In response to recent article by Chris Stedman published for Salon, Pamela Geller writes in American Thinker that Stedman “played fast a loose with the facts [when] he described me as misrepresenting a proposed Islamic Community Center in lower Manhattan as the Ground Zero Mosque.” She writes,
Uh, Chris, it is a mosque, and it's in a building that was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks – that is, at Ground Zero. But don't let the facts get in the way of a good lie. Stedman trots out that venerable leftist, opportunistic, and very well-compensated fundraising machine, the SPLC, that deems every proud patriot a threat (yes, a threat to progressives).
Taking particular issue with Stedman’s claim that she and her allies have dedicated millions of dollars to “drumming up hatred, fear and xenophobia towards Muslims,” Geller replies:
In justifying Muslim oppression of gays under the Sharia, Stedman pulls out the old “religion-based bigotry” card, but fails to mention that Christians and Jews are not slaughtering gays under canon law or Jewish law.
Going on to point out some examples of prominent gay activists who support her cause, Geller concludes with an argument for why her notorious subway and bus ads shouldn’t be considered Islamophobic:
The persecution, subjugation and oppression of gays is based on religiously-motivated hatred — it's the Sharia. Not every Muslim subscribes to it, of course. But the ideology behind it is very much the problem. [Head of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission] claims, on the contrary, that it's cultural — what culture is that? Islamic culture. Sparks, like Stedman, is sharpening the blade of her own executioners.