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Southern Poverty Law Center Endorses Labeling Freedom Center, Pro-Israel Groups as Hate Groups

Mar 14, 2020 8:00 am By Daniel Greenfield

CAIR’s Islamophobia reports have been around for a while. And they deserve as much credibility as anything from an officially unindicted co-conspirator Islamist organization ought to.

Here’s the DOJ on the subject.

In 2008, the FBI developed a policy on its interactions with CAIR based in part on evidence presented during the 2007 trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.! The evidence at trial linked CAIR leaders to Hamas, a specially designated terrorist organization, and CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case. The policy was intended to significantly restrict the FBI’s non-investigative interactions with CAIR and to prevent CAIR from publicly exploiting such contacts with the FBI.

Expect every media report on CAIR’s new Islamophobia report, Hijacked by Hate, to ignore this minor detail.

The report contains an intro from its executive director, Nihad Awad.

In 1993 Awad, who had developed into an increasingly outspoken advocate for the rights of Palestinians, became the public-relations director of the Islamic Association for Palestine(IAP)—a front for Hamas.

In 1994, then-IAP president Omar Ahmad convened a meeting with Rafeeq Jaber and Awad to discuss the possibility of branching IAP out in another direction. As a result of that meeting, in June of 1994 these “IAP three” incorporated the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)—as Awad put it, “to bridge the chasm of ignorance between Muslims in America and their neighbors.” Awad became the group’s executive director—a post he continues to hold—and Ahmad was named chairman of the board. Awad then solicited his friend and colleague from the Bosnian Relief Committee, Ibrahim Hooper, to serve as CAIR’s communications director. With the help of a $5000 donation from the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF)—yet another Hamas front group—CAIR opened up an office in Washington, DC.

At a March 22, 1994 symposium at Barry University in Florida, he declared: “I used to support the PLO, and I used to be the President of the General Union of Palestine Students which is part of the PLO here in the United States, but after I researched the situation inside Palestine and outside, I am in support of the Hamas movement more than the PLO.”

In an interview that same year with newsman Mike Wallace, Awad was asked if he supported the “military undertakings of Hamas,” to which he replied: “The United Nations Charter grants people who are under occupation [the right] to defend themselves against illegal occupation.”

Again, expect the media not to cover any of this.

But the latest Islamophobia Report breaks new ground in not only going after the expected targets, David Horowitz, Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes, David Yerushalmi, Pamela Geller, and other people who have called attention to the problem of Islamist violence.

This time this supposed review of “Islamophobic hate groups” drags in the National Review. Really? The National Review.

And a laundry list of pro-Israel organizations including CAMERA, EMET, FLAME, MEMRI, aside from the latter, the rest don’t even concentrate on Islam, they just oppose Islamic terrorism against Israel.

While this would be easy enough to dismiss, except that the report comes with an endorsement from Heidi Beirich, the creepy point woman on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s infamously sloppy hate lists.

That means the SPLC has gotten to the point where it’s willing to denounce mainstream pro-Israel groups as hate groups. That’s the direction it went with socially conservative Christian groups. Pro-Israel groups are next.

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  1. Rebel of Oz says

    Mar 14, 2020 at 8:21 am

    I suspect that the recent anti-Zionist attacks by previously rather Israel-friendly institutions of the US establishment are designed to put pressure on Israel and Israel lobby to join the Globalists’ war on Donald Trump. What these Globalists don’t get is that the smarter ones amongst the Zionists have realised that a Jewish nation state does not fit in well with a border-less one-world government.

  2. Glenn says

    Mar 14, 2020 at 12:10 pm

    the splc/cair are full of s _ _ _. Who do they think they are, they have no business declaring anyone this or that. their ONLY mission is sharia. Perhaps they should look in the mirror. Unfortunately, obamahole gave these jerks free rein and supported the terrorism they espouse and nothing ever happens to them.

    Philip Haney did his job brilliantly and then he died; he stirred up too may demo/muslim terrorists. You can take it to the bank that he was murdered by the conspirators who gave free rein to the muslims.

    Thank goodness we have a President who sees through all of their crap.

    • toomanyhobbies says

      Mar 15, 2020 at 8:45 pm

      but not their CULT that has murdered over 200 million and makes the atrocities of the KKK look like s Sunday picnic in comparison…

  3. Gork says

    Mar 14, 2020 at 3:41 pm

    That fringe groups exist is no surprise. What does surprise me is how many people take them seriously.

  4. paul budrunas says

    Mar 14, 2020 at 4:49 pm

    If ever there was a hate group, its the SPLC and CAIR, especially CAIR! SPLC is absolutely corrupt and CAIR is a front for the Muslim Brotherhood! Hate spewing, murderous Muslim thugs! The only solution is to exterminate all Muslims!

  5. Larry says

    Mar 14, 2020 at 5:13 pm

    Seems to me that the SPLC is a hate group.

    • James Lincoln says

      Mar 14, 2020 at 5:50 pm

      It is, Larry.

    • Rebel of Oz says

      Mar 14, 2020 at 5:54 pm

      They are a hate group indeed. The main object of their hatred is not Jews, it is WASPs. They will do whatever it takes to hurt anyone getting in the way of this goal. Zionists only have become a target because the smarter ones have realised that a Jewish nation state is incompatible with a borderless one-world government and therefor support Donald Trump’s MAGA agenda.

      • Michael A Flanagan says

        Mar 15, 2020 at 4:54 pm

        And the SPLC hates conservative Catholics.

  6. Kafir Infidelis says

    Mar 15, 2020 at 6:21 am

    The SPLC is hereby designated as a hate group. Wow! That really is easy….

  7. maemae77 says

    Mar 15, 2020 at 6:21 am

    Deflection on their part to make themselves look innocent. Would they ever tell you the real reason why they want Israel gone? No, because then the free world would see how non-legit Muslims claim to Israel really is.
    While they indoctrinate our youth to have the same mindset by telling outright lies about Israel and Jews because they can’t legitimately defend their reason for wanting Israel and Jews gone. Nazis and Muslims are one in the same on that issue. Islam promoted Nazism by Hitler getting advice from Islamic leaders to get a rid of Jews.

  8. jca reid says

    Mar 15, 2020 at 12:05 pm

    hey’re free to do so. However, they’ve got to label Muslims as a Hate Group as they HATE EVERYBODY & EVERY THING THAT IS NOT MUSLIM! Can’t deny that Fact, now can they??

  9. OLD GUY says

    Mar 15, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    The Southern Islamic Poverty law Center, says it all. They should be labeled as a HATE GROUP.

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