Anti-Muslim leaders frantically claiming they were never connected to colleague calling for murder

[ck4829]

Responding to ThinkProgress, anti-Muslim activists Robert Spencer and Pam Geller disavowed any connections to John Joseph Jay, who recently wrote a blog post calling for the mass murder of politicians, journalists, and others. Geller and Spencer — leading members of the Islamophobia network — strongly denounced Jay’s calls for violence.

But, Jay’s name and signature appears on the articles of incorporation for American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), an umbrella organization for which Geller is the executive director. Geller and Spencer claim Jay was never a board member and is not affiliated in any way. Geller writes that while Jay helped establish the organization, he is not a member of the board.

Spencer emails a similar statement saying, Jay “is not on the Board now, never has been, and is not a member of the organization.”

However, this seems to conflict with a blog post Spencer wrote in August of last year after Jay stirred controversy with a different call to arms. In that post on his Jihad Watch blog, Spencer wrote about the “misrepresentations of some writings by John Jay, a member of the SIOA Board.” SIOA is Stop the Islamization Of America, an organization also headed by Geller and connected to AFDI.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/10/04/336167/spencer-and-geller-disavowal-john-ja/

And the short version of Jay's 'charming' blog post was essentially: Destroy all media except for Fox News (And destroy by drawing and quartering), get rid of the leadership of both parties (By dumping them in the ocean), eliminate college faculties and Bill Ayers (By boiling them in oil), send all Muslims back to the countries they came from (By box is one of the options), burn every mosque in the country, and more.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/10/04/335823/pam-geller-john-jay-mass-murder/

[dmallind]

1. Pretty soon we'll be told he's not a Christian either. nt