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 led one of its followers to storm the FRC offices with a gun, determined to murder the chief of the FRC. 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.
There is a great deal more that is wrong with the Southern Poverty Law Center, as this article 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 quis custodiet ipso custodes? — 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?
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 — 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.
inquisador says
Exactly so.
How the hell can this go on in a bastion of personal freedom such as the USA?
In the UK, it seems everyone is already trained by the media to follow this dog-whistle approach to judging others.
I will continue to challenge this woeful trend. I will
inquisador says
cont’d..
continue to ask the hard questions. Like, ‘why is Spencer being smeared without any evidence against him and his writings?’ ‘Has anyone tested the claims against Pam Geller?
No?
Why not?
Where ‘s the evidence?
Who in hell’s name are the splc anyway?
the stupid pricks who lie constantly??
PJG says
I don’t think we should buy into their terminology. The word “hater” is absurd. One is never called a “lover” unless there is an object involved: one can be a lover of another person, of art or music or whatever, one doesn’t simply “love…”. It is equally wrong to call someone a “hater”. One can hate Islam, or Communism, or the horrible people down the road, without being a “hater” in general.
“Hate” is a transitive verb and needs to stay that way. Turning it into an intransitive verb has been a political move to make additions to the list of insults which can be thrown our way: bigot, racist, xenophobe…”hater”.
voegelinian says
Actually, hate is both transitive and intransitive.
PJG says
Funny, I had a feeling you would come up with a disagreement of some kind.
You mean, I can say, “I hate.” (full stop; no object), and it means something?
voegelinian says
It’s not me disagreeing; it’s the American Heritage Dictionary.
Henry says
We see it again and again, those of the left who purport to be against hate and human rights abuses play a double game and are themselves the haters and hypocrites.
mortimer says
A small bit of research reveals the depth of racial hatred in the ‘Nation of Islam’ which SPLC says is NOT a hate group.
All of us ‘bloodsucking, devil Jews’ and ‘devil Christians’ can relax thanks to SPLC! Whew, I was worried the ‘Nation of Islam’ doctrine of the white race “produced thousands of years ago in a failed laboratory experiment by an evil wizard named Yacub” was actually what they believed. It seems far-fetched, but such a doctrine could surely be seen as an excuse for genocide. The rumors they are Holocaust deniers must be wrong too.
Thanks, SPLC.
dumbledoresarmy says
Jihadwatch isn’t a hate group.
It’s a love group.
I resist Jihad and reject and condemn the Sharia, because I *love*.
Here are a few of the things I love.
I love music – and I have pretty eclectic tastes, though J S Bach sits unchallenged at the top of my personal music pantheon.
The sharia of Islam forbids music and song. It criminalises *stringed instruments and flutes*…therefore it damns Georgi Zamfir and Yo Yo Ma playing Bach. One jihadi in Mali openly declared “We are in a war against ALL THE MUSICIANS OF THE WORLD”.
(And I love my daughter and my husband, who sing – and sing very well; I see the flaming-eyed madmen, the sharia assassins, aiming at *them*. For what? – for **singing**).
Therefore, I reject Islam and condemn it as inhuman and antihuman.
I love the visual arts and sculpture; and again, though here Rembrandt sits at the top of my list, I could name art styles from right around the world. I love the Michaelangelo ‘Pieta’ and Rodin’s “The Kiss”, and the Apollo of Delphi. And there is plenty of east asian sculpture that I find aesthetically pleasing.
The sharia of Islam forbids artistic representations of living beings, and culpture; the sharia assassins would happily smash to atoms the awesome “Pieta” and the “David”, just as they smashed the Bamiyan Buddhas. They would burn the Louvre and the Rijksmuseum to ashes, if they could. They would blow up the myriad painted caves and engraved stones that are found all across Australia, where living beings and spirit-beings aplenty are visually represented.
And again: this is *personal*. I have two children who are gifted artists who delight in drawing…living beings, faces and forms. Sharia howls and hisses at them and views them as evil; for doing something that humans in all societies except Islamic societies have always done.
Therefore: I reject the sharia of Islam; indeed, I view it with hearty disgust and horror. Why? – because it monstrously anathematises and not only anathematises but *criminalises* and seeks to *attack and destroy* something that is universal, that belongs not simply to “the West” but to *all* non-Islamic societies, ancient and modern.
I love dogs. I know that the ancient alliance between dogs and humans goes back into the depths of prehistory: in the awesome painted grotto of Chauvet, a child’s ancient footprint and that of a wolf/ dog are found side by side. Islam anathematises – criminalises – the keeping of a dog as a pet. And would, if it could, force *all* humans everywhere to submit to that insane rule.
Therefore, I reject Islam.
If one loves *life*, and the principle of reciprocity, and the principle of Agreement or Covenant (the willed keeping of promises); if one values fidelity over treachery, if one loves *truth* rather than falsehood; then one will reject and resist the Ummah, or mohammedan mob, in its mad assault upon all these things.
inquisador says
Well said, DDA.
You are speaking the absolute truth. As such you are a dangerous dissident, like me.
take care.
Wellington says
I’d like to second what inquisador said, dda.
dumbledoresarmy says
More things that we love.
In a classic article by “Hugh Fitzgerald”, attempting to list just a bit – just a few of the wonderful things that would be destroyed, if the Ummah takes Europe. (And the Ummah intends to take, and rule, and lay waste, the entirety of planet earth).
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2005/05/fitzgerald-whats-at-stake.html
If you’ve never read this, click and read.
The associated comments thread makes for excellent reading, as well.
Defcon 4 says
And to think things have only gotten worse since Hugh Fitzgerald’s list was made. On the plus side though, all those things enumerated still exist.
gravenimage says
Wonderful lists of music, art, and architecture from you and Hugh Fitzgerald, DDA.
I would also add arts and letters—Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway…a field so rich, I cannot even begin to list them all.
I am just starting to read Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”, one of the very few Victorian English novels I *haven’t* yet read—what could more Haram than that?
And further, I would add the love of love itself.
A parent’s love for their child, unsullied by the idea of selling off a little girl as a child bride to some old man to pay off a debt or envisioning a little boy as a “Shahid”; “puppy love” and dating not considered “Zina” and subject to flogging or worse; romantic love free of hysterical Fatwas against Valentine’s Day; and deep married love free of the specter of forced marriage, polygamy, “possessions of the right hand”, sacralized wife beating and marital rape, and the ever present threat of “Honor Killing”.
I echo you: I resist Jihad and reject and condemn the Sharia, because I *love*.
Wellington says
The SPLC is nothing more than a hate group itself. It hates the truth. It hates freedom. It hates American Civilization. It hates rugged individualism. It hates the Second Amendment. It hates conservative black Americans. It hates seeing a minority as an invidual rather than belonging to a victim group. It hates…. It hates…. It hates….
Oh yeah, it’s a big hater and it projects ad nauseam. A truly disgusting American organization if ever there were one. Only foolish human beings contribute to it or admire it.
onisac says
Right on..!
John Harper says
Don’t they realize that their credibility erodes with each new addition to their “hate list”? Then again, perhaps not with those superficial enough to have given them credibility in the first place.
Idiocy begets idiocy.
ApolloSpeaks says
HOW ROBERT AND PAM
can get themselves removed from the SPLC list:
Love Obama like Louie Farrakan.
virginia pritchard says
There is a world-wide Muslim awakening. Many are being called to participate and smiles are universal. Eyes that were blind are now seeing what has been given by a loving God for all to enjoy for “He giveth us all things to enjoy”. Although we are not able to peek behind dark long veils or go where only Muslims may enter – the invisible creator appears and speaks love – and the love relationship revealed through the brightest of lights begins. Love never known before is seen in the twinkling eyes and tender smiles. This is genuine, this is truth and this has only begun. The Muslim encounter with Jesus and thus the “Muslim Awakening”.
awake says
“There is a world-wide Muslim awakening.”
Dearest heart, your sentiment is indeed noble and kind, but Muslims couldn’t gain any ground on decency, even after their own “Arab Spring”, so what on God’s good Earth would cause you to take total leave of your senses?
Defcon 4 says
Yeah a “love” drenched in blood. The blood of the unbelieving najjs kaffir.
Yeah a “love” hip deep in the bodies of those murdered by muslimes in the
name of islam.
London Jim says
‘WatchDawg’ & ‘virginia pritchard’ are evidently couch potato Muslims. If they had any conviction between the two of them they would seek to reform the cult to which they profess to belong.
gravenimage says
London Jim, I believe I have seen Virginia Pritchard post here in times past.
If I recall correctly, she is just a rather-too-optimistic Christian, and not a Taqiyya-spouting Mohammedan like “WatchDawg”.
richard Sherman says
SPLC supports Che GUEVARA’ s 600 executions of teenage boys at LA Cabana concentration camp and the 900 decapitations of UNARMED JEWS by the sociopath MUHAMMAD….Only sociopaths now work for or contribute to the SPLC.
London Jim says
Correction. ‘virginia’ never said she was a Mohammedan. Maybe she’s a Universal Unitarian in Happy Clappy mode.
Prinz Eugen says
This never-ending violation of the Constitution goes on because we have absolutely NO OPPOSITION from the GOP. Arrogant retard McLiar wants to arm islamic terroirsts, attack Suyria, Putin, etc.
The main sniveling collaborator is Wimp Boehner: he will not hold any islamo-marxist regime member to account for their crimes and scandals. Despite the elecetd officials gained in the 2010 elections, Boehner has reacted as if the GOP LOSTY many seats! He is the ultimate enabler, shoeshine boy and ass-kisser for Imam Barak.
With all the media (even FNC) supporting the regime, plus the major sports groups jumping on the Obama/Holder Queer Outreach program, the dictator sees clear sailing ahead — any group can be BULLIED with the new A-Team (or is is F-team?), while the GOP remains dead silent and servile!
Imam Barak is not going anywhere after 2016 — he will have absolute power by then and is not likely to turn that over to that old white hag, Her Thighness!
Gba says
Lots of hatred spewed forth by nearly everyone but good old dumbledoresarmy!!
Thanks, da! You make your point without the venom!
Defcon 4 says
What else do islam and muslimes deserve but hatred space cadet?
WVinMN says
Well, gee golly willikers Gba, we will just have to try harder next time! Where would we all be without guidance from such an upstanding citizen such as Gba?
PJG says
“Hatred” and “venom”? Really? Where?
And whose side are you on? The side which says that any criticism of Islam or Islam-enablers is “hatred”, presumably.
I don’t think this war can be won by love alone, my good fellow.
gravenimage says
Nor does it include any significant number of Islamic jihad groups on the hate group list, and has now even dropped an Ohio branch of the racist, violent and paranoid Nation of Islam from the list.
……………………………
I notice there is absolutely no indication from the linked article that the Ohio NOI has either moderated its views—highly unlikely, of course—or lost membership to the point where is can no longer be considered a viable group.
If neither of these things have happened, what is the basis for dropping it? (except for the obvious further enabling of Islam, of course…)
The only reference to Jihad the SPLC has on their site is—no joke—”Jihad Against Islam”:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2011/summer/jihad-against-islam
One of the signs of the “Jihad Against Islam” is that Oklahoma lawmakers had the gall to prohibit the imposition of Shari’ah law—what could be more “Islamophobic” than that? Oh, the humanity…sarc/off
They lambaste the idea of “Sharia as Pariah”, never actually saying what they consider positive about it—or even compatible with the American constitution .
Of course, Robert Spencer gets a prominent mention as being “Behind the Attacks” for having the temerity to point out the savagery of Jihad terrorism and the brutality of Shari’ah law. Madness…
Larry A. Singleton says
Letter to Southern Poverty Law Center Facebook page 3-8-14
What a bunch of stinking hypocrites. Like the ACLUseless and the NAACP the SPLC is a joke.
You want to know who the real expert on racism is? Me. I’ve got a work in progress I call my “Racism Speech”. You can find it in my Facebook Notes. The fact that these people call Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch and company a “hate group” shows what a pathetic sham the SPLC is. Has the SPLC ever addressed the problem that is “black mob violence”? That can now almost qualify as an “epidemic”? Or exposed that child predator Florida Prosecutoer Angela Corey, who literally broke the law in prosecuting and framing George Zimmerman? I used to get jumped in Junior High and High School by the black kids. The only name I had for black people at that time was “those fuckin’ niggers”. Thank God for books. (And a thing called “doing your homework”.)
Even during the time I was “as close to being a card carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan as you can be without actually being one”, and getting my ass kicked by “those fuckin’ niggers” on a regular basis, I decided to read some books:
Black Like Me, Malcolm X, The Man by Irving Wallace, Rivers of Blood-Years of Darkness and others.
Coupled with some life changing experiences you can read about in my “Racism Speech” I no longer have a racist bone in my body. My kids, who I’m estranged from unfortunately, are half Thai.
Also, I recently renounced my lifetime membership in the Democratic Party recently out of disgust. Here are a few examples why:
Indoctrination U: The Left’s War Against Academic Freedom and The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America by David Horowitz
Ivory Towers On Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America by Martin Kramer
The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers (Go to Amazon and read the Preface to this and the Introduction to “Taken Into Custody” by Stephen Baskerville; Your days of believing you live in a free country will finally and officially be over when you finish Baskerville’s book.)
All this is why I can read through the bullshit of these race hustlers and SPLC scam artists.
Personal Experience and BOOKS!!!
This especially applies when it comes to “Islam”. Which today is synonymous with “atrocity” the world over. And which people like the SPLC avoid like the plague.
As a construction worker who knows what he’s talking about, I’m seeing the same kind of “creep” that has led to the loss of millions of American jobs, the disintegration of our school system and us “Pushing 1 for English” because of illegal immigration; The soviets are kicking over the furniture in their envy of how successful Islam has been in infiltrating our government and education centers and influencing policy in almost every area at every level. Unfortunately, people like the SPLC would have us all willfully blind.
Labeling Robert Spencer and Pamella Geller as Hate Mongers is like calling Habitat for Humanity a bunch of Anarchists. Really, as Bugs would say “What a maroon”.
Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Ridiculous ‘Hate Group’ List
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/robert-spencer-in-frontpage-mag-the-southern-poverty-law-centers-ridiculous-hate-group-list
There were two books in particular which were my wake-up call when it came to this “Islam thing” and included an article on “Jihad” I found in a Summarized Sahih Al-Bukhari I’d ordered along with Korans, The Second Message of Islam by Taha, Reliance of the Traveller and other books in order to give this “religion of peace” the benefit of the doubt.
The Haj by Leon Uris (A Primer on the “right to return” scam)
Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America by Brigitte Gabriel
Jihad in the Qur’an and Sunnah by ‘Sheikh Abdullâh bin Muhammad bin Humaid
ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?233460-Jihad-in-the-Qur-an-and-Sunnah&s=4df3fc2e4e0596eb3b38115ef4b8f506 ),
Usually when I refer to this article it’s accompanied by the following query:
“If Islam is the “religion of peace”, where in Sheikh Abdullah bin Humaid’s article on jihad can I find the equivalent of “Love Thy Neighbor” and “good will toward men”? And explain its prominence, and significance almost as an “Introduction”, in a book that’s described as “the most authentic and true among the books of the Prophet”: My Summarized Sahih Al-Bukhari. Also compare Humaid’s “jihad” and Emmet Fox’ Sermon on the Mount and tell me which one best represents a spirit of Love and ‘compassion’. ”
To this day, after having sent this to probably tens of thousands of Muslims in one form or another, I have yet to get a single response to this question. Not One Single Response.
Subscribe to Jihad/Campus Watch and the Middle East Forum/Quarterly, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Gatestone Institue, FrontPage Magazine and read Raymond Ibrahim and others.