Halkim Muhammad (aka Keith Ellison) wants Amazon to stop selling material from people who have been smeared by the SPLC. He takes for granted that the SPLC should be trusted. But reality is different: Southern Poverty Law Center: ‘Our Aim in Life Is to Destroy These Groups, Completely’
I am proud to be a member of the coalition and a signatory on this letter.
On Wednesday, 47 leaders of conservative nonprofits sent an open letter to the media warning against using the notorious “hate map” put out by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The leaders denounced any news organization that would cite the SPLC’s list of “extremists” and “hate groups” as if it carried moral authority. “The SPLC is an attack dog of the political left” and should be treated as such, the leaders wrote.
Story continues below advertisement“To associate public interest law firms and think tanks with neo-Nazis and the KKK is unconscionable, and represents the height of irresponsible journalism,” the leaders declared. “All reputable news organizations should immediately stop using the SPLC’s descriptions of individuals and organizations based on its obvious political prejudices.” (PJM)
The letter addressed “Members of the Media” and strongly warned against the SPLC. The leaders characterized the organization as “a discredited, left-wing, political activist organization that seeks to silence its political opponents with a ‘hate group’ label of its own invention and application that is not only false and defamatory, but that also endangers the lives of those targeted with it.”
This insidious letter from Hakim Muhammad (Keith Ellison) to Jeff Bezos is, in its essence, more sharia (Islamic law): this is enforcement of blasphemy laws, do not insult Islam. How much more of our freedom are we going to allow them to seize?
“Muslim Brotherhood-linked Rep. Keith Ellison demands Amazon stop selling books from SPLC-designated ‘hate groups,'” by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, July 18, 2018
Keith Ellison’s letter to Jeff Bezos focuses on an alleged neo-Nazi’s material being sold at Amazon and published on Amazon’s self-publishing, but Ellison makes more sweeping statements, particularly his opening gambit: “I am writing to you with my concerns about the amount of money Amazon has made from the sale of literature and music published by entities identified as ‘hate groups’ by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).”
Clearly Ellison wants Amazon, which has (with Barnes & Noble) a virtual monopoly on book sales in the U.S., to stop selling books by people designated as “hate groups” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Like the establishment media, Ellison assumes that the SPLC is a reliable, unbiased arbiter of what is and isn’t a hate group. The SPLC’s hard-Left bias and determination to destroy legitimate conservative groups by lumping them in with neo-Nazis and white supremacists is nowhere recognized.
The far-Left Bezos likely also thinks that the SPLC is a reliable authority, and so it is entirely possible that he will comply with Ellison’s demands and purge Amazon of all materials by people that the SPLC has smeared and defamed. Given Amazon’s dominance of the book market, that would be a serious blow to the freedom of speech, as the SPLC is making an all-out attempt to delegitimize the full spectrum of opinion that dissents from the Leftist agenda — on Islam, immigration, social issues and more. If Amazon drops SPLC-designated “hate” material, there should ensue a national discussion about whether the SPLC is really a reliable authority, and whether only one viewpoint should be allowed in the public square. If not, this will just be another nail in the coffin of the freedom of speech in the U.S.
Ellison has spoken at a convention of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Yet ISNA has actually admitted its ties to Hamas, which styles itself the Palestinian arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Justice Department actually classified ISNA among entities “who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood.”
It gets worse. In 2008, Ellison accepted $13,350 from the Muslim American Society (MAS) to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca. The Muslim American Society is a Muslim Brotherhood organization: “In recent years, the U.S. Brotherhood operated under the name Muslim American Society, according to documents and interviews. One of the nation’s major Islamic groups, it was incorporated in Illinois in 1993 after a contentious debate among Brotherhood members.” That’s from the Chicago Tribune in 2004, in an article that is now carried on the Muslim Brotherhood’s English-language website, Ikhwanweb.
Also, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) raised large amounts of for Ellison’s first campaign, and he has spoken at numerous CAIR events. Yet CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups.
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Here (thanks to Vikram) is Keith Ellison’s letter to Amazon top dog Jeff Bezos:
July 17, 2018
Jeffrey P. Bezos
CEO
Amazon, Inc.
410 Terry Avenue
North Seattle, Washington 98109Dear Mr. Bezos:
I am writing to you with my concerns about the amount of money Amazon has made from the sale of literature and music published by entities identified as “hate groups” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). I would like to know whether Amazon is committed to ceasing the sale of all products that promote hateful and racist ideologies. For a company with a policy prohibiting the sale of “products that promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual, or religious intolerance or promote organizations with such views,” there appear to be a disturbing number of groups with hateful, racist, and violent agendas making money using Amazon’s platform.
Since the election of Donald Trump, hate groups have been on the rise, and racist violence has swelled in this country. The increase in political organizing around hateful ideologies like white nationalism has provided a growing base of support for racist policies like the Muslim ban, and the “zero tolerance” immigration policies that have driven family separation. Over the last decade, hate groups have used Amazon to fund their activities and spread their ideologies. Historically, Amazon has not responded effectively to this issue, and continues to allow hate groups and SPLC-identified neo-nazis and white nationalist writers to make money using its platform.
According to a recent report entitled Delivering Hate by the Partnership for Working Families and the Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE), available online at https://bit.ly/2tX37yK as of June 2018, Amazon has been selling baby onesies, toys, children’s Halloween costumes, flags, clothing, and jewelry emblazoned with nazi, neo-nazi, white nationalist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, and violent, racist imagery. I am disturbed that Amazon would make racist and hateful products for children available on its platform.
Further, there appears to be a staggering amount of neo-nazi and white nationalist propaganda available for sale on Amazon, both in e-book and print format. For example, five volumes of the Occidental Quarterly, a racist journal edited by SPLC-identified neo-nazi Kevin MacDonald, remain for sale on Amazon. Your company states that it takes 30-65% of revenue from all Kindle e-book sales. Amazon also takes 40% of revenue from the sale of physical books published by its CreateSpace self-publishing platform. I am alarmed that hate groups can make money by selling propaganda on Amazon, and that Amazon is able to profit from these transactions.
As stated earlier, Amazon has a strict policy against hateful and racist products on its platform. The availability of all the material listed in the aforementioned report indicates to me that either Amazon is willfully refusing to enforce its own policies against the sale of racist products, or its sheer size makes it impossible for the company to police itself. In either event, Amazon must immediately cease doing business with groups that promote racist violence. To better understand how hateful propaganda makes its way to be sold on Amazon, and how your company plans to correct this problem, I seek the following information:
1. How much money has Kindle Direct Publishing made from the sale of materials published by SPLC-identified hate groups since 2015?
a. How much money has Amazon made from the sale of SPLC-identified hate groups via its CreateSpace self-publishing service since 2015?
2. How much money has Amazon made from the sale of SPLC-identified hate music, since 2015?
3. How does Amazon enforce its policies against the sale of racist and hateful items?
4. Will Amazon destroy any merchandise with hate symbols currently in Amazon-controlled warehouses within the next three months?
5. Will Amazon stop publishing physical and digital materials from SPLC-identified hate groups in the next three months?I respectfully request answers to my questions by July 31, 2018.
Sincerely,
Keith Ellison
Member of Congress
The Truth Must be Told
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except he forgots about MAMM -> Make Amazon More Money = Bezos Mission Statement
Terrific, Halal Bacon, I was in need of a great laugh, thanks. Sadly, it is true, the imbecilic Brit leader and henchmen are traitors to their non-Muslim citizens. Trump, of course, loves to pis** people off and he does it with flare.
If they fornicate pigs why can’t they eat them?
the greatest!
Yep, even Diana was banging the family that owns Harrods – Parent organization: Qatar Investment Authority – sold out a long time ago
FU AND your camel, Keef.
After facebook, twitter , even Google, youtube joins lslamofascist gang to support illegals and jihadis
suppress conservative free speech http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs
saudi/qatar/OIC own part of twitter, Fox Network, fund CNN, MSNBC , buy out politicians , bureaucrats in education dept to push islam in schools/ colleges. Easiest way to brainwash and takeover country and shutdown free speech !
The DNC and SPLC are both hate groups
Anything non-leftist is “hate” in the SPLC’s eyes. Even groups against gay marriage are immediately branded as evil.
Censorship is tantamount to the Nazis book burning in 1933; a warning that book burning is an agenda for the world’s contemporary Nazis, the totalitarian Democrats. Hate is the bedrock of the Democrats’ Treasonous design to fracture the nation’s stability, civil and governmental. Under Obama’s charge the Democrats and its allies, including Islam were attempting to negate citizens’ rights, be it the First or Second Amendment; needless to say, it is now the core of the Democrats’ subversive directives.
A quote by Heinrich Heine: “Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.” Suffice to say; this quote proved to be prophetic in 1933 under Nazism.
The totalitarian left and their muslum masters are far too smart to burn books, they’ll just ban them (like my local library has already done with any author who dares criticise the fascist, totalitarian, Jew hating, vile, violent islamic death cult.).
That’s only the beginning. Indeed, these munchkins have to start somewhere; libraries, schools etc.
Outside of civil wars or military coups, the atheist West is done. The corrupt, craven, amoral atheists who run the West have already chosen muslums and islum over freedom, liberty and democracy.
I agree totally.
The reality is that the NAZIS were burning porn featuring German woman having sex with blacks and animals. All produced by NYC Jews, along with Communist propaganda also produced by the tribe. These are facts left out of the narrative, as communists tend to do.
This Islamic congressman represents what I see as the concerted effort to end all that is great about America. The path he would follow would prohibit the citizens from being allowed to have any opinions that do not meet the test of the left, Democrats, media, and views of those who accept the belief system that is Islam. His conduct is one of the steps that his belief system promotes: overthrow of our government and our laws, substituting a theocratic government ruled by the Mullahs, and making Sharia law, the law of our land. We cannot let that happen. I hope that all right thinking people will see threw the conduct for what it is, a serious danger to what it means to be an American citizen. Those right thinking people must get out and vote out those who would comply with this congressman’s philosophy, and actively support and vote into office those who recognize the malignant attempt by those who are attempting to lay asunder all that is great about the U.S.A.
Mullahs are usually associated w/Shiites, not Sunnis.
It’s my impression that in America, the left wing enjoy more “airtime” with their speakers than conservatives and because I don’t watch TV of any sort these days and certainly not any from America, I would be grateful for the opinions from readers on here what their impressions are.
That bloke Ellison delivers a most unappealing message, will anyone call him out over his anti white racism ?
No……………
WelI
I demand that
Hack – em Moe – He – Mad
Stop inciting ethnic and religious hate !
Who didn’t see this coming? Amazon has already banned the sale of Halloween costumes deemed “offensive” to f’ing muslums.
This guy is a racist Nazi dressed up in a suit. He’s a fraud, makes Sharpton look good.
Ellison needs to receive a 150 grain projectile travelling at 2900 fps.
I say more then 1,,,,,,
to bad for them the head goat humper in chief aint President anymore……..
The SPLC is a MAJOR hate group. The crooked SPLC is paying mega-bucks to people and organizations it has slandered.
I’m an in-house attorney for Amazon. I’m also a Christian who was born in Syria. Speaking as the unofficial representative of my company on this site, I respectfully request that you go phk yourself, Keith.
Amazon will hang you when they figure you out. You need a paper trail for self protection later.
No, Amazon will give me a medal. It’s obvious who I am.
I think he needs a pigskin rope
Muslims hate free speech. Keep pushing, angry commies.
Does Kieth realize how Moslems treat Negroes? He should be angry that they not only made slaves of them but made EUNUCHS out of many of them and sold their Negresses to be slaves and sex servants.
But there is no outrage from the Negro.
But there is outrage that he was made a slave by very few whites in the South. He be mad about that.
24 million blacks are STILL enslaved in muslim countries.
Mount your camels, draw your swords, go forth & liberate your brothers & sisters.
Islam is the #1 hate group in the world.
Ellison the new American dream, thug turned useful idiot paid for by John q sucker
Dear Mr. Bezos:
How much money has Amazon made by facilitating free speech and a free press?
I demand that you stop listening to the SPLC, CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood and anyone else trying to restrict our freedom through intimidation and the propagation of stupidity.
Ellison is a crazed fool who should think before he speaks.
Hakim Muhammed comes under the category of “Enemies,foreign and DOMESTIC”.
He IS a “Clear and Present DANGER” to our Constitutional Republic.
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Wait…this joker is in the Muslim Brotherhood!? Doesn’t that preclude him from holding office? Imagine if a Klansman ran?
When they get their civil war, remember those that caused this.
Why would anyone want Amazon to sell hate material.
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Hey ellison, return to providing allah oral sex or his Goat, you may be happier.
Amazon is already using algorithms to gently push conservative Christians out of the review process.
I can believe it.
I agree with the SPLC on a lot, but they cast too wide a net to use as a banned books list.
As ubiquitous as Amazon is in modern life, I also worry about the precedent. The danger of silencing unpopular, wacky, and even repulsive ideas is too high. A marketplace of ideas is messy and imperfect, but I don’t see a viable alternative to it.
Some how, when I was a kid, almost 65 years ago, I was sure people by now (far into the future) would have voluntarily eliminated , racism, prejudice, greed, egoism, selfishness and hatefulness, since they would be far advanced, smarter, more intelligent, deep thinkers, and tired of the wars and all that have never gotten us anywhere. There would be no hunger or needs.
I was wrong- we have gone backwards. I simply see no future for mankind, saving a few like myself and a few million who relish in the thought of enjoying this beautiful Earth for all it is and all it has given us to enjoy in peace. Frankly, when mankind is removed from the Earth, it will be a good day.
Sleazy Keith and Amorous Omar want to destroy Minnesota as we know it. VOTE THEM OUT.