I’ll Trade Hate Mail With Pamela Geller Any Day
Do you ever wonder what kind of hate mail Muslim blogs receive? If so, here’s your chance to find out. Added emphasis is mine.
I’ll Trade Hate Mail With Pamela Geller Any Day
by Sheila MusajiPamela Geller just published an article entitled Evil Unleashed in which she complains that since the Breivik murders in Norway she has received hate mail.
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One of the emails actually sounds like it might be a death threat from some psychopath and should be turned over to law enforcement. The others are insults, and suggestions of some sort of culpability in creating a climate of hatred. The language is crude, and the insults use terminology you wouldn’t want small children to hear. However, most is not much different from the language she herself uses about Islam and Muslims, and anyone she disagrees with, so it is difficult to be too sympathetic.
Actually, if this is the worst of the ‘hundreds’ or ‘thousands’ of hate emails she has received, then I’ll trade with her any day.
Here is some of the ‘fan mail’ I have received, and that I save in a file called simply ‘nasty emails’. I won’t bother to put [sic] after glaring spelling and grammatical errors because [sic] would then become the most common word. I will also ‘clean up’ the worst of the profanity. The all caps computer shouting was in the originals. There is lots more in the file, but this will give you the general idea. If I were Pamela Geller or Robert Spencer, I would be concerned that many of the comments that are left on their sites by their followers sound much like these that I have received. And, what is most telling is that they allow those comments to remain. What seems like ‘evil unleashed’ to me is to encourage and personally participate in this sort of venomous speech rather than attempting to speak against it.
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