Back أوقفوا أسلمة أمريكا Arabic وقفوا اسلمة امريكا ARZ Stop Islamization of America French Stop Islamization of America ID Stop Islamization of America Italian Stop Islamization of America Portuguese Stop Islamization of America Swedish
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| Abbreviation | SIOA |
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| Formation | 2010 |
| 27-2518993 | |
President | Pamela Geller |
Co-founder | Robert Spencer |
| Website | freedomdefense |
Formerly called | American Freedom Defense Initiative |
Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), also known as the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI),[1] is an anti-Muslim,[2][3][4][5][6] pro-Israel[7][8][9] American counter-jihad[10] organization known primarily for its controversial, Islamophobic advertising campaigns.[11] The group has been described as extremist and far-right.[12] The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) lists SIOA as an anti-Muslim hate group.[8][9][13]
SIOA was founded in 2010 by its current leaders, Pamela Geller and author Robert Spencer, at the request of Anders Gravers Pedersen, the leader of Stop Islamisation of Europe, of which it is the American affiliate.[1] It has launched ad campaigns in urban public transit systems, including one in New York City opposing Park51, a Muslim community center that had been proposed for Lower Manhattan near the World Trade Center site in 2010.[14] In 2016, they have run public transit advertisements in San Francisco calling for the end of United States security assistance to the Palestinian National Authority.
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...the other leading sources of anti-Muslim racism are... Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's Stop Islamization of America...
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In the Bay Area, more than 125 religious leaders of various faiths signed a statement in July denouncing the ads as "Islamophobic"
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Geller heads a small but vocal extreme right-wing group, called Stop Islamization of America. cf. note 4 (p.374) SIOA is associated with Stop Islamization of Europe, an organization with branches in nearly a dozen countries (mostly in Western Europe), founded by an eponymous Danish group that opposes immigration of Muslims to Europe.
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