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'''Debbie Schlussel''' (born ]) is an attorney, radio talk show host, columnist, ] member, and, since ] ], ].
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'''Debbie Schlussel''' (born April 9, 1969) is an American ], ], ], movie critic, TV host, and ]ger. She writes movie reviews and commentary focusing on ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].
==Early life==


⚫ ==Professional life and views==
Schlussel was born in 1969. Her grandparents were ] survivors, her mother born in a ], and her father a ] veteran, which helped form her views.
Schlussel is a member of the ], who reviews films for both radio and her website.<ref>]., '']'', November 21, 2010.<br>''See also'' Cieply, Michael. , ''The New York Times'' (November 22, 2010).</ref>


'']'' described her in 2010 as, "a kind of all-purpose film critic, political commentator and Web opinion spinner."<ref>Cieply, Michael. , '']'', May 3, 2010.</ref> She was a talk show host at radio station ], then known as WKRK, in ] from 2002 to 2003.<ref>]. , ], November 26, 2002.</ref>
Her activities during her teenage years included winning medals in the ] and representing the ] in the ] in Israel. She got her political start, however, as a ], winning the title of “Outstanding Teen Age Republican in the Nation” in ]. She later became the youngest female and youngest Jewish delegate to the Republican National Convention in ] and worked on many campaigns, including her failed vote for the Michigan House of Representatives, which she lost by one vote (had she won, she would've been the youngest person to win the post).


===Muslims and Islam===
⚫ ==Professional life==
Professor of Media and Public Affairs William Youmans<ref>{{cite web|url=https://smpa.gwu.edu/william-youmans|access-date=October 7, 2019|title=William Youmans &#124; School of Media & Public Affairs (SMPA) &#124; the George Washington University}}</ref> described Schussel as a "leading right-wing observer of AD blogging, articles, and op-eds inform other right-wing activists, who mobilize against government-community relations when they seem too cozy. This group has called for greater scrutiny of Arab and Muslim Americans by government officials, and officials they consider pro-Arab are frequent targets of their protests. Consistently, Schlussel and her allies have described ] as potential terrorists."<ref>{{cite book|first=William|last=Youmans|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NjB0ga7YgWMC&pg=PA272|chapter=Domestic Foreign Policy: Arab Detroit as a Special Place in the War on Terror|title=Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade|editor-first=Abraham|editor-last=Nabeel|publisher=]|location=Detroit, Michigan|date=2011|isbn=978-0814335000<!--|page=272-->|pages=23, 97, 101, 276, 279–81, 336, 371, 373}}</ref> Professor Julianne Hammer described Schussel as an "anti-Muslim pundit".<ref>{{cite book|title=Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts Against Domestic Violence|author=Juliane Hammer|date=2019-09-03|publisher=]|page=46}}</ref>


Schlussel has alleged that American politicians, including the late former ] Senator ] and former ] President ], have connections with radical Islam,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/untraceable-e-mails-spread-obama-rumor|title=Untraceable E-mails Spread Obama Rumor|website=]|date=October 15, 2007}}</ref> In October 2001 she alleged that President ] was connected to the ] (CAIR). CAIR later sued Schlussel of trademark violation when she used their acronym in a web-domain directing readers to ] webpages.<ref>, ], January 6, 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=David|last=Ashenfelter|url=http://www.freep.com/article/20110111/NEWS06/101110382/Blogger-Schlussel-renames-organization-after-CAIR-lawsuit|title=Blogger Schlussel renames organization after CAIR lawsuit|newspaper=]|date=January 11, 2011}}</ref>
Aside from her political campaigning and actions, Schlussel has become best known for her journalistic endeavors, especially her conservative-oriented columns. Her most notable achievement occurred while with the ], where she went undercover into a mosque and reported on her findings, many of which angered the Muslim community as she presented examples of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism. She continues to be published in the ], the ], and the Detroit Free Press.


In 2007, she stated that ] are intolerant of Christians,<ref>, ], ], January 31, 2007.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.debbieschlussel.com/2977/when-atheists-aka-future-muslims-attack|title=When Atheists a/k/a Future Muslims Attack|last=Schlussel|first=Debbie|date=February 7, 2007|website=debbieschlussel.com|access-date=October 26, 2015}}</ref> and that American Muslims are no more moderate than those in the Middle East; that blog post of hers was read aloud on '']''.<ref>Schlussel, Debbie. , debbieschlussel.com, May 23, 2007.</ref><ref>Grewal, Zareena. '', p. 357 (NYU Press 2013).<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed --></ref>
Her journalistic endeavors also made waves with columns she wrote about ] and his ties to ], the "radical Islamic ownership" of ], and the awarding of an American citizen with ties to the ], causing then-] Director ] to revoke the award.


After the killing of ], Schlussel wrote on her blog, "1 down, 1.8 billion to go", referring to the world's total Muslim population.<ref name=Norton>]. '''', pg. 69 (Princeton University Press 2013)<!-- ISSN or ISBN needed, if any -->.</ref><ref name="genocide">{{cite news|url=http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2011/05/osama_bin_laden_dead_debbie_sc.php|title=Osama bin Laden Dead: Debbie Schlussel Calls for Killing 1.8 Billion Muslims; Let the Crackpot Raving Begin!|first=Stephen|last=Lemons|date=May 1, 2011|newspaper=]|access-date=May 23, 2011|archive-date=June 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607225425/http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2011/05/osama_bin_laden_dead_debbie_sc.php|url-status=dead}}</ref>
She also hosted a radio program, "The Debbie Schlussel Show" in ] and ]. She became a regular guest on other radio programs as well, ranging from ] to ].


In 2011, she was listed by the ] (SPLC) as one of 10 people in the United States' "Anti-Muslim Inner Circle".<ref>Steinback, Robert. , ]; accessed May 26, 2017.</ref><ref>]. '''', p. 73 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).<!-- ISSN or ISBN needed, if any --></ref> She has been identified as part of the ] movement.<ref>{{cite book|title='Green Crescent, Crimson Cross': The Transatlantic 'Counterjihad' and the New Political Theology|url=https://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3780/1/Pertwee__green-crescent-crimson-cross.pdf|page=267|last=Pertwee|first=Ed|date=October 2017|publisher=London School of Economics}}</ref>
==Controversy==


===Controversies related to comments on the Holocaust===
Schlussel receives criticism because of her tendency to routinely target Muslims for most of her political rants, many of which were viewed as anti-Muslim. She also tends to label people who support Palestine, or others who disagree with Israel, "terrorists", though she has never actually done so to a person who advocates peaceful support or disagreement (for example, Arab-American comedian/columnist ]). ], who frequently has her as a guest on his radio show, has jokingly called her column "Six Degrees of Separation to Al-Qaida". In the most extreme example, on her new blog, she equates being a fan of either ] or ] with supporting terrorism; using the loose association that a majority of Americans do not support either, whereas both are quite popular in many Islamic nations.
On May 30, 2012, Schlussel wrote a blog post<ref name=blog>{{cite web|url=http://www.debbieschlussel.com/50114/poles-were-complicit-in-holocaust-outrage-over-obama-gaffe-is-fraudulent-ignorant/ |title=Poles Were Complicit in Holocaust: Outrage Over Obama "Gaffe" is Fraudulent, Ignorant |author=Schlussel, Debbie | publisher=Debbieschlussel.com |date=May 30, 2012 |access-date=April 23, 2013}}</ref> commenting about a speech by President ], in which he mistakenly used the phrase "]" referring to the ].<ref>, AFP (May 30, 2012).</ref><ref name=apology>, ], June 1, 2012.</ref> She said Obama owed no apology for his remark, and she criticized


<blockquote>the feigned shock and fake moralizing over his comments, yesterday, about German ] death camps in Poland being a Polish death camp ... Poles murdered millions of Jews, they maintained several death camps, and they wiped out almost all of both sides of my family, as well as those in hundreds of thousands of other Jewish families. This wasn't just the Nazis. It was tens of thousands of eager Poles and more.<ref name=blog/></blockquote>
She occasionally targets feminists, as well, causing Ms. magazine to regard her as "Public Enemy #1". She particularly likes to criticize women's pro sports, especially the ]; at one point her own cousin (a very young writer for a newspaper in ]) wrote an editorial in disagreement with her on this subject.


In addition to discussing Polish ] with the Nazis, she said that a "majority were all too happy for the ]". She discounted the ] by stating that only a "very tiny few" ].<ref name=blog/> Her commentary provoked protest in Poland.<ref name="Protests in Poland and among Polonia in the U.S.">{{cite news|title=A collective letter – also in English – addressed to the extremely unprofessional American journalist Debbie Schlussel, including an email|access-date=July 7, 2012|url=http://wpolityce.pl/wydarzenia/30020-list-takze-po-angielsku-do-skrajnie-niekompetentnej-amerykanskiej-dziennikarki-debbie-schlussel-wraz-z-adresem-mailowym|language=pl}}</ref> The chairman of the ]'s Foreign Affairs Commission, ], called her commentary a pack of lies.<ref name="Schetyna">{{cite interview|last=Schetyna|first=Grzegorz|subject-link=Grzegorz Schetyna|interviewer=]|title=Gość Radia Zet|work=]|location=Warsaw|date=July 6, 2012|access-date=July 9, 2012|url=http://www.radiozet.pl/Programy/Gosc-Radia-ZET/Blog/Grzegorz-Schetyna4|language=pl|archive-date=July 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715033126/http://www.radiozet.pl/Programy/Gosc-Radia-ZET/Blog/Grzegorz-Schetyna4|url-status=dead}}</ref>
She has been compared to ], another Conservative columnist, but has yet to achieve the same degree of mainstream exposure. However, her Yahoo fan club site is more popular than Coulter's. Interestingly enough, on July 20, 2005 the two columnists in a rare disagreement gave opposing views in their columns on Bush's nomination of ] for the Supreme Court.


In its daily news release, the ]-affiliated ] dubbed Schlussel's commentary as defamatory.<ref name="IPN">{{cite web|author=IPN|author-link=Institute of National Remembrance|title=Przegląd mediów – 6 czerwca 2012|trans-title=Media review, June 6, 2012|publisher=Institute of National Remembrance|year=2012|work=ipn.gov.pl|url=http://ipn.gov.pl/wydzial-prasowy/media-o-ipn/przeglad-mediow-6-czerwca-2012|access-date=July 9, 2012|language=pl|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302015315/http://ipn.gov.pl/wydzial-prasowy/media-o-ipn/przeglad-mediow-6-czerwca-2012|archive-date=March 2, 2014}}</ref>
Recently, Schlussel achived some notoriety because of an editorial in the ] accusing ] of the documentary series ] and film ] of unbalanced practices in achieving the results for the television show, mirroring many criticisms that people have of his movie. Spurlock has not responded.


==References==
Schlussel has also attacked the phenomena that she refers to as the ''Holocaust Industry''. Like ] she criticises attorneys and others who did not suffer under the holocaust yet financially gain from it, while many holocaust survivors live in poverty.
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* - 'Debbie Schlussel of Southfield amps up the conservative volume.'
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American writer

Debbie Schlussel
Born (1969-04-09) April 9, 1969 (age 55)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Occupation(s)Attorney, blogger, pundit, writer
Websitehttps://www.debbieschlussel.com/

Debbie Schlussel (born April 9, 1969) is an American attorney, author, political commentator, movie critic, TV host, and blogger. She writes movie reviews and commentary focusing on pop culture, politics, Islamic terrorism, American Muslims, illegal immigration, news, and sports.

Professional life and views

Schlussel is a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, who reviews films for both radio and her website.

The New York Times described her in 2010 as, "a kind of all-purpose film critic, political commentator and Web opinion spinner." She was a talk show host at radio station WXYT-FM, then known as WKRK, in Detroit from 2002 to 2003.

Muslims and Islam

Professor of Media and Public Affairs William Youmans described Schussel as a "leading right-wing observer of AD blogging, articles, and op-eds inform other right-wing activists, who mobilize against government-community relations when they seem too cozy. This group has called for greater scrutiny of Arab and Muslim Americans by government officials, and officials they consider pro-Arab are frequent targets of their protests. Consistently, Schlussel and her allies have described Detroit's Arab Americans as potential terrorists." Professor Julianne Hammer described Schussel as an "anti-Muslim pundit".

Schlussel has alleged that American politicians, including the late former Republican Senator Fred Thompson and former Democratic President Barack Obama, have connections with radical Islam, In October 2001 she alleged that President George W. Bush was connected to the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR later sued Schlussel of trademark violation when she used their acronym in a web-domain directing readers to Islamophobic webpages.

In 2007, she stated that atheists are intolerant of Christians, and that American Muslims are no more moderate than those in the Middle East; that blog post of hers was read aloud on The Rush Limbaugh Show.

After the killing of Osama bin Laden, Schlussel wrote on her blog, "1 down, 1.8 billion to go", referring to the world's total Muslim population.

In 2011, she was listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as one of 10 people in the United States' "Anti-Muslim Inner Circle". She has been identified as part of the counter-jihad movement.

Controversies related to comments on the Holocaust

On May 30, 2012, Schlussel wrote a blog post commenting about a speech by President Barack Obama, in which he mistakenly used the phrase "Polish death camps" referring to the German death camps in occupied Poland. She said Obama owed no apology for his remark, and she criticized

the feigned shock and fake moralizing over his comments, yesterday, about German Nazi death camps in Poland being a Polish death camp ... Poles murdered millions of Jews, they maintained several death camps, and they wiped out almost all of both sides of my family, as well as those in hundreds of thousands of other Jewish families. This wasn't just the Nazis. It was tens of thousands of eager Poles and more.

In addition to discussing Polish collaboration with the Nazis, she said that a "majority were all too happy for the Judenrein". She discounted the Polish Righteous Among the Nations by stating that only a "very tiny few" gentile Poles aided the Jews. Her commentary provoked protest in Poland. The chairman of the Polish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission, Grzegorz Schetyna, called her commentary a pack of lies.

In its daily news release, the Polish government-affiliated Institute of National Remembrance dubbed Schlussel's commentary as defamatory.

References

  1. Cieply, Michael."A Movie Critic Loses Her Screening Privileges (But Gets ‘Em Back)", The New York Times, November 21, 2010.
    See also Cieply, Michael. "Studio Returns a Critic's Movie Pass", The New York Times (November 22, 2010).
  2. Cieply, Michael. "Much Movie Title Meshugas", The New York Times, May 3, 2010.
  3. Neville, Arthel. "Saudi Arabia Friend or Foe?; Who Should Get Sniper Reward Money?", CNN, November 26, 2002.
  4. "William Youmans | School of Media & Public Affairs (SMPA) | the George Washington University". Retrieved October 7, 2019.
  5. Youmans, William (2011). "Domestic Foreign Policy: Arab Detroit as a Special Place in the War on Terror". In Nabeel, Abraham (ed.). Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press. pp. 23, 97, 101, 276, 279–81, 336, 371, 373. ISBN 978-0814335000.
  6. Juliane Hammer (September 3, 2019). Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts Against Domestic Violence. Princeton University Press. p. 46.
  7. "Untraceable E-mails Spread Obama Rumor". CBS News. October 15, 2007.
  8. Muslim civil rights group sues critic Debbie Schlussel for fake CAIR Michigan website, Associated Press, January 6, 2011.
  9. Ashenfelter, David (January 11, 2011). "Blogger Schlussel renames organization after CAIR lawsuit". Detroit Free Press.
  10. "Senator Joe Biden Under Fire Over Controversial Remarks; Has NFL Moved Beyond Racist Past?", Paula Zahn Now, CNN, January 31, 2007.
  11. Schlussel, Debbie (February 7, 2007). "When Atheists a/k/a Future Muslims Attack". debbieschlussel.com. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
  12. Schlussel, Debbie. "Meet Your 'Moderate', 'American' Muslim Neighbors: New Study Shows U.S. Muslims Are Extremists", debbieschlussel.com, May 23, 2007.
  13. Grewal, Zareena. Islam Is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority, p. 357 (NYU Press 2013).
  14. Norton, Anne. On the Muslim Question, pg. 69 (Princeton University Press 2013).
  15. Lemons, Stephen (May 1, 2011). "Osama bin Laden Dead: Debbie Schlussel Calls for Killing 1.8 Billion Muslims; Let the Crackpot Raving Begin!". Phoenix New Times. Archived from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
  16. Steinback, Robert. The Anti-Muslim Inner Circle, Intelligence Report, Summer 2011, Issue Number: 142, Southern Poverty Law Center; accessed May 26, 2017.
  17. Ernst, Carl. Islamophobia in America: The Anatomy of Intolerance, p. 73 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
  18. Pertwee, Ed (October 2017). 'Green Crescent, Crimson Cross': The Transatlantic 'Counterjihad' and the New Political Theology (PDF). London School of Economics. p. 267.
  19. ^ Schlussel, Debbie (May 30, 2012). "Poles Were Complicit in Holocaust: Outrage Over Obama "Gaffe" is Fraudulent, Ignorant". Debbieschlussel.com. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
  20. "White House shrugs off Polish apology demands", AFP (May 30, 2012).
  21. "Poland welcomes Obama letter on 'death camp' error", Reuters, June 1, 2012.
  22. "A collective letter – also in English – addressed to the extremely unprofessional American journalist Debbie Schlussel, including an email" (in Polish). Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  23. Schetyna, Grzegorz (July 6, 2012). "Gość Radia Zet". Radio Zet (Interview) (in Polish). Interviewed by Monika Olejnik. Warsaw. Archived from the original on July 15, 2012. Retrieved July 9, 2012.
  24. IPN (2012). "Przegląd mediów – 6 czerwca 2012" [Media review, June 6, 2012]. ipn.gov.pl (in Polish). Institute of National Remembrance. Archived from the original on March 2, 2014. Retrieved July 9, 2012.

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