Pam Geller And Robert Spencer Using Links To Norway Terrorist For Fundraising Campaign
From ThinkProgress:
When the accused Norwegian right-wing terrorist Anders Breivik’s so-called manifesto surfaced on the internet in the aftermath of the attacks, many commentators quickly took note of the citations to — and wholesale reproduction of pieces by — a group of American bloggers who fancy themselves ‘counter-Jihadists.’ Though no mainstream media outlets alleged that any responsibility for the attack rested with Islamophobic bloggers like Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, the clear influence they had on Breivik’s anti-Muslim ideology garnered coverage in outlets like the New York Times.
Now Geller and Spencer are leveraging all the attention to raise funds from their supporters. In the past week, both Geller and the David Horowitz Freedom Center — the group that houses Spencer’s Jihad Watch blog — sent out e-mail portraying themselves of victims of what Horowitz, in his letter, called attacks from the ‘international left.’
In his July 26 email, Horowitz wrote that Spencer was under scrutiny ‘[b]ecause some of Robert’s ideas happen to have been cited by the lunatic responsible for the carnage.’ According to a ThinkProgress analysis of Breivik’s so-called manifesto, Spencer and his Jihad Watch blog were cited a combined 162 times in the 1,500-page document. (Horowitz was cited once.)
Horowitz goes on to offer up a pamphlet he and Spencer are writing — titled: ‘Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future’ — and asks for donations, linking to a page to donate online.