The Southern Poverty Law Center's 'Enemy's List' of Female 'Muslim-Haters'

Jeffdunetz | June 24, 2015
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In the latest issue of Intelligence Report, the magazine of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an anti-conservative "civil rights" group created a list of what they describe as the women of the anti-Muslim radical right.  In the piece, this group, whose mission is "fighting hate and bigotry," promotes its own hatred against 12 women, many of them famous names such as Laura Ingraham, Jeanine Pirro, Ann Coulter, and Brigette Gabriel  branding them as Islamaphobes.

According to the article's authors, the piece was initiated in response to the Dallas shooting in May where two Muslim terrorists were killed outside a Muhammad cartoon contest organized by Pamela Geller, whom they describe as "the country’s most flamboyant and visible Muslim-basher."

"But in the aftermath of the jihadist attack, the national conversation turned not only to the dangers of radical Islam, but also to professional provocateurs like Geller. After all, although nothing she or her allies had said or done merited the violence, Geller had a long and infamous record of smearing and demonizing Muslims."

Their description of Geller was expected, but untrue.

Pamela fights against radical Muslims a fight that grew out of her love for Israel and her frustration with the Anti-Semitic, Anti-American and Anti-Israel sermons and commentary originating from the radical Islamist community.

The SPLC would never write about the Pamela Geller who, when Muslim teenager Aqsa Parvez was murdered by her father in an honor killing and was buried in an unmarked grave, grabbed that wrong by the neck and raised money (and threw in her own) for a tombstone for Aqsa’s grave. And, when her family refused to allow the tombstone, used that money to set up an Aqsa Parvez grove and plaque in the American Independence Park in Nes Harim, Israel. That doesn't sound like "demonizing Muslims."

"The radical right, and more broadly the political right, has generally been dominated by men. And there are certainly plenty of men in the world of Muslim-bashing activism — men like Robert Spencer, Geller’s partner; David Yerushalmi, who has led the charge against an imaginary plot to impose Shariah religious law in the United States; and a crew of terrorism “experts” who see Islam as the enemy."

According to the pseudo human rights activists in the SPLC, the anti-Muslim hate activists in this country is dominated by women, specifically Pamela and eleven others:

"But the universe of American anti-Muslim activists is peculiarly dominated by women. They are a mixed bag of bloggers, politicos, authors, TV personalities, radio talk show hosts, and leaders of anti-Muslim organizations. Many of them have other windmills to tilt at, from gay rights to communism to President Obama, but most have increasingly focused on attacking Muslims. That has been even truer in recent months, in the wake of the horrific Islamist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris and the many barbaric murders carried out by the Islamic State.

"What follows are short profiles of a dozen of the most hardline anti-Muslim women activists in America. These are people who do not merely criticize radical Islam, but effectively describe all Muslims as part of a serious global problem."

The authors proceed to describe why they believe each of the twelve women is a hater. With each description is a strange-looking sketch of the female subject which makes her look crazy (the Ann Coulter one displayed above is downright spooky). They include racist-sounding comments from each woman. The quotes are short and provided without the full statement and full context for the particular citing.  In short, their list is a hit job using words and images. 

Amongst their "dirty dozen" are well-known and respected conservative women including Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Cathie Adams (former chair person of the Texas Republican Party), Brigette Gabriel (journalist, author, and founder of ACT!), Clare Lopez (former CIA agent and senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy), Jeanine Pirro (former judge and district attorney, now Fox News host), and Diana West (author and columnist).

The SPLC does not have the a great reputation - even amongst some liberals. In its description of the SPLC, Discoverthenetworks.org writes:

In a similar vein, the late left-wing journalist Alexander Cockburn in 2009 called Dees the “arch-salesman of hate-mongering,” a man who profited by “selling the notion there’s a right resurgence out there in the hinterland with massed legions of haters, ready to march down Main Street draped in Klan robes, a copy of Mein Kampf tucked under one arm and a Bible under the other.” “Ever since 1971,” added Cockburn, “U.S. Postal Service mailbags have bulged with [Dees's] fundraising letters, scaring dollars out of the pockets of trembling liberals aghast at his lurid depictions of hate-sodden America.”

The mainstream media often buy into the SPLC claims because they often target the subjects of the media's wrath, conservatives:

"Regardless of how dramatically SPLC overstates their numbers, white racists like neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and skinheads indisputably deserve the “hate group” label. But the Center extends that designation also to conservative and libertarian organizations that harbor no ill will against any demographic group and merely hold positions contrary to those of SPLC on issues of social or political import. As syndicated columnist Don Feder writes: “What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate groups (the Klan, Aryan Nation, skinheads, etc.), to make it appear that there’s a logical relationship between, say, opposing affirmative action and lynching, or demands for an end to government services for illegal aliens and attacks on dark-skinned immigrants.”

On Tuesday evening's Kelly Files, host Megyn Kelly attacked the SPLC list above. Below is a clip:

 

 

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