On June 2 , 2015 , a 26-year-old Muslim man , identified as Usaamah Rahim , was shot and killed by police officers in Boston after he waved a military knife at them and charged at them with it . Reported to have been radicalized by the militant Islamist group ISIS , Rahim was plotting to travel out of the state and assassinate Geller . He wanted to retaliate for her Muhammad art exhibit and contest . He allegedly abandoned the plan and decided to behead police officers instead . Upon learning of the assassination plot , Geller said in an interview with CNN : " They targeted me for violating Sharia blasphemy laws . " She has been widely described as anti-Muslim . Geller is a prominent activist in what has been described as the counter-jihad movement in the United States . She has been described as part of a broader anti-Muslim network or industry . '' Business Insider '' has described Geller as a " promoter of anti-Muslim conspiracy theories . " Snopes has fact-checked a number of Geller 's assertions about Muslims and Islam , and found them to be false . These include false assertions by Geller that Muslims declared 24th of December as Muhammad 's birthday in order to disrupt Christmas celebrations , her pushing a fake video as evidence of crime by Muslim immigrants in Italy , her false claim that Muslim groups kept the money that they raised for the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting , and her baseless assertions that Muslims celebrated the Notre Dame fire of 2019 . In 2017 , she falsely claimed that the Las Vegas shooter was a leftist . In 2018 , she falsely claimed that the Parkland shooter " was immersed in Islamic and leftwing hate . " She frequently characterizes incidents involving Muslims as part of a " jihad " . In 2011 , she warned of " Vehicular Jihad in Arizona " after reports of a man named Ajaz Rahaman crashed into a supermarket ; it was later shown that he had suffered a heart attack . She also claimed " vehicular jihad " when an Egyptian immigrant drove a car onto a curb , hurting pedestrians ; she omitted that the police determined he had fallen asleep at the wheel . She has characterized a mentally ill Bosnian teenage shooter incident in Salt Lake City as jihad , as well as a meth addict 's assaults of Walmart staff and customers . She has speculated that Virginia Tech mass shooter Seung-Hui Cho was a jihadi . In 2011 , she removed posts from her website as part of the settlement of a defamation lawsuit ; she had accused a Columbus , Ohio attorney of ties to Hamas . In 2017 , her website published a video which falsely claimed a Muslim migrant beat up a Dutch boy on crutches . Geller denies she is anti-Muslim , saying " I love Muslims . I help them . " She has said the only " moderate Muslim is a secular Muslim " , and that when Muslims pray , they are cursing Jews and Christians . She has claimed that Muslims practice bestiality . Geller has said that " Islam is the most anti-Semitic , genocidal ideology in the world " . She has said terrorists do n't spring from " perversions of Islam but from the religion itself " . She has been criticized by the Anti-Defamation League , Council on American-Islamic Relations and Southern Poverty Law Center for Islamophobia . Geller has dismissed the SPLC as an " uber left " organization . Political activist Charles Jacobs says that Geller takes aim at " radical Islam " , comes to the defense of victims of honor killings , and deals with Islamist anti-Semitism which the ADL and SPLC fail to address . She was cited , along with others , in Anders Behring Breivik 's manifesto . Geller wrote on her blog that " any assertion " that she or other anti-jihad writers bore any responsibility for Mr. Breivik 's actions was " ridiculous " , and that " If anyone incited him to violence , it was Islamic supremacists "
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