Alex Kane: When Right Wing Crazy Backfires!!

Anti-Muslim blogger and activist Pamela Geller must have thought she would spread her hateful, right wing Zionist message to more people by placing inflammatory advertisements in New York City subway stations. Instead, Geller has had to deal with a ton of backlash against the advertisements, which read: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad." The ads demeaning Muslims and Palestinians were placed in 10 subway stations in New York this week, following their placement in San Francisco last month. They were first rejected by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but after Geller filed a lawsuit, a judge ordered the MTA to allow them to go up. The American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), an organization run by Geller and her Islamophobic partner in crime Robert Spencer, paid more than $6,000 to New York's transit agency to run the billboards. AFDI has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Geller is the nation's leading anti-Muslim activist, regularly publishing vitriol against Islam on her blog, and promoting attempts to stop the construction of mosques. She made a name for herself when she led the charge against the construction of an Islamic center in lower Manhattan in 2010, falsely labeling it a "mega mosque" on the premises of Ground Zero. The ads are the latest attempt by Geller to make a name for herself and spread her hateful message that attempts to marginalize Muslim Americans, but it appears they have backfired hard! Almost as soon as the ads went up, they were defaced and corrected. Big stickers with the words "Racist" and "Hate Speech" were plastered over at least seven of Geller's ads, much to her dismay.