Critics that say I am helping a terrorist organization — the world’s richest billion dollar terror army.
These same people would have condemned Peter Bergson and his buying Jews’ lives to escape the Holocaust.
These same people would condemn the the Jews who would use whatever they had, gold, silver, diamonds, anything to get a favor from a Nazi soldier — a pass, a family member or something/anything.
These same people would condemn the Jews who sewed jewels into their hems to buy some way, any way out — they, too, were wrong?
Vocativ: *Some people have been critical of Maman’s method of freeing these women and girls, saying that he’s helping to fund ISIS terrorists. What do you think is the appropriate response to these critics?
Geller: The money paid to free these girls is insignificant. The real funders of ISIS terrorists are the European governments who pay millions in ransoms for kidnapped terrorists. But ISIS values these girls cheaply, enabling them to be freed for amounts that do not aid the terrorists. ISIS doesn’t need the small amounts of money it is paid for these girls — it is currently the world’s richest terrorist army.
No one is helping these girls. The US will not even provide asylum for them. What should we do? Stand by while they are gang-raped, sold, torn apart, and tortured?