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by Sheila Musaji

Some time ago I published an article Robert Spencer and the Disappearing Articles. However, that seems to be only the tip of the iceberg. It appears that Spencer and his partner Pamela Geller are now using this tactic regularly to attempt to remove evidence of what they have actually said and/or published. Since they like to refer to themselves in all sorts of patriotic and glowing terms including “truth-teller” and to refer to Muslims as purveyors of “taqiyyah” (liars), this tactic does seem to call those designations into question.

Here are the cases that I know about at this time. Please let me know if I am missing any examples.

In 2008, Alex Koppelman on Salon reported that Geller fell for a fake story about a Michelle Obama interview, and posted and then removed the post from her site. He reported: At Atlas Shrugs, in a post she has since taken down, Pamela Geller wrote: First thug Michelle Obama is giving us a preview of the tactics the Hussein Obamas will use to block the truth, silence critics and destroy free speech. We ain’t gonna shut up Michelle. She is clearly worried about what we on the blogs are publishing … She calls everyone who is not a zombie for Obama a racist when in fact her husband is thisclose [sic] to the White House because we are not a racist nation. SHE IS A RACIST … She’s the psychic twin of the ugly, racist, America hating, Jew hating, Reverend Jeremiah Wright. (Her emphasis.)

Media Monitors reported that in July, 2010, she also “ran with a fake Obama quote from fabricated Columbia thesis. After an August 25 post on the blog Jumping in Pools claimed that Obama attacked the Constitution and Founders in his Columbia thesis, right-wing media ran with the “report,” despite the fact that it was tagged as “satire.” In an October 23 post, Geller wrote, “Excerpts from Obama’s Columbia Thesis reveals America’s worst nightmare is in the Oval Office.” She added that the writings revealed “an America hater.”

On December 21, 2010, Robert Spencer posted an article on Jihad Watch entitled London: Flight returns to terminal after Muslim starts praying in aisle, won’t take his seat. The article opens with the claim that “This seems to be a fairly clear provocation—maybe the praying man is hoping to provoke a “discrimination” case that will establish that praying Muslims may have the run of the airplane.” The problem with this story is that Spencer, as is often the case, has all of his facts wrong, and that the conclusions he draws from those “facts” are purely paranoid fantasies. It seems that the actual story (from numerous news articles from around the world) was that a Christian man who wore dreadlocks, was dark skinned and was from a Caribbean Island left his seat and knelt in the isle and began reciting the Lord’s Prayer out loud in English as the Air Malta plane began to take off from Heathrow airport headed to Malta. The man was asked to return to his seat, refused, and this concerned passengers and crew, particularly because the man had an orange plastic shopping bag in his hands. The plane returned to the terminal and the man was arrested. The article has subsequently disappeared from Spencer’s site with no explanation, however, it can still be seen on a web cache.

In our lengthy article collection on Robert Spencer we have noted: “The existence of website url’s “f**kallah.com” & “f**kislam.com” which redirected people to Spencer’s Jihad Watch site and which Loonwatch first brought to the attention of the Muslim community. After Loonwatch noted these sites, the redirection to Jihad Watch suddenly stopped and Spencer denied having any involvement in the two sites. The two sites still exist but now take visitors to another site with photographs of the 9/11 tragedy.”

In October of 2010 Geller posted an article titled Hate Crime which included an email from a reader who had supposedly been harrassed by Muslims in her neighborhood and was unable to get law enforcement or elected officials to do anything about it. When the article was originally posted it included this The hypocrisy loooms [sic] large. Here’s a letter I thought I should share with you. I expect the gutless congressman who witnessed his Muslim constituents dancing on 9/11/01 will do nothing but hide beneath his desk. If this continues — auxiliary law enforcement will be necessary. Subsequently the original email from the “victim” was removed as was Geller’s lead in to the article, and replaced with an almost incoherent rant. Geller, rather than explain that she had been taken in by an email from a seemingly unstable person, instead pulled the email, and substituted a rant that still managed to make it seem as if the information contained in tht original email was accurate.

Richard Bartholomew did an excellent debunking article on the fake “Hamas Child Bride” story promoted by Spencer and others. Bartholomew notes: The many websites that picked this up have responded in various ways: some issuing corrections, some quickly deleting their postings, and some insisting that it’s all true and that Marshall is trying to cover up the fact: “Why”, demands one site “would Tim Marshall defend the Gaza pedophiles?” One of the sites that decided to scrub was Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch, which is worth noting as Spencer claims some sort of academic expertise on Islam. Of course, we know that child weddings do occcur in the Islamic world, but the idea of a mass child wedding becoming the focus for popular public celebration in such an urbanized environment as Gaza should have evoked some scepticism. Even WorldNetDaily has – grudgingly -debunked the tale.

Charles Johnson notes (and has preserved screen captures to prove) that Geller published an “Email from Norway” in 2007. The original email contained the line We are stockpiling and caching weapons, ammunition, and equipment. This is going to happen fast. Johnson has one screen capture from June 30, 2011, and the line was still there, but the current article online on Geller’s site no longer contains that line.

In July of 2011, Pamela Geller published a post titled Vehicular Jihad in Arizona which is Geller’s take on a simple story about a terrible car accident in Arizona in which the driver of a vehicle crashed into 3 parked vehicles in a parking lot and was killed. The man was a physician named Ajaz Rahaman, and this just happened. The man’s name was released on the same day as Geller’s article, and so far that is all anyone knows. There have been no autopsy findings released, police investigations are still not completed – no one knows what happened. The name of this man sounds as if he might be a Muslim. However the name Walid Shoebat might also be identified as a Muslim name. That’s all the proof Geller needed to call this “vehicular jihad”. I published an article giving the facts titled Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer Discover Muslim Vehicular Jihad Plot and within a day Geller pulled the original article from her site but that the article still exists on google cache here

It would be possible to have at give these two Islamophobes the benefit of the doubt, and believe that they at least genuinely believe the nonsense they spew about Islam and Muslims if they printed a retraction, or apologized when they made an error. When instead they engage in this sort of devious behavior, it becomes obvious that their motivation is more likely fleeting fame or financial gain. It also seems logical that if an individual attempts to hide evidence that something ever happened, that must mean that they have a guilty conscience about what they are hiding.

Geller and Spencer might consider the halakhic prohibition on Motzi shem ra, and the Christian prohibition on slander.