Pam Geller Duels Juan Williams Over Muhammad Cartoon D.C. Bus Ads

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Anti-Islam activist joined Fox News’ “Hannity” on Tuesday to take on contributor Juan Williams and defend the ads featuring a Muhammad cartoon that she plans to run on buses in Washington, D.C.

Geller announced Tuesday that she plans on displaying ads featuring the winning cartoon from her controversial “Draw Muhammad” contest on buses and in D.C. metro train stations.

Williams, who battled Geller over her initial event a few weeks ago, said that her bus ads are unnecessarily provocative.

“I think Ms. Geller is doing it intentionally to provoke a controversy,” Williams said. “I think that’s what happened down in Texas.”

“It is fierce bullies like Juan Williams who want to impose the Sharia,” Geller responded. “This is the Sharia, Juan.”

Geller then mentioned a comment Williams made in 2010 about how he gets “nervous” when he sees “people who are in Muslim garb” on airplanes. Geller said she found that remark “offensive.”

“This has nothing to do with that,” Williams responded. “What I see you doing, I think, is trying to provoke, unnecessarily, controversy, and at times offending and demeaning Muslims who regard your actions as not only provocative but offensive.”

Geller said that Williams comments were more offensive than her planned bus ads.

“Muslims that support free speech will not be offended. Muslims that want to impose the Sharia will be offended. And frankly, your offensive remarks are far more humiliating to Muslims than my running ads about a cartoon that the media refuses to run,” she said. “I did not make the cartoons a flashpoint. The jihadis made the cartoons a flashpoint.”

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  1. Avatar for kitty kitty says:

    Evil, wicked, mean and nasty.

  2. Around Mayberry, they say, the Fox News viewers’ stoopid grew three sizes that day.
    For the umpteenth time: the First Amendment does not guarantee your access to a microphone or inoculate you from criticism.

  3. There is something I find distasteful about her media-perfect hair. Not the hair per se, but her hair on her. But I guess this is how she is making her living now so she’s gotta look presentable.

  4. Busses and train stations??? She’s inviting mass murder; these ads won’t be allowed.

  5. Yeah.
    I’d definitely ride on a bus with THAT cartoon on the side in Washington, D.C.

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