Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:27:28 pm
A federal judge in Oklahoma City has issued a temporary restraining order against the Republican-sponsored measure to ban shariah. The order stays in effect until a hearing on November 22. This news isn't really a surprise; as we noted yesterday this constitutional amendment is riddled with logical problems and overly broad. ...

Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:13:46 am
Yesterday the voters of Oklahoma sprang into action and passed landmark legislation to ban something that doesn't exist. Washington - Central US state of Oklahoma is to become the first state in the US to ban Islamic sharia law. That's the result of a voter initiative in the state that passed ...

Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:28:55 am
A suspicious package discovered on a UPS plane in Britain has put two US airports on high alert. (CNN) -- At least two U.S. airports were on high alert Friday after investigators found a suspicious package on a plane in the United Kingdom the night before, a law enforcement source ...

Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:06:20 am
Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller was picked as one of Forward Magazine's 50 men and women who made an impact on the "Jewish story" in the past year, and the Forward editors correctly identify her as a bigot, a liar, and a raving kook: Forward 50 — The 2010 List. In ...

Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:46:27 am
And we have yet another Republican congressional candidate this morning who sounds for all the world like someone having a psychotic break, as Texas pastor Stephen Broden says violent overthrow of the government is 'on the table'. In the interview, Brad Watson, political reporter for WFAA-TV (Channel 8), asked Broden ...

Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:46:34 pm
Rodney Ho happened to be scheduled to interview NPR CEO Vivian Schiller today, and got her first statements on the record about the firing of Juan Williams: First interview with NPR CEO Vivian Schiller on Juan Williams firing. Schiller says that Williams's statements on Bill O'Reilly's show were just the latest ...

Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:00:52 am
Juan Williams has been playing an odd double game for several years, sounding like a liberal on NPR, but somewhat less of a liberal on Fox News. And yesterday Bill O'Reilly, as part of the standard Fox News incitement against Muslims, prodded Williams into crossing a line and NPR fired ...

Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:43:12 am
At Salon, Alex Pareene points out that anti-wanking GOP candidate Christine O'Donnell is proudly touting the endorsement of one of the craziest and most bigoted right wing bloggers: Christine O'Donnell advertises endorsement from bigot blogger Pamela Geller. Pamela Geller, the main instigator in this summer's anti-mosque frenzy, is a bigoted ...

Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:26:33 pm
The wingnuts are trying to destroy my will to live again. Received today from someone who still uses AOL as an Internet provider: With your continued ripping of the right wing, noticed a drop-off in traffic? Don't worry, your left wing buddies will make up the difference, I haven't been ...

Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:18:11 pm
At the Tablet, Michelle Goldberg has an excellent and disturbing piece on the historical revisionist promoted by Glenn Beck as "the most important man in America" -- fundamental Christian theocrat David Barton: History Lesson. I've had several posts about Barton -- he's a fraud with no education as a historian (he ...

Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:03:53 am
If you've read anything by Robert Spencer, you already know that he will blatantly lie when cornered. Today he responds to my piece for the Guardian, with a ridiculous article that calls Pamela Geller a defamed freedom fighter. Spencer leaves out all the childish insults that he normally posts at his ...

Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 5:52:00 pm
Today, Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller is advocating vigilante justice for those evil stealth jihadi Muslims in New Jersey. The hypocrisy loooms [sic] large. Here's a letter I thought I should share with you. I expect the gutless congressman who witnessed his Muslim constituents dancing on 9/11/01 will do nothing but ...

Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:45:17 am
Glenn Reynolds provides us with a textbook example of Obama Derangement Syndrome, mixed with a blind dumb partisan instinct to deny responsibility for their own inflammatory rhetoric, and blame the other side for absolutely everything. It occurs to me that right after 9/11 we saw the beginning anti-mosque demonstrations but ...

Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 1:49:33 pm
Harry's Place has an excellent post by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens on the repellent English Defence League (the xenophobic British gang supported and promoted by both Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer): The EDL’s American Apologists. It's a good follow-up to my piece for the Guardian, getting deeper into the EDL's history of associations ...

Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:25:20 am
Dutch prosecutors have asked the high court to acquit anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders on charges of hate speech and incitement. The judge has apparently not ruled on the request yet, but this is the right decision. I've always said Wilders should not be prosecuted for the hateful rubbish he spews. But make ...

Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:29:11 am
Here's my first piece for the Guardian's "Comment is free" site: Pamela Geller and the bloggers of hate. (I didn't pick the title or subheading, but they fit pretty well.) I'll cross-post the article here (including its British spellings), but you should also check out the comments at Cif; some of ...

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:29:39 am
Jeffrey Goldberg has an interesting post featuring Reuel Marc Gerecht, former CIA operative and expert on militant Islam. Goldberg asked Gerecht for his reaction to some of the outrageously ignorant and bigoted comments from Pamela Geller quoted in the New York Times, and Gerecht's response is a must-read: Reuel Gerecht ...

Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:40:02 pm
Salon's Justin Elliott says the New York Times did a softball profile of hate monger Pamela Geller, and he's right. I wouldn't call it a "puff piece," exactly, but it's another example of "magical balance fairy" journalism -- lacking quite a bit of context about Geller's more extreme statements and ...

Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:46:51 am
The violent British anti-Muslim gang known as the English Defence League (a group of football hooligans and criminals with roots in the neo-Nazi British National Party) is developing links with the Tea Party movement -- and is being legitimized in America by Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and their Bigot Brigade. ...

Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:26:28 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, ...

Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:05:27 am
I've been a bit amazed (and not in a good way) at the cruel and inhuman responses of some right wingers to the story about the Tennessee subscription-based firefighters who watched a family home burn down because the owner hadn't paid the fee -- some of these people actually seem ...

Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:29:03 am
Robert Spencer gets torn a new nether orifice by Reza Aslan in this segment of the CNN "town hall" meeting on Islam. Aslan quite correctly identifies Spencer's group "Stop the Islamization of America" as a branch of the European hate franchise "Stop the Islamisation of Europe," and points out that ...

Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 11:27:21 am
On Thursday night the Nevada member of the GOP's Crazy Candidate Club, Sharron Angle, met with a hand-picked group of teabaggers behind closed doors and told them (among other things) that sharia law is already taking over America. One of the last questioners asked about "Muslims taking over the U.S.," ...

Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:40:14 am
Today we learn about another huge donation to the Republican Party's campaign efforts from Fox News owner News Corp. News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, contributed $1 million this summer to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the business lobby that has been running an aggressive campaign in support ...

Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:54:39 am
Osama bin Laden (or an incredible facsimile) has issued a new statement calling for government projects to save people from floods like the ones in Pakistan. He didn't add, "Or we'll kill you," because that's a given. The top al-Qaida leader said a new "well-funded" relief organization should be created ...