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 ...

Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:08:42 am
The New Yorker's Jane Mayer has an excellent piece on right wing billionaires David and Charles Koch, and their $100 million war against President Obama. In 1958, Fred Koch became one of the original members of the John Birch Society, the arch-conservative group known, in part, for a highly skeptical ...

Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:50:46 am
The Washington Post has an article today on the outbreak of paranoia and anti-Muslim bad craziness on the hallowed ground of Murfreesboro, Tennessee: Far from Ground Zero, other plans for mosques run into vehement opposition. In Tennessee, three plans for new Islamic centers in the Nashville area -- one of ...

Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 3:49:16 pm
Wow. This is where we're going, folks. Pamela Geller should be proud of her work. [Video] A man walks through the crowd at the Ground Zero protest and is mistaken as a Muslim. The crowd turns on him and confronts him. The man in the blue hard hat calls him a ...

Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:45:58 am
At the New York Times, Anne Barnard has an excellent profile of the man who's been relentlessly, dishonestly demonized by Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and the Fox News Bigot Brigade: Feisal Abdul Rauf’s Balancing Act in Mosque Furor. Not everyone in the Cairo lecture hall last February was buying the ...

Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 10:49:03 am
Pamela Geller's American branch of the European "Stop Islamization" hate franchise is still falsely advertising Newt Gingrich as a speaker at her anti-Muslim rally on September 11: Stop Islamization of America. Three days and counting since Gingrich bailed out of Geller's prejudice party. When will they stop using Gingrich's name without ...

Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 5:36:32 pm
Since Newt Gingrich announced very clearly yesterday that he isn't going to be a guest of honor at the Bigot Brigade's anti-Muslim rally on September 11, either in person or on video, shouldn't Pamela Geller remove his name from the promotional articles still posted prominently on the SIOA front page? ...

Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:36:32 pm
Fundamentalist wacko Franklin Graham says President Obama is infected with the seed of Islam. "I think the president's problem is that he was born a Muslim, his father was a Muslim. The seed of Islam is passed through the father like the seed of Judaism is passed through the mother. ...

Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:48:50 am
One of the most visible right wing politicians in the parade of bigotry surrounding the Cordoba House project is perennial opportunist Newt Gingrich. He's compared the developers to Nazis, and spouts rhetoric virtually indistinguishable from the anti-Muslim rants of deranged lunatic Pamela Geller. Correction: now he spouts that kind of sick ...

Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:44:16 pm
The craziness goes on and on. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are whining furiously at being appropriately labeled "anti-Muslim" by the Washington Post. After months of irresponsible hate mongering toward the Cordoba House, they're complaining that they are being put in danger; "gall" doesn't even begin to describe them. Man ...

Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:42:57 am
Jeffrey Goldberg points out the speech given by Imam Feisal Rauf, who's been viciously maligned as a "radical Islamist" and worse, at a memorial service for Daniel Pearl. In 2003, Imam Rauf was invited to speak at a memorial service for Daniel Pearl, the journalist murdered by Islamist terrorists in ...

Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:18:55 am
On his radio show this morning, Glenn Beck made excuses for the Birther movement by saying that Barack Obama is "a Christian that Christians don't recognize," and therefore it's perfectly understandable that they would think he's a Muslim. Beck, of course, is a converted Mormon who promotes Christian supremacism with the ...

Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:16:27 pm
Talking Points Memo interviews hate monger Pamela Geller, and what comes through more than anything else is Geller's obsessive paranoid xenophobia. She sees all Muslims, even American citizens who live and work in the same city she does, and who were shocked and devastated on 9/11 just like she was, ...

Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:14:35 pm
How crazy is the right wing's anti-Muslim rhetoric getting? This crazy. Note that Ron McNeil is saying these things in a public school, and assuming that every student listening is a Christian. PANAMA CITY — A Congressional candidate told local high school and middle school students Tuesday that Islam’s plan is to ...

Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:32:31 am
Nancy Pelosi is calling for an investigation into who's funding the Bigot Brigade. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday said she supports an investigation of groups opposing the building of a mosque near ground zero in New York. Pelosi told San Francisco’s KCBS radio that “there is no question there is ...

Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:18:49 am
The developers of Cordoba House (which is not a "Ground Zero Mega-Mosque") have rejected NY Gov. David Paterson's craven offer to help them capitulate to the tide of anti-Muslim bigotry: Mosque Developer Rejects Meeting With Paterson. The developers of an Islamic cultural center that would include a mosque near Ground ...

Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:12:28 pm
In 2006, LGF readers voted to give the Anti-Idiotarian Award to former UN ambassador John Bolton, largely because of his passionate support of the US and Israel in the frequently hostile environment of the United Nations. I feel slightly sad to announce that today, as the proprietor of LGF, I'm revoking ...

Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:52:07 am
As we've been pointing out at LGF since it began, the main fanatic driving the "Ground Zero Mosque" insanity is hateblogger Pamela Geller; Justin Elliott has a timeline of her poisonous invective and its effect on the issue: How the 'ground zero mosque' fear mongering began. May 6, 2010: After ...

Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:32:59 am
Daryl Lang has an excellent post with a dozen photographs of some of the other stuff about two blocks from the "hallowed ground" of the World Trade Center -- the same distance as the "Ground Zero Mosque:" 'Hallowed Ground'. What’s my point? A month ago, I wrote about my support ...

Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:24:26 pm
Pamela Geller has taken the rambling xenophobic post she put on her blog earlier, and added even more scary adjectives for this paid press release through PRNewswire: SIOA Condemns Obama's Blessing of Ground Zero Mega-Mosque; Bolton, Wilders, Gingrich to Speak... -- NEW YORK, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NEW YORK, Aug. ...

Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:39:49 pm
Hatemonger Pamela Geller comes right out and says President Obama supported the 9/11 attacks. President Obama came out Friday evening in favor of the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at the hallowed ground of the 9/11 attack. Obama told the ummah (at an Iftar dinner on the third night of Ramadan) that he ...

Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:10:01 am
Finally! A Republican politician who isn't diving into the Muslim-hating gutter: Crist backs Obama on controversial Islamic center. Oh, wait ... that's right. Crist was purged from the Republican Party as a RINO. Panama City, Florida (CNN) – In a boost for President Obama on a red-hot controversy, Florida Gov. Charlie ...