The Daily Caller reported Thursday that “the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) considers the Orlando nightclub shooting, an ISIS-inspired attack that left 49 dead, a right-wing plot, along with the shootings of police officers by anti-white terrorists.”
The SPLC’s list, “Terror from the Right,” claims to be “a synopsis of radical-right terrorist plots, conspiracies and racist rampages,” but it includes Islamic jihadist Omar Mateen’s massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
As Mateen was doing his killing, he paused several times to call 911. Among his statements as he was murdering 49 people: “I pledge my allegiance to [unidentifiable name] on behalf of the Islamic State…Call me Mujahideen…my name is Islamic soldier.”
As far as the Southern Poverty Law Center is concerned, that’s “Terror from the Right.” Remember that the next time you hear someone say that attacks from “right-wing extremists” are more common than attacks from Islamic jihadists.
What’s ironic is that it was the Orlando jihad massacre that exploded the common lie (which still circulates) that “right-wing extremists” are responsible for more murders in the United States than Islamic jihadists. Georgetown University professor Engy Abdelkader recently appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox show and made the outlandish claim that the FBI had said that “white supremacist groups” were more of a terror threat than Islamic jihadists.
The FBI made no such claim; in reality, it originated with far-Left pressure groups. Back in June 2015, the George Soros-funded New America Foundation published a study that garnered enthusiastic international publicity, as it purported to demonstrate that “right-wing extremists” and “white supremacists” were a larger threat to the U.S. than Islamic jihadis.
The mainstream media was thrilled. Mediaite crowed: “White Americans Are Biggest Terror Threat in U.S.” The New York Times exulted: “Homegrown Extremists Tied to Deadlier Toll Than Jihadists in U.S. Since 9/11.” The Huffington Post cheered: “White Supremacists More Dangerous To America Than Foreign Terrorists, Study Says.” NPR rejoiced: “Right-Wing Extremists More Dangerous Than Islamic Terrorists In U.S.” TruthDig was thrilled: “White Right-Wing Terrorists Are Biggest Threat to Americans, Study Finds.” And on and on.
The media delight stemmed from the fact that the study confirmed its biases and relentless endeavor to downplay and deny the jihad threat. Thus the New York Times and NPR and the rest were not in the least interested in the fact that the New America Foundation study was obviously skewed, as it was based on the number of those killed by jihadis and by right-wing extremists since September 12, 2001, leaving out 9/11. The study also ignored the many, many foiled jihad plots, and the fact that jihadis are part of an international movement that has killed many thousands of people, while right-wingers and white supremacists are not. It stated that right-wing extremists had killed 48 people from September 12, 2001 to June 2015, while Islamic jihadists had killed only 26 people in the U.S. in that span. If 9/11 had been added, the tally would have been 3,032 killed by Islamic jihadists and 48 by purported right-wing extremists.
But all right, let’s play by the New America Foundation’s rules. Counting the Orlando jihad massacre, but leaving out 9/11 as the NAF study did, the death toll now stands at 76 killed by Islamic jihadis, and 48 by purported right-wing extremists (I repeat “purported” because to get to its count of 48, the NAF counted as “right-wing” attacks killings that were perpetrated by people who were obviously deranged psychopaths devoid of any ideology).
Will the New York Times’ appalling Scott Shane now issue an amended report? Will NPR? Mediaite? HuffPo? Or any of the other “news” organizations that so enthusiastically propagated this false study in the summer of 2015?
I won’t be holding my breath.
And now we learn that the SPLC has inflated the numbers of “right-wing extremist” attacks by including Islamic jihad attacks among them. No wonder the Left is so complacent about the jihad threat, while so exercised about the supposed threat from the “right-wing.”
The real scandal here is that the establishment propaganda media still continues to present this far-Left hate machine, the SPLC, as if it were a reliable source.
KrazyKafir says
Nobody is better at fake news than the regressive left.
Don Foss says
Sane and sensible people have watched and listened to “Progressives” long enough now to know they are to be simply ignored and rejected as growth-stunted children in adults´ clothing. Non-critical thinkers who try to deal with the world the way they wish it was, and based on falsehoods, rather than the way it actually is and based on truth and facts. The People in Democracies all over the world no longer take them seriously. Their “progressive” experiment has failed.
SFC (USA Retired) Aubrey L Mason says
@Robert Spencer;
Their narrative must fit the “information” they have already set up for their coup.
Read DHS Doc IA-0257-09 and note the timelines of the claimed issues – note how OLD their claims of “right wing extremists” are….
And note that the issues they claim in the doc – did not exist in the timeframe this document was published….they only existed AFTER the issues were CREATED – by mr obama and his “administration” in the years after it was published..
https://fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf
Angemon says
But remember: it’s Trump’s fault that people distrust the mainstream media…
Angemon says
Ups, disregard that – something got stuck in the clipboard area instead of:
D-spot says
In an interview with the BBCC (think it was), Marine Le Penn, a most sensible person, stated that the political upheavals in France and the rest of Europe no longer represented the ‘left’ and ‘right’ but ‘globalists and nationalists’ – until we are all the same! Shades of 1984? After all, it would seem ‘Big Brother’ is alive and well in the globalists camp.
Just a thought.
common sense says
News from down under. Supremacy over whites by the rules, nanny laws and backward policy of white nation leaders. Who are really the supremacists?
https://m.facebook.com/#!/unitedpatriotsfront/?refid=8&_ft_=qid.6363609746775600089%3Amf_story_key.6296034119876029441%3Atop_level_post_id.10206166972692134&__tn__=C
common sense says
I’m not the Aussie in the vid I’m American.
simpleton1 says
Thank you commonsense.
It shows very well the situation and struggle in Australia against islam, immigration and “antifa”
An interesting site in Australia, that takes up the news of the day that pertain to immigration, islam and “antifa”.
Also legal actions and how the State and Federal components react.
https://m.facebook.com/unitedpatriotsfront/?refid=8&_ft_=qid.6363609746775600089%3Amf_story_key.6296034119876029441%3Atop_level_post_id.10206166972692134&__tn__=C
8 mins 16 seconds
To glance though this site brings much more of the news and some of the problems in Australia, and around the world, with this Aussie understanding, that relate to the above topics.
mortimer says
Professional SAUDI-PAID LIARS at SPLC. Betraying America for a handsome fee.
Charles says
The SPLC has been in bed with the Muslims terrorist for decades! You can’t expect them to up and change overnight!
Nothing they say can be believed. They have shown their true colors for all to see.
Perhaps President Trump can ban them by executive order?
We can only hope!
Glenn Wilson says
When Mark Potok was born the Doctor disposed of the baby and keep the after-birth.
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer: The SPLC’s “Terror from the Right” Deception
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Characterizing the Jihad terror attack in Orlando as “terror from the right” is just grotesquely false.
David says
Even the New America Foundation has updated its stats and has Islamic terror beating right-wing terror.
Cretius says
The SPLC are demented assholes and enemies of any decent person.