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Friday, March 03, 2017 How to Fake an Islamophobia Crisis Posted by Daniel Greenfield 0 Comments Look out! Its another fake Islamophobia crisis.
Huge Growth in Anti-Muslim Hate Groups During 2016: SPLC Report, wails NBC News. Watchdog: Number of anti-Muslim hate groups tripled since 2015, FOX News bleats. ABC News vomits up this word salad. Trump cited in report finding increase in US hate groups for 2nd year in a row.
The SPLC stands for the Southern Poverty Law Center: an organization with slightly less credibility than Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, and without the academic degree in greasepaint.
And you wont believe the shameless way the SPLC faked its latest Islamophobia crisis.
The Southern Poverty Law Centers latest hate group sightings claims that the number of anti-Muslim hate groups increased almost three-fold in 2016.
Thats a lot of folds.
And there is both bad news and good news from its Year in Hate and Extremism.
First the good news.
Casa DIce Signs, the sign outside a bar in K-Mart Plaza in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, is no longer listed as a hate group. The sign outside the bar had been listed as a hate group by the SPLC for years. The owner of Casa DIce had been known for putting politically incorrect signs outside his bar. So the SPLC listed the signs as a hate group. (Even though there was only one sign.) Not the bar. That would have made too much sense.
Since then Casa DIce was sold and the SPLC has celebrated the defeat of another hate group. Even if the hate group was just a plastic sign outside a bar.
But the bad news, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, is that anti-Muslim hate groups shot up from only 34 in 2015 to 101 in 2016.
What could possibly account for that growth? Statistical fakery so fake that a Vegas bookie would weep.
President Trump is on the cover of the SPLCs latest Intelligence Report: a misnomer of a title from an organization whose intelligence gathering led it to list a bar sign as a hate group.
But theres actually another phenomenon responsible for this startling rise reported by the SPLC.
The SPLC decided to count 45 chapters of Act for America as separate groups.
How do you get a sudden rise from 34 to 101 hate groups? It helps to suddenly add 45 chapters of one group. Act for America isnt a hate group. Its also just as obviously not 45 groups.
And it didnt come into existence last year.
Act for America was only listed as one group in the 2015 list. It shot up to 45 now.
The SPLC this year listed the Los Angeles chapter of Act for America as a separate group. But the chapter has been around for quite a few years.
Furthermore Act for America boasts not 45, but 1,000 chapters across the country. Why list just 45 of them? Look at it from the SPLCs perspective. Next year, it can add 200 chapters and claim that anti-Muslim hate groups once again tripled. And then it can do the same thing again the year after that.
That way the Southern Poverty Law Center can keep manufacturing an imaginary Islamophobia crisis.
Also added to the list is Altra Firearms: a gun store that ran an ad declaring that it wouldnt sell firearms to Clinton supporters or Muslims. Like Casa DIce, this is another case of the SPLC demonstrating that it has no idea what distinguishes a store whose owner says politically incorrect things from a group.
The list has added Bosch Fawstin: an artist who was the target of the first ISIS terror attack in America during the assault on the Draw Mohammed cartoon contest. The SPLC announced that it was adding the Eisner nominated artist to its list of hate groups after he survived the attack.
The SPLCs actions were obscene.
After the attack, Heidi Beirich, in charge of adding targets to the SPLCs hate map, announced that she would be adding Bosch to the list because the Center now knows his location. Indeed the SPLC makes a point of highlighting the locations of likely terrorist targets. And the Southern Poverty Law Centers map of hate has been used by terrorists before.
Floyd Lee Corkins opened fire at the headquarters of the Family Research Council. The conservative Christian organization had been targeted by Corkins because of its appearance on the SPLCs list.
"Southern Poverty Law lists anti-gay groups. I found them online, Corkins later confessed to the FBI.
When Leo Johnson, the buildings African-American manager, attempted to stop Corkins, the SPLC shooter told Johnson that he didnt like his politics and opened fire. The SPLC gunman had planned to kill everyone in the office, but Johnsons heroic actions saved their lives. The African-American building manager was forced to undergo painful surgeries because of the Southern Poverty Law Centers hate list.
Despite its role in the terror attack, the SPLC continues to target the Family Research Council.
None of the so-called Anti-Muslim hate groups listed by the SPLC have shot anyone. The SPLC has.
Bosch Fawstin is a courageous activist. Hes also an individual. As am I. And the SPLC also has me up as a hate group. Other individual bloggers on the list include Atlas Shrugs, Refugee Resettlement Watch, Bare Naked Islam and Citizen Warrior.
6 of the SPLCs hate groups are actually individuals. Its understandable that the Southern Poverty Law Center is vague on the definition of hate. But you would think that it could figure out the definition of group.
No such luck.
The SPLC lists the David Horowitz Freedom Center as a hate group. But then again it also lists the American College of Pediatricians and the Jewish Political Action Committee as hate groups.
It doesnt take much to be listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
You dont need to be a group to be listed by the SPLC as a hate group. You dont even need to have a pulse. Inanimate plastic signs can be listed too.
The rest of the SPLCs increase is padded out with assorted community groups opposed to refugee resettlement, such as Treasure Valley Refugee Watch, and any Christian ministry it doesnt like.
But there is one barrier to being listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
No amount of overt anti-Semitism from CAIRs Nihad Awad would ever get the Islamist hate group listed as a hate group. Even CAIRs flirtation with Neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers cant get it on the hate map. The SPLC collaborated with the Muslim Public Affairs Council despite its anti-Semitism.
Instead the SPLC lists counterterrorism organizations such as the Investigative Project on Terrorism, the Clarion Project and the David Horowitz Freedom Center which point out their terror ties as hate groups.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is greedy, cynical and dishonest. Its latest ploy to gain headlines by inflating a group it had formerly listed as 1 organization into 45 by listing each chapter separately is the sort of behavior you expect from a lazy college student, not one of the wealthiest organizations in the country. And yet no one in the media will call out the SPLC for its greed, its bigotry and its lies.
The SPLC climbs into bed with extremists and terrorists and it smears counterterrorism organizations. It helps terrorists target their critics. And it solicits money through shameless lies.
Its easy to indict the SPLC. But every indictment of the SPLC is also an indictment of a Fake News media that repeats its absurd lies without ever checking its facts.
When the media reports that there was a huge rise in anti-Muslim groups because the Southern Poverty Law Center turned 1 group into 45, it proves that it really is in the Fake News business.
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RICO the SPLC. Buncha Commies - run by the Rooskies.
Casa D’Ice is CLOSED??????
I am deeply saddened.
LOL...Casa D’Ice helped keep me sane for 8 years.
Thank God Daniel Greenfield's exposing these charlatan's... and staying with it...
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