Southern Poverty Law Center's Anti-Muslim Extremists: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Maajid Nawaz

There have always been questions regarding SPLC's hate lists, but this seems interesting.

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In response to the high levels of anti-Muslim extremists regularly provided a platform in the media and in the public eye, the Southern Poverty Law Center has partnered with Media Matters for America, ReThink Media and the Center for New Community to provide a resource on anti-Muslim public figures for reporters and media professionals. ... “We wrote this manual because Muslims in America continue to be vilified by a network of anti-Muslim extremists spreading baseless and damaging lies and we think the media can play a role in helping to stop it,” said Heidi Beirich, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center. A shocking number of anti-Muslim, self-described “experts” are seen regularly in the media, where they spread falsehoods that too often go uncontested. Their rhetoric has toxic consequences, from promoting xenophobia, to poisoning democratic debate, to inspiring hate violence. ... Other anti-Muslim extremists profiled are Ann Corcoran, Steven Emerson, Pamela Geller, John Guandolo, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, David Horowitz, Robert Muise, Maajid Nawaz, Daniel Pipes, Walid Shoebat, Robert Spencer and David Yerushalmi.

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I am not well read on these things, but I do recognize some of these names. A number of them have responded.

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According to the non-Muslims at the Southern Poverty Law Center, it's normal for Muslims who are "anti-Muslim extremists" like me (wtf?!) to: 1) Argue for a motion that Islam is a religion of peace at IQ2 in New York 2) Host Morgan Freeman in a mosque 3) Battle racist callers who want mass deportations via national radio 4) Defend Muslims from anti-Muslim bigots who think we Muslims are "taking over" on national radio 5) Have the support of the UK's only 'watchdog for anti-Muslim hate', Tell Mama UK Despite all that and more, according to a bunch of 1st world American non-Muslim "progressives", I - a liberal reforming Muslim - am an anti-Muslim extremist?

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