Petition: Remove 13 freedom fighters from the SPLC’s list of “anti-Muslim extremists”

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[the_ad id=”83350″]This is an important petition highlighting the hypocrisy and double standards of the left. A message from Robert Spencer:

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“Remove 13 freedom fighters from the SPLC’s list of ‘anti-Muslim extremists,’” by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, October 30, 2016:

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Some supporters of Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali have started a petition at Change.org, “Remove Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)’s list of anti-Muslim extremists.” The clear implication of this petition is that Nawaz and Hirsi Ali are unjustly maligned by their inclusion on the list with “real bigots,” and that the rest of us deserve to be on the list. That not only unfairly maligns those who are on the list with Nawaz and Hirsi Ali, but is, as I explained here, self-defeating in granting the SPLC a legitimacy that it neither has nor deserves.

So I started another petition at Change.org: “Remove 13 freedom fighters from the SPLC’s list of “anti-Muslim extremists.” The text is adapted from the Nawaz/Hirsi Ali petition:

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Earlier this month, the Southern Poverty Law center, a money-making and incitement machine that purports to deal with hate crimes and discrimination, released a “Field Guide of Anti-Muslim Extremists.” This list identifies 15 different authors, scholars, and public figures and provides a brief description of each of them.

On the list were Maajid Nawaz of the Quilliam Foundation and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born ex-Muslim human rights activist. Leftist, atheist, and Muslim reform groups have protested against their inclusion, claiming that the Southern Poverty Law Center is “a distinguished nonprofit organization” that has made a mistake by including Nawaz and Hirsi Ali, whom it terms “liberal reformists and human rights activists,” in its list of “anti-Muslim extremists.” Nawaz himself and his supporters have singled out others on the list for criticism, as if they were the “real bigots” and he is not. But his points attempting to make his case establish only that some have made decisions on how to deal with the jihad threat that differ from his, not that either he or they have ever engaged in any actual “bigotry.”

Nawaz and is supporters appear not to realize that the list itself is flawed. The 15 people on it are neither “anti-Muslim” nor “extremist.” “Anti-Muslim Extremists” list is just a tool to silence criticism of Islam. The Southern Poverty Law Center and its allies will smear anyone and everyone who discusses how jihadists use Islamic teachings to justify their actions as a bigot. The distinction Nawaz has tried to maintain between his work and that of the others on the list didn’t spare him from inclusion on the list. Nor will it spare anyone else who dares to speak the truth about these issues. Their fundamental confidence in the Southern Poverty Law Center demonstrates either inexcusable naivete, or fanatical attachment to the Left, or both.

Speak up for ALL of those who are fighting for freedom against jihad terror and Sharia oppression, and demand that the Southern Poverty Law Center remove not only Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali from their Field Guide of Anti-Muslim Extremists, but also Ann Corcoran, Steven Emerson, Brigitte Gabriel, Frank Gaffney, Pamela Geller, John Guandolo, David Horowitz, Ryan Mauro, Robert Muise, Daniel Pipes, Walid Shoebat, Robert Spencer, and David Yerushalmi, and apologize for equating them with Islamic jihadist “extremists”!

Please sign it here.

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Studs Lonnigan
Studs Lonnigan
7 years ago

What?! You MUST be kidding! So you’re going to give that NOTHING organization the cred to control your behavior like they are some important organization?!

Bad move. They shouldn’t even be mentioned. Unless, of course, you’re worried about what insane leftists think about you. Oh please, please, take my name off your list, Mr Leftist, I’ll be good, I promise. Please give me another chance!

Pathetic. Is this a freaking joke?

Skip Worther
Skip Worther
7 years ago
Reply to  Studs Lonnigan

Agreed. I don’t get this at all. I’m sure Mark Potok will have an orgasm when he sees this. What’s next, suddenly supporting Hillary now? Sorry, I don’t agree with some of Spencer’s limp-wristed ideas.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago
Reply to  Skip Worther

Spencer always seems to treat pi$$lam w/the utmost respect.

Suresh
Suresh
7 years ago
Reply to  Studs Lonnigan

Agree ! Its a battle against most corrupt elite crooks and rest of American citizens and Only Trump stands up for Rule of Law.! ……. Most Media are corrupt,
bought out by saudis and OIC to push Islam and Islam pandering politicians just like Obama, Bush and Clinton http://tinyurl.com/j5yebuj .

Bless his heart
Bless his heart
7 years ago
Reply to  Studs Lonnigan

The only reason i can see to do this is to pressure the people who are supporting SPLC. Educating more people may be an effect. That is meant to counter Muslim lies, which are demanded by the Sharia law to help extend Islam. If the time can best be used elsewhere, then do so. Islam counts wasting infidels time and assets as valid jihad.

Islam uses all weapons that it can grab from anywhere. This is opposing dhimini possibly.

Jean le Baptiste
Jean le Baptiste
7 years ago

Why is this important? Bowing to Marxists is never a good idea. I will never show deference to such fools. We should start our own list with their names on it.

Fern
Fern
7 years ago

I am so scared of Potok and his anti-American zealots. Petrified. /sarc

I would love to be on that list as a hater!

Percy Kittens Reloaded
Percy Kittens Reloaded
7 years ago

Seriously, other than extreme liberals, is there anyone that pays attention to that list? This is ridiculous IMHO

Dennis
Dennis
7 years ago

My mom used to say to me whenever something was written or said that I felt was somehow adversely affecting me: “always consider the source.” Obviously, my mom recognized that there are many out there who will say or write things that should not even be given any consideration, simply based on the fact that the group, speaker or writer has little to no substance, and should be recognized as empty in all respects. The Southern Poverty group falls into that category, and reasonable thinking people should recognize up front that the group has no substance. I am particularly disgusted with these ultra-liberal people or groups and “politically correct” supposed “pundits” who clearly never can “see the trees from the forest.” All of these so call “bigots” on this list are people who recognize that it is not the religion that they are opposing, but, instead, it is the conduct of it’s believers that they are objecting too. That is not bigotry, it is reality. Me thinks that if any group should be accused of bigotry and incitement, it is the Southern Poverty group, and not the individuals they falsely accuse. Freedom of speech does not allow one to falsely yell fire and cause panic and injury. So too is any inflammatory list that falsely identifies and raises the specter of injury to those on the so-called list. I would hope that those falsely accused of malicious bigotry would collectively join together and sue the Southern Poverty group for multi millions and put them out of the business by proving to a jury of their peers that the groups conduct was not only wrongful, but that they had knowledge that by publishing such a list, they put those on the list into grave danger proving that no defense of free speech is available to this inflammatory group.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

The spec is a collection of maggots trying to present themselves as credible. Pay no attention to them at all, if they are acknowledged, in their feeble minds, that is endorsement, even acceptance.

Avi B
Avi B
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Bingo.

Jackie
Jackie
7 years ago

Roy Beck of NumbersUSA made the SPLC “list”. Their faxes to elected officials about immigration numbers – Yep right up there with the KKK (sarcasm). His gumball video. Super scary stuff. Soros funded SPLC window lickers can pound sand!

Sherry
Sherry
7 years ago
Reply to  Jackie

Amen!

Avi B
Avi B
7 years ago

Targets of the far-left SPLC include, “Tea Party” conservatives, Evangelical Christians, pro-life and pro-family traditionalists, 2nd Amendment activists, anti-jihadists, immigration watch dog groups, and many others. Some notable people the SPLC has targeted as haters include, talk-show host Laura Ingram, former judge, prosecutor, and FOX News personality, Jeanine Pirro, former chairwoman of the Texas Republican Party Cathie Adams, talk-show host Sandy Rios of the American Family Association, syndicated columnist Diana West, and conservative writer and TV personality Ann Coulter, among others.

The SPLC has become the Huffpo-wing of the Democratic Party — a gaggle of partisan hacks bent on lining their pockets, defaming good people, and filling DNC coffers. This is who we are appealing to?

Count me out.

CTC Wilson
CTC Wilson
7 years ago
Reply to  Avi B

Avi B. I salute you! Good for you! Wish you were running for President!

Patrick
Patrick
7 years ago

I have no respect for this leftist organization. They along with the ACLU and many others are responsible for the rot of our culture. Anything I can do to help defend those listed I will do. I will say however that it is impossible to love God and country without hating some things. To hate evil and to take a stand against it is the duty of all upright individuals everywhere. Islam is evil, make no mistake about it and its followers have no place in the West especially the U.S.A. I gladly signed the petition. It may help.

CTC Wilson
CTC Wilson
7 years ago
Reply to  Patrick

Patrick! THANK YOU! You are a scholar and a gentleman! THANK YOU!

Brenda R
Brenda R
7 years ago

I love you Pamela and the work that you do, but I can’t sign on to this because it cedes the moral high ground to dishonest left fascists at the SPLC. Many years ago they actually did some good civil rights work, but as noted by former employees they have become a corrupt, fund-raising propaganda machine, targeting political adversaries as “hate groups”.

They make me sick.

Gaybinator02
Gaybinator02
7 years ago

SPLC – 3 guys and a FAX machine.

Bless his heart
Bless his heart
7 years ago

I think that the SPLC forgot to list me and my entire tribe.
My tribe has killed possibly millions of Moslims over the last 800 years and they have attempted to return the favor. But it was the tribe that was returning the favor after they attacked many times over that period, at one time occupying most of the land and implementing Sharia Law. Islam is in a jihad which includes emigration jihad called hijrah to make the entire world submit to Islam. That is the way that they are and will be so long as there is an Islam.
Reality lovers are evidently claimed to be Islamophobic by SPLC definitions, and not the Islamorealists that they really are.

Idadho
Idadho
7 years ago

If anybody is planning on signing Spencer’s petition at Change.org, I suggest you get a separate Gmail email account to use. Change.org develops email lists for other organizations. Care2.com does a similar petition protocol then they sell the email addresses to every wacko organization. I get lots of interesting emails based on Care2.com’s spreading my email address around. SPLC has millions and millions of dollars. Nobody can change their mind. Better to identify those in leadership who pay attention to SPLC and petition them.

jimmy
jimmy
7 years ago

some of the people Robert mentioned I’m somewhat familiar with and others I’m not, but I have heard of ayann hirsi and know a little bit about her background and I do not trust her at all because she’s been a big advocate for reforming islam that she knows damn well can never be reformed because islam is Muhammad and Muhammad is Islam and reforming islam would mean removing Muhammad from their sacred doctrine which is not happening plus it would mean that Islam is not perfect as the Quran says it is. and she obviously knows this is well as anybody but continues to push the reform islam fantasy knowing full well that it’s a complete waste of time money and lives. islam will have to be fought on all fronts and ultimately defeated.

Sean
Sean
7 years ago

Just ignore the SPLC.
Maajid Nawaz? The Quilliam Foundation was named after the man who founded Britain’s first mosque.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
7 years ago

I would consider myself to be in the best company were I to be included on that list. If being untrusting and suspicious of muslimes and their 7th century agenda is all it takes then sign me up.

Fromafar
Fromafar
7 years ago

Pamela, why do you care what this hateful organization has to say?
They aren’t worth your spending 2 seconds on. If fact, I’d wear it as a badge of the courageous woman you are that they’re that afraid of you and what truth’s you have to say!

Ignore them, everyone else but the MSM does.

CTC Wilson
CTC Wilson
7 years ago

Ah, Pamela, Pamela! You are such the Patriot and my respect for what you do is “towering”. Slugs, slimeballs, our “own” elite Politicians who are “profiting” in so obscene a fashion, and amount, that a team of Accountants is needed to track the money. BTW.. where is the money, and exactly “where” does it come from? Our nation has become so corrupt, the level of mediocrity spread so widely from in and within this tangled web of lies and deceit, that all of the old measures for determining the extent of this are out the window. We have this one, perhaps “last” chance to save our nation, expunge the rubbish and trash (Clinton machine) and if the Patriots of our truly GREAT nation do not take a stand now, and “CHANGE” this, ~an overwhelming ushering of Trump into our Presidency~ then our nation is truly doomed to the ash heap of a repeat of the Roman Empire. YOU, Pamela, are so rare an exception to the common, ordinary, “average” American female! Vast majority (NOT ALL), of American women are supporting Hillary for the single, ONE thing they associate as “that” commonality that drives them to vote for and to support Hillary, “their vagina”. Not-withstanding, the virtually irrepairable damages done by women to our nation stands us, ALL of us citizens and Patriots, in a place where, indeed, THIS is our last opportunity lest we as a nation go down the tubes. I thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for “just being there”, and standing up.

Robert Batchelor
Robert Batchelor
7 years ago

SPLC – Number one on the stupid list.

linda goudsmit
linda goudsmit
7 years ago

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is yet another example of left-wing liberal organizations with misleading names that dupe the American public into thinking that they stand for justice and uplifting the poor. In fact, they represent Hillary Clinton’s corrupt politically correct narrative that needs an “unaware and compliant” public to socialize the nation and soften it in preparation for the globalist one-world government that crooked Hillary represents. Globalism only enriches the elite few at the expense of the many. The courageous voices of our time who fight for freedom of speech understand the existential danger that Islam poses and are maligned for saying the unsayable. Globalists are promoting the fiction that Islam is like any other religion because the Islamists create the chaos that the globalists require to impose their one-world government. Globalism and its one-world government is anti-American anti-Western and anti-individual freedom even though it cloaks itself in the language of justice.

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
7 years ago

I suspect Pamela’s perspective is similar to that Huck Finn’s father, when he was tarred and feathered and run out of town on a pole. As Huck put it, his (alleged) father claimed somethng to the effect of, “If it weren’t for the honor in it, he could just have soon have done without it.”

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
7 years ago

SPLC has an anti-muslim list, and only 15 persons? They really have NO IDEA how many people are anti-muslim!. I tend to think that all those who witness acts of terrorism by the muslim and do NOT cheer are pretty much anti-muslim. Those that cheer those who blow themselves up, killing innocent people are the ones that SHOULD be on the list, because they don’t care really who gets killed, just that the killing is furtherance of their evil beliefs.

sodacrackers2
sodacrackers2
7 years ago

I signed it with misgivings when they want your address, then they want your money. The word “change” creeps me out now because of the current potus.

Mike Knox
Mike Knox
7 years ago

Make a petition to REMOVE the SPLC from the USA. NEVER petition your ENEMY ALWAYS OPPOSE THEM. Mr Spencer, take down your petition. SCREW that lying liberal bunch of traitors!

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