The Murderer's Muse
by digby
I've been so caught up in the debt ceiling crapola that I missed the exposure of Pamela Atlas' exposure as a muse for the Norweigian terrorist. All the details are in this Alternet article.
But get a load of this:
In a post defending herself yesterday, Geller — who has called Obama “President Jihad” and claimed that Arab language classes are a plot to subvert the United States — reached a new low. Geller justifies Breivik’s attack on the Norwegian Labour Party summer youth camp because she says the camp is part of an anti-Israel “indoctrination training center.” She says the victims would have grown up to become “future leaders of the party responsible for flooding Norway with Muslims who refuse to assimilate, who commit major violence against Norwegian natives including violent gang rapes, with impunity, and who live on the dole.”
To get her point across, Geller posts a picture of the youth camp children Breivik targeted. The picture was taken on the Utøya island camp about 24 hours before Breivik killed over 30 children, so it is likely Geller is mocking many of the victims. Under the picture, Geller writes: “Note the faces which are more MIddle [sic] Eastern or mixed than pure Norwegian.”
She can scrub her web-site, but not her mind. She's is truly one of the most horrible people in America, right up there with David Duke and Tim McVeigh for sheer evil. I'm not surprised that she was an inspirational figure to a mass murderer.
Update: Up from the comments:
P. Geller DID NOT WRITE THOSE WORDS. She was posting a post from ANOTHER blog, it was the author of THAT blog, that said those words, not her. It's not easy to realise, but you WILL notice that she links to the original post. Easy to miss but nonetheless, you're wrong and should point out the Altnet quote is false, in regard to the "note the faces" point.
Update II: I was wrong to compare Geller to Tim McVeigh and I apologize for doing it. She has personally committed no violence and can't stand next to him for sheer evil. I do think the genocidal rants on her blog are worthy of condemnation and since she wrote them and featured those of others, she does bear responsibility for them. Trying to go back and change them after the fact, however, shows that she has a conscience so evil is too strong.
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