White Supremacists Find Common Cause with Pam Geller鈥檚 Anti-Islam Campaign
, the veteran Muslim-basher and co-founder of the rabidly anti-Muslim group Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), has won over a whole new set of supporters: American white supremacists. They just can鈥檛 seem to get enough of her since her agitation began against a planned Islamic community center and mosque proposed for a site near Ground Zero in New York City.
Geller has never been shy about her anti-Islamic views. In May, she spent $10,000 for anti-Islam ads to be placed for a month on 40 New York City buses. Among other things, the ads directed Muslims to a website urging them to leave the 鈥渇alsity of Islam.鈥 But that鈥檚 just the start 鈥斅燝eller鈥檚 fear-mongering against Muslims seems to know no bounds.聽 鈥淎s their numbers and influence grow, they will be attempting a political takeover, and if that doesn鈥檛 work, they will turn to further intimidation, murder and terrorism 鈥 just as they鈥檝e already proved in dozens of countries around the world,鈥 Geller says of American Muslims. Geller, who once delivered a videotaped anti-Muslim rant while frolicking in the surf in a bikini, is also a 鈥渂irther鈥 who doesn鈥檛 believe President Obama is an American citizen. (Media Matters for America provides of Geller鈥檚 many anti-Muslim, bigoted and otherwise remarkable statements.)
Geller鈥檚 Muslim-bashing has resonated with certain conservatives, several of whom, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, have come out against the Muslim community center. But Geller鈥檚 views are now also finding support from nearly every sector of America鈥檚 racist right. This is rather surprising because Geller is Jewish, a fact that is normally enough to dissuade radical rightists from too tight an embrace. Apparently, Geller is a Jew the racist right can love.
On the oldest and largest white nationalist forum, , Geller鈥檚 anti-Islamic blog posts have been shared on several occasions. In January, for instance, 鈥淭hunderbird鈥 posted several links to Geller鈥檚 writing and that of another Jewish woman who writes for the anti-immigrant hate site, . 鈥淭hunderbird鈥 asked her fellow haters whether these 鈥渘otorious right wing conservative Jewish bloggers are 鈥 on our side on many issues.鈥 A compatriot, 鈥淕E Bonaventure鈥 replied, 鈥淛ewish Nazi鈥檚, Fascists, right wingers etc. are small in number but they can make sense.鈥
In May, 鈥渟kinjob88鈥 (88 is neo-Nazi code for 鈥淗eil Hitler鈥) gave Geller high praise on Stormfront: 鈥淚n my country and the rest of Europe, [Muslims] are pushing for Islamification, they are killing good White teenagers and raping young White girls, they inter-marry and inter-breed with their family members. Don鈥檛 think for one minute the US is safe from Islam.鈥 But the support wasn鈥檛 unanimous. One Stormfronter expressed anger that Geller seemed blind to the horrors of non-white races. In April, 鈥淭eutonic Beubonic鈥 wrote: 鈥淪he singles out Muslim immigrants in Europe for their uncivilized animal-like behavior and likeliness to commit crime, yet she refuses to mention anything about blacks or Latinos in the U.S. ... Shame on her.鈥
Over at the Rebellion blog, run by the racist neo-secessionist group , head blogger 鈥淥ld Rebel鈥 has more than once expressed support for Geller鈥檚 anti-Islamic views. In August, referring to Geller鈥檚 protests in New York, the poster said that 鈥淸i]f the globalist elite has its way, more Muslims will be colonizing us.鈥 鈥淎nonymous鈥 posted in reply: 鈥淚slam comprises much more than a cult. Islam, unlike any other religion I challenge you to name, is a top to bottom political movement that spans government, law, culture and worship practices that, when it achieves hegemony, tolerates no deviation from any of its aspects without severe penalty.鈥
, a race science outfit whose leader has written that black people are incapable of sustaining civilization, has posted more than one Geller column on its website. This past January, the group featured a Geller piece from The Washington Times that asserted that Muslims were attempting to replace European law with Islamic law. Her message resonated with American Renaissance鈥檚 readers. 鈥淚t won鈥檛 be long before Muslims will be voting to end democracy in Europe and replacing it with Islamic law,鈥 wrote one anonymous poster.
Geller鈥檚 work has been particularly popular at the National Policy Institute (NPI), a white nationalist organization that calls itself an 鈥渁dvocacy group for America鈥檚 historical majority鈥 鈥 white people. NPI has posted repeatedly about the planned New York center and NPI supporters have signed on to Geller鈥檚 message that Islam is bad for the U.S. This past month, in a typical comment to NPI鈥檚 boards, 鈥渂ob鈥 wrote: 鈥淸W]e need to keep the Muslims from doing what they have done to the UK and many other parts of Europe. 鈥 It is unwise to help violent people gradually take over the country and it is not mercy or justice for anyone to let them destroy it.鈥
The white supremacist , which has close ties to NPI, couldn鈥檛 agree more. The group had this to say on its blog about the planned New York mosque: 鈥淭his USED TO BE America.鈥
Perhaps part of the reason that Geller is getting a hearing with these extremists is that she shares more than just their anti-Muslim views. This past April, Geller the South African apartheid-defending terrorist Eugene Terre鈥橞lanche after he was found murdered. She blamed his death on 鈥渂lack supremacism.鈥
鈥淭he whites in South Africa are keenly aware of the plans to kill them, better known as 鈥楾he night of the long knives,鈥欌 Geller wrote on her blog Atlas Shrugs. 鈥淭hey expect it to happen very soon after the death of Mandela, but to tell this to the world is a waste of energy. Atlas has been reporting on this horror聽that the savages in the media ignore.鈥
And Geller has been defending and working with organizations that are blatantly racist and anti-Semitic. This past June, Geller at an event in Paris put on by the , which opposesrace-mixing and 鈥淚slamic imperialism.鈥 Geller also is a proud supporter of the English Defence League (EDF), by Salon.com as 鈥渁 far-right street movement that sprang up in the United Kingdom earlier this year to protest planned construction of mosques and to stoke fear of Islam more broadly.鈥 to the Guardian, EDF members have been involved in violent anti-mosque protests, made violent statements that included the threat that an EDF member may one day 鈥渕urder鈥 any Muslims he can get his hands on, and has engaged in 鈥渞acism鈥 and 鈥渧irulent Islamophobia.鈥
No wonder some of America鈥檚 racists have found common cause with Geller, given her support of an apartheid leader and blatantly racist European groups, not to mention her untrammeled Muslim-bashing. And no wonder, too, that Newt Gingrich has just to drop out of the upcoming SIOA rally against the planned Muslim community center scheduled for September 11. Pamela Geller may be getting a little too toxic for anyone with claims to be part of the political mainstream, no matter how thin those claims may be stretched.