1. Pamela Geller was born on 1958 and is an American anti-Muslim, far-right political activist, blogger and commentator.
34 Facts About Pamela Geller
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In 2006, Pamela Geller reproduced the controversial Danish cartoons of Muhammad published by the Jyllands-Posten newspaper on her blog.
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Pamela Geller has denied genocides where Muslims were victims, including the Bosnian genocide and the Rohingya genocide.
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Pamela Geller grew up in Hewlett Harbor, on New York's Long Island.
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Pamela Geller helped out in her father's business, where she learned to speak fluent Spanish.
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Pamela Geller attended Lynbrook High School and Hofstra University, leaving before she completed her degree.
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Pamela Geller created a blog called Atlas Shrugs in 2004.
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Pamela Geller was a frequent and prolific commenter on the blog Little Green Footballs when, encouraged by a fellow commenter, she started her own blog in late 2004.
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In 2010, Pamela Geller co-founded the American Freedom Defense Initiative organization, known as Stop Islamization of America, with Robert Spencer, an anti-Muslim activist.
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Pamela Geller is a co-founder of Stop Islamization of Nations, an umbrella organization that includes Stop Islamization of America and Stop Islamisation of Europe.
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At the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference, Pamela Geller criticized the Pentagon's report on the 2009 Fort Hood shooting for failing to talk about the religious motivations behind the attack.
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Israeli columnist Caroline Glick disputed the assertions by White and Davidson, and argued that Pamela Geller opposed jihadists, not all Muslims.
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In May 2013, the Jewish Defense League of Canada invited Pamela Geller to speak in Toronto, Canada.
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Pamela Geller has been a contributor to The Washington Times, Newsmax, Human Events, WorldNetDaily, the American Thinker, Israel National News and Breitbart News.
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Pamela Geller has written a column titled "Defending the West" for WorldNetDaily starting in 2011.
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Pamela Geller came to prominence over her opposition to the mosque's construction.
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In 2015, Pamela Geller announced that she would run ads on public transit systems accusing donors to the New Israel Fund of being supporters of the anti-Israel BDS movement, although a spokesperson from NIF said the charge is false.
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Pamela Geller helped to organize a "Draw the Prophet" cartoon contest on May 3,2015, at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, the same site where a Muslim group held a "Stand With the Prophet" event in January 2015, after the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
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Pamela Geller's thwarted plan was in retaliation to Geller's Muhammad art event and contest.
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Pamela Geller is a prominent activist in what has been described as the counter-jihad movement in the United States.
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Pamela Geller has been described as part of a broader anti-Muslim network or industry.
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Pamela Geller claimed "vehicular jihad" when an Egyptian immigrant drove a car onto a curb, hurting pedestrians; she omitted that the police determined he had fallen asleep at the wheel.
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Pamela Geller has mischaracterized a variety of different events as being a part of jihad, including: an incident that involved a mentally ill, teenaged Bosnian shooter in Salt Lake City; as well as assaults of Walmart staff and customers by meth addicts.
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Pamela Geller has speculated that Virginia Tech mass shooter Seung-Hui Cho was a jihadi.
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Pamela Geller has been criticized by the Anti-Defamation League, Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Southern Poverty Law Center for espousing Islamophobia.
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Pamela Geller has dismissed the SPLC as an "uber left" organization.
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Pamela Geller was cited, along with others, in Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto.
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Pamela Geller has been described as "far-right" by news outlets, such as: the Los Angeles Times, Wired, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Haaretz, Buzzfeed News, The Forward, and human rights activist Leonard Zeskind.
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Unlike Rand, Pamela Geller is a theist who defends the Judeo-Christian ethical tradition.
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Pamela Geller has put forth a number of conspiracy theories and falsehoods about Barack Obama.
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Pamela Geller has claimed he is a Muslim, and that he was born in Kenya.
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Pamela Geller has published articles advancing the false conspiracy theory of a white genocide in South Africa.
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Pamela Geller was married to Michael Oshry from 1990 until the couple divorced in 2007.
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Pamela Geller received nearly $4 million in the divorce settlement.