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Geller claims Target and Amazon are "norming barbarity" by selling "jihad chic" scarves

September 06, 2010 12:50 pm ET by Media Matters staff

On her Atlas Shrugs blog, Pamela Geller blasted both the online retail site Amazon.com and Target as "norming barbarity" and "pimping for jihad" because both were selling scarves in a black and white print Geller deemed to be associated with Hamas and terrorism. Echoing past right-wing attacks on alleged terrorist scarves, Geller posted the following images and added her commentary:

Below that, she indicted Target:

Tags: Atlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller

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    • Author by worrierking (September 06, 2010 1:02 pm ET)
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      How is it that Geller is so knowledgable about what Nazis would do?

      We should put up signs at the border warning people that Aamerica has become an asylum. Enter at your own risk!
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      • Author by bilbo_dies (September 06, 2010 5:38 pm ET)
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        We should put up signs at the border warning people that Aamerica has become an asylum.


        Well, we have turned most of our mentally ill out into the streets, so I believe there is some truth to that.

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        • Author by The New Pilgrims (September 07, 2010 2:08 pm ET)
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          The surest way to stop the flow of illegal immigrants: Put up these signs at the Mexican border --

          EL SENORES Y SENORITAS EN USA ESTAN MUY LOCO!
          [http://becircle.com/files/crazy_harry.jpg]
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    • Author by soze169880 (September 06, 2010 1:08 pm ET)
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      I live right by a college campus, and you know who the vast majority of people wearing those things are? Gay men. Not really a bunch of crazy fundamentalists' ideal recruitment pool.
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      • Author by BrotherDave (September 07, 2010 9:10 am ET)
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        had to chuckle when I read this one...at the risk of STEREOTYPING, I see these scarves all the time. I work in the West Village, NYC. It really is true, but they look fabulous!
        not that there is anything wrong with that...
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    • Author by grmce (September 06, 2010 1:15 pm ET)
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      What a repellent piece of bigoted detritus she is - foul beyond belief.
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    • Author by Porkeater (September 06, 2010 1:19 pm ET)
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      So... plaid scarves are "barbarity"? Is somebody trying to out-idiot Sarah Palin?
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    • Author by Andy Kreiss (September 06, 2010 1:51 pm ET)
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      Maybe Geller can first explain this photo of her wearing sandals, the preferred footwear of Moozlim turrists.

      [http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:F1Xk_Gu9rL81qM:]

      [http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTeU_c-W49JN4xhlr4lkZU9nZjcnuu1pUz1SK4fqmz7IJLxL9I&t=1&usg=__7GL5C7qEqO6zGsAXRR3xnnsnv4Y=]
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      • Author by marco21 (September 06, 2010 2:04 pm ET)
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        Why does she hate America?
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      • Author by Floyd (September 07, 2010 9:09 am ET)
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        Is she the one with the big bazoombas? Are the two in black men or women?
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        • Author by The New Pilgrims (September 07, 2010 2:10 pm ET)
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          Smarter trolls. Please.
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          • Author by Andy Kreiss (September 07, 2010 7:13 pm ET)
               
            I think Floyd is trying to counteract his accidental outing of himself on the beck/Army of God thread by loudly noticing the "bazoombas".

            If only he'd stopped before adding the sexual confusion of his last line.

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    • Author by bilbo_dies (September 06, 2010 5:25 pm ET)
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      I don't suppose we should point out that Military Chic, as a fashion statement, has been around for a while.

      I also don't suppose we ought to mention that even the U.S. army has been known to use them in desert areas.

      [http://www.stripes.com/polopoly_fs/1.25623.1273612287!/image/3246169.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_490/3246169.jpg]
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      • Author by epkklk851 (September 07, 2010 8:49 am ET)
           
        I was in Macy's yesterday. I saw dresses of forest camo. I saw olive drab green jackets with Hussar style buttons, in jersy! I saw leather jackets with the same style of button, but also saw some with ruffles down the front. I've never much cared for military chic myself.
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      • Author by NG_Officer (September 07, 2010 9:36 am ET)
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        i used them in Afghanistan. I bought them at the bazaar on post. And I brought some home for my daughters. I guess I am a jihadist, too
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    • Author by MsYellowDog (September 06, 2010 5:51 pm ET)
         
      Now suddenly Geller,in addition to all her other obvious talents,is a fashion arbiter as well? This will be news to Vogue Magazine and others,for sure.
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    • Author by MidnightWriter (September 06, 2010 6:06 pm ET)
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      This was laughable enough the first time when Michelle Malkin decided that Rachael Ray was wearing a "terrorist scarf" of her own in a Dunkin Donuts ad.

      For some, it seems, stupid never goes out of style.
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    • Author by j238 (September 07, 2010 8:28 am ET)
         
      Hey Pam, Amazon sells "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion". There's nothing they won't sell.

      And you're po'd over a scarf?
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      • Author by rtejon (September 07, 2010 10:11 am ET)
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        I'll be expanding my Amazon store to include flags from communist and predominantly Muslim nations, among other items. Oh, and I also sell records with the 'parental advisory' notices on them, too. Geller can say what she wants about it. I am an American retailer.
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    • Author by ilikeike (September 07, 2010 9:55 am ET)
         
      this is someone who gets invited on talk shows. any fool could see those types of scarves are fashionable all over the world. and as far as headscarves for women, that is more of a cultural thing. in christian spain women wore head coverings for years
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