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Pamela Geller has long been written off by mainstream critics as an Islamophobic crackpot.
But Geller, whose anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, was attacked by gunmen May 3, has had wide-ranging impact, galvanizing opposition to a proposed Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero in Manhattan and forcing city transport agencies to run inflammatory ads denouncing Muslims with a broad brush.
These actions by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, which Geller co-founded five years ago and which organized the Garland event, are winning increasing sums from financial backers.
The AFDI received almost $960,000 in donations in 2013, according to the group’s most recently available tax return. That’s up from $160,000 the year before and $19,000 the previous year, when the group was launched.
The steep increase in donations allowed AFDI to spend almost $400,000 in 2013 countering what it describes in tax filings as acts of “treason” committed by federal and state governments, the mainstream media and others “in their capitulation to the global jihad and Islamic supremacism…and the rapidly moving attempts to impose socialism and Marxism upon the American people.”
That same year, for the first time, the group was able to pay Geller a salary of almost $200,000.
Geller, who is Jewish, did not respond to questions from the Forward asking the identity of the AFDI’s major funders.
The Forward did locate $100,000 of funding to AFDI given anonymously via a Jewish charity. The donation, received in 2013 and 2014 from a private donor or donors, was sent throughthe Jewish Communal Fund, a donor-advised charity that allows the original funding source to direct where it wants its donation to go while masking its identity.
Geller, who is a wealthy, divorced mother of four from Long Island, has come a long way since she launched a blog, Atlas Shrugs, in 2005, in response to the 9/11 terror attacks. The website’s name is a tribute to libertarian ideologue Ayn Rand, whose novel, “Atlas Shrugged,” warned of the dangers of a regulatory government.
Geller has been at the forefront of campaigns against an Arabic-language school in Brooklyn and against the proposed Park51 Islamic Center that was to be located two blocks from Ground Zero in Manhattan.
But it is her writing and speaking, on her blog, in books, media appearances, and at events, that have been most effective — and incendiary.
For more than 10 years Atlas Shrugs has been a clearinghouse for the vilification of Islam. In it Geller depicts Western society as ever on the brink of collapse. Judeo-Christian civilization is under constant attack from radical Islam. The imposition of Sharia law in Europe and America is never far away.
She and AFDI co-founder Robert Spencer were barred from entering the United Kingdom in 2013 and branded by the British Home Office as leaders of “anti-Muslim hate groups.”
Before the Garland shootings, the AFDI was probably best known for running controversial ads on public transportation systems in cities such as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia with messages like “Islamic Jew-Hatred: It’s in the Quran” or “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”
Many city authorities rejected the ads. But with the help of an anti-Islamic lawyer, David Yerushalmi, the AFDI prevailed on free speech grounds and forced city transportation agencies to run its ads. […]
Geller is an outspoken free-speech advocate. Ten years ago, she republished on her blog controversial cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, which were originally published in a Danish newspaper sparking violent protests and death threats. She staged this month’s event in Garland partly in response to the deadly terrorist attack by Muslim extremists on the offices of the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which had also published images of Mohammed.
The AFDI event, held on the evening of May 3 at the Curtis Culwell Center, was an exhibit of entries to an AFDI-organized Mohammad cartoons contest. The group spent $10,000 on security for the sold-out crowd of more than 200 people.
Geller, Spencer and Geert Wilders, a Dutch anti-Islam campaigner who addressed the crowd, were unaware of the brief gun battle that raged outside during an assault by two attackers armed with assault rifles, until a private security guard told attendees they were on lockdown. The two gunmen, Elton Simpson of Phoenix and Nadir Soofi, were shot dead by police before they could enter the building. A security guard was shot in the ankle.
As indicated by The Forward’s report, Geller is an extremely well-funded, influential, and quite subversive propagandist. She is one of the leading promoters of anti-Islamic sentiment, which is designed to reinforce and perpetuate the false “Global War on Terror” narrative and hype the alleged “threat” Islam poses to the Western world.
It must be noted that while Islam itself does not pose a threat to the Western world, millions of non-White Muslims flooding into Western Europe and America as “refugees” and “political asylum seekers” most certainly do. (See here for just one horrifying example.)
Westerners are propagandized by individuals such as Geller, and the Jewish media generally, to literally hate Islam and Muslims, to blindly send their sons and daughters thousands of miles from their homes to fight a faceless, largely manufactured enemy commonly referred to as “radical Islam”. Mysterious groups, who often have ties to Western and Israeli intelligence agencies and other front organizations, such as al-Qaeda and more recently ISIS, are endlessly hyped and demonized in the media, perpetuating the never-ending, truly Orwellian “Global War on Terror,” in which Israel’s geopolitical adversaries in the Middle East – Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya, and now Bashar al-Assad’s Syria – are systematically dismantled and destroyed using the military, economic, and human capital of the West, paving the way for Zionist hegemony in the region.
While Americans specifically and Westerners generally are expected to despiseIslam and the Muslim world, they are at the same time expected to welcomethese very same people their governments and militaries are brutally murdering and occupying in the Middle East as refugees and “persecuted minorities” in the West. If this isn’t the definition of insanity, I do not know what is.
Additionally, and needless to say, Geller’s writings, speeches, and overall worldview, which reach millions of Americans and others in the Western world, also reinforce and perpetuate the official conspiracy theory explaining the events of 9/11.
Of course, serious investigators, journalists, professional scholars, and architects have debunked virtually every single aspect of the official conspiracy theory explaining 9/11, which is repeatedly promoted by the mainstream mass media, political establishment, and subversive propagandists like Pamela Geller. It has now been conclusively established that “radical Muslim terrorists” connected to Osama bin Laden did not carry out the 9/11 attacks.
Indeed, there is absolutely no proof Muslims did 9/11. All evidence and logic points to 9/11 being carried out by the Jewish state of Israel working in conjunction with Jewish criminals operating at the highest levels of the United States federal government and mainstream mass media. In short, Jews did 9/11, not Muslims.
Pamela Geller and her network of high profile anti-Islamic activists, spokesmen and politicians effectively function as official propagandists for the Jewish concocted “Global War on Terror,” a paradigm of American foreign policy that has been officially sanctioned and codified as a result of 9/11 by successive presidential administrations. This obvious conclusion should be drawn by any rational, objective investigator critically looking at Pamela Geller’s well-funded and entirely subversive political agenda, one which is designed to support and advance the interests of Jewish neocons operating in the United States.
