{"id":8513,"date":"2015-05-07T21:12:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T02:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/?p=8513"},"modified":"2015-05-12T08:56:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T13:56:21","slug":"im-more-hateful-than-pamela-geller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2015\/05\/07\/im-more-hateful-than-pamela-geller\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m More Hateful Than Pamela Geller"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/124723285?et=WbX-eD2xQp9zwhKd_tjOKg&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=LPWPOojUjp5LJcgH9uAPHsFO4PY2qOYwbUTTlHmND3E=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0 0 0 10px; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/124723285\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">View image<\/a> | <a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The\u00a0<em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>has peered into Pamela Geller\u2019s heart \u2014 and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/07\/opinion\/free-speech-vs-hate-speech.html?_r=0\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">found it full of hate<\/a>. I\u2019ll let others make the argument that it\u2019s unseemly to so viciously attack the victim of an attempted murder just three days after the attack \u2014 to accuse her of intentionally provoking the attempt on her own life and the lives of her friends and supporters, no less. And Rich Lowry\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2015\/05\/why-wont-pamela-geller-shut-up-117716.html#.VUvAHM6yj8s\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">has offered a convincing argument<\/a>\u00a0that Geller was motivated not by hate, but rather \u201cdefiance.\u201d Let me instead offer a defense of hatred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">But first, a confession. I\u2019m far more hateful than Pamela Geller. In fact, I\u2019d argue there\u2019s\u00a0no way that she could hate jihad more than I do. I\u2019ve seen jihad up-close, in an Iraqi province where jihadists raped women to shame them into becoming suicide bombers, where they put bombs in little boys\u2019 backpacks then remotely detonated them at family gatherings, where they beheaded innocent civilians\u00a0while cheering wildly like they were at a soccer match, and where they shot babies in the face to \u201csend a message\u201d to their parents. I\u2019ve seen the despair in the eyes of the innocent victims of jihad, and \u2014 believe me \u2014 that despair is infinitely greater than the alleged \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/07\/opinion\/free-speech-vs-hate-speech.html?_r=0\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">anguish<\/a>\u201d caused by a few cartoons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Moreover, I\u00a0put my hatred into action, not by hosting conferences featuring defiant cartoons, but instead by doing my absolute best to accomplish a mission that included killing or imprisoning every single jihadist we could find. We were quite proficient at our jobs, but I deeply regret that we weren\u2019t even more proficient. And while I did my best, I didn\u2019t do nearly as much as those who laid their lives on the line \u201coutside the wire\u201d each and every day. Many of those brave men hated jihad even more than me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/418067\/im-more-hateful-pamela-geller-david-french\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the rest of this article on National Review Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">WATCH <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2015\/05\/10\/david-french-on-sean-hannitys-show-talking-isis\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">DAVID DISCUSS THIS ON SEAN HANNITY\u2019S SHOW HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you hate jihad, you&#8217;re in good 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