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"Salon Magazine Smears Pamela Geller" by AWR Hawkins, Breitbart
5 Apr 2013

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On April 2, Salon magazine carried a column by Chris Stedman accusing Pamela Geller of trying to drive a wedge between gays and Muslims. To do this, Stedman depicts Geller as a desperate, anti-Muslim zealot who is loathed by the gay community.

The problem: Geller is neither anti-Muslim nor without her supporters
in the gay community. But these are facts that appear to have eluded
Stedman. 

Geller appears to have caught Stedman's attention via advertisements
she'll soon be running in San Francisco, alerting gays to the opposition
they face from Islamists. At no time in his column does Stedman
differentiate between Muslims and Islamists–therefore, he intimates
Geller is warning about Muslims in general, when she's actually warning
about Islamists in particular.

The advertisements that raised Stedman's ire contained quotes against
gays from terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden and the Muslim Brotherhood's
Yusuf al-Qaradawi, both of which represent Islamism rather than the
views of those who are commonly described as moderate Muslims.

For example, al-Qaradawi said:
"The punishment of homosexuality is the death penalty." After learning
that, Geller thought the gay community should be alerted.

After lumping Muslims and Islamists together so as to indict Geller
as anti-Muslim, Stedman then claims Geller is lumping different groups
together via so-called "generalizing statements about entire groups of
people." 

Cue Rod Serling. 

Stedman then says Geller has no support in the gay community. 

How does he know this? He knows it because he asked various individuals within the LGBT community and they said so.

Problem–Stedman didn't ask Michael Lucas, SIOA LGBT leader Patti
York, or Atlanta gay activist Mark Koenig, all whom have voiced strong
support for Geller.

Lucas, a columnist for The Advocate and a film director, among other things, made a statement in support of Geller which begins:

Go read the whole thing.

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Terry

11 years ago

It is a good balanced article, but as it was to be expected, there is a lot of hateful drivel posted by the religious whack-jobs and politically correct “progressive” communist trolls. I really can’t understand why some of the anti-gay conservatives don’t join the islamonazis and neo-nazis.
There is a lot of negative things that can be said about the political gay rights militants and the antics of same gay provocateurs, but that’s not what this article is all about.
I hate to say this, but islamonazis must be very happy to see no sign of unity between infidels whatsoever. They will win, because too many Americans are too stupid to grasp the extent of the islamic threat. It’s so much easier to verbally abuse “faggots”.

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Steve

11 years ago

Jim Cramer on the Jobs Report “It’s a Permanent Unemployment Level”:
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2013/04/video-jim-cramer-its-permanent.html

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Bezelel

11 years ago

“Driving a Wedge between muslims and gays”? If that doesn’t conjure an unsavory image what does? Pamela, I pray strength for your endurance and a shield from the fiery darts of the wicked,and too on occasion take time to have a roaring laugh at what they say.

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Larry S.

11 years ago

From Chris Stedman’s bilge at http://www.salon.com/2013/04/02/stop_trying_to_split_gays_and_muslims/singleton/
Geller and her allies have dedicated countless hours and millions upon millions of dollars to drum up hatred, fear and xenophobia toward Muslims.
I guess it would be too much to expect from someone with such a cloyingly presumptuous title as “Assistant Humanist Chaplain and the Values in Action Coordinator for the Humanist Community” (at Harvard no less) to document his claim that Pamela dedicates herself to “drum[ming] up hatred”. Certainly anyone looking for substantiation of that claim would search Stedman’s article in vain.
I don’t doubt that those who support Pamela may have “dedicated countless hours” to support AFDI. But “millions upon millions” of dollars? I question that, and wonder where Stedman gets his information. Pamela is not paid a salary for her efforts on behalf of AFDI, which suggests to me an organization with less than millions. AFDI is trying to raise $50K, which I gather would provide a big boost to its operations. That does not bespeak to me of an organization accustomed to dealing with “millions upon millions”.
Moreover, Pamela seems more appreciative of even modest financial contributions than I might expect from someone accustomed to dealing with millions of dollars. I suspect Chris Stedman is engaging in dishonest, calumnious rhetoric.
Since Pamela does not try to “drum up hatred”, and I doubt she has raised “millions upon millions” of dollars, I suspect Chris Stedman is a deceptive, fatuous sleazebag.

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Ishmail Alharoui

11 years ago

Chris Stedman has to read some literature before he says anything or attack anyone with his ignorance. It is taboo to be gay in the Muslim world and Under Sharia law the treatment of gays is harsh, the treatment of women is harsh and the treatment of infidels is harsh, he doesn’t need to cover up anything, it is true and harsh.

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islamophobe

11 years ago

Thats the twist. Blaming someone else for what you did. In the medias case, CAIR must have wrote their articles. In Iran, they execute gays openly.
What kind of sick denial are these haters in?
Why not send Stedman over for a gay hanging in Iran? What does it take to educate these Neanderthals? They are worse than islam.

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