Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:41:09 pm
Here we go again. The New York branch of Fox News shrieks: Mosque Investor Was Terror Contributor. Except that, uh, he wasn't. An Egyptian who's contributing some money to Park51 once donated money to the Holy Land Foundation -- before 9/11, years before the charity was known to be connected to Hamas, ...

Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:30:47 am
A group of 9/11 family members has officially asked Pamela Geller not to stage her bigoted hate rally on September 11: 9/11 Families Ask Ground Zero Mosque Protesters to Stop Rallies on Anniversary. LOWER MANHATTAN — The ninth anniversary of 9/11 is the wrong day to hold rallies about the ...

Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:59:09 pm
Adam Serwer talked to Anti-Defamation League director Abe Foxman about the planned September 11 protest against the Park51 Islamic community center in lower Manhattan; we criticized Foxman for his earlier statements, but on the issue of Pamela Geller and her allies (such as Dutch demagogue Geert Wilders) he seems to ...

Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:01:08 pm
Another hate crime that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and the anti-Muslim Bigot Brigade can claim they have nothing to do with:Teenagers Charged in Harassment at Mosque. A group of teenagers in western New York has been accused of harassing members of a mosque by yelling obscenities and insults during ...

Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:40:06 pm
Here's another anti-Muslim hate crime that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and the anti-Muslim Bigot Brigade can claim they have nothing to do with: Charge: Seattle man attacked shopkeeper, calls victim a terrorist. A 35-year-old Seattle man is facing assault and hate crime charges following allegations that he accosted a ...

Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:59:47 pm
Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller thinks Newsweek is out to get her, of course, and she doubles down on her support for the far right thugs of the English Defense League -- and announces that she's bringing them to the US to participate in her anti-Muslim protest on September 11. Thought ...

Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:02:08 pm
Mark Hosenball notes anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller's support for the thuggish English Defense League: N.Y. Anti-Mosque Leader Defends Group That Clashed With British Police. A leader in the movement protesting plans to build an Islamic cultural center two blocks from Ground Zero in lower Manhattan is defending the actions of a ...

Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:50:23 am
Video fraud perpetrator Andrew Breitbart's getting frisky: Ibrahim Hooper on LGF: 'vicious, anti-Muslim hate site.' Antonia Zerbisias described LGF: 'virulently anti-Muslim/Arab website.' @lizardoid My reply: @andrewbreitbart Hope you realize that many of the now-banned LGF commenters responsible for those remarks are now bloggers at your sites. For example: Pamela Geller. And ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...