Posted on 05/04/2015 4:31:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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The founder of the organization that sponsored the Mohammad cartoon contest in Garland, TX, has long been in the news as an incendiary spokeswoman for anti-Islamic causes.
Pamela Geller is the founder of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, an organization also known as Stop Islamization of America, which was formed in 2009 to oppose the building of a mosque and community center near the site of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. That controversy propelled Geller into the national spotlight.
AFDI has been classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Geller, who is Jewish, has been denounced by the Jewish Anti-Defamation League as “rousing public fears about a vast Islamic conspiracy to destroy American values.”
Though she is has voiced support for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, her strident rhetoric and sweeping accusations have caused many conservatives to distance themselves from her.
She accused two prominent conservatives of being sympathetic to the jihadist cause, which she believes led to her exclusion from the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2011. She said that Grover Norquist and Suhail Kahn were puppets of the Islamic Brotherhood, and they used their influence to bar her from CPAC.
On her blog, Atlas Shrugs, she called Norquist a “dangerous Islamic infiltrator" and said Kahn, a Republican consultant and former Bush White House official, was worse than Anwar al-Awlawki, a terrorist killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen.
Geller insists she is a defender of freedom of speech against jihadists and a shadowy group attempting to impose Sharia law on the United States. “The U.S. Constitution is under attack from fundamentalist Islam and Shariah," is the mission statement of the SIOA.
She repeated that stance in interviews with Fox News and CNN on Monday after the attacks, saying the attack was on free speech, not her or keynote speaker Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician who is on an al-Qaeda hit list.
“Civilized men can disagree. Savages will kill you when they disagree,” she said to CNN, adding that in America “…we're abridging our freedoms so as not to offend savages.”
In that same interview she denied being anti-Muslim, but said she is against the 25 percent of them who support Sharia law.
She told Fox News that the media is part of the problem, as well.
"We see across the world Sharia enforcement by violent jihadists," she said on Fox & Friends on Monday. "And the media scrubs, whitewashes the jihadic doctrine. What happened in France [the Charlie Hebdo slaughter] could easily have happened here."
the #@#$ing press is going to be shocked when the majority of Americans don’t give a @#@#$ about muslim sensitivities and take the side of the event planners.
I’ve been shoving P... Christ and Book of Mormon down their throats left and right on twitter
Case in point: Should I also mention the guy on another thread right now making excuses for incremental gun control?
That might bolster your point, or not.
The first is Communist inspired; the second group (Abe Foxman's) is neo Communist inspired.
"If the Jews are the Democratic party at prayer, the feminists are the Democratic party in drag."
Norman Podhoretz, political Conservative Jewish leader
I consider the SPLC a hate group.
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It’s simple. When you have a small and vocal group screaming it’s the end of the world if you don’t compromise, sheep get yellow and follow them. See the last 3 elections for abundant proof.
If you hold a Christian art contest, the reactions from muslims and the left will be no different.
Was anti-Muslim before it was cool to be anti-Muslim
One day I hope to be classified as a “hate monger” by the SPLC. I’m going to request a copy in writing, frame it, and hang it on the wall in my bar at home.
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Aye. Slow learners, the sheep.
Precisely. How could anyone doubt her now ?
Geller supports Cruz? One more reason to vote for Ted. (By the way...soviet Red Hampshire media ran a story about Fiorina, Carson and Huckabee entering the race...they were interviewing a GOP official about the RH primary, and he mention that three were 'lower-tier candidates; unlike the top tier like BUSH, Walker, and Rubio. Cruz wasn't mentioned. I'm shocked.)
I'm sure FR is on their radar.
It is indeed.
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> May the events in Garland, TX prove to be the tipping point.
If the 1993 WTC Bombing, the 9-11 attacks that killed more than 3000 and precipitated a recession, the DC snipers, the Ft. Hood Massacre (in TEXAS!), and countless other Mohammedan killing sprees weren’t the tipping point, I sincerely doubt that this tiny little attack against what the MSM calls a “hate fest” is going to provide any tipping point, either.
A long time ago I said that there would have to be massive casualties in America, cities destroyed, the works, before the sheep realized they had to fight back even if it meant the unmitigated horror of....being called a racist or an islamophobe.
I see nothing to alter that. Already the excuses fly because the horrible alternative to capitulation to lib/muslims, is unthinkable. Such is the state of America 2015. Cops in Baltimore sidelined, cops in NYC shot. people blown to hell in 9/11 and Boston, people beheaded in OK, killed in San Diego, shot on freeways by a muslim sniper and what happens?
24/7 propaganda about muslims unfairly targeted. And gutless wonders go download a movie to forget it all.
Whoa! You can't get a much better recommendation of a group than that. Where can I donate?
[ On her blog, Atlas Shrugs, she called Norquist a “dangerous Islamic infiltrator” and said Kahn, a Republican consultant and former Bush White House official, was worse than Anwar al-Awlawki, a terrorist killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen. ]
Can’t disagree with any of that!
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