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Pamela Geller is an American far-right political activist and conspiracy theorist who gained attention after posting a video on YouTube in which she wears a bikini. She also maintains a website, "Atlas Shrugs" (a reference to the Ayn Rand novel Atlas Shrugged), which features a picture of her in a Superman cape.
Geller, who is from New York, is a former associate publisher of the New York Observer. In addition to her anti-Islam stance, Geller has also lent her support to a number of other political causes. For example, she has been a strong defender of former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic, and has denied the existence of Serbian concentration camps. She has also claimed that black South Africans are launching a "genocide" against whites, and expressed support for the English Defense League. Geller is also known for her strong opposition to the proposed Park51 community center, which she has referred to as the "Ground Zero Mega Mosque". She has claimed that Park51 is viewed by Muslims as a "triumphal" monument built on "conquered land". She is also the co-author (with Robert Spencer) of a book called The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America, the foreword of which was written by former UN ambassador John Bolton. Geller has co-founded a number of websites including the aforementioned Atlas Shrugs, Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI) and Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA). A spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Mark Potok, has described Geller's rhetoric as "over the line" and "hate speech".
Response
In response to accusations that she is anti-Muslim, Geller says that she is not anti-Muslim as that is "a slanderous slur and it's unfair." Furthermore, commenting on the Ground Zero Mosque controversy, Geller says, "I'm not leading the charge . 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."
References
- ^ McGreal, Chris (August 20, 2010). "The US blogger on a mission to halt 'Islamic takeover'". Retrieved August 21, 2010.