This weekend, the tenth annual Values Voter Summit (VVS) will take place at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. The event, put on by a number of anti-LGBT hate groups features anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT activists prominently this year.
ACT! for America founder Brigitte Gabriel has worked hard through the years to give her organization the veneer of respectability, despite extremist rhetoric profiling Muslims as indoctrinated, radical militants. And every year, those alliances are on proud display during ACT!’s national conference in Washington, D.C.
On September 8 and 9 ACT! for America, the largest grassroots anti-Muslim organization in the country, will host its national conference in Washington, DC. The conference, part of which takes place at the Capitol building, brings together a number of extremists as well as elected officials all there to bash Muslims under the guise of national security.
When two apparent Muslim radicals attacked a Muhammad cartoon contest in a Dallas suburb this May, a national spotlight was focused on the group that hosted the provocative event — the American Freedom Defense Initiative, whose leader is Pamela Geller, the country’s most flamboyant and visible Muslim-basher.
