Posted By Jamie Glazov On July 14, 2010 @ 12:18 am In FrontPage | 7 Comments
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Pamela Geller, founder, editor and publisher of the popular and award-winning weblog AtlasShrugs.com. She has won acclaim for her interviews with internationally renowned figures, including John Bolton, Geert Wilders, Bat Ye’or, Natan Sharansky, and many others, and has broken numerous important stories — notably the questionable sources of some of the financing of the Obama campaign. Her op-eds have been published in The Washington Times, The American Thinker,Israel National News, Frontpage Magazine, World Net Daily, and New Media Journal, among other publications. She is the co-author (with Robert Spencer) of the soon to be released, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America [1] (forward by Ambassador John Bolton).
FP: Hi Pamela Geller, welcome back to Frontpage Interview.
Tell us about your new honor killing awareness campaign.
Geller: Thanks Jamie.
The honor killing awareness campaign is Stop Islamization of America’s (SIOA) next campaign to reach and educate the American people. Taxicab ads have hit the streets of Chicago, the first in a nationwide campaign.
The ads aim to educate the American people about the horrors of honor killing. They feature photos of honor killing victims with the question, “Is your family threatening you?” and the URL of the SIOA website LeaveIslamSafely.com.
This is phase II of SIOA’s pro-freedom ad campaign; its goals are twofold. Primarily it is to help girls in trouble, but it is also meant to raise awareness of the rise of honor killings in the West. Young Muslim girls must know that there is an escape from their homemade concentrations camps. This is a sub-campaign and logical follow-up to the “Leaving Islam?” bus campaign, which is soon to break in another major US city.
FP: And there is an urgency here isn’t there?
Geller: Absolutely Jamie, the urgency of the honor killing awareness campaign grows every day. Last week, a beautiful young Muslim actress, Harry Potter star Afshan Azad, was badly beaten, but thankfully escaped death when her father and brother attempted to honor murder her. She was dating a non-Muslim.
It is important to note that “both [Azad’s] parents were born and educated in the U.K [2].” They were not unassimilated immigrants, which the media and the apologists always associate with honor killings in the West.
Police say that 17,000 women are victims [3] of honor killing in Great Britain every year. And it is happening in the U.S. as well: our campaign features three American honor killing victims. The ads feature photos of these girls:
Amina and Sarah Said [4]: They ran away from their brutal home life [5] and their devout Muslim father, Yaser Said, only to be lured back to their Texas home by their mother on Christmas Day 2007 and then tortured and murdered not 24 hours later, in an honor killing on New Years Day 2008. They were killed for dating non-Muslims. Yaser Said is still at large.
Noor Almalaki was run over by a car driven by her father in an honor killing in November 2009 in Arizona [6]. He killed her for being “too Americanized” and not Muslim enough.
Gülsüm Semin was repeatedly and severely beaten by her family in Germany. Ultimately she was brutally beaten beyond recognition and “honor” murdered [7] because she refused forced Islamic marriage in Turkey.
Banaz Mahmod [8] was killed in her apartment in London by her father and his brother and four others because they didn’t approve of her boyfriend.
The triangle that flanks the ads in the front and in the back reads, “They wanted liberty, they got death.”
FP: It’s important to mention here that Dr. Phyllis Chesler, a noble freedom fighter on the frontlines in our terror war today, has done an exhaustive, unprecedented and priceless study, Worldwide Trends in Honor Killings [9], which documents all the crucial facts and statistics regarding this crime against Muslim women. I urge all of our readers to resort to it.
So let’s continue.
