
The teaser to Cathy Young’s vicious and dishonest exercise in character assassination in The Daily Beast says: “Pam Geller and Robert Spencer are being viewed as free speech champions for their ‘Draw Muhammad’ contest, which turned tragic in Dallas last week. But once a moderate Muslim begins speaking, they quickly turn into what they hate.”
by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer11 May 2015, 10:48 AM PST0

U.S. Representative Marsha Blackburn of the Seventh Congressional District of Tennessee, joined Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon Saturday for an exclusive radio interview at the South Carolina Freedom Summit. The two honed in on the war on radical Islamic terrorists and critical national security issues facing the U.S. following the Texas terror attack and the military’s heightened threat level.
by Michelle Moons11 May 2015, 6:17 AM PST0

On Saturday, the Fox News Channel’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” host Judge Jeanine Pirro argued the US should “stop blaming the victim, and start killing the murderers” in her opening statement on the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Contest. Pirro stated, “You
by Ian Hanchett9 May 2015, 6:41 PM PST0

PolitiFact gave CNN’s Chris Cuomo their worst possible grade–False–on his knowledge of the First Amendment for comments he made about Pam Geller, hate speech and free speech.
by Lee Stranahan8 May 2015, 11:21 AM PST0

On her Thursday night “The Kelly File” program on the Fox News Channel, host Megyn Kelly hosted a discussion between famed legal scholar Alan Dershowitz and National Review editor Rich Lowry. During the discussion, Dershowitz noted the “provocative” nature of
by Jeff Poor8 May 2015, 9:42 AM PST0

MSNBC’s “All In” host Chris Hayes argued that it doesn’t matter if the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Contest was a “provocation,” “it’s important that that be done” on Thursday. While Hayes said that Geller’s speech is “ugly stuff,” he continued,
by Ian Hanchett7 May 2015, 8:53 PM PST0

Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly argued it is “bogus” to invoke freedom of speech in the debate over the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Contest on Thursday. O’Reilly said that, “the dead men deserved what they got. But the incident was
by Ian Hanchett7 May 2015, 6:27 PM PST0

NBC Terrorism Analyst Evan Kohlmann compared the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Contest and Pamela Geller’s actions to hate crimes, “lighting the Reichstag on fire and then complaining that your fingers got singed,” and accused her of infringing on other people’s
by Ian Hanchett7 May 2015, 4:51 PM PST0

The Iman of the Phoenix, Arizona, mosque attended by Texas terror shooter Elton Simpson gathered members years ago to warn them about a potential danger in their midst–but it was not Simpson he warned them about. According to a recent New York Times article, the Iman warned others in the mosque that he was concerned that an FBI informant had infiltrated the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix.
by Lee Stranahan7 May 2015, 1:56 PM PST0

Liberals don’t think Christian pizzeria owners, bakers, or florists are likely to avenge insults with violence. In other words, they submit to sharia law because they fear it will be enforced.
by John Hayward7 May 2015, 10:20 AM PST0

Let’s talk about the Garland, Texas attack by enforcers of Islamic law. Not the physical attack by two Muslim enforcers of Islamic law, but rather the figurative, hardly less virulent attacks by mainly Christian enforcers of Islamic law on cartoon contest organizer Pamela Geller, free speech activist and head of American Freedom Defense Initiative. Judging by the intensity of these ongoing attacks, Geller, a person of exceptional courage, is also extremely effective.
by Diana West7 May 2015, 7:45 AM PST0

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sean Hannity hosted a debate between “Draw Mohammed” organizer Pamela Geller and London Imam Anjem Choudray over the events that unfolded in Garland, TX last weekend. The debate deteriorated when Choudray insisted
by Jeff Poor7 May 2015, 6:27 AM PST0

Breitbart News spoke with Bosch Fawstin, an accomplished artist, cartoonist, and anti-Jihad activist who won first prize at Sunday’s “Draw Muhammad” free speech event in Garland, Texas.
by Jordan Schachtel6 May 2015, 9:22 PM PST0

On Wednesday’s “Laura Ingraham Show,” host Laura Ingraham sparred with Mohammed Art Exhibit and Contest organizer Pamela Geller over the event. Geller disputed arguments that the event is provocative, and argued that “it was the jihadists, not me who made the cartoons
by Breitbart News6 May 2015, 8:19 PM PST0

Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” recently declared candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) criticized Fox News hosts Bill O’Reilly and Greta Van Susteren for their criticisms of Pamela Geller and the appropriateness
by Pam Key6 May 2015, 2:35 PM PST0

Belief in a “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment is a perfect expression of power over principle, because the power to define and suppress “hate speech” would be enormous. We don’t have to imagine its dimensions, because every totalitarian regime in recent history claimed such powers.
by John Hayward6 May 2015, 11:43 AM PST0

The ‘Islamic State in America’ leadership posted a threat on an anonymous social media message board, claiming the terrorist group has jihadists stationed in 15 states.
by Mary Chastain6 May 2015, 11:35 AM PST0

Counter-terrorism authorities are naturally interested in whatever connections Garland shooters Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi might have had with international terrorist organizations – such as ISIS, which has claimed responsibility for the attack on Pamela Geller’s Mohammed Art Exhibit. Social-media activity by the slain terrorists is being carefully examined.
by John Hayward6 May 2015, 11:29 AM PST0

The mayor of Garland, Texas has attacked AFDI President Pamela Geller for hosting a free speech event in his town, arguing that the “Draw Muhammad” contest had “invited” violence and that Geller’s “ideology,” and not that of the jihadist attackers, had “put my police officers at risk.”
by John Hayward6 May 2015, 9:07 AM PST0

An unidentified “senior law enforcement official” tells the New York Times that, while the FBI had been aware of Garland, Texas jihadist attacker Elton Simpson for nearly a decade, they did not follow his violent, pro-jihad tweets as closely as they could have because “there are so many like him” that the agency is overwhelmed.
by Frances Martel6 May 2015, 8:53 AM PST0

As unidentified individuals online strengthen their claims that the Islamic State had a hand in organizing a failed attack on a Draw Muhammad art contest in Garland, Texas, experts have told various media outlets that, while the group may have inspired the attack, little evidence suggests that ISIS operatives actually funded or planned the attack and are now trying to take credit for work they did not do.
by Frances Martel6 May 2015, 7:32 AM PST0

Less than a week after two jihadists attempted to assault a ‘Draw Muhammad’ contest in Garland, Texas and one day after the Islamic State officially took credit for the attack, a statement claiming to come from ISIS leadership in America has appeared online threatening the event’s organizer, Pamela Geller, and asserting that “15 states” have been infiltrated by the terrorist group.
by Frances Martel6 May 2015, 6:49 AM PST0

CNN Political Commentator Marc Lamont Hill argued that the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Contest that was attacked by two gunmen “didn’t feel like an exercise in free speech that resulted in an unfortunate occurrence,” “was much more about creating a
by Ian Hanchett6 May 2015, 4:41 AM PST0

Breitbart News spoke with Pamela Geller, president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative and blogger at Atlasshrugs.com, about her recent “Draw Muhammad” free speech art exhibit, which came under attack by Islamic radicals on Sunday in Garland, Texas. Geller discussed how
by Jordan Schachtel5 May 2015, 8:58 PM PST0

In Pakistan Tuesday, around 200 Muslims held a gathering to honor the jihadis who attempted to carry out a terror attack against a free speech event on Sunday in Garland, Texas.
by Jordan Schachtel5 May 2015, 6:29 PM PST0