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When life handed the anti-Islamic bloggers Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer a lemon, they made it into lemonade.

Of course, it wasn鈥檛 the first or the last time that extremist ideologues found themselves in the awkward position of having to disavow a follower who took their hateful prescriptions more seriously than they did themselves. But when the world learned that Norway鈥檚 mass murderer Anders Breivik had their counter-jihadist writings in his anti-Islamic manifesto they didn鈥檛 apologize. In fact, they cashed in on the dubious honor, clamoring to whatever media outlet that would have them that they were Breivik鈥檚 real victims.

Breivik鈥檚 鈥渃itations of our work,鈥� they added last week in a column in the conservative Internet publication American Thinker, 鈥渉ave led to an international campaign to blame us for the massacre. The New York Times, NBC, the BBC, CNN, the Washington Post, many European publications, and a host of others have claimed that we are responsible for creating a climate of 鈥榟ate鈥� in which a Breivik was inevitable. This is not only false, but such charges against us challenge fundamental principles of the freedom of speech.鈥�

Funny they should mention freedom of speech. No one has taken down Spencer and Geller鈥檚 blogs or pulled their books off the market; they haven鈥檛 been indicted or served with papers in a civil suit. But their sense of grievance seems to know no bounds. Perhaps it鈥檚 no coincidence that Pam Geller has a 鈥攁nd she can use all the attention she can get. And now, a new publicity stunt from the pair certainly suggests that this is the case.

This week, Geller and Spencer鈥檚 group the American Freedom Defense Initiative鈥攚hose mission, as they describe it with signature understatement, is to act 鈥渁gainst the treason being committed by national, state, and local government officials, the mainstream media, and others in their capitulation to the global jihad and Islamic supremacism, the ever-encroaching and unconstitutional power of the federal government, and the rapidly moving attempts to impose socialism and Marxism upon the American people鈥濃�攊ssued a press release to herald their new 鈥淭hreats to Freedom Index.鈥� The index is billed as a master list of groups whose 鈥渂eliefs or practices 鈥� attack or malign American Constitutional freedoms and/or lawful initiatives for American self-defense. 鈥� Threat to Freedom group activities can include misrepresentation of anti-terror and other law enforcement initiatives, attempts to restrict the freedom of speech regarding Islamic jihad or other threats to freedom, defamation of freedom fighters, disinformation campaigns in the mainstream media regarding attempts by the U.S. and Israel to defend themselves, and more.鈥�

The preliminary Threats to Freedom Index lists twenty groups, including Al-Awda; Code Pink; the Cordoba Initiative; the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR); Friends of Sabeel-North America (FOSNA); If Americans Knew (IAK); International ANSWER; the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT); the International Solidarity Movement; the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA); the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA); the Muslim American Society (MAS); the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC); the Muslim Students Association (MSA); the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT); the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC); the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding; the Socialist Workers Party; the Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交); and Students for 人兽性交 in Palestine (SJP).

It鈥檚 interesting to note that none of these groups have made any effort to limit Americans鈥� free exercise of religion or to curtail their speech, although the 人兽性交 does list another Geller and Spencer group, Stop Islamization of America, as a hate group. That鈥檚 a job that the AFDI apparently reserves for itself鈥攃ampaigning against mosques, lobbying for 鈥渁nti-Shariah鈥� laws, defaming Islamic activists, equating Islam in general with Islamic supremacism, and accusing groups that challenge and expose their efforts of un-Americanism, treason, and worse.

Accusing one鈥檚 adversaries of one鈥檚 own sins is an old trick; it鈥檚 not surprising that a group that holds the First Amendment in such open contempt would style itself as its passionate defender. It鈥檚 what George Orwell called Doublespeak鈥斺�渢o hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it.鈥� Or maybe it鈥檚 just good old-fashioned hypocrisy.