Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:52:32 am
At the fundamentalist paranoiafest called the Values Voter Summit, sponsored by the extreme right wing Family Research Council, Michele Bachmann gave a speech in which she said Thomas Jefferson intended to keep abortion illegal forever: Values Voter Summit Kicks Off With Attacks On Gays, Abortion Rights. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), ...

Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:34:26 pm
Visiting Britain, Pope Benedict frankly admitted something that's been nauseatingly obvious for many years, that the Catholic Church hasn't acted "swiftly" in cases of child abuse. Another big point of his speech, though, was an attack on secularism and atheism, hauling out the canard that the Nazis were "atheists:" Pope Benedict ...

Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:17:20 am
Here are some interviews with the people who attended Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's anti-Muslim rally last weekend. [Video]

Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:17:48 am
One of the English Defense League thugs who was planning to attend Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's hate rally last weekend was refused entry into the US. I’ve picked up a rumour this morning that EDL leader 'Tommy Robinson' has been refused entry into the United States where he was ...

Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 8:17:11 pm
Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association is scheduled to speak at the upcoming Values Voter Summit, along with a full card of top GOP politicians and pundits, including Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Jim DeMint, Mike Huckabee, Mike Pence, and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Here's Fischer's latest: A huge Muslim problem: ...

Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:32:33 pm
Here's a live video feed of the anti-Muslim hate rally, as Geert Wilders takes the stage: NOS Nieuws - Live - Politiek 24. UPDATE at 9/11/10 12:38:40 pm: Oops ... the live video went black as soon as I posted this. UPDATE at 9/11/10 12:39:19 pm: There we go. It's back. UPDATE at 9/11/10 1:01:43 ...

Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:40:24 pm
As Pamela Geller gloatingly prepares to host her hate rally against the Islamic community center two blocks from Ground Zero, shrieking that it defiles the memory of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, here's a must-read article at the New York Times on a piece of history it might be ...

Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:23:42 am
Here's another anti-Muslim hate crime that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and the Bigot Brigade can claim they have nothing to do with -- this time on the hallowed ground of Hudson, in upstate New York. HUDSON -- City detectives are searching for the vandals who spray-painted a racial slur ...

Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:00:34 am
Quote of the day: "A Christian is an extremist by burning the Quran. A Muslim is an extremist by reading from it." [Video]

Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:43:53 pm
CBS News has quotes from a deposition in which Pastor Terry Jones of the loony Dove World Outreach Center unapologetically states that he learned everything he needs to know about sharia law from YouTube videos. A deposition obtained by CBS News from a court case last month raises question about ...

Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:15:38 pm
In a New York Times op-ed, Imam Feisal Rauf speaks about the Cordoba House project: Building on Faith in Lower Manhattan. President Obama and Mayor Michael Bloomberg both spoke out in support of our project. As I traveled overseas, I saw firsthand how their words and actions made a tremendous ...

Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:55:56 am
Last year Pamela Geller injected herself into the case of Rifqa Bary, a teenage runaway and Christian convert who claimed her Muslim parents were planning to kill her. (The Florida Department of Law Enforcement subsequently investigated these claims and found “no evidence whatsoever of alleged abuse or threats of death ...

Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 2:42:06 pm
US Commander in Afghanistan Gen. David Petraeus points out the obvious: Quran-burning could endanger troops, Petraeus warns. (CNN) -- The U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Monday criticized a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Quran on September 11, warning that the demonstration "could cause significant problems" for American ...

Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:30:28 pm
Here's another anti-Muslim hate crime that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and the Bigot Brigade can claim they have nothing to do with -- this time on the hallowed ground of San Antonio, Texas: San Antonio mosque vandalized amid national tensions over NYC mosque. A San Antonio mosque has been ...

Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 12:02:29 pm
In Madera, California, police and FBI are investigating a firebomb attack against a Planned Parenthood office that has been open for 20 years without incident: Molotov Cocktail thrown at Madera's Planned Parenthood. This attack comes one week after a brick was thrown through the window of a local mosque and anti-Muslim ...

Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:41:09 pm
Here we go again. The New York branch of Fox News shrieks: Mosque Investor Was Terror Contributor. Except that, uh, he wasn't. An Egyptian who's contributing some money to Park51 once donated money to the Holy Land Foundation -- before 9/11, years before the charity was known to be connected to Hamas, ...

Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:59:09 pm
Adam Serwer talked to Anti-Defamation League director Abe Foxman about the planned September 11 protest against the Park51 Islamic community center in lower Manhattan; we criticized Foxman for his earlier statements, but on the issue of Pamela Geller and her allies (such as Dutch demagogue Geert Wilders) he seems to ...

Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:01:08 pm
Another hate crime that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and the anti-Muslim Bigot Brigade can claim they have nothing to do with:Teenagers Charged in Harassment at Mosque. A group of teenagers in western New York has been accused of harassing members of a mosque by yelling obscenities and insults during ...

Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:40:06 pm
Here's another anti-Muslim hate crime that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and the anti-Muslim Bigot Brigade can claim they have nothing to do with: Charge: Seattle man attacked shopkeeper, calls victim a terrorist. A 35-year-old Seattle man is facing assault and hate crime charges following allegations that he accosted a ...

Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:59:47 pm
Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller thinks Newsweek is out to get her, of course, and she doubles down on her support for the far right thugs of the English Defense League -- and announces that she's bringing them to the US to participate in her anti-Muslim protest on September 11. Thought ...

Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:02:08 pm
Mark Hosenball notes anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller's support for the thuggish English Defense League: N.Y. Anti-Mosque Leader Defends Group That Clashed With British Police. A leader in the movement protesting plans to build an Islamic cultural center two blocks from Ground Zero in lower Manhattan is defending the actions of a ...

Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:50:23 am
Video fraud perpetrator Andrew Breitbart's getting frisky: Ibrahim Hooper on LGF: 'vicious, anti-Muslim hate site.' Antonia Zerbisias described LGF: 'virulently anti-Muslim/Arab website.' @lizardoid My reply: @andrewbreitbart Hope you realize that many of the now-banned LGF commenters responsible for those remarks are now bloggers at your sites. For example: Pamela Geller. And ...

Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:40:30 pm
Humorists like Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and The Onion are doing a much better job than mainstream media of rooting out the truthiness of the "Ground Zero Mosque" bigotry outbreak: Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims. SALINA, KS—Local man Scott Gentries told reporters Wednesday that his ...

Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:46:21 am
At the SPLC's Hatewatch blog, Heidi Beirich has a detailed report on hate monger Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller, and the very receptive audience she has found at neo-Nazi and white nationalist websites: White Supremacists Find Common Cause with Pam Geller’s Anti-Islam Campaign. Geller’s Muslim-bashing has resonated with certain conservatives, several ...

Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:32:25 pm
In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where another outbreak of bad anti-Muslim craziness has been raging around another proposed Islamic center, officials have ruled that a fire at the building site was caused by arson. (CBS/AP)  Federal officials are investigating a fire that started overnight at the site of a new Islamic center ...