How to Fake an Islamophobia Crisis

Article author: 
Daniel Greenfield
Article date: 
5 March 2017
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 

... “Huge Growth in Anti-Muslim Hate Groups During 2016: SPLC Report,” wails NBC News...

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...

... 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...

The SPLC decided to count 45 chapters of Act for America as separate groups...

6 of the SPLC’s “hate groups” are actually individuals. It’s 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 doesn’t take much to be listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center...

 


 

CAIRCO Research

The term Islamophobia was originally coined by the Muslim Brotherhood to silence critics of Islamic terrorism and misogyny. See: David Horowitz and Robert Spencer, “Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future,” Frontpage Mag, May 8, 2015:

“Islamophobia” is the name that has been given to a modern-day thought crime. The purpose of the suffix in the term “Islamophobia” is to suggest that any fear associated with Islam is irrational – whether that fear stems from the fact that its prophet and current-day imams call on believers to kill infidels, or because the attacks of 9/11 were carried out to implement those calls. Worse than that, it is to suggest that such a response to those attacks reflects a bigotry that itself should be feared...

Articles referencing the SPLC

The Southern Poverty Law Center - A Special Report, The Social Contract, Spring, 2010

The SPLC exposed, The Social Contract

The Southern Poverty Law Center - SPLC - research on Discover The Networks