question: What American political activist and commentator was almost beheaded by Boston-area resident Usaama Rahim?
answer: Pamela Geller
context: Title: Margaret Gardiner (artist)
  Passage: Margaret Emilia Gardiner OBE (22 April 1904 – 2 January 2005) was a radical modern British patron of artists and resident of Hampstead, London, from 1932, where she was also a left wing political activist.  She was also for a time the partner of Professor John Desmond Bernal, the eminent scientist and political activist.  She was known as "Mrs Bernal" for most of her life, but they were never married.  In the 1980 Birthday Honours she was awarded an OBE for services to the Pier Arts Centre Trust, Stromness.  She was referred to as Margaret Emilia Gardiner Bernal on the list.
  Title: CJ Pearson
  Passage: Coreco “CJ" Pearson (born July 31, 2002) is an American political activist and commentator, and freelance journalist.  He has made appearances on television and on YouTube, with his publications seen in a variety of online news sources.
  Title: Williamson Evers
  Passage: Williamson M. "Bill" Evers (born October 18, 1948) is an American political activist and education researcher.  In 1988, he became a resident scholar at Stanford University's Hoover Institution—first as a national fellow, then a visiting scholar, and most recently a research fellow there and at The Independent Institute.  He went on leave from Hoover to serve as Assistant Secretary for the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development in the United States Department of Education during 2007-2009.  In November 2016, he was selected to lead President Elect Trump's transition team for the Department of Education.
  Title: New Alliance Party
  Passage: The New Alliance Party (NAP) was an American political party formed in New York City in 1979.  Its immediate precursor was an umbrella organization known as the Labor Community Alliance for Change, whose member groups included the coalition of Grass Roots Women and the New York City Unemployed and Welfare Council.  All of these groups were associated with controversial psychologist and political activist Fred Newman, whose radical health care collective Centers for Change and Marxist International Workers Party were active in grassroots politics in New York City.  The NAP's first chairperson was then-South Bronx City Councilman Gilberto Gerena-Valentin, a veteran Puerto Rican political activist.  .  The party is notable for getting African American psychologist Lenora Fulani on the ballot in all 50 states during her first Presidential campaign in 1988, making her both the first African-American and woman to do so.
  Title: Agha Javed Pathan
  Passage: Agha Javed Pathan (Urdu: ) is a political activist from Sindh, Pakistan, who practices as a doctor in Karachi.  He was accused of shoe throwing on Arbab Ghulam Rahim (former Chief Minister of Sindh Province) in April 2008.  He was accused of hitting Arbab on his first visit to Sindh Assembly after General elections of 2008 to attend the session and taking oath as a member of provincial assembly.  Agha Javed was arrested from his home but was released by the court due to lack of evidence.
  Title: Pamela Geller
  Passage: Pamela Geller (born June 14, 1958) is an American political activist and commentator.  She is known for her anti-Islamic writings, opposition to the proposed construction of an Islamic community center near the former site of the World Trade Center, and sponsorship of the "Draw the Prophet" cartoon contest in Garland, Texas.  She says her blogging and campaigns in the United States are against what she terms "creeping Sharia" in the country.  Multiple groups have described Geller as Islamophobic.
  Title: Helga Zepp-LaRouche
  Passage: Helga Zepp-LaRouche (born August 25, 1948, Trier) is a German political activist, wife of American political activist Lyndon LaRouche, and founder of the LaRouche movement's Schiller Institute and the German "Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität" party ("BüSo") (Civil Rights Movement Solidarity).
  Title: Cenk Uygur
  Passage: Cenk Kadir Uygur ( ; ] ; born March 21, 1970) is a Turkish-American progressive political activist, businessman, columnist, and political commentator.  Uygur is the main host and co-founder of "The Young Turks" ("TYT"), an American liberal political and social commentary program.  Before beginning his career as a political commentator, he worked briefly as an associate attorney in Washington, D.C. and New York City.  As a young man, Uygur supported socially conservative views, criticizing abortion, affirmative action, and feminism.  He currently identifies as a progressive.
  Title: 2015 Boston beheading plot
  Passage: An attack was plotted by Boston-area resident Usaama Rahim.  Rahim initially planned to behead Pamela Geller but when that proved too difficult, he told his nephew David Wright on June 2, 2015, that he had decided to behead a police officer instead.  However, Rahim was under 24-hour police surveillance, and the police moved that day to arrest Rahim.  During the attempted arrest, the police shot and killed Rahim.  Wright was arrested and initially charged with attempting to destroy evidence.  Later, a third man, Nicholas Rovinski, was arrested, and both Wright and Rovinski were charged with conspiracy to support the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
  Title: Abdul Rahim Dard
  Passage: Abdur Rahim Dard, known as A. R. Dard (June 19, 1894–December 7, 1955) was an Ahmadi Muslim writer, missionary, and political activist for the Pakistan Movement, who served as the Imam of the historic Fazl Mosque, the premier gathering place for Indian Muslims regardless of denomination in London.  He is known for convincing Muhammad Ali Jinnah to return to British India and fight for the Pakistan Movement.
citations: 2015 Boston beheading plot Pamela Geller