The Stop Islamization of America group was federally classified as a hate group

Evidence

The Stop Islamization of America campaign organized by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer rallied around preventing the building of the Park 51 Islamic center near the World Trade Center site. They have been classified as a hate group that perpetuates Islamophobia in the United States by the Southern Poverty Law Center. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 555

Categorization

• XREF: Park 51 controversy is a landmark of the post-9/11 Islamophobic movement the reader’s map traces; reinforces Geller’s centrality.