How Abhorrent Is Pam Geller?

Ken AshfordRight Wing Punditry/Idiocy, Rightwing Extremism/Violence, War on Terrorism/TortureLeave a Comment

Want a good measurement of the toxicity level of Pamela Geller, whose American Freedom Defense Initiative worked so hard for so long to attract the sort of violence that struck its Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Texas on Sunday? Two survivors of theCharlie Hebdo murders went on Charlie Rose’s show to make it clear they want nothing to do with Geller (per a report from Mediate‘s Matt Wilstein):

“To be honest, I can imagine the kind of comparison you can make between theCharlie Hebdo attack of January 7 and this event, but there is nothing to do [with one another], there is no comparison, absolutely no comparison,” Jean-Baptiste Thoret said in a clip of a longer interview set to air tonight.

While he described the group that put on the event in Texas as part of an “anti-Islamic movement” against the “Islamization of the U.S.,” Thoret said the motives ofCharlie Hebdo are “absolutely not the same.” For the magazine, he said it “was a question of criticizing” all religions, not Muslim people “in particular.”

“We don’t organize contests, we just do our work,” Gerard Biard added. “We comment on the news. When Muhammad [pops up] in the news, we draw Muhammad. But if he didn’t, we didn’t — we don’t.”

How far off the reservation is Pam Geller?  She’s on another planet.  The Hebdo rejection is like MLK saying about Rosa Parks, “Uuuuuuuh…. that girl is nuts!”