Answering Pamela Geller? Not Here. Calling.

Source on Atlas Shrugs: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/06/video-the-speech-the-la-jewish-federation-feared-you-would-hear-pamela-geller-at-zoa-western-divisio.html

A few posts down, I've posted a similarly great and progressive talk by Irshad Manji, a talk so similar in its underlying ambitions, ideals, and sentiments as to suggest we may have a flag problem, not a problem between humans in possession of the better inclinations of humans.

Somewhere in the above -- next viewing I'll do with a notebook -- Geller suggests the Islamic reformists (you know who you are) are the real revolutionaries in this fight.  With that, one may expect the possibility of a Muslim identity better anchored in the original monotheism -- if not so conscious of it or self-conscious about it -- and in secular modernity.  Some with whom I correspond know my sticking-point question: "Got a transition plan?" 

Attention -- popular, scholarly -- to human consciousness, self-consciousness, and good conscience may form the basis for that plan, for we mere creatures of God and nature may call ourselves anything we wish, but being good -- that includes enjoying the God-given gift of our human lives, not beating it up or, as "homicide bombers" do, stealing it from others, is where we should want to go. 

Together.

Realign.

Everyone.

As many as may be ready to move.

Now.

You don't even have to move your feet.

This is something heads and hearts were built to do.

With her speech before the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles cancelled this past Sunday, Geller has been having great fun with those who are genuinely Islamophobic and shutting their mouths -- and trying to keep ears from hers -- becuase they have been intimidated or twisted in that New Old Now Old Far Out Left way and, along the way, have come to try to pass their fear and maladapted ideation around their community. 

Again, Geller has posted the above to Atlas Shrugs as the speech the JFLA "feared you would hear".  

As talk goes, it's rich in direction and key points and way too much for me to highlight or amplify in this fast post.

So enjoy it as it is.  Let it resonate and do its work within and without.

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