They’re either clueless or complicit.
“The SPLC smear machine is being funded by liberal billionaires — why?,” by Fred Fleitz, Fox News, August 29, 2017:
In a scathing August 24 New York Times op-ed, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born feminist, author, scholar and former Dutch parliament member, lamented that the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) “has hit the jackpot” in huge donations in the aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville. Hirsi Ali noted that Apple pledged $1 million to the SPLC; JP Morgan Chase & Co. half a million; George and Amal Clooney $1 million.
While Hirsi Ali condemned Nazism, white supremacy and racial bigotry as having no place in a civilized society, she made it clear that contributing to the SPLC is the wrong way to combat this poison.
As I explained in a 2016 Fox News Opinion article, the Southern Poverty Law Center is a left wing smear machine that tries to denigrate conservative individuals and organizations by lumping them together with white nationalists, KKK members and neo-Nazis on so-called hate lists. In a recent Frontpage Magazine article, Daniel Greenfield described the SPLC as “one of the longest running malicious jokes on the internet.” Conservatives targeted by the SPLC include American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray, Accuracy in Media President Cliff Kinkaid (who SPLC has singled out for challenging global warming), the Family Research Council, and WorldNetDaily founder Joseph Farah.
Smearing anyone who speaks out against radical Islam is one of the SPLC’s priorities. Accordingly, it has placed on its hate lists Jihad Watch and its Director Robert Spencer; American Freedom Defense Initiative and its director Pamela Geller; and Maajid Nawaz a Muslim reformer who runs Quilliam, a London-based organization that aims to counter jihadism and extremism. My organization, the Center for Security Policy and our president Frank Gaffney, also are on the SPLC’s hate lists due to our principled stand against the Global Jihad Movement.
Despite how transparently political the SPLC’s hate lists are, the main stream media regularly cites them as authoritative sources.
Last October, the SPLC added Ayaan Hirsi Ali to its hate list, an appalling act that ignored the decades of intimidation, hatred and fear Ms. Hirsi Ali has endured from radical Islamists. This decision also reflected the SPLC’s disgraceful practice of turning a blind eye to the violent hatred and extremism of radical Islam, which Hirsi Ali noted in her op-ed includes weekly killing sprees around the world, justifying wife-beating, enslavement of female unbelievers, murdering gay people and virulent anti-Semitism.
The violence, hatred and intimidation radical Islamists have inflicted on Ayaan Hirsi Ali have been extreme. She was subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) at the age of five when she lived in Somalia. She fled to the Netherlands to escape an arranged marriage. After becoming a Dutch citizen, Hirsi Ali was elected to the Dutch Parliament and began working on a film with filmmaker Theo van Gogh titled “Submission” on the oppression of women under Islam. Van Gogh was assassinated by a radical Islamist for making this film. After other radical Islamists threatened to kill Hirsi Ali for her work on the film, she was forced to live in a secret location in the Netherlands under high security.
Hirsi Ali moved to the United States in 2006 and is now a fellow at Harvard University’s JFK School of Government and a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She has written two best-selling books, “Infidel” (which chronicles her life) and “Heretic: Why Islam Needs Reformation Now.” Because of continuing threats against her life by radical Islamists, Hirsi Ali lives with round-the-clock security and does not travel without an armed security detail.
Despite how transparently political the SPLC’s hate lists are, the main stream media regularly cites them as authoritative sources. CNN recently ran a story about hate groups in the U.S. citing these hate lists which it was forced to partially retract after a backlash by conservatives. Because of this CNN article and other recent misleading press stories driven by the SPLC, PayPal suspended the accounts of Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller and their organizations. Fortunately, another backlash forced PayPal to quickly reverse this decision….
PRCS says
Simple: because they’re liberals.
Michael says
I think it’s more likely because they are Muslims. Not because they believe that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah – they probably don’t believe that there’s any such thing as truth or any afterlife or judgement after death.
They are Muslims in the sense that they affirm Islamic beliefs because, being greedy billionaires, these beliefs provide legitimacy for their ambition to plunder and dominate non-Muslims and basically own everything on the planet.
mortimer says
SPLC is an organ of the RED-GREEN AXIS of Evil.
DrSique says
Bingo!!! They share a leftist vision of the imaginary utopia that society should strive toward. Unfortunately, Hirsan Ali is right. The worst way to defeat bigotry and hatred is to fund the hateful opposition. The only thing that left wing SPLC donors have succeeded in is to pit well funded violent left wing organizations against unfunded racists. Of course, even the most moderate of liberals will still parrot the talking points about how conservatives support the radicals in robes. This while liberal celebs are literally writing checks to radical organizations like the SPLC.
Yohanan says
When SPLC began to tar non-violent political opponents as fascist hate groups the SPLC lost its scope and focus on the real dangers and extremist violence by nazis. Philanthropic corruption, moral and intellectual laziness, political attachments are likely reasons for SPLC’s mistakes and failings. For example besides this counter-jihad site of Robert Spencer, the SPLC listed as misogynist hate group “A Voice for Men” of Paul Elam. (Radical feminists do not like to be reminded of children’s rights for contact and access with their fathers.)
PRCS says
Some items of interest from that article:
Radical Islam: the ongoing lie that Islam comes in regular and radical versions
Jihadism: Communism and Nazism are stand alone ideologies. Jihad is a core component of written, Orthodox Islam.
Extremism: the ignorant notion that–at some undefined point–a Muslim’s compliance with Qur’an and Sunna constitutes “extremism”.
Radical Islamists: as if they differ from regular Islamists.
mortimer says
– Sheikh Adel al-Kalbani (former imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca), has said that the Islamic State (ISIS) follows the same brand of Islam as officially espoused by Saudi Arabia.
“We follow the same thought [as IS] but apply it in a refined way,” he said. “They draw their ideas from what is written in our own books, from our own principles.”
The cleric said that “we do not criticise the thought on which it (IS) is based”.
WorkingClassPost says
During my working career, I often encountered guys who used lists as some kind of indispensable life aid, and it’s easy to see that SPLC have tapped into that mentality: the craving for order and a simple map of what’s right, wrong and needs to be done.
I met many women who said that lists are a male obsession, and they’re probably correct, but not all men, for sure.
So the SPLC have their angle: “Here is a list,” they cry, “and everything is solved.”
Simplistic, stupid and very dangerous, to say nothing of the trauma for those unfairly listed.
Perhaps we should build a list of islamic enablers, but I hope we can be more discriminating between the wilful and the corrupt, and those who are ignorant and wishfully optimistic, and yet another category of the fearful; those too horrified by what is happening in the world to allow their gentle and tortured senses to accept the inevitable and catastrophic end that gets closer with each passing day.
Now, with a list like that…
mortimer says
Koko’s List:
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,
I’ve got a little list — I’ve got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground,
And who never would be missed — who never would be missed!
There’s the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs —
All people who have flabby hands and irritating laughs —
All children who are up in dates, and floor you with ’em flat —
All persons who in shaking hands, shake hands with you like that —
And all third persons who on spoiling tête-á-têtes insist —
They’d none of ’em be missed — they’d none of ’em be missed!
And that Nisi Prius nuisance, who just now is rather rife,
The Judicial humorist — I’ve got him on the list!
All funny fellows, comic men, and clowns of private life —
They’d none of ’em be missed — they’d none of ’em be missed.
And apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind,
Such as — What d’ye call him — Thing’em-bob, and likewise — Never-mind,
And ‘St— ‘st— ‘st— and What’s-his-name, and also You-know-who —
The task of filling up the blanks I’d rather leave to you.
But it really doesn’t matter whom you put upon the list,
For they’d none of ’em be missed — they’d none of ’em be missed!
WorkingClassPost says
For sure the SPLC will soon be gone.
When they’re exposed and deposed,
and expunged from our worthy lists of the good and true,
the champions of the many and defenders of the few.
Like those who pay and praise them and loathe who’s on their list,
they’ll soon be gone, forgotten, and no, they won’t be missed.
mortimer says
Those slandered by SPLC have only ONE THING in common: They all criticize Islam.
There is no conceivable reason that the liberal-reformist Muslim Maajid Nawaz and ex-Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali should be called out for ‘HATE’. They are not even conservatives.
And both of them are from the officially designated ‘victim’ groups of black African or Asian.
It is clear that SPLC’s main raison d’être is to slander and smear anyone who criticizes canonical Islam. This strongly suggests that SPLC is financed by governments such as Iran or Saudi Arabia.
The SPLC could also be another puppet or front of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The commonality of SPLC’s targets (criticism of Islam) is the tipoff to who they actually are.
An undercover investigation should be done to reveal the donors and their motives.
Westman says
It’s basically about money and cowardice in a common confluence. Neither the tech giants or the liberals want the economic/hedonistic party to stop. Facing the reality of Islam’s aggression would require responding to it – which would cause the current guns-and-butter situation to become unbalanced in the direction of guns.
Funding the SPLC keeps the liberals uninformed about Islam’s true agenda and ideology. Why would an Apple aficionado dig into the ideology when Tim Cook has given his imprimatur? The tech business wants Globalism to have both the maximum consumer base, maximum pool of lowest-cost employees, and the maximum profits.US laws requiring “maximum return to shareholders”, guts the ethics out of multi-national corporations and makes them more seditious than the nation’s enemies – destroying workers of their native country and hiding profits offshore.
The SCOTUS has declared corporations as citizens. Too many are bad citizens. The laws governing corporations need serious revision to require that the interests of the nation and citizens come first, before their ethic-less profits.
Because of the 401(k) investments of most adult citizens, our economic future is (purposefully) entwined with that of the very corporations that are destroying the nation. Only a few citizens are willing to take the economic bath that would be required to take control of the country. As long as there is credit on the nation’s card, the party will continue.
The chances of the citizens taking back control of their economic future and recognizing their actual enemies (while hedonism is still viable) is about as likely as Muslims voting for the dog acts on America’s Got Talent.
Guest says
‘Why?’ We know why! The left are cowards who would rather surrender and let their people suffer, than defend what is theirs!
simpleton1 says
I can understand that some of those major contributors, that in some ways have a left leaning, rationalizing executive.
Then there is a joining the sheep mentality of not thinking.
Where so many others have joined and seem to be ok with the things, so also join.
I do wonder that SPLC in seeming to have been come large and influential, may also be sort of “black mailing”
It becomes a bit of insurance to not have any future problems, that may become very expensive for your nice and good company that you have there..
We may not know the subtlety of the blackmail as they will not speak out and kill the golden egg goose for what has become an effective revenue stream.
A way of recognizing the guidance that such corp-orates need in the ways of this modern world
It seems that SPLC have a carrot, the feel good factor, that is rationalized to be important for corporate image, and then there is the stick.
Sort of little barbs on that stick , of political correctness, diversity affirmative actions, feminist pay equality and power numbers, gender recognition, disabled facilities, eco climate change sustainability, religious freedom,(haji, ramadan, prayer rooms) etc.
Just who wants to be tarred/charged with being part of the 1% where you are considered a reactionary non democratic institution/corporate. Image and the perception is what corporates consider very important.
Also that is their Archille’s heel, that we can use, and by using “truth”.
Liza says
Google their IRS Form 990. They already have loads of $. High salaries. I hope D. James Kennedy wins his court battle against them.
Robert_k says
Apple, JP Morgan, George and Amal Clooney, the wealthy all donating to SPLC, so SPLC must be right. As Tevye from the “Fiddler on the Roof” said in “If I were a rich man”, “It wouldn’t matter if I were wrong or right. Because if you are rich they think you really know”.
Lydia says
There is an agenda. There are pieces to the machinery to accomplish their goals. Money is behind much of these things. Different puzzle pieces and puppets are part of it all. Behind it all sits those behind the curtain, who pull the puppet strings. Behind them, sits the devil. His #1 target is Christians, next Jews. He uses all he has at his disposal for these targets. He moves slowly, stealthily. See verses below:
“We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.” 1 John 5; 19
“And he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of [b]the world in a moment of time. And the devil said to Him, “I will give You all this domain and its glory; for it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. Therefore if You worship before me, it shall all be Yours.” Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’” ” Luke 4; 5-8
Some have answered “yes” to that offer, and the antichrist is the ultimate taker upper on it.
This shows the dynamics of what goes on behind the scenes in the spirit world, and it explains a LOT.
Of course God is above all, but these things are temporarily allowed since the Garden of Eden for a reason, until the return of Christ.
Dory Glover says
Boycott Apple.
John Forbes says
America has a HUGE SO called 5th Column that all seem aware of & want dismantled !
Maybe I at least was very naive & believed that Trump & hs new team would at least start to track & destroy this 5 th Column but as I stated being NAIVE & A HOPPER is not a tried & true strategy !
ASIDE FROM ARMED REBELLION there is little Mr & Mrs average can do to change things !
The LEFT has allied itself with ISLAM for reasons that TOTALLY Escape my thought process & as I see it also totally DEFY LOGIC & I really do not understand but I am equally VERY afraid of the Rise of Islam & SHARIA !
I also cannot fathom the SOROS Foundations & his open borders narrative of his ANTIFA funding ?
What I do see however is the RISE FINALLY of POLAND,HUNGARY,SLOVAKIA & the Checks & DEFIANCE of MERKEL & BRUSSELS against the INSANITY of the LEFT !
I very much doubt that it is enough to SAVE WESTERN Europe but it may be enough to SAVE EASTERN EUROPE & I certainly hope so !
TRUMP & McMaster are a real disappointment in the refusal once again to declare ISLAM NOT as a RELIGION of peace & to State that VIOLENCE has everything to do with ISLAM because this s the TRUTH !
If anyone can explain the logic behind the LEFT & The ISLAM alliance please do because I am totally confused about this !!! Also baffling is the WESTS apparent love affair with the IDEOLOGY of ISLAM ??
I have seen this time & again & seen the totally STUBBORN REFUSAL to accept that the VIOLENCE of BOMBINGS is CAUSED PRIMARILY by the TEACHINGS of ISLAM & ITS HATRED of the WEST ,Western Music & DEMOCRACY !
Even with leaflets placed in the face of AMBER RUDD on a panel there is STILL STUBBORN DENIAL & acceptance of BLATANT LIES put out by ISLAMIC LIARS SITTING NEXT to the LEAFLET HOLDER !
I am totally lost with this but when VIOLENCE STARTS & IT WILL I see these DENIERS RESPONSIBLE at least in PART !!
Michael Casmer says
Yes, the Catholic Church is on that list
RCCA says
All the liberals I know are clueless, not complicit. They are simply unwilling to do the work to inform themselves and are unwilling to take any information if offered by conservatives. Conservatives are bad people and anything they say has to be evil and wrong.
Not saying I know any billionaires, but just because someone has lots of money doesn’t mean they know anything about Islam or Islamic doctrine.
Too bad people are so caught up in identity politics.