Pamela Geller: controversial blogger who hosted the Texas Mohammed drawing contest- TomoNews
- 9 years ago
Pamela Geller, a controversial blogger and the president of the New York-based anti-Islam American Freedom Defense Initiative, calls herself an advocate for those who have been victimized by religious extremists.
Geller, 56, hosted the Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest Sunday in Garland Texas, which promised $10,000 for the best cartoon depicting the prophet --to take a stand for free speech, the New York Daily Mail reports.
The former financial analyst and Long Island-native first made her way into the spotlight as an active leader in the fight against Park51, a planned 13-story mosque and community center intended to be built a stone's throw away from the World Trade Center site.
Geller's first brush with controversy, however, came in 2006, when amidst riots by Muslims around the world over cartoons of Muhammed printed in a Danish newspaper, she featured the images on her blog.
Her New York-based group recently gained even more notoriety after buying ad space in subways and on buses in major American cities for posters widely criticized as Islamophobic.
The New York Daily News reports Geller's blog is popular with the political right, and it recently earned her an invitation to speak at a Tea Party convention in Tennessee.
Geller, who claims to be stopping the Islamization of America, says that, "People will begin to realize that this war is here."
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Geller, 56, hosted the Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest Sunday in Garland Texas, which promised $10,000 for the best cartoon depicting the prophet --to take a stand for free speech, the New York Daily Mail reports.
The former financial analyst and Long Island-native first made her way into the spotlight as an active leader in the fight against Park51, a planned 13-story mosque and community center intended to be built a stone's throw away from the World Trade Center site.
Geller's first brush with controversy, however, came in 2006, when amidst riots by Muslims around the world over cartoons of Muhammed printed in a Danish newspaper, she featured the images on her blog.
Her New York-based group recently gained even more notoriety after buying ad space in subways and on buses in major American cities for posters widely criticized as Islamophobic.
The New York Daily News reports Geller's blog is popular with the political right, and it recently earned her an invitation to speak at a Tea Party convention in Tennessee.
Geller, who claims to be stopping the Islamization of America, says that, "People will begin to realize that this war is here."
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