Brad Thor's message for Pamela Geller's critics: You are pansies

Author Brad Thor is not one to mince words when it comes to defending free speech and challenging jihadists.

So it should come as no surprise that during an in-depth interview in connection with his forthcoming "Code of Conduct," when the topic of Islamic supremacism versus the West came up -- and in particular the Garland, TX shooting -- sparks were going to fly.

Listen to what Brad had to say below, and for a sneak peek at the creepy enviro-globalist agenda at the heart of "Code of Conduct," Brad's assessment of the threats to the homeland and how to take it to Islamic supremacists and his endorsement for president in 2016.

The First Amendment exists to protect speech you don't agree with. It actually is there -- if all that was worthy of protection was speech everybody agreed with, we wouldn't need the First Amendment. OK.

So you don't have to agree with what Pamela Geller is doing, but my G-d, Pamela Geller is doing more to help reform Islam than any pansy on the left or right who is criticizing her.

And I don't care who criticized her. I don't care who it is: You are weak, and you're a pansy for not standing behind her.

It makes no sense to me that you would not support someone who is trying to bring about reform in one of the most dangerous ideologies since Nazism. And it actually predates Nazism, so I can't say it's since Nazism.

This idea that Pamela Geller somehow deserved what they got -- and she's making it worse for people. You know I heard people say "Well why provoke all Muslims?" She's not trying to provoke all Muslims. She's trying to provoke a discussion.

And moderate Muslims should not be offended by the depiction of their Prophet Muhammad. They can say it's in their book ... Islam is the only major world religion that has not had a reformation. Judaism has. Christianity has. Islam has not.

And ... I would encourage you to please link to probably one of the best articles ever written about the West and how we are pandering to fundamentalist Islam. It was actually -- I don't know that you do a lot of links to the Huffington Post -- but it was on the Huffington Post and it was written by Sam Harris, who is on Bill Maher a lot. And Sam's an agnostic.

And Sam wrote a great article called "Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks." And he talks about the fact that we have allowed a protected space to be carved out in the public square where every other group is expected to debate rationally on the playing field of ideas, except for Islam.

We can go ahead and talk about Catholicism, Mormonism, Buddhism, Hinduism, but we can't critique and discuss the tenets of Islam. And that's because we are hamstringing ourselves.

And Islam needs more attention, more criticism, not less. If we don't criticize Islam and put pressure on Islam, how do you expect reformers and again moderates to have the wind at their backs, the wind in their sails to have them do the work that needs to be done? Because we as non-Muslims can't affect any change.

All we do, like I said, we get our civil liberties eroded.

It's longer lines at TSA for those of us who can't reform Islam.

We need to do everything we can to help reform it. And reforming Islam means we have to draw attention to all its failings.

It's only when people are shown "Hey, the house is full of termites," that maybe they're gonna stop spending money on cable and tons of beer, and start applying the money to fixing their own house.

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