GOP: Islamic Rally Videotape Doctored, Bonus: Unedited Video
GOP: Islamic Rally Videotape Doctored
Pauly says “I know quite a few Marines who would be very happy to help these terrorists to an early meeting in paradise,” but the video implies she is referring to the people inside the fundraiser.
“This was edited to completely change the context,” Pauly said on Saturday. “I was referring to terrorists who believe their actions of violence will lead them to paradise, and not the people at the fundraiser.”
Well, let’s have a look at the unedited video. Watch the whole speech. It’s very clear that she was referring to the people attending the fundraiser down the street that was the target of the protest.
Make no mistake about it, the protest was hateful and ugly. But let’s not give CAIR and ICNA a pass. As Charles pointed out……
There is some context here, that CAIR left out in the description of their video.
The speakers for the ICNA fundraiser really are extremists. Amir Abdel Malik Ali is an open supporter of terrorism; I’ve posted several videos here showing him saying absolutely disgusting things. And Siraj Wahhaj, although he has toned down his rhetoric in recent years, also has a long history of encouraging militant Islamic ideology.
But no context can excuse what those protesters did. That was an open display of pure hatred. Sickening. When these Neanderthals behave this way, they make it easier for people like Malik Ali to get away with what they’re doing; they give the extremists cover.
Yes, there were actual terrorist supporters speaking at the event and they were invited by CAIR and ICNA. The “counterjihad” movement has embraced it’s own hateful extremism by choosing to affiliate with European fascist groups like Vlaams Belang, Geert Wilders and the violent thugs from the English Defense League. Under the leadership of illiterate loons like Pamela Geller they have come to embrace paranoid conspiracy theories about “Islamification” of American society and infiltration of our government. Their hatred for Muslims produced the ugly spectacle that CAIR video taped.
But it’s a shame that frothing right wing bigotry is the main story here, because CAIR and the ICNA just got away with hosting an event featuring prominent terrorist supporters and it was barely mentioned in the news.