Anti-Muslim Activists to Gather in Stockholm Tomorrow
, American Islamophobiaâs shrillest voice, is planning yet another demonstration of anti-Muslim hate â this time, in Europe.
According to her blog, Atlas Shrugs, âthe worldâs leading freedom action organizationsâ (read: anti-Muslim hate groups) will rally in Stockholm, Sweden, tomorrow to launch a âworldwide counter jihad alliance.â
The conferenceâs sponsors are a coalition of anti-Muslim organizations including Gellerâs Stop Islamization of America (SIOA); Stop Islamization of Nations (SION), which is also led by Geller; a Denmark-based group called Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) that was the inspiration for Gellerâs efforts; and the English Defence League (EDL), a thuggish anti-Muslim street movement that Geller, who is Jewish, has despite its .
Speakers, according to Gellerâs blog, will include some of Islamophobiaâs most influential and vicious voices. In addition to herself, Geller lists , a colleague and self-taught âexpertâ on Islam who is greatly admired by , the Oslo terrorist who in July 2011 slaughtered 77 people he thought were enabling Muslim immigration into Norway; Steven Lennon and Kev Carrol of the EDL; Anders Gravers of SIOE; and a host of European and Australian Islamophobes whose names are less well-known in America. Noteworthy among them is Richard Abrahamsson (also known as Richard Abrams), a leader in the Swedish Defence League (SDL) who, , has blogged about a plan to âreclaim the Swastika,â writing, âIf you want US to respect OTHER cultures, you must also respect OUR culture and its symbols.â
The Stockholm gathering comes in advance of a Sept. 11 event in New York City that, according to Geller, will be the âfirst session of the International Freedom Defense Congressâ (which, according to Geller, is SIONâs âaction armâ). The meeting falls on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 Al Qaeda attacks.
Demonstrating once again her exceptional talent for redefining words to suit her purposes, Geller on her blog describes the International Freedom Defense Congress â whose sole purpose is to crush a religion practiced in some form by on the planet â is devoted to âforming a common defense of freedom and human rights.â Speakers at its Sept. 11 confab will include SION board member , the anti-communist, anti-gay and anti-Muslim head of the amusingly misnamed Accuracy in Media; Wafa Sultan, who has that âthe Westâ may eventually need to use atomic bombs to âpressureâ Islam to âchangeâ; Babu Suseelan, a Hindu nationalist who believes that Marxists and jihadists are âin collusionâ to âdeconstruct [Hindu] society with apocalyptic ideasâ and who has Indiaâs Hindu population to âunite together and work towards the goal of Establishment of âDivine Hindu Kingdomââ; SIOEâs Anders Gravers; and a host of other anti-Muslim activists from across the globe.