[ April 24, 2024 ]
Patreon, GoFundMe, MasterCard, and Discover Card have banned me as the Left moves quickly now to silence all dissent, and there is no telling who could be next. It could be you.
It’s clear that conservative voices are being deplatformed and silenced at the behest of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which for years has defamed me as a “hate group leader” and an “anti-Muslim extremist.” These are not mere words. Former SPLC spokesman Mark Potok has declared: “Sometimes the press will describe us as monitoring hate groups, I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, completely destroy them.”
Potok added: “You are able to destroy these groups sometimes by the things you publish. It’s not so much that they will bring down the police or the federal agents on their head, it’s that you can sometimes so mortally embarrass these groups that they will be destroyed….We see this political struggle. We’re not trying to change anybody’s mind. We’re trying to wreck the groups. We’re trying to destroy them. Not to send them to prison unfairly or to take their free speech rights away, but as a political matter to destroy them.”
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I’ve started an Indiegogo fundraiser to raise money to sue the SPLC – it will be interesting to see if the SPLC prevails upon Indiegogo to quash a fundraiser that is critical of the SPLC. In the meantime, it’s useful to remember that the SPLC’s “hate” list is based on lies, misrepresentations, and innuendo — to which they allow no appeal, no discussion, no debate, no recourse.
“Robert Spencer,” https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/robert-spencer
- “Spencer is one of the most prolific anti-Muslim figures in the United States.”
I am not “anti-Muslim.” I oppose jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women, non-Muslims, and others. I am no more “anti-Muslim” than foes of the Nazis were “anti-German.”
- “A career anti-Muslim figure, Spencer has devoted much of his life to writing books, countless articles, and producing other content all with the goal of vilifying and maligning Muslims and the Islamic faith.”
My goal is not now and has never been “vilifying and maligning Muslims and the Islamic faith.” My goal is to convey Islamic doctrines and beliefs accurately in order to help people understand the phenomenon of Islamic jihad terror.
- “He considers these texts to be innately extremist and violent, and refuses to acknowledge nonviolent passages and centuries of adapted interpretations.”
Actually, I’ve published online a commentary on the entire Qur’an, including the nonviolent passages, and written extensively within it about nonviolent interpretations of various passages. That’s here: https://www.jihadwatch.org/quran-commentary
- “Spencer argues that extremists, like Osama bin Laden and ISIS, are the most authentic interpretation and practice of Islam, despite being actively rejected by the overwhelming majority of the world’s Muslims. He brushes this fact off by bombastically claiming the majority of Muslims, either do not understand their own holy book or are masking their extremism.”
I’ve never made such claims, and have in fact spoken of a spectrum of belief, knowledge, and fervor among Muslims that accounts for why most do not wage jihad.
- “By painting Rauf as an extremist who was striving to build a ‘victory mosque’ to celebrate the destruction of the World Trade Center, the two leaders of SIOA sought to block the project while portraying all Muslims as radical – an assertion simply not supported by facts.”
Rauf had links to the Muslim Brotherhood — see here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2010/07/raufs-dawa-world-trade-center-rubble-andrew-c-mccarthy/
We never stated or implied that “all Muslims” are “radical.”
- “Spencer also attacks individuals and organizations that claim to represent mainstream Muslims. This is most commonly done through accusations of those entities acting as secret operatives to destroy the West.”
In reality, I merely note the abundantly documented ties of groups such as CAIR to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. See, for example, here: https://www.investigativeproject.org/2340/federal-judge-agrees-cair-tied-to-hamas
- “Spencer is known to have associations with European racists and neo-fascists. However, he claims that his contact with them is merely incidental.”
I have no associations with European racists or neo-fascists, and never have. I have had some associations with people who were falsely accused of being racist and neo-fascist.
- “In Spencer’s 2017 book Confessions of an Islamophobe, a memoir that among other things dives into the nuances of being an anti-Muslim hate monger, he reveals he has no plans of slowing down.”
In reality, the book explains why opposing jihad terror and Sharia oppression do not make one an anti-Muslim hate monger.
“Muslim Basher Robert Spencer Shows White Nationalist Colors,” https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2011/11/09/muslim-basher-robert-spencer-shows-white-nationalist-colors
- “Proving yet again that nothing is beneath him, anti-Muslim propagandist Robert Spencer has put himself firmly in the camp of open white nationalists with an article published yesterday in Crisis magazine, a conservative Catholic publication.”
I am not a white nationalist, openly or secretly, and that article simply criticized multiculturalism. It did not discuss race at all.
- “Spencer’s piece is punctuated with a recommended reading list that might have been taken from the bookshelf of John Tanton, the racist architect of the modern nativist movement.”
I had nothing to do with the compilation of that reading list, and did not see it before the piece was published. None of the books on it are genuinely racist; they’re simply against mass migration of non-Europeans into Europe, the devastating effects of which we are seeing now.
- “Anthony M. Esolen’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization, which was published by the white nationalist Regnery Press…”
Regnery Publishing is not “white nationalist.” It is a leading mainstream conservative publishing house that has published books by numerous mainstream conservative figures, including David Horowitz, Dinesh D’Souza, Ann Coulter, etc.
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America is at a crossroads today. The choice before us is whether we will continue to exist as a free society, or whether we will become a totalitarian state in which holding the proper opinions is an indispensable prerequisite of being able to function as a citizen at all. The outcome, at this point, is very much in doubt.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His new book is The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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18 Comments
5 years ago
And that’s not counting the SPLC being on the side of the culture of death (a.k.a. abortion on demand) as well as being anti-family, anti-children, anti-morality and anti-humanity (a virulent hatred of such directly leading to the shooting inside the Family Research Center HQ).
5 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
Most of their members are probably reactionary left-wing atheists who want to rebel against the “Southern” conservative culture, much like a high school girl tries to rebel against her parents and upbringing.
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
Just like transgenderism is a rebellion against nature, biology and genetics – just one of many such examples.
5 years ago
SPLC also labeled Ayaan Hirsi.
SPLC – The Southern Progressive Leftist Center
5 years ago
Reply to
TD
Actually SPLC should really stand for Socialist-Progressive-Leftist-Communists.
5 years ago
Reply to
TD
As well as Ben Carson (though even they reluctantly withdrew his name). Maybe Ben Shapiro as well, I’m not sure, it seems almost every conservative is being watched by them at one time or another.
5 years ago
Reply to
TD
They are aided by the dumb , ignorant Left/Liberal loons coming out of colleges/schools run by pro-jihadi left/liberal loons
And by the time they realise their stupidity they get assaulted , gang raped or murdered like this couple its too late for them https://tinyurl.com/yahupccy
Problem is they enable evil while not able to see evil thanks to pro-jihadi left/liberal indoctrination in schools/colleges where real history of islam and America is no longer taught.
5 years ago
SPLC, and CAIR are nothing more than domestic terror organizations protected by our leftist government officials. They should have been designated as terror organizations, disbanded, and their leaders arrested. Too bad we no longer have a government that is capable of doing it’s job.
5 years ago
Strangely enough, they are carefully silent on the activities of Antifa as well as most Muslim groups. Hardly an objective or non-partisan organization, still less a real “Center” of “Law”.
5 years ago
Sharia Pushing Leftist Criminals.
5 years ago
SPLC is a Muslim cheer leader! SPLC is anti American and fights against US.
5 years ago
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5 years ago
My online payments processing has been shut down by SPLC minions time after time,Banking orgs.
I’m a “Hater” because I despise TERRORISTS and make http://www.silverbulletgunoil.net
That supposedly makes me a muslim hater.
My take is,if they aren’t violent jihadists they have nothing to worry about.
SPLC is a terror front organization which has been subverting efforts to counter world domination by islamoterrorists.
They are HATERS of Freedom.
They are HATERS of the USA.
SPLC is SCUM of the lowest form.
They “Claim” to be a “Non Profit organization” yet have tens of MILLIONS of US Dollars parked offshore.
Maybe THAT should be investigated.
SPLC hold the moral low ground,way below sea level.
Semper Fi
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5 years ago
Robert Spencer is a good man and a patriot. The Southern Poverty Law Center is a bad organization which has more in common with China’s policy of social credits than America. Their ideas could never have invented America, even though they’ve deceived themselves into thinking they are America and we are the enemies.
5 years ago
SPLC is one of the biggest hate groups. They are anti anti-Moslem. SPLC are career haters. SPLC associates with waycist and wradicals and thus their extreme views on Christians and white people.
SPLC are hate mongers. Anti-white and anti-Christian but pro-sodomites and thus also, anti-heterosexuals. These people are FOOL of hate.
5 years ago
There is no “what if”. The SPLC long ago became a wing of the progressive-intolerant Democrat Party, i.e. a neo-McCarthyist organization whose partisanship is undeniable. PERIOD.
