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Geller: Obama's Pearl comments were "spoken like an" "antisemitic Muslim terrorist"

May 19, 2010 7:13 am ET by Media Matters staff

From Pamela Geller's May 18 post on Atlas Shrugs:

The Daniel Pearl beheading "captured the world's imagination" -- spoken like an ..........antisemitic Muslim terrorist. Pearl was beheaded (GRAPHIC VIDEO) because of Islamic anti-semitism and violent jihadi doctrine. Freedom of the press had nothing to do with it. And this coming from a plant who is attempting to restrict these freedoms ..............press and speech.

This is terrible. Obama is a sick man.

Previously:

"Sick": Hoft falsely suggests Obama celebrated Daniel Pearl's murder

Tags: Pamela Geller

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    • Author by MiniTru (May 19, 2010 8:15 am ET)
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      And Geller's Obama Pearl comments were written like an anti-civilization Nazi bigot.
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    • Author by bintx (May 19, 2010 8:58 am ET)
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      Geller is anti-Semitic. Every time she goes off on one of her anti-Muslim, anti-Arabic rants, she is exhibiting anti-Semiticism. Arabic speaking people are just as Semitic as Hebrew speaking people. They are ALL Semitic people.

      She's the REALLY sick woman.
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      • Author by Old55 (May 19, 2010 9:10 am ET)
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        Right. That fact is lost on most people on the right -- that the Arabs are Semetic as much as the Jews. Modern usage of the term has come to mean anti-Jewish.
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      • Author by shaggles (May 19, 2010 11:13 am ET)
           
        Interesting. I didn't know that.
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        • Author by bintx (May 19, 2010 11:19 am ET)
             
          Yep.

          Semitic (less commonly), Shemitic
          1. a branch or subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages that includes Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Amharic, and such ancient languages as Akkadian and Phoenician
          2. denoting, belonging to, or characteristic of any of the peoples speaking a Semitic language, esp the Jews or the Arabs
          3. another word for Jewish
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        • Author by political_left-religious_right (May 19, 2010 11:50 am ET)
             
          The term "semite" means a descendant of Shem, one of the three sons of Noah. The Arabs are said to be the descendants of Ismail, the eldest son of Abraham, while the Jews are descended through Abraham's son Isaac.
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          • Author by bintx (May 19, 2010 12:07 pm ET)
               
            It has to do with the language. Arabic speaking people are considered Semites.
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    • Author by Moderate Man (May 19, 2010 10:35 am ET)
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      What does Pearl's family think of it? Weren't they there? They didn't seem offended...
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      The Midnight Review
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    • Author by paul8616 (May 19, 2010 7:28 pm ET)
         
      This is how they do it. They say something stupid so you spend your time arguing about stupid stuff with stupid people. Then when you finally prove that they're stupid, they act like martyrs.

      Basically, Geller is very very stupid. That's all there is to it. She is stupid, and MMfA covers her because she's a thought leader in the conservative movement. MMfA covers stupid people who say conservative things. And that's why they cover Geller.

      Who cares what 'Semite' really means? We know what *she* means, and she means it because *she is stupid.*
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