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Pamela Geller

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Vorlage:Pp-semi-vandalism Vorlage:Infobox person Pamela Geller (born 1958) is an American blogger, author, political activist, and commentator.[1] She is known primarily for her criticisms of Islam and opposition to Muslim activities and causes, such as the proposed construction of an Islamic community center near the former site of the World Trade Center. She has described her blogging and campaigns in the United States as being against what she terms "creeping Sharia" in the country. Geller was formerly married to Michael Oshry.

Geller and Robert Spencer co-founded the Freedom Defense Initiative and Stop Islamization of America,[2], both of which are designated as hate groups by the Anti-defamation league[3] and the Southern Poverty Law Center[4]. Geller and Spencer also co-authored the book The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America.[5]

Her weblog, Atlas Shrugs, is designated as a hate site by Paypal[6], it has also been criticized by progressive Media Matters for America,[7][8] and called "extreme" by Chris McGreal of The Guardian.[9] Caroline Glick, of The Jerusalem Post, has praised the blog's coverage of Muslim "honor killings".[10]

Early and personal life

Geller, born to Jewish parents Reuben ("Ruby") and Lillian Geller, is the third of four sisters.[1][11][12] Growing up in Hewlett Harbor, Long Island, New York, she assisted in her father's business, where she learned to speak fluent Spanish.[1][11] Two of her sisters became doctors, and the third became a teacher.[1]

Geller attended Lynbrook High School and Hofstra University, though she left before completing her degree.[1] She was married to Michael Oshry from 1990 until the couple divorced in 2007, and is the single mother of four children.[1]

Career

Geller spent most of the 1980s working at the New York Daily News, first as a financial analyst and then in the advertising and marketing areas.[13] She then became the associate publisher and top-ranking business executive of The New York Observer for five years, from 1989 through 1994, when she quit to stay home with her four daughters.[1][14][15]

In January 2010 she co-founded the Freedom Defense Initiative organization (FDI) with Robert Spencer.[16][17][18] Spencer is a blogger and author of articles and books relating to Islam and Islamic terrorism, and the founder of Jihad Watch.[1]

Geller denies accusations of being anti-Muslim, saying that it is "a slanderous slur and it's unfair".[9][19][20] She said:

the ground zero mosque ... To me it was an outrage, to me it was deeply offensive, to me it was indicative that interfaith dialogue and mutual respect and mutual understanding is a one-way street with Islamic supremacists, not Muslims. I believe that Muslims are more victimized by Islamic supremacists than even non-Muslims.[21]

In an interview, Geller said "I have no problem with Islam. I have a problem with political Islam".[21]

Geller has also lent her support to a number of other political causes. She has strongly defended former Serbian president Slobodan Milošević,[9] denied the existence of Serbian concentration camps in the 1990s,[22] said that black South Africans are engaging in a "genocide" against whites,[23] and expressed support for the far right English Defence League.[9][24]

In 2008, Geller co-wrote an editorial for Arutz Sheva expressing her distaste for fellow Jews who are not politically conservative:

It galls me that the Jews I fight for are self-destructive, suicidal even. Here in America (and the world over), Israel's real friends are in the Republican Party and yet over 80% of American Jews are Democrats. I don't get it. The conventional wisdom on the Left is that Israel is an oppressor and her actions are worse than the world's most depraved and dangerous regimes. Chomsky, Finkelstein, Soros–these men are the killers.[25]

She encouraged Israel to "stand loud and proud. Give up nothing. Turn over not a pebble. For every rocket fired, drop a MOAB. Take back Gaza. Secure Judea and Samaria. Stop buying Haaretz. Throw leftists bums out."[25]

She was an official blogger at the Republican National Convention of 2008.[26]

She co-authored a book with Spencer, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America, with a foreword by former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John R. Bolton, which was published in July 2010.[5] The book criticizes the Obama administration's treatment of the free-market system, freedom of speech, and foreign policy.

Stop Islamization of America and Park51

Geller and Robert Spencer co-founded Stop Islamization of America.[2] In May 2010, they began a strong campaign against the proposed Park51 Islamic community center and mosque, which Geller has referred to as the "Ground Zero Mega Mosque".[27][28] She says that Park51 is viewed by Muslims as a "triumphal" monument built on "conquered land". She also appeared on a number of cable news shows speaking out against the proposed Islamic community center and mosque.[13]

Geller has also advocated against Islam elsewhere. She argued that the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, one of Islam's holiest sites, should be removed because it was built on the same site as Judaism's former First and Second Temples.[29] Geller also published an article defending Radovan Karadžic, indicted for genocide and other war crimes against Bosnian Muslims and Croats during the Siege of Sarajevo and Srebrenica Massacre; the article argued that the Muslims were not murdered but committed suicide to embarrass their enemies.[30] In addition, Stop Islamization of America has sponsored ads which carry messages such as "Fatwa on Your Head?" and "Leaving Islam?" in several cities including New York City and Miami, pointing readers to a website called RefugefromIslam.com.[13][31] Geller said the ads were meant to provide resources for Muslims who were afraid to leave the religion.[31]

Geller first blogged in Atlas Shrugs about the proposed New York mosque in reaction to coverage in The New York Times on December 8, 2009.[32][33] On December 21, she again blogged on the subject, referring to it as "Mosque at Ground Zero" and calling it "a stab in the eye".[34] Geller next blogged about the building on May 24, 2010, when she reported on a self-selected reader poll connected with a report in the New York Daily News, urging her readers to vote in it. This is when she first used the phrase "Mega Mosque at Ground Zero".[35][36]

Commenting on the controversy, Geller 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.[9]

When asked in an August 17, 2010, interview on CNN 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."[37]

Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, criticized Geller, stating: Vorlage:Quote

Eric Boehlert, a senior fellow at liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America, 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"[13] while Andrew C. McCarthy, writing in the conservative[38] magazine the National Review criticized Hooper's opinion on the matter, citing his controversial comments about Islamism and the United States.[39] Media Matters further suggested that "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."[7]

In February 2011, the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled Stop Islamization of America as a hate group. Geller dismissed the SPLC as an "uber left" organization.[40]

Atlas Shrugs blog

The name of Geller's website and blog Atlas Shrugs is a reference to novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged.[1][9] Geller calls Rand "the greatest philosopher in human history". She says her blog and its purpose are "clearly defined by Rand's philosophy."[41] The blog concentrates on what Geller perceives to be a violent threat to the United States by Islamist extremists and liberal politicians.[42]

As of October 2010, the blog was receiving one million unique visitors a month.[1]

In 2006, when thousands of Muslims worldwide protested – sometimes violently – over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad printed in a Danish newspaper,[1][43][44][45][46] Geller posted the cartoons on her blog,[1][47] and its hits increased dramatically to tens of thousands.[1]

NPR reported that in 2008, for Atlas Shrugs, she examined lists of contributions given to Barack Obama's campaign. Others, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, then did the same.[48] Contributors with the names "Es Ech", "Doodad Pro", and similar names turned up, and a conservative activist said he donated to Barack Obama using the name Osama bin Laden.[48]

In November 2008, she captured a conversation by Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) on video, and posted it on YouTube.[49] In it, after prefacing his remarks by saying he had "no personal knowledge" of the matter and his statement was merely his "guess", he went on to say that Obama "didn’t have the political courage to want to make the statement of walking out" of Trinity United Church of Christ when he realized that Rev. Jeremiah Wright was "a nut" and "lunatic," because "you don’t walk out of a church with 8,000 members in your district."[49][50][51] After Geller released the video, Nadler said: "I made a thoughtless comment yesterday which does not reflect the way I feel about Barack Obama".[50][51]

The blog was among the first on November 5, 2009, to declare the belief that the Fort Hood shooting was a "Muslim terror attack."[42] Geller later noted that the recent Pentagon report into the Fort Hood shooting did not mention possible religious motivations behind the attack, and argued that self-imposed censorship is hurting U.S. understanding of the wars it is engaged in.[52] She said: "When nowhere in that document was Islam or Jihad mentioned, then Houston, we have a problem. People need to understand what is the motivation."[52]

Controversial postings on Atlas Shrugs include:[53][54] accusations that Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan cited German socialists who supported Nazi ideology in her Princeton thesis (accompanied by a mock-up photograph of her in a Nazi uniform),[1][55] a video suggesting that some Muslims have sex with goats, a doctored photo showing President Obama urinating on an American flag[13] and false claims that Obama's mother was involved in pornography and that Obama "was involved with a crack whore in his youth".[56][57]

During an RT Television News interview, reporter Lauren Lister repeatedly questioned Geller's statement that she is not anti-Muslim, at one point calling attention to Geller's having posted a drawing of Muhammad on her blog with the face of a pig superimposed over his own. Geller responded by saying "I don't know where it is in America that you can't make jokes or make fun."[58] In the same video, Geller also stated that the last chapter of the Qu'ran encouraged Muslims to attack nonbelievers.[59]

Geller has written "that Islam is the most antisemitic, genocidal ideology in the world".[60]

The blog has been criticized by progressive Media Matters for America,[7][8] and called "extreme" by Chris McGreal of The Guardian.[9] Conversely, it has been praised by Caroline Glick, managing editor of The Jerusalem Post, who hailed the blog's coverage of Muslim "honor killings" and called her "an intrepid blogger".[61][62]


Claims

Birther views

Geller has made multiple postings on her blog promoting birtherism, the belief that Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States, and that his birth certificate is a forgery.[63] Even after the president released his long form birth certificate, she continued to post that it was a forgery, despite objections from some of her own readers.[64] She then opined that, because his father was not divorced from his first wife when he married Stanley Ann Dunham, Obama is disqualified for the presidency, stating that "illegitimate children had different rights ... in 1789" and the Framers would not have intended for one to become president.[65] Geller's blog has also featured a post which, inter alia, suggested that the president is the "love child" of Malcolm X, though Geller later said this was by another author and that she herself does not believe that Obama is Malcolm X's love child, and never did.[13][66]

Other views

Geller was described by The Observer as the "darling of the Tea Party's growing anti-Islamic wing". She has advocated an alliance between the Tea Party Movement and the English Defence League (EDL), saying: "I share the EDL's goals ... We need to encourage rational, reasonable groups that oppose the Islamisation of the west."[67] In June 2011, Geller wrote that she was withdrawing her support for the EDL, citing "neo-fascists that had infiltrated the administration of the group" and the resignation of its Jewish Division leader, Roberta Moore.[68]

American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, who frequently writes about topics relating to Israel and the Middle East, has described Geller as a "bigoted blogger" and said she supported South African white supremacist Eugène Terre'Blanche.[69] Geller describes Terreblanche as the "leader of the noxious and hateful neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement." She maintains there is a genocide underway in South Africa that includes innocent whites that are not "racist monsters like Eugene Terreblanche." [70]

Geller has also stated her belief that the Muslim Brotherhood has "corrupted and compromised" the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).[71]

Works

Books

Articles

See also

References

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Barnard, Anne; Feuer, Alan (October 8, 2010). "Outraged, and Outrageous". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ a b Contact | Stop Islamization of America. Sioaonline.com, abgerufen am 14. September 2010.
  3. ↑ http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/sioa.htm
  4. ↑ http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/pam_geller_on_splc_hate_group_label_badge_of_honor.php
  5. ↑ a b Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer: The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America. Simon & Schuster, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4391-8930-6 (google.com).
  6. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/nyregion/10geller.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all
  7. ↑ a b c Memo to media: Pamela Geller does not belong on national television. 14. Juli 2010, abgerufen am 24. August 2010.
  8. ↑ a b Attention TV networks: Pam Geller is lying to your viewers. 19. August 2010, abgerufen am 24. August 2010.
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g Chris McGreal: The US blogger on a mission to halt 'Islamic takeover[[:Vorlage:'-]]. In: The Guardian. 20. August 2010, abgerufen am 21. August 2010.
  10. ↑ "Our World: The feminist deception" Jerusalem Post. December 14, 2010.
  11. ↑ a b Papa. In: Atlas Shrugs. 21. Juni 2009, abgerufen am 15. September 2010.
  12. ↑ Shout Out to the Moms! In: Atlas Shrugs. 10. Mai 2009, abgerufen am 15. September 2010.
  13. ↑ a b c d e f Daniel Burke: Pamela Geller, 'Queen Of Muslim Bashers,' At Center Of N.Y. 'Mosque' Debate In: The Huffington Post, May 25, 2011 [August 20, 2010]. Abgerufen im January 12, 2012 
  14. ↑ David Freedlander: The Woman Behind The Anti-Ground Zero Mosque Bus Ads In: The New York Observer, August 11, 2010. Abgerufen im September 14, 2010 
  15. ↑ New Editor Named for Observer In: The New York Times, May 10, 1994. Abgerufen im September 14, 2010 
  16. ↑ Freedom Defense Initiative. Freedom Defense Initiative, abgerufen am 14. September 2010.
  17. ↑ Geller, Pamela (January 26, 2010). "Jihad: The Political Third Rail". Freedom Defense Initiative.
  18. ↑ Mara Gay: Legal Battle Brews Over Ban on 'Anti-Islam' Bus Ads, AOL News, June 23, 2010. Abgerufen im January 14, 2012 
  19. ↑ Larry Keller: Prime Islam-Basher Pam Geller Outdone by Colleague. In: Hatewatch. Southern Poverty Law Center, abgerufen am 14. September 2010.
  20. ↑ Heidi Beirich: White Supremacists Find Common Cause with Pam Geller’s Anti-Islam Campaign. In: Hatewatch. Southern Poverty Law Center, abgerufen am 14. September 2010.
  21. ↑ a b Barnard, Anne; Feuer, Alan (October 8, 2010). "Pamela Geller: In Her Own Words". The New York Times.
  22. ↑ Geller, Pamela. "Canadian PM Steven Harper, Leader of the Free World, Vetoes Bosnian Lie Resolution", Atlas Shrugs, August 11, 2010.
  23. ↑ Geller, Pamela. "Genocide in South Africa", The American Thinker, reprinted in Atlas Shrugs, April 16, 2010.
  24. ↑ Geller, Pamela. "In England, A Victory for Freedom", The American Thinker, May 5, 2010.
  25. ↑ a b Pamela Geller, Eliza Saxon: Op-Ed: Indomitable Israel, Arutz Sheva, May 11, 2008. Abgerufen im September 14, 2010 
  26. ↑ Pamela Geller: Keeping it real yeah baby. In: Atlas Shrugs. 4. Juli 2008, abgerufen am 15. September 2010.
  27. ↑ How the "ground zero mosque" fear mongering began – Park51, Muslim Community Center in Lower Manhattan. In: Salon. 16. August 2010, abgerufen am 14. September 2010.
  28. ↑ The Seeker: Untold story behind the so-called 'Ground Zero mosque'. Chicago Tribune, 20. August 2010, abgerufen am 14. September 2010.
  29. ↑ Pamela Geller: Erev Yom: Muslims Riot, Attack Jews in Jerusalem – Policemen wounded in Temple Mt. riots. In: Atlas Shrugs. 27. September 2009, abgerufen am 22. August 2010.
  30. ↑ Pamela Geller: The Real Criminals Presiding over the International Criminal Court Part II of Nuremberg II. In: Atlas Shrugs. Abgerufen am 30. Oktober 2010.
  31. ↑ a b Mail Foreign Service. "'Fatwa on your head?' Controversial adverts that help Muslims abandon Islam appear on New York buses", Daily Mail, 27 May 2010.
  32. ↑ Giving Thanks. In: Atlas Shrugs.
  33. ↑ Muslim Prayers and Renewal Near Ground Zero In: The New York Times, December 9, 2009 
  34. ↑ Mosque at Ground Zero: Adding Insult to Agony. In: Atlas Shrugs. 21. Dezember 2009, abgerufen am 14. September 2010.
  35. ↑ Vote On Mega Mosque At Ground Zero. In: Atlas Shrugs. 24. Mai 2010, abgerufen am 14. September 2010.
  36. ↑ Lower Manhattan board mixed on planned mosque and Islamic center at Ground Zero WTC site. In: NY Daily News. 24. Mai 2010, abgerufen am 14. September 2010.
  37. ↑ Randi Kaye: Firestorm Grows Over Islamic Center Near Ground Zero In: Anderson Cooper 360°, CNN, August 17, 2010. Abgerufen im August 26, 2010 
  38. ↑ Advertising Media Kit, National Review Online.
  39. ↑ Andrew C. McCarthy: Re:SPLC on Geller. National Review;
  40. ↑ Corky Siemaszko: Southern Poverty Law Center lists anti-Islamic NYC blogger Pamela Geller, followers a hate group In: Daily News, February 25, 2011 
  41. ↑ Robert Stacy McCain: Vorlage:-'Atlas', at last, on map; Rand's novel set for 50th fete, film adaptation, October 5, 2007, S. A.2 
  42. ↑ a b Muslim Terror Attack: 'Twelve shot dead' 12 30 Wounded, Mass Shooting at Fort Hood, US Army Base. In: Atlas Shrugs. 5. November 2009, abgerufen am 14. September 2010.
  43. ↑ Muslim cartoon fury claims lives, BBC News, February 6, 2006. Abgerufen im September 24, 2011 
  44. ↑ Danes issue travel warning list, BBC News, February 6, 2006. Abgerufen im September 24, 2011 
  45. ↑ Muslims continue protest against satirical cartoons In: The World Today, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, February 7, 2006. Abgerufen im September 24, 2011 
  46. ↑ Pakistan cartoon violence spreads, BBC News, February 15, 2006. Abgerufen im September 24, 2011 
  47. ↑ Pamela Geller: The Danes Wont Deign, But Will the UN? In: Atlas Shrugs. 29. Januar 2006, abgerufen am 24. September 2011.
  48. ↑ a b Illegal Campaign Donations Spur Calls For Change. NPR, 31. Oktober 2008, abgerufen am 14. September 2010.
  49. ↑ a b Nadler Questions Obama's Courage. In: The Weekly Standard. 3. November 2008, abgerufen am 17. Januar 2011.
  50. ↑ a b November 3, 2008: RJC robo-call highlights Nadler’s Obama statement. JTA, 3. November 2008, abgerufen am 12. Oktober 2010.
  51. ↑ a b NY Rep. backtracks from Obama comments. FOX News, 3. November 2008, abgerufen am 17. Januar 2011.
  52. ↑ a b Judson Berger: CPAC Session on Jihad, Free Speech Attracts Complaints. Fox News, 7. April 2010, abgerufen am 12. Oktober 2010.
  53. ↑ Ben Dimiero: Geller illustrates ridiculous attack on Kagan with image of Kagan in a Nazi uniform. Media Matters, 2. Juli 2010, abgerufen am 24. August 2010.
  54. ↑ Attention TV networks: Pam Geller is lying to your viewers. Media Matters, 19. August 2010, abgerufen am 24. August 2010.
  55. ↑ Pamela Geller: Shocking: Kagan's Princeton Thesis Cited German Socialist Who Endorsed Nazis. In: Atlas Shrugs. 2. Juli 2010, abgerufen am 22. August 2010.
  56. ↑ Pamela Geller: CNN Tells, Sells More Lies About Palin – it's Time to Expose the truth about Obama. In: Atlas Shrugs. 1. August 2009, abgerufen am 22. August 2010.
  57. ↑ Ann Dunham Soetoro. snopes.com, abgerufen am 14. September 2010.
  58. ↑ Vorlage:Cite episode
    The Geller interview segment of the hour-long Alyona Show is also available on youtube, where the exchange occurs at 5:48 into the video.
  59. ↑ Youtube.com at 2:07–2:27.
  60. ↑ Pamela Geller: NY Times Con Job: Daisy Khan had never seen so many Jews in her life. In: Atlas Shrugs. Abgerufen am 15. November 2010.
  61. ↑ Political Messiah in the Holy Land. In: National Review. 25. Juli 2008;.
  62. ↑ "Our World: The feminist deception" Jerusalem Post. December 14, 2010.
  63. ↑ Atlas Exclusive: Final Report on Obama Birth Certificate Forgery Change You Can Believe In. In: Atlas Shrugs. 20. Juli 2008, abgerufen am 23. Juli 2011.
  64. ↑ Layering: Obama's New COLB Raises More Questions than it Answers. In: Atlas Shrugs. 27. April 2011, abgerufen am 23. Juli 2011.
  65. ↑ An Illegitimate Child, An Illegitimate President: Despite Multiple Attempts, 'No Comment' from the White House. In: Atlas Shrugs. 30. April 2011, abgerufen am 17. Oktober 2010.
  66. ↑ How could Stanley Ann Dunham have delivered Barack Hussein Obama Jr. in August 1961 in Honolulu, when official University of Washington Records show her 2680 miles away in Seattle attending classes that same month? In: Atlas Shrugs. 24. Oktober 2008, archiviert vom Original am 31. Oktober 2008; abgerufen am 17. Oktober 2010.
  67. ↑ Townsend, Mark (October 10, 2010). "English Defence League forges links with America's Tea Party", The Observer.
  68. ↑ Geller, Pamela (June 30, 2011). "EDL Shake-Up". Atlas Shrugs. Retrieved January 15, 2012
  69. ↑ Jeffrey Goldberg: Pamela Geller Supports English Pogromists, South African Fascists. In: The Atlantic. 18. Oktober 2010, abgerufen am 28. Oktober 2010.
  70. ↑ Geller, Pamela (April 16, 2010) "Genocide in South Africa", American Thinker, Retrieved January 15, 2012
  71. ↑ (At least) Two approaches to Islam at CPAC.
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