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 [Arab Detroit, whose] 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. 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==