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Friday, May 3, 2013

Poster Woman for the Anti-Jihad Movement

Michael Coren, who interviewed Robert Spencer (I posted parts of the interview and my commentary here in my previous post), discusses Pamela Geller's venue switch (link is to video) for her speech in Toronto. Police warned the speech organizers, the Jewish Defense League of Toronto, that they wouldn't able to help with the security for the event. The synagogue cancelled the event. Geller's team found her another location, also another synagogue. Below is the Toronto Sun report.

Coren interviews Sun News journalist Faith Goldy about these changes (see video linked above). Half way through the interview, the Sun News graphics team shows a thirty-five second slideshow of Geller in various poses, from glamour shots to dramatic gestures. Thirty-five seconds is a long time especially if the images are head shots of one person. But there is no lack of photos of Geller to fill the time. The images zoom in and zoom out, adding more drama.


Glamour Woman for the Anti-Jihad movement

Is the Western anti-Jihad movement looking for a modern Boadicea to lead it through this crisis? Boadicea went to war with an army. Her prop wasn't glamour, but a sword and a metal plate for a shield on the battlefront. Geller shields herself with a battalion of "security" guards wherever she goes.

As I said in my previous post on Geller:
These are examples of how women are unsuited to public and political lives.
Here is the Sun News report:
TORONTO May 2nd, 2013 -- Police won't say how they'll handle an anti-Islamist firebrand set to give a speech in the city -- after police in York Region forced a rabbi to cancel her scheduled talk at a synagogue there.

Pamela Geller, a controversial speaker best known for protesting a planned mosque near Ground Zero in New York and plastering that city's subway system with anti-jihad ads, will speak May 13 at the Toronto Zionist Centre, a pro-Israel rental space.

Geller, who is being brought in to speak by the hard-line Jewish Defence League (JDL), was originally supposed to lecture at the Chabad Flamingo Synagogue in Thornhill, Ont., but York Regional Police threatened its rabbi with his removal as a police chaplain if he let the event happen.

Many of Geller's speeches in the past have drawn protesters. A Geller talk in New York last month was cancelled and moved to another venue, but not without a heavy police presence.

The JDL's Meir Weinstein told QMI Agency his organization will have at least 30 of its own security personnel for Geller's Toronto lecture and they're prepared for physical altercation with protesters.

"We're quite prepared for anything that disrupts the event," Weinstein said. "If it does happen, we'll be ready. And anyway, we expect (Toronto) police to do their job."

The police, however, were not forthcoming as to what that job would be.

"We don't speculate on what may or may not happen at events," is all spokesman Const. Tony Vella would say, adding no one from Toronto Police's hate crimes unit was willing to speak about the coming event.

The Toronto Zionist Centre, named after a term used to describe the fight for a secure state of Israel, has had problems with past protests.

Several people were arrested and an officer suffered a broken rib during a protest at a January 2011 talk given by the founder of the English Defence League, a U.K.-based anti-Muslim group.

The centre's director, Joseph Winter, was polite but defiant when presented with the possibility of police asking he cancel Geller's talk.

"Unless somebody breaks the law, I would say you can't do that," Winter said, adding he had "faith" police would keep the peace during Geller's lecture and that it "is not breaking the law to have someone speak in your building."
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