Enough with the hate labels. Why I’m standing up to the Southern Poverty Law Center
Nazi. Fascist. Misogynist. White supremacist. These are some of the most hateful terms around, and yet they are freely lobbed at anyone who even slightly diverges from the left’s worldview. This fall, I became the one targeted by exactly this sort of bullying at the hands of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
It’s an understatement to say that I was dumbfounded as to how I ended up on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) LGBTQ hate-list — I have never said or done anything to indicate hate for the LGBTQ community. When I called to inquire, SPLC informed me that I am guilty because I did a radio interview with Family Research Council Radio (FRC). I am a program coordinator for The Leadership Institute's Campus Reform. org. The segment was about socialism, but because FRC holds traditional family values, I was labeled an LGBT-hater just for being a guest on the show. No LGBT topics even came-up.
SPLC’s hate-list exemplifies a bullying tactic employed by the left to silence conservative ideas. Regardless of the issue, support for the conservative point of view results in a litany of hateful labels and reputation-smearing. The goal is to paint any opposition to the far left as morally depraved and, therefore, unworthy of being included in conversation. Dr. Carol Swain, an African-American woman and former Vanderbilt professor, is a perfect case-in-point; she was labeled a white supremacist sympathizer by the SPLC for pointing-out SPLC’s hypocrisy on racial issues.
This tactic is more than illogical; it’s dangerous. Reckless and irresponsible hate-labeling not only stifles free speech and expression, it empowers and emboldens vicious groups and individuals to violently attack people. Consider the 2012 Family Research Council shooting, when a man walked into the organization’s office in Washington, D.C., with 100 rounds of ammunition and 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches. He planned to kill as many staff members as possible and smear the sandwiches in their faces. He said he chose his target based on SPLC’s Hate Map.
Nowhere is the danger more real than on our college campuses where Antifa, By Any Means Necessary, and other domestic terror groups (which are not found on any SPLC hate list) now feel emboldened to attack conservative students and shut down events under the guise of — ironically — fighting fascism, hate and white supremacism. Two Berkeley students recently spoke to Martha MacCallum about being targeted, stalked and physically assaulted by Antifa for being members of the College Republicans club.
This bullying needs to stop if we want to protect a free society — on and off campus. Americans are afraid to voice any form of dissent from the social or economic progressive agenda for fear of losing their academic standings, their jobs, or being labeled hateful and bigoted.
Americans are afraid to voice any form of dissent from the social or economic progressive agenda for fear of losing their academic standings, their jobs, or being labeled hateful and bigoted.
While I am lucky to have a current employer that is understanding of this injustice, many others are not willing to give the benefit of doubt. I will now have to explain to every future employer why my name is on a hate list. If there’s one thing I gained from this, it’s a newfound respect for conservative students who face this type of mistreatment every day on campus.
Groups like the SPLC threaten our constitutional rights and the very fabric that makes this nation great. We need to start pushing back. If this trend of bullying and ostracizing anyone with a different opinion continues, we can only expect a chilling, mob-rule effect and the suppression of speech and ideas in this country.
I am calling on SPLC to remove me from this list and stop engaging in the game of identity fear politics. I urge all Americans who have been bullied, silenced, and pushed into a corner by radical groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center to push back too. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/09/29/southern-poverty-law-center-put-me-on-its-hate-list-it-s-smear-and-don-t-belong-there.html
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FBI Dumps Southern Poverty Law Center
Guidstar Drops SPLC's Fake Hate Group Label
Hate accusers are getting some serious pushback
Six solid factual links - a new record!
Well done Buzz
You have an odd notion of what a fact is.
At least I don't believe in fantasies like Trump collusion or Michael Brown was surrendering
Hey John, is Black Lives Matter on the "Hate Group" at SPLC/Southern Poverty Lie Center?
Does anyone know? I don't feel like looking, but if I come back here and John hasn't told me we can assume they are not. Anyone for "Pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon"?
Now if that won't get you on their list of hate groups, I don't know what will. Oh wait, you don't approve of LGBT.
It is no surprise that you display prejudice against conservative news sites to the extent of simply denying what that source relates even if that source relates actual facts and reasonable opinions. Would you deny that Hitler is dead if the only place you saw that news was on Stormfront? Would you say that that fact could not possibly be true because of the source? By the way, I only used that as an example because IMO Stormfront is a source that actually deserves to be on ANY hate list and fake news list.
Why would BLM be on the SPLC hate list? BLM supports BDS, which is probably NOT on the list.
ouch!
Except they don't contain facts or even link to them. For instance, your first link states:
Note that NO link to any data accompanies that proclamation.
The FBI doesn't collect data on 'hate groups' and the summary of the data that they have on 'hate crimes' over the last ten years states:
So Ruse is full of crap.
Ironically, the SPLC documents data that shows a DECLINE in 'hate groups' from 1018 in 2011 to 784 in 2014, but of course those numbers MUST be a lie...right?
The video evidence suggests otherwise despite your feigned indignation.
You're defending notorious racist hate groups?
Let's see: Liberty Counsel; Breitbart; Capital Research Center. All three of them are conservative organizations, so hardly qualify as sources for factual information.
I don't think you'd know a fact if it handed you a business card.
Who knew the Southern Poverty Law Center was the worst place in the world ?
Oh, the humanity.
The political right in America are the true "snowflakes". It becomes more apparent every day as they lose their minds wallowing in their own despair over how mean "liberals" are.
If you're unable to address the topic don't waste everyone's time with your derailing and disparaging comments.
I'm just asking how the right wingers of Nt got so over sensitive.
You make comments about "liberals" and leftists on this site all the time Buzz. As in every day. Spare me your misplaced indignation.
Sure, John, I'll spare you my "misplaced indignation" if you spare me your consistent criticism of me. By the way, you never answered the question I asked you long ago:
Has the SPLC invited you to join their Board of Governors yet? If not, I really don't understand why.
I really don't care about whether the woman lied or Fox lied. All I know is that the SPLC is WORSE than a hate group, and I've posted links to articles that as far as I am concerned prove it. And yes, that is MY opinion, but there are a lot of good people who would agree with me. An organization that puts Ayaan Ali Hirsi on a hate list is despicable.
But she doesn't like Jihadist raping children.
Nor does she like slicing the clitoris of young girls, as was done to her.
I've read the Quran and FGM is not mentioned in it all. It's a cultural practice of particular areas and has no basis in Islam.
She's not on a hate list; she's on a list of anti-Muslim extremists. Apparently, she has not been completely truthful in talking about her life.
Indonesian authorities tried to ban FGM 10 years ago, but the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued a fatwa saying that female circumcision was part of religious practice.
Conclusions
Prevalence o f female genital mutilation among Muslim Kurdish women in Erbil city is very high; although, most cases are of type I.ttp://www.deoband.net/blogs/shafii-school-of-fiqh
Page 25. Shafi'i jurisprudence or fiqh is what is found in the reliance of the traveller, the most widely followed or distributed book of Islamic law.(Page 78) This is certified by al-Azahar university as an authentic translation of the Arabic original. (Note) Bazr is the clitoris, not the skin surrounding the clitoris, the prepuce. Hence, the removal of the clitoris in the majority of cases of FGM.
Arabic word Bazr
The SPLC is worse than the KKK or the neo-Nazis.
It's just that kind of over-the-top hysterical BS that makes the rightwing such a juicy target for ridicule and then they whine about it.
FGM is purely cultural even if many Muslims think it's a religious obligation. In Indonesia, FGM can range from severe excision to being purely symbolic. I trained with Indonesians for years and, although I was the only non-Muslim, I was the only one who had actually read the Quran. They often don't know what the Quran says any more than many Christians don't know what the Bible says. What drives the FGM practice are non religious beliefs like failing to circumcise a woman will lead her to become a whore or tart and no respectable man would marry a fallen woman or one who is expected to fall.
Christians should understand how cultural beliefs can get wrapped around religion. For instance, Christmas trees are not biblical. They are are part of Norse and germanic customs that predate Christianity yet everywhere that Christians go, the practice goes with them. People on tropical islands can put up a Christmas tree but it has no biblical foundation just because Christians do it and the people on the island didn't do it before Christians arrived.
I said FGM is in the Hadiths, and listed the 3 Hadiths that approve of it. Sorry, but you're wrong, it is an Islam thing
Not knowing (or caring much--see moniker) what a hadith is I checked it out. It is not the Quran so 1ofmany is not wrong. It's no more a part of islam as what JimmieBobBibleThumper's personal rabid take on the meaning of christian scripture counts as christianity.
Actually, she is on a hate list, and it is because she has been entirely truthful about her life, and it doesn't meet with the Leftist agenda. Had someone else said exactly the same thing about a Christian group, that person would NEVER have been considered for the hate list because the Left doesn't care anything about Christians.
I seem to remember that you used to belong to a nation called God Haters, so I believe you know what I am talking about.
Actually, she's NOT on a hate list:
I seem to recall that you belonged to only conservative-leaning nations, and you also pretend to "know" and "understand" the bible. What other fairy tales do you believe in?
From your first link.
How Widespread Is Female Genital Mutilation?
The discovery of widespread FGM in Iraqi Kurdistan suggests the assumption to be incorrect that FGM is primarily an African phenomenon with only marginal occurrence in the eastern Islamic world. If FGM is practiced at a rate of nearly 60 percent by Iraqi Kurds, then how prevalent is the practice in neighboring Syria where living conditions and cultural and religious practices are comparable? According to Fran Hosken, late founder of the Women's International Network News and author of groundbreaking research on FGM in 1975, "There is little doubt that similar practices—excision, child marriage, and putting rock salt into the vagina of women after childbirth—exist in other parts of the Arabian Peninsula and around the Persian Gulf." [30] That no firsthand medical records are available for Saudi Arabia or from any other countries in that region does not mean that these areas are free of FGM, only that the societies are not free enough to permit formal study of societal problems. That diplomats and international aid workers do not detect FGM in other societies also should not suggest that the problem does not exist. After all, FGM was prevalent in Iraqi Kurdistan for years but went undetected by the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and many other international NGOs in the region. Perhaps the most important factor enabling an NGO to uncover FGM in Iraqi Kurdistan was the existence of civil society structures and popular demand for individual rights. Such conditions simply do not exist in Syria, Saudi Arabia, or even the West Bank and Gaza where local authorities fight to constrain individual freedoms rather than promote them.
U.S. based pediatrician and fellow at the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Hatem Elhagaly (AKA “Hatem Al Haj”), listed as an Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) “scholar” issued a “http://web.archive.org/web/20150213103532/ http://www.amjaonline.com/en_f_details.php?fid=1639" data-wpel-link="external" target="_new" rel="external noopener noreferrer"> fatwa ” (an authoritative ruling on Islamic law) in 2006, saying that Islam sanctioned FGM as “better for the husband” and acknowledged that “the majority of the scholars regard [FGM] (preferable sunnah), some regard it allowable and some consider it wajib (obligatory) …” but advised that because FGM is illegal in the West, it should not be performed.
AMJA’s website states that it is a non-profit organization , “established in response to the growing need of an Islamic jurisprudence specific to Muslims in the West.” Fatwas issued by AMJA are the “decisions and recommendations” issued by their scholars and experts and are intended to guide Muslims living in the West.
Memphis cleric Yasir Qadhi, resident scholar at the Memphis Islamic Center and Dean of Academic Affairs of AlMaghrib Institute, is listed among “ our experts ” by the AMJA and is a regular presenter at the annual imam training conferences the organization hosts.
During a sermon in Fairfax County, Virginia, Imam Shaker Elsayed endorsed the practice of female circumcision, saying that it was "the honorable thing for girls" in cases when it is necessary in order to prevent hypersexuality. "A Muslim gynecologist can tell you if you need to or not," he said, adding that the practice damages the woman’s sexuality only if more is cut off than necessary. The Egyptian-born Shaker Elsayed, who has been the resident imam at Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center since June 2005 and served as Secretary-General of the Muslim American Society in 2000-2005, further warned that "in societies where circumcision of girls is completely prohibited, hypersexuality takes over the entire society, and a woman is not satisfied with one person, or two, or three."
No, you’re wrong. It is not an “Islamic thing” even if some Muslims think it is.
Information about the Text
'Umdat al-Salik wa 'Uddat al-Nasik (Reliance of the Traveller and Tools of the Worshipper) is a Sunni manual of Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). It is based mainly on the fiqh conclusions of Imam al-Nawawi, the great Hadith master ( hafiz ) and Shafi'i scholar of jurisprudence ( mujtahid ). The appendices form an integral part of the book and present original texts and translations from classic works by al-Ghazali, al-Nawawi, al-Qurtubi, al-Dhahabi, Ibn Hajar and others, on topics of Islamic Law, faith, spirituality, Qur'an exegesis and Hadith sciences, making the work a living reflection of Islam as understood by some of its greatest scholars.
See certification from Al-Azahar university, a much more athoritive source of what are Islamic practices than Hoff-po. All so, please look at my longer post above. It is not really in dispute in the Islamic world.
page 78
e4.3 Circumcision is obligatory (O: for both men and women. For men it consists of removing the prepuce from the penis, and for women, removing the prepuce (Ar . bazr) of the clitoris (n: not the clitoris itself, as some mistakenly assert). (A: Hanbalis hold that circumcision of women is not obligatory but sunna, while Hanafis consider it a mere courtesy to the husband.)
She has been labeled, and it isn't a love list. It is a hate list.
LIberals show their 'tolerance' by hating people and putting them on lists.
Call it what you want, she has been labeled in hate.
Conservatives show their "tolerance" by labeling what liberals do as "hate".
I think the title of the list speaks for itself; that you want to call it a "hate list" speaks to your own insecurities and many other issues.
Well done, Buzz. Facts are unlikely to sway their apologists though.
Sorry. You are wrong again. At least you are consistent.
Facts are unlikely to sway their apologists though.
Whenever you or your sort use the word "fact" I just can't stop laughing.
The SPLC has become a smear campaign whose mission is to use defamation as a weapon to end the speech that they don't want to hear. If all it takes to be a hate group is to say something that other people hate hearing, then the SPLC should label itself a hate group because I hate hearing them.
She should sue them for smearing her. The SPLC is a hate group.
What's the definition of a hate group and how does opposing the normalization of homosexuality fall within the definition while opposing the normalization of pedophila, incest, sex with inanimate objects, and beastiality does not?
The real SPLC definition is anyone with different views from leftist orthodoxy.
As someone else pointed out above, this is just another FarzNooz crock-o-shit. Her name is nowhere to be found at the SPLC:
In case the name is too blurry:
Isn't amazing how easily these little christian "angels" lie?
Don't affiliate yourself with a known hate group and you won't be labeled as being affiliated with that hate group with all the additional labels that come with it.
Simple.