Southern Poverty Law Center Attacks Freedom Center for Reporting on Mamdani

Front Page Magazine ^ | November 25, 2025 | Daniel Greenfield

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Exposing Mamdani is “racist misinformation” according to the SPLC.

The Southern Poverty Law Center took a victory lap after the death of David Horowitz, celebrating the passing of a man whom the leftist group shamelessly smeared as a “longtime anti-Muslim hate figure” and “a force in organized bigotry” and then attacked “mentees of his like Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA and Stephen Miller” for publicly honoring his memory.

The SPLC did everything it could to destroy the man himself and his work at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, leveling false charges, putting us on a list of ‘hate groups’, and campaigning for our debanking. In 2020, an SPLC official bragged in her congressional testimony to the House Subcommittee on National Security that her organization had gotten Mastercard and Visa to cut off donations to the Freedom Center. (We undid  that and beat the SPLC at its own game.)

David is dead, but the Southern Poverty Law Center isn’t done coming after us. Its recent ‘intelligence’ report tried to pressure funds to cut off donations to us and to Turning Point USA. It listed us in its report on ‘Decoding the Plan to Undo Democracy’ and now our reporting on Mamdani triggered the latest attack from the hate group that claims to track ‘hate groups’.

The SPLC claimed that the David Horowitz Freedom Center was part of a “movement of interconnected groups and figures disciplined in their messaging to frame Islam as a subversive threat to the U.S.” by spreading “racist misinformation and bigoted conspiracy theories.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center denounced “FrontPage Magazine, housed under the hate group David Horowitz Freedom Center” and accused me of “demographic alarmism” for demonstrating the rapid growth of New York City’s Muslim migrant population so that it had already outstripped the city’s indigenous Italian, Irish and,...

[BFW]

Wow anyone with an IQ above 75 knows that be “anti-muslem/islam” is nothing more then SELF DEFENSE.

Look at the news, islam, muslems ARE a subversive threat to the U.S and the western world.

We all know that islam is a death cult and criminal mafia like organization. A thugocracy ... do the research and then you decide what a moslem is.

As per the koran they must invade, kill, conqueror, subjugate at least that’s what I’ve read in the two or three I’ve read and scanned through as many others of the what 19 or 20 of them?

(The 20 Versions of the Qur’an today. (7 are recorded in the Hadith.) There are the readings or Qira’at then there are also twelve different ways of reading the Quran. The most well-known and popular are Hafs and Warsh.)

For them it’s sharia and nothing else. Tho islam and moslems being just another jumped up death cult with a thugocracy thrown in for fun it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they are destructive.

Hello is this mic on??????????

**Death-cult, thugocracy, criminal organization, cannibals **

They have instructions called fatwas that codify when they can kill and eat their spouses, that they can have sex with their goat but not eat it, but can sell it to another, who to kill, who to kidnap & ransom, who to subjugate. Kill the strong, subvert the weak.

Hello is this mic on??????????

**Death-cult, thugocracy, criminal organization, cannibals **

Google knife attacks, (vehicle, truck, car attacks), google bombings, google rape gangs, google hostages, google mass homicides, google fire bombing and the overwhelming majority will have a moslem, or a palestinian involved as the perpetrator. We all know that islam is a death cult and criminal mafia like organization. ...do the searches and then you decide what a moslem is.

[sauropod]

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[GOPJ]

Thank YOU Daniel Greenfield ...

[alloysteel]

Beware of bearded mean with burning eyes. They mean you no good.

Dealing with bearded men with burning eyes and their supporting accomplices is the Devil’s own playground. They have no concept of what we know as “the American Spirit”, and no desire to even attempt to inquire. These interlopers have been colonizing the established country of the United States for the past generation or perhaps even longer, and like a cancer, have metastasized wildly since their introduction.

There is no blanket indictment that may be used to simply excise this nastiness from our country, and attempts at integration into the American way of life would seem to be a fool’s errand.

[dfwgator]

If they are “Southern” why do they care about New York City?

[SpaceBar]

Entities like the SPLC need to be busted up for legal racketeering.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The podcast episode from the Heritage Foundation sharply criticizes the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), arguing that it has dramatically deviated from its original noble mission and become a corrupt, partisan fundraising machine that deliberately mislabels mainstream conservative and Christian organizations as "hate groups" to scare donors and silence political opponents.Key points:

1. Origins and Early Success (1970s–early 1980s)
   Founded by Morris Dees as a public-interest law firm to help poor people in the South, especially in civil-rights cases (e.g., freeing the wrongly convicted “Tarboro Three” from death row).
2. Shift to Fundraising Over Mission (mid-1980s)
   After running out of viable Klan targets, Dees pivoted to suing largely defunct KKK chapters (“shooting fish in a barrel”). High-profile lawsuits produced huge judgments on paper, but almost none of the money went to victims; it was used to boast to donors and raise tens of millions. In 1985 the entire legal staff resigned, accusing Dees of turning the SPLC into a fundraising scheme rather than a law firm for the poor.
3. Evolution of the “Hate Map”
   Originally “Klanwatch,” it morphed into the annual “Hate Map,” which places KKK and neo-Nazi groups alongside mainstream conservative organizations (Family Research Council, Alliance Defending Freedom, Moms for Liberty, etc.). Critics say the map inflates numbers by counting every local chapter separately and including many groups or even individuals that are not hateful, simply to keep the threat (and donations) alive.
4. Real-World Consequences
   • 2012 Family Research Council shooting: the attacker explicitly said he chose the target because the SPLC labeled FRC an “anti-gay hate group.”
   • Biden administration and FBI have reportedly relied on SPLC designations (e.g., the 2023 Richmond FBI memo urging infiltration of traditionalist Catholic parishes, citing SPLC data).
   • Tech platforms (Amazon Smile, Airbnb, etc.) have used SPLC lists to deplatform conservative charities.
5. Current Status and Pushback
   The SPLC is accused of being a highly profitable ($700+ million endowment) left-wing attack machine rather than a civil-rights group. Ongoing defamation lawsuits (e.g., Dustin Inman Society, now bolstered by Nick Sandmann’s attorney) may force discovery and expose internal documents.

Bottom line from the guests: Americans should treat the SPLC as an unreliable, partisan actor—not an impartial authority on “hate”—and pressure companies, tech platforms, and government agencies to stop using its designations.

[texas booster]

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam and leftism.

The SPLC has been targeting the David Horowitz Freedom Center for twenty years. And despite everything the radical leftist group has done to try to silence us, deplatform us, debank us and shut us down, we are still here and we will never stop telling the truth about Islam.

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[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Hey, it’s the SPLC - they have no credibility outside of leftists and muslims, all of whom report to the same ultimate boss. Would be great if someone with f-u money could buy up the SPLC, burn it to the ground and pee on the ashes.

[wjcsux]

The SPLC is the far left hate group of far left hate groups.

[gildafarrell]

Wish someone with the money would be the Southern Poverty Law Center out of business FOR GOOD.

[Taxman]

Moslems in America have no interest in “integration into the American way of life!”

There mission is to take control of the USA and impose Sharia Law!

[Secret Agent Man]

Obligatory lying to nonmuskims to further islam:

Al taqiyaa

Al tawriya

Al kitman

Al muruna

[budj]

islam is not compatible with the US Constitution.
It does not recognize the rights of people in the Bill of Rights.
No one who professes islam should be allowed to serve in any government position.

[iontheball]

That is their cute defense, that they were doing no such thing. Adults and thinking people know differently.
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Rather than skirt around the edges, this country needs to look at the underlying basis for the political ideologies that motivate institutions like the SPLC. These entities always hide behind the facade of fighting for ‘democracy’ when it’s obvious they are democracy’s worst enemies. It’s their underlying cancerous totalitarian ideologies that need to be addressed. It’s the red/green political ideologies of Communism and Islamism that are anathemas to all free societies and should be banned outright. Rather, Trump’s approach is to poke around the edges, focusing on totalitarian subgroups such as the Muslim Brotherhood that use terrorism to advance their ideological political beliefs. While the Muslim Brotherhood is admittedly dangerous in their own right, concentrating just on Islam’s subgroups misses the bullseye the core of the rotten apple. Organizations like the SPLC are a real problem because they promote, foster, and advance totalitarian/Islam beliefs within a society until these groups lash out and commit acts of internal terrorism. Right now there are pockets of Islamists and Communists fomenting subversion throughout this country and we are seemingly unmoved. The SPLC is one of the organizations promoting the destructive ideologies that drive the uncivilized jackals to attack.

[SpaceBar]

Agree.

[BFW]

BkMk

[Secret Agent Man]

Islam is not compatible

All forms of socialism/communism are also not compatible

[Milagros]

SPLC has, in the last 10 tears, focused on defending Islamism. What a shame