslim supremacists were also out in force. It seems
that Islamic supremacists support murder for “honor,” for these
subversive groups energetically opposed our conference dedicated to
exposing the plight of women under Islamic law on the first
anniversary of the honor murder of a Muslim girl in Michigan, Jessica
Mokdad.
When we first called the conference, which we did to increase
awareness of honor killings and gendercide under the Shariah, the
only attention the media paid to it at all was to give a platform to
the Mokdad family, which was whining that Jessica’s name was being
used. Such grief – so touching the way so many Muslims go
into “protect Islam” mode and not “protect our girls.”
We named the conference after Jessica because she was the victim of
an honor killing. Her family should be standing with us instead of
denying this. Darwin Jiles, a close friend of Jessica and a powerful
speaker at our conference, has said that “Jessica was someone who
wanted to have liberties, like every other young lady that is born in
America outside of the traditions of Islam are able to do, to pursue
her own happiness and to pursue her own dreams.” About Jessica’s
stepmother, Cassandra, who claims it was not an honor killing, Jiles
said: “Cassandra really is portraying a false picture. And Pamela has
every right to place the conference to be named after Jessica in
regards to this, because it was Islam that caused her death.”
So enraged were some members of the Muslim community over our
attempts to protect Muslim girls who wish to live free that they held
an “Islamophobia” town hall. That’s right – you’re against honor
killings? Well then, in the eyes of Muslims in Dearborn, you are a
racistislamophobic anti-Muslim bigot.
The speakers, including Imam Hassan al-Qazwini of the Islamic Center
of America in Dearborn and the hard-left propagandist Eli Clifton of
Think Progress, exploited the fictitious narrative of the fear and
paranoia that counter-jihadists supposedly exploit, without ever
addressing honor killings, FGM or the millions slaughtered in 1,400
years of jihad warfare, cultural annihilation and enslavement. The
irreligious Qazwini, who incited his herd to hatred against me during
Friday prayers, called me a “bigot” and assured that crowd
that “Geller and Spencer will fail because they are against God, they
are against America, and people will not get with them.” Apparently
he was also selling pieces of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Qazwini also said that he would like to ask me to stop defending
Muslim girls here and start defending Muslim girls in “Palestine.”
Muslim girls here don’t need defending? No doubt “Palestinian” girls
need defense from honor murder (the Palestinian Authority has lighter
sentences for honor killings than for other murders), but, of course,
that is not what Qazwini meant. And I doubt Qazwini is too concerned
about Israeli girls targeted by jihad missiles from Gaza.
Mayor John O’Reilly, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., and several other
local politicians were at the pro-honor killing hatefest. Is it any
wonder the defenders of hatred and murder feel empowered?
Last Friday, Qazwini denounced, libeled and defamed me because I was
fighting for the human rights of Muslim girls. In his Friday English
sermon, he warned his herd of my impending visit. Here’s the thing:
No rabbi would ever get up in front of a congregation and badmouth
someone the way he badmouthed me. Ever. It’s just completely, wholly
different. This “religious figure” wailed that a bigot was coming to
Dearborn and claimed that I am doing this for money (as if there were
a living in this). The imam warned of a “big conspiracy” against
Muslims.
He went on to lie about honor killing. This imam should have been
calling for the expunging of Islamic teaching of the sanctioned
killing of offspring according to the Islamic “honor code.” According
to the Middle East Quarterly, 91 percent of the honor killings
worldwide are Islamic. But for this imam, I am the problem. Muslim
leaders like him should be standing with us in defense of the basic
unalienable rights of young Muslim girls and Muslim women in the
West. But they are Islamic supremacists who wish to impose Shariah in
America.
Of course, when the media got wind of Sunday’s pro-honor killing
demo, they were all over it like sharks to chum. Their articles
described the pro-honor killing rally, but none reported on our
agenda or contacted me for comment. Michigan Radio’s pro-honor
killing coverage was typical: “Dearborn conferences to address honor
killings, Islamophobia.” Opposing honor killings is “Islamophobia.”
Anyone who opposed our human-rights conference on honor killing was
supporting honor killing, gendercide, and the subjugation and
oppression of women.
Yet despite the media bashing and the pro-honor killing protests, our
conference was overbooked and standing room only – we could not
accommodate all who wished to attend. And the crowd was rapt. No one
left during the entire three-hour program, and no one’s attention was
ever diverted. The crowd left energized to stand against the
barbarity of honor killing and the infringements upon freedom Shariah
is bringing to our nation.
It was a historic, game-changing moment for those who love freedom
and the unalienable rights of every free individual. (© 2012
WorldNetDaily.com, Inc. 05/02/12)
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