SMEAR factory Southern Poverty Law Center has “lost all credibility,” admits leftist Washington Post
by: JD Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
The Southern Poverty Law Center has finally overstepped its bounds and mislabeled the wrong organization as a “hate group,” and in doing so has completely destroyed whatever credibility it had left.
“After years of smearing good people with false charges of bigotry, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has finally been held to account,” Marc Thiessen wrote in his latest Washington Post column.
The column is in response to the SPLC’s $3.375 million settlement and public mea culpa to Maajid Nawaz, a former radical Islamist who has become a Muslim reformer whom the organization included in its “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists.”
The columnist went onto claim that the “once-storied organization that did important work filing civil rights lawsuits against the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s” has lapsed into a cartoonish hate factory by “labeling virtually anyone who does not fall in line with its left-wing ideology an ‘extremist’ or ‘hate group.’”
After he left radical Islam behind, Nawaz has served as an advisor to three British prime ministers, Thiessen noted further. In addition, he created an organization – the Quilliam Foundation – whose goal is specifically to fight against Islamic radicalization and extremism. He’s not an “anti-Muslim,” as the SPLC intimated. Rather, he’s a legitimate reformer who has often argued that “Islam is a religion of peace.”
And yet, as Breitbart News notes, he and his organization found their way onto the SPLC’s “hate” list, a “pseudo-guide” the group claims is full of anti-Muslim bigots and racists. How?
Theissen writes that Nawaz’s “crime” was elevating himself and his cause to become a leading voice opposing Muslim radicalization – the same ideology he once believed in.
And because of his courage in standing up to the SPLC’s slander, the organization was forced to pay a multi-million dollar settlement and acknowledge publicly that Nawaz and Quilliam are nothing like the hate group they were portrayed to be.
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