Posted on 10/10/2010 6:43:17 AM PDT by reaganaut1
...
[Pamela] Geller, 52 and a single mother of four, wakes each morning shortly after 7, switches on her laptop and wages a form of holy war through Atlas Shrugs, a Web site that attacks Islam with a rhetoric venomous enough that PayPal at one point branded it a hate site. Working here — often in fuzzy slippers — she has called for the removal of the Dome of the Rock from atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem; posted doctored pictures of Elena Kagan, the Supreme Court justice, in a Nazi helmet; suggested the State Department was run by “Islamic supremacists”; and referred to health care reform as an act of national rape.
Ms. Geller has been writing since 2005, but this summer she skyrocketed to national prominence as the firebrand in chief opposing Park51, the planned Muslim community center she denounces as “the ground zero mega-mosque.”
Operating largely outside traditional Washington power centers — and, for better or worse, without traditional academic, public-policy or journalism credentials — Ms. Geller, with a coterie of allies, has helped set the tone and shape the narrative for a divisive national debate over Park51 (she calls the developer a “thug” and a “lowlife”). In the process, she has helped bring into the mainstream a concept that after 9/11 percolated mainly on the fringes of American politics: that terrorism by Muslims springs not from perversions of Islam but from the religion itself. Her writings, rallies and television appearances have both offended and inspired, transforming Ms. Geller from an Internet obscurity, who once videotaped herself in a bikini as she denounced “Islamofascism,” into a media commodity who has been profiled on “60 Minutes” and whose phraseology has been adopted by Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Wow... how dare a private citizen post ANY commentary on any issue without the proper training or experience.
Free speech... tis for me, but not for thee.
Another Pro-Islam Hit Piece by the NYTimes. Pamela Gellers’ response on her Web Site ‘Atlas Shrugs’ is by FAR the Better Read!
Must be good if hated by the NYT.
Thank God for Pamela’s work. She was the first one to alert me to Charles Johnson losing his mind - I managed to leave the Lizard Lounge before it got totally batsh1t crazy in there.
< sarc > She does not had the proper approval from Society to speak. Therefore, she better know her place and shut her face ! </ sarc >
>Operating ... for better or worse, without traditional academic, public-policy or journalism credentials ....
After reading the NYT I´m convinced she´s a patriot.
Down with islamism!
I like this woman!
Oh, here is the bikini video. Unfortunately, not much to see:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TG7DTOkU-s&feature=related
Terrorism by Muslims does spring from the religion itself. Duh!!!! Where else would it come from?
Those who choose to believe Islam is just a religion, and a benign one at that, will not be convinced otherwise even when the next shoe drops, as it surely will. I do hope when it does, there are ADULTS in charge.
I am curious which of these two knuckleheads went to Columbia and which one went to Harvard. That would take cre of both the academic and journalist credential.
What in hell are those?
Indoctrination at liberal educational institutions?Seems to this country boy that this gal is more qualified than anybody working for Carlos Slim at the New York Times ... or just about anybody in the MSM for that matter.More indoctrination at liberal activism institutions?
Still more indoctrination at liberal propaganda institutions?
I so dearly love the NYT’s ever so selectively delicate sensibiities. What a gang of pathetic hypocrites.
Another woman the “pro-female” leftists don’t like.
For the left - Women must toe the line.
In reading the comments at nyt, I found this ‘un;
“”From today’s ‘Guardian’ on Pamela Geller: Judge for yourself whether this woman is a racist!:
‘The English Defence League, a far-right grouping aimed at combating the “Islamification” of British cities, has developed strong links with the American Tea Party movement.
An Observer investigation has established that the EDL has made contact with anti-jihad groups within the Tea Party organisation and has invited a senior US rabbi and Tea Party activist to London this month. Rabbi Nachum Shifren, a regular speaker at Tea Party conventions, will speak about Sharia law and also discuss funding issues.
The league has also developed links with Pamela Geller, who was influential in the protests against plans to build an Islamic cultural centre near Ground Zero. Geller, darling of the Tea Party’s growing anti-Islamic wing, is advocating an alliance with the EDL. The executive director of the Stop Islamisation of America organisation, she recently met EDL leaders in New York and has defended the group’s actions, despite a recent violent march in Bradford.
Geller, who denies being anti-Muslim, said in one of her blogs: “I share the EDL’s goals… We need to encourage rational, reasonable groups that oppose the Islamisation of the west.”
Rational and reasonable? Yeah sure!””
Another comment;
“Thank the cosmos for freaks like Pam Geller et all, for they remind me that I am a sane and functioning human being. Unfortunately, the world is filled with her kind these days. They are being enabled by the rich.
Unfortunately, until the rich stop using them to further their agendas, it will take time for them to heal themselves and stop reenacting the traumas that they suffered. Those who know should take pity on them and not allow themselves to be used as a conduit for their suffering and rage. Ms. Geller would benefit by having her alimony reduced - significantly. Then she would have to come down from her ivory tower and do some real work.”
a Web site that attacks Islam with a rhetoric venomous enough that PayPal at one point branded it a hate site.
islam is EVIL.
So paypal decided it is not right to hate evil?
Screw them...
islam is at war with civilization and America in particular and unless our government and the asinine media doesn;t accept that fcat and realize we must fight back then America is doomed..
Nothing wrong with that, I too call for the crap on the Jewish temple site to be kicked back to rubble and when the mohamadashamadashamads get pissed, stack em up, even buzzards need to eat..
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.