Posted on 06/19/2014 3:02:36 AM PDT by markomalley
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a self-described “civil-rights organization” committed to “fighting hate and bigotry,” says that ever since 9/11 a host of “anti-Muslim hate groups”—exhibiting “extreme hostility” toward Muslims—have arisen across the United States. The current edition of SPLC’s quarterly Intelligence Report names David Horowitz as “the godfather of the modern anti-Muslim movement.” The lead accusation in the report says: “For Horowitz, Muslim Student Associations ‘are arms of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is the fountainhead of the terrorist jihad against the West.’”
Apparently SPLC deems it bad manners for anyone to notice that when the national Muslim Students Association (MSA) was established in 1963, its three principal founders were all members of—you guessed it—the Muslim Brotherhood. It is equally bad form, in SPLC’s view, to draw any conclusions from the fact that a Muslim Brotherhood memorandum explicitly names the MSA as one of the Brotherhood’s arms, and as an organization that could help the Brotherhood carry out a “grand Jihad” aimed at “eliminating and destroying … Western civilization from within.”
SPLC’s report also turns a blind eye to the fact that in recent years MSA members and guest lecturers in numerous venues have: raised money for Hamas and Hezbollah; professed support for Islamic Jihad; called for Islam to dominate “the halls of Congress”; declared that “the only relationship [Muslims] should have with America is to topple it”; extolled Islamic suicide bombers as noble “martyrs”; and chanted “Death to Israel!” and “Death to the Jews!”
Moreover, Patrick Poole, an anti-terrorism consultant to law-enforcement and the military, notes “a rather lengthy list of top MSA leaders who have been arrested and convicted on a wide array of terrorism charges, ranging from material support of terrorist groups to being actively involved in terrorist plots.” One of the most famous was Anwar Al-Awlaki, who served as president of the Colorado State University MSA and later as chaplain of the George Washington University MSA, before migrating to Yemen where he became a high-ranking leader of al Qaeda.
But by SPLC’s reckoning, not even a shred of “hate” or “bigotry” is evident in any of this. Thus the organization directs its criticism not at the Muslim Students Association or the Muslim Brotherhood, but at the “Islamophobes” who brazenly dare to suggest that the MSA is in any way radical.
SPLC is also squeamish about anyone mentioning the Muslim Brotherhood’s connection to jihad and terrorism, even though the Brotherhood’s own credo states explicitly that “jihad is our way, and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations”; even though Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna himself wrote that “jihad is an obligation from Allah on every Muslim”; even though al-Banna emphasized that “it is the nature of Islam to dominate [and] to impose its law on all nations”; and even though another Brotherhood leader, Ahmed Yassin, personally founded the jihadist group Hamas, which proudly identifies itself as “one of the wings of the Muslim Brothers in Palestine.” Mohammed Ayoob, Coordinator of the Muslim Studies Program at James Madison College, states outright: “Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.” And Richard Clarke—who served as chief counterterrorism advisor on the U.S. National Security Council during both the Clinton and Bush administrations—told a Senate committee that Hamas, al Qaeda, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are all “descendants of the membership and ideology of the Muslim Brothers.”
But none of this matters at all to SPLC, which simply views concern over these matters as the paranoia of hateful “Islamophobes.”
SPLC takes further umbrage at Horowitz’s depiction of Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s longtime closest adviser, as a “Muslim Brotherhood operative” who has managed to “penetrate” the U.S. government. Clearly, it is of no consequence to SPLC that Huma’s mother is a well-known advocate of Sharia Law, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s division for women, and a board member of a pro-Hamas Islamic Council that is part of a larger, international terrorist-abetting coalition led by the Brotherhood luminary Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Nor does SPLC care that from 1996-2008, Huma herself was employed by the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA), whose agenda, as Andrew C. McCarthy explains, is “to grow an unassimilated, aggressive population of Islamic supremacists who will gradually but dramatically alter the character of the West.” Neither does SPLC give a whit that for at least seven of those twelve years, Huma’s presence at IMMA overlapped with that of the Institute’s founder, a major Muslim Brotherhood figure with ties to al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
For SPLC, this is all mere trivia that occupies the minds of Islamophobes. Can’t everyone just leave poor little Huma alone?
SPLC’s report also brays at Horowitz’s assertion that “no people have shown themselves as so morally sick as the Palestinians,” and that “in the history of all mankind, there was never a people who strapped bombs on their bodies and killed innocent people.” Curiously, the report fails to prove Horowitz wrong by naming even one other society that likewise engages in such activity. Would you like to venture a guess as to why?
Presumably, all well-intentioned Americans should thank SPLC for its stalwart defense of the honor of the Palestinians, who have demonstrated their inherent good will by electing, in Gaza, a government run by the friendly chaps of Hamas. Hamas, you might recall, is the group whose founding charter declares that jihad is “an individual duty binding on every Muslim man and woman”; that “there is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad”; that all peace negotiations are nothing more than a dreary “waste of time”; and that Muslims must heed the Qur’anic exhortation to “come and kill” the Jews.
And let’s not forget the even more genial Palestinian leaders of Fatah in the West Bank, who cheerfully profess their desire to achieve the “complete liberation of Palestine,” meaning the “eradication” of the state of Israel, by means of “armed public revolution” that “will not cease” until “the Zionist state is demolished.”
One doesn’t usually find prose as inspiring as this anywhere outside of a fortune cookie. Oh, if only the Islamophobes that SPLC impugns could somehow be made to appreciate the Palestinians’ good wiil.
Similarly frustrating for SPLC is the inability of those darned Islamophobes to stop being so uptight about the ongoing subjugation, expulsion, ethnic cleansing, and mass slaughter of Christians throughout the Muslim world. The “anti-Muslim” bigots also appear to be hypersensitive about Open Doors USA‘s recently published study indicating that in 41 of the 50 nations worldwide where persecution of Christians is most widespread, the persecutors are Muslims.
But thankfully for all of us, SPLC’s Intelligence Report puts all this information in proper perspective, reminding us that only small-minded, hateful “Islamophobes” see any connection between Islam and jihad—and that if only they’d keep their mouths shut, everyone would get along a lot better.
The SPLC has targeted any American,
who stands for the nation,
and The U.S. Constitution.
The SPLC hates Freedom, guns and gun rights,
and those who believe that immigrants must
assimilate, not make their own laws, or attempt
to change the fabric of America.
Hey, SPLC: Póg Mo Thóin
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country." –Benjamin Franklin
The SPLC is often quoted by the MSM as an authority on hate groups.
muslims killed my nephew in fallujah, HELL yes i f-ing hate the muslim bastards.
SPLC is nothing but a modern-day communist front center.
SPLC: The acronym is pronounced “Splick!” Easier to say than ess-pea-ell-see.
Morris Deas is one evil self-hating b@stard. But it’s fun for us older types to remember that back in 1975 Deas boasted, “in five years I will have put the National Rifle Association out of business!”
Yep, ol’ Mossie, by 1980 the NRA was just a memory.....
;^)
Dees is nothing but a depraved perv. Splick is nothing more than a scam.
well so far only whites belong to hate groups
David Horowitz has done more in the real world for blacks than the SPLC ever will. During his leftie days, he was instrumental in funding and organizing a number of inner-city schools in Oakland, as well as several other programs that cared for neglected black children.
Of course, those programs were quickly driven into the ground by the Black Panthers, who saw them as ATMs they could hit to finance their underworld enterprises.
No liberal lives forever. Ted Kennedy found that out.
Who laughs out loud on their deathbed?
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