{"id":59631,"date":"2015-05-04T14:48:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T18:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59631"},"modified":"2015-05-04T14:48:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T18:48:30","slug":"npr-hit-piece-on-american-freedom-defense-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59631","title":{"rendered":"NPR hit piece on American Freedom Defense Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This will surprise no one, but National Public Radio published a piece entitled “5 Things To Know About The Organizers Of Muhammad Cartoon Contest<\/a>“. Why we need to know these things, I don’t know. Mostly, they base their article on quotes from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is a losing endeavor right off the bat. The SPLC once called the American Legion a “hate group” because of the Legion’s stance against illegal immigration. So, you see, everyone with whom the SPLC disagrees politically is a “hate group”.<\/p>\n

Now, a long time ago, Pam Geller, the force behind the American Freedom Defense Initiative helped this blog get off the ground, so I have a soft spot for her. We have since parted ways, slowly, but surely, but because our blogs went in different directions. I don’t necessarily agree with everything she says or with the tactics that she uses, but, unlike the author of the NPR piece, Eyder Peralta, I don’t think that she should pay for her politics with her life. Nor, do I think the American Freedom Defense Initiative was asking to be rape…er…shot at.<\/p>\n

I’d say the same thing about a gathering of peaceful Muslims who were trampling on the US flag, if some rednecks blasted away at them. <\/p>\n

The only people who deserve to be shot are criminals who are endangering lives and property, certainly not someone expressing an opinion, no matter how distasteful we might find that opinion. <\/p>\n

One of the criminals shot yesterday in their attempt to have a mass-murder scenario was Elton Simpson and according to Fox News<\/a>, he’s been the subject of a few Islamic terror-linked investigations in the past few years;<\/p>\n

Although the suspects’ ties to a specific terrorist organization could not be immediately confirmed, Simpson was known to U.S. intelligence and had been part of a recent terror investigation for allegedly trying to travel to Africa, home of the Al Qaeda-linked militant group al-Shabaab, sources told Fox News.<\/p>\n

Court documents show that a man named Elton Simpson was convicted in Phoenix of lying to the FBI in January 2010, about whether he’d discussed traveling to Somalia. According to trial testimony, Simpson is an American Muslim who became the subject of a criminal investigation in 2006 because of his association “with an individual whom the FBI believed was attempting to set up a terrorist cell in Arizona.”<\/p>\n

Simpson was convicted, but a judge ruled that prosecutors hadn’t proven the false statement involved terrorism. Simpson was later sentenced to three years of probation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, at least he waited until his probation time was served before he went nutzo.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that regardless of whether you agree with Ms. Geller or not, she, nor none of her acolytes, deserved to be shot for their opinions. But, it has been my personal experience that radical, not just extremist, Muslims don’t tolerate criticism well. You can search our archives here and find examples of Muslims physically attacking folks who don’t see things the same way. I’m guessing that it’s because their political and religious beliefs don’t survive scrutiny very well.<\/p>\n

By the way, it was one Garland traffic cop who dealt justice to the two gun men yesterday. At least he didn’t hesitate and contemplate how shooting Simpson and his room mate would look in the media while they increased the body count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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