The Southern Poverty Law Center, which also lists Geller’s organization—the American Freedom Defense Initiative—as a hate group, once noted that Pamela Geller has “seized the role of the anti-Muslim movement’s most visible and influential figurehead. Her strengths are panache and vivid rhetorical flourishes—not to mention stunts like posing for an anti-Muslim video in a bikini.” The SPLC further determined that Geller is prone to publicizing other racialized conspiracy theories, including once absurdly claiming that President Barack Obama was the “love child of Malcolm X.”

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 625