03 May 2012

Who was that conference meant to help again?

I wrote about Pamela Geller’s intervention into the case of Jessica Mokdad here. She recently held a conference about honour killing, exploiting Mokdad’s name against the wishes of her family – Robert Spencer has declared that those with doubts about this event are pro-honour killing.

.... Sheila Musaji writes: Geller is wrong. Opposition to Geller and Spencer’s conference does not equal support of honor killing, gendercide, and the subjugation and oppression of women. Opposition to their conference is because it is just another of their anti-Muslim hate fests.

You don’t have to see eye to eye with all the opponents of the conference, or be indifferent to the dangers posed by Islamism, to think she has it about right. [Harry’s Place] Read more