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Occupy activists to protest anti-Muslim event at Temple
High-profile anti-Muslim bigots will gather at Temple for something called the "Islamic Apartheid Conference": Pamela Geller, who has called Barack Obama is a Muslim and ignited the whole "Ground Zero Mosque" fiasco; and Robert Spencer, co-leader of Stop Islamization of America, an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center has classified as a hate group.
Occupy activists to protest anti-Muslim event at Temple
Two of America's most high-profile anti-Muslim bigots will gather at Temple this April 23 for something called the "Islamic Apartheid Conference”: Pamela Geller, who has called Barack Obama is a Muslim and ignited the whole “Ground Zero Mosque” fiasco; and Robert Spencer, co-leader of Stop Islamization of America, an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center has classified as a hate group.
Temple students and Occupy activists are organizing a protest, and Geller has responded by attacking university critics as “brownshirts,” “subversives,” “jihadists,” and “fascists.” She calls the activists' Facebook page “Goebbels propaganda.”
The event, she says, is dedicated to “exposing the suffering of millions of women and non-Muslims living under the oppression and subjugation of the sharia and debunking the vile lies and blood libels spread about the state of Israel by Islamic supremacists and their lapdog apologists.”
Unfortunately, this is Geller's second trip to Philly this spring. In March, she spoke at an event hosted by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) Greater Philadelphia District.
Is Geller anti-Muslim? I will quote at length from my previous post:
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,” ZOA Philadelphia Executive Director Steve 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 that Obama is Muslim?
“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 gold stars she's sporting establish her credibility...— eaa- The City Paper failed to mention two other speakers at the conference Nonie Darwish an ex-Muslim who was indoctrinated to hate the infidel as a child in Egypt and Simon Deng a South Sudanese Christian who was held as a slave by Muslim captors for several years. It is important to speak out against Islamic indoctrination of hate and Islamic slavery and Islamic apartheid and instead of posting false allegations against Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer the Citypaper should be praising their activism against a bigoted dangerous and intolerant ideology.— gamalpha
- "two of America’s most high-profile anti-Muslim bigots”!!!???
The ONLY bigotry I see comes from the supremacist and murderous agenda of islam and not those who seek to truthfully point out the erosion of freedom of speech and the vile assault on all that westerner's hold dear.
— Toro1 - Sort of confused by all the vitriol here. Some of it doesn't even make sense. "The Dome of the Rock was built in the seventh century. But whatever." Well, whatever WHAT? There's this growing trend on my side of the aisle to disconnect our mouths from our brains in the rush to burn what we deem as fascists. Incidentally, I'd like to see SLPC actually verify some of those claims. Their record on either Spencer is substantially less than 100%.— GeoffP
- If Pamela Geller is inciting "hate" for denying the existence of long-debunked wartime myths about Serbia, then so is, well, pretty much everyone whoever picked up a newspaper... http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/mar2001/koso-m01.shtml ...and as for the rest of the article, it's thoroughly riddled with inaccuracies and you may want to spend five minutes checking if the "outrageous" statements Ms. Geller made are actually true (I can tell you, most of them are) ....I would hope that journalists would actually look into claims before they dismiss them, but maybe that's just too much to ask. Most of what is here is unverified regurgitation of press releases, I wonder if you even bothered to ask the Freedom Center for comment....— Simone1234
- I said the first part backwards,excuse me: I mean, she "denied" the existence of something which never existed, it's a myth that dates back to 90s war propaganda and it was thoroughly debunked soon after - so the SPLC really needs to do some fact-checking— Simone1234
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