Last month, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued an opinion allowing the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority to reject religious advertising on its system. Civil libertarians should applaud the ruling. Over 40 years ago, public transportation systems opened subways and buses to commercial advertisements — painlessly, they thought, to hold down…
An anti-Muslim activist says she has had “positive” interactions in recent years with the president’s new national security adviser, John Bolton, Business Insider reported. Pamela Geller called Bolton “a fierce patriot who will do what it takes to defend the nation, and who has a clear and accurate understanding of the nature and magnitude of…
It appears that Instagram sensation, Claudia Oshry Soffer, better known by the social media handle “Girl with No Job”, will have to find a new job. Soffer has been let go from social media company Oath after the Daily Beast published a piece connecting her to Pamela Geller, infamous anti-Muslim activist and Soffer’s mom. Despite…
Updated, 5:00 p.m. The four Oshry sisters, each Instagram celebrities, have made significant efforts to conceal that their mother is Pamela Geller, known for her Islamophobia and hard-right ideology, The Daily Beast reported Wednesday. Geller, who has been condemned by the Southern Poverty Law Center for hate speech, was an organizer of the “Draw the…
The Russian troll farm indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for interfering in the 2016 election also used its Twitter bots to boost the message of a handful of prominent anti-Muslim extremists, including right-wing Jewish activist Pamela Geller. The Russian-operated bots promoted tweets and articles by Geller, Robert Spencer and Frank Gaffney, all of whom…
A man inspired by ISIS who had conspired to behead a Jewish anti-Muslim blogger and activist was sentenced Tuesday to 28 years in prison, the New York Daily News reported. David Wright, 28, was found guilty of plotting with his uncle and another man. Prosecutors said that Wright sought to emulate ISIS’ infamous beheadings. Wright,…
As the rain poured down in New York City, right-wing firebrands Milo Yiannopoulos and Pamela Geller led a demonstration against Linda Sarsour’s invitation to speak at a CUNY commencement ceremony in a rally that featured anti-Islam rhetoric and drew fierce counter-protest. “Linda Sarsour supports this ideology that oppresses women, subjugates women, gender apartheid, honor killings,”…
Milo Yiannopoulos will headline a protest this month against Linda Sarsour and the City University of New York’s invitation for her to give the commencement address at a graduation ceremony for public health graduate students. Organized by far-right provocateur Pamela Geller, the demonstration is targeting the Muslim civil rights activist for her previous hostility toward…
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