Yes, believe it or don’t, the anti-Muslim hate bloggers are still ranting themselves into a sweat over the imminent threat of stealth jihad Creeping Halal Butterball suicide turkeys.

American Thinker (most ironic name on the Internets) writer William Sullivan is outraged over the treatment hate group leader Pamela Geller has received, just for blowing the whistle on this existential threat to our democracy and freedoms.

GOBBLE GOBBLE AKBAR!Contrast this reaction to that received by Pamela Geller for her efforts to expose Butterball’s company practice of covertly slaughtering all turkeys in accordance with Islamic halal standards.  She was met with ruthless accusations of bigotry, intolerance, and Islamophobia by Muslims and non-Muslims alike.  Ms. Geller merely offered that many “Christians, Hindus or Sikhs and Jews find it offensive to eat meat slaughtered according to Islamic ritual.”  She, very much like British activists did earlier this year, suggested that Butterball clearly mark their meat as halal so that consumers can make their choices accordingly, and until they “stop selling only halal turkeys and make non-halal turkeys available,” (emphasis added) she asks that agreeing Americans boycott the company.

From a strictly secular point of view, is this any less reasonable than a Muslim minority asking that halal turkeys be made available to them and to have them labeled as such?  Certainly not.  So why has Geller been so viciously smeared for her efforts?

Since Sullivan links to LGF as an example of “accusations of bigotry, intolerance, and Islamophobia,” I had to go back and check what I wrote, and none of those words actually appear in the post he linked.

I must admit, though, that I did use the phrases “utterly hilarious,” “wingnut comedy,” “authentically insane,” “feverish imagination,” “deranged followers,” “lame-brained commenters,” “lost in cloud cuckoo land,” and “idiotic conspiracy theory.” So mea culpa for those.