(NY Daily News) A group of Big Apple Republicans are under fire for inviting a notorious Islamophobe to speak at one of their events this month.
The New York Young Republican Club, which bills itself as the oldest GOP youth group in the country, is hosting Pamela Geller on Aug. 15 as part of a summer speaking series in the city — and Muslim advocates aren’t happy about it.
“The New York Young Republican Club should not provide a legitimizing platform to a speaker who promotes a false, vitriolic conception of Islam and American Muslims, some of whom are themselves Republicans,” said Afaf Nasher, the executive director of the Empire State chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
