Pamela Geller, a WND author and columnist and president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, on Friday called on her critics to start expecting that Muslims will behave – even if their religion is the subject of cartoons.
She's been in the headlines since she organized a "draw Muhammad" cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, and ISIS responded with a call for her "slaughter." Two Muslims attacked the event and were killed by a police officer.
More recently, authorities say she was a target for beheading by Usaamah Rahim, a terror suspect shot and killed by Boston police.
In an interview Friday with the Fox News Channel's Bill Hemmer, she responded to the New York Times editorial board's assertion that "draw Muhammad" events are "blatantly Islamophobic provocations" that cannot be justified.
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"This is blaming the rape victim for her too-short skirt," she said. "This is the expectation of the bigots on the left" that America will submit to Islamic religious law, Shariah.
"Why doesn't the left expect Muslims to behave like Catholics or Jews when their religion is mocked?"
She addressed the issue on her AFDI website: "It was the jihadis, not I, who made the cartoons a flash point. If we surrender on that point and stop drawing Muhammad, we've established a precedent of surrendering to violent Shariah enforcement, and once established, we will be made to reinforce it again and again."
In the interview with Hemmer, she argued she is not subject to Islamic law.
"Everyone is talking about me," she said. "It's not about me. I was targeted because I blasphemed against Muhammad. ... [Yet] I am not Muslim. I do not adhere to Shariah."
She told Hemmer she is under 24-hour security "because that is what is required" to defend against the Muslim threats. And she said she's regularly in contact with the FBI.
She said the real problem is the Quran, which tells Muslims to "slay the non-believers wherever you find them" and those in the United States who teach that violence to their followers.
"What is at stake is our very freedom," she warned.
In a CNN interview earlier this week, Erin Burnett pointed out that the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled Geller the "anti-Muslim movement's most visible and flamboyant figurehead."
Then she asked of Geller: "Are you stoking the flames? Do you on some level relish being the target of these attacks?"
Ridiculous, Geller replied.
"Who self-promotes to get killed? ... The Southern Poverty Law Center? Really, Erin?"
She dismissed SPLC as an "uber left" group that has failed to track Islamic radicalism.
WND reported when Rahim was shot and killed, and it was revealed that he had wanted to behead Geller but instead was intending to go after the "boys in blue."
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On her ADFI website, she questioned further the idea that the U.S. needs to accommodate Shariah.
"Egypt and Jordan are our allies fighting ISIS, and they'll be angry if we draw Muhammad? So we have to submit to Shariah to fight ISIS? Why don't these 'moderate' nations instead accept the freedom of speech?" he said.
"It's stupid to hold a cartoon contest and provoke the jihadis? Do you think these two gunmen would have lived quiet lives as peaceable and loyal Americans if we hadn't held the contest? They would have waged jihad elsewhere, on a less protected target, and killed more people," she said.
"Roman Catholics don't like their religion mocked or the mockery of other religions. But Roman Catholics don't kill when their religion is mocked – and so no one talks about 'provoking' them or 'respecting' them. In any pluralistic society, we have to put up with being offended and even with our core beliefs being mocked. Roman Catholics have learned that. Mormons and others have learned that – look at 'The Book of Mormon' on Broadway. Why must we condescend to Muslims and think they cannot learn that?"
Hear her first response to word she was targeted for beheading: