Geert Wilders, the champion of ‘free speech’, wants to ban the Koran in Holland
A mass shooting tragedy may have been averted late on Sunday, when two gunmen were killed in Garland, Tex., outside an exhibition for drawings of the prophet Muhammad. The two men apparently had hoped to kill attendees, but after they shot an unarmed security guard, police officers returned fire.
In an e-mail to The Washington Post, Pamela Geller, an anti-Islam activist who organized the event, blamed "Islamic jihadis" who were "determined to suppress our freedom of speech violently." That sentiment was echoed on Twitter by another high-profile, if seemingly out-of-place, guest: the Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
It may seem odd that a Dutch politician was attending an event in Texas, but Wilders has long been an ally of Geller. As far back as 2010, he was attending rallies organized by the native New Yorker against a proposed Muslim community center near the site of the World Trade Center. Along with Geller, he was one of the organizers of Sunday's event and had presented a check to one attendee for his drawing of Muhammad.
Yet while the presence of Wilders -- an elected member of the Dutch parliament and the leader of the fourth-largest party in the Netherlands -- may seem like a legitimizing factor for a clearly controversial event, Wilders's involvement is more complicated than that. For one thing, the Dutch MP might be standing up for free speech in Texas, but in his native Netherlands, he has repeatedly called for the Koran to be banned.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/05/04/geert-wilders-the-champion-of-free-speech-in-texas-wants-to-ban-the-koran-in-holland/
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from broadcasting in the US. When I see posters claiming she is some kind of !st Amendment champion I don't know whether to 
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http://crooksandliars.com/2015/05/megyn-kelly-tells-everyone-shut-and
From the network that continually yells "Fire!" in a crowded room full of wingnuts day after day. Megyn Kelly, who is an attorney, seems to be a bit confused about that whole "freedom of speech" thing if this little rant at the beginning of her show this Wednesday is any indication.
Kelly did her best to help right-wing extremist Pamela Geller to continue to play the poor oppressed conservative victim card and pretend that there's anyone out there stifling her right to free speech because they criticized the actions of her group immediately after the shooting this week -- while simultaneously telling her critics to shut the hell up and to "wait a beat" until "after the crime scene has been cleared."
Just in case anyone needs a reminder of where Ms. Kelly is coming from..........
"By the way, for all you kids watching at home, Santa just is white but this person is just arguing that maybe we should also have a black Santa," Kelly said, before briefly pausing to acknowledge that she can sort of kind of understand how that might be painful for a black child. But only kind of sort of. "Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean it has to change," she added.
But she didn't stop there. She went on to address Jesus' race. You know, the Semitic fellow allegedly born in the Middle East 2000 years ago.
"Jesus was a white man, too," Kelly said. "He was a historical figure. That's a verifiable fact — as is Santa. I just want the kids watching to know that. My point is, how do you just revise it in the middle of the legacy of the story and change Santa from white to black?"
http://gawker.com/megyn-kelly-both-jesus-and-santa-were-white-so-stop-c-1481842503
She will never live this down. Ever. And that is a good thing.
