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A three-page article, written to support the Park51 "Ground Zero Mosque" by attacking Ms. Geller. Oh, and to draw out the New York Times' audience of lefty commentators and allow them to revile Pamela Geller in the comments. Of course they rise to the occasion.

Response from Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs. You go, girl.

I left a comment at NYT. Only a few of my comments get published, we'll see...

Typical hatred-filled responses from New Yorkers I see. Your city was attacked by whom again? Can you even remember? Do you care?

Let's have a compromise. You 'haters' try to persuade the world's Muslims to allow a Cathedral and a Synagogue to be built in Mecca and Medina. After that conversation, if you dare to have it, I'll gladly turn a jaundiced eye toward Robert Spencer and Ms. Geller. Until then, you've no right to throw slurs and verbally stone a woman for taking a strong position in what she truly believes.

If that comment is published, it'll be the only one supportive of Pamela Geller on the page.

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Hold the presses...I just found another major lefty newspaper attacking Pamela Geller, London's Guardian...

An Observer investigation has established that the EDL has made contact with anti-jihad groups within the Tea Party organisation and has invited a senior US rabbi and Tea Party activist to London this month. Rabbi Nachum Shifren, a regular speaker at Tea Party conventions, will speak about Sharia law and also discuss funding issues.

The league has also developed links with Pamela Geller, who was influential in the protests against plans to build an Islamic cultural centre near Ground Zero. Geller, darling of the Tea Party's growing anti-Islamic wing, is advocating an alliance with the EDL. The executive director of the Stop Islamisation of America organisation, she recently met EDL leaders in New York and has defended the group's actions, despite a recent violent march in Bradford.

Geller, who denies being anti-Muslim, said in one of her blogs: "I share the EDL's goals… We need to encourage rational, reasonable groups that oppose the Islamisation of the west."

Devin Burghart, vice-president of the Kansas-based Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, said: "Geller is acting as the bridge between the EDL and the Tea Party. She plays an important role in bringing Islamophobia into the Tea Party. Her stature has increased substantially inside the Tea Party ranks after the Ground Zero mosque controversy. She has gained a lot of credibility with that stuff."

Seems there are lines being drawn; two 'major' news organizations on two continents working together, attacking a common 'enemy' on the same day.

I'm not in Pamela Geller's camp by choice. You won't find a link in my sidebar to Atlas Shrugs, or many posts written referencing her posted here. But I've always admired Robert Spencer, linked him several times.

But I share her revulsion for the Left, and decry their attacks on her for purely partisan reasons.

And I've said countless times that Islam the religion is overdue for a remake and an update to 21st century thinking. Christianity was reformed centuries ago. Force Islam to reform, so's it's not so susceptible to being used by extremist Imams and Ayatollahs and people like Bin Laden. Once that's done, they'll be no need for the Pamela Gellers and Robert Spencers of the world.

I think we'll need 'em for centuries more, if rags like the NYT and the Guardian slither to side with the forces of jihad and encroaching Shariah Law.

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