Pamela Geller confronts the execrable Mark Potok, the chief libeller over at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“Geller: SPLC Blames Me for the San Bernardino Jihad Massacre,” by Pamela Geller, Breitbart, March 4, 2016:
Media bias is well established. People are used to the mainstream media shilling for far-left causes and covering up the reality of jihad terror. But on Sunday, “reporter” George Mattar of The Intelligencer interviewed Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in a piece that is far worse than mere yellow journalism. It’s a blood libel: Potok actually claimed that I am responsible for the San Bernardino jihad massacre, in which two devout Muslims murdered fourteen Muslims for the Islamic State.
Mattar asserted that “the number of hate groups in the United States is on the rise, according to a study by the Southern Poverty Law Center,” and noted that “the SPLC includes as hate groups neo-Nazi, racist skinhead, neo-Confederate and anti-Muslim groups and the Ku Klux Klan.” He added that “anti-Muslim organizations have been growing more than any other type of extremist group — from 24 in 2014 to 34 in 2015, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center report.”
After these highly dubious claims came the smear: “Domestic terrorism like the attack in San Bernardino last year during which 14 people were killed by two Muslim extremists are the propaganda work of anti-Muslim ideologues like Pamela Geller, the most visible and flamboyant person in the anti-Muslim movement, and the injection of hatred against Muslims, Potok said.”
Mattar reported this outrageous libel without so much as query or comment. He made no attempt to contact me for rebuttal. In a rational world, Mattar would at very least have challenged Potok’s Nazi-like rhetoric. But the world is not rational, and this is war in the information battle-space.
“The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” So said George Orwell. And we are a society largely adrift.
Facts, evidence, reality are tossed off like some out of date, old fashioned idea. Truth is “hate.” Truth is islamofauxbic. Anyone who criticizes oppression, subjugation, supremacism is smeared, defamed, blacklisted. Posturing as humanitarians, vicious hate groups such as the SPLC are deemed legitimate authorities by cultural and political power players.
In reality, the SPLC is not a group dedicated to the defense of human rights. It is a hard-left attack machine. Vets, patriots, and freedom’s defenders are in its crosshairs. Even Presidential hopeful Ben Carson was on their hate list for some time.
The San Bernardino jihadis were devout Muslims who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. They went on a killing spree in the cause of Allah. They never mentioned me or showed any indication that they even knew I exist. They never said anything about striking out against “Islamophobia,” which is a manipulative propaganda term designed to make people afraid to resist jihad terror. They were explicitly and avowedly acting out of loyalty to the Islamic State (ISIS) and carrying out its call to murder American civilians.
And ISIS did not issue that call as a reaction to “Islamophobia.” They issued it because the Qur’an orders Muslims to wage war against unbelievers and subjugate them under the rule of Islamic law. They want to destroy the United States, not because of “Islamophobia,” but in accord with that Islamic imperative.
The Southern Poverty Law Center says the cold-blooded murder of 14 innocent revelers at a Christmas party is my doing because I oppose the very ideology behind the unspeakable slaughter. The focus of my work for the past decade is to educate and increase awareness of the jihad threat and Islamic supremacism. And I was right. Look around: devout Muslims are waging holy war across the world. Why isn’t that the focus of this libelous article? Instead, media lapdogs continue to murder the good names of those who dare to speak candidly about jihad and sharia.
Why didn’t Mattar ask Potok about fans of the SPLC who have committed a number of acts of terrorism? Several years ago, Floyd Corkins stormed the Family Research Council’s Washington, D.C. headquarters and began shooting. Why? Because the FRC had been listed as a hate group by the SPLC.
The SPLC may be the leftist media’s arbiter of what constitutes “hate,” but with their reckless libels and demonization of defenders of freedom, they are a harbinger of what’s to come: if we don’t break the chokehold the left now has on media, culture and academia, we are ensuring for our children an America bereft of the freedom of speech and other freedoms that the SPLC is determined to destroy.

KrazyKafir says
As the Jihad gets much worse, and it will, the traitors will eventually be exposed.
Bibi says
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is like the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that causes HIV infection and over time acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).AIDS is a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive. Without treatment, average survival time after infection with HIV is estimated to be 9 to 11 years, depending on the HIV subtype.
The reason SPLC is like HIV which causes AIDS, because SPLC like ADL (anti-defamation league of b’nai b’rith) tries to destroy the immune system (patriots) of the countries they occupy.
mortimer says
Mark Potok should be audited by the IRS to see which foreign countries his money is coming from. The money trail will certainly go back to Gulf states. The close and cosy synergy between cultural Marxists and Islamists cannot be by accident.
They appear to have joined forces to defeat the freedom of expression in the West.
Niccolo Macchiavelli wrote: ‘Be certain. Our friends never speak ill of us.’ The cultural Marxist are never criticized by Muslims and vice versa.
The IRS should audit Mark Potok immediately.
abad says
In short, the SPLC will never in a decillion years speak out against anti-non-Muslim hatred.
Got it.
Huck Folder says
“The SPLC may be the leftist media’s arbiter of what constitutes “hate,”
Q. Just WHO elected them to that position – which is now a
self-perpetuating, self-aggrandizing, money-grubbing INDUSTRY?
Q. What are their definitions of ‘Hate’ and ‘Extremism’?
What other groups/people have endorsed their definitions?
Q. Who judges and arbitrates which groups to list,
and on what grounds? Are those published?
Q. Are groups/individuals directly informed of their tarring?
Is there any apparatus to challenge that?
Universities bend over backwards when disciplining racist profs.
Q. Has anyone successfully SUED those racists?
“In October 2014, political conservative Ben Carson
was added to the SPLC’s extremist watch list
because of his association with groups CONSIDERED BY SPLC
to be extremist in nature, claims of a link
between gay people and pedophiles,
and comparison of health care and liberal government
to slavery and totalitarianism.
In February 2015, the SPLC CONCLUDED
the Carson profile did not meet SPLC ‘standards’,
removed his listing and apologized to him.”
Duh? That’s it? Sue the BASTARDS for their $303 million ‘endowment.
mortimer says
If the jihadists can murder us at an office Christmas party or murder nuns at an old folks home or behead a toddler at a daycare, they can murder us everywhere.
All Westerners are now on the front line of jihad. Muslims are telling us, they can murder us any place, any time.
The elites with their layers of security are barely affected.
It is the people at the bottom of the power pyramid who are most vulnerable. Our politicians and elites seem to be so amoral. They truly don’t care about the well-being of the voters at all.
It’s so arrogant.
Westman says
Sometimes forgotten quotes have a better application at a later historical date. In the case of the SPLC’s Mark Potok, this quote finally has relevance:
“What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.” – Dan Quayle
SoCalMike says
Mark Potak should be considered an enemy of free people and an ally of Islamic Jihad.
Too bad were too civilized and polite to do the right thing.
mortimer says
The repeated use of the term ‘anti-Muslim’ is a slander and mud-slinging. What Spencer is doing is more appropriately termed ‘counterjihad’. Jihadism is the ideology of world conquest through theocratic supremacism.
Mark Potok is shielding jihadism from criticism and so he is complicit in jihad supremacism. There can be no question that he is an employee of a foreign potentate and for that reason, Mark Potok should be audited immediately by the IRS.
The IRS needs to find out who is bribing Mark Potok.
eduardo odraude says
Three factors build a strong case that Islam genuinely represents a totalitarian danger to the West:
1. The core Islamic texts reveal totalitarian elements in the core of the belief system. At http://www.quotingislam.blogspot.com see the university links to some shocking totalitarian core texts of Islam.
2. The human rights situation in the core Islamic region of the Middle East/North Africa on the whole is very substantially worse than in any other major region of the globe. See http://www.quotingislam.blogspot.com/2011/06/human-rights-and-islam.html
3. Polls of Muslims show that while some parts of the Islamic world are better than others, Islamic totalitarianism remains a mainstream value in many parts of that world. Example:
Pew Research (2010): 84% of Egyptian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
86% of Jordanian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
30% of Indonesian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
76% of Pakistanis support death the penalty for leaving Islam
51% of Nigerian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
http://www.pewglobal.org/2010/12/02/muslims-around-the-world-divided-on-hamas-and-hezbollah/
See also the exhaustive collection of polls at http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/articles/opinion-polls.aspx
Together, those three factors show those who denigrate “Islamophobia” are generally ignorant of or deceptive about, Islam’s present state, as well as its alleged history.
The essential character of totalitarianism is that it lacks the internal capacity for reform. It therefore can only be reformed by pressures from without, such as criticism, containment, and defensive military might.
Cthulhu says
Does Mr. Potok think the Muslims would love him knowing his father is Jewish?
Mirren10 says
Creatures like Potok don’t *think* at all -at least in terms of critical thinking. Their minds have long been pickled in the brine of Alynskyite rhetoric. To them, lying is merely a political tool. Like most politicians.
mgoldberg says
I don’t understand the Law, but it is as Pamela says, essentially a ‘blood libel’.
That they have the ‘right’ to yell fire doesn’t give them the right to do it in a crowded theatre. Is there no legal recourse to demand by trial the simple and obvious evidence that proves that Ms Geller has been libeled, and defamed and to demand not only retraction of the articles assertions about her but damages for that which she is so accused???
Angemon says
Translation: “The Emperor has the most beautiful clothes ever, and if the Imperial Guard is going around killing people then the fault of not of the Emperor but of the people who say he has no clothes”.
Bezelel says
Any wannabe authority on hate groups that doesn’t put islam on the very top of the list is totally discredited and shows they have an agenda that is void of integrity.
Much Love to you and yours Pamela.
D-sppot says
What an odious, po faced, pathetic little man. For those of us with eyes to see, ears to hear, (while there is still a modicum of free speech) Ms. Geller, brave and courageous and relentless in the face of such virulent abusive commentary, deserves all of our gratitude. but I fear I’m preaching to the choir.
Jack Holan says
Pamela I wrote before that you have ever right to sue Potok and the SPLC. This is Insanity on steroids. He has no argument to support since it’s absent a basis and it’s malicious. He knows what kind of outcome he can evoke, the added expense you will incur protecting yourself. He’s probably anti =#2A. It’s up to you. Its expensive to sue without a certain outcome and very time consuming.
Wellington says
There seems no limit respecting what depths a leftist fascist like Potok will sink to.
Roger Gangitano says
Just because the shooting wasn’t Pamela’s fault, doesn’t mean the SPLC won’t blame her for it anyway.
Standard Operational Procedure for the Leftist Morons at SPLC !
God bless you for all you do, Pamela!
underbed cat says
Aiding and Abetting the enemy is, I think illegal. Pamela is not aiding or abetting. Pamela did not create the doctrine which call for jihad. Reading the doctrine, one will find commands to deceive and misdirect the infidels and all non-believers. The verses to misdirect is right out of the book., needed as the process mass migration into countries to conquer. The intent and religious obligation had to be denied or resisted otherwise a caliphate could not be achieved. Sharia law is a legal system, imans are legal scholars who attended schools that have this doctrine
No Pamela, did not direct muslims to kill those who do not follow sharia law , the doctrine directs. It is not peaceful doctrine. Pamela does not aid the deception.
Richard Paulsen says
Used to learn from media and some politicians as well as from others that everything wrong depends on everything and everyone but islam and muslims. Islam always being excused. Never mind what. Why then is there such migration from islamic countries into not islamic? Since they cannot stand islam being criticised and islam critics?
Why are they under such circumstances allowed asylum? And why then is there no migration from the U.S.A. or Europe into arab states?
A problem islam hates Jews and Christians and that so many voters, politicians, governments, the EU, UN and international help organizations do not admit the truth.
For example the Quran 5:51 and 5:57. ” Believers do not take the Jews and Christians as allied. They are the allies of oneanother. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people. ”
God bless Pamea Geller. A person with courage. Clear-sighted.
Vlad says
“the execrable Mark Potok”
An accurate description of a turd.
Shmooviyet says
More stinking trash from this ‘organization’ of true racists and haters. Even the name is a giveaway ( ‘We must help all the lesser-thans who don’t have the intellect of ourselves, due to being born non-white.’) So desperate to show his own non-racism, LOL.
I join all thanking Pamela G. for her dedication and bravery in the face of horse’s arses like this.
Stay Safe, Pamela!
vcragain says
I really wish that everyone would stop all the right/left stuff – nothing to do with this subject at all – we in the West need to take a “careful look at what is going on” – yes that particular Trump remark is correct, but I don’t support that fool – however since we are witnessing a huge rise in the number of Muslims in the West just this past year, and coincidentally a very obvious rise in anti-anybody sentiment by Islamic extremists, and their threats & violence, we now NEED to take a step back and consider if there is anything to be gained by insisting that ‘all is well’ – NO it is NOT, and if you keep that up you are falling right into their trap. Western countries need to be concerned and watchful and on guard against ANY trend to change our values (including the wailing sounds daily !) We do not hate individual people, but we are allowed to hate an ideology if it is not our friend ! Yes I have a particular hate of the wailing sounds, having heard it in London UK as a teenager, and have NO tolerance of just letting that take over any Western neighborhood, but that is a small matter compared to the concept of changing the Western lifestyle (admittedly with many failings) into THEIR idea of what constitutes a ‘great society’, ie: with no freedoms except to just follow their book or whatever their latest interpretation says it says ! So – on that subject we HAVE to stand against the ‘creep’ of anything Islamic, you can follow whoever you like, but you are not allowed to undermine MY freedoms or culture and the whole of Western culture is founded on the idea of neighborly tolerance, or we know from history where the opposite leads – we have been there and done that !
Norger says
According to several news sources, the husband’s co-workers threw a baby shower for the wife, whom they had never met. But Pamela Geller’s resistance to jiad terror (and not this pair’s avowed devotion to Islamic ideology) somehow incited this pair to mass murder 14 innocents….what kind irresponsible idiot would say something like this?