Pamela Geller

RadicaliserExtremistRight WingAnti MuslimIslamophobia

Aug 1

**DOB:** 14 June 1958

**Nationality:** American

**Location:** New York, USA
**Ideology/Affiliation:** Anti-Muslim

**Type of Leader:** Propagandist/Activist/Media personality

Biography

Pamela Geller is one of the most prominent anti-Muslim activists in the United States. Geller created a blog named Atlas Shrugs in 2004 and regularly appears on Fox News, which provides her a platform to target Muslims and Islam in the U.S. Geller's blog achieved popularity in 2006 when she reposted the controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoons that had first appeared in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten. Geller continues promoting her anti-Muslim thoughts and opinions on her blog and has a history of collaborating with extremist anti-Muslim religious groups such as the Jewish Defence League, the English Defence League and white supremacist groups. She joined Stop the Madrassa in 2007, a group of anti-Muslim activists seeking to prevent the building of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, a secular, public Arabic-English school in Brooklyn, New York.

In 2010, Geller co-founded the American Freedom Defense Initiative organization (AFDI), which was also known as Stop Islamization of America, which is an umbrella organization that includes Stop Islamization of America and Stop Islamisation of Europe. Geller's controversial speech earned the support of far-right groups such as white nationalists and neo-Nazi proponents. Controversial websites and publications such as Breitbart, Stormfront, VDARE, American Renaissance, and the neo-Confederate League of the South have also provided Geller with a platform to publish her articles and views.

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Evidence of Hate Speech/Incitement:

November 2017: During an online interview with Fox’s Paul Hannity, Geller stated that “More Muslim immigration means more Islamic terror”. In the same interview, Geller also offended the Prophet Muhammad on live television.

February 2016: Geller wrote that US Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad’s wearing of a Hijab is Sharia law being imposed on the non-Muslim world. She stated in her column that “Islamic supremacism is what it is. You have even in Canada, the Mounties, they’re designing a police officer’s uniform with a hijab. This is Islamic supremacism. You know, Jewish law pertains only to Jews, canon law pertains only to Christians, but Sharia, (Islamic law), asserts its authority over non-Muslims. This is the problem and this is something that is never discussed.”

May 2015: Geller was co-organizer in the "Draw the Prophet '' cartoon contest at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas. This event took place in the same place of the "Stand With the Prophet" event which was held in January 2015. However, the "Draw the Prophet” event was a message of mockery of the Islamic religion.

September 2012: Geller and FDI/SIOA paid to publish anti-Muslim ads on subways. The ads were as following:

“In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”
“Soon we shall cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers.”
“Killing Jews is Worship that draws us close to Allah. That's His Jihad. What's yours?”

December 2009: Geller published her first blog in 2009 when she wrote about the renovation of an abandoned building in lower Manhattan into a 13-story mosque and community centre, known as Cordoba House but later called the Park51 project. This proposal was suggested by a New York City Imam and his financier partner. Geller was against this project and accused Sufism as a jihadist spectrum of Islam. She quoted Robert Spencer “Sufis from al-Ghazali to the present day have taught the necessity of jihad warfare, and have participated in that warfare -- notably in Chechnya since the 18th century.

Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, the parent organization of Hamas and Al-Qaeda, was strongly influenced by Sufism and prescribed Sufi spiritual exercises for the Brotherhood members”. However, Muslims, according to Geller, regard Park51 as a "triumphal" monument built on "conquered land." She also added that Park51's project finance may have had links to terrorists. In an interview with the Fox channel about Park51, Giller stated “We are constantly being schooled in this hypersensitivity in the Muslim world. Don’t burn the Qur'an. Don’t run the Danish cartoons. Here, we say, please don’t build a 15-story mega-mosque.”