Less than one week ago (on the night of 3 May 2015), two would-be murderers came to the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas. They each brought an AK-47 fully automatic rifle. They clearly intended to kill everyone present. This included one Pamela Geller, current President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative. She had organized a conference on freedom of speech. That conference happened to feature a contest for the best drawing of Muhammad.

Instead of killing all present, one of the two attackers shot a Garland School District security guard in the ankle. The guard’s partner, who had a weapon, returned fire and killed both men. And ever since that death, the Mainstream Media have laid the blame for this affair on Pamela Geller herself.

Media blame Pamela Geller

The real blame lies squarely on the heads of the two who died trying to kill all those people. Spokesmen for the Islamic State claimed credit for it. They would have reason to inspire or even plan such an attack. But they also would have reason to claim credit where they don’t deserve it. One can conclude nothing from such a claim without more solid evidence.

So anyone reporting on this story, may properly cast doubt on the ISIS claim. But why blame the target of the attack? Why did Bill O’Reilly, on his television program, say she did a “stupid” thing? Why did Donald Trump, in an interview with Fox and Friends, say she “taunted” Muslims everywhere and could advance no proper goal? One expects such an ill-informed comment from a leftist. (And we had that from Juan Williams. He told Pamela Geller, on national television, “You have hurt our cause!”) One does not expect it from men like Bill O’Reilly or Donald Trump. Both men should know better.

In fact, everyone in the media should know better. But they don’t seem to.

You can’t handle the truth!

Pamela Geller in 2011. Photo copyright 2011 Pamela Geller. Licensed to Wikimedia Commons by User Geni under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License.

With apologies to Jack Nicholson (as Col. Nathan R. Jessup USMC in A Few Good Men): Pamela Geller has taken on a responsibility greater than some of you seem able to fathom. Because you abdicated it. You in the media and on the left, almost weep for Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi (is his name apt, or what?!?), who attacked the Culwell Center, only to die. And you curse Pamela Geller. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Simpson and Soofi’s deaths, while wasteful of intelligence value, indisputably saved lives. And Pamela Geller’s existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to so many of you, just saved lives and will probably save countless more lives.

You don’t want the truth, because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you know that if the Elton Simpsons and the Nadir Soofis had their way, your heads would roll from a chopping block set up on Capitol Hill. And you will find the proof in the Qur’an.

Those who reject Islam must be killed. If they turn back (from Islam), take (hold of) them and kill them wherever you find them… (Surah 4:89)

Then when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Seize them; besiege them; ambush them wherever you can lie in wait. (Surah 9:5)

Of course, some of you will say your only concern is with making them angry enough to kill. I answer you in two ways. First, read those two verses again. They show a devout Muslim needs no further incentive to kill you. Second, when someone threatens you with death, you do not obey. You dare him, smoke him out, trap him, kill him if you have to, but never surrender.

Nothing new for Pamela Geller

Of course, Pamela Geller (see her current site) must expect such carping, not to say libel and slander. The Southern Poverty Law Center, for instance, still tries to connect her with scandal, fraud, and murder involving some automobile dealerships she and her husband owned, before they divorced. (He has since died.) And Her Majesty’s government actually forbids her to enter the United Kingdom. Why? Because she says (correctly) that al-Qaeda represents devout Islam, as those two verses, and many others, clearly show. (And the Islamic State wants to get down to business, and now.) And how else do we know this? Dr. Aryeh Eldad, at Hadassah Hospital in Israel, knew it four years ago:

The war between Jews and Muslims in the Land of Israel…is not a territorial conflict. This is a civilizational conflict, or rather a war between civilization & barbarism.

I go further, and Pamela Geller also goes further. The war between Muslims on the one side, and everyone non-Muslim on the other, over the entire inhabited world, is no mere ideological conflict. It is a civilizational conflict, or worse: a war between civilization and savagery.

Those who criticize her, now and always, have to make excuses for their animus. But when they blame her for the Curtis Culwell Incident, they run out of excuses. They sink to self-parody. They either sympathize with the Muslim cause, or uphold cowardice as a virtue. Or maybe both. Behold! Blue, the modern color of leftism, combines with yellow, the color of cowardice. They make green, the color of Islam.

Pamela Geller speaks for me. And for every American having the courage of Americans of old, from the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, to the American volunteers who died at The Alamo, to American volunteers many generations later, who fought in the Israeli War for Independence. And these pretentious media voices speak only to serve their own convenience.