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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>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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