SPLC Apologizes, Pays Settlement to Islamic Reformer It Wrongly Labeled ‘Anti-Muslim Extremist’
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SPLC Apologizes, Pays Settlement to Islamic Reformer It Wrongly Labeled ‘Anti-Muslim Extremist’
by Jack Crowe, National Review , June 18, 2018
Maajid Nawaz on the April 18, 2018, edition of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. (via YouTube)
The Southern Poverty Law Center has reached a settlement with liberal Islamic reformer Maajid Nawaz and his organization, the Quilliam Foundation, for wrongly including them on its now-defunct list of “anti-Muslim extremists.”
The SPLC announced Monday that it has agreed to pay Nawaz and Quilliam $3.375 million “to fund their work to fight anti-Muslim bigotry and extremism.” The settlement was the result of a lawsuit Nawaz filed in April after the group added his name to its “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists.”
The SPLC deleted the list, which was published in 2016 and was intended to serve as a resource for journalists, shortly after Nawaz filed the suit, despite having ignored his requests for retraction for roughly two years.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center was wrong to include Maajid Nawaz and the Quilliam Foundation in our Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists. Since we published the Field Guide, we have taken the time to do more research and have consulted with human rights advocates we respect,” SPLC president Richard Cohen said in a statement. “We’ve found that Mr. Nawaz and Quilliam have made valuable and important contributions to public discourse, including by promoting pluralism and condemning both anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamist extremism. Although we may have our differences with some of the positions that Mr. Nawaz and Quilliam have taken, they are most certainly not anti-Muslim extremists. We would like to extend our sincerest apologies to Mr. Nawaz, Quilliam, and our readers for the error, and we wish Mr. Nawaz and Quilliam all the best.”…
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Seems like someone finally called their bluff. Might embolden others to take the same kinds of actions when they are libelled by this organization. They should be doing the work they are chartered to do and leave 'political correctness' at the door.
SPLC is a hate organization that knows how to make a buck. Unfortunately, the settlement is a drop in the bucket for such a business model that sells fear and essentially prints money.
It's 10:30 pm now where I am and I'm going to bed, so as this is most likely a controversial seed I'm locking discussion for the next 9 to 10 hours.
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Where are all the SPLC defenders? LOL. - All the ones who criticized me when I said it had smeared Nawaz?
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