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Pamela Geller to Address Great Neck Synagogue

Outspoken blogger, author and commentator coming to the peninsula next month.

Pamela Geller, executive director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative and Stop Islamization of America, has been invited to speak by the Great Neck Synagogue Men’s Club.

Geller, a blogger, author, political activist and commentator, is the founder and publisher of Atlas Shrugs.

Geller's books include: "Freedom or Submission: On the Dangers of Islamic Extremism & American Complacency," "Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance" and "The Post-AmericanPresidency: The Obama Administration's War on America with Robert Spencer.

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The organizer and keynote speaker at the rally against the proposed "Ground Zero Mosque" on September 11, 2011, Gellar is a regular columnist for World Net Daily, Andrew Breitbart's Big Government and Big Journalism, the American Thinker, and other publications.

At the April 14 Great Neck event, Geller will be introduced by Greg Buckley, whose son, Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley, Jr., was one of three U.S. Marines killed in a “Green on Blue” insider attack on a military base in the Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Aug 10. Buckley Sr. is calling for swift justice for the murderers of his son and demanding prosecution on American soil as terrorists.

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The Marine Corps presented Geller with the flag flown on September 11, 2011, over Camp Leatherneck, "amid the battlefields of Afghanistan during decisive operations against enemy forces in Helmand Province."

In 2010, Geller received the Annie Taylor Award for Courage from the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Born to Jewish parents, Geller is originally from Hewlett Harbor, Long Island.


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