Yet another blow to the rapidly sinking credibility of this hate-and-smear organization. But the problem really isn’t the SPLC; the problem is the legitimacy that the establishment media and many people who ought to know better grant to the SPLC. If that were taken away, it wouldn’t matter who the SPLC put on its hit lists. But the establishment media, being yet another far-Left propaganda enterprise, is not going to repudiate the SPLC anytime soon.
“SPLC Ignores Muslim Anti-Semitism, Warns About Danger to Muslims From Holocaust Denial,” by Tyler O’Neil, PJ Media, July 22, 2018:
On Saturday, the left-wing smear organization the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) attacked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for suggesting that some forms of Holocaust denial could be acceptable on Facebook. Tragically, the left-wing group did not mention a key source of Holocaust denial: anti-Israel sentiment, and anti-Semitism among Muslims. Instead, the SPLC expressed fear that Holocaust denial might hurt American Muslims.
While Nazis were the first to start crafting lies rejecting the reality of the Holocaust, Holocaust denial is most mainstream among Muslims in the Middle East. A 2014 survey by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found that 63 percent of people in the Middle East and North Africa said the Holocaust was “a myth or an exaggeration. A full 65 percent said “Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars.” A whopping 74 percent of those in the Middle East and North Africa harbored anti-Semitic views.
When asked directly about the Holocaust, 61 percent of Muslims under age 65 said it was a myth or an exaggeration, while Christians were consistently the least likely to deny the Holocaust (followed by Buddhists and non-religious people). Hindus also proved surprisingly likely to deny the Holocaust.
After preliminary notes about Nazis founding the practice — pushing “the deeply offensive lie that the Holocaust was a fraud concocted by Jews” — the SPLC noted that it monitors 10 active Holocaust denial groups in the U.S., four of which have a minor presence on Facebook. To its credit, the SPLC does have two pro-Palestinian groups on that list: two chapters of Der Yassin Remembered.
At the same time, after a brief mention of “the resurgence in antisemitism online,” the SPLC went on to lament the plight of American Muslims — some of whom are spreading Holocaust denial in an effort to slander the State of Israel.
“Zuckerberg’s refusal to address propaganda as hateful and obvious as Holocaust denial also bodes poorly for other vulnerable communities, such as American Muslims, a community regularly demonized by rhetoric espoused by even the president,” the SPLC warned. “As it stands, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant propagandists easily clear the low hurdles set up by platforms like Facebook.”
While the SPLC article only mentioned Jews once — in explaining the denial as “the deeply offensive lie that the Holocaust was a fraud concocted by Jews” — and anti-Semitism once, it referenced Muslims twice, and pivoted to discuss Muslims in the context of Holocaust denial, without once mentioning the mainstreaming of Holocaust denial among anti-Israel Muslims….
Shelley Bayless says
The SPLC must’ve been bought be Muslims! They are just a front organization.
mortimer says
Exactly… what’s suspicious about the following: SPLC criticizes only those who are Republicans or conservative. They do not criticize Muslims who are anti-Semites calling for the destruction of Jews and Israel.
So SPLC has nothing bad to say about ISLAMIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS and their FRONTS in the US.
Very suspicious … follow the money.
underbed cat says
Money talks bull shit walks……follow the money and the threats and know the enemy…..and never forget nor forgive 9/11 or excuse it.
elee says
Hey SPLC! When you think about the Holocaust think about this: “Allah in heaven and Hitler on earth.”
Not familiar with this (MAINSTREAM) Muslim saying? Ask your contributors.
Charlie says
Just follow the money. Moral imperatives are bought and sold. SPLC is handling hundreds of millions that it uses for influence peddling. They are serving as cover for their clients. One only needs to read the Quran and Hadith to see the hate, and the exhortations to exterminate or extort from the Jews of the ancient Hijaz. $$$$$$$ can turn principled examination and critical thinking into “hate speech”. The ADL is almost as hypocritical. If the charitable donation is high enough, the SPLC will add Mr Rogers to its list of Nazis.
DogOnPorch says
Seeing that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem…self appointed leader of the Muslim world in the early to mid 20th century…was a full on Nazi and instigator of the Final Solution with his pals Himmler and Eichmann…the irony is a tad rich.
gravenimage says
SPLC ignores Islamic anti-Semitism, warns about the danger to Muslims of Holocaust denial
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Grotesque. Holocaust denial puts *Jews* at risk, not Muslims. In fact, Holocaust denial is rife in the Muslim world (accompanied, of course, by threats to finish the job).
Norger says
This is just so incredibly rich. Holocaust denial is bad because…it potentially threatens the purveyors of the most virulent form of Jew hatred on the planet.who also happen to be the largest group of Holocaust deniers on the planet …. And Omar Mateen was a “right wing” terrorist according to the SPLC…The mind simply reels.
gravenimage says
Yes–absurd.
Rarely says
Some muslims suffered hernias carrying barrels of Zyklon B. Others suffered burns using poor oven mitts.
The Holocaust was so tough on them no wonder they want to forget.
Rarely says
In fact there were many volunteer muslim guards from the Balkans at the camps and I am told by a few survivors that they were the cruelest and most vicious of all at the camps they were in including a death camp.
Of course islam denies the Holocaust. At every turn their co-religionists were eagerly complicit. That the muslims of today are constantly calling for the mass annihilation of the 6 million or so Jews in Israel makes their denial of the Holocaust of WWII outrageous.
It is best to take the threats of such vile creatures seriously.
Those who pander to them are in for a very rude awakening.
duh swami says
Is the SPLC a branch of CAIR?
Jack Holan says
While the SPLC runs around trying to shut down free speech for everyone except the greatest of all perpatrators violating Free Speech, Free thought and Free expression. It will be best for the Far Left, SPLC included, and the Far Right currently in decline to remember that the very best defense against their idealologies and propaganda is a painstaking Art called true education, reading source material and paying little heed to blow-heart pseudo-intelligentzia who have nearly nothing to do with education and everything to do with dogma and an Agenda. A Free Society thrives on it or dies like the currently 160+ nations & rising Ms May ,and Merkle.