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Pam Geller compares Jewish group to Nazi sympathizers
A Jewish group opposes the Islamophobic activist's offensive new bus ads and gets labeled "judenrat" in return
BY ALEX SEITZ-WALD
For some people, stoking fears about Islam and Sharia is an election year issue (ahem, Rep. Michele Bachmann), but for others, like influential Islamophic blogger Pam Geller, it’s a life’s mission. Geller led the campaign against the so-called Ground Zero Mosque in lower Manhattan and is one of a handful of activists at the core of the anti-Sharia movement; a few months ago, she paid for controversial ads on New York City buses and subways defaming Islam as “savage.” The campaign provoked a backlash, including vandalism and lawsuits, but the law sided with Geller’s right to free speech in both cases, with a court ordering New York’s transit authority to display the ads and arrests for some who defaced her ads.
Now she’s taking her act to Chicago, where her ad went up on 10 buses yesterday afternoon. “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Copts. Defeat Jihad,” the ads read. Copts are Egyptian Christians who have been persecuted by the Muslim majority in the country.
But this time, activists, led by the Chicago-based Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, were prepared. They launched a campaign against the ads before they even appeared. “These ads are meant to create false divisions among our communities, generating suspicion and animosity,” Judy Levey, the executive director of the group said in a statment. “It is very important to say in a clear voice, ‘not in our city.’ We’re better than that.” The JCUA held a rally Tuesday night against the ads set up online campaign to coordinate action and to collect voices of Jews in the area upset with the ads.
While Geller’s actions have been met with resistance from multi-faith groups in the past, opposition has usually been led by Muslim groups like CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations. How did she react to the novelty of a Jewish-spearheaded opposition? By comparing them to Nazi sympathizers, naturally.
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http://www.salon.com/2012/11/15/pam_geller_accuses_jewish_group_of_nazi_sympathies/
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Pam Geller Justifies Breivik’s Terror: Youth Camp Had More ‘Middle Eastern or Mixed’ Races Than ‘Pure Norwegian’
Popular hate blogger Pam Geller has received scrutiny in recent days as the public became aware that the right-wing terrorist in Norway, Anders Behring Breivik, had praised her blog and thoroughly cited her writing in his political manifesto. After a number of blogs made the connection, as well as the New York Times, the Atlantic, and other major outlets, Geller became incensed and began lashing out at her critics.
In a post defending herself yesterday, Geller — who has called Obama “President Jihad” and claimed that Arab language classes are a plot to subvert the United States — reached a new low. Geller justifies Breivik’s attack on the Norwegian Labour Party summer youth camp because she says the camp is part of an anti-Israel “indoctrination training center.” She says the victims would have grown up to become “future leaders of the party responsible for flooding Norway with Muslims who refuse to assimilate, who commit major violence against Norwegian natives including violent gang rapes, with impunity, and who live on the dole.”
To get her point across, Geller posts a picture of the youth camp children Breivik targeted. The picture was taken on the Utøya island camp about 24 hours before Breivik killed over 30 children, so it is likely Geller is mocking many of the victims. Under the picture, Geller writes: “Note the faces which are more MIddle [sic] Eastern or mixed than pure Norwegian.” View a screen shot (click to enlarge) of Geller’s blog post below:
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Geller appears to have deleted the line about race mixing from her post. A screen shot of the post before the deletion can be found here.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/08/01/284011/pam-geller-race-mixing-breivik-right/
Popular hate blogger Pam Geller has received scrutiny in recent days as the public became aware that the right-wing terrorist in Norway, Anders Behring Breivik, had praised her blog and thoroughly cited her writing in his political manifesto. After a number of blogs made the connection, as well as the New York Times, the Atlantic, and other major outlets, Geller became incensed and began lashing out at her critics.
In a post defending herself yesterday, Geller — who has called Obama “President Jihad” and claimed that Arab language classes are a plot to subvert the United States — reached a new low. Geller justifies Breivik’s attack on the Norwegian Labour Party summer youth camp because she says the camp is part of an anti-Israel “indoctrination training center.” She says the victims would have grown up to become “future leaders of the party responsible for flooding Norway with Muslims who refuse to assimilate, who commit major violence against Norwegian natives including violent gang rapes, with impunity, and who live on the dole.”
To get her point across, Geller posts a picture of the youth camp children Breivik targeted. The picture was taken on the Utøya island camp about 24 hours before Breivik killed over 30 children, so it is likely Geller is mocking many of the victims. Under the picture, Geller writes: “Note the faces which are more MIddle [sic] Eastern or mixed than pure Norwegian.” View a screen shot (click to enlarge) of Geller’s blog post below:
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Geller appears to have deleted the line about race mixing from her post. A screen shot of the post before the deletion can be found here.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/08/01/284011/pam-geller-race-mixing-breivik-right/
In the face of reprehensible opposition.
Wrong is wrong thank you for saying so. 
