Salon does a slam piece on me today and parrots Daisy Khan placing all the blame for the national grief, pain and anguish caused by the Ground Zero mega mosque at the feet of moi. As if ...... Yes, Salon declares with a straight face that "the controversy was kicked up and driven by Pamela Geller, a right-wing, viciously anti-Muslim, conspiracy-mongering blogger." I am none of those things, but in leftwing journalism, facts are irrelevant. I am enormously flattered that these propagandists think so much of me. Thankyouverymuch. For the record, I am not anti-Muslim. I fight the ideology that inspires jihad. I am not vicious; that best describes the Islamic supremacists and their leftist tools in the media. And I don't conspiracy monger. There is conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact -- the global jihad is a conspiracy fact. There is enough actual news and enough evil developments happening that conspiracy mongering is for those with too much time on their hands and no capability for objective thought. Lastly, and more importantly, this is a lie. I am not responsible for the millions of Americans who are outraged and pained by the deliberately provocative act of building a mega mosque on the hallowed ground of the 911 attacks. I am but one of millions. And one more thing: I am not a "hater." I'm a lover. Geller is my name, freedom is my game. A group of progressive Muslim-Americans plans to build an Islamic community center two and a half blocks from ground zero in lower Manhattan. They have had a mosque in the same neighborhood for many years. There's another mosque two blocks away from the site. City officials support the project. Muslims have been praying at the Pentagon, the other building hit on Sept. 11, for many years. In short, there is no good reason that the Cordoba House project should have been a major national news story, let alone controversy. And yet it has become just that, dominating the political conversation for weeks and prompting such a backlash that, according to a new poll, nearly 7 in 10 Americans now say they oppose the project. How did the Cordoba House become so toxic, so fast? In a story last week, the New York Times, which framed the project in a largely positive, noncontroversial light last December, argued that it was cursed from the start by "public relations missteps." But this isn't accurate. To a remarkable extent, a Salon review of the origins of the story found, the controversy was kicked up and driven by Pamela Geller, a right-wing, viciously anti-Muslim, conspiracy-mongering blogger, whose sinister portrayal of the project was embraced by Rupert Murdoch's New York Post. Here's a timeline of how it all happened: Once again Obama is aligned with the genocidal, the jihadist .... our enemy. Fresh off the heels of the Obama Ground Zero endorsement, genocidal jihadist group Hamas, had his back. Bear in mind Imam Feisal, the man behind the mosque, refuses to denounce the brutal annihilationist Hamas, whose stated goal, in the first paragraph of their charter is the destruction of the Jews. Islamic supremacists know what the Cordoba mosque at Ground Zero means .....Mecca on the Hudson, the reconquest of the West. A leader of the Hamas terror group yesterday jumped into the emotional debate on the plan to construct a mosque near Ground Zero -- insisting Muslims "have to build" it there. "We have to build everywhere," said Mahmoud al-Zahar, a co-founder of Hamas and the organization's chief on the Gaza Strip. "In every area we have, [as] Muslim[s], we have to pray, and this mosque is the only site of prayer," he said on "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio" on WABC. "We have to build the mosque, as you are allowed to build the church and Israelis are building their holy places." Hamas, he added, "is representing the vast majority of the Arabic and Islamic world -- especially the Islamic side." Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who so far has not taken a position on the mosque, dismissed the endorsement. Schumer plays dirty politics. The hypocrite stopped the NRA from building a mega restaurant (it hurt his sensibilities) in Times Square but the Boss Schumer is OK with a Ground Zero mega mosque. Back in Brooklyn in the old days very early in his career, Schumer pretended to be a religious Jew, as his district was very religious. Stay classy, Chuck. "Hamas is a terrorist organization, and their views don't deserve any weight on anything," his spokesman said. Zahar said Muslims around the world, including those who live in this country, are united in a common cause. "First of all, we have to address that we are different as people, as a nation, totally different," he said. Politicians who previously had lots to say on the matter were not nearly as eager to discuss the latest development. Despite his outspoken opposition to the building of a mosque so close to Ground Zero, Rep. Peter King (R-LI) said only, "I don't respond to Hamas." Mayor Bloomberg, a strong supporter of the plan, declined comment through a spokesman. Hamas first came up in the mosque debate earlier this summer when Abdul Rauf refused to describe the group as a terrorist organization -- despite the State Department listing that identifies it as such. Tom Brown, a chief opponent of the mosque, said: "This is what we've been saying . . . Imam Rauf is a radical Muslim who will not call Hamas a terror group." A retired firefighter who was a first responder on 9/11, Brown lost 100 of his FDNY friends at the Twin Towers. "How much evidence do we need that this guy is a radical Muslim?" he asked. "If Rauf really were a bridge builder and an interfaith guy and all the things he professes to be, he wouldn't be doing this to people." Abdul Rauf raised eyebrows last week when he departed on a State Department-sponsored goodwill mission to the Middle East, despite concerns that the trip may be helping him with the mosque's $100 million fund-raising goal. The Obama administration insisted the trip, reportedly with stops in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Qatar, was strictly to improve understanding about Muslim communities in the United States. But a London-based Arabic-language newspaper that interviewed Abdul Rauf reported that he said he would also collect money from Muslim and Arab nations around the world -- raising the possibility that the American government is helping him build contacts in oil-rich states. UPDATE: Hamas joined the Hamas linked CAIR in applauding Obama backed Ground Zero mosque.
SALON JOINS DAISY KHAN: IT'S ALL GELLER'S FAULT
Dec. 8, 2009: The Times publishes a lengthy front-page look at the Cordoba project. "We want to push back against the extremists," Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the lead organizer, is quoted as saying. Two Jewish leaders and two city officials, including the mayor's office, say they support the idea, as does the mother of a man killed on 9/11. An FBI spokesman says the imam has worked with the bureau. Besides a few third-tier right-wing blogs, including Pamela Geller's Atlas Shrugs site, no one much notices the Times story.
Dec. 21, 2009: Conservative media personality Laura Ingraham interviews Abdul Rauf's wife, Daisy Khan, while guest-hosting "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox. In hindsight, the segment is remarkable for its cordiality. "I can't find many people who really have a problem with it," Ingraham says of the Cordoba project, adding at the end of the interview, "I like what you're trying to do."
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(This segment also includes onscreen the first use that we've seen of the misnomer "ground zero mosque.") After the segment — and despite the front-page Times story — there were no news articles on the mosque for five and a half months, according to a search of the Nexis newspaper archive.
May 6, 2010: After a unanimous vote by a New York City community board committee to approve the project, the AP runs a story. It quotes relatives of 9/11 victims (called by the reporter), who offer differing opinions. The New York Post, meanwhile, runs a story under the inaccurate headline, "Panel Approves 'WTC' Mosque." Geller is less subtle, titling herpost that day, "Monster Mosque Pushes Ahead in Shadow of World Trade Center Islamic Death and Destruction." She writes on her Atlas Shrugs blog, "This is Islamic domination and expansionism. The location is no accident. Just as Al-Aqsa was built on top of the Temple in Jerusalem." (To get an idea of where Geller is coming from, she once suggestedthat Malcolm X was Obama's real father. Seriously.)
May 7, 2010: Geller's group, Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), launches "Campaign Offensive: Stop the 911 Mosque!" (SIOA 's associate director is Robert Spencer, who makes his living writing and speaking about the evils of Islam.) Gellerposts the names and contact information for the mayor and members of the community board, encouraging people to write. The board chair later reports getting "hundreds and hundreds" of calls and e-mails from around the world.
May 8, 2010: Geller announces SIOA's first protest against what she calls the "911 monster mosque" for May 29. She and Spencer and several other members of the professional anti-Islam industry will attend. (She also says that the protest will mark the dark day of "May 29, 1453, [when] the Ottoman forces led by the Sultan Mehmet II broke through the Byzantine defenses against the Muslim siege of Constantinople." The outrage-peddling New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser argues in a note at the end of her column a couple of days later that "there are better places to put a mosque."
May 13, 2010: Peyser follows up with an entire column devoted to "Mosque Madness at Ground Zero." This is a significant moment in the development of the "ground zero mosque" narrative: It's the first newspaper article that frames the project as inherently wrong and suspect, in the way that Geller has been framing it for months. Peyser in fact quotes Geller at length and promotes the anti-mosque protest of Stop Islamization of America, which Peyser describes as a "human-rights group." Peyser also reports — falsely — that Cordoba House's opening date will be Sept. 11, 2011.
Monday, August 16, 2010
GENOCIDAL HAMAS BACKS OBAMA AND RAUF ON GROUND ZERO MOSQUE: 'MUSLIMS HAVE TO BUILD IT' "WE HAVE TO BUILD EVERYWHERE"
Hamas nod for Ground Zero mosque Terror group's leader: 'Have to build it'
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