{"id":33222,"date":"2018-04-25T21:33:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T01:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33222"},"modified":"2018-04-25T21:33:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T01:33:47","slug":"fighting-back-against-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33222","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Back Against Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday The Center for Security Policy<\/a> posted an article about the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a> (SPLC) and their hate group map.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has reportedly removed the \u201cField Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists\u201d from its website after being faced with a lawsuit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Attorneys for a leading British Muslim reformer, Maajid Nawaz<\/a>, threatened legal action over his being included in the list, according to National Review<\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The list also included female genital mutilation victim Ayaan Hirsi-Ali<\/a>, Daniel Pipes<\/a>, Robert Spencer<\/a> and Frank Gaffney<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The SPLC report, which still exists in PDF form<\/a>, was first published in December 2016 and was intended to be a resource for journalists.\u00a0 It reads, \u201cA shocking number of these extremists are seen regularly on television news programs and quoted in the pages of our leading newspapers. There, they routinely espouse a wide range of utter falsehoods, all designed to make Muslims<\/a> appear as bloodthirsty terrorists or people intent on undermining American constitutional freedoms. More often than not, these claims go uncontested.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maajid Nawaz, who founded the anti-extremist think tank Quilliam Foundation <\/a>in London, said on a podcast with Joe Rogan that the report was taken down under legal threat in the past few days.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nawaz said, \u201cWe have retained Clare Lock, they are writing to the Southern Poverty Law Center as we speak. I think they\u2019ve got wind of it \u2013 the Southern Poverty Law Center \u2013 and as of yesterday, or the day before, they\u2019ve removed the entire list that\u2019s been up there for two years.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The problem with the SPLC’s hate map is that anyone who disagreed with the liberal agenda is listed as a hate group and anything said against the liberal agenda as hate speech. The people who have spoken out honestly against Sharia Law and the attempts to bring it to America<\/a> have been charged with hate speech. Telling the truth is characterized as hate speech according to the SPLC. This is reminiscent of the purging of the Department of Homeland Security of documents related to terrorism (article here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

In October 2011, elements of the American Muslim Brotherhood<\/a> wrote the White House demanding an embargo or discontinuation of information and materials relating to Islamic-based terrorism. The letter was addressed to John Brennan, who at the time was Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.\u00a0 Days later John Brennan agreed to create a task force to address the problem by removing personnel and products that the Muslim Brotherhood deemed \u201cbiased, false, and highly offensive.\u201d This move in effect allowed the Muslim Brotherhood to control the information given to the people charged with stopping the terrorism initiated by groups affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. At this point, the 9\/11 reports and other actual historic documents were altered to make them compliant with the new paradigm. (I thought only the Russians rewrote history.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Center for Security Policy article concludes:<\/p>\n

Family Research Council Executive Vice President General Jerry Boykin denounced the SPLC<\/a> as \u201cprobably one of the most evil groups in America. They\u2019ve become a money-making machine and they\u2019ve become an absolute Marxist, anarchist organization.\u201d<\/strong><\/div>\n
The SPLC website says \u201cThe organizations on our hate group list vilify others because of their race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity \u2013 prejudices that strike at the heart of our democratic values and fracture society along its most fragile fault lines.\u201d<\/strong><\/div>\n
The SPLC did not respond to a question why they have removed the \u201cField Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists\u201d.<\/strong><\/div>\n

America’s future security depends on an informed public. Organizations like the SPLC misinform the public about the dangers around them. Meanwhile some forces within our government work to prevent law enforcement from having the information they need to protect us. If Americans do not wake up, we will have to explain to our children and grandchildren how we lost their freedom.<\/p>\n

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