Like I have been telling you ........ they have the media and the politicians, but they don't have freedom loving peoples -- that's you and me. This is war in the information battlespace -- get ready to rumble.

"reopen quest" oyish

"Islamic states to reopen quest for global blasphemy law" Reuters

GENEVA | Wed Sep 19, 2012

(Reuters) - A leading Islamic organization signaled on Wednesday that it will revive long-standing attempts to make insults against religions an international criminal offence.

The bid follows uproar across the Muslim world over a crude Internet video clip filmed in the United States and cartoons in a French satirical magazine that lampoon the Prophet Mohammad.

But it appears unlikely to win acceptance from Western countries determined to resist restrictions on freedom of speech and already concerned about the repressive effect of blasphemy laws in Muslim countries such as Pakistan.

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), said the international community should "come out of hiding from behind the excuse of freedom of expression", a reference to Western arguments against a universal blasphemy law that the OIC has sought for over a decade.

He said the "deliberate, motivated and systematic abuse of this freedom" were a danger to global security and stability.

Separately, the Human Rights Commission of the OIC, which has 57 members and is based in Saudi Arabia, said "growing intolerance towards Muslims" had to be checked and called for "an international code of conduct for media and social media to disallow the dissemination of incitement material".

Western countries have long argued that such measures would run counter to the U.N.'s core human rights declaration on freedom of expression and could even open the door to curbs on academic research.

As if to underline the point, a conference in Geneva of the World Council of Churches (WCC), which groups the world's major Protestant, Orthodox and Evangelical churches, urged Pakistan to abolish its blasphemy law, which carries a possible death penalty.

Critics say the law is widely misused to persecute non-Muslims, and cite this month's case of a Muslim cleric detained on suspicion of planting evidence suggesting that a 14-year-old girl had burned Islamic religious texts.

Pakistani Christians and Hindus at the WCC gathering said a global law against blasphemy, or "defamation of religion", would only endorse on an international scale the religious intolerance seen in Pakistan and in other Islamic countries.

The accompanying NBC article is pathetic (here) -- it could have been written by the blind sheikh. Hamas in America (CAIR) is in the subheadline, no mention of their Hamas ties, their role in the largest terror funding trial in US history, or their status as unindicted co-conspirator.

Subway Stations to Display Controversial "Jihad" Ad NBC

New York's Council on American-Islamic Relations called the ad an attempt to "define Muslims'' through hate speech

Transit officials say an ad initially rejected for its "demeaning'' language is expected to appear at 10 subway stations next week.     

Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman Aaron Donovan told The New York Times "Our hands are tied.''    

A Manhattan federal court judge ruled in July that the MTA violated the First Amendment rights of the group seeking to place the ad, The American Freedom Defense Initiative.     

The ad states "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.'' It adds, "Support Israel. Defeat Jihad,'' in between two Stars of David.     

Pamela Geller of the American Freedom Defensive Initiative doesn't think the poster will provoke opposition after last week's deadly assault on the US Consulate in Libya and following days of protests in the Middle East.

"How have world conditions changed?" she asked. "When is a good time?" 

Muneer Awad of the Council of American-Islamic Relations said the ads use an offensive buzzword to "promote bigotry in New York." "They're not only anti-Muslim, they're offensive to a large number of people, especially people who know the history of the word 'savages,'" he said.

"These ads are about nothing more than making money off of fear," Awad added. 

Geller denies the ads were sweeping Muslims with a broad brush. "There are no Muslims in my ad," she said. "There is no Islam in my ad."

Donovan said the MTA might consider revising its ad policy at its board meeting next week.   

Commuters were divided on the poster.  "That's pretty bad," said Louis Gritsipis. "Ads like this have no place in the subway system."

Another woman said she had "no objection": "It's freedom of speech, right?"

Check out the coverage across the pond. "Anti-Muslim." So SKY News is saying all Muslims are jihadists. Wow. The Hamas group in America (CAIR) is cited in every article, but nowhere mentioned is their unindicted co-conspirator status, so named in the largest Hamas funding trial in US history, or that they were identified as a Muslim Brotherhood group in America. That is not relevant? Shouldn't readers know who and what they are?

"Anti-Muslim Adverts To Run In New York Subway"

The controversial leader of the group behind the adverts says she believes that America is at risk from some Muslims.

Hannah Thomas-Peter, New York Correspondent, SKY News 

The head of a group that has won its fight to run controversial adverts in New York subway stations referring to some Muslims as "savage" has told Sky News that she will fight "to the death" for the right to offend people.

Pamela Geller runs the American Freedom Defence Initiative (AFDI), which has taken out ads that read: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."

The posters are due to appear in ten New York City subway stations next week.

They were initially rejected by the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) because of the use of demeaning language.

But in July, a Manhattan court judge ruled that this was a violation of the first amendment rights of the AFDI and they should be allowed to run.

Ms Geller told Sky News that she was unconcerned the ads might make the subway network a target for violence.

She said: "Were there similar ads on the London buses and trains on 7/7? You know there weren't.

"I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages.

"I won't take responsibility for other people being violent.

"I live in America and in America we have the first amendment."

Ms Geller, who is a prominent supporter of Israel, stressed that she was not referring to all Muslims as savages, only those who engaged in what she characterises as "Jihad".

She believes that America is under threat from some Muslims who wish to impose Sharia law on the country, and her group has launched similar campaigns before.

The release of the adverts coincides with widespread anger in parts of the Middle East over an anti-Muslim film made in the US and released on the internet.

Next week, heads of state from all over the world will be converging on the city amid heightened security for the UN General Assembly.

The Washington DC MTA has deferred the placement of the controversial ads "out of concern for public safety, given current world events".

But New York MTA Transportation spokesman Aaron Donovan said: "Our hands are tied."

There had been some suggestions that the city's transit body was trying to find a way to stop the adverts appearing.

However, another spokesperson for the MTA told Sky News that it appeared the ads are definitely going ahead, although he was unable to say on which day, and at which subway stations.

Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American Islamic Relations, told Sky News: "Our basic position is that the first amendment means that everyone is free to be a bigot or even an idiot like Pamela Geller.

"We wish she wasn't provoking and inciting hatred, but in America that's her right.

"We encourage Muslims to exercise the same right to publicly denounce such adverts.

"The real danger is the spread of hatred in our society, which can lead to attacks on innocent people."

UPDATE:An righteously indignant reader writes:

Dear Pam,
Here's a letter I wrote to The Sun News, upon reading the article about your ad, Pam. Old News to You by now, but important to me. I also posted it (mostly) on your web page. The problem is for the public to get hold of email addresses for the media people who do damage.

"To Adam Harding, Lucy Ellison, Charlotte Reed:
Please forward to Hannah, as I was unable to get her proper email address:

I have just read 2 articles by Hannah Thomas-Peter, Sky News' New York Correspondent, and was quite surprised and displeased. I take issue with Ms. Thomas-Peter's tone, bias, and dearth of research on the article entitled:  "Anti-Muslim Ads to Run in New York Subway."

The immediate impression upon reading this article is that Ms. Geller must be irresponsible to put up ads such as this upon the heels of the current demonstrations of sharia.  Did the writer of the article realize that Ms. Geller began this effort months ago, and it has been delayed by the city of New York?

The second impression is that she is aggressive in pursuing her goal. No mention is made that it is in response to previous ads by CAIR.

Ms. Geller is disrespected by members of CAIR, whom Ms. Thomas-Peter did interview and quote, but not by most Americans, who agree that fanatical Islamacists are promoting murder and jihad in both our countries, indeed, around the world. I see no interviews with like-minded people horrified by what Islamacists are doing to Christian, Jews, and their own people.

Ms. Geller is one who is brave enough to face Islamacist's fatwas, e.g. this one:

1.  http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/political-potpourri/2012/sep/18/fatwa-issued-muslim-cleric-against-participants-an/

or this one:

2.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/16/salman-rushdie-death-        ; fatw_n_1888111.htmlone,

I'm sure The Sun has many more they can peruse.

Or, perhaps you and Ms. Thomas-Peter should actually go to Ms. Geller's website:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/

and educate yourselves. Perhaps you should actually even share that information with your readers.

I perceive Geller's goal as the only ethical one stemming from awareness of the atrocities occurring across the globe in the name of Islam, i.e.:  to educate about sharia and jihad, which can only lead to a desire to speak out against the torturing, rape and murders committed in the name of Islam.

Since you did not research and include this side of the topic, your article is biased.  The tone is negative, supercilious, and harmful to your viewers since your coverage was insufficient to explain the cause of Ms. Geller's anguish and desire to have freedom of speech to express it.  Surely you yourselves have felt the same upon viewing the photos of our Ambassador Stevens recently.

From reading your writer's previously posted article about Bloomberg's soda ban, I can see that she is capable of fair, neutral writing.  She just was incapable of it here --of all places and of all times.  I highly recommend a conscientious follow-up article to clarify the reason for blogs such as Atlas Shrugged.

Or do you each lack the courage of one like Ms. Geller, the French cartoonist currently in the news, or others who put themselves in harms' way in order to alert the public to the danger of sharia?

I would appreciate an answer, which I will share with Ms. Geller and others.

Very Sincerely,
 
Barbara
Upland, California 

cc: P. Geller"

More love from our moral superiors:

pokahii@yahoo.com via zeno.lunariffic.com	7:02 PM (1 hour ago)
to me

Hello Pamela,
       I just wanted to tell you that you are the shit whole of humanity and should just burn in hell. It is obvious that you are a radical Jew and have no intellect whatsoever. Graduating from Hofstra? Please. Anyone can get a degree from there. Doesn't take much intellect you cunt. You were probably the slut on campus. Go die bitch.

Author: Thomas Youzacunt

Email: pokahii@yahoo.com

================================================================

Subject: You are a racist cow

FROM; Anonymous anonymous@foto.nl1.torservers.net

How dare your hate organization advertise itself as anything other than a new KKK.

"Crazed father 'tied daughter to tree and hacked her to death with an axe because he was ashamed she worked in a beauty salon" Daily Mail (thanks to Mao)

'Police said Allah Ditta, the accused, was arrested and confessed killing his 32-year-old daughter, a mother of one, near their home in the Adiala suburbs of Pakistan.

• Allah Ditta allegedly hacked Shagufta to death near their home in the Adiala suburbs of Pakistan
• His children 'watched the crime unfold'

Horror: A father allegedly bludgeoned his daughter to death with an axe because he was ashamed she worked in a beauty salon

A father allegedly bludgeoned his daughter to death with an axe because he was ashamed she worked in a beauty salon.

That is the claim of Allah Ditta's children who watched him hack Shagufta to death near their home in the Adiala suburbs of Pakistan.

Police said the accused was arrested and confessed killing his 32-year-old daughter, a mother of one.

A blood-stained axe he was believed to have used to kill her, was also found, reported Dawn.com.

Shagufta had a young son and had divorced about three years ago.

Police quoted the younger sister as saying  'My father tied her to a tree in the jungle near our house and swung the axe at her neck, killing her instantly.'

The victim's brother, Fiaz Ali, said in a police statement that his father was angered after a lady that Shagufta worked for as a maid, offered her a position in a beauty salon. 

The younger sister said that Shagufta was beaten by her father the night before her death when she announced her intention to join the salon.

She said that the family intervened and they thought the debate was closed. 

But in the night she woke up and saw her father taking Shagufta away, holding a piece of rope and an axe in his hand.

When she went to watch the scene unfold with her brother, watching as Shagufta was taken away by her father to the nearby jungle.

here he allegedly tied her to a tree, abused her and then smashed her neck with an axe, killing her on the spot, according to the pair.

Hamas in America (CAIR) is demanding that the revenue from our ads be turned over to a sharia-driven "human rights commission." Wait, there are more Islamic supremcist demands. Hamas in America (CAIR) is demanding that the NYC MTA run diclaimers next to our ads. SFMTA tried that. Wait until you see the ads we are running in San Fransisco in rebuttal to the disclaimers.

Bring it on. Beclown yourselves.

"Controversial 'Defeat Jihad' ad to appear in NYC subways" CNN

New York (CNN) -- A controversial advertisement that critics say is hateful toward Muslims will appear in New York City subway stations starting next week, despite the city's attempts to halt the campaign.

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority initially rejected the ad, which reads: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."

The authority's decision was overturned last month when a federal judge ruled that the ad is protected speech under the First Amendment.

Jihad -- Arabic for "struggle" -- is considered a religious duty for Muslims, although there are peaceful and violent interpretations of what it means.

The American Freedom Defense Initiative, which produced the ad, has been fighting to place the message in New York's subway system since last year after the authority refused to display it.

"We don't think it's controversial," said Pamela Geller, the executive director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative. "It's truth. The MTA has run anti-Israel ads before and no one had an issue about it. 'Any war on innocent civilians is savagery': What's controversial here?"

Starting next week, the ads will be displayed in 10 of the city's more than 400 subway stations. The exact locations have not been selected by the transportation authority.

Geller said she had no qualms about releasing the message amid ongoing protests against an American-made anti-Islam film clip that led to the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya last week.

"If it's not a film, it's a cartoon, it's always some event," Geller said. "I will not sacrifice my freedom."

She noted that other places such as San Francisco have had these ads appear on buses with disclaimers next to them.

It's the latest controversy fueling the debate over free speech versus hate speech. In addition to protests over the film clip, a French satirical magazine published cartoons on Wednesday featuring a figure resembling Islam's Prophet Mohammed, triggering security concerns.

"These hate ads are part of a larger problem," said Muneer Awad, executive director of the Council of American-Islamic Relations. "We're trying to make sure MTA has policies to discourage hate speech."

Awad wants to ensure that anyone seeing the ads next week are aware that the message is not sanctioned by the city of New York.

"It is a hate group paying for these advertisements; an avenue to promote hate speech," said Awad. "Millions of people will see this, we want to make sure they realize that it is not (promoted by) the city of New York."

While his council cannot stop the ads, Awad hopes transit officials will put a disclaimer on the advertisements and redirect any funding of the ad to the Human Rights Commission.

The MTA is considering amending its advertising policies as soon as next week to prohibit all noncommercial advertisements, spokesman Aaron Donovan said.

It is unclear what effect that might have on the American Freedom Defense Initiative's advertisement.

Obama lied, Americans died. Breaking on FOX news -- right now.

The lowlife Obama administration is referring this to the FBI, as if the cold blooded murder of a US Ambassador and three US attaches was a law enforcement matter. That is how die hard Obama is for jihad.

• • "Al Qaeda, ex-Gitmo detainee behind consulate attack, intelligence sources say" FOX News

Intelligence sources tell Fox News they are convinced the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was directly tied to Al Qaeda -- with a former Guantanamo detainee involved.

That revelation comes on the same day a top Obama administration official called last week's deadly assault a "terrorist attack" -- the first time the attack has been described that way by the administration after claims it had been a "spontaneous" act. 

"Yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy," Matt Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said during a Senate hearing Wednesday. 

Olsen echoed administration colleagues in saying U.S. officials have no specific intelligence about "significant advanced planning or coordination" for the attack. 

However, his statement goes beyond White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, saying the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate was spontaneous. He is the first top administration official to call the strike an act of terrorism.

Sufyan Ben Qumu is thought to have been involved and even may have led the attack, Fox News' intelligence sources said. Qumu, a Libyan, was released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2007 and transferred into Libyan custody on the condition he be kept in jail. His Guantanamo files also show he has ties to the financiers behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Olson, repeating Wednesday that the FBI is handling the Benghazi investigation, also acknowledged the attack could lead back to Al Qaeda and its affiliates. 

"We are looking at indications that individuals involved in the attack may have had connections to Al Qaeda or Al Qaeda's affiliates, in particular Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," he said at the Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing. 

Still, Olsen said "the facts that we have now indicate that this was an opportunistic attack on our embassy, the attack began and evolved and escalated over several hours," Olson said. 

Carney said hours earlier that there still is "no evidence of a preplanned or pre-meditated attack," which occurred on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. 

"I made that clear last week, Ambassador Rice made that clear Sunday," Carney said at the daily White House press briefing. 

Rice appeared on "Fox News Sunday" and four other morning talk shows to say the attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans was "spontaneous" and sparked by an early protest that day outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, over an anti-Islamic video. 

"It was a reaction to a video that had nothing to do with the United States," Rice told Fox News. "The best information and the best assessment we have today is that this was not a pre-planned, pre-meditated attack. What happened initially was that it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo." 

However, that account clashed with claims by the Libyan president that the attack was in fact premeditated. Other sources, including an intelligence source in Libya who spoke to Fox News, have echoed those claims. The intelligence source even said that, contrary to the suggestion by the Obama administration, there was no major protest in Benghazi before the deadly attack which killed four Americans. A U.S. official did not dispute the claim. 

In the face of these conflicting accounts, Carney on Tuesday deferred to the ongoing investigation and opened the door to the possibility of other explanations.

Just a heads up to Atlas readers all over the world. I will be on NBC 4 at 6 pm, WPIX News at 10, BBC at 7:30 EST, NY1 and SKY News tonight. It's all about our anti-jihad subway ads -- blasphemy enforcement in the West. It is a lesson to Americans and to all freedom lovers who are unaware of the encroachment of the sharia on our basic freedom of speech.

UPDATE: And FOX5 at 10 pm.

New York 1 News report on the AFDI pro-Israel ads -- it always interesting to see what agenda-driven pull quotes they use.

I love the folks on the street: most agree with us. The liberal sounds like an idiot liberal. It's not useful to call murderers murderers or rapists rapists, doncha know?

Here's a glimpse of the enemedia coverage of our anti-jihad ads.

New York Magazine snarks at the "timing," as if there were a good or better time to blaspheme. When, then? After the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, when there were no "provocations"? After the Cole bombing? After 7/7 in London? After 3/11 in Madrid? After the Fort Hood jihadi? After the Times Square bombing? After the Christmas balls bomber? After the teacher inadvertently named a classroom teddy bear Muhammad (at the students' request) and became a target for death and the object of rioting across the Muslim world? After the Fogel murders? After Ambassador Stevens and three US diplomats were murdered? After a youtube video that offends Muhammad? After Danish moe-toons? After French moe-toons? After Swedish moe-toons? When is it OK to blaspheme under the sharia? Anytime.

Now Seems Like a Great Time for an Anti-Muslim Subway Ad

New York Magazine - ‎2 hours ago‎

Defeat Jihad" ad, which has been "deferred" in Washington, D.C. due to current events, is the work of the Pamela Geller–led group American Freedom Defense Initiative, whose past work includes signs that say, "It's not Islamophobia, it's Islamorealism.

New York subway stations to display anti-Jihad ad

NBCNews.com) - ‎43 minutes ago‎

Pamela Geller, executive director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, said in an email to the Times that that transit officials in Washington were "kowtowing to the threat of jihad terrorism." Recent events in the Middle East have not given her pause "for ...

NY transit authority weighs options on anti-Islam subway ad

Jewish Telegraphic Agency - ‎3 hours ago‎

The ad is sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, or AFDI, whose executive director, conservative blogger Pamela Geller, is a fiery critic of Muslims, liberals and mainstream Jewish organizations. In 2011, the Southern Poverty Law Center ...

Pro-Israel Ads Call Jihad 'Savage,' Coming Soon To NYC Subways

International Business Times - ‎1 hour ago‎

The ads were paid for by American Freedom Defense Initiative, an activist group run by Pamela Geller, the author of the Atlas Shrugs blog who is known as an outspoken critic of Islam. Initially, the MTA refused to run the ads, but in July a Manhattan federal ...

Ad Calling Jihad 'Savage' Is Set to Appear in Subway

New York Times - ‎15 hours ago‎

Pamela Geller, the executive director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, said in an e-mail Tuesday that transit officials in Washington were “kowtowing to the threat of jihad terrorism.” She added that recent events in the Middle East had not given her ...

Anti-jihad ads to appear in subways

UPI.com - ‎5 hours ago‎

Pamela Geller, executive director of the group, told the Times in an email Washington transit officials are "kowtowing to the threat of jihad terrorism." "Freedom must be vigorously defended," she said. Recommended Stories. Chicago teen charged in attempted ...

UPDATE: More enemedia coverage:  Ads criticizing "Jihad" bound for New York City subway stations Reuters

Cartoons of Mohammed, Anti-Jihad Subway Ads and Other Provocations, Past and Future Smithsonian 

Subway Stations to Display Controversial "Jihad" Ad | NBC New York

Here Is The Anti-Jihad Ad That Will - Business Insider'

Ads Calling Jihadists Uncivilized "Savages" To Appear in NYC ... Village Voice  

Anti-Jihad Ads To Appear In Subway Stations Next Week - NY1.com

Subways to Display Controversial 'Jihad' Ad - WNYC

Subway Ad Calling Jihad 'Savage' To Appear In New York City   Huffingtonpost.com

An ad, a movie, a teddy bear, a moe-toon, an outfit ..... it doesn't matter. It is all a pretext to impose the brutal, repressive sharia on the West. We must stop appeasing and submitting to the most radical and extreme ideology on the planet.

I refuse to sacrifice my freedoms as not to offend savages,.

Good on Gaga -- though I am not sure she thought she was being controversial. Remember, devout Muslims in "moderate" Indonesia forced the cancellation of her mega-concert there.

Lady Gaga angers Islam and Muslims with London Fashion Week burqa Gigwise (thanks to David)

Religious groups have taken offence at Lady Gaga's outfit worn to the Phillip Treacy show at London Fashion Week.

The star arrived at the show wearing a burqa covered in raccoon tails - although she has not confirmed or denied whether they were real fur.

"That comes across as a clear insult to Muslims and Islam," said a Chicago-based
representative of a number of Muslim groups to the Chicago Sun Times. The spokesman did not want to be identified. Rumours suggest Lady Gaga's security has been increased since she wore the outfit, in case of retaliation from relgious extremists.

The newspaper also claims activists are planning to throw paint or faeces at the star.

“I’m hearing they are going to try and personally attack Gaga — spraying her with paint or even throwing faeces at her,” says a source for PETA activists to the US newspaper.

The once anti-fur star shocked with her fondness for animal skins, having previously been seen wearing fur while on tour in Bulgaria. When she was previously spotted wearing fur, Animal rights group PETA compared her a 'mindless Kim Kardashian' before Gaga later attempted to defend her choice to dress in animal skin.

"You see a carcass, I see a museum pièce de résistance," she wrote in an official statement on her choice to wear fur.

She added: "But I am truly sorry to fans who are upset by this, its a fair and applaudable feeling about the health and safety of animals. I respect your views, please respect mine."

Gaga published the open letter online to confirm her new stance on the issue, which seems to go back on her 2009 comment to Ellen DeGeneres on US TV that: "I hate fur and I don't wear fur."

Below: Lady Gaga's 'offensive' Fashion Week outfit

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Is it any wonder that we are the laughingstock of the world? Do we really expect the Muslim world to guarantee our safety? We are responsible for our security. We are responsible for the safety of our people. This is madness. How many Americans have to die before Obama stops selling this fantasy to the American people?

Obama: "The message we have to send to the Muslim world is we expect you to work with us to keep our people safe" Jihadwatch

Or else what? What if they don't work with us to keep our people safe? What then?

"Obama: Muslim world must help protect Americans abroad," from Reuters, September 18:

President Barack Obama on Tuesday pressed leaders of the Muslim world to help ensure security for Americans in their countries after a wave of violence against US diplomatic compounds.

"The message we have to send to the Muslim world is we expect you to work with us to keep our people safe," Obama said during a taped interview with CBS's David Letterman in New York. "We expect their full cooperation because that's the only way the world works."...

Obama, who has ordered tightened security at US's installations, called the video "offensive" but said it was not an excuse for violence.

Very well. Is it an excuse for restrictions on the freedom of speech?

Earlier today a kosher store in the Paris suburbs were bombed. Despite the West's delusion and denial, we are at war. Freedom of speech in the age of  jihad. Stand up, fight back. Do not sacrifice freedom so as not to offend savages.

"Charlie Hebdo's chief editor, who goes by the name of Charb and has been under police protection for a year, defended the cartoons."I'm not the one going into the streets with stones and Kalashnikovs," he said.

Charlie Hebdo cartoon spurs French gov't to order embassies, schools to close, September 19,  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (thanks to FS)

French weekly Charlie Hebdo publishes cartoons

PARIS - A French magazine published vulgar caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday, inflaming global tensions over a movie insulting to Islam. In response, the French government ordered embassies and schools to close Friday in about 20 countries.
The move by the provocative weekly Charlie Hebdo followed days of violent protests from Asia to Africa against the U.S.-produced film "Innocence of Muslims" and turned France into a potential target of Muslim rage. Up to now, American government sites have drawn the most ire.
Violence linked to the amateurish movie, which portrays the prophet as a fraud, a womanizer and a child molester, has killed at least 30 people in seven countries, including the American ambassador to Libya.
On Wednesday, several hundred lawyers protesting the movie forced their way into an area in Pakistan's capital that houses the U.S. Embassy and other foreign missions.
The United States temporarily closed its consulate in an Indonesian city because of similar demonstrations and hundreds protested the film in Sri Lanka's capital, burning effigies of President Barack Obama.
The French government ordered embassies and schools abroad to close on Friday, the Muslim holy day, as a precautionary measure in about 20 countries, according to the foreign affairs ministry. It ordered the immediate closure of the French Embassy and the French school in Tunisia, which saw deadly film-related protests at the U.S. Embassy last Friday.
The French Foreign Ministry issued a travel warning Wednesday urging French citizens in the Muslim world to exercise "the greatest vigilance," avoiding public gatherings and "sensitive buildings" such as those representing the West or religious sites.
At the same time, the country — which has western Europe's largest Muslim population — plunged into a new debate over the limits of free speech in a modern democracy.
France's prime minister said freedom of expression is guaranteed, but cautioned that it "should be exercised with responsibility and respect."
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius warned that Charlie Hebdo could be throwing "oil on the fire," but said it's up to the courts to decide whether the magazine went too far.
The magazine's crude cartoons played off the film and ridiculed the violent reaction to it. Riot police took up positions outside the offices of the magazine, which was firebombed last year after it released an edition that mocked radical Islam.
Charlie Hebdo's chief editor, who goes by the name of Charb and has been under police protection for a year, defended the cartoons.
"Muhammad isn't sacred to me," he said in an interview at the weekly's offices on the northeast edge of Paris. "I don't blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under French law; I don't live under Quranic law."
Charb said he had no regrets and felt no responsibility for any violence.
"I'm not the one going into the streets with stones and Kalashnikovs," he said. "We've had 1,000 issues and only three problems, all after front pages about radical Islam."
Government authorities and Muslim leaders urged calm.
"This is a disgraceful and hateful, useless and stupid provocation," Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Paris Mosque, told The Associated Press. "We are not Pavlov's animals to react at each insult."
A small-circulation weekly, Charlie Hebdo often draws attention for ridiculing sensitivity around the Prophet Muhammad, and an investigation into the firebombing of its offices last year is still open. The magazine posted a statement online saying its website had been hacked.
Abdallah Zekri, president of the Paris-based Anti-Islamophobia Observatory, said his group is considering filing a lawsuit against the magazine.
"People want to create trouble in France," he said. "Charlie Hebdo wants to make money on the backs of Muslims."
Charlie Hebdo was acquitted in 2008 by a Paris appeals court of "publicly abusing a group of people because of their religion" following a complaint by Muslim associations.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said organizers of a demonstration planned for Saturday against the "Innocence of Muslims" won't receive police authorization. Paris prosecutors have opened an investigation into an unauthorized protest last Saturday around the U.S. Embassy that drew about 150 people and led to scores of arrests.
The debate about the limits of free speech spread to neighboring Germany, where Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle spoke on the topic.
"I call on all those, especially those who rightly invoke the right of freedom of speech, to also act responsibly. The one who now puts more oil on the fire on purpose, with obvious effect, is not the greatest thinker," he said Wednesday in Berlin.
The German Embassy in Sudan, which was attacked last week, remains closed and security at German embassies in other countries has been beefed up, he said.
A German group in Berlin said it has dropped plans to show extracts of the film "Innocence of Muslims" because of the outcry it has caused.
The cartoonist of the French caricatures published Wednesday, who goes by the name Luz, was defiant.
"We treat the news like journalists. Some use cameras, some use computers. For us, it's a paper and pencil," he said. "A pencil is not a weapon. It's just a means of expression."
Outside the Charlie Hebdo offices, a passer-by wearing a traditional Muslim tunic said he was neither surprised nor shocked by the cartoons. He criticized France's decision to close embassies and schools for fear of protests by extremists.
"It gives legitimacy to movements that don't have any," said Hatim Essoufaly, who was walking his toddler in a stroller.
In Pakistan, the lawyers who protested in Islamabad shouted anti-U.S. slogans and burned an American flag after they pushed through a gate, gaining access to the diplomatic enclave before police stopped them. They called for the U.S. ambassador to be expelled, and then peacefully dispersed.
Much of the anger over the film, which denigrates Islam's Prophet Muhammad, has been directed at the U.S. government even though the film was privately produced in the United States and American officials have criticized it.
The U.S. Embassy in Indonesia sent a text message to U.S. citizens saying that the consulate in Medan, the country's third-largest city, has been closed temporarily because of demonstrations over the film. About 300 members of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia, a pan-Islamic movement, rallied peacefully on Wednesday in front of the U.S. consulate in Medan. Later, about 50 Muslim students also protested there. Both groups called on Washington to punish the makers of the film.
On Tuesday, Islamic militants sought to capitalize on anger over the film, saying that a suicide bombing which killed 12 people in Afghanistan was revenge for the video and calling for attacks on U.S. diplomats and facilities in North Africa.

UPDATE: Thanks to Tycho for the toons:

UPDATE: All the toons are here (and translated)

Report: 4 injured after explosion at kosher store Bloomberg, September 19, 2012 (thanks to Joel)

PARIS (AP) — A French news agency is reporting that four people were injured when a small package bomb exploded inside a kosher grocery store in a Paris suburb.

The Sipa news agency says that the small explosion was set off by two hooded people dressed in black who entered the store around midday and put a package inside, citing an unnamed police official and a Jewish organization. The two fled after throwing a rock through the shop's window shortly before the explosion, the police official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak publicly about the investigation.

The official said the injured people are being treated for wounds to their arms and legs from the explosion and broken glass.

The attack took place in Sarcelles, a suburb about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Paris.

A French Jewish umbrella organization, CRIF, said in a statement that "it fears this attack" is connected to the days of violent protests from Asia to Africa against the U.S.-produced film "Innocence of Muslims," which ridicules Prophet Muhammad.

Check out my column this week:

"Obama's Shariah-inspired war on 1st Amendment" Pamela Geller, WND

Exclusive: Pamela Geller calls response to Islamic riots 'a constitutional coup'

While we were conducting our hugely successful Stop Islamization of Nations (SION) International Freedom Congress on free speech last Tuesday, Sept. 11, our embassies were being viciously attacked in the jihadists’ war on free speech and the freedom of conscience. The bloody irony was not lost on us. The U.S. Embassy in Cairo immediately tweeted: “We condemn the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.” Although it later deleted the tweet, the Obama administration’s apology for “religious incitement” and “hurting the feelings of Muslims” crystallizes the battle set before us.

We had gathered on the 11th anniversary of the jihad attacks that murdered 3,000 people to fight exactly the same battle that erupted with such fury on the same day: the global battle for free speech. A group of freedom fighters from all over the world gathered to tell the truth about Islam, jihad and the mainstream media’s war on free speech and honest reporting and analysis of that jihad. Speakers from the U.S., England, Europe, India, Israel and Australia spoke to a standing-room-only crowd about the media’s craven complicity in whitewashing the reality of jihad and demonizing those who fight for freedom.

One key highlight of the afternoon was the surprise appearance of English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson, who was not allowed into the U.S. by quisling officials when he tried to attend our Ground Zero freedom rally in 2010. Tommy and his colleague Kevin Carroll spoke powerfully about how they have worked to defend freedom and human rights in the U.K., and yet are repeatedly and viciously maligned by a compromised media. Muhammad cartoonist Lars Vilks (who seemed to have a Swedish media swarm about him at all times) delivered a wonderful, clever presentation with humor, art and aplomb. His dryly witty presentation about his incredible adventures with his cartoons of Muhammad in the leftist art world had attendees spontaneously laughing but with caution, concern and … shock. The sweeping advances the Shariah has made in Europe and Scandinavia rattled even the most informed among us in the U.S.

Another notable speaker and fighter was Cliff Kincaid, director of the AIM Center for Investigative Journalism. Accuracy in Media (AIM) is the nation’s leading conservative watchdog group for fairness, balance and accuracy in news reporting. Kincaid’s presentation was hard-hitting, very powerful. He eviscerated the Associated Press and other leading media organizations, which are on a jihad, among other things, to disarm the New York Police Department’s counter-terror initiatives.

And while all this was going on, the riots began. The complicit media used these acts of war to continue its war against everyone who dares to do anything to resist the jihad and Islamic supremacism. The enemedia will sacrifice American lives and our First Amendment freedoms in their war on America. It is clearer than ever that the enemedia today functions as nothing more than a state-run propaganda arm for the most dangerous administration in American history.

We continue to suffer the catastrophic consequences of Obama’s fantasist, anti-freedom foreign policy. The U.S. government is now saying that these anti-freedom riots have nothing to do with America or U.S. policy, but are solely about a video about Muhammad.

In fact, the riots have everything to do with America and U.S. policy. They are about freedom of conscience and freedom of speech: they’re an attempt to get the U.S. to shut down free speech and criminalize criticism of Islam, in accord with Shariah blasphemy laws. And the Obama administration is responding by putting a huge target on the head of the First Amendment (and on that of every U.S. citizen who exercises that constitutional right). This is a constitutional coup.

After the Shariah-compliant tweets of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, the Obama administration requested that Google remove the Muhammad video that supposedly touched off these riots. (In reality, the riots were planned for months, and have nothing to do with the video – they’re just an attempt to get the U.S. to destroy free speech.) Google, surprisingly, refused. The actions of the Obama administration in this are tantamount to treason – he is acting directly against the First Amendment.

And it got worse. Nakoula Nakoula, the man who allegedly made the Muhammad film, was “picked up for questioning” by Obama’s feds. He was later released, but could still be put in jail on a probation violation. If he is, he will be a political prisoner, in prison not for the probation violation, but for blasphemy. And the attempt to tie defenders of freedom to this film, like me, is, in effect, a death fatwa sanctioned by the Obama administration.

If Nakoula hadn’t made the video, he wouldn’t have been picked up. These are trumped-up charges. The Associated Press outed him after tracing his cell phone – he was hunted down like an animal and now may face jail on trumped-up charges in an act of submission and surrender to Islamic law. This is a complete abridgment of our rights of freedom of speech and freedom of conscience under the law. Jailing the filmmaker is more Shariah enforcement in America, as I warned about in my book “Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.”

"Pakistani businessman accused of blasphemy for not protesting anti-Islam film" The Associated Press Sep 19, 2012

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani officials say they have opened an investigation into a businessman who has been accused of blasphemy after refusing to join protests over an anti-Islam video and allegedly trying to convince others also not to take part.

Police officer Munir Abbasi says that hundreds of protesters in the city of Hyderabad who rallied against the film that mocks the Prophet Muhammad demanded businessman Haji Nasrullah Khan shut his shops in solidarity.

When Khan refused, one of his tenants said his decision supported the film.

City police chief Fareed Jan said Wednesday the protesters claim Khan insulted the Prophet.

Jan said there's no evidence to suggest this happened and said police were pressured by the mob to open the case.

Blasphemy is punishable by life in prison or death in Pakistan.

After our historic win in our first amendment lawsuit against the NYC MTA, we moved forward with our counter-jihad offensive to run our pro-Israel ads across the country, in every city that ran the anti-israel campaign. Help us make it happen, donate, donate, donate.

After our unequivocal legal win, our ads began running in San Francisco (where craven city "elders" ran sharia-compliant 'disclaimer" ads next to ours). In addition, our islamorealism ads went up on the NY Metro line. Typically, silly dhimmi officials and sharia-compliant enemedia fell all over themselves in furious efforts to comply with Islamic blasphemy restrictions. But noisy posturing aside, we did not expect any further restrictions on our first amendment rights. We won.

We  submitted the "savage" ads to run on New York subway platforms and DC Metro train dioramas. The contracts were signed and the ads were paid for up front. They are scheduled to run next week. In light of Ambassador Stevens' coldblooded murder, as well as that of two navy SEALs and other US diplomats, what else would you call jihadists? Why is this controversial? The ads should be papered across America. Funny how the word "savage" entered the vernacular after the latest jihadist blowups across the world.

Today, on Rosh Hashanah, the DC Transit authority canceled ("postponed") our pro-Israel ads. DC Transit said, "due to the situations happening around the world at this time, we are postponing the start of this program ..." "The reason for this decision is one of security and safety for the commuters using the DC Metro rail system." This is exactly the reason why our pro-freedom ads should run.

It is precisely because of the current political situation that it is important that I be able to express my message now, and I consider any delay to be government censorship of my core political speech. I demanded that the transit authority change their position. Short of that, we will file a lawsuit tomorrow.

Clearly, DC is kowtowing to the threat of jihad terrorism. Their cowardice does not make commuters or Americans safer. On the contrary, it puts us in more peril to the whims of violent Islamic supremacists.

If someone commits violence, it is his responsibility and no one else's. The responsibility for one's actions lies with one who acts and no one else. Islamic supremacists and their allies in the mainstream media are trying to get us to accept the idea that we are responsible if Muslims riot and kill and blame what we say. Yet there is nothing that you could say to me that would make me riot and kill. Theirs is the responsibility and they are the only ones who deserve condemnation, if the media were doing its job.

There will always be an ad, a movie, a cartoon, a teddy bear. This is a war on freedom. I refuse to sacrifice my freedom so as not to offend savages.

And dhimmi DC transit is not alone. Others have criticized the use of the word "savage." But it is entirely apt. They claim that the ad refers to all Muslims, or all opponents of Israel. It doesn't. It refers to those who rejoice in the murders of innocent civilians. The war on Israel is a war on innocent civilians. The targeting of civilians is savage. The murder of Ambassador Stevens was savage. The relentless 60-year campaign of terror against the Jewish people is savage. The torture of hostage Gilad Shalit was savage. The bloody hacking to death of the Fogel family was savage. The Munich Olympic massacre was savage. The unspeakable torture of Ehud Goldwasser was savage. The tens of thousands of rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel (into schools, homes, etc.) are savage. The vicious Jew-hatred behind this genocide is savage. The endless demonization of the Jewish people in the Palestinian and Arab media is savage. The refusal to recognize the state of Israel as a Jewish state is savage. The list is endless.

Dhimmitude at the DC Transit. The message they are sending is that terrorism works.

"Ad Calling Jihad ‘Savage’ Is Set to Appear in Subway" By Matt Flegenheimer, NY Times, September 18, 2012