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		<title>Islamic Spin on 911 Jihad Attacks Takes Terrible Shape Everywhere</title>
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And so we are in the final phase of the successful jihad attacks on American soil.</p>
<p>The leftist/Islamic machine is in full throttle leading up to the tenth anniversary of September 11th.</p>
<p>Ground Zero mosque radical Rauf (his mosque mistress Farhat &#8216;Daisy&#8217; Khan riding shotgun) said, <em>&#8220;9/11 was a watershed, was a major milestone, and a major catalytic force in, in catalyzing the attention towards the issue of Islam, itâ€™s presence in the West, and it brought into much greater prominence our work and the importance of our work.&#8221;<br />
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<p>And so it has. And their minions have been very busy in the propaganda war leading up to 9-11. Their foot soldiers (the young and the clueless) are hitting the streets shilling for the Ground Zero mosque asking, &#8220;Are you for the building/community center?&#8221; and claiming &#8220;it&#8217;s not a mosque.&#8221;</p>
<p>They are creating Goebbels-style propaganda websites and promotional videos, and trying desperately for them to go viral. Big money being spent lavishly.</p>
<p>Sites like <a href="http://www.changethestory.net/" target="_self">&#8220;Change the Story&#8221;</a> &#8212; yes, change the story from this:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef014e89b2b1d0970d-pi"><img class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c60bf53ef014e89b2b1d0970d" style="width: 600px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Wtc people" src="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef014e89b2b1d0970d-600wi" alt="Wtc people" /></a><br />
&#8230;&#8230;. to this &#8212; jihad is good for you: (thanks to Pamela Hall for sending)</p>
<p><a href="/www.changethestory.net/"><img class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c60bf53ef014e89b2ad1e970d" style="width: 600px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Chnagethestroy" src="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef014e89b2ad1e970d-600wi" alt="Chnagethestroy" /></a><br />
Another jihadist propaganda website, <a href="http://prepareny.ning.com/" target="_self">PREPARE New York for 911</a>, is running this video. I have been contacted no less than eight times in the past two weeks by a very well-paid publicist, Elizabeth Potter, to promote the <em>taqiyya</em> (the Islamic mandate to deceive to advance Islam) video below. It galled me, but I think you should see the level of subtle, stealth attack we are under:</p>
<p>This vile video is insulting and grotesque. It is a smear campaign of destruction to advance Islam. The selling of sharia as similar to Jewish law is a lowlife lie.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s hope this trash does not wind up in our schools.</p>
<p>The worst of this sharia compliance is in the 911 Memorial and Museum. This was writtenÂ today by Michael Burke, who served on the family advisory committee for the memorial and the advisory committee on the museum center to the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. His brother, New York Fire Department Capt. William F. Burke Jr., Engine Company 21, gave his life on 9/11.</p>
<blockquote><p>This Sept. 11, the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks upon America, New York Mayor <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/michael-r-bloomberg/">Michael R. Bloomberg</a> will dedicate the massive, $600 million National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/world-trade-center/">World Trade Center</a>. What Americans have not been told is that this â€œmemorialâ€ will remake Ground Zero so that it does not acknowledge 9/11.</p>
<p>Instead of acting as a constant reminder of the attacks, a symbol for us and future generations of the evil that struck, the death and destruction it caused and the heroism and sacrifice in response, the memorial will wipe out all evidence and memory of the attacks.</p>
<p>Replacing all reminders of the attacks will be two immense â€œvoidsâ€ with gigantic subterranean waterfalls designed to express exclusively, as per architect <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/michael-arad/">Michael Arad</a>, the continuing â€œabsence in our lives caused by these deaths.â€</p>
<p>About 500 trees will be planted upon the site. They are, we are told by memorial officials, â€œtraditional symbols of the rejuvenation of life.â€ They also will eradicate all trace and memory of what stood there for 30 years and its destruction on Sept. 11.</p>
<p>The cause of â€œthese deaths,â€ how these people came to be absent &#8211; that is, 9/11 &#8211; has been deemed irrelevant and even contrary to your memorial â€œexperience.â€</p>
<p>The memorial is not about that; itâ€™s about you.</p>
<p>Cities and towns across America have humbly requested a segment of the twisted steel of the WTC to feature in their own modest Sept. 11 memorials. The only memorial where one is not welcome is the â€œnationalâ€ memorial at Ground Zero. Those iconic remnants, exactly because they are iconic, are considered far too gauche for the jury of intellectuals and artists who chose the design.</p>
<p>The National September 11 Memorial at the WTC will not include the iconic WTC â€œSphereâ€ &#8211; again, exactly because it is iconic. â€œThe Sphereâ€ stood in the center of the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/wtc-plaza/">WTC plaza</a> for 30 years as a symbol of world peace. On 9/11, though badly damaged (a piece of one of the planes tore through it) it survived the attacks in place and was embraced by many Americans as a symbol of the nationâ€™s strength and resiliency.</p>
<p>That is why it cannot be returned.</p>
<p>It sits at Battery Park, about a half-mile from Ground Zero, where it was installed March 11, 2002, the six-month anniversary of the attacks, as a â€œtemporaryâ€ memorial. Battery Park is undergoing its own renovations, and â€œThe Sphereâ€ will have to moved.</p>
<p>One 9/11 anniversary at Ground Zero, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/michael-arad/">Mr. Arad</a> told me that returning â€œThe Sphereâ€ would be â€œdidactic.â€ That is, it would tell us what to think.</p>
<p>Somehow disposing of it is not telling us what to think.</p>
<p>This is like banishing the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/uss-arizona-memorial/">USS Arizona</a> from the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/uss-arizona-memorial/">USS Arizona Memorial</a>.</p>
<p>The 9/11 memorial will not identify <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/christine-lee-hanson/">Christine Lee Hanson</a>, who died with her parents when United Airlines Flight 175 was slammed into the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/south-tower/">South Tower</a>, as being â€œage 2.â€ This might convince you that the American victims were â€œinnocentâ€ and the foreign terrorists â€œguilty.â€</p>
<p>That would be telling us what to think.</p>
<p>It will not include the initials FDNY, NYPD or PAPD. It will not include the words â€œfirefighterâ€ or â€œpolice officer.â€</p>
<p>Recognizing the heroism and sacrifice of the firefighters and police officers would contrast those virtues with the barbarism and crime of the terrorists.</p>
<p>And though <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/michael-r-bloomberg/">Mr. Bloomberg</a> has said our values demand a Ground Zero Mosque, he will not allow the Rev. Mychal Judge, the FDNY chaplain who died while praying the Lordâ€™s Prayer in the lobby of <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/wtc-plaza/">WTC</a> 1, to be identified as â€œFire Chaplain Fatherâ€ Mychal Judge.</p>
<p>It is only traditional Judeo-Christian values that have no place at Ground Zero.</p></blockquote>
<p>Read <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/7/political-correctness-gone-mad-at-ground-zero/?page=2" target="_self">the rest here.</a></p>
<p>Here are some of the leading voices among the 911 families on the 911 Memorial and Museum:</p>
<p><strong>The spin stops here </strong>(but don&#8217;t count on Bull O&#8217;Reilly to expose any of this: he is still hosting Muslim Brotherhood groups on his show, like Hamas-tied CAIR).</p>
<p><strong>Are you going to stand for this or are you going toÂ  <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/07/join-us-september-11th-at-our-911-freedom-rally-at-ground-zero.html">join us September 11th at our 911 Freedom Rally at Ground Zero</a>?</strong></p>
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		<title>&#8220;Justice for Fatima&#8221; Protest June 10th, Tampa Florida &#8211; Stand Against Honor Killing Cover-Up</title>
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<div>TAMPA, Fla., May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ &#8212; A prominent  national human rights and advocacy organization is calling upon Tampa  city and Florida state officials to conduct an honest and thorough  investigation into the suspicious death of Fatima Abdallah.</div>
<p>The Florida chapter of the American Freedom Defense  Initiative  (AFDI)/Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) is holding a Rally  for  Justice for Fatima Abdallah at 2 p.m. on June 10 at Lykes Gaslight Park  in front of Tampa Police Headquarters. The Rally will include a news  conference.</p>
<p>Speakers will call upon State Attorney Mark Ober, Tampa Mayor Bob  Buckhorn and Tampa City Council Members to recognize the numerous  anomalies in the Tampa Police Department report that ruled Fatima  Abdallah&#8217;s death a suicide, and to open a genuine investigation into the  possibility that she was murdered in an Islamic honor killing.</p>
<p>The Tampa Police report claims that Abdallah committed  suicide by  repeatedly striking her head against a coffee table.  AFDI/SIOA  Executive Director Pamela Geller said in a statement: &#8220;The idea defies  logic, belies reality.&#8221; She announced that the Rally for Justice for  Fatima Abdallah would feature a great deal of evidence that the Tampa   Police investigation was drastically flawed, and that the Police   Department and Medical Examiner ignored numerous indications that Fatima  Abdallah  did not commit suicide, but was brutally assaulted. Then when   challenged, their explanation only exposed more inconsistencies and   raised more questions.</p>
<p>Geller also pointed out that Fatima Abdallah was &#8220;a Muslim  woman  shunned by her devout Muslim family for her &#8216;shameful&#8217; divorce&#8221; â€“  and  hence a possible victim of Islamic honor killing, in which a woman  who  has brought &#8220;shame&#8221; to the family is murdered in order to preserve   family &#8220;purity.&#8221; Neighbors reported that Fatima Abdallah was abused by  her family, but that they had been too frightened themselves of the  abusers to report it.</p>
<p>&#8220;We cannot and will not tolerate the covering up of honor killings in   the U.S.,&#8221; Geller said. &#8220;Our law enforcement authorities should be   standing up against this practice. The cover-up is criminal, and we must   protest the silence and complicity of Florida law  enforcement. This  looking the other way on honor killing is Sharia law  &#8212; if this family  weren&#8217;t Muslim, law enforcement would have handled  this completely  differently.&#8221;</p>
<p>Geller also noted that &#8220;at the exact same time of Fatima Abdallah&#8217;s  alleged honor killing, Rifqa Bary  was not 85 miles away, fighting for  her very life under the same  deathly system of misogyny and Islamic  domination that Fatima had lived  under. Rifqa Bary had escaped to  Florida after her father had threatened to kill her when he found out  that she had left Islam and converted to Christianity. Ohio and Florida   law enforcement refused to address the religious motivation behind the   death threat made to Rifqa&#8217;s life. A brutal honor killing of a Muslim   woman not 85 miles away would certainly have swayed the court of public   opinion. This is the continuation of self-enforcing Sharia law in   America.&#8221;</p>
<p>The confirmed list of speakers at the Rally for Justice for Fatima  Abdallah includes Geller, the popular blogger and columnist who  publishes the acclaimed AtlasShrugs.com blog and is the author of <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/usnw/pl_usnw/storytext/DC11052/41681195/SIG=14j5p2jqv/*http://www.amazon.com/dp/1439189307?tag=atlasshrugs-20&amp;camp=14573&amp;creative=327641&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=1439189307&amp;adid=1C6TN7J5GTC47KSBTNMZ&amp;">The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration&#8217;s War on America</a> (Simon &amp; Schuster); AFDI/SIOA&#8217;s Associate Director, the bestselling  author and internationally renowned Islamic expert Robert Spencer;  Nonie Darwish, the ex-Muslim human rights activist and author; David  Caton  of the Florida Family Association, who conducted a thorough  independent  investigation exposing the numerous errors and falsehoods  in the Tampa Police Department report, James Lafferty of the Virginia  Anti-Shariah Task Force; and Larissa Scott, leader of SIOA&#8217;s Florida  chapter.</p>
<p>AFDI/SIOA is one of America&#8217;s foremost organizations defending human   rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic   supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the  United States.</p>
<p>Join SIOA&#8217;s<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-Islamization-of-America/109113042509908" target="_self"> Facebook page here</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Previously at Atlas:</p>
<p><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/05/former-prosecutor-on-the-honor-killing-of-fatima-abdallah-this-woman-was-beaten-with-a-vengeance-aut.html"><strong>Rifqa Bary Link to Fatima Abdallah Honor Killing </strong><strong> </strong><strong>Former Prosecutor: &#8220;She was Beaten With A Vengeance&#8221;</strong></a><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/05/honor-killing-initial-investigation-of-death-of-fatima-abdallah.html">Honor Killing? Initial Investigation of Death of Fatima Abdallah</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/05/honor-killing-cover-up-in-tampa-muslim-womans-death-ruled-accident.html"><strong>Honor Killing Cover-Up in Tampa? Muslim Woman&#8217;s Death Ruled &#8220;Accident&#8221;</strong></a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freedom buses will run in Detroit! We won in our free speech lawsuit against Detroit. Huge props to our stealth legal team David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise. Prideful plaintiff here. Legal warriors nonpareil. This is a huge win, not just for us, but for the First Amendment. Geller Vs. Detroit While there are technical aspects [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/sioa-leaving-islam-bus-campaign/" target="_self">Freedom buses</a> will run in Detroit!</p>
<p>We won in our free speech lawsuit against Detroit. Huge props to our stealth legal team David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise.</p>
<p>Prideful plaintiff here. Legal warriors nonpareil.</p>
<p><strong>This is a huge win, not just for us, but for the First Amendment. </strong><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/06/geller-vs-detroit.html">Geller Vs. Detroit</a></p>
<p>While there are technical aspects of First Amendment law in the  opinion that my lawyers question, the result was correct and the judge  recognized, as highlighted in the courtâ€™s opinion, that SMART hung  itself during cross examination. This is a huge win, not just for AFDI  but for the First Amendment, and a defeat for all those who claim that I  am a hater because I am willing to talk about what is wrong in Islam,  including, as in this case, honor killings and fatwas for apostasy.</p>
<p>Perhaps the oppositon will better understand the nature of my work.  This is a direct refutation to all those who claim I am a hater or that  my lawyers are &#8220;haters&#8221; for representing me. I love not hate and I fight  for love, art, music and freedom!</p>
<p>And, huge kudos to Judge Denise Hood, who protected free speech and  did not take any swipes at my message, which she could have (like  saying, â€œwhile we might despise AFDIâ€™s message, we must protect itâ€¦â€).  She did not do that. Good for her.Â  <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/03/detroit-free-speech-lawsuit-status-eight-months-later-still-no-decision.html" target="_self">It took awhile</a>, but the wheels of justice &#8230;&#8230;..</p>
<p>I am thrilled, not just for the protection of free speech, but for those living in danger who <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/27/detroit-transit-sued-for-nixing-leaving-islam-ad/" target="_blank">will be helped by our freedom buses</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/afdisioa-pro-israel-bus-campaign/" target="_self">Next stop San Francisco</a> &#8230;&#8230;..</p>
<p>Special mention and w<a target="_self">http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?author=11</a>arm thanks to Big Fur Hat who executes my art, ads etc with his particular brilliance</p>
<p>Want to read the court order? Go here:  <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/files/court-order-granting-prel-inj.pdf">Download Court Order granting Prel Injunction</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Defendants argue that their policy is viewpoint neutral. However,  there is nothing in the policy that can guide a government official to  distinguish between permissible and impermissible advertisements in a  non-arbitrary fashion. Defendant Beth Gibbons testified that there were  no other written guidelines or manuals available, aside from the  guidelines found in the contract between SMART and CBS. She further  testified that, while the atheist advertisement was purely religious,  rather than political, there was no manual or language that set forth  what distinguished a political advertisement from a religious  advertisement. Under Sixth Circuit law, â€œ[t]he absence of clear  standards guiding the discretion of the public official vested with the  authority to enforce the enactment invites abuse by enabling the  official to administer the policy on the basis of impermissible  factors.â€ United Food &amp; Commercial Workers Union, Local 1099, et al.  v. Southwest Ohio Regâ€™l. Transit Auth., 163 F.3d 341, 359). â€œ[T]he  limits the [government] claims are implicit in its law [must] be made  explicit by textual incorporation, binding judicial or administrative  construction, or well-established practice.â€ Id. (internal citations  omitted).</p></blockquote>
<p>UPDATE: Volokh <a href="http://volokh.com/2011/03/31/bus-system-barred-at-least-temporarily-from-excluding-leaving-islam-ad/#more-44454" target="_blank">weighs in here.</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heads up &#8212; I will be testifyingÂ  in favor of anti-sharia legislation, HB88 Alaska on Wednesday the 30th at 1 PM AST (that&#8217;s 2 PM West coast and 5 PM East coast). Tune in to the live feed at: http://www.alaskalegislature.tv/ Use Of Foreign Law Sponsored by Rep. Carl Gatto Co-Sponsors: Rep. Bob Lynn, Rep. Wes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heads up &#8212; I will be testifyingÂ  in favor of <a href="http://housemajority.org/spon.php?id=27hb88" target="_self">anti-sharia legislation, HB88 Alaska on </a>Wednesday the 30th at 1 PM AST (that&#8217;s 2 PM West coast and 5 PM East coast). Tune in to the live feed at: <a href="http://www.alaskalegislature.tv/" target="_self">http://www.alaskalegislature.tv/</a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://housemajority.org/spon.php?id=27hb88" target="_self">Use Of Foreign Law</a> Sponsored by <a title="Rep. Carl Gatto R-13" href="http://housemajority.org/gatto/index.php">Rep. Carl Gatto</a> Co-Sponsors: <a title="Rep. Bob Lynn R-31" href="http://housemajority.org/lynn/index.php">Rep. Bob Lynn</a>, <a title="Rep. Wes Keller R-14" href="http://housemajority.org/keller/index.php">Rep. Wes Keller</a><strong>â€œ<em>An Act prohibiting a court, arbitrator, mediator,   administrative agency, or enforcement authority from applying a law,   rule, or provision of an agreement that violates an individual&#8217;s right   under the Constitution of the State of Alaska or the United States   Constitution.</em>â€</strong></p>
<p>HB  88 aims at preventing &#8220;a court or other enforcement authority&#8221;  from  enforcing foreign law in Alaska. The bill will preempt violations  of an  individual&#8217;s constitutional rights resulting from the application  of  foreign law.</p>
<p>HB 88 offers a baseline law that provides a  statutory framework for  recluding constitutionally objectionable  foreign laws and legal systems  from finding their way into the state  judicial system. One example of an  offending transnational law is  sharia-authoritative Islamic law that is  applied as the law of the land  in many countries around the world.  Sharia is patently offensive to  U.S. and Alaska constitutional law  because it criminalizes apostasy  (violation of Free Exercise of  Religion) and blasphemy against Islam,  Mohammed, and sharia itself  (violation of Free Speech). Sharia also  violates principles of due  process and equal protection by  discriminating against non-Muslims and  women.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Washington, April 1st</strong>: Friday, meet me for lunch in DC and fight the expansion of enemy propaganda: Read more here:Â  <a title="Stop Al Jazeeraâ€™s expansion in the United States" href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/26/stop-al-jazeeras-expansion-in-the-united-states/" target="_blank">Stop Al Jazeeraâ€™s expansion in the United States</a> &#8212; <em>Pamela Geller, Daily Caller</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/al-jezerra-conf.pdf"><img title="Al jazeera" src="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef014e602d3444970c-400wi" alt="Al jazeera" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Wednesday, April 6th, NYC: </strong><a href="http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/world/news/64229/Armenian_Greek_Assyrian_Genocides_to_be_commemorated_in_NY" target="_self">Join Robert Spencer and me</a>:<a href="http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/world/news/64229/Armenian_Greek_Assyrian_Genocides_to_be_commemorated_in_NY" target="_self"><strong></strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/world/news/64229/Armenian_Greek_Assyrian_Genocides_to_be_commemorated_in_NY" target="_self"><strong>Armenian, Greek, Assyrian Genocides to be commemorated in NY</strong></a></p>
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<p><strong>PanARMENIAN.Net</strong> &#8211;  A tribute to the victims of the Greek, Armenian and Assyrian <strong>Genocides</strong> will be paid in New York on April 6, 2011, the Hellenic League of America said in a media alert.</p>
<p>This yearâ€™s commemoration is organized and hosted by Panthracian  Union  of America â€˜Orpheusâ€™ and supported by the Hellenic League of  America,  HLA, and will feature such guest speakers as two time New York  Times  bestselling Author and Director of Jihad Watch.org, Robert  Spencer;  Editor and Publisher of Atlas Shrugs and Executive Director of  Freedom  Defense Initiative and Stop Islamization of America, Pamela  Geller;  First Vice-President of the International Association of  Genocide  Scholars, Professor Alex Hinton; President of the Federation  of Hellenic  Societies of Greater New York, Elias Tsekerides and  President of the  PanPontian Federation of USA and Canada, Dimitris  Molohides.</p>
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<p><strong>April 9th, Los Angeles, California:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Saturday, April 9th, 2011&#8230;at 10AM to 1PM &#8211; a screening and in-person presentations by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer</p>
<p>What:Â   The West Coast World Premiere of the important new movie, The Ground  Zero Mosque &#8211; The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks. Regular admission is  $20.00, VIP admission with early entry and free popcorn and a drink is  $25.00</p>
<p>Where: Laemmle&#8217;s Fallbrook 7 theaters, West Hills</p>
<p>When: Saturday morning, April 9th 10 AM (One showing only in the Los Angeles area)</p>
<p>HowÂ  &#8211; For tickets to this event you need toÂ  go to the Tea Party website at &#8211; <a href="http://thenewpatriotguards.com/" target="_self">http://thenewpatriotguards.com</a> to order online</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Additional California screening:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Saturday, April 9th, 2011</strong>&#8230;at 7PM to 10PM &#8211; a  screening and in-person presentations byÂ  Pamela Geller and Robert  Spencer &#8211; location &#8211; Calvary Chapel Mission Viejo, 24821 Chrisanta  Drive, Mission Viejo, CA 92691</p>
<p><strong>McAllen, Texas, April 16th: </strong></p>
<p>Saturday The McAllen Tea Party Association proudly presents</p>
<p>Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and the viewing of their film</p>
<p>&#8220;Ground Zero Mosque&#8221;</p>
<p>City &amp; state: McAllen, Texas</p>
<p>Date: Saturday April 16th 2011</p>
<p>McAllen Civic Auditorium<br />
NW corner of 10th street &amp; Expressway 83</p>
<p>TimeÂ  2pm till 5pm</p>
<p>For more information or any questions please<br />
email us at mtp@rgvtp.com</p>
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		<title>World Premiere of AFDI/SIOA Groundbreaking Film at CPAC: The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 911 Attacks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join us for the world premiere of the seminal, groundbreaking film produced by AFDI/SIOA at CPAC on February 11th at 3pm in the Maryland ballroom of theÂ  Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington DC followed by a question and action and strategy session on stopping the mosque: The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of [...]]]></description>
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<p>Join us for the <em>world premie</em>re of the seminal, groundbreaking film produced by AFDI/SIOA at<a href="http://www.conservative.org/cpac/" target="_self"> CPAC </a>on February 11th at 3pm in the Maryland ballroom of theÂ  <em>Marriott Wardman Park Hotel </em>in Washington DC followed by a question and action and strategy session on stopping the mosque:</p>
<p><em><strong>The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 911 Attacks</strong></em></p>
<p>Sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative<br />
Speakers:</p>
<blockquote><p>911 famiy member Rosaleen Tallon<br />
Pamela Geller, Executive Director AFDI and Stop Islamization of America<br />
Robert Spencer, Associate Director, AFDI and SIOA</p>
<p>Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and Daisy Khan (invited),<br />
Refreshments Served<br />
Open to Everyone</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>We are rolling the film out nationwide and will have our our  New York City premiereÂ  on Muhammad&#8217;s birthday February 20th at the St.  Lukes Theatre, 308 W 46th Street, New York, 7:30 pm</strong></p>
<p>If you wish to set up a screening in your town, city, university,  public library, shul or church contact me at groundzeromosque@aol.com.  Robert and I and any number of 911 family members will come and speak.</p>
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		<title>San Francisco Runs Anti-Semitic Outdoor Campaign &#8212; No Word on AFDI/SIOA Pro-Israel Campaign</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Francisco BART has been running an antisemitic outdoor campaign at a number of outdoor BART stations for well over a month now. I became aware of them last month when Seattle had agreed to run antisemitic ads on their buses, but had second thoughts when I submitted pro-Israel educational ads. After Seattle changed its [...]]]></description>
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<p>San Francisco BART has been running an antisemitic outdoor  campaign  at a number of outdoor BART stations for well over a month now.  I  became aware of them last month when Seattle had agreed to run   antisemitic ads on their buses, but had second thoughts when <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/12/here-is-the-afdi-pro-israel-bus-ads-to-run-in-seattle-to-counter-the-annihilationists.html" target="_self">I submitted pro-Israel educational ads</a>.</p>
<p>After Seattle <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/12/breaking-seattle-transit-refuses-to-run-anti-israel-ad-refused-.html" target="_self">changed its policy on account of my ads,</a> I submitted our outdoor campaign to San Francisco back on December 29th.</p>
<p>Here is the report from the  notorious Jew-hating site &#8220;The  Electronic Intifada,&#8221; the same  Palestinian blogger that outed Barack  Hussein Obama as an <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/03/obamas_jews_rus.html" target="_self">anti-semite back in March 2007</a> (and there is <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/demand-the-la-t.html" target="_self">more here</a>).</p>
<p>Check out the ad &#8212; a play on the jihad is a religion of peace.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11669.shtml" target="_self">Boycott roundup: day of action against TIAA-Cref </a><br />
Report, <em>The Electronic Intifada,</em> 10 December 2010</p>
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<td>Paid advertisements going up around areas of the US calling for an end to US military aid to Israel. (<a href="http://www.twopeoplesonefuture.org/">Two Peoples One Future</a>)</td>
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<blockquote><p>Palestine solidarity activists are organizing a day of action   today, 10  December, to encourage &#8220;people of conscience&#8221; to join the   more than  18,000 who have already signed a US-wide petition urging   financial  holdings corporation TIAA-CREF to disinvest from construction  vehicle  manufacturer Caterpillar Incorporated.</p>
<p>According to  campaign coordinating group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP),  TIAA-CREF has  invested  more than $250 million in Caterpillar, which the  group says  is  &#8220;complicit&#8221; in Israel&#8217;s violations of US and international  law (&#8220;<a href="http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/content/tiaa-cref-day-action">December 10: TIAA-CREF day of action</a>).</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, your basic nightmare.</p>
<blockquote><p>This day of action is just part of JVP&#8217;s ongoing campaign to target TIAA-CREF. In July, <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11421.shtml">activists attended the shareholder meeting</a> and presented an &#8220;overwhelming&#8221; amount of signatures they had gathered   in support of TIAA-CREF&#8217;s divestment from companies that profit from   Israeli occupation policies.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Palestinian-led  movement of boycott, divestment and   sanctions (BDS) against Israeli  human rights violations and apartheid   policies continues to gather  steam elsewhere around the world.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here are my bus ads &#8212; the AFDI Freeedom lovers and historical accuracy ads:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef0148c6fa2959970c-pi"><img class="aligncenter" title="Bus 2" src="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef0148c6fa2959970c-850wi" alt="Bus 2" /></a></p>
<p>And this one:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong> <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef0148c6fa2b06970c-pi"><img class="aligncenter" title="Bus 1" src="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef0148c6fa2b06970c-850wi" alt="Bus 1" /></a></strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do the right thing. Stand for what&#8217;s right. Fight supremacism. PROTEST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE, FEBRUARY 3rd 49-51 CHAMBERS STREET 12:45PM The Ground Zero mega mosque Imam Rauf is kicking off his US mosquestrosity tour at a Hamas conspirator banquet. The Ayatollah of Bloomstan is working feverishly to erect the Ground Zero mosquestrosity. This is [...]]]></description>
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<p>Do the right thing. Stand for what&#8217;s right. Fight supremacism.</p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>PROTEST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE, FEBRUARY 3rd</strong></div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>49-51 CHAMBERS STREET 12:45PM</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The Ground Zero mega mosque <a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=246541" target="_blank">Imam Rauf is kicking off his US mosquestrosity tour at a Hamas conspirator banquet</a>.</p>
<p>The Ayatollah of Bloomstan is <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/12/pamela-geller-big-government--1.html" target="_self">working feverishly</a> to erect the Ground Zero mosquestrosity. This is the madman&#8217;s focus.    The NY snowstorm exhibited what a bloody failure this quisling is,    bullied by organized labor<em> and unions that did nothing the first 24 hours</em>.</p>
<p>The same malevolent power is pulling the strings behind the Wal-Mart    ban, and the NYC Council is only to happy to serve its master. NYC    Council Speaker <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/12/save-the-date-january-12th-ground-zero-mosque-protest.html" target="_self">Christine Quinn is a shrill mosque shill</a>. She and Bloomberg&#8217;s toolbox are refusing to allow jobs and lower prices in Manhattan. Who do these officials represent?</p>
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<p>The recent release of e-mails revealed a close  relationship  between   Mayor Michael Bloombergâ€™s office andÂ  Islamic supremacist mega mosque,  Cordoba.</p>
<blockquote><p>Ninety pages of e-mails dating  back to 2009 show that Imam Feisal   Abdul Rauf  and his wife Daisy Khan  relied heavily on City Hall for   advice and  assistance as they moved  forward in their plans to build a   mosque and  community center two blocks north of the World Trade  Center.</p>
<p>After the pair <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/20100505/financial-district-battery-park-city/mosque-open-two-blocks-from-world-trade-center/" target="_blank">presented their vision to Community Board 1â€™s Financial District Committee</a> in May, Nazli Parvizi, commissioner of the mayorâ€™s Community Affairs    Unit, ghostwrote a letter from Khan to CB1 Chairwoman Julie Menin,    thanking Menin for supporting the project.</p>
<p>After several back-and-forth e-mails tweaking the letter, Parvizi    advised Rauf to get it to Menin as soon as possible to &#8220;keep her on your    good side.&#8221;</p>
<p>Menin said she never received the letter.<em> [Methinks she's a liar -- Atlas]</em></p>
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<p><em>Photo: Bruce Menin, Julie Menin, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Diana Taylor</em></p>
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<p>Park51â€™s/Cordoba backers also exchanged many e-mails with <strong>Fatima Shama,</strong> commissioner of the Mayorâ€™s Office of Immigrant Affairs.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need some guidance on how to tackle the opposition,&#8221; Khan wrote    to Shama on May 10, as the first wave of press reports about the plans   flooded in.</p>
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<p>Earlier in the year, Shama also helped secure a temporary Buildings    Department permit so Rauf  could continue holding Friday services in  the   future mosque site at  45-51 Park Place, which does not have a    certificate of occupancy.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>PROTEST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE, FEBRAURY 3<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>49-51 CHAMBERS STREET 12:45PM</strong></div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef0148c701d523970c-pi"><img class="aligncenter" title="Bloomberg rauf" src="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef0148c701d523970c-300wi" alt="Bloomberg rauf" width="195" height="133" /></a></p>
<p>They&#8217;re emailing each other?</p>
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<div>Please    protest the Ground Zero Mosque at these ridiculous communist  hearings. Expose  the  hyprocrisy of the NYC Council and Bloomberg&#8217;s  toolbox. No Wal-Mart,  but  taxpayer funds for a 15-story victory mosque  in a building  destroyed in the 911 attacks.</div>
<div>I do not share their death wish. They answer to the people. Not the other way around. Be there.</div>
<div>Come with signs. <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/12/winner-of-tuesdays-ground-zero-mosque-sign-contest.html" target="_self">Here are sign ideas.</a></div>
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<p>9/11 families were joined by immigrants from India, Russia, Egypt,   Israel, Africa, Iran and Europe to show opposition to the construction   of a mega-mosque at Ground Zero. Others flew in from overseas to speak   or just to share their particular ethnic communitiesâ€™ experiences at the   hands of moslems.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lookingattheleft.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/MG_0212.jpg"><img class="aligncenter" title="_MG_0212" src="http://www.lookingattheleft.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/MG_0212.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="467" /></a></p>
<p><em>These are parents and spouses of firefighters killed on 9/11.</em><strong><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/12/there-is-no-need-for-an-islamic-community-center-at-ground-zero.html" target="_self"></a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/12/there-is-no-need-for-an-islamic-community-center-at-ground-zero.html" target="_self">Downtown by Design</a><br />
</strong>Battery Park community center will be state of the art</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Park51 backers aiming to build a 13-story Muslim Center near     Ground Zero claim they will be constructing a much needed community     center for the downtown neighborhood, yet a $73 million, 60,000-square     foot community center is already under construction a few blocks  away.</strong></p>
<p>The Battery Park Community Center is being built within the base of    two new [unintelligible] Properties high-rise residential condominium    towers: the Liberty Lane and Liberty Green, now under construction on    North End Avenue.</p>
<p>The community center project itself was designed by Hanrahan Meyers     with the goal of the highest environmentally friendly Leadership in     Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum certification being    overseen by environmental consultants [unintelligible].</p>
<p>Kevin G. Harney, principal and CFO of Stalco Construction, which is    building  the community center, said that while some companies find  LEED   work  challenging, they found it â€œenticing,â€ because they have  been   involved  in many other LEED projects.</p>
<p>â€œFrom air quality to debris removal, we are under strict guidelines,â€ Harney added.</p>
<p>The community center will be housed on the street level, in a    mezzanine and on two underground levels of the towers.  Along with the    main lobby with an atrium, the facilities will include  an adult   swimming  pool, a childrenâ€™s pool, a gymnasium and fitness  center,   locker rooms, a  theater/auditorium, dance studios, classrooms,    offices, a cafeteria,  kitchen, bathrooms, and storage and equipment   rooms.</p>
<p>Even those that are simply passersby will be drawn to the curving     550-foot long outer glass arcade wall that runs alongside two ball     fields and a soccer field facing West Street just north of the World     Trade Center site. The arcade wall will feature a patterned     interpretation of a composition, â€œWater,â€ commissioned by composer     Michael Schumacher, said Thomas Hanrahan, RA, and a partner with     Hanrahan Meyersâ€™ Partner.</p>
<p>â€œSchumacherâ€™s composition is represented visually in the digitized     form in the pattern of the glass wall,â€ noted Victoria Meyer, a partner     with Hanrahan Meyer. â€œThe music will be also accessible through a     smartphone application that will allow visitors to hear the score  simply    by pointing their phones at the wall, with different sections  playing  a   different part of the composition.â€</p>
<p>Inside the building, the glass wall fronts two swimming pools and a    gymnasium. The interiors will feature metal panel and plaster over    concrete ceilings, tile flooring, along with a sports hardwood floor    inside the gymnasium.</p></blockquote>
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		<description><![CDATA[I put the finishing touches on the two ads AFDI/SIOA ads that will be running in Seattle to counter the nazi-style propaganda designed to incite violence and hatred towards the Jewish people. Here are the two ads that have been submitted to Titan &#8212; Seattle transit. And this one: As for the Jewish blood libel [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I put the finishing touches on the two ads AFDI/SIOA ads that will be running in Seattle to counter the <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/12/here-is-the-afdi-pro-israel-bus-ads-to-run-in-seattle-to-counter-the-annihilationists.html" target="_self">nazi-style propaganda designed to incite violence and hatred</a> towards the Jewish people.</p>
<p>Here are the two ads that have been submitted to Titan &#8212; Seattle transit.</p>
<p><a style="display: inline;" href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef0148c6f5ffaf970c-pi"><img class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c60bf53ef0148c6f5ffaf970c" style="width: 850px;" title="BusHAMASAD" src="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef0148c6f5ffaf970c-850wi" alt="BusHAMASAD" /></a></p>
<p>And this one:</p>
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<p>As for the Jewish blood libel being sponsored by the notorious antisemite Ed Mast, Seattle Mass Transit is having second thoughts.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not clear if the ad campaign will run as scheduled. It was   supposed to roll out on Dec. 27. Metro is scrambling to re-assess its   advertising policies before next week.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>If they ran that poison, they will run the truth.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.nwcn.com/news/washington/Metro-bus-ad-policy-possibe-change--112288674.html" target="_self">Metro considers changing policy over anti-Israeli bus ads</a> NWCN.com</p>
<p>SEATTLE &#8212; Calls and emails continue to flood into King County as  Metro deals with a political firestorm over its bus billboard policy.</p>
<p>An anti-Israeli ad campaign is scheduled to appear on buses starting  Dec. 27. A group called the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign is behind  the ads. It&#8217;s the two-year anniversary of Israeli military action in  Gaza, aimed at stopping rocket attacks on Israeli citizens.</p>
<p>Metro is considering changing its ad policies for non-commercial  groups, but says it could be costly and tricky. But if they ban the  anti-Israel ads, they might have to ban ads for causes that have public  appeal, such as the Boys and Girls Club, Puget Sound Blood Center and  United Way.</p>
<p>The American Civil Liberties Unions is urging Metro to run the ads,  saying they may offend people but they should be protected under the  First Amendment.</p>
<p>News of the ads has led to tighter security at the Jewish Federation in downtown Seattle. Four years ago, <a href="http://www.king5.com/home/Haq-found-guilty-in-Jewish-Federation-shooting-79319822.html" target="_blank"><strong>a mentally ill man claiming to be angry at Israel</strong></a> broke into the building, shot and killed a woman and shot five others. The fear is an ad campaign could fuel more violence.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re always on a heightened sense of awareness in the Jewish  community and this heightens it,&#8221; said Richard Fruchter with the Jewish  Federation.</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Mentally ill man?&#8221; He was a Muslim slaughtering Jews. It was jihad. <a href="http://www.kirotv.com/news/15873567/detail.html" target="_self">Here&#8217;s what was presented in the jihadi&#8217;s prosecution</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong> </strong>Prosecutors opened their case  against  a man accused of opening fire on a Jewish Federation office by  playing a  tape of the gunman who called 911 as he held a pregnant woman  hostage  at gunpoint.&#8221;I have this gun pointed at her head,&#8221; said the  man,  who identified himself as Naveed Haq.  Haq told the person  handling the  call that &#8220;I just want to get us out of Iraq,&#8221; and that he  was upset by  U.S. policies that left Muslims &#8220;repressed.&#8221;Haq, 32, has  pleaded  not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting rampage that  killed one  woman and injured five other women at the downtown office of  the Jewish  Federation of Greater Seattle on July 28, 2006.In her  opening  statement Monday, King County Deputy Prosecutor Erin Ehlert  told jurors  that Haq carefully planned the attack, making four trips to  gun shops  and using the Internet to map the route from the Tri-Cities  to Seattle.Haq is charged with murder, attempted murder and other  crimes.Haq  railed against the Iraq war and Israel during the call,  telling a woman  on the other end of the line that &#8220;Muslims are very  upset about you  sending bombs to Israel.  And that we&#8217;re very upset  that you stay in  Iraq, and that you follow foreign policies where we  are repressed.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.king5.com/news/local/King-Co-calls-for-review-of-Israeli-War-Crimes-bus-signs-112200884.html" target="_self">SEATTLE </a>â€“ King County Councilman Peter von Reichbauer is calling for a  review of proposed advertising on Metro buses that blasts Israel and  the U.S., claiming U.S. tax dollars support war crimes.</p>
<blockquote><p>Von Reichbauer says the ads could incite violence.</p>
<p>&#8220;I know hate whenÂ I see it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;A number of people in King County see hate in this advertisement.&#8221;</p>
<p>E-mails have been pouring into von Reichbauer&#8217;s office since KING 5  broke the story of the planned ad campaign. He&#8217;s asked Metro to  reconsider.</p>
<p>Although Metro attorneys say the ads are covered by the First  Amendment, they are now reviewing their policy on non-commercial  advertising.</p>
<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t need to see a public transportation system be a medium for a message of hate,&#8221; said von Reichbauer.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not clear if the ad campaign will run as scheduled. It was  supposed to roll out on Dec. 27. <strong>Metro is scrambling to re-assess its  advertising policies before next week.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Even the murderous Muslim <a href="http://www.hudson-ny.org/1738/finally-a-hamas-leader-admits-that-israel-killed">Hamas leader admitted that Israel killed mostly terrorists in Gaza.</a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.goddiscussion.com/37849/seattle-bus-ads/" target="_self">Emotions Heat Up Over Bus Ads in Seattle </a></p>
<p><img title="Anti-IsraelSeattleAd" src="http://www.goddiscussion.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Anti-IsraelSeattleAd.jpg" alt="anti-Israel ad in Seattle" /></p>
<p>Advertisements to be displayed on King County Metro Transit buses are generating controversy a week before being displayed.</p>
<p>The Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign has purchased ads to be  displayed on 12 buses beginning December 27 that feature the slogan,  &#8220;Israeli War Crimes: Your Tax Dollars at Work.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), a program of the American  Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI),  has declared that it will run  counter-ads that read, &#8220;In any war between the civilized man and the  savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Islamic  jihad.&#8221;Â  The group&#8217;s executive director, Pamela Geller, complained that  SIOA is not getting the same price break as the Seattle Mideast  Awareness Campaign and <strong><a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/afdisioa-rolls-out-pro-israel-bus-ad-campaign-in-seattle-to-counter-jewish-blood-libel-bus-ads-112276484.html" target="new">issued a statement</a></strong>,</p>
<blockquote><p>According to Seattle&#8217;s KING 5 News, Seattle Mideast  Awareness Campaign paid $1,794 to run the ads. However, King County  Metro Transit would not offer the same price to AFDI/SIOA Executive  Director Pamela Geller.  &#8220;I asked for the same deal as the Jew-haters  received, but was told  that the price in the article was &#8216;misquoted.&#8217;  So of course they are  charging me more.&#8221; SIOA was quoted a price of  $2,760 for its ad.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>The ads have generated so much controversy that the King County Metro  Transit is thinking about changing its advertising policies for  non-commercial groups.</strong></p></blockquote>
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<p>NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ &#8212; The American Freedom Defense Initiative&#8217;s Stop Islamization of America program is hosting a panel discussion on the Ground Zero mosque controversy at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).</p>
<p>CPAC, the largest conservative gathering in the country, will hold its annual conference February 10-12 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>The AFDI/SIOA event will be an independent event held during CPAC at the Marriott Wardman Park.</p>
<p>This year&#8217;s AFDI/SIOA conference at CPAC will focus on the Ground Zero mosque debate. The name of panel is &amp;#34;The Ground Zero Mosque: Why There?&amp;#34;  The event will feature an exclusive preview of portions of the new AFDI/SIOA documentary film, &amp;#34;The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks.&amp;#34; A question-and-answer session will follow the screening.</p>
<p>AFDI executive director Pamela Geller and associate director Robert Spencer, who were identified by Ground Zero mosque organizer Daisy Khan as the leaders of the resistance to the mosque, will speak on the status of the mosque initiative, its political and cultural significance, and the possibilities for continued resistance.</p>
<p>Other speakers and 911 family members will be featured as well.</p>
<p>Geller and Spencer have invited Ground Zero mosque organizers Sharif El-Gamal, Daisy Khan and the Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to join the AFDI/SIOA panel in the spirit of the &amp;#34;inter-faith dialogue&amp;#34; they claim to champion.</p>
<p>The Ground Zero mosque organizers have not yet responded to this invitation.</p>
<p>The AFDI/SIOA panel will focus on the Ground Zero mosque organizers&#8217; request for public funding, examining how that request, as well as the proposed location of the mosque itself, gibes with the claim that the mosque is intended to promote harmony and reconciliation between Muslims and non-Muslims. It will evaluate the mosque organizers&#8217; claims about the mosque in light of the history of triumphal mosques in lands conquered by Islamic armies around the world, and discuss the appropriateness of using taxpayer money to fund something that most Americans do not support.</p>
<p>Last year AFDI/SIOA presented a critically acclaimed and well-attended panel entitled &amp;#34;Jihad: The Political Third Rail.&amp;#34; Journalist Mark J. Koenig, writing at David Horowitz&#8217;s NewsReal Blog, called it &amp;#34;the single most important event of this three-day conference.&amp;#34; And Pamela Geller brought Dutch freedom fighter Geert Wilders to CPAC in 2008 to a standing room only crowd.</p>
<p>The Ground Zero mosque debate is scheduled for Friday, February 11 at 3 p.m. The AFDI/SIOA 2011 conference agenda at CPAC will be announced shortly.</p>
<p>AFDI/SIOA is one of America&#8217;s foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.</p>
<p>Join SIOA&#8217;s Facebook page here.</p>
<p>For more information, contact Pamela Geller at writeatlas@aol.com.</p></blockquote>
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<p>There was no end. You could not see the horizon. The media pretends these tens of thousands of people don&#8217;t exist. It&#8217;s criminal.</p>
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<div><em>We will be heard.</em></div>
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<p><em> </em><em>Photo: <a href="http://www.lookingattheleft.com/" target="_blank">El Marco</a></em></p>
<p>ens of thousands descended upon<a href="http://www.lookingattheleft.com/2010/09/remembering-and-understanding-911/" target="_blank"> Ground Zero</a> today to remember those we lost nine years ago, and to save the American principles of freedom that the sharia tramples.</p>
<p>Crickets are chirping in <a href="http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Taqiyya-Islamic-Principle-Lying-for-Allah.htm" target="_blank">taqiya</a> media newsrooms nationwide (although they were all there). <em>There has been no coverage. </em></p>
<p>We organized a rally of remembrance that dwarfed the opposition. If  the America haters had 4,000, we had ten times more. The media is  playing the dueling rallies; it was no such thing.</p>
<p>Free people came from all over the country and all over the world to  stand in solidarity with the 911 families and to declare our iron  determination that no victory mosque will be built on their graves. The  crowd was young and old, black and white &#8230;&#8230;.. politics of all  stripes. The crowd was beautiful. The crowd was proud and good and  decent America. All the speakers were excellent. Rousing.</p>
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<p>But  the highlights included Geert Wilders, who was greeted as the great  hero that he is, and spoke about how a sharia mosque at Ground Zero  would be the death New York&#8217;s proud tradition of Dutch tolerance.</p>
<p>Ambassador John Bolton spoke bluntly and unequivocally via video link  about the affront to American values that this mosque would  constitute.</p>
<p>Other powerful voices included Joseph Nassralla, who was the unwilling media darling of our June 6th rally,  when a misunderstanding was blown out of proportion by the mainstream  media as a racist incident. Joseph Nassralla was the Arab who was  supposedly in a confrontation at that rally. At this rally we were proud to feature him, and he was so passionate and rousing in his love for America and fierce denunciation of the thousand-year-old Islamic oppression of the Coptic Christians in Egypt that the crowd went wild as Joseph led them in cheers of Gd Bless America!</p>
<p>But his warning was clear. The Ground Zero mosque would be the  beginning of the end, and Egypt shows where the presence of Islam leads  in a free nation.</p>
<p>Steve Malzberg and Mike Gallagher were greeted by huge cheers. It was  an historic day in American history. Here is the first of El Marco&#8217;s  peerless coverage. More pictures and video will be going up  continuously. So check back. And El MarcoÂ  and <a href="http://nomosquesatgroundzero.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Pamela Hall</a> will have the definitive post tomorrow (hopefully).</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE: I will be onÂ  FOX news tonight, Geraldo at Large, tonight at 10 pm Eastern, FOX news.</strong></p>
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<p>UPDATE: Here are some of El Marco&#8217;s pics:</p>
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<blockquote><p>â€œDid New York deserve this? Did America deserve this? Did  the West deserve this? What, my friends, would you say to people who  argue that New York, that America, that the West had itself to blame for  those horrible sounds?</p>
<p>There are people in this city who argue this. And they are angry  because we are gathered here today to commemorate, to make a stand, to  draw the line. My friends, I have come from the other side of the  Atlantic to share your grief for those who died here nine years ago. I  have not forgotten how I felt that day.â€</p></blockquote>
<p>Other speakers included 9/11 family members, first responders, and refugees from Islamic regimes.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lookingattheleft.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/El_Marco_LookingattheLeft_01.jpg" target="_blank"><img title="El_Marco_LookingattheLeft_0" src="http://www.lookingattheleft.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/El_Marco_LookingattheLeft_01.jpg" alt="" width="705" height="470" /></a></p>
<p>There were also video addresses by former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton and media-man Andrew Breitbart.</p>
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<p>Pamela Geller, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Post-American-Presidency-Obama-Administrations-America/dp/1439189307" target="_blank">author</a> and blogger at <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Atlas Shrugs</a>, organized the rally together with Robert Spencer<img id="__skype_nh_node_id_186" src="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/icons/icon_offline.png" border="none" alt="" /> begin_of_the_skype_highlightingÂ Â Â Â Â end_of_the_skype_highlighting<img id="__skype_nh_node_id_182" src="chrome://skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/icons/icon_offline.png" border="none" alt="" /> begin_of_the_skype_highlightingÂ Â Â Â Â end_of_the_skype_highlighting, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Spencer/e/B001JPACI0/ref=sr_tc_img_2_0?qid=1284261763&amp;sr=1-2-ent" target="_blank">author</a> and blogger at <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/" target="_blank">Jihad Watch</a>.</p>
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<p>In  the crowd there were families of those murdered at 9/11, military  veterans, New Yorkers, and people who had travelled from around the  country and from abroad to be here today. Three Marine Corps veterans  listen intently to war heroÂ <a href="http://www.pantanoforcongress.com/posts/a-mosque-at-ground-zero-forsaking-israel-what-s-nexta-nuclear-iran" target="_blank">Ilario Pantano</a>, candidate for U.S. Congress.</p>
<p>Come back soon for full reports and links to the speeches.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE: </strong>Urban Infidel has <a href="http://urbaninfidel.blogspot.com/2010/09/september-11th-memorial-ground-zero.html" target="_blank">great coverage here</a>. Video and pics of the anemic counter protest. Go, see for yourself.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> A comment that shows how the tide has turned, from Bruce Godfrey:</p>
<blockquote><p>I campaigned for Obama in 2008 in DC and VA, so I am not Pamela  Geller&#8217;s natural audience, to say the least. And I actually supported  this mosque &#8211; loudly &#8211; when I first heard about it. But the more I  learned, the more I have read, the more I realized I was simply wrong.</p>
<p>To have planned its opening for 9/11/2011, even as an initial draft,  shocks the conscience. While some have characterized Abdul-Rauf as  pro-American, if he blames the U.S. in part as an accessory for 9/11 and  has not repudiated the comment, it&#8217;s for shame. It would be nice if  Islam were like the Bahai faith that it persecutes &#8211; non-proselytizing,  pro-equality, pro-peace, pro-science. But it&#8217;s the opposite of these  things. And naming it after an Islamic conquest in Christian Europe &#8211;  well in poker we call that a tell. Reading selections of ibn Warraq&#8217;s  Why I Am Not a Muslim was also instructive.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know if I agree with all of Geert Wilders&#8217; agenda &#8211; banning  books and taxing burkas seems a bit silly and bizarre. But his basic  point &#8211; that Islam has a predatory character and seeks conquest or at  least jurisdiction over the planet, and is a hazard to Enlightenment  values &#8211; would get him my vote. Even 8 weeks ago, I&#8217;d have dismissed  Pamela Geller as a nut. Now I want to buy her book. If this means I  don&#8217;t get invited to any cocktail parties on the Upper West Side for the  rest of my life, fine; beer and a shot in East Baltimore work for me.</p></blockquote>
<p>For the record, Wilders&#8217; call to ban the qur&#8217;an has to be understood  in the context of Dutch law, which does ban books. Wilders said if<em> Mein Kamf </em>is banned, the qur&#8217;an should be, too. It was a call for a consistent application of existing Dutch law.</p>
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<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Ilario Pantano was fierce. The old guard is done. It is politicians with political courage who will speak for the people. <em>And they are few.</em> Pantano is one of them. If you don&#8217;t know him, <a href="http://www.pantanoforcongress.com/" target="_blank">go here.</a> If you want to <a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/donate.html?key=DZNTKAKAINLS" target="_blank">contribute to his campaign (and you should), go here</a>. If you live in North Carolina, volunteer. Do it.</p>
<blockquote><p>In the crowd there were families of those  murdered on 9/11, military veterans, New Yorkers, and people who had  travelled from around the country and from abroad to be here today.  Above, threeÂ U.S. Marine Corps veterans listened intently to<a href="http://www.pantanoforcongress.com/posts/a-mosque-at-ground-zero-forsaking-israel-what-s-nexta-nuclear-iran" target="_blank"> Ilario Pantano</a>, candidate for U.S. Congress.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.lookingattheleft.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/El_Marco_Ilario_Pantano.jpg" target="_blank"><img title="El_Marco_Ilario_Pantano" src="http://www.lookingattheleft.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/El_Marco_Ilario_Pantano.jpg" alt="" width="705" height="471" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>â€œâ€¦ Why On 9/11 it wasnâ€™t New York that was attacked, it  was America that was attacked. It wasÂ freedomÂ that was attacked. And we  canâ€™t forget not only what happened, not only the murderous intent that  killed 3,000 Americans. We canâ€™t forget for a moment thatÂ that they  wanted to kill 50,000 Americans, or maybe 100,000 Americans. â€¦ We canâ€™t  forget that since those attacks, hundreds of thousands of men and women  around the world have been killed by jihadists, in the name of radical  Islam. From Egypt to Bali, from Baghdad to Kabul, no one can forget  there was a car bomb here in Times Square six months ago. Folks, if Â you  think this is over, itâ€™s just beginning.</p>
<p>â€¦ So whatâ€™s my opinion about a mosque at ground zero? NO MOSQUE HERE. â€¦â€</p></blockquote>
<p>Pantano tied in Iranâ€™s actions against Israel with the Gaza Flotilla,  and pointed out Imam Raufâ€™s involvement with the Gaza Flotilla, and  questioned where the money from the mosque is coming from.</p>
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<p>UPDATE: Eyewitness accounts pouring in, this from Betty Jean in comments section:</p>
<blockquote><p>Police lied about numbers at rallyâ€¦Press tooâ€¦well we expect it from  them, but the police? They must have been given orders to knock down the  numbers. Check the photos and ask BettyJean who was in the staging area  before it started!</p>
<p>I was there and they were chasing us away â€“ I was moved 7 times! I was  moved so far away I had to go around the block and could not get back never heard all the speakers at all they closed access. The truth is they finally refused access to thousands.</p>
<p>I was there at 1:30 before the rally started, I was with several of the speakers in the staging area and had a few words with Pamela Geller before her detail men put me and many of the speakers out of the tent for security reasons and because the staging area was too small to hold us all.</p>
<p>Once placed just outside the staging area the police arrived demanding  we leave that area immediately. First they allowed us to step across the  road and stand on the curb but another set of police forced us behind  the barricades even though we explained we were with the speakers. By  that time what seemed like thousands coming in from the ground zero  ceremony arrived and the Police went crazy and closed down the sidewalk  entirely. They kept shoving us backwards until I, along with many in my  group were forced right out of the block. Not being a speaker I just  went the way of the crowd but many of the speakers were scattered about.</p>
<p>I tried to re- enter by walking up each block as far back as the eye can  see but the streets were full and the crowd was thick. I kept backing  out and going another block further away and trying again. The camera  cannot show you around corners where I was forced to go only to be out  of range of both the cameraâ€™s and earshot.</p>
<p>I went from standing next to Pam Geller to not even being in the  picture. Donâ€™t let anyone tell you there were 1500! And shame on Geraldo  and others for inviting Pamela Geller as a guest draw an audience then  not allowing her to have her voice or voice ours!</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> More on the street reportageÂ  from Zhanna (hat tip Pamela Hall):</p>
<blockquote><p>Dear friends, I had experience today, I never expected to get.  It takes less than an hour and half to get to the Park place and West Broadway from my door.</p>
<p>It took almost 3 hours today. Today, on 9/11, they canceled Q train!</p>
<p>After I got to Manhattan, I walked from the Subway station Wall Street. I was shocked.  There were pro-Masque speakers on every corner and between. I could not find our meeting from the beginning and policemen sent me in wrong directions.</p>
<p>I walked like shuttle back and forward.</p>
<p>I passed by pro-masque meeting. That was the small, but very loud crowd.  Nobody shout them down and everybody could approach them from any side.  In order to get to our meeting, people had to go around and around.</p>
<p>Everything was very strange today. BUT, I was so delighted to see our people.  The very friendly people. People who care about our country, about our future,  and who make difference today.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>UPDATE: <a title="http://eye-on-the-world.blogspot.com/2010/09/photo-and-video-report-from-september.html" href="http://eye-on-the-world.blogspot.com/2010/09/photo-and-video-report-from-september.html" target="_blank">Photo  and video report from the September 11, 2010 FDI/SIOA rally in  Manhattan</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> <a href="http://thepeoplescube.com/current-truth/9-11-rally-at-ground-zero-islamophobes-vs-islamophiles-t6026.html" target="_blank">The People&#8217;s Cube wants to know, Are you an islamophobe?</a></p>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> A really great piece over at Modern Conservative, solid reporting: <a href="http://www.modernconservative.com/metablog_single.php?p=4868" target="_blank">The Great Media Blackout </a>- Props to Jennifer Booth</p>
<blockquote><p>Iâ€™m disturbed, but not surprised at the media blackout for the protest held at  the proposed site for the mosque at Ground Zero. I was there, and I stood right  behind the platform where the media personnel gathered. Several of them took my  picture, while wearing my Infidel shirt. I even said to a few of them, â€œGive us  a good story, please.â€ They answered me and said they would. They knew my  meaning- please donâ€™t skew us, donâ€™t portray us as haters. Be honest. And with  the coverage, the amount of people there, the sheer diversity of the crowd:  people from England, Australia, Egypt, Iran, Uganda, etc. were in attendance or  speaking, I am just dumbfounded that not only did we receive a complete  blackout, but in the media reports I have been able to find, they covered a  different rally, and called those people us. Thatâ€™s right, you did not misread.  A completely different rally filled with Christian themes and anti-abortion  agendas were portrayed as the people who attended the rally which <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/">Pamela  Geller</a> organized. Just lies.</p>
<p>Therefore, if itâ€™s up to the attendees to document it, to be fair and give ANY  kind of accuracy and decent coverage, then so be it. It certainly wonâ€™t be the  first time it was left up to bloggers to be citizen journalists. Ask those who  got Dan Rather fired, or ask Matt Drudge. Below is my account, which I started  writing yesterday, September 11, 2010.</p></blockquote>
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