I THINK this is the winner of Pamela Geller’s Draw Mohammed competition. I wouldn’t know though, since apparently the American press has sworn fealty to Sharia Law and is refusing to publish it.
News flash guys – you can pretend to CHOOSE not to offend Islam. Just like all those women CHOOSE to wear the Burka.
But we all know exactly why you don’t.
UPDATE: It’s confirmed this was indeed the winner, via enough evidence from GatewayPundit for me.
So apparently the Garland Shooting at the Pamela Gellar “Draw Mohammed” event raised this “controversy” about whether people approve of offending Islam.
Since people seem to continue to have a problem with this, let me summon Douglas Murray’s words after that initial Charlie Hebdo attack:
“They offended Islamic blashpemy laws, which European nations do not follow and do not believe in.”
“Twelve people were gunned down because European citizens asserted their right, and they have every right to do that… to do their job as cartoonists in a free society.
“The most important discussion at the moment is whether or not the press stands up for the right to draw what they like … the key issue cannot be stressed enough, most of us are not Muslims, we do not believe in Muhammad… Muslims should not expect non-Muslims to abide by their belief systems… There’s a growing idea in Europe that people who do NOT follow of Islam will also have to obey the rules of Islamic blasphemy.”
“Let’s get on to the substance of this … what Charlie Hebdo has asserted the right to do is treat Islam the same way they treat every other religion.”
I knew it the moment I saw the camera footage CNN showed claiming an IDF soldier shot an Arab with live ammo. It was fake.
Not just because the guy fell to the ground in a way that would make an Italian soccer player blush. But because the scene looked quite familiar. And it is. It’s a known “Pallywood” fake death site.
Take a look two screen grabs. Here’s the current stage of the West Bank “shooting”:
West Bank “shooting” per CNN
And here’s the stage of the above Pallywood video:
Everything is the freaking same. They didn’t even bother to move the dumpsters.
Now, to me this isn’t another “gotcha” moment for Pallywood. Arab sympathizers spam lies like Hamas spams rockets, and it gets tiresome to constantly catch them. No, this time I point the finger at CNN.
Because, much like the White House State Department, established institutions need to do a basic level of fact checking before they make public statements. To not make even this rudimentary level, before attaching it to the POTUS or a major media channel, is no longer a glitch or some oversight. You become complicit in spreading lies and corrupting an institution.
To benefit terrorists, at that.
UPDATE: Turns out the two videos are actually the same video. From back in May. Apparently CNN also likes to recycle old footage.
Pallywood fall (2:55):
CNN fall:
I originally wrote this back in [Tue Apr 24 13:53:33 2007] on my old website. Seems worth repeating today. You can browse for it at mrbiggs.net/archive.
The thing that frightens me most, after the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting, was all the people I met who thought it would be a good idea if everyone in the university were carrying a gun. It’s simple really – guy shows up in a classroom toting a gun in a threatening manner, everyone pulls out their guns and mows him down, disaster averted.
Well it certainly set me off. Thinking this was just the opinion of a lunatic fringe that has no idea what a University should look like, how a safe and open atmosphere needs to be cultivated so people can freely exchange thoughts and ideas, I kept repeating to others “can you believe people actually think everyone should carry a weapon everywhere they go?” And time and time again, I was met with a pause, then a “what’s wrong with that?”
I was so flummoxed that I went to the local bar – hardly a place to discuss gun restrictions – and drank myself silly. But then, as I went to puke in the toilet, and I fell forward and hit my head on the porcelain, Jesus came to me and explained everything. He explained exactly how if people were armed, everywhere and all the time, the world would be a better place.
And here I present to you, straight from my personal lord and savior Jesus, a list of the top ten spots where people should be able to carry guns to prevent possible attack:
10. The shower. Would Norman Bates have stabbed that poor girl in the shower if she was within arms reach of a 9mm?
9. Political rallies. You never know when a crazy gunman can come in…
8. White House press briefings. In fact, if we did this right, who’d need a secret service?
7. Pre-schools. In fact, the sooner you can teach your infant to carry a gun, the safer they’ll be from predators and childless lesbian baby-snatchers.
6. Those swimmers in Jaws. Nothing like an AK at sea to ward off sharks…
5. Congress. We can both get rid of metal detectors and stop all that liberal backtalk.
4. Parliament. That 12-foot space between parties in Parliament to symbolize the length of a lance? Only a brit could think up that faggoty idea!
3. The boardwalk. I feel so much more comfortable and safe now that everyone’s got a pitbull on a chain, everyone with a gun should be paradise.
2. Work. If everyone carried a gun, nobody would ever go postal.
1. Ban chopsticks – bring guns and stilettos back to the dinner table.
Some other honorable mentions –
Schools. This didn’t make it, because we’ve already got schools where everyone totes a gun, and we know what paradise those places are. I see all the rich families busing their kids to those.
Parks and playgrounds really fall in with the other categories.
Hospitals. We’re closing all those down anyway so it’s not a significant location.