Update: See Jihad Watch response to attacks on Geller, here.
That would be Pamela Geller of course, the indomitable blogger at Atlas Shrugs who day after day reminds us of the Stealth Jihad in the US (and the not so stealthy Jihad around the world).
She is the front man for all of us
Atlas Shrugs is one of those must-read blogs that is a favorite of mine. I could spend all day commenting on this piece—at times an obvious hit piece on one tough woman. However, this line from a Navy veteran says it all, “She’s the front man for so many of us who feel the same way.”
It is people like Pamela (and Robert Spencer) who will be brave and say what must be said, to give us all the strength to resist the coming Jihad. Read the New York Times article here, and thank God for Pamela.
Getting the message out far and wide
I had been planning to make a point last week about how widespread the discussion of the Stealth Jihad and Shariah law has become. This is a good place to do it since the NYT mentions the power of bloggers to not only get the message out, but to educate and change the language of political discourse. Here is the NYT:
Operating largely outside traditional Washington power centers — and, for better or worse, without traditional academic, public-policy or journalism credentials — Ms. Geller, with a coterie of allies, has helped set the tone and shape the narrative for a divisive national debate over Park51 (she calls the developer a “thug” and a “lowlife”). In the process, she has helped bring into the mainstream a concept that after 9/11 percolated mainly on the fringes of American politics: that terrorism by Muslims springs not from perversions of Islam but from the religion itself. Her writings, rallies and television appearances have both offended and inspired, transforming Ms. Geller from an Internet obscurity, who once videotaped herself in a bikini as she denounced “Islamofascism,” into a media commodity who has been profiled on “60 Minutes” and whose phraseology has been adopted by Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin.
Not just Newt and Sarah! Last week I noted that Sharon Angle, the Tea Party candidate running against Harry Reid in Nevada, raised the issue of Shariah law and the stealth Jihad in America. Coincidentally, also last week while attending a Tea Party class on the Constitution, an older gentleman, a student in the class, raised the issue of Shariah law as it relates to the US Constitution. We owe Pamela Geller and other brave Americans and Europeans in the counterjihad movement who are willing to talk openly about the threat we face for the fact that Angle and the local gentleman are knowledgeable and willing to speak so freely—something that would never have happened if we were dependent on the likes of the politically-correct and timid New York Times to inform us.