Pamela Geller

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Pamela Geller

Pamela Geller (born June 14, 1958 in Hewlett Harbor , New York ) is an American blogger , author, political activist and commentator. She is mainly known for her anti- Islam activities . This includes the engagement against the construction of an Islamic community center near the former site of the World Trade Center . She said her blogging activities and campaigns in the United States were directed against "creeping Sharia law ". Geller is not only described as a critic of Islamism , but also describes herself as his opponent and Islamophobic .

Life

Geller was a financial analyst for the Daily News in the 1980s . From 1989 to 1994 she was co-publisher of the New York Observer . In an interview with the Village Voice , she announced that she had started political activity because of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks . She created a blog called Atlas Shrugs in 2004 . The blog got thousands of readers when Geller published the Mohammed cartoons there, which many newspapers didn't.
At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2010, Geller spoke about her view of jihad and criticized the Pentagon's report on the rampage in Fort Hood . Geller was a regular speaker at CPAC for four years, but was banned from performing there in 2013.

She is a supporter of the English Defense League (EDL). However, she was banned from entering Britain . The interior ministry gave quotes from her as the reason for the ban: " Al-Qaeda is a manifestation of believing Islam."

Views

Geller mainly publishes on her blog Atlas shrugs , the title of which is based on the novel by the author Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged . She also works with Robert Spencer on his Jihad Watch website . In 2010 she co-founded the anti-Islamic organization American Initiative to Defend Freedom (AFDI). She is considered one of the most influential activists on the Islamophobic scene in the United States.

With her organization, Geller warns of an alleged Islamization of America and believes that former US President Barack Obama is a Muslim who wants to destroy the USA. She speaks out publicly against Islamism . She says of herself that she has no problem with Islam, but with Islamism. After spreading her anti-jihadist views on posters, she was accused of anti-Muslim racism by the Council on American-Islamic Relations . In turn, she said that the posters were not directed against all Muslims, only against the terrorists. Geller is happy to quote Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to support her views. She also claimed that Islam was "the most anti-Semitic , genocidal ideology ".

In 2014, as part of a campaign, she had a photo of a 1941 meeting between Mohammed Amin al-Husseini and Adolf Hitler printed on 20 buses of the Washington public transport company , together with the request to stop all financial aid to predominantly Islamic countries and the statement that “Islamic Hatred of Jews ”in the Koran . This campaign was criticized, for example by the Council on American-Islamic Relations , as “ propaganda ” which itself incites hatred.

Geller sees herself as a Zionist and appealed through the religious-Zionist broadcaster Arutz Scheva in an appeal to Israel regarding the Middle East conflict with the words:

“So I say to Israel, 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. Stand straight and walk on. Be worthy of your ancestors. "

- Pamela Geller : Arutz Scheva, November 5, 2008

At the beginning of May 2015, an event in Garland near Dallas , Texas, organized by the organization AFDI, which it co-founded, in which Mohammed cartoons were shown and Geert Wilders was invited as a guest speaker, was the target of an attack. A security guard was injured and the attackers were killed.

Stop Islamization of America

Geller is the co-founder of Stop Islamization of America . This organization has been condemned as an anti-Muslim hate group by both the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Geller himself describes the SPLC as a " left-wing extremist " organization.

Planned assassination attempt

In June 2015, Usaama Rahim, an Islamic State supporter living in Boston , attacked several police officers with a knife trying to arrest him. He had been under surveillance for a few days for buying three knives on Amazon and distributing Islamic State propaganda. The surveillance found that he and his nephew, David Wright, planned to kill Geller through their heads for their anti-Islamic stance. Since this proved too difficult, Rahim decided to murder a police officer instead. Rahim was shot dead during the confrontation with the police. Wright and another man, Nicholas Rovinski, were arrested a few days later and charged with conspiracy and aiding a terrorist organization. Rovinski pleaded guilty in September 2016 and testified against Wright, sentencing him to a relatively mild 16 years in prison. Wright was sentenced to 28 years in prison in December 2017.

Web links

Commons : Pamela Geller  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ US Public Records Index Vol 1 & 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Barnard, Anne; Fire, Alan (October 8, 2010). "Outraged, and Outrageous" . The New York Times .
  3. ↑ Linda Milazzo: Jewish Federation Puts Kibosh On Extreme Islamophobe Pamela Geller . In: AlterNet , June 25, 2012. Retrieved September 28, 2012. 
  4. ↑ Terry Davidson: York Regional Police threaten rabbi's role as chaplain over Pamela Geller speech . In: Toronto Sun , May 1, 2013. Retrieved May 5, 2013. 
  5. ↑ Daniel Burke: Pamela Geller, 'Queen Of Muslim Bashers', At Center Of NY 'Mosque' Debate . In: The Huffington Post , May 25, 2011. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  6. ^ New Editor Named for Observer . In: The New York Times , May 10, 1994. Retrieved September 14, 2010. 
  7. ^ Greg Howard (Nov. 28, 2012). Pamela Geller's War Village Voice . “ The 9/11 attack was the most evil thing Geller could imagine. She felt we were at war with a group of people who played by a different set of rules. Savages. She had to do something. So she learned about Islam, jihad, and sharia, the religion's code of law. Growing up, she was largely apolitical but always championed women's rights. She was particularly disturbed by women under sharia who were treated as second-class citizens. She read about women and young girls alike being beaten, raped, murdered. But the more she studied the religion, the more social issues took a backseat to her belief that Islam itself needed to be defeated. ”
  8. ^ Judson Berger: CPAC Session on Jihad, Free Speech Attracts Complaints . Fox News. April 7, 2010. Archived from the original on June 24, 2010. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 12, 2010: “When nowhere in that document was Islam or Jihad mentioned, then Houston, we have a problem. People need to understand what is the motivation. " @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.foxnews.com
  9. ↑ Alex Seitz-Wald: Anti-Muslim activist Pam Geller turned away from CPAC . In: Salon , March 4, 2013. 
  10. ^ Mark Townsend: English Defense League forges links with America's Tea Party . In: The Observer , October 10, 2010. Retrieved February 28, 2014. 
  11. ↑ Kevin Rawlinson: Anti-Ground Zero Mosque campaigners Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer barred from entering Britain to speak at an EDL rally . In: The Independent , June 26, 2013. 
  12. ^ American right-wing activists banned from entering UK . In: 4 News , July 26, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2013. 
  13. ↑ Christina Hebel: Anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller: Full of hatred . Spiegel Online , May 4, 2015.
  14. ^ Foiled terrorist attack in Texas: Investigators suspect Islamist background . Spiegel Online , May 4, 2015.
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  16. ↑ Call a Terrorist a 'Savage'? How Uncivilized, An anti-jihad message is 'hate speech' by today's topsy-turvy standards. . In: Wall Street Journal , October 1, 2012. 
  17. ^ Hannah Thomas-Peter: Anti-Jihad Adverts To Run In New York Subway . In: Sky News , September 20, 2012. 
  18. ↑ Pamela Geller: "This Is a Clash of Civilizations" . In: PBS , September 27, 2011. 
  19. ↑ NY Times Con Job: "Daisy Khan Had Never Seen So Many Jews in Her Life." . atlasshrugs.com. November 14, 2010. Archived from the original on November 26, 2013. Retrieved on March 2, 2014.
  20. ^ Under tight security, Geller addresses crowd of hundreds at Chabad . theislandnow.com. April 15, 2013. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 2, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theislandnow.com
  21. ^ Confronting Pamela Geller (Updated With Response) . huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2012. Retrieved March 2, 2014.
  22. ↑ Confronting the #Huffington Post . pamelageller.com. July 16, 2012. Retrieved March 2, 2014.
  23. ↑ Samuel Jackisch: In the "Hitler Bus" through Washington. ( Memento from May 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) tagesschau.de, May 28, 2014
  24. ^ Anti-Muslim activist barred from speaking at Jewish Federation headquarters . In: Jewish Journal . June 25, 2012. Retrieved February 4, 2013.
  25. ↑ Pamela Geller: Op-Ed: Indomitable Israel , Arutz Sheva. May 11, 2008. Retrieved September 14, 2010. 
  26. ↑ Attack in Texas: Dead in attack on exhibition with Mohammed cartoons . Spiegel Online , May 4, 2015
  27. ↑ John K. Press: A Plan to Stop the Islamization of the World is at Hand . In: American Thinker . September 16, 2012. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
  28. ↑ "Backgrounder: Stop Islamization of America (SIOA)" ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Extremism . Anti-Defamation League . March 25, 2011 [August 26, 2010]. Retrieved February 16, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.adl.org
  29. ↑ Eric Lach: Pam Geller On 'Hate Group' Label: 'A Badge of Honor' . Talking Points Memo , March 1, 2011; Retrieved February 16, 2012.
  30. ↑ Corky Siemaszko: Southern Poverty Law Center lists anti-Islamic NYC blogger Pamela Geller, followers a hate group . In: Daily News , February 25, 2011. 
  31. ↑ ISIS 'Soldier' ​​David Wright Who Tried to Kill Pamela Geller And 'Take Down' US Government Gets 28 Years . Newsweek online, December 19, 2017; accessed December 21, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Geller, Pamela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American blogger, writer, political activist, and commentator
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Hewlett Harbor , New York