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Islamaphobe and conspiracist Pamela Geller to speak in Philly
Islamaphobe (who said Obama was Malcom X love child) Pamela Geller to deliver talk next week on "The March of Islamic Supremacists" to the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) Greater Philadelphia District.
Islamaphobe and conspiracist Pamela Geller to speak in Philly
Noted Islamaphobe Pamela Geller will deliver a talk next week entitled, “The March of Islamic Supremacists: Implications for America, Israel and the West and How To Stop It,” hosted by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) Greater Philadelphia District.
“I consider her a modern day Paulette Revere,” says ZOA Philadelphia Executive Director Steve Feldman, “getting the word out about some practitioners of Islam.”
Geller is the wing-nut who started the whole “Ground Zero mosque” hysteria with a post titled “Monster Mosque Pushes Ahead in Shadow of World Trade Center Islamic Death and Destruction.”
“This is Islamic domination and expansionism,” she wrote. “The location is no accident. Just as Al-Aqsa was built on top of the Temple in Jerusalem.”
“In the war between the savage and the civilized man,” Geller told the New York Times reporter who wrote her lengthy profile, “you side with the civilized man.”
Is Geller anti-Muslim?
In her words: "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."
She went on to make a movie called “The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 911 Attacks.”
“I think a lot of people are offended by the potential placement of this mosque,” Feldman tells City Paper. “There is a history within Islam over the centuries of creating what are known as triumphal mosques in places where they've been victorious in wars and attacks, over the sites of temples and synagogues. Look no further than the Temple Mount of Jerusalem.”
The Dome of the Rock was built in the seventh century. But whatever.
Geller is prolific and does not confine herself to Islam: she once declared that President Barack Obama was Malcom X's love child and another time stated that the president had slept with a “crack whore.”
“I'm aware she may have said something like that,” says Feldman. “It was not meant literally. It was meant metaphorically.”
And yes, she has of course called the president a Muslim (a “muhammadan”).
Does Feldman agree?
“I don't know,” he tells CP. “He says he's not. I take him at his word. I believe within Islamic law one is Muslim or not based upon his father's religion.”
(Geller also, for what it's worth, told Salon that anti-tax conservative heavyweight Grover Norquist was a shill for the Muslim Brotherhood.)
According to the civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center, “Geller has mingled comfortably with European racists and fascists, spoken favorably of South African racists, defended Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic and denied the existence of Serbian concentration camps. She has taken a strong pro-Israel stance to the point of being sharply critical of Jewish liberals.”
The Zionist Organization of America, for its part, has a history of being on the fringe right of the movement to defend-anything-that right-wing Israeli-governments-do movement.
Last November, ZOA honored Glenn Beck, who Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu complimented by video for “being fearless in defending Israel from slanders hurled against it, at great personal cost.” They also gave an award to the right-wing fundamentalist Christian minister John Hagee, who believes that God made the Holocaust happen to get Jews to Israel and that He allowed Hurricane Katrina as punishment for a local gay pride parade. The local chapter last year gave an award to Dom Giordano.
“If you're using me to drag Ms. Geller through the mud,” says Feldman, “I'm not going to do that.”
Ms. Geller may not need Feldman's help.
The talk will be Monday, March 19, 6:45 p.m. at the Jewish Community Services Building (2100 Arch Street). (And why is the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia hosting this event? We'll have to wait until Monday morning to see if we can find out.)
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