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The prophet Muhammad cartoon contest that exploded in violence during the weekend in Texas was organized by Pamela Geller, a New Yorker who rails against Islam with such ferocity that one of the nation’s top civil rights groups lists her in its “extremist files.”
Geller, 56, is head of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, whose mission, according to tax records, is to act against “capitulation to the global jihad and Islamic supremacism.”
Through websites, books, ad campaigns and public events, Geller has been warning for years about the “Islamic machine” that she says threatens to destroy the U.S.
The Southern Poverty Law Center calls her “the anti-Muslim movement’s most visible and flamboyant figurehead.”
