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CNN repeats SPLC Smear


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2017 Aug 23, 1:31pm   1,644 views  5 comments

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... that best-selling author and Ex-Communist David Horowitz and his Freedom Center is a Hate Group

This firm represents David Horowitz and the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation (“Freedom Center”) regarding the defamatory claim that CNN has published about David Horowitz and the Freedom Center in the website article by Dakin Andone and map by Will Mullery describing alleged hate groups throughout the United States. Without critical examination, Mr. Andone’s article refers to and blindly adopts as “widely accepted” the entire list of 917 alleged “hate groups” labeled as such by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (“SPLC”) website, which maliciously promotes the false accusation that the Freedom Center is a “hate group” and that David Horowitz is “anti-Muslim” and “anti-black”.
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CNN and Mr. Andone cite the SPLC website as the source of their defamatory claim, but they have failed to critically examine that source before publishing this defamation. CNN has adopted, without adequate investigation, specious third party claims by the SPLC that Mr. Horowitz and the Freedom Center are “anti-Muslim” and “anti-black.” If CNN had thoroughly investigated these claims, it would have discovered a variety of articles that seriously undermine the credibility of SPLC’s hate list. For example, on October 30, 2016, Tablet Magazine published on the Internet an article exposing the SPLC’s recent blacklisting of David Horowitz and other writers and intellectuals. The article, entitled “A New Blacklist From the Southern Poverty Law Center Marks the Demise of a Once-Vital Organization,” is written by Lee Smith, a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. (See attached article.)

Smith’s article outlines in detail how the SPLC, which once valiantly fought against violent supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan and defended those advocating non-violence, has turned on advocates of non-violence, like Maajid Nawaz, a practicing Muslim who is working within his Muslim community to push back against extremism. Nawaz frequently insists that “Islam is a religion of peace,” but because he is critical of those within his own faith who preach violent resolution of conflicts, the SPLC accuses Nawaz of “blasphemy” (a surprising term for an alleged civil rights organization) and targets him and others on SPLC’s blacklist as being anti-Muslim extremists. Really? Who is really the hate group here? And why is CNN supporting a hate group’s defamation of other groups?

Instead of defending Nawaz’s advocacy of non-violence and diversity of thought, the SPLC is “now aggressively defending the kind of violent supremacists it had once sought to prosecute, and attacking types like Nawaz it had once defended against violence.” The article explores several reasons for the SPLC’s betrayal of its prior mission, suggesting that the blacklist has nothing to do with real anti-Muslim extremism and is simply being used to smear the SPLC’s political enemies.


http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267663/freedom-center-confronts-cnns-blacklist-frontpagemagcom

The SPLC is completely and wholly a partisan outfit now. So is the ADL, which attacks pro-2A Jewish Veterans.

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1   socal2   2017 Aug 23, 1:50pm  

These same fuckers labeled Ayan Hiri Ali a hate group for having the temerity of criticizing Islam after suffering female genital mutilation and escaping an arranged marriage and terrorist attacks in Holland that killed her film partner Van Gogh.

This is all Liberals have now - just screechy name calling everyone racist. They are totally incapable of debating issues and are using their powerful monopoly in the media to shut down free speech.

2   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2017 Aug 23, 2:25pm  

Who cares what those Terrorists thinks? Lock them all up and throw away the key, race baiting seditious bastards.

Their 10 minutes is up they can drop dead and eat shit already.

3   Shaman   2017 Aug 23, 2:31pm  

Anytime the media mentions SPLC as their source, I tune out. They've been aggressively AltLeft for several years now, and have lost all pretense of credibility.

4   MisdemeanorRebel   2017 Aug 23, 3:25pm  

socal2 says

These same fuckers labeled Ayan Hiri Ali a hate group for having the temerity of criticizing Islam after suffering female genital mutilation and escaping an arranged marriage and terrorist attacks in Holland that killed her film partner Van Gogh.

Yep

socal2 says

This is all Liberals have now - just screechy name calling everyone racist. They are totally incapable of debating issues and are using their powerful monopoly in the media to shut down free speech.

Quigley says

Anytime the media mentions SPLC as their source, I tune out. They've been aggressively AltLeft for several years now, and have lost all pretense of credibility.

Word. They're not even a lawsuit hound like they were before, they're just completely partisan. The ADL too. And the "Anne Frank" Center which is a total disgrace.

5   HEY YOU   2017 Aug 23, 3:40pm  

How many Republicans are there sucking up tax dollars from the govt. teat?
How many Republican tax payers can't get subsidies that Republican businesses get?
Republicans need to pay taxes to support Republican socialists.
"false accusations" here,I think not

If they aren't stopped Socialist Republicans could turn America,Communist.
They are buying plenty of Communist imports.

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