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		<title>Southern Poverty Law Center Named Propagandist for Jihad Terrorists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Perazzo]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/as000016517-300.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234411" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/as000016517-300.gif" alt="as000016517-300" width="288" height="191" /></a>The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a self-described “civil-rights organization” <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/who-we-are"><span style="color: #011480;">committed</span></a> to “fighting hate and bigotry,” <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/anti-muslim"><span style="color: #011480;">says</span></a> that ever since <span style="color: #272727;">9/11 a host of “anti-Muslim hate groups”—exhibiting “extreme hostility” toward Muslims—have arisen across the United States. T</span>he current edition of SPLC&#8217;s quarterly <i>Intelligence Report</i> <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2014/summer/The-Godfather"><span style="color: #011480;">names</span></a> <span style="color: #272727;">David Horowitz as “the godfather of the modern anti-Muslim movement.” The lead accusation in the report says: “For Horowitz, Muslim Student Associations &#8216;are arms of the </span>Muslim Brotherhood<span style="color: #272727;">, which is the fountainhead of the terrorist jihad against the West.&#8217;”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">Apparently SPLC deems it bad manners for anyone to notice that when t</span>he national Muslim Students Association (MSA) was established in 1963, its <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/01/expose-of-muslim-students-association/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=f05a1809c8-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&amp;utm_content=Yahoo!+Mail"><span style="color: #011480;">three</span></a> principal <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=29105"><span style="color: #011480;">founders</span></a> were all members of<span style="color: #272727;">—you guessed it—</span>the Muslim Brotherhood. It is equally bad form, in SPLC&#8217;s view, to draw any conclusions from the fact that a Muslim Brotherhood <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/20.pdf"><span style="color: #011480;">memorandum</span></a> explicitly names the MSA as one of the Brotherhood&#8217;s arms, and as an organization that could help the Brotherhood carry out a “grand Jihad” aimed at “eliminating and destroying … Western civilization from within.”</p>
<p>SPLC&#8217;s report also turns a blind eye to the fact that in recent years MSA members and guest lecturers in numerous venues have: <span style="color: #011480;">raised</span> <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13303"><span style="color: #011480;">money</span></a> for Hamas and Hezbollah; professed <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2102"><span style="color: #0433ff;">support</span></a> for Islamic Jihad; <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2102"><span style="color: #0433ff;">called</span></a> for Islam to dominate “the halls of Congress”; <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10203"><span style="color: #011480;">declared</span></a> that “the only relationship [Muslims] should have with America is to topple it”; extolled Islamic suicide bombers as noble “martyrs”; and <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/category/tags/muslim-student-association"><span style="color: #011480;">chanted</span></a> “Death to Israel!” and “Death to the Jews!”</p>
<p>Moreover, <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-muslim-student-associations-terror-problem/"><span style="color: #011480;">Patrick Poole</span></a>, an anti-terrorism consultant to law-enforcement and the military, notes “a rather lengthy list of top MSA leaders who have been arrested and convicted on a wide array of terrorism charges, ranging from material support of terrorist groups to being actively involved in terrorist plots.” One of the most famous was Anwar Al-Awlaki, who served as president of the Colorado State University MSA and later as chaplain of the George Washington University MSA, before migrating to Yemen where he became a high-ranking leader of al Qaeda.</p>
<p>But by SPLC&#8217;s reckoning, not even a shred of “hate” or “bigotry” is evident in any of this. Thus the organization directs its criticism not at the Muslim Students Association or the Muslim Brotherhood, but at the “Islamophobes” who brazenly dare to suggest that the MSA is in any way radical.</p>
<p>SPLC is also squeamish about anyone mentioning the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s connection to jihad and terrorism, even though the Brotherhood&#8217;s own <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3003/muslim-brotherhood-political-terrorism-strategy"><span style="color: #011480;">credo</span></a> states <i>explicitly</i> that “jihad is our way, and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations”; even though Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna himself <span style="color: #011480;">wrote</span> that “jihad is an obligation from Allah on every Muslim”; even though al-Banna <span style="color: #011480;">emphasized</span> that “it is the nature of Islam to dominate [and] to impose its law on all nations”; and even though another Brotherhood leader, Ahmed Yassin, personally founded the jihadist group Hamas, which <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4297/muslim-brotherhood-ansar-bayt-al-maqdis"><span style="color: #011480;">proudly</span></a> identifies itself as “one of the wings of the Muslim Brothers in Palestine.” Mohammed Ayoob, Coordinator of the Muslim Studies Program at James Madison College, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tiqQb8_VHB0C&amp;pg=PA116&amp;lpg=PA116&amp;dq="><span style="color: #0433ff;">states</span></a> outright: “Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.” And Richard Clarke—who served as chief counterterrorism advisor on the U.S. National Security Council during both the Clinton and Bush administrations—<span style="color: #011480;">told</span> a Senate committee that Hamas, al Qaeda, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are all “descendants of the membership and ideology of the Muslim Brothers.”</p>
<p>But none of this matters at all to SPLC, which simply views concern over these matters as the paranoia of hateful “Islamophobes.”</p>
<p>SPLC takes further <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2014/summer/The-Godfather"><span style="color: #0433ff;">umbrage</span></a> at Horowitz&#8217;s depiction of Huma Abedin, <span style="color: #272727;">Hillary Clinton&#8217;s longtime closest adviser, as a “Muslim Brotherhood operative” who has managed to “penetrate” the U.S. government. Clearly, it is of no consequence to SPLC that Huma&#8217;s <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2557"><span style="color: #011480;">mother</span></a></span> is a well-known advocate of Sharia Law, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s division for women, and a board member of a pro-Hamas <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7749"><span style="color: #011480;">Islamic Council</span></a> that is part of a larger, international <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7750"><span style="color: #011480;">terrorist</span></a>-abetting coalition led by the Brotherhood luminary <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=822"><span style="color: #011480;">Yusuf al-Qaradawi</span></a>. Nor does SPLC care that from 1996-2008, Huma herself was <a href="http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/08/09/our-government-and-the-muslim-brotherhood-my-speech-in-washington/?singlepage=true"><span style="color: #011480;">employed</span></a> by the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7747"><span style="color: #011480;">Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs</span></a> (IMMA), whose agenda, as Andrew C. McCarthy <a href="http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/08/17/huma-abedins-muslim-minority-affairs-its-not-just-a-journal/?singlepage=true"><span style="color: #011480;">explains</span></a>, is “to grow an unassimilated, aggressive population of Islamic supremacists who will gradually but dramatically alter the character of the West.” Neither does SPLC give a whit that for at least seven of those twelve years, Huma&#8217;s presence at IMMA <a href="http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/07/27/huma-abedins-brotherhood-ties-are-not-just-a-family-affair/?print=1"><span style="color: #011480;">overlapped</span></a> with that of the Institute&#8217;s founder, a major Muslim Brotherhood figure with ties to al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.</p>
<p>For SPLC, this is all mere trivia that occupies the minds of Islamophobes. Can&#8217;t everyone just leave poor little Huma alone?</p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">SPLC&#8217;s report also <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2014/summer/The-Godfather">brays</a> at Horowitz&#8217;s assertion that “no people have shown themselves as so morally sick as the Palestinians,” and that “in the history of all mankind, there was never a people who strapped bombs on their bodies and killed innocent people.” Curiously, the report fails to prove Horowitz wrong by naming even one other society that likewise engages in such activity. Would you like to venture a guess as to why?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">Presumably, all well-intentioned Americans should thank SPLC for its stalwart defense of the honor of the Palestinians, who have demonstrated their inherent good will by electing, in Gaza, a government run by the friendly chaps of </span>Hamas. Hamas, you might recall, is the group whose founding <a href="http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm"><span style="color: #011480;">charter</span></a> declares that jihad is “an individual duty binding on every Muslim man and woman”; that “there is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad”; that all peace negotiations are nothing more than a dreary “waste of time”; and that Muslims must heed the Qur&#8217;anic exhortation to “come and kill” the Jews.</p>
<p>And let&#8217;s not forget the even more genial Palestinian leaders of Fatah in the West Bank, who cheerfully profess their desire to <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/2051"><span style="color: #0433ff;">achieve</span></a> the “complete liberation of Palestine,” meaning the “eradication” of the state of Israel, by means of “armed public revolution” that “will not cease” until “the Zionist state is demolished.”</p>
<p>One doesn&#8217;t usually find prose as inspiring as this anywhere outside of a fortune cookie. Oh, if only the Islamophobes that SPLC impugns could somehow be made to appreciate the Palestinians&#8217; good wiil.</p>
<p>Similarly frustrating for SPLC is the inability of those darned Islamophobes to stop being so uptight about the ongoing subjugation, expulsion, ethnic cleansing, and mass slaughter of Christians throughout the Muslim world. The “anti-Muslim” bigots also appear to be hypersensitive about <a href="http://www.opendoorsusa.org/"><span style="color: #255295;">Open Doors USA</span></a>&#8216;s recently published <a href="http://www.worldwatchlist.us/?utm_source=opendoorsusa.org&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=wwl&amp;utm_content=homepage-banner"><span style="color: #255295;">study</span></a> indicating that in 41 of the 50 nations worldwide where persecution of Christians is most widespread, the persecutors are Muslims.</p>
<p>But thankfully for all of us, SPLC&#8217;s <i>Intelligence Report</i> puts all this information in proper perspective, reminding us that only small-minded, hateful “Islamophobes” see any connection between Islam and jihad—and that if only they&#8217;d keep their mouths shut, everyone would get along a lot better.</p>
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		<title>In Response to Attack on Jewish Center, Southern Poverty Law Center Releases Report Attacking Jews, Defending Hamas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2014 03:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SPLC begins by exploiting an anti-Semitic attack and concludes by defending anti-Semitism.]]></description>
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<p>After Frazier Glenn Cross, an anti-Semite who repeatedly quoted fanatical left-wing anti-Semite <a href="http://forward.com/articles/186557/max-blumenthals-goliath-is-anti-israel-book-that-m/?p=all">Max Blumenthal</a>, launched an attack  near a Jewish community center, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1809">Southern Poverty Law Center</a> rushed to cover up and lie on behalf of Blumenthal.</p>
<p>The SPLC claimed falsely that Blumenthal &#8220;does not despise Israel&#8221; when even the Forward, a left-wing paper, describes him <a href="http://forward.com/articles/186557/max-blumenthals-goliath-is-anti-israel-book-that-m/?p=all">calling for the ethnic cleansing of its Jewish population</a>.</p>
<p>Now the SPLC, a profitable mail order enterprise operating under the guise of a civil rights group, exploited the very anti-Semitic attack it tried to cover up by attacking Jews.</p>
<p>The targets of its &#8220;White Homicide&#8221; intelligence report, even though the victims in the Cross case were also white, include David Horowitz, as the SPLC defaults to one of its favorite obsessions, Islamophobia.</p>
<p>What does any of this have to do with the Frazier Glenn Cross shootings? Nothing. The SPLC, as even most liberals know, is a profitable mail order operation that piggybacks on any incident to roll out its usual sloppy and poorly researched screeds. It is however particularly insulting that it is exploiting an anti-Semitic incident it lied about it&#8230; in order to attack Horowitz, myself and other Jews.</p>
<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center&#8217;s White Homicide report is, true to form, a scattershot collection of drive by attacks. Its targets include Homicide star Richard Belzer (also Jewish) for spreading JFK conspiracy theories, Rush Limbaugh and former Saturday Night Live star Victoria Jackson.</p>
<p>The basis for the SPLC&#8217;s attack on Horowitz was a discredited report from the Center for American Progress by <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2011/dgreenfield/think-progresss-man-of-hate/">Wajahat Ali</a>, an Islamist who was on record<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2011/dgreenfield/think-progresss-man-of-hate/"> as targeting Muslim reformers like Irshad Manji and Zuhdi Jasser</a> with nasty slurs. Ali was on the board of the MSA, which his report and the SPLC attacks Horowitz for condemning.</p>
<p>Shouldn&#8217;t the SPLC&#8217;s own report rely on an independent source, rather than on an MSA board member?</p>
<p>Wajahat Ali had also written the left hates Muslims because they “have certain beliefs contradictory to radical feminist and gay ideologies.” That makes it all the more ironic that the SPLC has unthinkingly endorsed a report by an Islamist who holds exactly the kind of views that the SPLC claims that it condemns.</p>
<p>The SPLC attack on Horowitz repeatedly quotes Wajahat Ali as if he were a reliable source. The SPLC even solicits a quote from Wajahat Ali accusing Horowitz of being out to &#8220;inject poison into the pluralist racial and religious dynamic of America.”</p>
<p>That&#8217;s funny because it&#8217;s an exact description of what Ali&#8217;s MSA has been doing. The SPLC is getting a quote on pluralism from an Islamist who is against feminism and gay rights.</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s typical of the SPLC&#8217;s sloppy research and inattention to detail that it accuses Horowitz of &#8220;leaning right&#8221; on gay rights while relying on claims from a Muslim homophobe.</p>
<p>Even more typically, the SPLC ignores the fact that Breivik<a href="http://gatesofvienna.net/2014/01/breiviks-double-psychology/"> has said that he is opposed to Robert Spencer</a> even as it directs the same tired smear at him.</p>
<p>The final bizarre aspect of the article comes when Ryan Lenz, the author of that portion of the piece, defends a Muslim student who endorsed Hamas, a genocidal anti-Semitic terrorist group.</p>
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<p>Referring to the encounter in this infamous video, Lenz attempts to convince viewers that they aren&#8217;t seeing and hearing what they are seeing and hearing.</p>
<blockquote><p>When the young woman asked Horowitz to clarify the connections he had been drawing between the Muslim Student Association on campus and radical terrorists, he instead asked the woman to denounce Hamas.</p>
<p>“For it, or against it?” he barked, demanding an answer. It was a trap.</p>
<p>While she would later claim she was thinking unclearly and intimidated, she bashfully replied, “For it.”</p>
<p>Horowitz nodded and smiled. It was a rhetorical trick— the kind Horowitz has perfected. If she supported Hamas, Horowitz argued, the Muslim Student Association to which she belonged was actually tied to a terrorist organization, as defined by the State Department.</p></blockquote>
<p>Maybe I&#8217;m not as smart as Ryan Lenz, but what exactly is the trap here? And who &#8220;bashfully&#8221; endorses a terrorist group?</p>
<p>If Ryan Lenz were asked to condemn Nazi Germany, I imagine he could clearly say &#8220;For it&#8221; or &#8220;Against It&#8221;. And if a Neo-Nazi leader on an SPLC tape says that he is for the Nazis, no one at the SPLC will claim that&#8217;s a &#8220;trap&#8221; of some kind.</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s typical that the Southern Poverty Law Center begins by exploiting an anti-Semitic attack and concludes by defending anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>The Hamas charter endorses the extermination of Jews. The SPLC&#8217;s response is to whitewash support for Hamas, just as it whitewashed Max Blumenthal.</p>
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		<title>The SPLC’s Attack on Rush Limbaugh, David Horowitz, and Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 04:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]></dc:creator>
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2014/04/14/who-inspired-the-nazi-klan-leaders-actions-in-kansas-the-answer-here/">column</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> I wrote last week, it turns out, has created somewhat of a storm. This is due to one thing only: </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/04/14/coverage_of_the_school_knife_attack_and_kansas_shooting_by_a_democrat_anti_semite_klansman_neo_nazi">Rush Limbaugh</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> read it aloud on his radio program. (Start reading in the middle from where it says “BREAK TRANSCRIPT.”) That one decision by Rush led all of our mutual enemies to go viral, sending numerous Tweets and Facebook posts attacking Rush and me for supposedly arguing that the anti-Semitic neo-Nazi Glenn Miller acted because of Max Blumenthal.</span></p>
<p>Of course, as I wrote last week in an addendum, this was not the point I was making. I wrote the following, and repeat it once again:</p>
<blockquote><p> Joan Walsh of <i>Salon</i> has tweeted my column, saying that a two year old blog post by the killer does not show that Blumenthal inspired his actions. What it does show, I argue, is how Blumenthal and his ilk have the same perspective on Israel and the Jews as does this neo-Nazi. Yes, he did not need Max Blumenthal’s book to get him to engage in murder against Jews, only classic antisemitism. My point is simple: It is revealing how the work of this would-be leftist is endorsed by a Nazi sympathizer, who sees things in the same way as Blumenthal. As <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/04/antisemite-max-blumenthal-incites-murder-of-three">Dan Pipes</a> asks, how will <i>The Nation</i> folks respond to this?</p></blockquote>
<p>Now, an even more important attack has been made on Rush, David Horowitz and me, and it comes from that so-called civil-rights organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center. It appears in a report from what the SPLC calls its “Intelligence Project,” and is in their publication called <i>HATEWATCH: Keeping an Eye on the Radical Right</i>. Its headline proclaims: “<a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2014/04/20/the-splcs-attack-on-rush-limbaugh-david-horowitz-and-me/Limbaugh,%20Right-Wing%20Pundits%20Try%20to%20Blame%20Max%20Blumenthal%20for%20Kansas%20Rampage.">Limbaugh, Right-Wing Pundits Try to Blame Max Blumenthal for Kansas Rampage.</a>”</p>
<p><strong>To continue reading this article, click <a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2014/04/20/the-splcs-attack-on-rush-limbaugh-david-horowitz-and-me/">here</a>. </strong></p>
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		<title>The Southern Poverty Law Center&#8217;s Ridiculous &#8216;Hate Group&#8217; List</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2014 05:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s risible, but highly profitable, for them to lump conservative groups in with real haters.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/s000016517-300.gif"><img class=" wp-image-219734 alignleft" alt="s000016517-300" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/s000016517-300.gif" width="305" height="223" /></a>Rest easy: the nation’s watchdogs, patented Hate Detectors gripped in their sweaty palms, are still on the job. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has released its latest report on hate groups, and while the numbers of these vile entities has decreased, the SPLC solons assure us they’re scarier than ever: Mark Potok of the SPLC, trying his best to affect a stiff-backed Joe Friday pose conveying grim and unimpeachable authority, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/splc-report-far-right-extremist-groups-decline-but-remain-at-near-record-levels">declared</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: “The radical right is growing leaner and meaner. The numbers are down somewhat, but the potential for violence remains high.” In other words, keep those checks coming, folks!</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And they do. The SPLC took in over $38 million in 2011; the previous year, its CEO Richard Cohen earned $351,648, and its notorious Chief Trial Counsel, Morris Dees, pulled in a cool $346,919. All that to keep you safe from the likes of…me. The SPLC lists my website Jihad Watch (</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">www.jihadwatch.org</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">) as a hate group, along with the American Freedom Defense Initiative, of which I am vice president, and its Stop Islamization of America program. My colleague Pamela Geller founded AFDI/SIOA; the SPLC also lists her website Atlas Shrugs (</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.pamelageller.com/">www.pamelageller.com</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">), along with our international umbrella group Stop Islamization of Nations, as hate groups &#8212; so Pamela Geller and I are both four hate groups, and between us are responsible for five hate groups. Two people. We are also both the subject of lavish and arguably libelous profiles as “hate group leaders.” The brilliant FrontPage writer Daniel Greenfield’s blog Sultan Knish (</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/">http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">) is listed as another hate group. That’s six hate groups, three people. “Leaner and meaner,” indeed!</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This demonstrates how risible the SPLC’s claim that there are 939 hate groups currently operating in the U.S. The very label “hate group” conjures up images of KKK members in robes, their venal and stupid faces illumined by the flame of a burning cross – not columnists, commentators, and human rights activists dedicated to defending the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and the principle of the equality of rights of all people before the law. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But that’s the idea. The SPLC’s objective is not to spur rational discussion or debate about what exactly constitutes a “hate group,” and what are or should be the parameters of acceptable political discourse. It is to manipulate people into thinking that mild-mannered writers such as Daniel Greenfield and human rights activists like Pamela Geller are indeed exactly the same as those cross-burning Klansmen, and to be equally as shunned and marginalized.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The SPLC’s Hate Groups list is a cudgel, a tool for the use of Leftist enemies of the freedom of speech. When Pamela Geller or I or some other “hate group leader” is invited to speak somewhere, Leftists and Islamic supremacists avid to shut down honest discussion of jihad terror and Islamic supremacism contact the event organizers, tell them that the SPLC classifies us as “hate group leaders,” and all too often, ignorant or cowardly officials, unaware of or indifferent to how they’re being played and anxious to avoid “controversy,” cancel the event. It works like a charm, in just the way it was intended to work.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">These classifications, unsurprisingly, have also become a staple of every report from lazy Leftist journalists. By citing the SPLC as if it were a reliable source, they encourage an uncritical, uninformed public to see its targets as worthy of the opprobrium the Center heaps upon them. It is no surprise that reporters, who tend almost universally to be Leftists, take for granted that the SPLC is some kind of neutral observer, when actually the SPLC is a far-Left attack outfit, using its “hate group” classifications to stigmatize and demonize foes of its political agenda. In these days of the New Black Panthers and the Occupy movement, it lists no Leftist groups as hate groups. Nor does it include any significant number of Islamic jihad groups on the hate group list, and has now even </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/02/25/decline-in-Ohio-hate-groups.html">dropped an Ohio branch of the racist, violent and paranoid Nation of Islam</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> from the list.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The SPLC is merely a propaganda organ for the Left, tarring any group that dissents from its extreme political agenda as a “hate group.” And while Potok warns of “right-wing” violence, actually the SPLC itself is more dangerous than its targets: its “hate group” designation against the Family Research Council </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/20/splc-inspired-shooter-floyd-lee-corkins-sentenced-to-25-years/">led one of its followers to storm the FRC offices with a gun, determined to murder the chief of the FRC</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. This shows that these kinds of charges shouldn’t be thrown around frivolously as tools to demonize and marginalize those whose politics the SPLC dislikes.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">There is a great deal more that is wrong with the Southern Poverty Law Center, as </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/king-fearmongers_714573.html">this article</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> illustrates. The organization epitomizes the Left’s hypocrisy and its increasing taste for authoritarianism: its fascist impulse to demonize and smear its foes rather than engage them on the level of rational discourse. If freedom is to be preserved in this country, those who value it are going to have to convince their fellow Americans to pause and ask </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">quis custodiet ipso custodes?</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> — Who watches the watchmen? Why is fighting for the freedom of speech and the equality of rights of all people now classified as “hate”? Why is the SPLC an authority that anyone recognizes, given its naked biases?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Conservative groups must stop bowing to smear campaigns orchestrated by Leftist groups with a clear anti-freedom agenda. We will never win the country back without challenging – and absolutely refusing to accept &#8212; the authority and reliability of the Left’s self-appointed guardians of acceptable opinion. A good place to start would be to relegate the SPLC to the dustbin of history it has reserved for the foes of Leftist thuggery and jihad terror.</span></p>
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		<title>Southern Poverty Law Center Kills Someone With Their Hate Map, Claims Hate Map Doesn&#8217;t Kill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 02:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can we start classifying the SPLC as a hate group already?]]></description>
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<p>I have a certain amount of <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/southern-poverty-law-center-our-hate-map-doesn-t-cause-anybody-attack">personal interest in this question since</a> I also appear on the SPLC&#8217;s hate map <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/how-i-became-a-hate-group/">as a one-man hate group</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center Morris Dees said his group’s “Hate Map” “doesn’t cause anybody to attack,” despite Floyd Lee Corkins’ admission that he targeted the Family Research Council (FRC) after going to the center’s website.</p>
<p>As Corkins told the FBI after his arrest, he learned of the FRC online, “It was a, uh, Southern Poverty Law, lists, anti-gay groups. I found them online. I did a little bit of research, went to the website, stuff like that.”</p>
<p>Corkins attempted a mass shooting on Aug. 15, 2012, opening fire at the Family Research Council and  wounding Security Guard Leo Johnson.</p>
<p>Armed with more than 95 rounds of ammunition and 15 Chick-fil-a sandwiches, Corkins told the FBI that he chose the FRC as his first target after looking at a list of “anti-gay” groups on the SPLC’s website.</p></blockquote>
<p>Ironically the Southern Poverty Law Center&#8217;s Hate Map turned out to be a map for haters to express their violent feelings toward the objects of their hate.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Well, first of all, having a group on our Hate Map doesn’t cause anybody to attack them anymore than they attacked us for one thing or another,” Dees said.</p>
<p>“They claim that somebody attacks them because they say hateful things, think about how many gay people get bashed because these people say that gay men are pedophiles, which is demonstrably false,” Dees said.</p></blockquote>
<p>So according to direct-marketing hate specialist Morris Dees, it&#8217;s okay if someone attacks a group that he blames for attacks on gays, except he also claims that&#8217;s just a distraction because his hate map which caused a murder doesn&#8217;t cause attacks.</p>
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<div id="stcpDiv">FRC Executive Vice President Gen. Jerry Boykin (ret.) told CNSNews.com, &#8220;The Southern Poverty Law Center’s reckless labeling has led to devastating consequences.  Next week will be the one year anniversary of a terrorist shooting on our building that resulted in the shooting of our building manager.  The Judge determined that it was an act of domestic terrorism after the shooter viewed the SPLC&#8217;s hate map.  Our team is still dealing with the fallout of the attack, that was intended to have a chilling effect on organizations that are simply fighting for their values.&#8221;</div>
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<div>Can we start classifying the SPLC as a hate group already?</div>
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		<title>Leftist Shooter Used Southern Poverty Law Center &#8220;Hate Map&#8221; to Plan Killings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking as one of those listed by the SPLC on its killing map, I find the Southern Poverty Law Center's behavior to be highly irresponsible. While the SPLC pretends to oppose violent extremism, it is instead enabling the murder of its political opponents.]]></description>
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<p>Speaking <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/how-i-became-a-hate-group/">as one of those listed by the</a> SPLC on its killing map, I find the Southern Poverty Law Center&#8217;s behavior to be highly irresponsible. While the SPLC pretends to oppose violent extremism, it is instead enabling it and enabling the murder of its political opponents.</p>
<p>The SPLC&#8217;s hate map was turned into a hit map by Floyd Lee Corkins II; one of the SPLC&#8217;s leftist domestic terrorists. While the media made a huge deal out of the bogus Gifford &#8220;Bullseye&#8221; Palin nonsense, <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/337290.php">the media refuses to cover this </a>or <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/southern-poverty-law-center-website-triggered-frc-shooting/article/2520748">to tell the Southern Poverty Law Center to take down their killing map</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Family Research Council shooter, who pleaded guilty today to a terrorism charge, picked his target off a &#8220;hate map&#8221; on the website of the ultra-liberal Southern Poverty Law Center which is upset with the conservative group&#8217;s opposition to gay rights.</p>
<p>Floyd Lee Corkins II pleaded guilty to three charges including a charge of committing an act of terrorism related to the August 15, 2012 injuring of FRC&#8217;s guard. He told the FBI that he wanted to kill anti-gay targets and went to the law center&#8217;s website for ideas.</p>
<p>At a court hearing where his comments to the FBI were revealed, he said that he intended to &#8220;kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-Fil-A sandwiches in victims&#8217; faces, and kill the guard.&#8221; The shooting occurred after an executive with Chick-Fil-A announced his opposition to same-sex marriage.</p>
<p>Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said that the Southern Poverty Law Center should take responsibility for the shooting and take down their hate map.</p></blockquote>
<p>The SPLC&#8217;s listing of hate groups is sloppy, poorly researched and is clearly being used by violent leftists as an assassination guide.</p>
<p>Despite this, not only has the SPLC failed to take down its hate map, but <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/leftist-lawyers-accused-of-exposing-opponent-to-danger/">deliberately exposed the address</a> of one of its targets in court filings. And all the while the SPLC is partnered with the Justice Department.</p>
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		<title>Smearing Conservatives, Raking in Cash</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 04:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Southern Poverty Law Center's well-funded mission to delegitimize conservative voices.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/s000016517-300.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-141008" title="s000016517-300" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/s000016517-300.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>After the Southern Poverty Law Center – a quarter-billion dollar leftist attack machine funded by <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1237">George Soros</a> – labeled the conservative Family Research Council a “hate group,” a gay rights activist shot up FRC headquarters in Washington, D.C. last week.</p>
<p>FRC president Tony Perkins acknowledged “the gunman is responsible for the shooting,” but blamed the SPLC for “recklessly” labeling groups “like FRC that they disagree with as ‘hate groups,’ that created this hostile environment.”</p>
<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center’s behavior isn’t reckless as such. It’s far worse than that. It is calculated and malicious, intended to foment hatred and raise oceans of cash by bamboozling gullible liberals into giving money to what is one of the wealthiest nonprofit groups in the history of the United States.</p>
<p>The paranoid conspiracy theorists of the SPLC deliberately conflate conservative groups with genuinely extremist groups such as the infamous Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, another SPLC-designated hate group. In declaring FRC a hate group, it asserts that FRC is the moral equivalent of other SPLC-classified hate groups such as the Aryan Brotherhood, Nation of Islam, and New Black Panther Party. Even liberal <em>Washington Post </em>columnist <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-hateful-speech-on-hate-groups/2012/08/16/70a60ac6-e7e8-11e1-8487-64e4b2a79ba8_story.html">Dana Milbank</a> calls it “absurd” for SPLC to place FRC “in the same category as Aryan Nations, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Stormfront and the Westboro Baptist Church.”</p>
<p>FRC is trying to change American culture just as SPLC is trying to push the culture in a different direction. Most Americans would say the two groups have a difference of opinion. SPLC, which pretends to champion “tolerance,” doesn’t see it this way and routinely smears FRC as a hate group in order to discredit it and the ideas it stands for.</p>
<p>Put another way, SPLC attacks the Family Research Council because the latter is opposed to homosexuality.</p>
<p>Period.</p>
<p>Every other complaint SPLC generates about FRC is a mere detail emanating from this central truth. To SPLC founder Morris Dees and his followers those who do not approve of homosexuality are guilty of hate, or if you prefer, thought crime. It follows that those who oppose same-sex marriage are also guilty of hate even though every time the question has been put on the ballot anywhere in the United States – even in irretrievably liberal California— Americans have voted same-sex marriage down. America, it turns out, is guilty of hate.</p>
<p>But SPLC is selective in singling out anti-gay “hate” groups. The Center ignores many Muslim organizations that are violently opposed to homosexuality. Instead the group attacks people like David Horowitz, Pamela Geller, and Robert Spencer who worry about the threat that radical Islamists pose to America, accusing them of anti-Muslim bigotry for daring to speak out.</p>
<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center has been at this game a long time, making money by smearing conservatives. It is so fabulously wealthy that it stashes money in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, two of those tax haven countries the Left keeps complaining about. In addition to those foreign accounts, in its most recent publicly available <a href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2011/630/598/2011-630598743-07ff37f9-9.pdf">tax return</a> the SPLC discloses an absolutely astounding $238.1 million in net assets.</p>
<p>SPLC’s robust balance sheet dwarfs those of other big leftist groups. For example, the highly influential Center for American Progress, founded by Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta, discloses net assets of just $36.6 million, or less than one-sixth of SPLC’s bank ledger.</p>
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		<title>Mark Potok: Hatemonger</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Perazzo]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exposing the Southern Poverty Law Center's devious mission to conflate conservatives with neo-Nazis and Klansmen.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/450.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-140243" title="450" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/450.gif" alt="" width="375" height="251" /></a>In the wake of the recent murder of six worshippers in a Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/alleged-sikh-temple-shooter-former-member-of-skinhead-band">reported</a> that the killer, 40-year-old Wade Michael Page, was “a frustrated neo-Nazi” as well as a musician who had performed with two “racist skinhead bands.” Moreover, SPLC said that it had been listing the website of “Label56”—the distributor of albums produced by one of Page&#8217;s bands—as a “hate site” since 2006 “due to its active promotion and distribution of racist hate music.” In the final analysis, Page and his cohorts were on SPLC&#8217;s radar because that organization classifies Page&#8217;s brand of hate-filled stupidity as a form of “right wing” thinking, which it views, in turn, as the principal fountainhead of America&#8217;s allegedly persistent bigotry against nonwhites, homosexuals, and Muslims, among others. To be sure, the “<a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/">HateWatch</a>” section of SPLC’s website carries the caption, “Keeping an Eye on the Radical Right.” The Radical Left gets no mention at all.</p>
<p>SPLC senior fellow Mark Potok, who <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/who-we-are/staff/mark-potok">serves</a> as editor-in-chief of the Center&#8217;s quarterly journal (<em>Intelligence Report</em>) and blog (<em>Hatewatch</em>), holds conservatives in very low regard—<a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/rage-on-the-right">asserting</a>, for instance, that the Tea Party “and similar groups” are “shot through with rich veins of radical ideas, conspiracy theories and racism.” Moreover, Potok has unambiguously <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/cnn/2011/03/07/cnn-guest-radical-right-more-threat-radical-islam">declared</a> that the “biggest domestic terror threat” in the U.S. today “pretty clearly comes from the radical right.” With regard to Wade Michael Page in particular, Potok <a href="http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-interview-with-mark-potok-on-wade-michael-page/20120808.htm">surmises</a> that “this man almost certainly mistook Sikhs for Muslims.” “It is the same old story that we see every time,” says Potok, “the same old story we saw with Balbir Singh [an Indian-born Sikh who was gunned down by a white man in Arizona] and those three murders after 9/11.”</p>
<p>Potok and SPLC are justified, of course, in identifying Page as a hate-filled racist. What cannot be justified, however, is their propensity for depicting atrocities like Page&#8217;s as evidence of America&#8217;s supposedly rampant “Islamophobia.” Amplifying Potok&#8217;s recent <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/03/12/442973/report-number-of-anti-muslim-groups-tripled-in-2011/">claim</a> that “anti-Muslim groups” have proliferated dramatically over the past couple of years, the current issue of the <em>Intelligence Report </em>features a major piece titled “<a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/summer/30-to-watch">30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right</a>.” “Explosive growth in several sectors of the radical right,” the report says, has caused “an anti-Muslim movement, almost entirely ginned up by political opportunists and hard-line Islamophobes,” to “gro[w] enormously since taking off in 2010, when reported anti-Muslim hate crimes went up by 50%.” Potok has ascribed this “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-potok/fbi-reports-dramatic-spik_b_1092996.html">astounding</a>” increase to “the vicious rhetoric of Islam-bashing politicians and activists.”</p>
<p>The seemingly ominous 50% statistic, however, loses all its punch once we examine the actual raw numbers that SPLC omitted from its bold-faced alarm. According to FBI data, the number of “reported anti-Muslim hate crimes” nationwide increased from <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/tables/table-1-incidents-offenses-victims-and-known-offenders-by-bias-motivation-2010.xls">107</a> in 2009 to <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/tables/table-1-incidents-offenses-victims-and-known-offenders-by-bias-motivation-2010.xls">160</a> in 2010—technically a 50% increase, but hardly what anyone could legitimately characterize as an epidemic in a nation of 310 million people. Cognizant of this, Potok on a previous occasion <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-potok/fbi-reports-dramatic-spik_b_1092996.html">noted</a> that the FBI figures “dramatically understate the real level of reported and unreported hate crimes,” but emphasized that “they do offer telling indications of some trends.”</p>
<p>Yet a much more significant “trend” goes unmentioned by Potok and SPLC—specifically, that the “anti-Muslim hate-crime” count of 2010 was quite consistent with the normal, occasionally fluctuating number of such events in other recent years—e.g., <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2002">155</a> in 2002, <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2003/">149</a> in 2003, and <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/offenses_reported/hate_crime/index.html#table2_32">156</a> in 2004. Equally noteworthy is the fact that when the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes had dropped from <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2006/table1.html">156</a> in 2006 to <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2007">115</a> in 2007, SPLC, at that time, elected not to issue gleeful pronouncements that bigotry against Muslims was in steep decline. Any such assertions, of course, would have inconveniently contradicted SPLC&#8217;s customary depiction of America as a veritable cesspool of “right wing” “hate.”</p>
<p>A second unjustifiable practice by Potok and SPLC is their routine <a href="http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2012/06/the-southern-poverty-law-center-shameful-attack">conflation</a> of respectable conservative scholars, researchers, and journalists on the one hand, with morally bankrupt Klansmen, Aryan militiamen, and neo-Nazis (like Wade Michael Page) on the other. The objective of this tactic is to discredit and marginalize respectable conservatives by lumping them together with the very dregs of humanity and then smearing everyone with the same broad brush. For example, SPLC&#8217;s “30 New Activists” report features numerous profiles of Klansmen, skinheads, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis—people who wouldn&#8217;t be able to find a single conservative in 10,000 to say anything positive about them. Co-mingled with these profiles is one devoted to <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/frank-gaffney-jr">Frank Gaffney, Jr.</a>, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy. Denouncing Gaffney as “the anti-Muslim movement’s most paranoid propagandist,” the <em>Intelligence Report</em> derides him as someone “who sees &#8216;creeping Shariah&#8217; everywhere—even in the ranks of his erstwhile allies”—specifically, Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan, whom Gaffney suspects “are Muslim Brotherhood agents.”</p>
<p>Anyone familiar with Gaffney&#8217;s work understands that he presents his views in a manner that is scholarly, reasoned, lucid, and founded entirely on verifiable facts; in short, he is the very antithesis of a “paranoid propagandist.” While Mark Potok and SPLC may be averse to acknowledging any of Islamic jihadism&#8217;s stubbornly unpleasant realities, Gaffney has in fact <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/frankgaffney/2010/04/09/the_real_reason_they_hate_us/page/full/">chronicled</a>, in painstaking detail, examples of the stealth jihad in Europe as well as the U.S., in the realms of politics, economics, law, government, education, and employment. He has likewise chronicled, with equal attention to <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/ATroublingInfluenceGaffney.html">detail</a>: (a) Grover Norquist&#8217;s troubling ties to a self-identified Islamic supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah; (b) Norquist&#8217;s efforts to help <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=671">Sami Al-Arian</a>’s <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6993">National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom</a> take the teeth out of the Patriot Act; and (c) the significance of Norquist&#8217;s <a href="http://suhailkhanexposed.com/2007/02/20/khan-job-by-frank-gaffney/">sponsorship</a> of Suhail Khan, who has not only <a href="http://suhailkhanexposed.com/2011/01/20/who-is-suhail-khan-by-paul-sperry/">praised</a> jihadists who give their lives “for the cause of Islam,” but also <a href="http://suhailkhanexposed.com/2010/08/23/odd-connections-of-some-gop-backers-of-ground-zero-mosque-by-j-michael-waller/">supported</a> legislation that would have banned the use of vital secret evidence in the terrorism trials of suspected jihadists. Yet to Mark Potok and SPLC, all this amounts to nothing more than “anti-Muslim” smoke-and-mirrors by a “paranoid propagandist.”</p>
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