Anti-muslim

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>oops, see also islamophobe</b></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">this is a somewhat neglected category, but i'm tempted to bump it to 2ndary because it's a proxy for other issues (racism, xenophobia, pro-military, israel) as well?  plus, its a free pass for hate, so it seeps out here 1st/most</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">forgot this existed, 4/19 bak txt islamophobe below</font></p>

<div style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The US military’s educational institutions have come under fire before for promoting “total war” against Islam. In 2012, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, ordered a comprehensive scouring of anti-Islam training material after a course proposed “Hiroshima” tactics against Islamic holy sites, targeting the “civilian population wherever necessary”.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The previous year, highly regarded counter-terrorism scholars affiliated with the US army aided the FBI in eradicating similar material from its own training. Those scholars came from West Point.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.alternet.org/west-point-professor-calls-us-military-target-legal-critics-war-terror</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">cf xian fund military</font></p></div><div style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div>

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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Starting in Fall 2012, discussions with a small group of students in Professor Alam’s course, <i style=" box-sizing: border-box;">Critique of Capitalism</i>, led to the idea of launching a new student club that would promote (i) awareness of alternative approaches to the study of economy outside of mainstream economics, and (ii) discussions on issues relating to economic inequalities and economic injustice.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The efforts of these students has now resulted in the formation of <a href="http://www.politicaleconomyforum.org/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; background: transparent;"><i style=" box-sizing: border-box;">Northeastern Political Economy Forum </i>(NPEF)</a>. It began functioning as an official student club in November 2013. The students who helped to found this club include Viraj Parikh, Arshan Khalid, Evan Shikora, Victor Martinelli, Eliot Douin and Morgan Sinclaire. The NPEF is currently run by a Committee that includes — Sean Hansen, Chandana Cherukupulli, Tomas Von Rickenbach, Danielle Tolliver, Farouk Kadous, Lukas Scott and Maria Amasanti.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since its recognition, PEF has held weekly discussions on variety of topics ranging from ‘History of Global Economy’ to ‘Economics and Environmental Devastation’. The goal of these discussions is to explore alternative approaches to the study of economic issues. NPEF believes that mainstream economics – as currently taught at universities – fails to address key portions of real- world economies. In Spring 2014, the PEF invited Pulitzer Prize winning author Chris Hedges, who spoke on the topic of ‘Myth of Progress’. PEF also plans to do research on issues of poverty and inequality in the Boston communities.</font></p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Muhammad Shahid Alam</b> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_people" title="Pakistani people" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Pakistani</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economist" title="Economist" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">economist</a>, academic, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_science" title="Social science" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">social scientist</a>. He is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor" title="Professor" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">professor</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics" title="Economics" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">economics</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_University" title="Northeastern University" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Northeastern University</a>. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Policy Research & Development, London.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Shahid_Alam#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alam was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Pakistan" title="East Pakistan" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">East Pakistan</a>, moving to Pakistan in 1971<sup id="cite_ref-Aksan_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.Shahid_Alam#cite_note-Aksan-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> following the creation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bangladesh</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Pakistan" title="East Pakistan" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">East Pakistan</a>. He holds a BA from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Dhaka" title="University of Dhaka" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University of Dhaka</a>, an MA from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Karachi" title="University of Karachi" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University of Karachi</a>, and a Ph.D. from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Western_Ontario" title="University of Western Ontario" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University of Western Ontario</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.Shahid_Alam#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> (1979)<sup id="cite_ref-Aksan_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Shahid_Alam#cite_note-Aksan-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> His brothers are, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAF" title="PAF" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">PAF</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_ace" title="Flying ace" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">flying ace</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Commodore" title="Air Commodore" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Air Commodore</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Mahmood_Alam" title="Muhammad Mahmood Alam" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Muhammad Mahmood Alam</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_physics" title="Particle physics" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">particle physicist</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Sajjad_Alam" title="Mohammad Sajjad Alam" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">M. Sajjad Alam</a>.</font></p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alam's academic writings focus, among other things, on the economic effects of Western foreign and economic policies on formerly colonized states. He writes critically about the present-day global wealth disparities produced by Western policies. He draws attention to the pro-capitalist ideological intent and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocentrism" title="Eurocentrism" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Eurocentric biases</a> of mainstream economics. An outspoken opponent of U.S. policies in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Middle East</a> and the Global South,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.Shahid_Alam#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> Alam has been the target of conservative commentators for his critical stance against U.S foreign policy and for supporting an academic boycott of Israel.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.Shahid_Alam#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He has published many books, including <i>Poverty from the Wealth of Nations</i> (Macmillan, 2000), <i>Governments and Markets in Economic Development Strategies</i> (Praeger: 1989), <i>Is There An Islamic Problem</i> (Kuala Lumpur: The Other Press, 2004, republished in 2007 as <i>Challenging the New Orientalism</i>, IPI: 2007), and most recently, <i>Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism</i> (Palgrave Macmillan: 2009). He is also a regular contributor to <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CounterPunch" title="CounterPunch" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">CounterPunch</a></i> magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Shahid_Alam#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism</i> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Challenging the New Orientalism: Dissenting Essays on the "War Against Islam"</i> (IPI, 2007).</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Is there an Islamic problem? : essays on Islamicate societies, the US, and Israel</i> (The Other Press, 2004).</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Poverty From the Wealth of Nations: Integration and Polarization in the Global Economy since 1760</i> (Macmillan, 2000).</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Governments and Markets in Economic Development Strategies: Lessons From Korea, Taiwan, and Japan.</i> (Praeger, 1989).</font></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The Economy as an Energy System," <i>Review of Radical Political Economics</i> 41,2 (Winter 2009).</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Some Economic Results of the Civilizing Mission" MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, 2006.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Global Disparities Since 1800," <i>Journal of World-Systems Research</i>, July 2006, pp. 36–59.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"A Short History of the Global Economy Since 1800" MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, 2003.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"A Theory of Limits on Corruption and Some Applications" <i>Kyklos,</i> 1995, 48, (3), 419-35.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Colonialism, Decolonisation and Growth Rates: Theory and Empirical Evidence" <i>Cambridge Journal of Economics,</i> 1994, 18 (3), 235-57.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Convergence and Polarization: Testing for an Inverted-U Relation between Growth Rates and GDP per Capita" <i>Applied Economics</i>, 1992, 24, (3), 363-66.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Convergence in developed countries: an empirical investigation" <i>Review of World Economics</i>, 1992, 128 (2), 189-201.</font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Trade Orientation and Macroeconomic Performance in LDCs: An Empirical Study," <i>Economic Development and Cultural Change,</i> 1991, 39, (4), 839-48</font></li>

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<li id="cite_note-Aksan-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style=" -webkit-user-select: none;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.Shahid_Alam#cite_ref-Aksan_2-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.Shahid_Alam#cite_ref-Aksan_2-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Cihan Aksan, <i>State of Nature</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stateofnature.org/onIslam1.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">On Islam: An Interview with M. Shahid Alam</a></span></font></li>

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<p align="3d" margin-left="" margin-right="" background-color="Lightgoldenrodyellow;" margin-bottom="" em="em" padding="" border="" groove="2pt;font-family:" palatino="" linotype="linotype" new="" century="" schoolbook="schoolbook" serif="serif" justify="justify" style=" margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><b><font size="+1" face="Times New Roman" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">February 2, 2005</font></b></p>

<h1 align="3d" margin-left="" margin-right="" background-color="Lightgoldenrodyellow;" margin-bottom="" em="em" padding="" border="" groove="2pt;font-family:" palatino="" linotype="linotype" new="" century="" schoolbook="schoolbook" serif="serif" justify="justify"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Reilly's Fatwah on "Un-American" Professors</font></h1>

<h1 margin-left="" margin-right="" background-color="Lightgoldenrodyellow;" margin-bottom="" em="em" padding="" border="" groove="2pt;font-family:" palatino="" linotype="linotype" new="" century="" schoolbook="schoolbook" serif="serif" align="3d" justify="justify"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">FoxNews Puts Me In Its Crosshairs</font></h1>

<p margin-left="" margin-right="" background-color="Lightgoldenrodyellow;" margin-bottom="" em="em" padding="" border="" groove="2pt;font-family:" palatino="" linotype="linotype" new="" century="" schoolbook="schoolbook" serif="serif" align="3d" justify="justify" style=" margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="4">By M. SHAHID ALAM</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">I published an essay, "<a href="http://joun.leb.net/shahid12292004.html" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">America and Islam: Seeking Parallels</a>,"</span> in Counterpunch on December 29, 2004. A day later, I began to receive nasty and threatening emails, all at once. These were orchestrated by a <a href="http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">www<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.littlegreenfootballs.</span>com</a>. Shortly thereafter, <b>other right-wing websites got into act, posting excerpts from the essay; these included jihadwatch.org, campuswatch.org, frontpagemag.com, freerepublic.com, etc. T</b>he messages posted on these websites were equally vicious, and some of them, containing explicit death threats, were 'kindly' forwarded to me.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">What did I say in this essay? I made two points. First, that the 9-11 attacks were an Islamist insurgency: the attackers believe that they are fighting--as the Americans did, in the 1770s--for their freedom and dignity against a foreign occupation/control of their lands. Secondly, I argue that these attacks were the result of a massive political failure of Muslims to resist their tyrannies locally. It was a mistake to attack the US.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">I followed the first essay with a second one, "<a href="http://joun.leb.net/shahid01012005.html" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Testing Free Speech In America</a>,"</span> where I <span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">elaborate</span> on the points I had made earlier. This too was published in Counterpunch.Org on Jan 1/2, 2005.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The emails to me and the University continued for another two weeks, eventually tapering off. In the meanwhile, I was speaking to people at the <b>ACLU, Boston, and the ADC, </b>Boston. On the suggestion of the ACLU, I contacted the campus police and the police in my hometown to let them know about the death threats posted against me.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">I had a feeling this was not the end of the matter. So yesterday, February 1, I received an email from Fox News asking for a TV interview; they were producing a program "on me." At this point, I spoke to people at ACLU who advised me against going on the program. I received the same advice from other friends. I wrote back to Fox saying I could not do the interview but would be glad to answer any questions. They did not take me up on my offer. Clearly, this would not help them in their designs against me.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It appears that Bill O'Reilly is doing a series on 'unAmerican' professors on US campuses. Last night, my wife tells me, he did a piece on Ward Churchill. Tonight will be my turn. </span>I expect he will make all kinds of outlandish accusations that will resonate well with the left- and Muslim-hating members of his audience. This will generate calls and emails to <b>Northeastern</b> and to me ? containing threats, calls for firing me, and threats to withhold donations. I am not sure how well NU will stand up against this barrage.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">If we can generate a matching volume of emails, letters and call to NU supporting my right to free speech, it might be helpful.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The contact information for President Richard Freeland is available

at:</font>

<a href="http://155.33.227.141/president/letters.nclk" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://155.33.227.141/president/letters.nclk</font></a>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contact for Provots and Senior VP for Academic Affairs:</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ahmed Abdelal

Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

112 Hayden Hall

(617) 373-4517

<a href="mailto:a.abdelal@neu.edu" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">a.abdelal@neu.edu</a></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The contacts for the leading people in the President's office are

available here:</font>

<a href="http://www.president.neu.edu/cabinet.html" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.president.neu.edu/cabinet.html</font></a>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dean, College of Arts and Sciences</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James Stellar

100 Meserve Hall

Northeastern University

360 Huntington Ave.

Boston, MA 02115

<a href="mailto:ja.stellar@neu.edu" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">ja.stellar@neu.edu</a>

(617) 373-3980</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>M. Shahid Alam</b>, professor of economics at Northeastern University, is a regular contributor to CounterPunch.org. Some of his CounterPunch essays are now available in a book, <i><a href="http://www.msalam.net/Book/" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Is There An Islamic Problem</a></i> (Kuala Lumpur: The Other Press, 2004). He may be reached at <a href="mailto:m.alam@neu.edu" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">m.alam@neu.edu</a>.

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<div class="top-tools" style=" clear: both; padding-top: 15px; line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On Monday, several mainstream media outlets repeated the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bulletin-warns-heightened-threat-isis-attack-july-4th/story?id=32102380" style=" color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">latest press release</a>by the FBI that country was under a new “heightened terror alert” from “ISIL-inspired attacks” “leading up to the July 4th weekend.” One of the more sensational outlets, CNN, led with the breathless warning on several of its cable programs, complete with a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/06/29/fourth-of-july-terror-attacks-alert-sciutto-dnt-lead.cnn" target="_blank" title="CNN: Officials warn of potential 4th of July terror attacks" style=" color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">special report</a> by The Lead’s Jim Sciutto in primetime:</font></div>

<p style=" margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The threat was given extra credence when former CIA director—and consultant at DC PR firm Beacon Global Strategies—Michael Morell went on CBS This Morning (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fexCTe13wFc" target="_blank" title="YouTube: CBS This Morning" style=" color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration: none;">6/29/15</a>) and scared the ever-living bejesus out of everyone by saying he “wouldn’t be surprised if we were sitting [in the studio] next week discussing an attack on the US.” The first piece of evidence Morell used to justify his apocalyptic posture, the “50 ISIS arrests,” was accompanied by a scary map on the CBS jumbotron showing “ISIS arrests” all throughout the US:</font>

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<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">BI and Media Still Addicted to Ginning Up Terrorist Hysteria - But They Have Never Been Right</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Why do we keep parroting FBI terror warnings when they never actually predict anything?</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By Adam Johnson / FAIR July 1, 2015</font></span>

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<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On Monday, several mainstream media outlets repeated the latest press releaseby the FBI that country was under a new “heightened terror alert” from “ISIL-inspired attacks” “leading up to the July 4th weekend.” One of the more sensational outlets, CNN, led with the breathless warning on several of its cable programs, complete with a special report by The Lead’s Jim Sciutto in primetime:</font></span>

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<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The threat was given extra credence when former CIA director—and consultant at DC PR firm Beacon Global Strategies—Michael Morell went on CBS This Morning (6/29/15) and scared the ever-living bejesus out of everyone by saying he “wouldn’t be surprised if we were sitting [in the studio] next week discussing an attack on the US.” The first piece of evidence Morell used to justify his apocalyptic posture, the “50 ISIS arrests,” was accompanied by a scary map on the CBS jumbotron showing “ISIS arrests” all throughout the US:.</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But one key detail is missing from this  graphic: None of these “ISIS arrests” involved any actual members of ISIS, only members of the FBI—and their network of informants—posing as such. (The one exception being the man arrested in Arizona, who, while having no contact with ISIS, was also not prompted by the FBI.) So even if one thinks the threat of “lone wolf” attacks is a serious one, it cannot be said these are really “ISIS arrests.”  Perhaps on some meta-level, it shows an increase of “radicalization,” but it’s impossible to distinguish between this and simply more aggressive sting operations by the FBI.</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In any event, this nuance gets left out entirely. As I’ve previously shown, in the media’s rush to hype the threat, the fact of FBI-manufactured—or at least “assisted”—terror plots is left out as a complicating factor altogether, and the viewer is left thinking the FBI arrested 50 actual ISIS sleeper cells.</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Nevertheless, the ominous FBI (or Department of Homeland Security) “terror warning” has become such a staple of the on-going, seemingly endless “war on terror” (d/b/a war on ISIS), we hardly even notice it anymore. Marked by a feedback loop of extremist propaganda, unverifiable claims about “online chatter” and fuzzy pronouncements issued by a neverending string of faceless Muslim bad guys, and given PR cover by FBI-contrived “terror plots,” the specter of the impending “attack” is part of a broader white noise of fear that never went away after 9/11. Indeed, the verbiage employed by the FBI in this latest warning —“we’re asking people to remain vigilant”—implies no actual change of the status quo, just an hysterical nudge to not let down our collective guard.</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There’s only one problem: These warnings never actually come to fruition. Not rarely, or almost never, but—by all accounts—never. No attacks, no arrests, no suspects at large.</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Here’s a selection of previous FBI and DHS “terror warnings” over the past 14 years, not a single one of which actually predicted or foiled a terror attack:</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">October 2001: “Potential use of chemical/biological and/or radiological/nuclear weapons“</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">November 2001: California bridges</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">February 2002: “Hollywood studios”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">May 2002: Statue of Liberty</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">June 2002: “Around the Fourth of July holiday”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">July 2002: Stadiums</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">August 2002: “Landmarks”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">October 2002: “AQ to attack Amtrak”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">November 2002: “Spectacular Al Qaeda attacks”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">February 2003: “Apartments, hotels, sports arenas and amusement parks“</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">May 2003: “Possibility of multiple attacks”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">May 2004: “Attempt to affect the outcome” of presidential election</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">July 2004: “Military facilities and large gatherings” on July 4th</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">August 2004: VA hospitals</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">January 2005: Dirty bomb</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">March 2005: US/Mexican border</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">October 2005: NYC & Baltimore subways</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">March 2006: “Sporting events”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">June 2007: Colleges</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">December 2007: “Shopping malls in Chicago and LA”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">November 2008: “Al Qaeda to attack transit during Thanksgiving”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">November 2010: Mass transit in New York City</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">October 2011: “Americans in Europe” facing “commando-style AQ attack”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">February 2011: “Financial institutions”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">May 2011: “Threats of retaliation”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">June 2011: Al Qaeda “hit list”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">July 2011: “Private jets of executives” involved in drone manufacturing</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">September 2011: “Small planes”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">September 2011: “New York City or Washington around…10th anniversary of 9/11”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">September 2011: Airports</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">March 2012: “Terrorist hacking”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">August 2012: Anarchists blowing up bridge during Tampa RNC</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">September 2012: “Islamic violence over movie”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">August 2013: “San Fransisco on high alert”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">November 2013: “cyber attacks”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">April 2014: “College students abroad”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">December 2014: ISIS targeting Mississippi River bridge</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">December 2014: ISIS “sabotaging US military personnel” over social media</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">April 2015: ISIS targeting “parts of California”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">May 2015: ISIS targeting “military bases”</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A casual search reveals the FBI and DHS are a pitiful 0 for 40 warning of terror attacks—some of which were specifically about 4th of July threats, none of which materialized in any way. This should not be considered a comprehensive list of all threat warnings transmitted by media; I tried to narrow the scope to warnings that were at least in some way specific.</font></span>

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<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The actual terror attacks carried out on US soil—the Times Square bomber, “Underwear bomber,” Boston bombing and Garland attacks—were accompanied by no such warnings. (Nor were the often deadlier terrorist attacks by right-wing white terrorists–but terrorism in this category is rarely if ever the subject of FBI warnings.)</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">So why, a rational person may ask, does the media keeps repeating them if they’re wrong 100 percent of the time?</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The problem is three fold:</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The FBI has all the incentive in the world to issue warnings and no incentive whatsoever to not issue warnings. Issuing warnings has no downside, while not doing so is all downside.</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The FBI, like all agencies of the government, does not operate in a political vacuum. Emphasizing the “ISIS threat” at home necessarily helps prop up the broader war effort the FBI’s boss, the president of the United States, must sell to a war-weary public. The incentive is to therefore highlight the smallest threats. This was a feature that did not go unnoticed during the Bush years, but has since fallen out of fashion.</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It has no actual utility. What does it mean to be “more vigilant”? It’s a vague call to alertness that officials, aside from “beefing up security” by local police, never quite explain what it means. If the FBI wanted to tell local police departments to up their security of the 4th of July weekend, surely they could do so quietly, without the chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security having to go on all major networks talking over b-roll of ISIS in apocalyptic terms.</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">When I brought up these objections up to CNN’s Sciutto, his response was less than satisfying:</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Yes, I would prefer warnings only when attacks were imminent. Which, of course, they never are. Because if they were, the government would actually attempt to stop them, rather than running a three-day PR tour. CNN‘s Jake Tapper, to his credit, would raise my concerns to Michael Chertoff later that day (1:50 mark):</font></span>

<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While the attempt to introduce some skepticism is very much appreciated, Tapper missed the fundamental problem altogether. Next time he has on a Chertoff or a McCaul discussing a vague government terror warning, I’d like him to ask this simple question: “Has the FBI ever successfully warned, or foreshadowed in anyway, a terror attack in the United States? Because so far the count is 0 for 40+, and I’m curious what makes this time different.”</font></span>

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<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Put the burden of proof on those who are attempting to scare us, march our men and women off to war, and line their private security firm’s pockets. Don’t demand “FBI warning skeptics” disprove those in power; make those in power justify their own consistently discredited “warnings.”</font></span>

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<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">If journalists still insist on disseminating these vague “threats,” I ask this question: How many false positives would be required for you to eventually stop doing so? Seventy? Two hundred?</font></span>

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<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Because 14 years on, I’m curious when, if ever, this media trope will ever end.</font></span>

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<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">h/t Kevin Gosztola, who caught a 4th of July warning from 2004 I missed.</font></span>

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<span style=" line-height: 32px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Adam Johnson is an associate editor at AlterNet. Follow him on Twitter at @adamjohnsonnyc</font></span></p>

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">fang machine: C ent complx: pol and poker; running reality tv of cands; right to laugh; jackpot justice (class action) tort; stakelbeck on terror ~ muslim 180-1.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Pamela Geller</b> (born June 14, 1958)<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> is an American political activist<sup id="cite_ref-Huff20130620_6-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Huff20130620-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> and commentator. She is known for her anti-Islamic positions and opposition to Islamic activities and causes, such as the proposed construction of an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park51" title="Park51" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Islamic community center</a> near the former site of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center" title="World Trade Center" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">World Trade Center</a>. Her viewpoints have been described as anti-Islamic<sup id="cite_ref-Ind20130626_7-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Ind20130626-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia" title="Islamophobia" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Islamophobic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-6" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup> She says her blogging and campaigns in the United States are against what she terms "creeping <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia" title="Sharia" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sharia</a>" in the country. She is described as a critic of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Islam" title="Radical Islam" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">radical Islam</a><sup id="cite_ref-ts130505_9-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-ts130505-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></sup> and self-described as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Islamism" title="Criticism of Islamism" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">opposing political Islam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-7" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">She is currently the president of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Islamization_of_America" title="Stop Islamization of America" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Freedom Defense Initiative</a> which she co-founded with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Spencer_(author)" title="Robert Spencer (author)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Robert Spencer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-r150504_10-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-r150504-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sioaonline1_11-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-sioaonline1-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></sup> The American Freedom Defense Initiative has been designated an anti-Muslim <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_group" title="Hate group" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hate group</a> by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center" title="Southern Poverty Law Center" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Southern Poverty Law Center</a>, an organization known for tracking hate groups.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-12" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a></sup> The British government designated Geller's organizations hate groups and barred Geller's entry into the UK in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-Ind20130626_7-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Ind20130626-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>She and Spencer co-authored the book <i>The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America</i> in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-Obamabook_4-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Obamabook-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Huffington_Post" title="The Huffington Post" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Huffington Post</a></i> has called her "far right", as have other media sources<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-8" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> while others, such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC" title="BBC" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">BBC</a> contrast her right-wing support for small government with her socially liberal positions.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc150504_13-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-bbc150504-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#Personal_life" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Personal life</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#Career" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Career</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#Views" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Views</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#Stop_Islamization_of_America" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Stop Islamization of America</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#Paid_ads_on_public_transit" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Paid ads on public transit</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#Curtis_Culwell_Center_attack" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">Curtis Culwell Center attack</span></font></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#Atlas_Shrugs_blog" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext"><i>Atlas Shrugs</i> blog</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#Media_response" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Media response</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#Works" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Works</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#Books" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">7.1</span> <span class="toctext">Books</span></font></a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#References" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#External_links" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></font></a></li>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Geller is the third of four sisters born to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews" title="American Jews" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jewish</a><sup id="cite_ref-ja130510_14-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-ja130510-14" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> family of Reuben, a textile manufacturer, and Lillian Geller.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-9" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> She grew up in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett_Harbor" title="Hewlett Harbor" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Hewlett Harbor</a>, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New York</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Long Island</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Weiss_15-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Weiss-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;">:136</sup> She helped out in her father's business, where she learned to speak fluent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Spanish</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-papa_16-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-papa-16" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a></sup> Two of her sisters became doctors, and the third became a teacher.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-10" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Geller attended <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynbrook_Senior_High_School" title="Lynbrook Senior High School" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Lynbrook High School</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstra_University" title="Hofstra University" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Hofstra University</a>, though she left before completing her degree.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-11" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">She was married to Michael Oshry from 1990 until the couple divorced in 2007, and is the mother of four children.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-12" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> As of April 2013 she was living in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett,_New_York" title="Hewlett, New York" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Hewlett</a>, New York.<sup id="cite_ref-nd130408_17-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nd130408-17" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Geller spent most of the 1980s working at the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_News_(New_York)" title="Daily News (New York)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New York Daily News</a></i>, first as a financial analyst and then in advertising and marketing.<sup id="cite_ref-QueenHP_18-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-QueenHP-18" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> Subsequently she was associate publisher of <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Observer" title="The New York Observer" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The New York Observer</a></i> from 1989 through 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-19" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In a <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Voice" title="Village Voice" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Village Voice</a></i> interview, Geller attributed the advent of her political consciousness to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_attacks" title="9/11 attacks" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">9/11 attacks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-VV121128_20-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-VV121128-20" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a></sup> She created a blog called <i>Atlas Shrugs</i> in 2004. (The title of the blog recalls <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged" title="Atlas Shrugged" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Atlas Shrugged</a></i>, a novel by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand" title="Ayn Rand" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ayn Rand</a>, and perhaps aligns with the novel's themes and philosophy.) The blog gained thousands of readers in 2006 when Geller reprinted the controversial cartoons of Muhammad originally published in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy" title="Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jyllands-Posten</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-13" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> In 2007, her campaign against an Arabic language public school in Brooklyn played "an important role" in the resignation of its principal, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Almontaser" title="Debbie Almontaser" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Debbie Almontaser</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-14" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font>

<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2010 Geller co-founded the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Freedom_Defense_Initiative" title="American Freedom Defense Initiative" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American Freedom Defense Initiative</a> organization (FDI) with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Spencer_(author)" title="Robert Spencer (author)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Robert Spencer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-15" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[1]</a></sup> She also co-authored a book with Spencer, <i>The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America</i> (published in July 2010).<sup id="cite_ref-Obamabook_4-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Obamabook-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[4]</a></sup> The book criticizes the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Barack_Obama" title="Presidency of Barack Obama" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Obama administration</a>'s treatment of the free-market system, freedom of speech, and foreign policy. She is also a contributor to the conservative magazine <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Events" title="Human Events" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Human Events</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-21" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[21]</a></sup></font></span>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Speaking on <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad" title="Jihad" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">jihad</a></i> at the 2010 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Political_Action_Conference" title="Conservative Political Action Conference" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Conservative Political Action Conference</a> (CPAC), Geller criticized the Pentagon's report on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Fort_Hood_shooting" title="2009 Fort Hood shooting" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2009 Fort Hood shooting</a> for failing to talk about the religious motivations behind the attack.<sup id="cite_ref-foxnews1_22-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-foxnews1-22" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[22]</a></sup> Geller, who had spoken at the annual CPAC convention four years previous, was forbidden to appear in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-salon130304_23-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-salon130304-23" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[23]</a></sup> Geller attributed her exclusion from the event to her having accused CPAC board members <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist" title="Grover Norquist" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Grover Norquist</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suhail_Khan" title="Suhail Khan" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Suhail Khan</a> of being "members of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood" title="Muslim Brotherhood" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Muslim Brotherhood</a> and secret Islamist agents."<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-24" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[24]</a></sup> Reacting to CPAC's decision to exclude Geller, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Steyn" title="Mark Steyn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mark Steyn</a> called her a "fearless fighter on free speech" and said that he took the board's action "personally."<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-25" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[25]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In April 2013, Rabbi Michael White and Jerome Davidson, denouncing Geller as an anti-Muslim bigot, opposed her presentation on Sharia law at a Long Island synagogue, which was eventually canceled due to security concerns.<sup id="cite_ref-cbs_26-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-cbs-26" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[26]</a></sup> Israeli journalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Glick" title="Caroline Glick" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Caroline Glick</a> argued that White and Davidson were wrong; Geller opposes jihadists, not all Muslims.<sup id="cite_ref-jpost20130413_27-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-jpost20130413-27" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[27]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In May 2013, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League_Chapters#Canada" title="Jewish Defense League Chapters" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jewish Defense League of Canada</a> invited Pamela Geller to speak in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Toronto</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" title="Canada" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Canada</a>. Initially, Geller was invited by Rabbi Mendel Kaplan to speak at Chabad@Flamingo. Because Kaplan was a chaplain with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Regional_Police" title="York Regional Police" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">York Regional Police</a>, the police's Hate Crimes Unit stated that Kaplan's invitation conflicted with "our long-held position of inclusivity". Kaplan consequently uninvited Geller, and she spoke at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Zionist_Centre&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Toronto Zionist Centre (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Toronto Zionist Centre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-28" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[28]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">She is a supporter of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Defence_League" title="English Defence League" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">English Defence League</a> (EDL) saying: "I share the EDL's goals ... We need to encourage rational, reasonable groups that oppose the Islamisation of the west."<sup id="cite_ref-ObserverEDL_29-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-ObserverEDL-29" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[29]</a></sup> In June 2013, Geller was scheduled to speak at an EDL rally,<sup id="cite_ref-Huff20130620_6-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Huff20130620-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> but was barred from entering Britain by a Home Office ruling that describes her as having established "anti-Muslim hate groups".<sup id="cite_ref-Ind20130626_7-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Ind20130626-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> Cited as evidence for the ban were statements categorizing al-Qaeda as "a manifestation of devout Islam" and stating that jihad requires Jews as an enemy.<sup id="cite_ref-news4UK_30-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-news4UK-30" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[30]</a></sup> Geller called the decision "a striking blow against freedom ... The nation that gave the world the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta" title="Magna Carta" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Magna Carta</a> is dead." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_not_Hate" title="Hope not Hate" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Hope not Hate</a>, which led a campaign to ban her, applauded the decision as a proper limit to "unfettered free speech".<sup id="cite_ref-Ind20130626_7-3" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Ind20130626-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Geller opposes both <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Islam" title="Political Islam" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">political Islam</a><sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-16" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Islam" title="Radical Islam" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">radical Islam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ts130505_9-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-ts130505-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nd130408_17-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nd130408-17" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ja130510_14-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-ja130510-14" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-npr120924_31-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-npr120924-31" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[31]</a></sup> Geller has said of herself that she has "no problem with Islam. I have a problem with political Islam."<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-17" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> In particular, she says<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihadism" title="Jihadism" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">jihadism</a> is a threat to civilization.<sup id="cite_ref-ja130510_14-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-ja130510-14" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> After expressing her anti-jihad views in controversial subway ads<sup id="cite_ref-wsj121001_32-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-wsj121001-32" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[32]</a></sup> she was called an anti-Muslim bigot and racist by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muneer_Awad" title="Muneer Awad" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Muneer Awad</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_American-Islamic_Relations" title="Council on American-Islamic Relations" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Council on American-Islamic Relations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ap120920_33-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-ap120920-33" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[33]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nyt120919_34-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nyt120919-34" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[34]</a></sup> Geller responded to such charges by noting that the ads weren't directed at all Muslims but "only those who engaged in what she characterises as 'Jihad'."<sup id="cite_ref-sn120920_35-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-sn120920-35" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[35]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">She was mentioned in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik" title="Anders Behring Breivik" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Anders Behring Breivik</a>'s manifesto, however it later came to light that Breivik had intentionally portrayed himself as a counterjihadist and Zionist in order to trick the media into attacking these very people, and to cover up his true allegiance to “nordicists” and “ethnocentric nationalists” (i.e. neo-Nazis).<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-36" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[36]</a></sup> In a 2014 letter,<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-37" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[37]</a></sup> he stated "The idea was to manipulate the MSM [Main Stream Media] and others so that they would launch a witchhunt and send their media-rape-squads against our opponents. It worked quite well."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Critics believe she crosses the line from a focused criticism of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamism" title="Islamism" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Islamism</a> to a broader hostility towards Islam in general. When she called for an official classification of Islam as "a political movement ... authoritarian and supremacist ... as well as a religion," the ADL responded that "[w]hile the threat of Islamic extremism is a legitimate concern, such a simplistic initiative fails to distinguish between the general Muslim population and extremists motivated by radical interpretations of Islam."<sup id="cite_ref-adlreport_38-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-adlreport-38" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[38]</a></sup> Geller repeatedly denies that she is categorically anti-Muslim.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-18" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nd130408_17-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nd130408-17" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jj120625_39-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-jj120625-39" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[39]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Cooper360_40-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Cooper360-40" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[40]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nr260784_41-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nr260784-41" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[41]</a></sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Jacobs_(political_activist)" title="Charles Jacobs (political activist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Charles Jacobs</a> says that Geller takes aim at "radical Islam," comes to the defense of victims of honor killings, and deals with Islamist antisemitism which the ADL and SPLC fail to address.<sup id="cite_ref-ja130510_14-3" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-ja130510-14" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></sup>She has been described as "far right" by <i>The Huffington Post</i>, British newspaper <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Guardian</a></i>, investigative journalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Weiss" title="Gary Weiss" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Gary Weiss</a>, and human rights activist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Zeskind" title="Leonard Zeskind" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Leonard Zeskind</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-42" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[42]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-43" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[43]</a></sup> Zeskind also classified Geller as a radical right ideologue, racist, and Islamophobic.<sup id="cite_ref-Weiss_15-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Weiss-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;">:137</sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-44" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[44]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Geller has said that "Islam is the most antisemitic, genocidal ideology in the world."<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-45" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[45]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-46" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[46]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-47" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[47]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-48" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[48]</a></sup> She holds the view that radical Islam is a <i>bona fide</i> variant of Islam, which she describes in a number of ways: "Muslim terrorists were practicing pure Islam, original Islam."<sup id="cite_ref-Cooper360_40-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Cooper360-40" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[40]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nr260784_41-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nr260784-41" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[41]</a></sup> Terrorists don't spring from "perversions of Islam but from the religion itself"<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-19" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> "I believe in the idea of a moderate Muslim. I do not believe in the idea of a moderate Islam. ... I think a moderate Muslim is a secular Muslim."<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-20" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> She quotes the prime minister of Turkey, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdogan" title="Recep Tayyip Erdogan" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Recep Tayyip Erdogan</a>, "... there is no moderate Islam; there is no extreme Islam; Islam is Islam."<sup id="cite_ref-pbs110927_49-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-pbs110927-49" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[49]</a></sup> She argues that Islam must be secularized from within: "I believe most Muslims are secular. I don’t believe that most Muslims subscribe to devout fundamentalist Islam by any stretch of the imagination. And we need the secular Muslims to win the battle for the reformation of Islam."<sup id="cite_ref-pbs110927_49-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-pbs110927-49" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[49]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In economics she favors "right-wing" "small government" fiscal policies of cutting taxes and reducing budgets.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc150504_13-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-bbc150504-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Weiss_15-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Weiss-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;">:137</sup> She is "socially liberal" in her support of abortion legalization<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-21" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jewish_week_2010-09-01_2-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-jewish_week_2010-09-01-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-VV121128_20-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-VV121128-20" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a></sup> and same-sex marriages<sup id="cite_ref-bbc150504_13-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-bbc150504-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-VV121128_20-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-VV121128-20" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a></sup> but she believes drug legalization goes "too far."<sup id="cite_ref-Weiss_15-3" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Weiss-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;">:130</sup> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Weiss" title="Gary Weiss" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Gary Weiss</a> writes that Ayn Rand's philosophy of individualism is a major influence in her thought and life.<sup id="cite_ref-Weiss_15-4" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Weiss-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;">:129–137</sup> Unlike Rand, Geller is a theist who defends the Judeo-Christian ethical tradition.<sup id="cite_ref-Weiss_15-5" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Weiss-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;">:134</sup> In her rhetorical style, she shares Rand’s "verbal excesses" accompanied by a "willingness to provoke and offend."<sup id="cite_ref-Weiss_15-6" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Weiss-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;">:133–4</sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">She encouraged Israel to "stand loud and proud. Give up nothing. Turn over not a pebble. For every rocket fired, drop a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_Ordnance_Air_Blast" title="Massive Ordnance Air Blast" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">MOAB</a>. Take back <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Gaza</a>. Secure <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_and_Samaria" title="Judea and Samaria" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Judea and Samaria</a>. Stop buying<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haaretz" title="Haaretz" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Haaretz</a></i>. Throw leftists bums out."<sup id="cite_ref-Indomitable_Israel_50-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Indomitable_Israel-50" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[50]</a></sup> She is an ardent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist" title="Zionist" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Zionist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-jj120625_39-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-jj120625-39" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[39]</a></sup> She regards much of the Israeli media as "Jewicidal" and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz" title="Kibbutz" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">kibbutz</a> movement as a failed idea and a variety of slavery.<sup id="cite_ref-Weiss_15-7" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Weiss-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; white-space: nowrap;">:133</sup></font></p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Geller and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Spencer_(author)" title="Robert Spencer (author)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Robert Spencer</a> co-founded <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Islamization_of_America" title="Stop Islamization of America" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Stop Islamization of America</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sioaonline1_11-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-sioaonline1-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></sup> Geller is a co-founder of Stop Islamization of Nations, an umbrella organization that includes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Islamization_of_America" title="Stop Islamization of America" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Stop Islamization of America</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Islamisation_of_Europe" title="Stop Islamisation of Europe" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Stop Islamisation of Europe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-51" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[51]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-52" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[52]</a></sup> Both SIOA and FDI are described as exhibiting anti-Muslim bigotry by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League" title="Anti-Defamation League" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Anti-Defamation League</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cbs_26-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-cbs-26" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[26]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ADL20110325_53-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-ADL20110325-53" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[53]</a></sup> The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center" title="Southern Poverty Law Center" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Southern Poverty Law Center</a>classifies them as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_groups" title="Hate groups" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hate groups</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SPLC20110301_54-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-SPLC20110301-54" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[54]</a></sup> According to the Center, Geller is the "anti-Muslim movement's most visible and flamboyant figurehead. She's relentlessly shrill and coarse in her broad-based denunciations of Islam."<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-55" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[55]</a></sup> Geller has dismissed the SPLC as an "uber left" organization,<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-56" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[56]</a></sup> and in 2015 stated "Who designated the SPLC as a legitimate authority? They are a radical leftist group who targets patriots, vets and even GOP presidential candidates. They have never named a jihadi group as a hate group."<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-57" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[57]</a></sup></font></p>

<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In May 2010, they began a campaign against the proposed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park51" title="Park51" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Park51</a> Islamic community center and mosque, which Geller called the "Ground Zero Mega Mosque".<sup id="cite_ref-elliott_58-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-elliott-58" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[58]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-59" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[59]</a></sup> She says that Park51 is viewed by Muslims as a "triumphal" monument built on "conquered land",<sup id="cite_ref-pbs110927_49-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-pbs110927-49" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[49]</a></sup> and said, "I'm not leading the charge against the Islamic center near Ground Zero. The majority of Americans—70%—find this deeply insulting, offensive. To call it anti-Muslim is a gross misrepresentation and to say that I'm responsible for all this emotion, again a gross misrepresentation".<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_60-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-guardian-60" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[60]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">When asked in an August 17, 2010, interview on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN" title="CNN" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">CNN</a> whether she agreed "that the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 were practicing a perverted form of Islam, and that is not what is going to be practiced at this mosque", she responded "I will say that the Muslim terrorists were practicing pure Islam, original Islam."<sup id="cite_ref-Cooper360_40-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Cooper360-40" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[40]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Hooper" title="Ibrahim Hooper" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ibrahim Hooper</a>, a spokesman for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_American-Islamic_Relations" title="Council on American-Islamic Relations" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Council on American-Islamic Relations</a>, criticized Geller, stating:</font></p>

<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">People say don't give her too much credit, she's a fringe character, but she is a fringe character who every day is on CNN, Fox, <i>The Washington Post</i>, and <i>The New York Times</i>. She is the driving force behind the Islamic center campaign. I would say that she is the queen of the Muslim bashers, I see her rise and the rise of these anti-Islam hate groups going hand in hand.<sup id="cite_ref-QueenHP_18-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-QueenHP-18" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a></sup></font></p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Boehlert" title="Eric Boehlert" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Eric Boehlert</a>, a senior fellow at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism_in_the_United_States" title="Progressivism in the United States" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">progressive</a><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-61" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[61]</a></sup> watchdog group <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Matters_for_America" title="Media Matters for America" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Media Matters for America</a>, concurred with Hooper, remarking that "she's been instrumental, she has whipped up hatred in the right-wing blogosphere and now that's spilled out into the wider community"<sup id="cite_ref-QueenHP_18-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-QueenHP-18" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> while <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_C._McCarthy" title="Andrew C. McCarthy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Andrew C. McCarthy</a>, writing in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">conservative</a><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-62" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[62]</a></sup> magazine <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Review</a></i>, criticized Hooper's remarks on the matter, citing his controversial comments about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamism" title="Islamism" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Islamism</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nr260784_41-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nr260784-41" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[41]</a></sup> Media Matters said "Geller's history of outrageous, inflammatory and false claims, particularly when it comes to issues related to Islam, demonstrate that she cannot be expected to make accurate statements and should not be rewarded with a platform on national television."<sup id="cite_ref-mediamatters1_63-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-mediamatters1-63" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[63]</a></sup></font></p>

<h3 style=" margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Paid_ads_on_public_transit"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Paid ads on public transit</font></span></h3>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Geller and FDI/SIOA paid to run ads on the transit systems of New York City, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. The ad approved to run on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway" title="New York City Subway" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New York City Subway</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Municipal_Transportation_Agency" title="San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">San Francisco buses</a> read: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-65" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[65]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">New York's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Transportation_Authority(New_York)" title="Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">MTA</a> initially refused to display the ads in the New York City Subway system.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_subway_ad_66-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-CNN_subway_ad-66" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[66]</a></sup> The authority's decision was overturned in July 2012, when Judge <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_A.Engelmayer" title="Paul A. Engelmayer" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Paul A. Engelmayer</a> of the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Southern_District_of_New_York" title="United States District Court for the Southern District of New York" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States District Court for the Southern District of New York</a> ruled that the ad was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_speech" title="Protected speech" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">protected speech</a> under the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment" title="First Amendment" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">First Amendment</a>, and that the MTA's actions were <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconstitutional" title="Unconstitutional" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">unconstitutional</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_subway_ad_66-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-CNN_subway_ad-66" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[66]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-67" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[67]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WSJDemeaning_68-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-WSJDemeaning-68" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[68]</a></sup>The judge held in a 35-page opinion that the rejected ad was "not only protected speech — it is core political speech ... [which as such] is afforded the highest level of protection under the First Amendment."<sup id="cite_ref-WSJDemeaning_68-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-WSJDemeaning-68" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[68]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-69" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[69]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Opponents argue that the ad implies Muslims are savages.<sup id="cite_ref-ap120920_33-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-ap120920-33" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[33]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nyt120919_34-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nyt120919-34" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[34]</a></sup> Others argue the opposite, that it is insulting to assume Muslims will identify with violent jihadi.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-70" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[70]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-71" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[71]</a></sup> Some moderate Muslims argue that Geller's use of the word <i>jihad</i> is identical to Islamic extremists' and too common in general American usage. Some moderates seek to focus on the notion of <i>jihad</i> as a <i>striving</i>, but find "rebranding" difficult in today's culture.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-72" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[72]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Council_for_Public_Affairs" title="Jewish Council for Public Affairs" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jewish Council for Public Affairs</a> called the ad "bigoted, divisive", and JCPA President Rabbi <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Gutow" title="Steve Gutow" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Steve Gutow</a> said, "The fact that ads have been placed in the subway attacking Israel does not excuse the use of attack ads against Muslims".<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-73" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[73]</a></sup> Israel Kasnett, editor for the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Post" title="Jerusalem Post" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jerusalem Post</a></i>, argued that Geller is right in her description of violent jihad.<sup id="cite_ref-jpost120930_74-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-jpost120930-74" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[74]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-npr120924_31-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-npr120924-31" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[31]</a></sup> Jewish groups such as the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Community_Relations_Council" title="Jewish Community Relations Council" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jewish Community Relations Council</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League" title="Anti-Defamation League" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Anti-Defamation League</a> "successfully persuaded the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to donate proceeds from the ads to the city’s Human Rights Commission".<sup id="cite_ref-Pine_75-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Pine-75" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[75]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2013, Geller purchased ad space at 39 New York City Subway stations for a new ad that "links Islam to terrorism".<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-76" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[76]</a></sup> Prompted by an ad critical of Israel on the subway, Geller said she is exercising her freedom of speech by showing a picture of the burning <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center" title="World Trade Center" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">World Trade Center</a> with a quote from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koran" title="Koran" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Koran</a>. The ads went up in January 2013 and ran about a month.<sup id="cite_ref-cbs130108_77-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-cbs130108-77" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[77]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the fall of 2014, Geller paid $100,000 for a series of ads to run on the MTA again. They link Islam to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Islamic State</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Hamas</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Adolf Hitler</a>, and the beheading of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Foley(journalist)" title="James Foley (journalist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">James Foley</a>; the MTA is legally required to run the ads, but objected to it at first, prompting a lawsuit by Geller.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-78" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[78]</a></sup> RT.com (formerly <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT(TV_network)" title="RT (TV network)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Russia Today</a></i>, opined "Islamophobic Hitler ads appear on San Francisco buses."<sup id="cite_ref-2015-01-15_rt_79-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-2015-01-15_rt-79" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[79]</a></sup>In April 2015, the MTA banned these ads.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-80" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[80]</a></sup></font></p>

<h3 style=" margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Curtis_Culwell_Center_attack"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Curtis Culwell Center attack</font></span></h3>

<div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle" style=" font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Culwell_Center_attack" title="Curtis Culwell Center attack" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Curtis Culwell Center attack</a></font></div>

<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Geller helped to organize a "Draw the Prophet" cartoon contest on May 3, 2015, at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Culwell_Center" title="Curtis Culwell Center" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Curtis Culwell Center</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garland,_Texas" title="Garland, Texas" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Garland, Texas</a>, the same site where a Muslim group held a "Stand With the Prophet" event in January 2015 after the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting" title="Charlie Hebdo shooting" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><i>Charlie Hebdo</i> shooting</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-r150504_10-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-r150504-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nyt150503_81-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nyt150503-81" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[81]</a></sup> The same day, shots were fired at the event in Garland, resulting in the death of two suspects and the injury of one<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garland_Independent_School_District" title="Garland Independent School District" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Garland Independent School District</a> (ISD) police officer.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-82" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[82]</a></sup></font></p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Geller's blog, <i>Atlas Shrugs,</i> is named in homage to novelist/philosopher <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand" title="Ayn Rand" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ayn Rand</a>'s novel <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged" title="Atlas Shrugged" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Atlas Shrugged</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-22" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-guardian_60-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-guardian-60" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[60]</a></sup> Rand's writings had a seminal influence on her thought.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-23" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-jewish_week_2010-09-01_2-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-jewish_week_2010-09-01-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-VV121128_20-3" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-VV121128-20" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-guardian_60-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-guardian-60" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[60]</a></sup> Geller was a frequent and prolific commenter on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" title="Blog" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">blog</a> <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs" title="Little Green Footballs" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Little Green Footballs</a></i> when, encouraged by a fellow commenter, she started her own blog in late 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-24" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-adlreport_38-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-adlreport-38" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[38]</a></sup> She refers to her blog as "my living room and kitchen — a place where she can kick back and yell, like some people shout at their TV" in contrast to her books and published articles which are "more studied and more measured."<sup id="cite_ref-jewish_week_2010-09-01_2-3" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-jewish_week_2010-09-01-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Her first "spike" in traffic came in early 2006. When thousands of Muslims worldwide protested – sometimes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy#Violent_protests" title="International reactions to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">violently</a> – over <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy" title="Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad</a> printed in a Danish newspaper,<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-83" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[83]</a></sup> Geller posted the cartoons on her blog.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-25" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-84" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[84]</a></sup> Consequently her hits increased dramatically to tens of thousands.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-26" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> By September 2010 she was attracting 184,000 visitors per month.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_1-27" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-nytimes1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">During the 2008 Presidential campaign she posted a number of critical articles on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Barack Obama</a>, including a campaign donation story that was picked up by the national media.<sup id="cite_ref-Illegal_Campaign_D_103110_85-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-Illegal_Campaign_D_103110-85" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[85]</a></sup> She also published many controversial claims, some of which she later distanced herself from, including that Obama's mother was involved in pornography, that his "spiritual father" was a child rapist, that Obama "was involved with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_whore" title="Crack whore" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">crack whore</a> in his youth", and that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X" title="Malcolm X" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Malcolm X</a> had impregnated his mother.<sup id="cite_ref-QueenHP_18-4" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-QueenHP-18" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-VV121128_20-4" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-VV121128-20" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-86" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[86]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-87" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[87]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-88" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[88]</a></sup></font>

<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Critics say that many other claims that Geller has published in her blog are outrageous.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_60-3" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-guardian-60" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[60]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-89" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[89]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-terrible.27anche_90-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-terrible.27anche-90" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[90]</a></sup> For example, she has published articles that said black <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">South Africans</a> are engaging in a "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide" title="Genocide" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">genocide</a>" against whites;<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_60-4" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-guardian-60" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[60]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-terrible.27anche_90-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-terrible.27anche-90" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[90]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-91" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[91]</a></sup> that argued the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_of_the_Rock" title="Dome of the Rock" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Dome of the Rock</a> in Jerusalem, one of Islam's holiest sites, should be removed;<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-92" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[92]</a></sup> and that defended <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slobodan_Milo%C5%A1evi%C4%87" title="Slobodan Milošević" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Slobodan Milošević</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radovan_Karad%C5%BEic" title="Radovan Karadžic" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Radovan Karadžic</a>, perpetrators of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War" title="Bosnian War" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bosnian War</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide" title="Genocide" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">genocide</a> against Bosnian Muslims and Croats, denying the existence of Serbian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camps" title="Concentration camps" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">concentration camps</a> and arguing that many Muslim war victims were murdered by their own people in order to bring condemnation on the Serbs.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_60-5" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-guardian-60" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[60]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-93" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[93]</a></sup> She denies supporting Milošević but has expressed skepticism of some accounts of the camps.<sup id="cite_ref-rebuttal_94-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-rebuttal-94" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[94]</a></sup></font></span></p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">According to Cord Jefferson in the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Prospect" title="American Prospect" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Prospect</a></i>, "the media often craves controversy over substance" and paid "disproportionate attention" to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park51" title="Park51" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Park51</a> story. Citing Salon writer Justin Elliot as evidence that "the controversy was kicked up and driven by Pamela Geller ... whose sinister portrayal of the project was embraced by Rupert Murdoch's <i>New York Post</i>." Jefferson concludes that "... a small-time political blogger with an obsession was able to hijack the news cycle for months."<sup id="cite_ref-prospect2011_95-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-prospect2011-95" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[95]</a></sup> The story was erroneously labeled "The Ground Zero Mosque" by "multiple conservative media outlets such as Fox News and drew national attention.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-96" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[96]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGurn" title="William McGurn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">William McGurn</a>, writing in the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wall Street Journal</a></i> on the subway ads, says they were meant to provoke by being ambiguous. There were immediately taken as many as hateful and "racist". McGurn says "most Americans probably read it the way it is written: Israel is a civilized nation under attack from people who do savage things in the name of jihad." He points out that the word "jihad" is taken in a benign spiritual sense or as a violent militant sense. He finds the media is too quick to assume the ad is an attack on the religion and all Muslims.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj121001_32-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-wsj121001-32" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[32]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The blog has been criticized by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_progressivism" title="Contemporary progressivism" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">progressive</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Matters_for_America" title="Media Matters for America" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Media Matters for America</a>,.<sup id="cite_ref-mediamatters1_63-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-mediamatters1-63" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[63]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mediamatters2_97-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-mediamatters2-97" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[97]</a></sup> She was called "extreme" by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McGreal" title="Chris McGreal" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Chris McGreal</a> of <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Guardian</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_60-6" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-guardian-60" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[60]</a></sup> Conversely, it has been praised by Caroline Glick, managing editor of <i>The Jerusalem Post</i>, who hailed the blog's coverage of Muslim "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing" title="Honor killing" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">honor killings</a>" and called her "an intrepid blogger".<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-98" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[98]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Geller#cite_note-99" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[99]</a></sup></font></p>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=9RR2MyoDwBAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Pamela+Geller%22&hl=en&ei=12oTIKlBML78Aab_tW0DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America</a></i>, Pamela Geller with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Spencer(author)" title="Robert Spencer (author)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Robert Spencer</a>, foreword by (former) Ambassador <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R.Bolton" title="John R. Bolton" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">John R. Bolton</a>, (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%26_Schuster" title="Simon & Schuster" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Simon & Schuster</a>, July 2010) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781439189306" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 978-1-4391-8930-6</a></font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="citation book" style=" word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=haehZwEACAAJ" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;"><i>Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide for the Resistance</i></a>. WND Books. 2011. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781936488360" title="Special:BookSources/9781936488360" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">9781936488360</a>.</span></font></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><i>Freedom or Submission: On the Dangers of Islamic Extremism & American Complacency</i>, Pamela Geller, (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CreateSpace_Independent_Publishing_Platform" title="CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform</a>, April 3, 2013) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781484019658" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 978-1-484019-65-8</a></font></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifqa_Bary" title="Rifqa Bary" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rifqa Bary</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Islamisation_of_Europe" title="Stop Islamisation of Europe" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Stop Islamisation of Europe</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Wilders" title="Geert Wilders" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Geert Wilders</font></a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Islam" title="Criticism of Islam" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Criticism of Islam</font></a></li>

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<a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2011/summer/the-anti-muslim-inner-circle"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2011/summer/the-anti-muslim-inner-circle</font></a>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">PAMELA GELLER </strong><br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

<strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">ORGANIZATIONS</strong> Executive director and co-founder (with Robert Spencer; see below) of Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) and the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), an umbrella group encompassing SIOA. Both are <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map#s=NY" style=" line-height: 1.25em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 153);">listed as hate groups</a> by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Runs the Atlas Shrugs blog.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">CREDENTIALS</strong> Self-styled expert on Islam with no formal training in the field. Co-produced with Spencer the film "<a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/02/15/pamela-gellers-new-film-the-next-wave-of-anti-muslim-propaganda/" style=" line-height: 1.25em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 153);">The Ground Zero Mosque: Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks</a>," which was first screened at the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference. Co-author with Spencer of <em style=" font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.25em;">The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America</em>(2010).</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">SUMMARY</strong> Geller has seized the role of the anti-Muslim movement's <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/pamela-geller" style=" line-height: 1.25em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 153);">most visible and influential figurehead</a>. Her strengths are panache and vivid rhetorical flourishes — not to mention stunts like posing for an anti-Muslim video in a bikini — but she also can be coarse in her broad-brush denunciations of Islam. Geller does not pretend to be learned in Islamic studies, leaving the argumentative heavy lifting to SIOA partner Spencer. She is prone to <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/05/05/muslim-basher-pamela-geller-pushes-another-obama-fairy-tale-proudly/" style=" line-height: 1.25em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 153);">publicizing preposterous claims</a>, such as President Obama being the "love child" of Malcolm X, and once suggested that recent U.S. Supreme Court appointee Elena Kagen, who is Jewish, supports Nazi ideology. Geller has mingled with European racists and fascists, spoken favorably of South African racists and defended Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milosevic. She is a self-avowed Zionist who is sharply critical of Jewish liberals.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">IN HER OWN WORDS</strong> "Islam is not a race. This is an ideology. This is an extreme ideology, the most radical and extreme ideology on the face of the earth."<br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

— On Fox Business' "Follow the Money," March 10, 2011</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"No, no, they can't. … I don't think that many westernized Muslims know when they pray five times a day that they're cursing Christians and Jews five times a day. … I believe in the idea of a moderate Muslim. I do not believe in the idea of a moderate Islam. I think a moderate Muslim is a secular Muslim."<br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

— Quoted in <em style=" font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.25em;">The New York Times</em>, responding to a question as to whether devout practicing Muslims can be political moderates, Oct. 8, 2010</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"In the war between the civilized man and the savage, you side with the civilized man. … If you don't lay down and die for Islamic supremacism, then you're a racist anti-Muslim Islamophobic bigot. That's what we're really talking about."<br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

— Quoted in <em style=" font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.25em;">The New York Times</em>, Oct. 8, 2010</font>

David Horowitz<br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">DAVID HOROWITZ </strong><br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

<strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">ORGANIZATION</strong> Front Page Magazine (online), published by the David Horowitz Freedom Center.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">CREDENTIALS</strong> Organized "Islamofascism Awareness Week" which brought prominent anti-Muslim activists to college campuses in 2007. Author of several books including <em style=" font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.25em;">Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left</em> (2004), which claims that American leftists support Islamic terrorists.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">SUMMARY</strong> Horowitz, who spent his young years as a Marxist, has in recent years become a furious far-right antagonist of liberals and leftists. He also provides some funding support for other anti-Muslim ventures, including, according to the blog SpencerWatch.com, paying Spencer $132,537 to run the JihadWatch website. Horowitz sees no philosophical gradations; if you're not in total agreement with his view of Islam, you're in favor of Muslim hegemony. He believes the Muslim Brotherhood and "Islamofascists" control most American Muslim organizations, especially Muslim student groups on college campuses.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">IN HIS OWN WORDS</strong> "I spent 25 years in the American Left, whose agendas are definitely to destroy this country. The American left wanted us to lose the Cold War with the Soviets and it wants us to lose the war on terror. So I don't make any apologies for that."<br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

— On the "Riz Khan" Show, Al Jazeera, Aug. 21, 2008</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Some polls estimate that 10 percent of Muslims support Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. An al-Jazeera poll put the number at 50 percent. In other words, somewhere between 150 million and 750 million Muslims support a holy war against Christians, Jews, and other Muslims who don't happen to be true believers in the Quran according to <br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

bin Laden."<br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

— In the <em style=" font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.25em;">Columbia Spectator</em>, Oct. 15, 2007</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"There are 150 Muslim Student Associations on American campuses. The Muslim Student Associations were created by Hamas and funded by Saudi Arabia. … [The associations] are Wahhabi Islamicists, and they basically support our enemies."<br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

— On Fox News' "Neil Cavuto Show," Aug. 15, 2006</font>

John Joseph Jay<br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">JOHN JOSEPH JAY</strong><br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

<strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">ORGANIZATION</strong> summer patriot, winter soldier (a website; Jay doesn't use capital letters in his website's name or in his writings). Board member, SIOA. Listed as one of the founders of American Freedom Defense Initiative, SIOA's umbrella group (see also Pam Geller, above).</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">CREDENTIALS</strong> Jay worked for 25 years as a prosecutor and criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C. Geller's Atlas Shrugs blog describes him as a constitutional scholar. In addition to <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/08/10/prime-islam-basher-pam-geller-outdone-by-colleague/" style=" line-height: 1.25em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 153);">his anti-Muslim commentary</a>, Jay blogs prolifically on the right to bear arms.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">SUMMARY </strong>Jay is remarkable for his unreconstructed hatred of all Muslims. He believes attacks by Muslim terrorists justify any violence directed at any Muslim, adding that, as he sees it, the Koran itself justifies such blind retaliation.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">IN HIS OWN WORDS</strong> "every person in islam, from man to woman to child may be our executioner. … there are no innocents in islam. … there is no innocence in islam. all of islam is at war with us, and … all of islam is/are combatant[s.] … islam has established without intellectual doubt that there are no innocent muslims, that the myth of the ‘moderate muslim' is precisely that, and that muslims are no more entitled to exemption or protection from retaliation that [sic] any of the other ‘non-innocent' combatants in the world. … there are no innocent muslims.  islam is subject to killing on grounds of political expediency on the same basis as islam kills its victims, and islam cannot ethically and morally claim otherwise."<br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

— From his website, July 14, 2010</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"in short, dear muslims, g_d in his infinite wisdom saw in advance this struggle between men and religions to win his favor, and the only thing that is foreordained, is that the strong and the resolute shall win his favor, and so far, it has been amply demonstrated that he has chosen the jews as his people, and favored christianity with science, technology, culture and military power. to islam, he has given the hind and dry tit, and the sewers and the deserts of the world in which to inhabit, and in which to fester."<br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

— From his website, June 27, 2010</font>

Terry Jones<br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">TERRY JONES</strong><br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

<strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">ORGANIZATION</strong> Dove World Outreach Center of Gainesville, Fla. Listed by the SPLC as a <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map#s=FL" style=" line-height: 1.25em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 153);">hate group</a>.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">CREDENTIALS</strong> Pastor of Dove World; instigator of "<a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/22/coming-soon-international-burn-a-koran-day/" style=" line-height: 1.25em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 153);">International Burn a Koran Day</a>," which was slated for Sept. 11, 2010, but canceled after worldwide protests and calls from senior officials of the Obama Administration. On March 20, however, Jones did burn a Koran, leading to <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/04/01/enraged-by-florida-pastor-afghan-crowds-kill-foreigners/" style=" line-height: 1.25em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 153);">several days of rampages</a> in early April by religious rioters in Afghanistan, including the storming of a United Nations compound, that resulted in the deaths of at least 20 people. Jones showed no remorse over the deaths, which included at least seven foreigners. Author of <em style=" font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.25em;">Islam is of the Devil </em>(2010). Jones has admitted never having read the Koran. He has no academic or theological degree; his "doctorate" is honorary.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">SUMMARY</strong> A true fanatical extremist who seems to be driven mostly by the need for self-promotion and publicity. Operates entirely outside of the core circle of anti-Muslim activists. Jones is also<a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/the-hard-liners" style=" line-height: 1.25em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 153);">virulently anti-gay</a>.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">IN HIS OWN WORDS</strong> "Here's your opportunity, all you so-called peaceful Moslems [Jones' pronunciation]. … We are accusing the Koran of murder, rape, deception, being responsible for terrorist activities all around the world. … Present to us your defense attorney who is going to defend the Koran. Let us really see. We challenge you: do it. Let us not talk. Let us have some action and proof. … The Koran, if found guilty, can be burned … Or the Koran will be drowned. Or the Koran will be shredded into little bitty pieces … or the Koran will face a firing squad."<br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

— From an undated video on the Dove World Outreach website announcing "International Judge the Koran Day"</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"The world is facing a great danger, which, if it is not stopped, will sooner or later be a threat to freedom in all nations and specifically to the United States. This danger is the growing religion of Islam."<br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

— From the introduction to <em style=" font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.25em;">Islam is of the Devil</em>, 2010</font>

Debbie Schlussel<br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">DEBBIE SCHLUSSEL</strong><br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

<strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">ORGANIZATION</strong> Columnist; eponymous website.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">CREDENTIALS</strong> The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Schlussel is a Detroit-based attorney and MBA. Frequent guest on conservative talk shows.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">SUMMARY</strong> Uncompromising, viciously anti-Muslim commentator who dismisses ostensible allies if they are willing to believe in the concept of moderate Islam. She has even berated Hollywood for its failure to depict Muslims as sufficiently villainous. She has referred to Muslims as "animals." Her intense animosity toward Muslims appears rooted in strong pro-Israel sentiments.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">IN HER OWN WORDS</strong> "So sad, too bad, Lara. No one told her to go there. She knew the risks. And she should have known what Islam is all about. Now she knows. Or so we'd hope. … How fitting that Lara Logan was ‘liberated' by Muslims in Liberation Square while she was gushing over the other part of the ‘liberation.' Hope you're enjoying the revolution, Lara! Alhamdillullah (praise allah) [sic]."<br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

— From her website, following the gang sexual assault on CBS Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lara Logan in Cairo, Feb. 15, 2011</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"[T]he fact is that the majority of Muslims support terrorism. The vast majority. Not just a few hijackers and a few suicide bombers. But the MAJORITY. This isn't me saying it. It's Muslims saying it. And not just in poll after poll of Muslims around the world including in America. Go to the streets of ‘moderate Muslim' Dearbornistan [Dearborn, Mich.] and see how many Muslims dare condemn Hezbollah and HAMAS. It's like playing "Where's Waldo?"<br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

— From her website, Oct. 8, 2008</font>

Robert Spencer<br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">ROBERT SPENCER</strong><br style=" line-height: 1.25em;" />

<strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">ORGANIZATION</strong> Runs the Jihad Watch website, a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Co-founder with Pamela Geller (see above) of Stop Islamization of America and the American Freedom Defense Initiative.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong style=" line-height: 1.25em;">CREDENTIALS</strong> Spencer has a master's degree in religious studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Co-produced with Geller the film "<a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/02/15/pamela-gellers-new-film-the-next-wave-of-anti-muslim-propaganda/" style=" line-height: 1.25em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 153);">The Ground Zero Mosque: Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks</a>" (2011). Author of numerous books including <em style=" font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.25em;">The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion</em> (2007) and<em style=" font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.25em;">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</em> (2005).</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">gnd zero mosque scam ppl did conf at same place in tx, 2 shooters</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-shooting-20150503-story.html#page=1</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-Muslim hate group, the AFDI was behind controversial ad campaigns last year. Its ads on buses in San Francisco cast the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a “war between the civilized man and the savage.”</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Geller is perhaps best known for her opposition to what critics called the “ground zero mosque,” a cultural and prayer center that was to be built in New York about two blocks from the World Trade Center site.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2010, she led thousands of people in a march protesting the project, which has since been scrapped.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">After the shooting, Geller posted an outraged statement on her blog. “This is a war,” she wrote. “This is war on free speech. What are we going to do? Are we going to surrender to these monsters?”..</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A cartoon on the AFDI’s website promoting the contest features a wild-eyed man in a turban wielding a sword, apparently the prophet Muhammad, and saying, “You can’t draw me!” The hand of an unseen artist replies, “That’s why I draw you.”</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Garland cartoon event was intended as a defiant gesture supporting free speech after the Jan. 7 terrorist attack on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Two gunmen opened fire, killing 12 members of the staff and wounding 11 others.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Charlie Hebdo attack was prompted by the magazine’s caricature of Muhammad. In Islam, depicting the prophet is considered a sacrilege.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">French police identified two brothers with Al Qaeda connections, Cherif and Said Kouachi, as the shooters. Both were later killed in a shootout with commandos.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Garland contest reportedly received about 350 drawings of Muhammad and offered a top prize of $10,000, according to AFDI’s website.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It also advertised a $2,500 prize for the most popular cartoon, as voted by readers of Breitbart.com, a conservative website.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The keynote speaker was Geert Wilders, a right-wing member of the Dutch parliament. After seeking to ban the Koran, comparing the text to “Mein Kampf,” and calling Islam a totalitarian ideology, the controversial lawmaker faced charges of inciting hatred in the Netherlands, but he was acquitted in 2011.</font>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvWOQyKx0E8</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.globalpossibilities.org/islamic-extremists-have-seized-control-of-u-s-cities-says-nra-seminar/</font>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>Update: </strong><em>Read Max Blumenthal's <a href="https://storify.com/MaxBlumenthal/ayaan-hirsi-ali-s-anti-muslim-honor-brigade" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">overview of the neocon network's mobilization</a> <span class="print-footnote">[3]</span> against the facts contained in this article. His response to the National Review's allegations of a "lie" are included.</em></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While promoting her new book, <em>Heretic</em>, on a March 23 <a href="http://thedailyshow.cc.com/episodes/aoti6l/march-23--2015---ayaan-hirsi-ali" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">episode</a> <span class="print-footnote">[4]</span> of "The Daily Show," Somali-born author and anti-Islam activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali made a staggering claim: “If you look at 70 percent of the violence in the world today, Muslims are responsible,” she told host Jon Stewart.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Stewart did not demand any evidence and Hirsi Ali provided no citation. However, she made a strikingly similar statement in a <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-reformation-for-islam-1426859626" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">March 20 essay</a> <span class="print-footnote">[5]</span> previewing her new book for the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>: “According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies,” Hirsi Ali wrote in WSJ’s Saturday Essay, “at least 70% of all the fatalities in armed conflicts around the world last year were in wars involving Muslims.”</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">I contacted the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a leading British foreign policy think tank, to inquire about the source of Hirsi Ali’s statistic. According to IISS Media Relations and Communications Officer Kat Slowe, IISS did not explicitly state such a figure in its research.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“I have spoken to a number of our experts and they cannot identify where this statistic may have come from,” Slowe told me.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Their best guess is that the journalist in question [Hirsi Ali] may have access/a subscription to the [IISS] Armed Conflict Database and may have calculated this statistic independently. There are some concerns that it could be misleading as, without Syria (near 200,000 total deaths, and almost half of last year’s global conflict deaths) the figure would look massively different (and of course, this conflict did not have its root in religion),” Slowe added. </font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hirsi Ali’s AHA Foundation did not respond to my request for a citation on the statistic, nor did the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute that employs Hirsi Ali as a resident scholar. My email query to Hirsi Ali’s personal account at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where she serves as a fellow, also went unanswered.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Around 24 hours after my initial query, Hirsi Ali publicly backed off her claim that Muslims are “responsible” for most of the violence in the world. “Depressing that 70% of fatalities in armed conflicts around the world last year were in wars involving Muslims,” she declared on her <a href="http://twitter.com/Ayaan/status/580736807769403392" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">personal Twitter account</a> <span class="print-footnote">[6]</span>. </font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hirsi Ali <a href="http://www.iiss.org/en/iiss%20voices/blogsections/iiss-voices-2015-dda3/february-04dc/acd-2014-fatalities-3023" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">linked to a survey of casualties</a> <span class="print-footnote">[7]</span> in global conflicts by IISS’ Hanna Ucko Neill and Jens Wardenaer which made no reference to Muslims or religiously inspired violence. Apparently Hirsi Ali calculated the statistic on her own by using an IISS report that documented fatalities in conflicts in territories from eastern Ukraine to sub-Saharan Africa to the Middle East to Mexico, where drug gangs fueled widespread killing. The IISS's Slowe noted that year's surge in conflict-related deaths occured thanks to the fighting in Syria, explaining that Hirsi Ali's claim "could be misleading" because "this conflict did not have its root in religion."</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Instead of responding to my question about her statistic, Hirsi Ali’s AHA Foundation forwarded my email query to the <em>Washington Free Beacon</em>, a right-wing publication with its own history of Islamophobic <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/03/outlets-attack-divestment" target="blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">tall tales</a><span class="print-footnote">[8]</span> and <a href="http://paper-bird.net/2014/03/04/iran-how-assaulting-eight-women-and-girls-can-make-you-a-gay-man" target="blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">hoaxes</a> <span class="print-footnote">[9]</span>. In a currently <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/anti-israel-activist-fact-checks-hirsi-ali" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">un-bylined article</a> <span class="print-footnote">[10]</span> about the query, the <em>Free Beacon</em> accused me of anti-Semitism.</font>

<strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">History of fraud</font></strong>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hirsi Ali’s highly suspect statistic is only the latest deception by one of the world’s most prominent opponents of Islam. While other anti-Muslim activists like Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller have marginalized themselves on the fringes of the far-right, Hirsi Ali remains a darling of the American mainstream media. In <em>Heretic</em>, a polemic recycling many of her past arguments against Islam, she calls for the emergence of a Muslim Martin Luther — the authoritarian 16th-century zealot who <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Luther_on_Jews.html" target="blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">called for</a> <span class="print-footnote">[11]</span> burning down the synagogues of Jews, whom he compared to a gangrenous disease. With the book's release, Hirsi Ali has been welcomed with open arms by the BBC, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, and a relatively accommodating Jon Stewart. ABC News has even run an excerpt from <em><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/excerpt-heretic-ayaan-hirsi-ali/story?id=29807824" target="blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Heretic</a> <span class="print-footnote">[12]</span></em>, while the <em>New York Times Book Review</em> hosted her for an interview filled with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/books/review/ayaan-hirsi-ali-by-the-book.html" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">hardball questions</a> <span class="print-footnote">[13]</span> about her favorite children’s books. </font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hirsi Ali’s power to persuade lies in her dramatic personal story and the public persona she has constructed. She has marketed herself as a expert native informant who has emerged out of the dark heart of radical Islam and into the light of Western civilization. Her tale is an uplifting, comforting one that tells many Westerners what they want to hear about themselves and their perceived enemies. With anti-Muslim attitudes at their peak across Europe and the US, her sweeping critique of Islam as an endemically violent faith has enormous cachet. The only problem is that like her writings on Islam, much of what she has told the public about herself is questionable.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In May 2006, the Dutch television program Zembla thoroughly debunked the dramatic story Hirsi Ali had told to advance her career, concluding that Hirsi Ali had sold the Dutch public “a story full of obscurities.”</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Born Ayaan Hirsi Magam, she migrated to the Netherlands in 1992, changed her name to Hirsi Ali, and lied to Dutch authorities about her past. Contrary to the story she told the government, she arrived in the Netherlands not from war-torn Somalia, but from Kenya, where she lived in a secure environment and under the protection of the United Nations, which funded her education at a well-regarded Muslim girls’ school. Though she told immigration authorities and the Dutch public she had fled from civil war in Somalia, she left that country before its war broke out. Indeed, she did not live through a war there or anywhere else. Thanks to her fabrications, Hirsi Ali received political asylum in just five weeks.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hirsi Ali told astonished audiences on Dutch talk shows that her supposedly devout family had forced her to marry a draconian Muslim man, that she had not been present at her own wedding, and that her family had threatened to kill her for offending their religious honor. However, Zembla told a drastically different story. Hirsi Ali’s brother, aunt and former husband each testified that she had indeed been present at her wedding. It turned out that Hirsi Ali’s mother had sent her brother to a Christian school, not exactly an indication of Islamic fanaticism.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Yeah, I made up the whole thing,” Hirsi Ali admitted on camera to a Zembla reporter who confronted her with her lies. “I said my name was Ayaan Hirsi Ali instead of Ayaan Hirsi Magan. I also said I was born in 1967 while I was actually born in 1969.”</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hirsi Ali’s claim of honor killing threats also appears to be empty; she remained in touch with her father and aunt after she left her husband. In fact, her husband even came to visit her in the Dutch refugee center where she lived after leaving him. Even though he had paid her way to Europe on the grounds that she would join him in Canada, Hirsi Ali’s husband consented to the divorce she sought. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbxP8Uys8kc" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(Watch</a> <span class="print-footnote">[14]</span> the full Zembla program on Hirsi Ali.)</font>

<strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Fabrications that toppled a government</font></strong>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2003, just a decade after gaining political asylum in the Netherlands, Hirsi Ali was elected to the Dutch parliament on the ticket of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. VVD leadership knew that the story Hirsi Ali told on her immigration forms was a gigantic lie — she had told them as much — but covered up the fraud and even advanced it to propel her career.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“She’s witnessed five civil wars in her youth, and has fled with her family many times. She’s made of iron and steel,” the VVD’s Neelie-Smit Kroes said of Hirsi Ali at the time, reciting claims her party knew were false.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A year after joining the Dutch parliament, where she said she attempted to ban Islamic schools in the Netherlands, Hirsi Ali teamed up with Dutch director Theo van Gogh to produce a documentary called <em>Submission</em>. The film portrayed violence against women in Muslim communities as a logical result of Islamic belief, relying on actresses to portray abused women and featuring semi-nude, niqab clad women with Quranic verses scrawled across their torsos. Van Gogh, a filmmaker and columnist who had taken to calling Muslims “<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/nov/04/features.jonhenley" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">goat fuckers</a> <span class="print-footnote">[15]</span>,” was gunned down and stabbed to death soon after the film’s release by a Dutch Islamist radical. Before fleeing the scene, the killer pinned a note to van Gogh’s body threatening Hirsi Ali with death. Hirsi Ali’s persistence in the face of the episode helped earn her hero status across the West, particularly in post-9/11 America, where Time magazine named her one of its 100 Most Influential People in 2005.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Zembla’s revelations of Hirsi Ali’s lies in May 2006 interrupted her ascent and threw the Dutch government into chaos. No one was more damaged than her friend and close party ally, Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk. Nicknamed “Iron Rita” for her ruthless anti-migrant crackdowns and her demagogic appeals to xenophobia, Verdonk was shamed by the revelations of Hirsi Ali’s deceptions. When she announced her intention to strip Hirsi Ali of her citizenship, however, she was skewered in parliament and forced to relent.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Days after Zembla aired its exposé, Hirsi Ali announced her plans to leave parliament and take up a position with the American Enterprise Institute, the Washington-based think tank that housed many of the neoconservatives who helped orchestrate the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In the immediate aftermath of the furor she caused, Verdonk introduced the so-called “Law on Integration,” one of Europe’s harshest anti-immigrant bills. Only one member of the Dutch House of Representatives opposed it. However, the governing coalition soon collapsed because of the scandal Hirsi Ali’s deceptions inspired. With a new coalition seated in February 2007, and without Verdonk and Hirsi Ali in power, the government was able to adopt a more tolerant approach to immigrants.</font>

<strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Winning a Harvard fellowship, defending Breivik</font></strong>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Upon her relocation to the US, Hirsi Ali was embraced by a coalition of liberal interventionists, neoconservatives and “New Atheists” like Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Bill Maher. With extended <a href="http://www.cbn.com/tv/1420602061001" target="blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">appearances</a><span class="print-footnote">[16]</span> on the Christian Broadcasting Network of Pat Robertson, who blamed homosexuality for the 9/11 attacks, self-proclaimed feminist Hirsi Ali won droves of fans among the Christian right. Despite her views on Islam, which <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/11/why-aayan-hirsi-ali-gets-a-conservative-media-s/198856%3E" target="blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">she called</a> <span class="print-footnote">[17]</span> a “destructive, nihilistic cult of death,” or perhaps because of them, she received a <a href="http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/experts/2635/ayaan_hirsi_ali.html" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">fellowship</a> <span class="print-footnote">[18]</span> from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As she rose in prominence among America’s intellectual elite, Hirsi Ali’s history of lying tumbled conveniently down the Orwellian memory hole. In <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Infidel-Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali/dp/0743289692" target="blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">promotional material</a> <span class="print-footnote">[19]</span> for her best-selling 2007 memoir, <em>Infidel</em>, Hirsi Ali’s publishers at Simon & Schuster have pushed the discredited claim that “Hirsi Ali survived civil war.” More recently, conservative pundit Peggy Noonan glossed over the reasons behind Hirsi Ali’s flight from the Netherlands, <a href="http://www.peggynoonan.com/salman-rushdie-meet-charlie-hebdo/" target="blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">writing</a> <span class="print-footnote">[20]</span>, “Ayaan Hirsi Ali got death threats and eventually fled to America.” Few, if any, American outlets have noted that Hirsi Ali left the Netherlands as her public credibility collapsed and her anti-immigrant party fell into crisis.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">With support from across the American ideological spectrum, Hirsi Ali sharpened her rhetoric against Muslims. In a candid 2007 exchange with Reason Magazine, she <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2007/10/10/the-trouble-is-the-west/singlepage" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">declared</a> <span class="print-footnote">[21]</span> that the religion of Islam had to be “defeated.” “Once it’s defeated, it can mutate into something peaceful,” Hirsi Ali stated. “It’s very difficult to even talk about peace now….There comes a moment when you crush your enemy.”</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Junketed to Berlin in 2012 to receive the Axel Springer Honorary Award from the right-wing German publisher, Hirsi Ali appeared to <a href="http://www.loonwatch.com/2012/05/ayaan-hirsi-ali-sympathizes-with-terrorist-anders-behring-breivik/" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">blame</a> <span class="print-footnote">[22]</span> liberal defenders of multiculturalism for the killing spree committed by the Norwegian extremist Anders Breivik, claiming they left Breivik with “no other choice but to use violence. (Breivik cited Hirsi Ali’s work in his 1,500 page manifesto explaining his plans to commit a series of terrorist attacks across Norway.)</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“[T]hat one man who killed 77 people in Norway, because he fears that Europe will be overrun by Islam, may have cited the work of those who speak and write against political Islam in Europe and America – myself among them – but he does not say in his 1500 page manifesto that it was these people who inspired him to kill. He says very clearly that it was the advocates of silence. Because all outlets to express his views were censored, he says, he had no other choice but to use violence.” (Her words were met with an extended standing ovation.)</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">When Brandeis University <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/us/brandeis-cancels-plan-to-give-honorary-degree-to-ayaan-hirsi-ali-a-critic-of-islam.html?r=0" target="blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">canceled plans</a> <span class="print-footnote">[23]</span> to award Hirsi Ali an honorary degree in April 2014, it appeared that her increasingly vitriolic tirades against Islam and its adherents had caught up with her. But then came the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, a seemingly clarifying moment that Hirsi Ali and fellow anti-Islam activists seized on as confirmation of their darkest prophecies. Two months later, she released <em>Heretic</em>.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Having rebranded herself a brave “reformer” <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ayaan-hirsi-ali/from-selma-to-tunis-when-will-we-march-against-the-segregation-of-our-own-time_b_6915660.html" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">following in the footsteps</a> <span class="print-footnote">[24]</span> of the Selma marchers, Hirsi Ali has found her way back into the mainstream limelight. While American media demonstrates an endless appetite for her polemics about Islam, holding her to account remains taboo.</font>

<em><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Editor's Note: Cat Slowe's official title with IISS has been clarified -- her official title is Media Relations and Communications Officer.</font></em></p>

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</div><div class="commentlink">Advocacy groups, progressives, and politicians are warning about the dangers of “normalized hate speech” and Islamophobia after the latest round of threats targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee and one of the first Muslim congresswomen.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">“The political environment, led by an Islamophobe in the White House, has normalized hate speech and emboldened bigots in their actions,” Afaf Nasher, executive director of the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY), said Saturday.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">“The rising threat of Islamophobia and white supremacy must be taken seriously,” he added. CAIR is the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Nasher expressed relief that law enforcement tracked down Patrick Carlineo, of Addison, New York, who was arrested and charged on Friday with threatening to assault and murder Omar, a Democrat who represents Minnesota.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">In a phone call to Omar’s office last month, the 55-year-old allegedly told one of her staffers: “Do you work for the Muslim Brotherhood? Why are you working for her, she’s an (expletive) terrorist. I’ll put a bullet in her (expletive) skull.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">While being questioned by the FBI after the incident, “Carlineo told the agents he is a patriot, that he loves President Trump, and hates radical Muslims in government,” the Elmira Star Gazette reported Friday, citing the complaint.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">News of Carlineo’s arrest came after The Blast reported Wednesday that, according to court records, Omar was the target of an unrelated bomb threat in mid-March when she was the featured speaker for a CAIR event at a Los Angeles hotel.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">A female caller, who dialed from a blocked number, reportedly left a voicemail saying: “What would you do if I told you your hotel was going to be bombed. That is exactly what’s going to happen if you allow the likes of Ilhan Omar into your hotel. She is a danger to American society and your hotel. You are not to allow her foot into there if you value your own safety. Do not allow her in there. Cancel the event.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">The newly reported threats provoked sympathy and support for Omar, including from activist Linda Sarsour and the advocacy group Jewish Voice for Peace:</div><div class="commentlink">...</div><div class="commentlink"></div><div class="commentlink">muslim brotherhood plan for america duckduck 4/19</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">snopes 2017?</div><div class="commentlink">In early June 2017, conspiracy-oriented web sites began posting stories accompanied by a YouTube video claiming that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had raided a house in Annandale, Virginia, and foiled a plot by the Muslim Brotherhood to take over the United States:</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">The Muslim Brotherhood’s strategic 30-year plan for taking over America from within was a closely-guarded secret until the FBI raided a house in Annandale, Virginia, where agents found a disturbing bundle of documents containing a blueprint for the Muslim takeover of our country. Now that the cat is out of the bag, we must do everything in our power to expose what’s going on, as startlingly, these American-hating vermin are in the final phase of their 5-step plan to destroy our country.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Twenty-seven years ago, Muslim Brotherhood leader Yusuf al-Qaradwai traveled to America to organize Muslims across America, educating them with his diabolical plan for the compete Muslim takeover of America that would take 30 years to complete. It included a key tactic known as “Muruna,” where Muslims are able to violate Sharia Law in order to convince Americans that they are just like us. Just like an Ebola virus, Muruna is extremely effective, as Muslims are now able toseamlessly integrate into every facet of our society, as they make their way into our public school systems, our federal and law enforcement agencies, and key positions within our government.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">But due to the raid, their game is up. Now that their highly-guarded secrets are out, we as Americans must stand up and expose what’s going on, while doing everything in our power to stop their rapidly approaching plans from coming to fruition.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">We contacted the FBI about the alleged activity, but the bureau is unable confirm or deny ongoing investigations. However, Freedom Daily, along with the other sites that posted the story, are all known to regularly post misleading or false stories. Something as significant as an FBI raid to prevent a “takeover” of the United States would have been reported by trusted news outlets as well, if it were real. </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Yusuf al-Qaradwai is a Sunni cleric from Egypt who is a well-known in the Arabic-speaking world. He is a controversial figure. Writing for The National in 2014, a news outlet in the United Arab Emirates, journalist Hassan Hassan noted:</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Perhaps the most dangerous of such fatwas are those issued by influential clerics such as Yusuf Al Qaradawi, one of the Muslim world’s most prominent theologians. Sheikh Al Qaradawi, an Egyptian who heads the International Union of Muslim Scholars, has a rich legacy of advocating for the integration of Muslims into the modern world. He fought against extremist views and wrote several books addressing troubling trends in Muslim societies.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Recently, however, he has dedicated most of his public appearances to making political and religious statements that threaten to entrench radicalism within Muslim societies in the region and beyond. As a result, commentators in sections of the Arabic media started discussing a key part of the cleric’s legacy, namely issuing fatwas that sanction violence and stoke sectarian and religious hatred. Commentators have called on the cleric to consider the impact of his fatwas on the dozens of civilians across the region dying in suicide bombings that occur almost weekly.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">In one of his best-known fatwas, issued in the 1990s, Sheikh Al Qaradawi permitted the use of suicide bombing as a defensive tactic against Israel. Since then, instead of retracting the fatwa, he has repeatedly responded by saying that he was not the only cleric to justify suicide operations and that his fatwa was tailored specifically for helpless Palestinians in their fight against the Israeli occupation.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Although Al-Qaradawi is a well-known figure in the Arabic-speaking world, we found no evidence to support the claim that law enforcement, either federal or local, raided a home in Annandale, Virginia in relation to an imminent 30-year plan for the Muslim Brotherhood to take over the United States.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">The horror of the New Zealand terror attack that targeted two mosques during Friday congregational prayers and left 50 people dead has raised important questions about the kind of ideas that inspire this senseless violence. In Canada, the 2017 Québec mosque shooting that left six Muslim men dead also forced the question: what drives the hate that leads to white nationalist terror?</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Recently I attended a “free speech” conference on the outskirts of Toronto. In attendance at the event were lawyers from prominent legal firms and other professionals. When I challenged one of the speakers for remarks I felt promoted hatred against Muslims, I was physically assaulted.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">I have long been examining the question of what fuels white nationalist hatred by documenting and mapping the “Islamophobia industry” in Canada. The industry is a constellation of individuals, media outlets, think tanks, politicians and organizations that purvey racism and Islamophobia. These include white nationalist and “alt-right” groups that are proliferating and expanding their reach in Canada from upward of 100 groups in 2015 to nearly 300 by 2018.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">While the alt-right, neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups are the foot soldiers of the movement, there are other, more covert players that form the soft power of this widespread industry. These power brokers use cultural, political and economic ideas to influence, shape and inform white nationalist views. They help circulate bigotry by dressing it up as patriotism and purveying it through “respectable” channels.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">I refer to this as the “liberal washing” of white nationalism, where politically camouflaged xenophobic, Islamophobic and racist notions are disguised under the veneer of liberal discourse such as “protecting democracy,” “freedom” and the “rule of law” from what are regarded as illiberal, anti-modern and anti-democratic minorities.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">I had a front-row seat to liberal-washed hate messaging at the conference held by Canadians for the Rule of Law, a registered charity that seeks to challenge “political tribes” and “disruptors” who question the rule of law in Canada.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Teaching Islamophobic fear and bigotry</div><div class="commentlink">The idea that “Islamists” are infiltrating and imposing shariah law in Canada was a common narrative at this event and disturbingly echoed the views of the New Zealand shooter, whose manifesto spoke of Muslim “invaders” who were corrupting western civilization.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">The vague deployment of the term “Islamist” at this conference reduced a broad political spectrum to a narrow epithet for the violent overthrow of democratic rule to install an Islamic State. The Islamist bogeyman became the dominant representation of Muslims. Fear-mongering about the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood in Canada was used as a clarion call to warn of impending threats to Canada’s freedom and democracy from Muslim neighbours, organizations, politicians, Muslim Student Associations and Islamic schools.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Preserving Canadian “values” from the corruption of minorities seems far more reasonable than shouting racist slogans in the street — except this liberal-washing of hate is simply another way of echoing and dog-whistling white nationalist, xenophobic ideals by masquerading them through more “civil” and “polite” discourse.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">One of the supporting organizations of the conference was Act For Canada, an offshoot of Act For America, one of the most prominent anti-Muslim groups in the United States. Their website outlines their goals:</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">“ACT! For Canada is a forum for citizens concerned about the triumphalist brand of Islam that seeks to erode our cherished western principles of free speech and equality with the goal of eventual Islamic supremacy in the West ….”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Other groups supporting the conference included conservative media outlet TAG TV, the Bangladeshi Minority Rights group, B’nai Brith and several pro-Zionist groups that equate criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic and “illegal.” The conference also received funding from Daniel Pipe’s Middle East Forum think tank that “protects western values from Middle Eastern threats” and “emphasizes the danger of lawful Islamism.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">A front row seat to hate</div><div class="commentlink">To set the tone for the day, conference organizers began with a condemnation of the New Zealand terror attack. Attendees were asked to rise for a moment of silence. It turns out the silence was not to commemorate the victims of this heinous hate crime, but rather to honour “free speech.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">I spent a long day of being a fly on the wall at this conference, hearing non-stop pro-Zionist rhetoric denying that Israel was oppressing Palestinians and consuming a steady diet of Islamophobic bigotry. Along with this came calls for preserving “Judeo-Christian democracy,” protecting against multiculturalism and the need to build a “coalition of the willing,” (the term used by George W. Bush to refer to countries who supported militarily or politically the 2003 U.S-led invasion of Iraq), to challenge “Islamists” and preserve the rule of law in Canada.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Most egregiously, in one session I attended, panellists repeatedly referred to the Al Noor mosque in New Zealand where the terror attack occurred as a “known site of radicalization” without citing any evidence. They complained the media was not publicizing this information. Despite their caution to say this was not a justification for the shootings, I was concerned their salacious and unfounded claim against the Al Noor mosque created further fear and hatred against Muslims.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">I finally decided to intervene.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">One of the panellists was Christine Douglass-Williams, who in 2017 was removed from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation for remarks described by non-profit organizations as Islamophobic.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">I asked her about a speech she made in Iceland in which she warned Icelanders about the “Islamicist supremacist incursion into their country:”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">“Islamic supremacists will smile at you and invite you to their gatherings, make you feel loved and welcomed but they do it to deceive you and take over you, your land, and your freedoms …Many friendly, seemingly ‘moderate’ Muslims are deceiving you …”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">I asked her what her warning was for Canadians, given that’s what she told Icelanders.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Not so free speech</div><div class="commentlink">Douglass-Williams became defensive and said she was misquoted. I was paraphrasing, but I told her I took the information directly from an article she wrote. The moderator became angry and told me I couldn’t speak anymore. He told me to leave.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">I protested and said I was trying to engage in a dialogue, to exercise my free speech rights, which this conference purported to uphold. The moderator, who is an “ethicist,” informed me I was now trespassing and had to leave....</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">ADL smears Canary Mission as “Islamophobic” for exposing Islamic anti-Semitism</div><div class="commentlink">APR 29, 2018 3:30 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Canary Mission, an estimable group, is not the first supporter of Israel to be smeared by the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL has likewise defamed Pamela Geller and me for standing against jihad terror and Sharia oppression. The ADL has also libeled the preeminent lawyer and orthodox Jew David Yerushalmi as an “extremist,” an “anti-Muslim bigot” […]</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">At least 49 people have been killed in a terrorist attack that New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has described as one of the country’s “darkest days.” The targets were two mosques in the city of Christchurch, and according to New Zealand police, the suspects were greatly influenced by far-right white nationalists of the United States. One of the suspects, according to police, published a 74-page manifesto demonizing Muslims and immigrants—and American terrorist Dylann Roof, who slaughtered nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015, was cited as a role model in the document.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">After Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana survived a shooting spree in June 2017, the right-wing media in the U.S. claimed that a wave of violence was coming from the left (never mind the fact that Sen. Bernie Sanders wholeheartedly condemned the attack and wished Scalise a speedy recovery). AM talk radio host Michael Savage even went so far as to that President Donald Trump’s critics needed to be “removed from the airwaves by the federal government for their constant drumbeat of hatred.” But the notion that terrorism is unique to either leftists or far-right Islamist groups like al-Qaeda, ISIS (Islamic State, Iraq and Syria) and Boko Haram is ludicrous—and the horrific attack in Christchurch follows a series of white nationalist, white supremacist or Christianist attacks or plots in the U.S.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Here are some of the most disturbing white terrorist attacks or alleged plots of the Trump era.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">no lnx</div><div class="commentlink">CPAC tries to circle the wagons against the far-right</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Far-right grifters were kept at arm's length, but a few still managed to sneak in.</div><div class="commentlink">LUKE BARNES</div><div class="commentlink">MAR 2, 2019, 11:13 AM</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — In 2019, CPAC seems to have gone out of its way to put on a drab, non-controversial conservative show.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">There was none of the drama of 2017, when far-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos was disinvited just days before the event after a video of him condoning pedophilia emerged, and when neo-Nazi Richard Spencer roamed the CPAC halls rubbing shoulders with younger attendees.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">This year, by contrast, a collection of white nationalists, far-right grifters and conspiracy theorists were kept at an arms’ length and mostly had to be content with roaming the Gaylord Hotel outside of the convention. Many were initially denied passes, but managed to wangle their way inside, although they had to be content themselves with posting about CPAC on Twitter, rather than having direct contact with attendees.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Among those spotted was Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist podcaster who lurked around the edges of CPAC like a vulture. Faith Goldy, a white nationalist who ran for mayor of Toronto in 2018 — getting 3.4 percent of the vote — was also present. Patrick Casey, the executive director of the far-right group Identity Evropa, tried to get into CPAC before being informed that his pass had been canceled. Casey then promptly launched into an angry tweetstorm about how CPAC wasn’t a forum for real conservatives anyway.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Certainly the most amusing example of the far-right and its associated grifters attempting to get some form of CPAC cred occurred on Thursday afternoon, when noted pro-Trump trolls Laura Loomer and Jacob Wohl — both of whom were also denied their in their initial attempts to get into CPAC — held a “press conference” along with conservative lobbyist Jack Burkman to outline another set of spurious, unsubstantiated allegations, this time against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">The event rapidly devolved into farce, with Wohl talking over Loomer every time she tried to speak about her supposed “censoring” on social media, and journalists asking why a document marked “Strictly Private and Confidential” was being distributed to the public.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Wohl and Goldy were later spotted chatting to each other at CPAC, but wearing attendee and not media badges. It is not immediately clear why Wohl especially was allowed in, after being so pointedly denied entry earlier in the day.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Later that night Wohl made an appearance at an afterparty hosted by Turning Points USA, the conservative student group, which featured Donald Trump, Jr. and TPUSA leader Charlie Kirk. Among the (mostly college-aged) revelers was Enrique Tarrio, current leader of the far-right Proud Boys gang was also spotted roaming the halls.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">On Friday, two members of the Proud Boys in New York City pled guilty to charges stemming from a fight outside the New York Metropolitan Republican club in 2018, where the Proud Boys viciously attacked counter-protesters.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">But CPAC’s shooing away of far-right personalities, at least superficially, isn’t the sign of some conservative bulwark against far-right ideas.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Instead, CPAC this year has morphed into a celebration of Trumpism, not conservatism, and all the vitriol that comes along with it.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">On Friday, for instance, Breitbart writer Michelle Malkin blamed moderate Republicans, including the “ghost of John McCain” for being in bed with “immigration saboteurs.” The crowd guffawed uproariously.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Twenty House Republicans Donated to Duncan Hunter’s Islamophobic Campaign</div><div class="commentlink">Rep. Hunter falsely painted his Mexican-Palestinian American opponent as an infiltrator with ties to terrorists. But prominent House Republicans continued to back his campaign with big donations.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">After years of statements that either hinged on or directly implicated Iowa Rep. Steve King as a supporter of white supremacy, House Republicans passed a resolution condemning King following a recent interview where he questioned why using the terms “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” was offensive. </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Republicans like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy claim past leadership did not take King’s racism seriously, but McCarthy was in fact in charge of messaging for the party and asked reporters privately “to ignore King’s crazy racist rantings.” And despite years of objectionable statements, King also served as the co-chair for Ted Cruz’s 2016 Presidential campaign. </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">While the national GOP leadership finally decided to take action on King this week, other members of their caucus with similar histories of racist and offensive statements have not been condemned and in fact receive financial support from their Republican colleagues. </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">The most prominent example from the last election cycle is Congressman Duncan Hunter’s Islamophobic campaign for California’s 50th Congressional District. </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">After the Depart of Justice released a full 47-page indictment in August implicating Hunter in illegal campaign finance spending, Hunter’s lead began to slip in the polls. So with weeks left before the election, Hunter decided to try a new tactic: tying his opponent, who happens to be a Mexican-Palestinian man, with terrorism. </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Running against Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar, a former White House staffer during the Obama administration, Hunter began spending thousands of dollars on Facebook advertisements against his opponent. His statements and videos were blunt: they painted Campa-Najjar as a “national security risk” with family ties to terrorism who was “working to infiltrate Congress.” Campa-Najjar’s grandfather was involved in the 1972 Munich terror attacks, but Campa-Najjar never met his grandfather, who died 16 years before he was born. And perhaps mostly irrelevant to the situation, but something Hunter disputes without evidence, Campa-Najjar is a Christian. </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">The ads argued that if Campa-Najjar received classified information, he would expose our interests abroad. Hunter’s advertisements did not provide actual critiques of Campa-Najjar’s platform or policy ideas. Rather, Hunter was trying to argue that Campa-Najjar was Muslim, and by proxy dangerous. Politifact called a claim made in Hunter’s ad that Campa-Najjar was supported by the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Brotherhood “an unsubstantiated accusation that rests on fear-mongering.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">[Still from a Duncan Hunter Facebook video ad that ran from Sept. 26, 2018 – Oct. 31, 2018]</div><div class="commentlink">Although it was the closest election in the district’s recent history, Hunter ultimately won re-election with 51.7 percent of the vote to Campa-Najjar’s 48.3.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Despite his viciously racist and Islamophobic campaign rhetoric, Hunter’s campaign pulled in thousands in donations from fellow Republican lawmakers. A Sludge analysis of post-election campaign finance reports found that 20 current and former elected officials, all Republicans, made contributions to Hunter’s campaign from their leadership PACs or their campaign committees, for a total of $56,700. </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Of the elected officials from the House whose campaigns and PACs made donations, seven are retired: Brian Bilbray (R-Ca.), Dan Burton (R-Ind.), Tim Murphy (R-Pa.), Todd Akin (R-Mo.), John Kline (R-Minn.), John L Mica (R-Fla.), and Buck McKeon (R-Ca.), who Sludge found may be using his old campaign funds to help his current lobbying clients. </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">The other thirteen were in office at the time of the contributions or are still in office, including Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), Darrell Issa (R-Ca.), Don Young (R-Alaska), Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), Lamar Smith (R-Texas), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Roy Blunt (R-Miss.), Sam Graves (R-Mo.), Scott W Taylor (R-Va.), Tom Cole (R-Okla.), and Tom Rooney (R-Fla.).</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Apart from current and former House representatives, former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, the father of current White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, also contributed $5,000 through his leadership PAC, Huck PAC. </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">“Elected officials more than anyone know what kinds of events they’re going to, who they’re donating to, and what’s going on politically,” said Professor Robert McKenzie, an adjunct at Columbia University and the founding director of the Muslim diaspora initiative at New America, a non-partisan think-tank. </div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Wednesday, the Dallas Morning News reported that the Tarrant County Republican Party will be meeting with the leader of an anti-Muslim hate group on December 29, less than two weeks before their upcoming January 10 vote on whether to remove county GOP Vice Chairman Shahid Shafi for being a practicing Muslim:</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">John Guandolo, a former FBI agent and founder of the Dallas-based group Understanding the Threat, trains police and other officials on dealing with the perceived threat of Muslims in the United States. </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Guandolo has made statements equating all Muslims with terrorists and tweeted a picture of an unidentified Southwest Airlines employee earlier this year, calling the man a jihadi. His Twitter account was suspended in October after he claimed that Democrats were to blame for an attack that left 11 people dead at a Pittsburgh synagogue.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies Understanding the Threat as a hate group.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Lest there be any speculation that the timing of these events is a coincidence, emails obtained by the Texas Observer show a Republican precinct chairman saying county officials "need to learn the truth" before taking the vote on Shafi.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">By all accounts, Shafi, a trauma surgeon at Baylor Scott & White Health and Southlake city council member, is a hardline conservative who has served at several Texas GOP state party conventions. But a small contingent of Republican activists has been pushing for his removal anyway. Chief among them is Dorrie O'Brien, a GOP precinct chair in Grand Prairie affiliated with the anti-Muslim hate group ACT for America. O'Brien has repeatedly claimed, with no basis whatsoever, that Shafi is connected to terrorist groups and plans to take over the United States and impose Sharia law.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Many Texas Republicans are pushing back on the campaign to oust Shafi, including Land Commissioner George P. Bush, outgoing state House Speaker Joe Straus, and Travis County Republican Chairman Matt Mackowiak.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">The fight is leading to rifts in the Texas GOP, which was rattled in the midterms as Democrats captured two House seats, 12 state House and 2 state Senate seats, and dozens of judgeships amid the groundswell of turnout for Democratic Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke. The epicenter of that tension is Tarrant County, home to Fort Worth and Arlington, which for years has been the largest red county in Texas but narrowly went for O'Rourke this year.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Unfortunately for Texas Republicans, at the exact moment they need to reflect on their failure with suburban voters and become more inclusive, their crazier elements are demanding attention. Last week, GOP activist Ray Myers posted"Damn Right, I'm a WHITE NATIONALIST and very Proud of it," on Facebook. Myers worked on the committee that helped the Texas GOP draft their party platform, which calls for abolishing the Voting Rights Act, hate crime laws, state vehicle inspections, divorce, Medicaid, the Seventeenth Amendment, the IRS, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Departments of Commerce, Labor, Energy, Education, Interior, Health and Human Services, and Housing and Urban Development.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">So a bitter fight over whether a loyal conservative should be ejected from a party office because he's Muslim is the last thing the Texas GOP needs right now.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Right-wing political operative Newt Gingrich is warning that the 2018 election results are proof that “the Left is waging—and winning—a linguistic war.” In a commentary first published at Fox and distributed via email over the weekend by Gingrich Productions, Gingrich wrote that “the linguistic war of condemnation, hatred, and intimidation being waged every day by the Left” is just part of what he claims as the problem.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">“The efforts to steal the governorships of Georgia and Florida and the Senate seat in Florida are only the tip of the iceberg of illegality and hostility that the Left now practices routinely.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Gingrich’s amped-up rhetoric about the “illegality” and “hostility” of “the Left” is evidence of his own long expertise in waging linguistic warfare. As People For the American Way President Michael Keegan wrote back in 2011 when Gingrich decided to run for president, “Gingrich is an enthusiastic participant in the right wing’s divisive and destructive McCarthyism, portraying his political opponents as enemies of America’s very existence.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Indeed, before Gingrich was forced out of his position of speaker of the House, before he had repositioned himself as an advocate for “Rediscovering God in America,” and long before his former mistress and current wife was serving as Trump’s ambassador to the Vatican, Gingrich was responsible for bringing an especially toxic approach to partisan politics.  More specifically, as RWW noted in 2012:</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">His entire political career has been based on destructive, vicious, negative attacks on his opponents. In the 1990s, his GOPAC produced “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control,” an infamous list of words that Gingrich said Republicans should use to smear and denigrate their opponents. Among the suggested words was “destructive,” along with “traitors,” “sick,” and “betray.”  Gingrich perfected the kind of hyper-partisan politics of destruction that are currently making it harder to run the country, and harder to attract decent people to run for office. Obviously, decency hasn’t been a barrier for Newt’s own ambitions.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Gingrich’s recent piece aggressively promotes far-right smears against activists who challenge racism and white nationalism. “The Left claims and occupies more and more linguistic ground with each new fight,” he wrote:</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Defense of the Founding Fathers becomes defense of white, racist, slaveowners.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Defense of American identity becomes an act of white male domination. …</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Wanting to obey the law in counting votes becomes an effort to suppress votes and disenfranchise poor people, minorities, and immigrants.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">And then things get really Orwellian—or perhaps Trumpian—with Gingrich attributing to Democrats and “liberal media” exactly the kind of behavior that right-wing activists and media are engaged in:</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Every day, we are watching Democrats break and stretch the law for the sole purpose of winning, while they attack Republicans for wanting an honest count of legal voters.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Democrats and their liberal media allies know that if they repeat something often enough it begins to be accepted as truth.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">However, the Left’s interest in winning the language war is only the first step toward legitimizing real threats and mob behavior.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Once they win the language fight, they can claim moral superiority. Once they have gained moral dominance, they can do anything to their opponents because they will be presumed right, and their opponents will be presumed wrong.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Gingrich doesn’t spell out the solution, but seems to be teeing things up for conservatives to turn to him for the answer: “Developing the conservative solution to the left’s linguistic war is a major step toward winning elections in 2020 – and preserving our society.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">And who better to turn to than Gingrich, Inc., right? While Gingrich has spent much of the past decade allied with dominionists and Christian-nation activists to promote his “Rediscovering God in America” books and video brand—and turning to them to promote his failed 2012 presidential bid—he has also never given up his core competence as a political smear artist.For example, at the Heritage Foundation in December 2016, Gingrich said the right should stop using the term “news media” and replace it “the propaganda media.” Before he rose to the speakership in 1996, he made a name for himself for calling Democrats “pro-communist” in late-night soliloquies he delivered from the House floor to an empty chamber, as he leveraged the new C-SPAN cable channel.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">President Trump, of course, has been an ardent deployer of the “language as a weapon of control” strategy. Gingrich has praised Trump, saying that the president has “brought out into the open how truly anti-American much of the left is and how much it stands for a set of values that all of us, if you looked at it carefully, would find horrifying.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">And Gingrich has joined Trump’s efforts to discredit both the investigation of his 2016 campaign and his Democratic opponents. “Democratic dishonesty is a lot greater threat to freedom than some unproven Russian conspiracy,” Gingrich said earlier this month, adding, for good measure, “Democrats will end up stealing a lot more votes than Putin ever dreamed of taking.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">During the 2016 campaign, Gingrich warned against “those who would impose a totalitarian secularism on us.” That was a recycled version of comments he made in 2011 at John Hagee’s Cornerstone Church, where he memorably said he was “convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [my grandchildren are] my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.”</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink"> Tuesday of this week, a fundamentalist prayer group associated with U.S. Senate chaplain Barry Black published what is known as an imprecatory prayer. It began: “Father, we ask that You take down Mikey Weinstein and his FFRF [sic] group," an apparent reference to Weinstein's group, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, and the 22-page complain it recently filed against Air Force Brig. Gen. John Teichert, as Salon reported last weekend. The MRFF complaint alleges serious violations of Air Force regulations stemming from Teichert's online ministry, and was filed on behalf of 41 clients, 32 of whom identify as Christian.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">To underscore the prayer’s apparent threat, it ineptly quoted Psalm 37:22: "For those who are blessed by Him shall inherit the earth, but those who are curses [sic] b [sic] Him shall be cut off." That's an approximate quotation from the King James Bible; in numerous other translations the word "destroyed" is used in place of "cut off." </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Weinstein has previously described such “imprecatory prayers" as "code words" used by the Christian far right to "troll for assassins," or at least to legitimize possible acts of violence. “We view this as a clear and present threat against me, my family and the foundation, and we take it very seriously,” Weinstein told Salon.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Weinstein's organization, which is not popular among fundamentalist members of the military, has received previous threats, he said. “But this one is inextricably intertwined with the U.S. Senate, and that is intolerable.” His lawyers are drafting letters to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others, he says, demanding redress.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">One MRFF staff member has resigned this week, Weinstein said, "because of pressure from his or her family over the threats that these individuals face, even in their own homes, for being connected with MRFF." And that was before the emergence of this potentially threatening prayer, he added.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">What's the connection between that prayer asking God to "take down" Weinstein and the U.S. Senate? Capitol Hill Prayer Partners, the group that issued the prayer, "has served in on-site prayer under the full blessing of the Office of the Chaplain of the United States Senate" since its founding in 1994, according to the online biography of Sara Ballenger, its founder and president. Chris Rodda, the MRFF's director of research and author of "Liars for Jesus," a survey of religious-right fake history, confirmed that the group holds a semi-official status on Capitol Hill.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">"We intend to have our legal counsel send a demand letter to the majority leader of the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, demanding that they completely disengage with this fundamentalist Christian terrorist organization," Weinstein said. A similar letter will be sent to retired Navy Adm. Barry Black, the current Senate chaplain.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Weinstein says he plans to send a separate "demand letter" to Ballenger at the listed address of Capitol Hill Prayer Partners in Herndon, Virginia, demanding "that she cease and desist" and take down the prayer in question. "In addition, we intend to have a counsel reach out and file an official complaint with the U.S. Capitol Police," he said. </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">In an email to Salon, Rodda cited a report on the 2014 event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Capitol Hill Prayer Partners as further evidence of the group's “close relationship with Chaplain Barry Black, in the form of both a personal note from Black to Ballenger and the fact that Black was a speaker at this Capitol Hill Prayer Partners event.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">According to Rodda, Ballenger has a lengthy history of associating with fringe religious positions and dubious figures, especially on the anti-Muslim far right. It's unclear whether Black, the Senate chaplain, is aware of this. Rodda found the report about Capitol Hill Prayer Partners' 20th-anniversary event, for instance, on the website of Koome Ministries, which was founded by a man named Kamal Saleem, who was keynote speaker at the event.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Saleem was one of a trio of "self-proclaimed former Muslim terrorists" who became celebrities on the Christian right, Rodda explained, but were later exposed as frauds. Saleem enthralled right-wing audiences with his implausible tales of working for Yasser Arafat, Moammar Gadhafi and Saddam Hussein before finding Jesus, but there's no evidence that any of them were true. He appears to have been an evangelical Christian for many years before outing himself as a supposed former terrorist. </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">MRFF had pursued "these Islamophobic fraudsters since 2008, when they were hired to speak at the Air Force Academy,” Rodda wrote to Salon. In 2011, the "three ex-terrorists" became the focus of an investigation by CNN's Anderson Cooper. Rodda wrote about them again at that time in an article for the Huffington Post. Nothing about their stories made sense, but they were key players in a widespread propaganda campaign whose constituency was eager to believe them, so it took sustained effort to discredit them. (A big-picture account can be found in "Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream"; Salon author interview here.) And even three years after being exposed as a near-certain fraud, Saleem was CHPP’s keynote speaker.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink"> Trump looks outward from the United States with dreams of walls on the U.S.-Mexico border that will somehow magically stop what he and his supporters consider/view as a brown "invading" horde, human "vermin" that will "infest" white American society. Nonwhite immigrants and migrants are also to be put in concentration camps by the tens of thousands for an indefinite amount of time while Trump and his enforcers decide how best to remove them from the country.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Trump's racially authoritarian presidency should not be a surprise. He has been remarkably direct and transparent during his public life about his bigotry and disdain towards those who are not white and Christian. The prison camps and detention centers (including prisons for babies) which Trump and his enforcers have created for brown and black migrants and refugees were previewed by his public hostility towards and campaign against Muslims.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Ultimately, Donald Trump's racism, nativism and bigotry have such great power because many millions of white Americans (and an entire political party) share his values. In all, Donald Trump is a symptom, not a cause, of much deeper problems in American society.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">New research from Dalia Mogahed, who is the Director of Research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, and The George Washington University political scientist John Sides, in conjunction with The Democracy Fund Voter Study Group (a voter sentiment research collaboration of analysts and scholars from across the political spectrum) details the wide range of bigotry towards Muslims in America and how such attitudes harm the country's social fabric and democracy.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Their new report “Muslims in America: Public Perceptions in the Trump Era” finds that:</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Unique data from the July 2017 wave of the VOTER Survey (Views of the Electoral Research Survey), as well as other surveys, reveal that Americans’ attitudes toward Muslims in the U.S. are distinctly unfavorable. Although Americans ascribe some positive traits to most Muslims — such as caring about their families — they ascribe negative traits to many Muslims as well. This negative stereotyping of Muslim Americans is more prevalent than stereotyping of Christians. It is also quite out-of-step with the actual attitudes and characteristics of Muslim Americans....</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Finally, there is substantial support for policies targeting Muslims — including restrictions on travel to the U.S. from Muslim-majority countries, surveillance of mosques in the U.S., and screenings at airports. Nearly one-in-five Americans would even deny Muslims who are U.S. citizens the right to vote. The civil rights and liberties of Muslim Americans have a tenuous status in American public opinion.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Thus, the social equality of Muslims faces significant hurdles. These hurdles will be even harder to overcome given our present political discourse, when harsh characterizations of Muslims come not only from the fringes of American political life, but from elected officeholders at all levels of government.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Authoritarians--a group which also overwhelmingly supports Donald Trump and the Republican Party--also possess great animus towards Muslims. This hostility is also directed at nonwhites and those groups viewed as "un-American" more generally.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Negative stereotypes of many racial, ethnic, and religious minority groups are often tied to a constellation of culturally conservative or ethnocentric values. Stereotypes of Muslims showed this same pattern. Views of Muslims were more negative among those who identified as conservative, those who tended to prioritize conformity, those who believed that being Christian was important to being American, and those who did not believe that growing racial diversity would enrich the United States. Similarly, those who expressed some support for nondemocratic political systems — having “the army rule” or a “strong leader who does not have to bother with Congress or elections” — had less favorable views of Muslims.Dalia Mogahed and John Sides' research explains this as:</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Views of Muslims were also connected to views of other social groups. Previous research has shown that white people with less favorable views of many different racial, religious, and cultural minorities — such as black people, Jews, atheists, gays and lesbians, and illegal immigrants — also have less favorable views of Muslims.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">The “Muslims in America: Public Perceptions in the Trump Era" report concludes:</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Given the prevalence of negative stereotypes of Muslim Americans and the willingness to target them for surveillance and screening, it is relevant to ask: what might change these attitudes and produce a public view of Muslim Americans that more accurately reflects their actual attitudes and characteristics?</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">In the meantime, growing partisan polarization in views of Muslims and Islam only invites greater political conflict. Muslims’ own experiences reflect this conflict. In the 2016 ISPU survey, 42 percent of Muslim children in K–12 schools reported being bullied because of their faith, compared with 23 percent of Jewish children, 20 percent of Protestants, and 6 percent of Catholics. (One in four cases of bullying Muslim children involved a teacher or administrator as the bully.) Similarly, 60 percent of Muslims reported discrimination because of their religion, compared to 38 percent of Jews, and less than 20 percent of Protestants and Catholics. Muslims (38 percent) and Jews (27 percent) were also the religious groups most likely to fear white supremacist threats to their personal safety or that of their family because of the 2016 election.Ironically, one change agent has been President Trump himself. His often controversial views of Muslims appear to have produced a backlash among Democrats and independents, both of whom became more favorable toward Muslims and Islam in 2015–2016. As a result, opinions among Americans, overall, have become more favorable. The challenge, however, is that the views of Republicans have not shifted as much, if at all, in that direction. Democrats and Republicans have become more polarized on this issue, as on many other issues.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">I recently spoke with Dalia Mogahed and John Sides about their new research on bigotry towards Muslims, what their findings reveal about the rise of Donald Trump and the extreme right-ward turn of the Republican Party, and the serious threat to American democracy represented by animus and racism towards Muslims and other groups.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Your new research is damning for what it reveals about anti-Muslim animus in the United States. How do these attitudes vary over time? Are they fixed? More intense at some moments than others?</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Dalia Mogahed: You are correct of course, the results are indeed extremely concerning.  It is important however to point out that even according to our research, while the percentages are much higher than any one who cares about equality would want, most Americans do not hold these views.  It is important to hold the basic truth that our country’s social and moral norms still fall on the side of at least basic acceptance of Americans that are Muslim.  That said, according to my research, negative public opinion regarding Muslims ebbs and flows in concert with domestic political rhetoric and not violent acts carried out by Muslims in the name of Islam. Spikes in negative public perception of Muslims tracks against election cycles, especially among Republicans, as well as the run up to war with Muslim majority countries, and not actual terrorist attacks carried out by a Muslim.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">As you point out, these trends are indeed “damning” for what they suggest about the degree to which we are all being manipulated by a political agenda that benefits from fear. Notice that our report also found that holding anti-Muslim perceptions is correlated with greater support for authoritarian views. Fear kills freedom.What do we know about how Donald Trump and the Republican Party's hostility towards Muslims influenced the outcome of the 2016 presidential election?</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Mogahed: Unfortunately, those sentiments were key motivators for many Trump voters as has been documented by several subsequent studies following the election.  When voters are motivated by fear or hatred of “the other” they also tend to favor a “strong leader” and be more willing to relinquish basic freedoms and surrender power to the government-- hardly core conservative values.  But that’s just it, when people are manipulated by false information and fear they act in opposition to their own interests and values.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Anti-Muslim animus is a powerful type of political currency. What does your new research--and other work--reveal about its dimensions and how it plays out among the electorate?</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">John Sides: Our report shows that negative perceptions of Muslim-Americans do not just involve a concern that they are terrorists or sympathetic to terrorism. Those perceptions involve a more fundamental concern that Muslim-Americans do not actually want to be American.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">I view these negative perceptions as a "reservoir" of sentiment that can be mobilized by political entrepreneurs. In 2016, for example, Trump's focus on the threats posed by Muslims -- and Clinton's rejection of that view -- made the public's perceptions of Muslims more related to their preference for Clinton or Trump than had been true in recent presidential elections.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">That helped Trump more than Clinton. There had long been a substantial fraction of Obama voters with less favorable views of Muslims, and the campaign's focus on Muslims arguably helped shift some of those voters to Trump.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">How do you measure anti-Muslim animus? How does it compare to "prejudice" and "racism"?</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Mogahed: Islamophobia, or anti-Muslim animus, prejudice or even “racism” take many forms.  One is on the social level, which is what our report measures.  This is manifested in everything from micro-aggressions or discrimination against Muslim perceived individuals to targeted attacks on Muslims and those perceived to be.  According to the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)’s 2017 and 2018 poll of American Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Protestants and those of no faith, Muslims are the most likely to report experiencing discrimination because of their religion.  But it is important to note that this is not the only — or even the most harmful — way Islamophobia is operationalized.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">There is also State-sponsored Islamophobia, in the form of the criminalization of Muslim communities through the unfounded use of mass surveillance of Muslim institutions, discrimination at the border and in the immigration process, the overuse and misuse of sting operations and a “countering violent extremism” framework that casts an entire religious community as a pool of suspects.  A recent ISPU report found that a Muslim perceived man accused of an ideologically motivated crime receives an average of four times the jail time as someone not perceived to be Muslim accused of a nearly identical ideologically motivated crime.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">There is other research which demonstrates the role of white Christian nationalism in support of Donald Trump. Does your work complement those findings?</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Sides: Our report comes from a survey conducted months after the election. So it's not an account of what happened in 2016. But as I noted above, views of Muslims did play a larger role in voters' choices in 2016 than in recent elections. (That's based on other analysis from my forthcoming book on the election.) But what happened during the campaign and since the election is perhaps counterintuitive: views of Muslims also became more favorable. A variety of surveys show this. The main reason is that Democratic views of Muslims have shifted — arguably in reaction to Trump.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">As a result, Democrats and Republicans are now further apart in their views of Muslims. This is a troubling dynamic. Increasingly, the parties differ in their views on a host of issues connected to racial, ethnic, and religious minorities. That sets the stage for an increasingly divisive and emotionally charged politics.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Is there any political cost to Republicans for embracing anti-Muslim bigotry as a political strategy?</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Mogahed: As for any political cost for expressing anti-Muslim sentiment, there does not appear to be much of a cost in the Republican party.  Ironically however, this vitriol has actually improved American public opinion of Muslims over all, as Shibley Telhami recently discovered in his study. The bright side of all this is that far from demobilizing Muslims, it has coincided with a surge in Muslim civic engagement.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Considering this new research (and your other work) what causes you the most worry about American democracy in this moment and what gives you hope — if anything?</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Mogahed: What causes me the most worry about American democracy is the fact that such a significant percentage of our electorate is misinformed about people they perceive to be unlike them and are voting and approving of policies based on misinformation.  Thomas Jefferson always taught that a well informed citizenry was the bedrock of our democracy which means the very foundation of our freedom is being undermined with fear mongering and demagoguery.  </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">What does give me hope is that this type of thinking is still not the new normal.  It is still a vocal minority of Americans despite the ubiquitous anti-Muslim political rhetoric and  media imagery.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Honestly, if you’re trying to grasp our strange new world, this Washington Post headline gets you at least part of the way there: "New NSC Chief of Staff Is From Group That Believes Muslims Are Plotting to Take Over U.S." No, that NSC isn’t the National Student Clearinghouse or the Norfolk Southern Corporation or the National Sports Center. It’s the National Security Council, the outfit that advises the president on, well, national security, and that happens to be headed by new National Security Advisor John Bolton, a man who never saw a country he couldn’t imagine bombing. Now, as its Bolton-appointed chief of staff, it has a genuine Islamophobic crackpot by the name of Fred Fleitz. He previously was vice president for policy at Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy, an outfit that, as the Post puts it, "propagates the conspiracy theory that Islamists have infiltrated the U.S. government in a plot to take over the country" (and that’s barely to crack the surface of its mania about Islam). </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">By the way, you remember that flap about Roseanne Barr calling former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett a spawn of the Planet of the Apes, right? If not, it’s not your fault. Since that controversy exploded across the Twitternet ("Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes = VJ"), our president has been transforming himself into King George III, claiming unprecedented powers over this country and, if he has his way, the world, while there have been so many other manic explosions in our media world that it’s mindboggling. On such a planet, attention spans are understandably short. Nonetheless, it might be worth revisiting the Barr controversy briefly, in light of the Fleitz appointment, since the racist comparison of Jarrett, an African American woman, to an ape proved explosive, yet the other half of Barr’s insulting equation ("Muslim Brotherhood") was barely noticed. </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">As the invaluable Juan Cole writes at Informed Comment, however, Barr seems to have picked up much of her Jarrett slam from Gaffney and Fleitz’s center, which has worked hard to “single out Jarrett as a baleful influence on Obama and... connect her to Iran [where she was indeed born], and then implicitly to the Muslim Brotherhood. (Only, the Muslim Brotherhood is a Sunni Muslim organization and Iran is Shiite).” Oh yes, and Jarrett isn’t Muslim. </div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Well, small points indeed in an American world where wearing the label Islamophobe seems to disqualify you from nothing -- certainly not the presidency or becoming secretary of state or, for that matter, chief of staff of the NSC. It's no longer a problem at all, as TomDispatch regular Arnold Isaacs makes all too clear today. Tom</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Giving a Pass to Anti-Muslim Bigotry</div><div class="commentlink">Islamophobia Enters the Government, Is Incorporated into the Law, and Becomes Increasingly Acceptable in America</div><div class="commentlink">By Arnold R. Isaacs</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Imagine that a nominee for secretary of state had shared platforms with white nationalist Richard B. Spencer and been given a major award by his National Policy Institute, which describes itself as "an independent organization dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States and around the world." With that on his record, is it likely the nominee would have been confirmed, or nominated in the first place, to head the State Department?</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Or what if someone under consideration for a top White House job had written an admiring foreword for a book by Holocaust denier David Irving or perhaps one by the psychologist and alt-right sympathizer Kevin MacDonald, who describes Jews as "a hostile, adversary elite” conducting "ethnic war" against Christianity and "traditional institutions of European-American culture"? Would such an endorsement keep him from being named as the president's national security advisor?</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Click here to read more of this dispatch.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Across the United States, there has been a growth in organizations that portray Islam as a threat.</div><div class="commentlink"> </div><div class="commentlink">Over two years, the number of groups that make up what’s become known as the Islamophobia industry has more than tripled.</div><div class="commentlink"> </div><div class="commentlink">This investigation reveals the tactics these groups use to instigate a fear of Islam, including how they manipulate social media to create a false narrative that Muslims are trying to take over the country.</div><div class="commentlink"> </div><div class="commentlink">Anti-Muslim messages proliferate social media with bought-in followers, fake accounts and robotic amplifiers.</div><div class="commentlink"> </div><div class="commentlink">The investigation also shows how these organizations try to suppress the rise of a Muslim political voice in America. It uncovers the “dark money” that has fuelled the rapid growth of Islamophobia Inc. -  tens of millions of dollars which is funnelled through secretive, anonymous donor funds. </div><div class="commentlink"> </div><div class="commentlink">We unveil the donors of the dark money and ask; what do they ultimately hope to achieve? </div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Introduction and summary</div><div class="commentlink">Chapter 1: Donors to the Islamophobia network</div><div class="commentlink">Chapter 2: The Islamophobia misinformation experts</div><div class="commentlink">Chapter 3: The grassroots organizations and the religious right</div><div class="commentlink">Chapter 4: The right-wing media enablers of anti-Islam propaganda</div><div class="commentlink">Chapter 5: The political players</div><div class="commentlink">Conclusion</div><div class="commentlink">Video: Ask the Expert: Faiz Shakir on the Group Behind Islamophobia</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">On July 22, a man planted a bomb in an Oslo government building that killed eight people. A few hours after the explosion, he shot and killed 68 people, mostly teenagers, at a Labor Party youth camp on Norway’s Utoya Island.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">By midday, pundits were speculating as to who had perpetrated the greatest massacre in Norwegian history since World War II. Numerous mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, speculated about an Al Qaeda connection and a “jihadist” motivation behind the attacks. But by the next morning it was clear that the attacker was a 32-year-old, white, blond-haired and blue-eyed Norwegian named Anders Breivik. He was not a Muslim, but rather a self-described Christian conservative.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">According to his attorney, Breivik claimed responsibility for his self-described “gruesome but necessary” actions. On July 26, Breivik told the court that violence was “necessary” to save Europe from Marxism and “Muslimization.” In his 1,500-page manifesto, which meticulously details his attack methods and aims to inspire others to extremist violence, Breivik vows “brutal and breathtaking operations which will result in casualties” to fight the alleged “ongoing Islamic Colonization of Europe.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Breivik’s manifesto contains numerous footnotes and in-text citations to American bloggers and pundits, quoting them as experts on Islam’s “war against the West.” This small group of anti-Muslim organizations and individuals in our nation is obscure to most Americans but wields great influence in shaping the national and international political debate. Their names are heralded within communities that are actively organizing against Islam and targeting Muslims in the United States.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Breivik, for example, cited Robert Spencer, one of the anti-Muslim misinformation scholars we profile in this report, and his blog, Jihad Watch, 162 times in his manifesto. Spencer’s website, which “tracks the attempts of radical Islam to subvert Western culture,” boasts another member of this Islamophobia network in America, David Horowitz, on his Freedom Center website. Pamela Geller, Spencer’s frequent collaborator, and her blog, Atlas Shrugs, was mentioned 12 times.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Geller and Spencer co-founded the organization Stop Islamization of America, a group whose actions and rhetoric the Anti-Defamation League concluded “promotes a conspiratorial anti-Muslim agenda under the guise of fighting radical Islam. The group seeks to rouse public fears by consistently vilifying the Islamic faith and asserting the existence of an Islamic conspiracy to destroy “American values.” Based on Breivik’s sheer number of citations and references to the writings of these individuals, it is clear that he read and relied on the hateful, anti-Muslim ideology of a number of men and women detailed in this report&a select handful of scholars and activists who work together to create and promote misinformation about Muslims.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">While these bloggers and pundits were not responsible for Breivik’s deadly attacks, their writings on Islam and multiculturalism appear to have helped create a world view, held by this lone Norwegian gunman, that sees Islam as at war with the West and the West needing to be defended. According to former CIA officer and terrorism consultant Marc Sageman, just as religious extremism “is the infrastructure from which Al Qaeda emerged,” the writings of these anti-Muslim misinformation experts are “the infrastructure from which Breivik emerged.” Sageman adds that their rhetoric “is not cost-free.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">These pundits and bloggers, however, are not the only members of the Islamophobia infrastructure. Breivik’s manifesto also cites think tanks, such as the Center for Security Policy, the Middle East Forum, and the Investigative Project on Terrorism—three other organizations we profile in this report. Together, this core group of deeply intertwined individuals and organizations manufacture and exaggerate threats of “creeping Sharia,” Islamic domination of the West, and purported obligatory calls to violence against all non-Muslims by the Quran.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">This network of hate is not a new presence in the United States. Indeed, its ability to organize, coordinate, and disseminate its ideology through grassroots organizations increased dramatically over the past 10 years. Furthermore, its ability to influence politicians’ talking points and wedge issues for the upcoming 2012 elections has mainstreamed what was once considered fringe, extremist rhetoric.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">And it all starts with the money flowing from a select group of foundations. A small group of foundations and wealthy donors are the lifeblood of the Islamophobia network in America, providing critical funding to a clutch of right-wing think tanks that peddle hate and fear of Muslims and Islam—in the form of books, reports, websites, blogs, and carefully crafted talking points that anti-Islam grassroots organizations and some right-wing religious groups use as propaganda for their constituency.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Some of these foundations and wealthy donors also provide direct funding to anti-Islam grassroots groups. According to our extensive analysis, here are the top seven contributors to promoting Islamophobia in our country:</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Donors Capital Fund</div><div class="commentlink">Richard Mellon Scaife foundations</div><div class="commentlink">Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</div><div class="commentlink">Newton D. & Rochelle F. Becker foundations and charitable trust</div><div class="commentlink">Russell Berrie Foundation</div><div class="commentlink">Anchorage Charitable Fund and William Rosenwald Family Fund</div><div class="commentlink">Fairbrook Foundation</div><div class="commentlink">Altogether, these seven charitable groups provided $42.6 million to Islamophobia think tanks between 2001 and 2009—funding that supports the scholars and experts that are the subject of our next chapter as well as some of the grassroots groups that are the subject of Chapter 3 of our report.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">And what does this money fund? Well, here’s one of many cases in point: Last July, former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich warned a conservative audience at the American Enterprise Institute that the Islamic practice of Sharia was “a mortal threat to the survival of freedom in the United States and in the world as we know it.” Gingrich went on to claim that “Sharia in its natural form has principles and punishments totally abhorrent to the Western world.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Sharia, or Muslim religious code, includes practices such as charitable giving, prayer, and honoring one’s parents—precepts virtually identical to those of Christianity and Judaism. But Gingrich and other conservatives promote alarmist notions about a nearly 1,500-year-old religion for a variety of sinister political, financial, and ideological motives. In his remarks that day, Gingrich mimicked the language of conservative analyst Andrew McCarthy, who co-wrote a report calling Sharia “the preeminent totalitarian threat of our time.” Such similarities in language are no accident. Look no further than the organization that released McCarthy’s anti-Sharia report: the aforementioned Center for Security Policy, which is a central hub of the anti-Muslim network and an active promoter of anti- Sharia messaging and anti-Muslim rhetoric.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">In fact, CSP is a key source for right-wing politicians, pundits, and grassroots organizations, providing them with a steady stream of reports mischaracterizing Islam and warnings about the dangers of Islam and American Muslims. Operating under the leadership of Frank Gaffney, the organization is funded by a small number of foundations and donors with a deep understanding of how to influence U.S. politics by promoting highly alarming threats to our national security. CSP is joined by other anti-Muslim organizations in this lucrative business, such as Stop Islamization of America and the Society of Americans for National Existence. Many of the leaders of these organizations are well-schooled in the art of getting attention in the press, particularly Fox News, The Wall Street Journal editorial pages, The Washington Times, and a variety of right-wing websites and radio outlets.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Misinformation experts such as Gaffney consult and work with such right-wing grassroots organizations as ACT! for America and the Eagle Forum, as well as religious right groups such as the Faith and Freedom Coalition and American Family Association, to spread their message. Speaking at their conferences, writing on their websites, and appearing on their radio shows, these experts rail against Islam and cast suspicion on American Muslims. Much of their propaganda gets churned into fundraising appeals by grassroots and religious right groups. The money they raise then enters the political process and helps fund ads supporting politicians who echo alarmist warnings and sponsor anti-Muslim attacks.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">These efforts recall some of the darkest episodes in American history, in which religious, ethnic, and racial minorities were discriminated against and persecuted. From Catholics, Mormons, Japanese Americans, European immigrants, Jews, and African Americans, the story of America is one of struggle to achieve in practice our founding ideals. Unfortunately, American Muslims and Islam are the latest chapter in a long American struggle against scapegoating based on religion, race, or creed.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Due in part to the relentless efforts of this small group of individuals and organizations, Islam is now the most negatively viewed religion in America. Only 37 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Islam: the lowest favorability rating since 2001, according to a 2010 ABC News/Washington Post poll. According to a 2010 Time magazine poll, 28 percent of voters do not believe Muslims should be eligible to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, and nearly one-third of the country thinks followers of Islam should be barred from running for president.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">In a recent article for National Review Online, David Horowitz and Robert Spencer criticized the Center for American Progress’s report “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America.” Following a familiar formula, the authors play the victim, accusing CAP of peddling “conspiracy theories” about anti-Muslim activists like themselves.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Even a cursory glance at our report, however, shows we have done no such thing. Quite the contrary, the dissemination of hateful anti-Muslim ideas by Horowitz, Spencer, and others is done right out in the open. CAP’s contribution was to document these efforts, to draw together the various strands in order to properly view them as part of a coherent whole — an organized campaign to spread misinformation about the religious faith of millions of Americans.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">The authors first take issue with our use of the term “Islamophobia,” claiming “the purpose of the suffix — phobia — is to identify any concern about troubling Islamic institutions and actions as irrational, or worse as a dangerous bigotry that should itself be feared.” This is false. As my co-authors and I note in our report, we don’t use the term “Islamophobia” lightly. We define it as an exaggerated fear, hatred, and hostility toward Islam and Muslims that is perpetuated by negative stereotypes resulting in bias, discrimination, and the marginalization and exclusion of Muslims from America’s social, political, and civic life.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">We think that any fair-minded reader of Horowitz and Spencer’s work, which our report extensively documents, would conclude that it qualifies.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Engaging in exactly the sort of careless slander that our report examines, the authors then deride similar reports from what they refer to as “[Muslim] Brotherhood fronts like CAIR [the Council on American-Islamic Relations], and jihadist apologists like the Southern Poverty Law Center.” Interestingly, they spare the Anti-Defamation League, which released a backgrounder earlier this year declaring that Spencer’s group, Stop Islamization of America, “promotes a conspiratorial anti-Muslim agenda under the guise of fighting radical Islam.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Spencer’s group, the Anti-Defamation League wrote, “seeks to rouse public fears by consistently vilifying the Islamic faith and asserting the existence of an Islamic conspiracy to destroy ‘American’ values.” Should the Anti-Defamation League also be lumped with the “jihadist apologists”?</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Rather than addressing such charges, however, the authors spend the majority of their response listing reasons why Islamic extremist terrorism represents a genuine threat to American security. But they are rebutting an argument we have not made. As evidenced by the considerable amount of work CAP has produced on the subject, we take the issue of national security extremely seriously — far more seriously than Horowitz and Spencer’s selective, inflammatory, and unscholarly rendering of the Islamic peril suggests that they themselves do.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">It is enormously revealing that Horowitz and Spencer do not address the actual argument made in “Fear, Inc.,” which is that they, along with a small cadre of self-appointed experts and activists, promote the idea that religiously inspired terrorism represents true Islam. (“Traditional Islam itself is not moderate or peaceful,” wrote Spencer in 2006. “It is the only major world religion with a developed doctrine and tradition of warfare against unbelievers.”) They also promote the idea that Sharia law is incompatible with a modern society (“There is no form of Sharia that does not contain . . . [the] death penalty for apostasy,” wrote Spencer, obviously ignorant of the manner in which Islam is practiced by millions of Sharia-adherent Muslims in the United States).</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">The unmistakable implication of these claims is that all observant Muslims should be viewed with suspicion simply by virtue of being observant Muslims. That’s obviously Islamophobic. (It also flies in the face of the evidence. Earlier this year, the largest study of Muslim Americans ever done, the Muslim American Public Opinion Survey, found that “involvement with the mosque, and increased religiosity increases civic engagement and support for American democratic values.”)</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">It is worth noting here the irony of Horowitz and Spencer’s accusing CAP of promulgating a conspiracy theory, because, as the Anti-Defamation League’s backgrounder also notes, a conspiracy is precisely what those authors themselves allege in regard to American Muslims’ supposed efforts to infiltrate the American legal system with Islamic Sharia law. (For an examination and rebuttal of those claims, see CAP’s previous issue brief, “Understanding Sharia Law.”)</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">And finally, a word about the venue in which Horowitz and Spencer’s piece was published, National Review. While we don’t share many of this magazine’s positions, we recognize it as an institution of American conservatism and a key player in the American political debate. Its imprimatur matters, which is why we’re concerned that that imprimatur should be granted to characters like Horowitz and Spencer.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Back in the 1950’s, the stridently anti-Communist John Birch Society made very similar claims about the threat of Communism that Islamophobes now make about the threat of Islam. At one point, Robert Welch, the founder of the John Birch Society, wrote that Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower was “a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">National Review’s founder and editor, William F. Buckley Jr., responded to Welch’s allegation with condemnation. “How can the John Birch Society be an effective political instrument while it is led by a man whose views on current affairs are, at so many critical points . . . so far removed from common sense?” Buckley asked. “That dilemma weighs on conservatives across America.” Buckley’s condemnation helped marginalize the John Birch Society from the mainstream conservative movement for decades.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">In Horowitz’s FrontPage magazine on Feb. 3, 2011, Spencer wrote, “[Muslim] Brotherhood operatives are in the American government and working closely with it, thanks to Barack Obama.” On Sept. 12, 2011, Spencer criticized President Obama’s choice of a Bibleverse read at the 9/11 commemorations as evidence of the president’s “remarkable, unqualified and obvious affinity for Islam.” The list of similar allegations from Spencer is not short.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">This new dilemma should weigh on conservatives across America. David Horowitz, Robert Spencer, and the rest of the Islamophobes we name in our report are the modern version of the John Birch Society. Judging Robert Welch’s allegations of President Eisenhower’s supposed Communist sympathies to be beyond the pale, William F. Buckley denounced them in the pages of National Review. It’s unfortunate that, rather than do the same in response to Welch’s heirs, today’s National Review gives them a platform.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">— Matt Duss is a policy analyst at the Center for American Progress and the director of the Center’s Middle East Progress project. He is a co-author of “Fear Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America.”</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">The notion that Sharia law is coming to America has been percolating in the conservative media for a while. Fox News' Sean Hannity suggested the arrest of the Christian missionaries in Dearborn reflected the possibility that "Sharia law is taking over in Dearborn," as did Fox News' Brian Kilmeade, who interviewed one of the men who was arrested.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">At the Values Voters summit in September, Newt Gingrich said - to a standing ovation - that "[w]e should have a federal law that says Sharia law cannot be recognized by any court in the United States." He has also warned that jihadists are trying "to replace Western civilization with a radical imposition of Sharia."</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">To support his argument, Gingrich cites a 2009 judgment in New Jersey that a man had not sexually assaulted his wife because his behavior was "consistent with his practices." The decision was later overturned, and stands as "the one and only instance of stealth sharia that anyone has been able to find," according to the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">The outcry over Sharia law has been tied in large part to the controversy around the Islamic cultural center two blocks from the site of the Sept. 11 attacks, as well as other mosques around the country. In August, Dick Morris said on Fox News that the cultural center will be used to "train and recruit Sharia law advocates who become terrorists."</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">But considering that there are perhaps two million Muslims in the United States, a country with a population of more than 310 million, fears of an outbreak of Sharia law seem overblown at best. Even if there is somehow a serious push for the imposition of Sharia law - or any other religious law - it would quickly run up against the first amendment to the Constitution.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">"Were not going to see hand chopping off, were not going to see retaliatory violence, we're not going to see underage marriages, were not going to see polygamous marriages," Clark Lombardi of the University of Washington Law School told NPR. "The U.S. courts simply wouldn't do it."</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Introduction and summary</div><div class="commentlink">Chapter 1: Donors to the Islamophobia network</div><div class="commentlink">Chapter 2: The Islamophobia misinformation experts</div><div class="commentlink">Chapter 3: The grassroots organizations and the religious right</div><div class="commentlink">Chapter 4: The right-wing media enablers of anti-Islam propaganda</div><div class="commentlink">Chapter 5: The political players</div><div class="commentlink">Conclusion</div><div class="commentlink">Video: Ask the Expert: Faiz Shakir on the Group Behind Islamophobia</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">On July 22, a man planted a bomb in an Oslo government building that killed eight people. A few hours after the explosion, he shot and killed 68 people, mostly teenagers, at a Labor Party youth camp on Norway’s Utoya Island.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">By midday, pundits were speculating as to who had perpetrated the greatest massacre in Norwegian history since World War II. Numerous mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, speculated about an Al Qaeda connection and a “jihadist” motivation behind the attacks. But by the next morning it was clear that the attacker was a 32-year-old, white, blond-haired and blue-eyed Norwegian named Anders Breivik. He was not a Muslim, but rather a self-described Christian conservative.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">According to his attorney, Breivik claimed responsibility for his self-described “gruesome but necessary” actions. On July 26, Breivik told the court that violence was “necessary” to save Europe from Marxism and “Muslimization.” In his 1,500-page manifesto, which meticulously details his attack methods and aims to inspire others to extremist violence, Breivik vows “brutal and breathtaking operations which will result in casualties” to fight the alleged “ongoing Islamic Colonization of Europe.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Breivik’s manifesto contains numerous footnotes and in-text citations to American bloggers and pundits, quoting them as experts on Islam’s “war against the West.” This small group of anti-Muslim organizations and individuals in our nation is obscure to most Americans but wields great influence in shaping the national and international political debate. Their names are heralded within communities that are actively organizing against Islam and targeting Muslims in the United States.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Breivik, for example, cited Robert Spencer, one of the anti-Muslim misinformation scholars we profile in this report, and his blog, Jihad Watch, 162 times in his manifesto. Spencer’s website, which “tracks the attempts of radical Islam to subvert Western culture,” boasts another member of this Islamophobia network in America, David Horowitz, on his Freedom Center website. Pamela Geller, Spencer’s frequent collaborator, and her blog, Atlas Shrugs, was mentioned 12 times.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Geller and Spencer co-founded the organization Stop Islamization of America, a group whose actions and rhetoric the Anti-Defamation League concluded “promotes a conspiratorial anti-Muslim agenda under the guise of fighting radical Islam. The group seeks to rouse public fears by consistently vilifying the Islamic faith and asserting the existence of an Islamic conspiracy to destroy “American values.” Based on Breivik’s sheer number of citations and references to the writings of these individuals, it is clear that he read and relied on the hateful, anti-Muslim ideology of a number of men and women detailed in this report&a select handful of scholars and activists who work together to create and promote misinformation about Muslims.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">While these bloggers and pundits were not responsible for Breivik’s deadly attacks, their writings on Islam and multiculturalism appear to have helped create a world view, held by this lone Norwegian gunman, that sees Islam as at war with the West and the West needing to be defended. According to former CIA officer and terrorism consultant Marc Sageman, just as religious extremism “is the infrastructure from which Al Qaeda emerged,” the writings of these anti-Muslim misinformation experts are “the infrastructure from which Breivik emerged.” Sageman adds that their rhetoric “is not cost-free.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">These pundits and bloggers, however, are not the only members of the Islamophobia infrastructure. Breivik’s manifesto also cites think tanks, such as the Center for Security Policy, the Middle East Forum, and the Investigative Project on Terrorism—three other organizations we profile in this report. Together, this core group of deeply intertwined individuals and organizations manufacture and exaggerate threats of “creeping Sharia,” Islamic domination of the West, and purported obligatory calls to violence against all non-Muslims by the Quran.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">This network of hate is not a new presence in the United States. Indeed, its ability to organize, coordinate, and disseminate its ideology through grassroots organizations increased dramatically over the past 10 years. Furthermore, its ability to influence politicians’ talking points and wedge issues for the upcoming 2012 elections has mainstreamed what was once considered fringe, extremist rhetoric.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">And it all starts with the money flowing from a select group of foundations. A small group of foundations and wealthy donors are the lifeblood of the Islamophobia network in America, providing critical funding to a clutch of right-wing think tanks that peddle hate and fear of Muslims and Islam—in the form of books, reports, websites, blogs, and carefully crafted talking points that anti-Islam grassroots organizations and some right-wing religious groups use as propaganda for their constituency.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Some of these foundations and wealthy donors also provide direct funding to anti-Islam grassroots groups. According to our extensive analysis, here are the top seven contributors to promoting Islamophobia in our country:</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Donors Capital Fund</div><div class="commentlink">Richard Mellon Scaife foundations</div><div class="commentlink">Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</div><div class="commentlink">Newton D. & Rochelle F. Becker foundations and charitable trust</div><div class="commentlink">Russell Berrie Foundation</div><div class="commentlink">Anchorage Charitable Fund and William Rosenwald Family Fund</div><div class="commentlink">Fairbrook Foundation</div><div class="commentlink">Altogether, these seven charitable groups provided $42.6 million to Islamophobia think tanks between 2001 and 2009—funding that supports the scholars and experts that are the subject of our next chapter as well as some of the grassroots groups that are the subject of Chapter 3 of our report.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">And what does this money fund? Well, here’s one of many cases in point: Last July, former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich warned a conservative audience at the American Enterprise Institute that the Islamic practice of Sharia was “a mortal threat to the survival of freedom in the United States and in the world as we know it.” Gingrich went on to claim that “Sharia in its natural form has principles and punishments totally abhorrent to the Western world.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Sharia, or Muslim religious code, includes practices such as charitable giving, prayer, and honoring one’s parents—precepts virtually identical to those of Christianity and Judaism. But Gingrich and other conservatives promote alarmist notions about a nearly 1,500-year-old religion for a variety of sinister political, financial, and ideological motives. In his remarks that day, Gingrich mimicked the language of conservative analyst Andrew McCarthy, who co-wrote a report calling Sharia “the preeminent totalitarian threat of our time.” Such similarities in language are no accident. Look no further than the organization that released McCarthy’s anti-Sharia report: the aforementioned Center for Security Policy, which is a central hub of the anti-Muslim network and an active promoter of anti- Sharia messaging and anti-Muslim rhetoric.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">In fact, CSP is a key source for right-wing politicians, pundits, and grassroots organizations, providing them with a steady stream of reports mischaracterizing Islam and warnings about the dangers of Islam and American Muslims. Operating under the leadership of Frank Gaffney, the organization is funded by a small number of foundations and donors with a deep understanding of how to influence U.S. politics by promoting highly alarming threats to our national security. CSP is joined by other anti-Muslim organizations in this lucrative business, such as Stop Islamization of America and the Society of Americans for National Existence. Many of the leaders of these organizations are well-schooled in the art of getting attention in the press, particularly Fox News, The Wall Street Journal editorial pages, The Washington Times, and a variety of right-wing websites and radio outlets.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Misinformation experts such as Gaffney consult and work with such right-wing grassroots organizations as ACT! for America and the Eagle Forum, as well as religious right groups such as the Faith and Freedom Coalition and American Family Association, to spread their message. Speaking at their conferences, writing on their websites, and appearing on their radio shows, these experts rail against Islam and cast suspicion on American Muslims. Much of their propaganda gets churned into fundraising appeals by grassroots and religious right groups. The money they raise then enters the political process and helps fund ads supporting politicians who echo alarmist warnings and sponsor anti-Muslim attacks.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">These efforts recall some of the darkest episodes in American history, in which religious, ethnic, and racial minorities were discriminated against and persecuted. From Catholics, Mormons, Japanese Americans, European immigrants, Jews, and African Americans, the story of America is one of struggle to achieve in practice our founding ideals. Unfortunately, American Muslims and Islam are the latest chapter in a long American struggle against scapegoating based on religion, race, or creed.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Due in part to the relentless efforts of this small group of individuals and organizations, Islam is now the most negatively viewed religion in America. Only 37 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Islam: the lowest favorability rating since 2001, according to a 2010 ABC News/Washington Post poll. According to a 2010 Time magazine poll, 28 percent of voters do not believe Muslims should be eligible to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, and nearly one-third of the country thinks followers of Islam should be barred from running for president.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">The terrorist attacks on 9/11 alone did not drive Americans’ perceptions of Muslims and Islam. President George W. Bush reflected the general opinion of the American public at the time when he went to great lengths to make clear that Islam and Muslims are not the enemy. Speaking to a roundtable of Arab and Muslim American leaders at the Afghanistan embassy in 2002, for example, President Bush said, “All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith—face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It’s a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It’s a faith based upon love, not hate.”</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Unfortunately, President Bush’s words were soon eclipsed by an organized escalation of hateful statements about Muslims and Islam from the members of the Islamophobia network profiled in this report. This is as sad as it is dangerous. It is enormously important to understand that alienating the Muslim American community not only threatens our fundamental promise of religious freedom, it also hurts our efforts to combat terrorism. Since 9/11, the Muslim American community has helped security and law enforcement officials prevent more than 40 percent of Al Qaeda terrorist plots threatening America. The largest single source of initial information to authorities about the few Muslim American plots has come from the Muslim American community.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Around the world, there are people killing people in the name of Islam, with which most Muslims disagree. Indeed, in most cases of radicalized neighbors, family members, or friends, the Muslim American community is as baffled, disturbed, and surprised by their appearance as the general public. Treating Muslim American citizens and neighbors as part of the problem, rather than part of the solution, is not only offensive to America’s core values, it is utterly ineffective in combating terrorism and violent extremism.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">The White House recently released the national strategy for combating violent extremism, “Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States.” One of the top focal points of the effort is to “counter al-Qa’ida’s propaganda that the United States is somehow at war with Islam.” Yet orchestrated efforts by the individuals and organizations detailed in this report make it easy for al-Qa’ida to assert that America hates Muslims and that Muslims around the world are persecuted for the simple crime of being Muslims and practicing their religion.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Sadly, the current isolation of American Muslims echoes past witch hunts in our history—from the divisive McCarthyite purges of the 1950s to the sometimes violent anti-immigrant campaigns in the 19th and 20th centuries. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has compared the fear-mongering of Muslims with anti-Catholic sentiment of the past. In response to the fabricated “Ground Zero mosque” controversy in New York last summer, Mayor Bloomberg said:</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">In the 1700s, even as religious freedom took hold in America, Catholics in New York were effectively prohibited from practicing their religion, and priests could be arrested. Largely as a result, the first Catholic parish in New York City was not established until the 1780s, St. Peter’s on Barclay Street, which still stands just one block north of the World Trade Center site, and one block south of the proposed mosque and community center. … We would betray our values and play into our enemies’ hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">This report shines a light on the Islamophobia network of so-called experts, academics, institutions, grassroots organizations, media outlets, and donors who manufacture, produce, distribute, and mainstream an irrational fear of Islam and Muslims. Let us learn the proper lesson from the past, and rise above fear-mongering to public awareness, acceptance, and respect for our fellow Americans. In doing so, let us prevent hatred from infecting and endangering our country again.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">In the pages that follow, we profile the small number of funders, organizations, and individuals who have contributed to the discourse on Islamophobia in this country. We begin with the money trail in Chapter 1—our analysis of the funding streams that support anti-Muslim activities. Chapter 2 identifies the intellectual nexus of the Islamophobia network. Chapter 3 highlights the key grassroots players and organizations that help spread the messages of hate. Chapter 4 aggregates the key media amplifiers of Islamophobia. And Chapter 5 brings attention to the elected officials who frequently support the causes of anti- Muslim organizing.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Before we begin, a word about the term “Islamophobia.” We don’t use this term lightly. We define it as an exaggerated fear, hatred, and hostility toward Islam and Muslims that is perpetuated by negative stereotypes resulting in bias, discrimination, and the marginalization and exclusion of Muslims from America’s social, political, and civic life.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">It is our view that in order to safeguard our national security and uphold America’s core values, we must return to a fact-based civil discourse regarding the challenges we face as a nation and world. This discourse must be frank and honest, but also consistent with American values of religious liberty, equal justice under the law, and respect for pluralism. A first step toward the goal of honest, civil discourse is to expose—and marginalize—the influence of the individuals and groups who make up the Islamophobia network in America by actively working to divide Americans against one another through misinformation.</div><div class="commentlink">
</div><div class="commentlink">Wajahat Ali is a researcher at the Center for American Progress and a researcher for the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Eli Clifton is a researcher at the Center for American Progress and a national security reporter for the Center for American Progress Action Fund and ThinkProgress.org. Matthew Duss is a Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress and Director of the Center’s Middle East Progress. Lee Fang is a researcher at the Center for American Progress and an investigative researcher/blogger for the Center for American Progress Action Fund and ThinkProgress.org. Scott Keyes is a researcher at the Center for American Progress and an investigative researcher for ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Faiz Shakir is a Vice President at the Center for American Progress and serves as Editor-in-Chief of ThinkProgress.org.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Spreading anti-Muslim hate in America depends on a well-developed right-wing media echo chamber to amplify a few marginal voices. The think tank misinformation experts and grassroots and religious-right organizations profiled in this report boast a symbiotic relationship with a loosely aligned, ideologically-akin group of right-wing blogs, magazines, radio stations, newspapers, and television news shows to spread their anti-Islam messages and myths. The media outlets, in turn, give members of this network the exposure needed to amplify their message, reach larger audiences, drive fundraising numbers, and grow their membership base. Some well-established conservative media outlets are a key part of this echo chamber, mixing coverage of alarmist threats posed by the mere existence of Muslims in America with other news stories. Chief among the media partners are the Fox News empire,1 the influential conservative magazine National Review and its website,2 a host of right-wing radio hosts, The Washington Times newspaper and website,3 and the Christian Broadcasting Network and website.4 They tout Frank Gaffney, David Yerushalmi, Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer, Steven Emerson, and others as experts, and invite supposedly moderate Muslim and Arabs to endorse bigoted views. In so doing, these media organizations amplify harmful, anti-Muslim views to wide audiences. (See box on page 86) In this chapter we profile some of the right-wing media enablers, beginning with the websites, then hate radio, then the television outlets. The websites A network of right-wing websites and blogs are frequently the primary movers of anti-Muslim messages and myths. The two most influential are: • David Horowitz Freedom Center websites and online magazines, including FrontPage Magazine,5 Jihad Watch,6 NewsReal Blog,7 and its various conferences • Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs blog8 Let’s look at each in turn</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">ISLAMOPHOBIA AND ITS IMPACT IN THE UNITED STATES | LEGISLATING FEAR</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Following the attacks in Brussels on March 22, GOP Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz issued a call for the United States to "immediately halt the flow of refugees from countries with a significant al-Qaida or ISIS presence." </div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Surprisingly, he also called for a "need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized." Such statements, coming from a leading presidential candidate, are only the latest examples of anti-Muslim rhetoric making the jump from the firing of hate groups to mainstream political discourse. But such jumps are not random and, in fact, have come after years of planning.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">The Center for Security Policy, a hate group that serves as the anti-Muslim movement's premier think tank, has worked hard to earn the ear of elected officials and has sadly succeeded in this strategy. Of the eight people appointed as advisors to 2016 candidates Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz, all have connections to CSP and half hold ranking positions within the group, including its founder, Frank Gaffney.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Listed below are detailed profiles of the eight anti-Muslim advisors Cruz and Trump have appointed to advisory roles in their campaigns.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Frank Gaffney, president of Center for Security Policy, appointed to Ted Cruz's National Security Coalition on March 17</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Frank Gaffney is the founder of the anti-Muslim movement's preeminent think tank, the Center for Security Policy (CSP). He also is one of the most outspoken anti-Muslim activists in America today, propagating conspiracy theories about the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating the White House and producing reports calling for a ban on all Muslim immigration to the U.S.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">When asked at an event in 2015 about Somali refugees working at meat processing plants in the U.S., for example, Gaffney stated, "I don't know about you, but it kind of creeps me out that they are getting jobs in the food supply of the United States." Gaffney has also made efforts to associate with loud-and-proud racists. In September of 2015, Gaffney invited on his radio show Jared Taylor, one of the most prominent white nationalists in America, to discuss the Syrian refugee crisis. During the interview, Gaffney called Taylor's openly racist American Renaissance website "wonderful."</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Despite such ties to known racists, Gaffney does not operate on the political fringe. In recent years, he and his organization have grown closer to Cruz, with whom he has frequently shared a stage at anti-Muslim events.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">In February 2014, Gaffney spoke on a panel titled, "American Security and The Iranian Bomb: Analyzing Threats at Home and Abroad" with Cruz. A month later, Cruz spoke at a "National Security Action Summit" organized by Breitbart News, which featured a host of anti-Muslim activists including Gaffney and three other members of Cruz's National Security Coalition. In September 2014, Cruz spoke via video at another CSP co-sponsored Action Summit.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">A year later, in February 2015, Cruz spoke at the CSP's "Defeat Jihad Summit." Gaffney also held four "National Security Action Summit" events last year in Nevada, South Carolina, New Hampshire and Iowa, all key primary states. Cruz attended the first, in South Carolina, and submitted a video speech for the other three. The CSP summits featured a number of GOP presidential hopefuls speaking alongside notorious anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant figures.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">In September 2015, Cruz teamed up with his rival Donald Trump to organize a rally in opposition to the nuclear treaty signed with Iran. CSP co-sponsored the event in D.C.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin (Ret.), Executive VP of the anti-LGBT Family Research Council, Appointed to Ted Cruz's National Security Coalition on March 17</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Boykin works for the anti-LGBT Family Research Council (FRC), but is more known for his activism in the anti-Muslim world.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">In the past, Boykin, who brings with him a decorated career in the U.S. Army, has worked closely with the Center for Security Policy and has openly stated that Islam should not be protected under the First Amendment. In 2012, Boykin infamously claimed, "The continent of Europe is dark, it is hopelessly lost and it's going to get worse. Every expert will tell you that by the middle of this century the continent of Europe will be an Islamic continent, and they can't reverse it, they can't stop it. It is because they took Jesus out of their societies and it's been replaced by darkness."</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Last month, Boykin endorsed Ted Cruz for president, claiming Cruz was "a man of character integrity and courage." It wasn't a surprise, considering Boykin and Cruz have shared the stage before. In February of 2015, Cruz and Boykin both spoke at the CSP's "Defeat Jihad Summit" in Washington, D.C. In March last year, Boykin participated in Frank Gaffney's National Security Action Summit in South Carolina. A year earlier, both Cruz and Gaffney spoke at the Breitbart-sponsored National Security Action Conference in DC.  Boykin also attended and spoke at the Cruz/Trump anti-Iran nuclear deal rally in D.C. in September of 2015.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Claire Lopez - VP for research and analysis at the anti-Muslim Center for Security Policy, Appointed to Ted Cruz's National Security Coalition on March 17</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Lopez, a longtime Gaffney ally, is a key figure at CSP, previously serving as a fellow before becoming vice president of the think tank.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Like her boss Frank Gaffney, Lopez peddles anti-Muslim conspiracy theories. She has long claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood has "infiltrated and suborned the U.S. government to actively assist … the mission of its grand jihad." In 2013, she wrote a report linking Huma Abedin, deputy chief of staff to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to the Muslim Brotherhood - a favored allegation that has never been proven. Also in 2013, she stated at a speaking engagement,  "When people in other bona fide religions follow their doctrines they become better people - Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, Jews. When Muslims follow their doctrine, they become jihadists." In 2014, she said that because Obama's father was Muslim, that "de facto makes him [Obama] a Muslim," which in turn explains why the president "attacks and punishes Israel while allowing the Islamic State to grow and conquer."</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Lopez has also participated in a number of events featuring Cruz, including the March 2014 National Security Action summit in Washington, D.C. and the "Defeat Jihad Summit" in February of 2015.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Andy McCarthy - Columnist for National Review, Appointed to Ted Cruz's National Security Coalition on March 17</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">McCarthy, like Boykin, is not employed by an anti-Muslim group, but he is very active in the movement, especially on the anti-Muslim speaking circuit. </div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">McCarthy recently claimed that Islam is not a religion and therefore may not deserve legal protections.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">In 2010, McCarthy co-authored a CSP-published report titled, "Shariah: The Threat to America." The report concluded with a number of alarmist recommendations, including a call for U.S. government to halt outreach to Muslim communities "through Muslim Brotherhood fronts whose mission it is to destroy our country from within, as such practices are both reckless and counterproductive." Other recommendations included warning Imams that they will be charged with sedition if they advocate for Shariah in America. The report also called for dismantling so-called "no-go zones"-non-existent neighborhoods where law enforcement are rumored to be unable to police because they're heavily Muslim.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">McCarthy praised Cruz in a December 2015 National Review column. "Cruz understands that the most immediate enemy the United States confronts on the world stage is Islamic supremacism, which ignites jihadist violence through its state sponsors, terror networks, and activist organizations." Like Clare Lopez, McCarthy has spoken at anti-Muslim events with Cruz, including the "Defeat Jihad Summit" in 2015 and the second National Security Action Summit in September of 2014.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Fred Fleitz - Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at the anti-Muslim Center for Security Policy, Appointed to Ted Cruz's National Security Coalition on March 17</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Fleitz is another Center for Security Policy staffer appointed to the Cruz team. Like Clare Lopez, Fleitz served as a CSP fellow before moving up the ranks.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Fleitz is a co-author of a 2015 report published by CSP titled, "The Secure Freedom Strategy: A Plan for Victory Over the Global Jihad Movement." Other authors of the report include Cruz National Security Coalition members Jerry Boykin, Frank Gaffney and Clare Lopez. The report concludes with a number of radical recommendations including stopping the immigration of "Shariah-adherent" individuals to the U.S.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Fleitz recently attacked President Obama for speaking at a mosque, claiming the mosque had "known terrorist ties."</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Sen. Jeff Sessions - key politician in the anti-Muslim movement, Appointed as Chair of Trump's National Security Advisory Committee on March 3</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Sen. Jeff Sessions is one of the most outspoken anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim federal officials who, unsurprisingly, endorsed Trump last month.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">In 2014, Sessions received the "Daring the Odds" award from anti-Muslim hate group the David Horowitz Freedom Center for his efforts to prevent undocumented youth from receiving temporary status in the United States. Previous winners of the award include Pamela Geller, who heads the anti-Muslim groups American Freedom Defense Initiative and Stop the Islamization of America. The Center for Security Policy awarded Sessions with its "Keeper of the Flame" award in October of 2015.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">In September 2015, Sessions attacked President Obama's plan to resettle Syrian refugees in the United States, stating, "It has also been reported that 3 in 4 of those seeking relocation from the Middle East are not refugees but economic migrants from many countries."</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Walid Phares - Anti-Muslim activist and former Lebanese Christian Militia member, Trump revealed Phares is on his council of advisors on March 22, 2016</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Walid Phares is a Lebanese Christian with a troubled past. After Mitt Romney announced in 2011 that Phares would serve as co-chair for his Middle East advisory group, Mother Jones revealed that Phares, "was a high ranking political official in a sectarian religious militia responsible for massacres during Lebanon's brutal, 15-year civil war." Earlier that year, Phares was scheduled to testify at hearings discussing radical Islam that were organized by U.S. Rep. Peter King, a close friend of a number of anti-Muslim groups. King was forced to drop Phares from the witness list after his militia ties became known.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Phares has spoken at several events organized by the Center for Security Policy, including a National Security Group Lunch on in February 2015, and another similar event in December of that year. He has also been a guest on Frank Gaffney's Secure Freedom Radio show. Phares was also a guest on an ACT! for America series in 2011. ACT! is the largest grassroots anti-Muslim hate group in America, run by Brigitte Gabriel.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Joseph E. Schmitz - Senior Fellow with the anti-Muslim Center for Security Policy, named to Trump's council of advisors on March 22, 2016</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Schmitz spent three years as the Pentagon's Inspector General before leaving under a barrage of scrutiny. According to the Los Angles Times, "Schmitz slowed or blocked investigations of senior Bush administration officials, spent taxpayer money on pet projects and accepted gifts that may have violated ethics guidelines."</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Today, Schmitz is a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy. He has been a guest on Frank Gaffney's Secure Freedom Radio show and in June of 2013, he spoke at a CSP event. CSP also published a book penned by Schmitz, titled "Inspector General Handbook."</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Schmitz is also a co-author of two CSP reports:  "Shariah: The Threat to America," and "The Secure Freedom Strategy: A Plan for Victory Over the Global Jihad Movement."</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Just like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, Republican Governor Sam Brownback had a feeling he was not in Kansas anymore. At least not the Kansas that he once knew. His Sunflower State was teeming with unfamiliar creatures and though not tin-men or scarecrows or wicked witches, they were nonetheless outsiders and were apparently so unsettling that a law was required to prevent their influence: They were Muslims.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Last Friday, Brownback signed a bill prohibiting local courts from relying on sharia, or Islamic law, as well as other non-U.S. laws when making decisions. The fact that such a thing had never occurred in the Midwestern wheat capital did not matter. The bill was approved in a landslide vote: 33-1 in the Senate and 120-0 in the House.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Like other similar bills in 20 states, including recently enacted laws in Arizona, Louisiana and Tennessee, the blueprint for the controversial Kansas legislation comes from a familiar and influential source: a growing right-wing network of anti-Muslim fear mongers. They are the Islamophobia industry and laws such as this are hallmark achievements in their quest to frighten the American population about a minority group they view with great suspicion and scorn.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">The deluge of anti-Muslim legislation that has unnecessarily clogged the corridors of power (and the minds of otherwise rational politicians) can be traced back to David Yerushalmi, a 57-year-old Hasidic Jew with a library's worth of controversial statements about African Americans, fellow Jews and immigrants. A shadow agent of this fear industry, Yerushalmi has worked behind the scenes since 2001 to ratchet up an image of Islam and Muslims that is heavy on sensationalism and gore and short on context and fact. It was his organization, the Society of Americans for National Existence (with the ironic acronym SANE) that once suggested that the U.S government should declare a war on the Muslim community, that Muslims should not be granted entry visas to the U.S., and that practicing Islam should be a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">The Kansas law, and the majority of the bills that were brought before state congresses, are based on a single piece of blueprint legislation crafted by Yerushalmi titled "American Laws for American Courts." Along with former Reagan official Frank Gaffney, who is famous for suggesting that Barack Obama is a secret member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Yerushalmi marketed the plan to lawmakers throughout the country, tapping into Tea Party bases and Republican activist groups such as ACT For America that welcomed the opportunity to institutionalize discrimination in their respective states.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">In drumming up support for Kansas's ban, bloggers Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller spread the word to their online bases through "Action Alerts" that warned of "Islamic supremacists" who were "seeking to impose the Sharia on non-Muslims." They urged their supporters to "flood [Brownback's] Twitter" and "jam his phones" with strong support for the bill.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Spencer and Geller co-founded Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA) in 2010, an American offshoot of Stop the Islamization of Europe (SIOE), a hate group that the European Union calls a "neo-Nazi organization." They also led the protests in 2010 to the Park51 Community Center (remember the Ground Zero Mosque?) in New York City. Yerushalmi and Gaffney serve as their legal counsel. When the Kansas bill was signed, Geller reacted with her usual flamboyance: "U Da Best," she wrote. "What a disaster defeat for Hamas-CAIR," she added.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Supporters of the Kansas law point to the fact that it does not explicitly mention sharia and that it only refers to "foreign legal codes." But it is clear from the people who are behind this newest manifestation of state-sanctioned Islamophobia that the statute is hardly intended to be an equal opportunity regulator. In fact, after court's ruled last year that Oklahoma's sharia ban violated the establishment clause of the Constitution's First Amendment, Yerushalmi took note of the bill's language and wiped out language that could be interpreted as targeting Muslims specifically. This growing network operates on slyness and persistence.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">The Islamophobia industry is a dangerous and influential group. They have successfully attached anti-Muslim sentiment to the banner of right-wing populism and it is fast becoming identical to anti-Semitism and other such structural racisms that have the potential to spill out into the ghastly displays of violence. The Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik, for example, listed Spencer, Geller and Gaffney multiple times in the manifesto that served as a guidebook for his massacre in July 2011. This network clings to the notion that foreign is bad and that Muslims are not a natural part of America's national fabric. They believe that they must not only be chastised and harassed but that local government's should discriminate against them on the basis of their religion and foreign systems of order that the everyday, law-abiding, peace-loving Muslims of America don't even follow to begin with.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">There is no sharia law in Kansas. There is no sharia law anywhere in the United States. What there is, though, is a hateful band of anti-pluralists who take great joy (and make great money) in cleaving society into various fragments that war with one another. It is time to shine a bright and damning light on the Islamophobia industry.</div><div class="commentlink">
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</div><div class="commentlink">Nathan Lean is the Editor-In-Chief of AslanMedia.com. He is the co-author of 'Iran, Israel, and the United States' (2010) and the author of 'The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims.' Visit him online atwww.nathanlean.com and follow him on Twitter at @nathanlean.</div><div class="commentlink">
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[6] http://twitter.com/Ayaan/status/580736807769403392

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