Manhattan blogger Pamela Geller and her posse of anti-Islamic protesters have been branded a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Stop the Islamization of America was included in the civil rights organization’s annual roundup of extremist groups – a rogue’s gallery that includes everything from the Ku Klux Klan to white supremacists and Nazis.

Geller’s group was one of the most vocal opponents of the proposed Islamic Center near Ground Zero.The group was also behind ads that were placed on city buses urging Muslims to leave “the falsity of Islam.”

New York Daily News, 25 February 2011

Update:  See “Pam Geller on ‘hate group’ label: ‘A badge of honor'”, TPM, 1 March 2011