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Haaretz

Does Pamela Geller regret organizing the Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest that ended in gunfire? No, she says confidently.

In fact, she says, she probably saved lives by hosting the event and plans to have more just like it, with one difference: Next time, she’ll be wearing a bulletproof vest.

“I will continue to speak in defense of freedom until the day I die,” Geller said Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press, as a grim-looking personal security guard hovered nearby. “It’s just that simple. It’s not even a choice. It’s a calling.”

Geller has always hired armed security personnel to protect the scores of events she has spearheaded across the nation in recent years to decry Islamic extremism. But furor over Sunday’s shooting in Garland, Texas, has led to a specific threat against Geller, posted on a website related to the Islamic State group, and the New York Police Department is taking it seriously. Now she doesn’t travel anywhere without protection.

Geller said she believes she saved lives by hosting the contest because the two Muslim gunmen shot to death by police would have picked another soft target and killed innocent civilians.

“Would you regret saving lives?” she asked.

A master of rhetoric and clearly comfortable in the spotlight, the 56-year-old former media executive shifts easily from charming to combative. Her critics have called the cartoon contest needlessly provocative, practically an invitation for violence. But Geller argued that any blame should be focused on extremists who can’t be criticized or lampooned without resorting to violence.

“Cartoons are political critique. It’s a cartoon,” she said. “Is that what we want to outlaw? We want to outlaw humor? We want to outlaw comedy? If you want to know who rules over you, find out who you cannot criticize.”

Her activities have prompted the Southern Poverty Law Center to add her to its extremist files, calling her “the anti-Muslim movement’s most visible and flamboyant figurehead.”

In an editorial Thursday, The New York Times said Geller “has a long history of declarations and actions motivated purely by hatred for Muslims” and called the Garland event “an exercise in bigotry and hatred posing as a blow for freedom. … To pretend it was motivated by anything other than hate is simply hogwash.”

Geller was once part of the elite media machine she professes to despise, working for the business operations of the Daily News and the New York Observer. Then, she was a self-described “apolitical” mother who paid little mind to world affairs.

“I loved my fashion. I loved my life. I loved my career,” she said with a smile. “I assumed my freedom. I grew up free, you know? I grew up in the freest country in the world. And I loved it.”

Then, she said, “9/11 happened. And it was shattering.”

Ignorant of terrorism, Geller said she dived deeply into the Internet to learn more. She joined a burgeoning online community obsessed with jihad and terrorism. She began opining in the comments section. One day in 2004, a fellow commenter encouraged her to create her own blog.

“I’m like, ‘What’s a blog?'” Geller recalled. “And he said, ‘Shut up and start writing.'”

Today, Geller has nearly 68,000 Twitter followers and a devoted army of virtual supporters for her websites, books and public events. As head of an organization called the American Freedom Defense Initiative, she took in $960,000 in donations in 2013, paying herself a salary of $192,500, according to tax filings.

Donations pour in from the PayPal button on her website, Geller said, adding that she has “no idea” how much money she has raised.

Records do not list donors, but a recent report by the Center for American Progress, a think tank in Washington, said Geller’s top donors included the Fairbrook Foundation, which supports a number of mainstream conservative groups.

In 2010, Geller famously led a campaign to prevent the opening of an Islamic community center blocks from the World Trade Center site, calling it the “ground zero mosque.” She has filed numerous lawsuits across the U.S. in recent years, many of them related to her attempts to display incendiary ads in public transit systems. Most recently, New York City’s transit authority banned all political advertising after a judge upheld Geller’s right to run bus ads about Islam that said, “Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah.”

0 thoughts on “Pamela Geller has no regrets about cartoon contest that ended in gunfire, believes she ‘saved lives’ by hosting anti-Islamic event”
  1. Geller ? Any relation to Uri Geller the Jewish magician ? if so that explains everything.

  2. I feel this was a hateful way to insight violence, religion is personal to us all. Say if this had been cartoons of Jesus or any other faith , many would been offended ? We have freedom of speech but with that comes a moral responsibility . We seem think it gives many in America a free for all to bash any one . What these men did was just as equally wrong ! We must respect all faiths and learn from one another for what we as adults do, children are learning .

  3. A shorter name for Pamela Geller is Delilah. A whorish woman whose biblical name means: oppressed, bring low, be empty, made thin loose activity and vigor, pine away and physically weak in mind, intellectually and morally. This is what the modern day church goes to see. Both those lifting up Israel and the church are about to see God’s hand.

    SAMSON WENT DOWN – Judges 14:1(2)
    “And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the
    daughters of the Philistines.”
    Samson went ‘down’ to this city that was of the tribe of Dan but taken over by
    the Philistines. It was in the ‘hill’ country. So it was in the valley that he went
    and it (1 Chronicles 1:51/Genesis 36:40,43) was in the possession of the
    Edomites (line of Esau). Also known as Idumeans. Esau, remember sold his
    birthright to Jacob. So there are these deep differences between these two
    groups of people. Not a good thing to do, going down to those who don’t
    worship like you. Samson ‘came up’ (2) telling his parents (not asking for their
    advise) to get her for him.

    Samson had the best of knowledge of God by his parents but even the best
    parents are not as good a teacher as God. Samson was going to learn a very
    harsh lesson and at the same time so were the Philistines going to see God’s
    hand. These are our examples we are told for us today (1 Peter 4:17). So this is
    speaking to the church and those they have lowered themselves with. They
    went themselves to those who dispise the Lord.

    Today this is physical Israel and
    the bible says: 1 John 4:3/2 John 1:7; “And every spirit that confesseth not that
    Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and is that spirit of antichrist,
    whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the
    world.” This spirit called ‘antichrist’ is a spirit that deceives. This antichrist has
    been here since the time of Christ.

    Why would anyone want to be with someone who hates Christ? Today’s church and the modern day Philistines called the nation of Israel are both due for a lesson from God.

    Samson lost so much of what he had from God that like a child he had to be led
    by one (Judges 16:26/Isaiah 11:6). He may have had the strength of God but still
    retained that mind of someone who still drinks from a bottle of milk. This is the
    modern day church and thinking they can go forward in their own strength
    never go back to ask if this is what God is saying for their lives.

    He ended up with a whorish woman named Delilah whose name means: feeble,
    oppressed, bring low, dry up, be empty, made thin, loose activity and vigor, pine
    away and physically weak – in mind, intellectually and morally. All he did was
    feed on the swine that followed him: Luke 8:32. (James Strong’s Concordance #1807/1809-

  4. Hypocrite Geller reckons she saves lives, yet wishes for Israel to bomb all of Europe with every weapon that Israel has got, obviously including thermonuclear weapons, if ever Israel is attacked by Iran. Geller is completely insane, as are any people giving her even the slightest regard.

  5. You overestimate your importance, piglet.
    You think you are a crusader of free speech? You’re a charlatan and an opportunist. A rabble rousing trouble making pig with no class and no respect – YOU are the one endangering people’s lives with your antics. Find a better way to spend your dead husband’s money.

  6. Aside from Samson (Shimshon in Biblical Hebrew) being another ass-clown literary character concocted by the men who wrote the book of Judges (Shofetim); a fictional character who was a cheat, and when caught cheating, he proceeded to mass-murder the Philistines who caught him red-handed (read the whole disgusting story in Judges 13-16), aside from that little sidenote, I am sponsoring a “Draw Moses and Abraham Contest.” We already have two entries: one showing the face of Moses on an ancient Egyptian “Wanted” poster. He is even drawn with the two little horns on his head depicted by Michelangelo on the famous Moses statue at the Vatican. As you will remember from Exodus (chapter 2), Moses murdered an Egyptian labor supervisor and hid the body under the sand in an unmarked grave. The unnamed Pharaoh of the fictional Exodus epic then ordered Moses to be arrested for murder and executed for his crime. Moses then had to quickly flee the country when he saw WANTED posters put up all over the capital city. Entry number two in our “Draw Moses and Abraham Contest” depicts Abraham dressed up as a modern urban pimp (big purple hat with a feather and alligator shoes with goldfish swimming in the high heels of the shoes, the whole enchilada), and pimping out his Egyptian-hating half-sister/wife Sarai to the King of Egypt (at a time in history – the First Intermediate Period – when there was no king of Egypt), cf. Genesis 12:10-20. A little later on in the story, Abe also pimped out his wife to the King of Gerar in Canaan at a time in history when the town of Gerar did not even exist (cf. Genesis, chapter 20), but that’s a whole other tale. And like all enterprising pimps, Abe’s bitch secured him a camel caravan full of loot (at a time in ancient Middle Eastern history when camels had not yet been domesticated for caravan use). Uh oh, I gotta go. More blasphemous and hilarious Moses and Abraham cartoons are coming in…

  7. She doesn’t scare me as much as the mindless minions that support her vile hatred. Imagine what would happen if anyone said the something about Jews.

  8. These aliens from hell, the Khazarian Mafia soulless criminal cabal who have killed more than 180 million people in the last century keep inciting Americans to inflame the hatred against Muslims and Christians and keep doing all these false flags to keep America in constant and never ending wars for the benefit of the most criminal entity the world has ever known, IsraHELL.

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