PayPal cancels accounts of ACT for America, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer for anti-Islamic comments.

Letter to PayPal CEO Daniel Schulman:

Chase Martel
Aug 25, 2017 · 4 min read

Daniel Schulman, CEO, President

PayPal Corporate Office

2211 North First Street

San Jose, Calif. 95131

Dear Mr. Schulman,

I have just learned from ACT for America that it’s PayPal account, as well as those of Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, have been cancelled for expressing views that were critical of Islam. That is an outrageous attack on people whose only “crime” is to exercise free speech. I urge you to reinstate their accounts and not allow yourselves to be used as tools of repression by fundamentalist Muslims.

PayPal is not the first to come under pressure from fundamentalists. Recently, Muslims complained to radio station KPFA in Berkeley about a planned speech by Richard Dawkins who had been invited to speak by KPFA. Their reason: “…we support free speech but not abusive speech.” Dawkins is a world renowned atheist and evolutionary biologist and one of the great intellects of our time. He is an author whose landmark book The Selfish Gene was voted the most influential science book since the Origin of the Species by the Royal Society of London and is presently in its 40th year of publication. His current book, Science in the Soul: Selected writings of a passionate Rationalist, was called excellent by none other than Radio KPFA, the very radio station that later rescinded their invitation for him to speak. His books and lectures are known for being logical and insightful examinations of religion and truth, including eye-opening criticism of fundamentalist Islam. Needless to say, he is a constant target for fundamentalist Muslims who want to silence him. Would Paypal cancel his account too?

Another famous and well-known intellectual, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator is also a critic of Islam. Since 1996, he has been the Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. You can see several of his speeches about Islam on youtube. Would you cancel his account with PayPal as well? ACT for America is only one of a large and growing number of people and organizations that understand the importance of knowledge as a defense against fundamentalist, or radical, Islam. Islam is kept afloat by the pure ignorance of Westerners and Muslims as well, who are all told that Islam is a religion of peace. Few of them have actually read their Koran or their prophet’s sunnah, a record of his words and deeds. In fact, they are told not to read them. In churches all over the country, Christians are told to “read your bible.” There are no such urgings in Islam. Muslims receive their information from their Imams who claim to be properly educated in the Koran, and thus the ummah (community) of Islam is kept ignorant of their own religion while receiving the constant refrain that they, Muslims, are always, always, always, being victimized by the people and governments of the Western countries in which they have chosen to reside. Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding leader of Hamas, an internationally recognized terrorist organization, predicted, in his book, Son of Hamas, that Islam would collapse in two years if the truth about it was known to all Muslims.

To get a list of the most effective leaders and writers trying to educate the American people about Islam you need only look at the website for the Southern Poverty Law Center, an altruistic-sounding organization dedicated, in their words, to fighting hatred and bigotry, which actually translates to: Fighting the hatred and bigotry of Christian militant groups, which hate Muslims, while also listing as haters and fighting those who peacefully resist Islam, such as Act for America, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and others. In effect they support, with words and money, anyone who supports Islam. The identify all who resist Islam as haters. I mention the SPLC because I can’t believe it is not involved somehow in leaning on PayPal.

I believe PayPal has been a target of an organized effort to pressure (read intimidate) people such as Brigitte Gabriel, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, et.al., into silence. Frankly, I don’t agree with all of what she says, but she, and many others, are making their own contribution to the fight to educate the American public and protect the American people against this religious/political/military organization, of which religion is the smallest part. They are exercising their freedom of speech, doing so, in part, by calling for laws to protect against this unrelenting and expansionist ideology. For example, Gabriel and ACT for America has called for state and, eventually, federal laws prohibiting the implementation of sharia, or religious, law in any form. Seven states now have laws banning sharia and, contrary to dire predictions by the SPLC and Muslim apologists, of violence against Muslims, none of those states report any negative behaviors against Muslims as a result. Non-Muslims in those states simply believe it is the right thing to do. In polls, less than half of Muslims in the U.S. favor sharia law, and even they accept secular law without complaint. Only fundamentalists want to make it an issue.

I urge you to reinstate ACT for America’s account, as well as those of Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and resist any efforts by fundamentalist Muslims to use PayPal as a tool for repression in the future. You need to stand up to them and stand up in support of free speech.

Sincerely,

Chase Martel

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