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cali

(114,904 posts)
Mon May 4, 2015, 03:10 PM May 2015

Pamela Geller blames President Obama for shooters at her cartoon fest

Extremist Pamela Geller held one of her inciteful, anti-Islamic stunts in Garland, Texas yesterday. Gunmen opened fire and were shot and killed by the police. On Fox News, Geller blamed President Obama.

Pamela Geller is one of the most vile hate mongers to be seen on Fox News – and that’s saying something. From the Southern Poverty Law Center:

Through her website, Geller has promulgated some of the most bizarre conspiracy theories found on the extreme right, including claims that President Obama is the love child of Malcolm X, that Obama was once involved with a “crack whore,” that his birth certificate is a forgery, that his late mother posed nude for pornographic photos, and that he was a Muslim in his youth who never renounced Islam. She has described Obama as beholden to his “Islamic overlords” and said that he wants jihad to be victorious in America. In April 2011, Geller accused Obama of withholding evidence in the then-upcoming trial of accused Fort Hood mass murderer Major Nidal Malik Hasan.

Geller uses her website to publish her most revolting insults of Muslims: She posted (and later removed ) a video implying that Muslims practiced bestiality with goats and a cartoon depicting the Muslim prophet Mohammad with a pig’s face (observant Muslims do not eat pork). Geller also has denied the genocide of Bosnian Muslims by Serbian forces in Srebrenica – calling it the “Srebrenica Genocide Myth,” even though the Serbian government itself issued a state apology for the massacre. She wrote, “Westerners are admitting to their role in something that didn’t happen, and digging their own graves.”


Read more at http://www.newshounds.us/pamela_geller_blames_gun_violence_at_her_draw_the_prophet_event_on_president_obama_050315#M6UEHXVeAq06osCk.99

Yes. Pamela Geller fucking well was inciting and provoking violence. That doesn't justify it, but her hate stunt was nothing like what Charlie Hebdo did.

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Pamela Geller blames President Obama for shooters at her cartoon fest (Original Post) cali May 2015 OP
These are the same people that went around the country during the Bush years haikugal May 2015 #1
so SHE & her HATE fest had NOTHING to do with what happened. pansypoo53219 May 2015 #2
Nice try, Pamela LittleBlue May 2015 #3
Here is the quote: cbayer May 2015 #4
Exactly... joeybee12 May 2015 #5
there is a willful blindness to her destructiveness, but maybe this can cause some rethinking carolinayellowdog May 2015 #6
k&r... spanone May 2015 #7
No doubt about it-- she's an asshole. Marr May 2015 #8

haikugal

(6,476 posts)
1. These are the same people that went around the country during the Bush years
Mon May 4, 2015, 03:38 PM
May 2015

Drumming up islamaphobia...she has an agenda and they are now certain ISIS is in Texas...we need to just laugh these cretins off the planet.

She's a hateful, sorry excuse for a human being but well liked and supported by the RWNJs.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
4. Here is the quote:
Mon May 4, 2015, 06:48 PM
May 2015
GELLER: Tonight, we see here in America that the war is here. It’s quite terrible. But look, it was coming. …And the fact that the west, our political leaders - you know, you have President Obama at the U.N. declaring that the future does not belong to those that slander the prophet of Islam. This capitulation by western leaders on a basic, fundamental, unalienable right of freedom of speech has emboldened these savages.

carolinayellowdog

(3,247 posts)
6. there is a willful blindness to her destructiveness, but maybe this can cause some rethinking
Mon May 4, 2015, 09:53 PM
May 2015

If you accept as an a priori principle that all attacks on any and all religions are good, nothing can shake that devout belief. Neither the Koran-burner in Florida nor Geller's hatemongering antics in Texas can be acknowledged as anything but opportunities for the inherent evil of Islam to manifest itself and prove them right.

 

Marr

(20,317 posts)
8. No doubt about it-- she's an asshole.
Mon May 4, 2015, 11:51 PM
May 2015

Nine times out of ten though, if you care about free expression, you're going to be standing up for assholes.

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