Post by nighttimer on Aug 26, 2017 17:00:56 GMT -5
They lost any inkling of credibility they might have undeservedly had in my eyes when they labeled well-respected Muslim reformer Maajid Naawaz as an "anti-Muslim extremist." Not only was it the most ludicrously stupid, uninformed, flat-out false crock of bullshit, it literally put his life in danger.
SPLC has quickly become a garbage organization that needs to be ignored until it no longer exists.
Wow, that's pretty incredible. If butting heads w/ Islamic theocrats is what gets one labeled an anti-Muslim extremist, they could put Sadiq Khan on their list as well.
I cringe every time I see SPLC mentioned anymore.
Don't forget Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who was also put on the SPLC's anti-Muslim extremist list for calling bullshit on her own former religion for what it put her through (and continues to put other girls and women through).
I cringe every time I see SPLC mentioned anymore.
Some people recognized the SPLC for what they are years ago, but far too many people were willing to ignore their transgressions because they were on the "right side."
Those enablers should learn something from this. Perhaps this will remind them of Martin Niemoller.
They most likely won't.
I think it's pretty ironic also that Amal Clooney, who has spent time in her career as a human rights lawyer speaking against ISIS and its crimes against women, would give money to S.P.L.C.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Islamophobic huckster, fake and a fraud. She inspires terrorists like Andres Brevik, the far-right nutcase who slaughtered 77 people in Norway. Ali said Brevik had "no other choice" but to lash out violently.
In a speech earlier this month, a scholar at an influential think tank and flagship of contemporary Washington conservatism, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), gave voice to one of the justifications for Norwegian anti-Muslim terrorist Anders Breivik’s attacks, explaining that Breivik said “he had no other choice but to use violence” because his fringe views were “censored.” While accepting a prize this month from the German multimedia company Axel Springer, Somali-born Dutch AEI scholar Ayaan Hirsi Ali spoke on the “advocates of silence” — those she admonishes for purportedly stifling criticisms of radical Islamic extremism.
In the speech, flagged by the website Loonwatch, Hirsi Ali noted that she herself appeared in Breivik’s 1,500-word manifesto (Breivik reprinted a European right-wing article saying Hirsi Ali should win the Nobel Peace Prize). While she denounced Breivik’s views as an “abhorrent” form of “neo-fascism,” she then postulated that Breivik was driven to violence because his militant anti-multicultural views were not given a fair airing in the public discourse.
After speaking about how the “advocates of silence” repress discussion about radical Islamism, Hirsi Ali said:
Fourthly and finally, that one man who killed 77 people in Norway, because he fears that Europe will be overrun by Islam, may have cited the work of those who speak and write against political Islam in Europe and America — myself among them — but he does not say in his 1500 page manifesto that it was these people who inspired him to kill. He says very clearly that it was the advocates of silence. Because all outlets to express his views were censored, he says, he had no other choice but to use violence.
In the speech, flagged by the website Loonwatch, Hirsi Ali noted that she herself appeared in Breivik’s 1,500-word manifesto (Breivik reprinted a European right-wing article saying Hirsi Ali should win the Nobel Peace Prize). While she denounced Breivik’s views as an “abhorrent” form of “neo-fascism,” she then postulated that Breivik was driven to violence because his militant anti-multicultural views were not given a fair airing in the public discourse.
After speaking about how the “advocates of silence” repress discussion about radical Islamism, Hirsi Ali said:
Fourthly and finally, that one man who killed 77 people in Norway, because he fears that Europe will be overrun by Islam, may have cited the work of those who speak and write against political Islam in Europe and America — myself among them — but he does not say in his 1500 page manifesto that it was these people who inspired him to kill. He says very clearly that it was the advocates of silence. Because all outlets to express his views were censored, he says, he had no other choice but to use violence.
It's always best to give a wide berth and some serious side-eye to any Black person who is adored and admired by White people because they tell White people what they want to hear whether it is Hirsi Ali, Charles Barkley, Stacey Dash, Allen West or Gentle Ben Carson. Being a sellout is something very useful for them but useless for everyone else. I try not to knock a sista's hustle 'cause it's all about making that paper, but when you say it's not radical Islam, but ALL Islam which must be defeated, you're ripping over a billion people. If that's not Islamophobic b.s. nothing is.
Here's some fun facts about Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born activist who says she endured female genital mutilation and fled civil wars and an arranged marriage in Africa. She then moved to the Netherlands and became a parliamentarian for a time. But key parts of the story she told Dutch immigration authorities and the public there turned out to be false — she had never witnessed any civil war, attendees said she was at her wedding despite her claim to have not been present, and her husband paid her way to Europe and later granted her a divorce. Leaving the Netherlands after quitting its Parliament in disgrace, Hirsi Ali became a citizen of the United States, accepting an invitation to join the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Although she now positions herself as an ex-Muslim champion of women’s rights, her anti-Muslim rhetoric is remarkably toxic. In 2007, she told Reason magazine that the West should “defeat” Islam and that “we are war with Islam.” The same year, she said that Islam was “the new fascism” and a “destructive, nihilistic cult of death” in an interview with The London Evening Standard. In 2014, Brandeis University withdrew its offer of an honorary degree for her, saying that it had been unaware of her vitriolic attacks on Islam. While in the Netherlands, she wrote the script for a short and provocative film about women and Islam directed by the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was murdered in the street by a jihadist a short time after its release. The murderer left a note threatening to also kill Hirsi Ali pinned to his victim’s body with a knife.
In the aftermath of Charlottesville I gave money to the Southern Poverty Law Center to continue their good work tracking and exposing the bigots and hate mongers among us including loons like Hirsi Ali. My only thing regret is I didn't give more.