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Last week, Matt Duss took to the pages of National Review to urge the magazine to dissociate itself from the anti-Islam polemicists David Horowitz and Robert Spencer. Duss pointed out that National Review had first established itself as a voice of mainstream conservatism by denouncing the far-right conspiracy theorists of the John Birch Society, and [...]
Tags: anti-jihadism, David French, David Horowitz, Islamophobia, John Birch Society, Matt Duss, National Review, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer
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Responding to CAP’s Islamophobia report, anti-Muslim activists David Horowitz called it “fascistic” and Robert Spencer deemed it the “agenda of the Islamic jihad.” Determined to one-up her Islamophobia network colleagues, Pamela Geller took to her blog on Friday evening to unleash a fiery tirade against the new report “Fear, Inc.”
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Tags: CAP, Center for American Progress, David Horowitz, Faiz Shakir, Islam, Islamophobia, Jihad, Keith Olbermann, muslim, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer
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According to a 2010 ABC News/Washington Post poll, only 37% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Islam–the lowest favorability rating since 2001. Relentless Islamophobic fear-mongering by a select group of U.S. political pundits, bloggers and think tanks is at least partially responsible for Americans’ negative view of the religion and those who practice it. [...]
Tags: Anders Brevik, CAP, Center for American Progress, Daniel Pipes, Eli Clifton, Faiz Shakir, Islam, Islamophobia, Islamophobic funding, Lee Fang, Matthew Duss, muslim, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Scott Keyes, Wajahat Ali
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I’ve held off on commenting on the mass murders in Norway. Partly this was simply the result of a busy weekend (and I still can’t claim that I’ve managed to plow through more than a fraction of Breivik’s 1500-page manifesto). But partly it was from a sense of unease with how easily these kind of [...]
Tags: Anders Behrin Breivik, Andy McCarthy, Islamophobia, Mark Steyn, Norway, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, terrorism
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While Frank Gaffney might be concerned that the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has “come under the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood,” a list of the films to be screened at the event would suggest that Gaffney’s brand of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim fear-bating will be on full display.
The CPAC agenda has not yet been formally [...]
Tags: America at Risk: The War with No Name, Citizens United, Citizens United Productions, Clarion Fund, clifford may, Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, Frank Gaffney, Iranium, Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West, Pamela Geller, Park 51, Rachel Slajda, Robert Spencer, Talking Points Memo, The Ground Zero Mosque: Second Wave of the 911 Attack
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Yesterday brought one of the most astonishing pieces of evidence yet of the Washington Post’s slow-motion implosion. Apparently the Post has decided to bring Commentary’s Jennifer Rubin on board to write a blog envisioned as a right-wing “companion to Greg Sargent’s Plum Line, though of course with its own style and blend of reporting and [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Fred Hiatt, Jennifer Rubin, John Hagee, Likud, neoconservatism, Pamela Geller, Sarah Palin, Washington Post
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Earlier this week, I noted that Newt Gingrich and John Bolton, both of whom had been scheduled to appear at Pamela Geller’s Sept. 11 rally in Lower Manhattan against the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” now appear to be getting cold feet — Gingrich has pulled out entirely, while Bolton will deliver a videotaped message rather [...]
Tags: English Defense League, Geert Wilders, Ground Zero Mosque, Islamophobia, John Bolton, Newt Gingrich, Pamela Geller, Park 51, Robert Spencer
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One interesting nugget from Josh Nathan-Kazis’s Forward article on the various Sept. 11 events going on at Ground Zero:
In addition to Wilders, the rally [led by Pamela Geller] will feature a videotaped address by John Bolton, ambassador to the United Nations during the second Bush administration, and speeches by Republican political candidates and by a [...]
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In my recent Tablet piece, I noted the ways that the conspiracy theories about Muslim-Americans propagated by self-proclaimed “anti-jihadis” like Andy McCarthy, Robert Spencer, and Pamela Geller — which have subsequently been taken up by mainstream politicians like Newt Gingrich — have created an ugly political atmosphere that makes violence against Muslims far more likely. [...]
Tags: Andy McCarthy, Ground Zero Mosque, Islamophobia, Newt Gingrich, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer
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