Geller Scrubs Violent Line From Norwegian Islamophobe鈥檚 2007 E-mail
, the reigning queen of anti-Muslim hysteria, has been feeling intensifying heat since Anders Breivik鈥檚 deadly rampage in Norway 鈥 and she鈥檚 not handling it well.
Geller was one of several prominent anti-Muslim activists cited by Breivik in the 1,500-word manifesto he posted on the Internet hours before his murderous bomb and shooting attack that left 77 Norwegians, mostly teenagers, dead. When news of the attack first broke, Geller published a post on her Atlas Shrugs website all but 鈥 only to discover, embarrassingly, that the attacker was not a jihadist Muslim but a Norwegian national who admired and studied her own rhetoric. Geller awkwardly backtracked, posting a rambling self-defense asserting that Breivik had only mentioned her by name once 鈥 while downplaying that he had cited her blog a dozen times, mentioned her co-founding partner of Stop Islamization of America, Robert Spencer, 64 times, and suggested that Spencer should win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Now, one of Geller鈥檚 most relentless irritants, blogger Charles Johnson of (LGF), has determined that Geller has deleted the most damning passage from a June 24, 2007, E-mail she received, and posted, from an unidentified Norwegian correspondent bemoaning what he viewed as a surge in Islamic immigration.
The E-mailer begins by presenting the grossly inaccurate statistic that Oslo鈥檚 Muslim population in 2007 was 50% and growing. (Norway is estimated by the U.S. government to be 2% Muslim as of July 2011; even if every Norwegian Muslim lived in Oslo proper, the city would still be no more than about 18 percent Muslim). Adding in a medically unsustainable birth rate of 1.2 births per year per Muslim woman, the writer predicts the city would be almost two-thirds Muslim by 2010.
The writer then predicts that military conflict between Israel and Arab countries 聽would 鈥渕ake the muslims [sic] worldwide go into a frenzy, attacking everyone around them.鈥
The alarming line that followed no longer appears on Geller鈥檚 2007 post: 鈥淲e are stockpiling and caching weapons, ammunition and equipment. This is going to happen fast.鈥
鈥淧amela Geller鈥檚 guilty conscience is showing again,鈥 Johnson surmised. 鈥淥bviously, Pamela Geller is going through her archives and scrubbing any violent rhetoric related to Norway, and equally obviously, she鈥檚 doing it to cover her tracks.鈥
Geller dismissed Johnson鈥檚 accusations, saying she deleted the line only because she thought it was 鈥渋nsensitive and inappropriate鈥 in the wake of the massacre. Also, she stated flatly that Breivik was not the author of the E-mail. But, she also added one odd bit of interpretation. The E-mailer鈥檚 statement about 鈥渟tockpiling and caching weapons, ammunition and equipment,鈥 she said, 鈥渞efers to self-defense.鈥 Johnson retorted, 鈥淚t鈥檚 鈥榮elf-defense鈥 to stockpile weapons and ammunition to fight against ... a sick paranoid fantasy?鈥
But Geller wasn鈥檛 through. On Sunday, echoing the vicious comments posted last week by rabid anti-Muslim blogger Debbie Schlussel, Geller posted an essay denouncing the leftist political bent of the camp on Ut酶ya Island where Breivik mowed down dozens of unarmed teenagers. The youths had called for the creation of a Palestinian state and a boycott of Israel toward that end.
Like Schlussel, but in terms only slightly less putrid, Geller coldly insinuated that 鈥渢he little dearies and their handlers鈥 who were expressing a political viewpoint 鈥 an act normally considered a right in free societies 鈥 had earned Breivik鈥檚 wrath. 鈥淏reivik was targeting the future leaders of the party responsible for flooding Norway with Muslims who refuse to assimilate, who commit major violence against Norwegian natives, including violent gang rapes, with impunity, and who live on the dole ... all done without the consent of the Norwegians.鈥
Mass murder, thus justified.