• Why Jihad Watch?
  • About Robert Spencer and Staff Writers
  • FAQ
  • Books
  • Muhammad
  • Islam 101
  • Privacy

Jihad Watch

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Robert Spencer: Why Trump Shouldn’t Have Signed the Resolution Condemning ‘Hate Groups’

Sep 25, 2017 5:33 pm By Robert Spencer

Anyone the SPLC decides to target now could be at risk. My latest in PJ Media:

On Thursday, President Trump signed a congressional resolution about the events that took place in Charlottesville, VA, in August:

Resolution … expressing support for the Charlottesville community, rejecting White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups, and urging the President and the President’s Cabinet to use all available resources to address the threats posed by those groups.

Great idea, right? No sane person supports the Klan and neo-Nazis, and this should put an end to the spurious brouhaha over Trump’s post-Charlottesville remarks.

But there is more going on here. The key element of this resolution is not its reference to “White supremacists, White nationalists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis.”

The key element is the “other hate groups.”

The Klan and the neo-Nazis — in reality as opposed to Leftist fever dreams — are insignificant and negligible forces. Their influence and numbers are so negligible that it is safe to say, even after Charlottesville, that this resolution was most likely not about them at all. This resolution is all about those “other hate groups,” and here again we see the hand of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The SPLC has become notorious for classifying legitimate organizations that dissent from Leftist ideology as “hate groups.”

The SPLC recently refused to classify Antifa as a “hate group.” It is noteworthy that the resolution Trump signed does not refer to Antifa or to any other violent Left-fascist groups, but only to the putative racist and neo-Nazi threat.

Reacting to the manifest unfairness of the SPLC’s list, 47 leaders who are unfairly classified as members of “hate groups” recently published an open letter to the media, asking journalists not to refer to the SPLC as if it were a reliable arbiter of what does and does not constitute a “hate group.”

That letter, of which I was a signer, read:

The SPLC is a discredited, left-wing, political activist organization that seeks to silence its political opponents with a ‘hate group’ label of its own invention and application that is not only false and defamatory, but that also endangers the lives of those targeted with it.

The letter added:

We believe the media outlets that have cited the SPLC in recent days have not intended to target mainstream political groups for violent attack, but by recklessly linking the Charlottesville melee to the mainstream groups named on the SPLC website, we are left to wonder if another Floyd Lee Corkins will soon be incited to violence.

Corkins was the Leftist fanatic who, inspired by the SPLC “hate group” list, went to the offices of the Family Research Council intending to shoot its officials and smear their faces with Chick-fil-A sandwiches. He shot the building manager, who nonetheless was able to stop him before he killed anyone else.

The letter calling on journalists to stop referring to the SPLC as a reliable source also stated:

To associate public interest law firms and think tanks with neo-Nazis and the KKK is unconscionable, and represents the height of irresponsible journalism. All reputable news organizations should immediately stop using the SPLC’s descriptions of individuals and organizations based on its own obvious political prejudices.

Indeed. But now that Trump has signed this resolution, the question is larger than simply one of news coverage.

Perfectly legitimate organizations are falsely classified as “hate groups” and lumped in with the KKK and neo-Nazis by that well-heeled hate and smear machine. And the resolution states “all available resources” of the United States government will be used against such “hate groups.”

Keep in mind the fact that when this resolution refers to “hate groups,” the Southern Poverty Law Center doesn’t have any competitors. Its “hate group” list is the only one around. It’s the only one government officials will be able to refer to when they begin to put teeth into this resolution.

That means that groups opposing jihad terror and unrestricted immigration, and defending traditional values could, on the basis of this resolution, be targeted and destroyed. Now that it has become clear that a great many people who are still entrenched in the Washington bureaucracy are diehard Obama loyalists who align perfectly with the SPLC’s political agenda, this is a very real possibility.

Read the rest here.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Follow me on Facebook

Filed Under: Donald Trump, Featured, free speech, Leftist/Islamic Alliance Tagged With: Charlottesville


Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Comments

  1. Anna Lodge says

    Sep 25, 2017 at 5:44 pm

    This why Trump has gone nuts. He is listening to Mike Pence who a bloody liar. Please read and then go and show everyone on twitter and facebook. Trump’s VP: 10 things to know about Mike Pence as Governor and he broke the law. http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2016/07/07/trumps-vp-10-things-know-indiana-gov-mike-pence/86746980/ and http://fw.to/eFf6THT

    • Andy says

      Sep 26, 2017 at 9:04 pm

      F__ the NFL

      https://www.facebook.com/FUCK-the-NFL-269286823469663/?hc_ref=ARRP5v903CrBaG1i7z35Pyzz2xIDn3160MnbmCL_XC81Iu8usj1jU51o6YNx_Y0o2ig&fref=nf

      “WHITE PRIVILEGE”.

  2. Lydia says

    Sep 25, 2017 at 6:53 pm

    It’s the yellow brick road to persecution for us.
    One brick is laid at a time.

  3. jewdog says

    Sep 25, 2017 at 9:00 pm

    Unlike Trump, there are many Republicans who understand the subtleties involved here and will not allow this to go too far. I hope.

  4. gravenimage says

    Sep 25, 2017 at 9:52 pm

    Robert Spencer: Why Trump Shouldn’t Have Signed the Resolution Condemning ‘Hate Groups’
    ………………..

    “Other hate groups” includes those who oppose the rape of little children and mass slaughter of innocent people.

  5. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Sep 25, 2017 at 10:06 pm

    It’s guilt by SPLC hate list association.

    Good analysis, Robert.

  6. mortimer says

    Sep 25, 2017 at 11:06 pm

    The Left is deciding which groups THEY HATE … but it is not HATE SPEECH when the LEFTARDS do it.

  7. rbla says

    Sep 26, 2017 at 12:14 am

    Re the vicious anti-Semitic tweets of Valerie Plame, when are Pelosi, Schumer, the liberal media, Hollywood etc. going to denounce Plame in no uncertain terms and apologize for their previous support for her and in fact be required to constantly denounce her for an indefinite period of time? That is what they are always requiring of Republicans.

  8. Guest says

    Sep 26, 2017 at 12:59 am

    That was simply too much effort to make him say the KKK are bad

  9. melancholy observer says

    Sep 26, 2017 at 5:41 am

    Its the disgusting liberal media! They are absolute fall-guys for Black lives that matter and every other pretentious and provocative outfit trying to reinvent white racism as if it is still the days of’Jim Crow’. Because the klan is colourful and scary it can be promoted as a very saleable media product. Meanwhile the real Klan is ignored ie of course Radical Islam. And of course the real Nazis can be ignored that is ‘Antifa’ they’re the ones who will see another holocaust with a fallen Israel and eventually anti-semitc pogroms in Europe and eventually America and Australia. Thankyou lioberal media!

  10. nicholas tesdorf says

    Sep 26, 2017 at 5:45 am

    It’s a pity that there aren’t a few groups taking down Antifa and the Southern Poverty Law Center, rather than taking down harmless statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson which are simply mementoes of times past and half-forgotten. The stalking horse of using ‘hate-speech’ to shut down Free Speech is the most dangerous sort of Jihad.

  11. rbla says

    Sep 26, 2017 at 10:11 am

    I hate to be in the position of giving some of those characters on the right any ideas. But if they want a “get out of jail free” card all they have to do is convert to Islam. A few bows to Mecca every day and they can keep all of their other views and add a lot worse bigotry and racism; the SPLC and all the other leftwing phonies will be silent.

  12. Rich says

    Sep 26, 2017 at 2:58 pm

    Trump Signs “Anti-Hate” Resolution Threatening Freedom of Speech..
    Trump’s DACA dealings with the Democrats aren’t the only indication that the predicted leftward lurch is underway. There may be no cause dearer to the liberal heart than the restriction of speech under the guise of suppressing “hate” — with hate inevitably becoming defined as whatever the authorities want us to hate. Progressives might want to reconsider their sputtering hatred for Trump in light of this:
    Trump signed a congressional resolution condemning a white nationalist march on Charlottesville, Va. last month, saying he opposes “hatred, bigotry, and racism in all forms.” …
    The joint resolution, sponsored by Democratic Virginia senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, was largely ceremonial. It condemned the events of Charlottesville as a “domestic terror attack,” and urged Trump to “speak out against hate groups that espouse racism, extremism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and White supremacy.”
    Sounds like virtue-signaling B.S., vaguely denouncing political incorrectness as a formality. No wonder it was hardly reported. The sanctimonious, time-wasting resolution was devoid of significance.

    Or maybe not:
    The resolution demands “the President and the President’s Cabinet… use all available resources to address the threats posed by those groups” and requires “the heads of other Federal agencies… improve the reporting of hate crimes and… emphasize the importance of the collection, and… reporting to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, of hate crime data by State and local agencies”.

    http://moonbattery.com/?p=87923

  13. Rich says

    Sep 26, 2017 at 3:01 pm

    White Nationalist term is a media created term bringing up thoughts of the KKK..
    White Nationalist: the term itself, as in anything with the word White before it is a racist term bringing up thoughts of the KKK. how about his, American nationalist? the media would also call this a cover name for the KKK… and the thought process, if you are white, voted for Trump, support a Constitutional Republic then you are by that alone a KKK supporter, racist, and of course privileged,
    The leaders of the “alleged movement” have all been doxed and are constructs for the false meme.
    These alleged white nationalist people are usually linked to a progressive open borders agenda think tank. This whole subject is a live action role play. It doesn’t exist in America and hasn’t for decades.
    Nationalism is the support of the Constitution, the equality of law, upholding of the law, and support of individual God-given rights. One can be a nationalist and be of any race.

    It is the farthest thing from “white supremacy” as can be and certainly is not criminal.

  14. Rich says

    Sep 26, 2017 at 3:02 pm

    The Alt-Right is Not Right – It’s Left…..The alt-right is myth
    One of the pillars of conservatism is “The Golden Rule,” which automatically precludes white nationalism or racial supremacy of any kind.
    According to McPaper, the white nationalist/supremacist Richard Spencer coined the term in 2008. If he uses the term alt-right to identify himself and his fellow believers – this begs a question?
    Was President Woodrow Wilson a member of the alt-right? He was a racist white supremacist.
    So were President Lyndon Johnson and the late Democrat Senator Robert Byrd.
    Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood to halt the spread of the black race. I’d call that white supremacism.
    The KKK was the enforcers of the white supremacist Southern Democrat Party, the Dixiecrats.
    Alt-right demonstrators hit the streets adorned with Nazi paraphernalia and Confederate flags.
    Neither of those symbols represents American conservatism.
    In fact, the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party, which these nuts appear to be so fond of, was a tale of combat between two competing leftist ideologies – fascism and communism.
    Neither faction incidentally resembled conservatism or what we’ve come to know as “the right.”
    The German KPD was the largest communist party outside the Soviet Union during the 1920s.
    It was the Trotsky-inspired KPD or German Communist Party vs. the Hitler led fascist “National Socialist German Workers Party” (Nazis).
    There were no “right-wingers” involved at all.
    And did I see the word socialist?
    By cracky, I did.
    I don’t know of anyone who would confuse conservatism with socialism.
    The alt-right is myth.
    It’s a name crafted to confuse the public into thinking these loons were spawned out of the conservative movement.
    It should actually be relabeled, or labeled properly as the National Socialist American Party, because they are in fact fascists – not of the right and certainly not conservative.
    But because of our woefully inept education system in this country, most believe fascism and Hitler were right wing.
    They couldn’t be more wrong.
    The fascists were leftists who had/have a lot more in common with communists than with free market conservative capitalists.
    The major difference between fascists and communists is that the former is nationalistic and the latter, internationalistic.

    http://freedomoutpost.com/alt-right-not-right-left/

  15. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Sep 26, 2017 at 9:46 pm

    So, what’s a “Hate-group!” anyway?!

    Let’s quickly explore this latest case of emergent leftopathic nonsense:

    Since rational people get angry with criminals for their predatory choices, and criminals insist they have no choices because we’re all equally victims who should therefore tolerate the diverse differences between the kind of victim who attacks innocent others first, and those who don’t, they insist pity is always good and anger is always bad.

    Since criminals expect that all is generally allowed unless and until it is very specifically disallowed in advance, the only real crime is trying to prevent them from doing whatever they want to do, to whomever they want to do it to, and whenever they want to do it. Such attempts are always seen by them as “mean!” or more recently, “HATEFUL!”

    But as Robert Spencer noted:

    Incitement to violence is easy to spot – but incitement to “hostility” is in the eye of the beholder; so all anti-free-speech initiatives conflate (anti-crime) free speech and even (what they call “hateful”) feelings with actual violent crimes; for instance trying to criminalize speech against a religion or race (say, against someone for their simply noticing that islam isn’t really a race or a religion, but is only a global crime-gang).

    The whole notion of “hate-speech” and “hate-crimes” IS a crime! Having “hate” isn’t a criminal act, it’s EITHER the perfectly natural and neutral human response to ongoing injustices, OR it’s a victim-blaming slanderous HABIT; but either way, it’s only an effect, and not a cause of anything. I hate crimes & the criminals who commit them; so what?

    “Hate crimes” are really only *thought*-crimes, which is a victim-blaming slanderous assertion made by criminals to deflect everyone’s attention away from their own crimes (since criminals are psycho-paths who hate thinking, of course to them) by asserting that anyone merely considering or feeling that one should dislike something bad – aka crime and criminals – should be accused of committing the only “illegal crime” in itself; c.f: “Hate!”

  16. Frederick says

    Sep 27, 2017 at 10:46 am

    One needs to understand the meaning of ‘White supremacists’ was changed in the the last decade. It is now taught in Social Sciences and understood by the Black Community and Media to mean ANY White person in any position of authority or power, regardless of how they got there.

    Under the new definition then; a white 25-year employee who becomes a Bank VP or School Principal is under the new term a “White Supremacist’. Proponents of the term really want the total destruction of all Whites.

  17. underbed cat says

    Sep 27, 2017 at 3:54 pm

    The muslim brotherhood started out as a muslim group to support Islam so it would be established in the U.S. ,and aligned with civil rights in a country with the most civil rights. They also grew rapidly msa’s,( student groups) created financial help to build mosques, received money from the Ummah, created charities, created muslim schools, assists with grants to top universities, funded civil right move for aiding black students financially, aiding politicians from both parties and assisted and directed advisors for the war on terror, supports jihra as refugees from assorted muslim countries migration from Islamic countries and have a knack for calm steady talking points. But for some reason when it comes to analysis of the goals of Islam, a silence occurs, resistance is ordered and free speech becomes the enemy termed as racist. And in my opinion that is the reason the President should not have signed on to hate speech to silence facts in my opinion. Off side punt?

FacebookYoutubeTwitterLog in

Subscribe to the Jihad Watch Daily Digest

You will receive a daily mailing containing links to the stories posted at Jihad Watch in the last 24 hours.
Enter your email address to subscribe.

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!
If you are forwarding to a friend, please remove the unsubscribe buttons first, as they my accidentally click it.

Subscribe to all Jihad Watch posts

You will receive immediate notification.
Enter your email address to subscribe.
Note: This may be up to 15 emails a day.

Donate to JihadWatch
FrontPage Mag

Search Site

Translate

The Team

Robert Spencer in FrontPageMag
Robert Spencer in PJ Media

Articles at Jihad Watch by
Robert Spencer
Hugh Fitzgerald
Christine Douglass-Williams
Andrew Harrod
Jamie Glazov
Daniel Greenfield

Contact Us

Terror Attacks Since 9/11

Archives

  • 2020
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2019
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2018
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2017
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2016
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2015
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2014
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2013
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2012
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2011
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2010
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2009
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2008
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2007
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2006
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2005
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2004
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2003
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • March

All Categories

You Might Like

Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Recent Comments

  • Crusades Were Right on Muslim cleric: ‘We welcomed the takeover of ISIS because they wanted to implement the Sharia’
  • curious george on Israel At A Crossroads?
  • Crusades Were Right on Muslim cleric: ‘We welcomed the takeover of ISIS because they wanted to implement the Sharia’
  • William Garrison on The Fantasy Islam of Rice University’s Craig Considine (Part 3)
  • Vladimir on Islamic Republic of Iran: Turkey’s Erdogan champions Islam only as a tool to further his own interests

Popular Categories

dhimmitude Sharia Jihad in the U.S ISIS / Islamic State / ISIL Iran Free Speech

Robert Spencer FaceBook Page

Robert Spencer Twitter

Robert Spencer twitter

Robert Spencer YouTube Channel

Books by Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries - Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense

Content copyright Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to their respective owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Our mailing address is: David Horowitz Freedom Center, P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, CA 91499-1964

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.