Thursday, March 28, 2024

Pamela Geller: Muhammad Cartoon Contest Promoter Known for Inflammatory Rhetoric

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Pamela Geller

*(Via MSN News) – The Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest that exploded in violence over the weekend in Texas was organized by Pamela Geller, a New Yorker who rails against Islam with such ferocity that one of the nation’s top civil rights groups lists her in its “extremist files.”

WHO IS PAMELA GELLER?
Geller, 56, is head of an organization called the American Freedom Defense Initiative. Through websites, books, ad campaigns and public events, Geller has been warning for years that Islam threatens to destroy the U.S.

She famously led the campaign in 2010 — under a different group, called Stop the Islamization of America — to prevent the opening of an Islamic community center blocks from the World Trade Center site. She called it the “ground zero mosque.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit organization that tracks hate groups, keeps a dossier on her in its “extremist files,” calling her “the anti-Muslim movement’s most visible and flamboyant figurehead.”

The law center describes her as “relentlessly shrill and coarse in her broad-brush denunciations of Islam” and notes some of her more sensational claims, including that President Barack Obama is the “love child” of Malcolm X.

Get the rest of this AP report at MSN News.

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