Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:26:33 pm
The wingnuts are trying to destroy my will to live again. Received today from someone who still uses AOL as an Internet provider: With your continued ripping of the right wing, noticed a drop-off in traffic? Don't worry, your left wing buddies will make up the difference, I haven't been ...

Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:03:53 am
If you've read anything by Robert Spencer, you already know that he will blatantly lie when cornered. Today he responds to my piece for the Guardian, with a ridiculous article that calls Pamela Geller a defamed freedom fighter. Spencer leaves out all the childish insults that he normally posts at his ...

Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 5:52:00 pm
Today, Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller is advocating vigilante justice for those evil stealth jihadi Muslims in New Jersey. The hypocrisy loooms [sic] large. Here's a letter I thought I should share with you. I expect the gutless congressman who witnessed his Muslim constituents dancing on 9/11/01 will do nothing but ...

Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:45:17 am
Glenn Reynolds provides us with a textbook example of Obama Derangement Syndrome, mixed with a blind dumb partisan instinct to deny responsibility for their own inflammatory rhetoric, and blame the other side for absolutely everything. It occurs to me that right after 9/11 we saw the beginning anti-mosque demonstrations but ...

Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 1:49:33 pm
Harry's Place has an excellent post by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens on the repellent English Defence League (the xenophobic British gang supported and promoted by both Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer): The EDL’s American Apologists. It's a good follow-up to my piece for the Guardian, getting deeper into the EDL's history of associations ...

Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:25:20 am
Dutch prosecutors have asked the high court to acquit anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders on charges of hate speech and incitement. The judge has apparently not ruled on the request yet, but this is the right decision. I've always said Wilders should not be prosecuted for the hateful rubbish he spews. But make ...

Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:29:11 am
Here's my first piece for the Guardian's "Comment is free" site: Pamela Geller and the bloggers of hate. (I didn't pick the title or subheading, but they fit pretty well.) I'll cross-post the article here (including its British spellings), but you should also check out the comments at Cif; some of ...

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:29:39 am
Jeffrey Goldberg has an interesting post featuring Reuel Marc Gerecht, former CIA operative and expert on militant Islam. Goldberg asked Gerecht for his reaction to some of the outrageously ignorant and bigoted comments from Pamela Geller quoted in the New York Times, and Gerecht's response is a must-read: Reuel Gerecht ...

Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:40:02 pm
Salon's Justin Elliott says the New York Times did a softball profile of hate monger Pamela Geller, and he's right. I wouldn't call it a "puff piece," exactly, but it's another example of "magical balance fairy" journalism -- lacking quite a bit of context about Geller's more extreme statements and ...

Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:46:51 am
The violent British anti-Muslim gang known as the English Defence League (a group of football hooligans and criminals with roots in the neo-Nazi British National Party) is developing links with the Tea Party movement -- and is being legitimized in America by Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and their Bigot Brigade. ...

Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:26:28 pm
Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, arguably the two most visible spokespeople of the anti-Muslim group "Stop Islamization of America," are both very vocal supporters of the British organization called the English Defense League -- an offshoot of the neo-Nazi British National Party, composed in large part of skinheads, white supremacists, ...

Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:29:03 am
Robert Spencer gets torn a new nether orifice by Reza Aslan in this segment of the CNN "town hall" meeting on Islam. Aslan quite correctly identifies Spencer's group "Stop the Islamization of America" as a branch of the European hate franchise "Stop the Islamisation of Europe," and points out that ...

Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 11:27:21 am
On Thursday night the Nevada member of the GOP's Crazy Candidate Club, Sharron Angle, met with a hand-picked group of teabaggers behind closed doors and told them (among other things) that sharia law is already taking over America. One of the last questioners asked about "Muslims taking over the U.S.," ...

Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:54:39 am
Osama bin Laden (or an incredible facsimile) has issued a new statement calling for government projects to save people from floods like the ones in Pakistan. He didn't add, "Or we'll kill you," because that's a given. The top al-Qaida leader said a new "well-funded" relief organization should be created ...

Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:28:21 pm
Stephen Colbert is terrified of Muslim vampires, and you should be too. [Video]

Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:42:16 pm
This incident took place a few days ago, but in case you missed it, another deranged person spouting anti-Muslim smears and threats against the President was arrested in East St. Louis and ordered to undergo a mental evaluation. EAST ST. LOUIS • A federal judge on Thursday ordered the man ...

Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 1:56:33 pm
The "gay Republican" is a weird chimera, trying to carve out a place in a political party fiercely committed to denying them civil rights. I'd like to wish them good luck, but this seems like the very definition of "wasted effort." And Ann Coulter's speech at GOProud's "Homocon" event is a ...

Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:14:12 pm
Matt Duss has a good piece about The Roots Of ‘Sharia’ Hysteria, pointing out this interesting article at Foreign Policy about the Muslim Brotherhood, which concludes: At a global level, the Brotherhood is no Mafia. Nor is it a rigid and disciplined Stalinist-style Comintern. It most closely resembles today's Socialist ...

Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:03:52 am
Anti-abortion religious fanatic Randall Terry (founder of the militant Operation Rescue) has a new cause: he's launching a cross-country campaign to destroy Qurans. Because that's what Jesus and Mary want him to do. “What would Jesus do?” Maybe He would overturn tables, or chase or hit people with a whip; maybe ...

Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:38:42 pm
Renee Ellmers is running in North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District, and she's the latest fear-mongering Republican to exploit the rise of anti-Muslim bigotry, with a campaign ad in the "all Muslims are terrorists" genre. [Video]

Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:23:40 am
Here we go again with the Republican religious fanatics of the Texas State Board of Education. Led by young earth creationist Don McLeroy, now they're jumping on the anti-Muslim bandwagon and working themselves up into another frenzy of outrageous outrage over world history books that aren't even being used any ...

Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:39:28 pm
Family Research Council leader Tony Perkins announced the winners of the straw poll at this year's Values Voter summit -- and the fundamentalist dream team for 2012 is: Mike Pence for President, Sarah Palin for Vice President. Mike Pence as President? Uh, OK. It's more interesting that Palin didn't make the ...

Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:37:43 am
One of the European allies of American anti-Muslim demagogues Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer is a political party called the "Sweden Democrats" -- a party with roots in outright Nazism. Last week a Sweden Democrats politician was forced to quit after posting an ugly racist rant at his blog, claiming that ...

Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:59:33 pm
Here's another thread to discuss the fundamentalist convention called the Values Voter Summit, as fake ex-jihadi Ergun Caner takes the stage: Video Some background information on Ergun Caner: Caner has said that he was born in Sweden and raised as a devout Sunni Muslim in Turkey before converting to Christianity, after he ...

Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:11:00 am
As Rick "Spreading" Santorum takes the stage, here's a live video feed from the extreme right wing Family Research Council's "Values Voter Summit." He's about to describe the evils perpetrated on America by John F. Kennedy -- primary among them, the separation of church and state. [Video removed.] A note of background ...