Pamela Geller

{{ ev:youtube Geller}} Pamela Geller (born 1958) is a far-right blogger, a writer for Arutz Sheva , a former journalist for Mortimer Zuckerman 's New York Daily News , and the former associate publisher of the New York Observer .[[1]]( During the 2008 presidential elections she published a post alleging that Barack Obama was the illegitimate child of the late American Muslim leader Malcolm X[[2]]( and that he was 'involved with a crack whore'.[[3]]( She has also alleged that Obama is a secret Muslim.[[4]]( At one point PayPal banned Geller's website Atlas Shrugs") on the grounds that her site promotes 'hate' and 'racial intolerance.'[[5]]( [[6]]( She is the co-founder, along with another anti-Muslim colleague Robert Spencer of the American Freedom Defense Initiative . In February 2015 the British court of appeal upheld a ban by UK home secretary Theresa May preventing Geller and Spencer from entering the country in June 2013. The two had challenged this ruling in June 2014, represented by barrister Arfan Khan . [[7]]( Geller is the ex-wife of a now deceased wealthy luxury car dealer and has no professional or academic training in journalism. She worked for different right-leaning news publications prior to quitting in 1994 to "stay home with her daughters."[[8]]( At that point she moved to New York City while being financially supported by her husband. She has admitted that in the wake of 9/11 (which was what prompted her blogging) her most valued news source was the then far right-wing political blog, Little Green Footballs") .[[9]]( Former ally and LGF founder Charles Johnson stated in 2010 that Geller "got her start on the internet by commenting at my site, Little Green Footballs (LGF). She posted more than 6,000 comments at LGF in our earlier days, when our comment moderation policy was much more laissez faire than it is now."[[10]]( Geller also reportedly learned about Islam by reading virulent critics of the religion: She spent the next year educating herself about Islam, reading Bat Ye’or a French writer who focuses on tensions over Muslim immigrants in Europe; Ibn Warraq , the pseudonym for a Pakistani who writes about his rejection of Islam; and Daniel Pipes , whom she ultimately rejected because he believes in the existence of a moderate Islam.[[8]]( {{ ev:youtube Geller and AFDI co-founder Robert Spencer}}Geller's "closest partner"[[8]]( is Robert Spencer (founder of Jihad Watch ) with whom she has authored a book and co-founded the Freedom Defense Initiative (which also uses the name Stop the Islamization of America ). She shot to fame after sprouting the roots to the heated debate surrounding Park51 .[[11]]( She labeled it a 'victory mosque' being raised by Muslims on 'conquered land' to celebrate the 9/11 attacks, insinuating without evidence that its financing could have terrorist origins.[[3]]( She was featured in the media as the ringleader of the opposition, heading rallies and blogging continuously about the issue. Geller has "defended Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian president who died while on trial at The Hague for war crimes, and denied the existence of Serbian concentration camps in the 1990s."[[12]]( She has also allied with "racist extremists in South Africa in promoting a claim that the black population is carrying out a "genocide" of whites."[[12]]( Geller also advocates in favor of the English Defence League which she refers to as "patriotic."[[13]]( On 27 February 2009, Geller co-sponsored a reception for Geert Wilders at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington DC during the Conservative Political Action Conference") . The other sponsors were the David Horowitz Freedom Center , Jihad Watch and Dr Andrew Bostom .[[14]]( When it was revealed that white supremacist terrorist Anders Breivik had cited her 12 times in his manifesto, Geller refused to take responsibility, instead saying that 'If anyone incited him to violence, it was Islamic supremacists.' In 2010 Geller's blog "Atlas Shrugs