Richar Sweir is the director of the Sarasota, Fla. chapter of ACT for America. In 2011, Swier called world history textbooks that discuss Islam “anti-American.”
American Freedom Defense Initiative
The American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) is an Islamophobic hate group led by Pamela Geller. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identifies the organization as an anti-Muslim hate group. At one time, SPLC considered Geller “the anti-Muslim movement’s most visible and flamboyant figurehead.”