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 ...

Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:26:49 am
Bill WhiteRobert Stacy McCain’s neo-Nazi pal Bill White, who McCain met at a 2002 conference of the white nationalist group American Renaissance, is currently serving a two and a half year sentence for intimidating two of the plaintiffs in a civil case and threatening two other people. On Friday in ...

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 ...

Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 1:14:42 pm
Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, arguably the two most visible spokespeople of the anti-Muslim group "Stop Islamization of America," are both very vocal supporters of the British organization called the English Defense League -- an offshoot of the neo-Nazi British National Party, composed in large part of skinheads, white supremacists, ...

Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 9:02:31 am
Today thousands of angry white people have descended on the National Mall on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, to whine about how they're being persecuted and unfairly maligned, sponsored by a race-baiting lunatic Fox News host who promotes the ideology of the far right ...

Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:59:32 pm
Here's the mass email sent out today by David Horowitz, begging the right wing base for more money for Robert Spencer's anti-Muslim effort: Dear DHFC Supporter, I am sure you've heard about the mosque they want to build on the sacred soil of Ground Zero in New York City. A ...

Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:05:15 pm
The developer behind the Park51 project launched a fundraising effort today, and announced that they will not accept money from Iran, Hamas, or any "organizations that have un-American values." Sharif El-Gamal, the developer behind the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque," told CBS News in an interview last night that the backers ...

Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:06:13 pm
LGF reader Winny Spencer pointed out this campaign advertisement for far right Swedish party Sverigedemokraterna (Sweden Democrats), an organization with neo-Nazi roots. Anti-Muslim crusaders Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, when not agitating against mosques, promote Sweden Democrats along with other extreme right wing European groups (such as the "Stop Islamisation" hate ...

Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:09:24 am
Here's an excellent article by Will Bunch on the dishonest historical revisionism being quite successfully pushed by Glenn Beck, with the help of a cottage industry of extreme right wing religious fanatics determined to recast American history as a white Christian fable: Glenn Beck rewrites civil rights history. More recently, ...

Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:38:03 pm
I missed this segment of Rachel Maddow's show a couple of days ago, but it's worth watching because she digs (a little more than most mainstream news shows) into the people and organizations driving the recent outbreak of anti-Muslim hysteria. Video

Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:19:28 pm
One of the speakers at Glenn Beck's rally this weekend is hackneyed macho rock star Ted Nugent, who told Seattle radio host Dori Monson recently that Barack Obama is a seekrit Moslem jihad agent who somehow managed to sneak into the White House and is now going to destroy America ...

Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:55:32 am
Jon Stewart is covering the outbreak of anti-Muslim bad craziness better than anyone in the mainstream news. [Video]

Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:09:15 am
I'm sure this has absolutely nothing to do with the non-stop anti-Muslim hate speech pouring out of Fox News, right wing websites, talk radio and shrieking harpy Pamela Geller: Drunken man urinates on mosque floor. A drunk barged into a Queens mosque last night and shouted anti-Muslim slurs as he ...

Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:17:33 am
Michael Enright, the 21-year old accused of stabbing a Muslim cabdriver in a hate crime, kept a journal filled with anti-Muslim writings: Muslim cab driver Ahmed Sharif, victim in bloody attack, saw 'so much hate' in face of assailant. Enright, a senior at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, ...

Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:41:26 pm
The following incoherent (possibly drunken) rant is copied and pasted directly from Pamela Geller's website: Set Up to Lynch Ground Zero Opposition: Muslim Cab Slasher Worked for Cordoba/Park 51 - Atlas Shrugs. How deranged is the left? The slasher of Muslims works for the Cordoba/Park 51. This is what is ...

Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:03:26 pm
Former Bush campaign manager and chairman of the Republican National Committee Ken Mehlman, who helped promote many GOP anti-gay rights initiatives, is out of the closet. Ken Mehlman, President Bush's campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he ...

Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:33:57 am
The 21-year old man who allegedly stabbed a New York Muslim cabdriver has been identified as Michael Enright, a filmmaker from upstate New York, and today he was charged with attempted murder in the second degree, as a hate crime. At Politico, Ben Smith notes that Enright's films were apparently sponsored ...

Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:14:50 am
With the bigotry and hatred continuously pouring out of Fox News, right wing websites, and talk radio, it was only a matter of time: Police: Cab Driver Stabbed By Passenger Who Asked 'Are You Muslim?' A city cab driver is in the hospital after being stabbed by a passenger who ...

Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:57:02 pm
Big LGF kudos to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He sounds like a real leader in this speech to New York's annual Ramadan dinner at Gracie Mansion: Bloomberg Launches Another Impassioned Defense Of Cordoba House. If we say that a mosque and community center should not be built near the ...

Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:43:47 pm
Hate monger and anti-mosque queen bee Pamela Geller often promotes an extreme right wing British group called the English Defense League (an offshoot of the neo-Nazi British National Party), praising them as "peaceful patriots" trying to peacefully defend their peaceful culture from the invasion of the Moslem horde. When the EDL ...

Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:03:19 am
There's quite a bit of talk lately about the fact that Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is a major shareholder in Fox News, and a business partner of Rupert Murdoch. Some have questioned whether it really matters, though, if the Prince hasn't tried to influence Fox's news coverage. Well, in 2005, ...

Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:11:27 am
At the New Republic, Todd Gitlin reviews The Subversive Theology Of Imam Rauf. No wonder the Bush State Department made similar use of him to win hearts and minds. He’s promoting the American social and political system. He believes that “democracy and liberty, in a peculiarly American way, provide a ...

Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:04:03 pm
Here are some very interesting comments from Reza Aslan on NPR's "All Things Considered." Reza has correctly identified one of the key points about the forces behind the recent rise of anti-Muslim sentiment: the fact that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's "Stop Islamization of America" is a US franchise of ...

Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:21:45 pm
On the fourth day after Newt Gingrich bailed out and said he never agreed to attend, Pamela Geller's American branch of the European "Stop Islamization" hate franchise is still falsely advertising Gingrich as a speaker at her anti-Muslim rally on September 11: Stop Islamization of America. When will they stop using ...