Pamela Geller: We are an army

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Tennessee has been a hotbed of anti-Muslim activism for years, especially after plans were laid to build an Islamic center in Murfreesboro. There have been bomb threats and numerous conferences centered on the unfounded but widely hyped fear that Shariah law will somehow be imposed on Americans. The chapter of ACT! for America, an anti-Muslim extremist group, based in Nashville is the most active in the country.

So perhaps it was to be expected that a community forum intended to foster dialogue and a greater understanding of Muslims in America degenerated into a hate-filled free-for-all on Tuesday night.


“This night was supposed to be about understanding the Muslim-American community,” Sabina Mohyuddin, a spokeswoman for the council, told Hatewatch. “(But) during the whole program, from the beginning to the end, protestors were heckling, interrupting, shouting out.”

Outside the convention center, Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller of Stop the Islamization of America gave speeches accusing the Obama administration of trying to “shut down speech deemed ‘inflammatory’ against Muslims." and "American’s aren’t going to sit quietly while our freedom of speech is taken away, and are never, ever, going to submit and stop telling the truth about the jihad that threatens us all,” Geller said after the event. “We are an army.”

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/06/05/forum-on-muslim-americans-disrupted-by-hundreds-in-tennessee/

[CurtEastPoint]

1. She is despicable in her fomenting hatred.

Nasty piece of work. Makes you wonder what makes these people so angry.

[Fawke Em]

2. Backwards idiots.

I live in Tennessee and my ex is Muslim. My son is half-Arabic and has a Muslim name, although he was not raised Muslim. Even so, I'm sure many people assume he is.

To that end, I'd tell Geller, "Come after my family, bitch, and we'll see how much you pop off your mouth."

I'm tired of these idiots. Really, I am.

Does anyone in Northern Virginia or Vermont need a public relations professional with expertise in cyber security, hi-tech and risk and compliance. Heck, at this point, I'd even go back to reporting if it was a large union newspaper that paid well!

Just get me out of this state. It's overrun with the crazy.

[Skidmore]

3. The Zombie Horde converges.

Gack.