Fight Against Jihad! Fight for Art, Music and Love

The estimable Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs weblog has penned an editorial in the American Thinker this morning. Geller gives praise to the unique American culture, while criticizing those who seek to destroy it.

Excerpted from American Thinker, "Fight for Art, Music and Love":

Gone with the Wind, a national treasure, turned seventy on Tuesday. Turner Classic Movies aired it Tuesday night... This is one of the films that reflects American culture's finest hour.

Essentially, such films are a reflection on our values, morality, and art. Ayn Rand said it best:

"Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature."

The fundamental view of man's nature reflected in American films of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s was noble, just, and courageous.

When America was America, films like these were made in large quantities. Rita Hayworth, Humphrey Bogart, Cagney, Ingrid Bergman, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly...

This is why I do what I do. Islamic law forbids representational art. It forbids music. With its laws allowing polygamy and wife-beating, it forbids love. And these are the kinds of laws they are trying to bring in to Europe and America today, right under our noses.

And so that is why I fight: for art, music, and love.

American music, American film. These things should rightly be considered one of our unquantifiable gifts to the world... Kick off the jihad and indulge in a thoroughly Western past time! Revisit the days when America was still America. And gather the strength to fight - for art, for music, and for love.

Read Pamela's full piece at American Thinker.