Progressive Org Gives Muslim Groups a Pass on Gay Issues, Condemns Social Conservatives
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a non-profit progressive civil rights watchdog organization, was in the news again last week when its quarterly “Intelligence Report” warned that membership in hate groups was see rise. But a tendency to exclude certain groups from its outspoken criticism has many accusing the SPLC of having serious double standards.
“For a second year in a row, the radical right in America expanded explosively in 2010, driven by resentment over the changing racial demographics of the country, frustration over the government’s handling of the economy, and the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories and other demonizing propaganda aimed at various minorities,” SPLC claims. On a list of over 1,000 organizations labeled “hate groups,“ 17 ”anti-gay” are singled out, the majority of which being Christian and conservative in nature.
According to SPLC, an anti-gay hate group is one which states homosexuality is corrupting society and defames the gay community by promoting information the SPLC considers to be unfounded. In this light, the SPLC treats groups such as the Family Research Council (FRC), a Washington-based conservative think tank that advocates social conservatism, in the same way it treats groups like the Ku Klux Klan.
But Stephen Schwartz, executive director for the Center for Islamic Pluralism, says the SPLC’s failure to include Muslim groups on the report exposes its double standard.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center has adopted the attitude that Muslims are only victims of hate,” Schwartz told the Daily Caller. “They’ve adopted a paradigm that groups can be divided between victims and haters. There are Muslim hate groups in the United States. There’s no question about that. [The SPLC is] not going to address the fact that there are Muslim radicals, Muslim extremists, in the United States.”
“To call the Family Research Council a hate group is unacceptable,” Schwartz said. “It’s inaccurate. It’s using the phrase in an ideological way.”
Among the Muslim groups that escaped being named in the report as an anti-gay hate group, like the conservative FRC, is the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), which is outspoken in its condemnation of homosexual lifestyles. Its website calls same-sex relationships a “deviation” from Allah’s laws and refers to homosexuality as “ignorance.”
“There are divine laws for faith groups to adhere to and accept,” said Naeem Baig, ICNA vice president.
Baig said religious groups of any faith should not be labeled hate groups for their beliefs unless they actually promote violence or hate.
The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) has also been unequivocal in its moral rejection of homosexuality, yet it too was not to be found in SPLC’s report. In a 2006 Religion News Service story, Muzammil Siddiqi, a former president of ISNA who later served on its board of directors, said, “Homosexuality is a moral disorder. It is a moral disease, a sin and corruption . . . No person is born homosexual, just like no one is born a thief, a liar or murderer. People acquire these evil habits due to a lack of proper guidance and education.”
The Fiqh Council, an ISNA affiliate, advocates a similar viewpoint. Dr. Jamal Badawi, who serves on its executive council, called gay lifestyles “strange and contradictory” and lamented the West’s acceptance of homosexuality as a “setback and decline” in the world’s moral standards, according to an article on islamawareness.net.
“A hate group to me is a group that incites violence. They’re not inciting violence. They’re not inciting lawbreaking,” Schwartz said.
Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition, also criticized the SPLC’s report and accused the group of using the “hate group” label as a way to intimidate ideological enemies.
“They are naming anyone who doesn’t agree with them as a hate group,” Lafferty said. “This is how they deal with their enemies – they scare them.”




















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Nigel2
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 11:35pmPoor loser Broker0101. Has to come to a blog site people actually read just to get some attention. Hey, don’t hate us just because liberal radio and other media is an abject failure!
Report Post »Cherished Emblems
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 11:28pmThe Islamic Society of North America has also been unequivocal in its moral rejection of homosexuality…good on them!
Report Post »TOPOFTHEGAME
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 11:03pmREAL-ID Act there going to try and revive it again for May 2011. It’s to standardize all State drivers licenses, Congress was told it mirrors what the U.N. wants there ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization,REAL-ID is based on high quality pictures on your new drivers licenses. The photo wwill run through special software to measure your facial features and the analyzes your unique identifiable characteristic of the face. The REAL-ID Act was signed in to law in May/2005. Implementation has been tried many times. DHS demands thats states comply by MAY/2011. HAS ANYONE HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THIS????????????
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 11:01pmIn a crazy way, wondering if the Supreme Court upheld hate speech at a war veteran’s funeral so “white supremacy” groups are encouraged to create a good “Black/White” news story.
Report Post »jordy2010
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:52pmAdd your comments
Report Post »jordy2010
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:51pmThe SPLC is itself a far-leftist hate group
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:49pmWtf kind of bulls–t is going on back east, is there not people with some testicles left over there. My God !
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:44pmThe muslim-death-cult is the largest and most violent “hate group” on the planet – they hate just about everyone, including these loser-idiots at the SPLC.
Report Post »firex1204
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:42pmPolitical Correctness is going to destroy our country. SPLC must live in that alternate universe the rest of the libs live in. It must be so peaceful there. If only we could all live in that world.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:42pmIt was the Muslim Arab traders that reintroduced slavery to the West. They had some great African slaves to sell us.
Sometimes irony is pretty ironic.
Report Post »S_Malc13
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:40pmMan I hate cowards. I wish these groups would just say what they really mean. They don’t like white, Christian, right conservative people. Period.
Report Post »ChiRho4Life
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:36pmthis is all carefully orchestrated by the United Nutjobs…i mean nations..think about it…they want a one-world government, one world currency, one world religion….where have all the Jedis gone?
Report Post »Deutscher
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:34pmTook a quick look. They list the Nation of Islam, and Black Panthers as hate groups.
Report Post »I’m not sure what the criteria were but all 3 abrahamic religions have groups that hate gays. If they are listing groups that hate gays, there are some in all 3 branches.
valarie
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:23pmI’m so lost on this stuff. I was on another blog, sparring with a “gay rights activist” and he said that he wanted to help fund a Mosque in our town. I freaked and educated him regarding what Islam believes should be done to homosexuals. His response was “Lady, I don’t want YOUR protection.“ My response back was ”Yea, but it’s my duty to protect you. Deal with it.” Good grief, I can’t even believe the “Alice in a Horrible Wonderland” things we’re dealing with!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 2:55pmThank you, and keep it up!
Report Post »Good job! Love your response to him.
ilovethiscountry
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:20pmIf they are trying to scare me, I am not scared.
Report Post »B-Neil
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:20pmThats all I hear out of the LEFT, is hate. There so intent on taking control of everything. They fail to see how exposed they are, in there radical behavior. They fail to see how bent out of shape they get, when called on the carpet. For a Vampire to enter your house. They have to be invited in. Englands Chamberlin kissed up to the Nazis, What did that get him??? Now the left wants us to kiss up to the Muslims?? I don’t think so. The Muslims are a Religion. God placed them under everybody else. They have no covenent. They don’t count……Carry on McDuff——You invite them in, there going to bite you.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:20pmAccording to SPLC, an anti-gay hate group is one which states homosexuality is corrupting society and defames the gay community by promoting information the SPLC considers to be unfounded.
Therefore, by their own sanctimonious definition, the Westboro Baptist Church is a hate group.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:17pmCause their afraid of muslims and their POS 12th imam
Report Post »Tnredneck
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:59pm@dealer…… Great point. The progressives are cowards.
Report Post »chickenfried
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:16pmHEY SPLC….
I hate radical Muslims that want to destroy America.
I hate radical homosexuals that want to destroy America.
I hate radical union thugs that want to destroy America.
I hate radical progressives that want to destroy America.
I hate the radical president that wants to destroy America.
I hate the radical legislators that want to destroy America.
Do you see a pattern here?
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:57pmSure, I see the pattern
you hate more than you think.
here, try this:
http://www.nrtw.org/
join the fight against Unionism and try to be rational
Report Post »Itchee Dryback
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 10:57amchickenfried
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:16pm
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No.
Report Post »What is it?
LilHarley
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:06pmOh yes, nothing like ignoring the groups that HATE the USofA and all the people in it. They don’t count?? Seriously?? They want to bomb the statue of liberty, bring in their sharia(sp) law, change the Constitution …but they don’t hate us?? Please…they should be number one! Where were you on 9/11 ????!!!!
Report Post »rojotx
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:00pmrun hide , the splc is looking
Report Post »John 1776
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:00pmI don’t get it. Everything the Left loves, the Islamic’s will put them to death for! It’s like watching a mass suicide, except we get dragged along too….
Report Post »drbage
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:25pmCan’t you just wait to see Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and Sheila Jackson-Lee clad in their burqas and wearing a hijab?! Oh and those Dior and Armani pants suits will have to go too.
Report Post »Tnredneck
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:55pmIt’s the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Looks like we are fighting terrorist and idiots.
Report Post »ConstitutionFreedomLover
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 11:46pm@John 1776…very true!!! ;)
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 9:57pmThe Southern Poverty Law Center has adopted the attitude that Muslims are only victims of hate,”
Political Correctness is the hand maiden of Terror
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:43pm@Mainer forever
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 9:57pm
“The Southern Poverty Law Center has adopted the attitude that Muslims are only victims of hate,”
Political Correctness is the hand maiden of Terror
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Yeah? Well I don’t give a (let me call Sarah and get a lady-like word. She said the best she could come up with is …) “rat’s ass” what the Southern Poverty Law Center has adopted! And they can stuff that up their politically correct rosterium, too!
Stoic one
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:54pm@showtime
how about the clinical—rectum
or reticular orifice
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 2:17pm@Stoic one
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:54pm
@showtime
how about the clinical—rectum
or reticular orifice
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What’s your phone number?
I need to store it in my phone for such emergencies! :-)
CatB
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 9:55pmNO problem .. the Muslims will just kill you …. No problem right? Now that IS hate.
Report Post »mattsanz
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:04pmIt is time to limit are Federal Govenment..28 Admendment, No other authority has the right to tax a sovereign citizen of a free and independent state.29 Admendment, No other authority has the right to mark or number a sovereign …citizen of a free and independent state.30 Admendment, The US Federal Govt does not have the right or authority to enter a union w/ another nation state much less all nation states
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:06pmI will say this much:
The Southern Poverty Law Center has demonstrated with the blinders it has put on to shy away from the extremists of the muslums, the fundamentalists, the radicals, they are complicit with those who wish to destroy the country and our way of life.
The SPLC therefore is a hate group in the fact of denying the enemies of the USA seek to destroy us are also hate groups, you have given them justification for their hate filled views of us.
You have become the one thing you as a group have claimed the moral high ground in opposing.
Report Post »P C BE DAMNED
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:07pmSick, sick, sick. I am so tired of this crap. I hope God will yet intervene and give us some relief from the demons that never rest. God we are too ignorant to do anything good. Please help our desperate plight. In Jesus I pray.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:20pmReminds me of the Kingston Trio’s song -
They’re rioting in Africa, they’re starving in Spain.
There’s hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch.
And I don’t like anybody very much!
But we can be tranquil, and thankful, and proud
For man’s been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud.
And we know for certain that some lovely day
Someone will set the spark off, and we will all be blown away.
They are rioting in Africa, there’s strife in Iran.
Report Post »What nature doesn’t do to us will be don by our fellow man.
Showtime
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:35pm@P C BE DAMNED
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:07pm
Sick, sick, sick. I am so tired of this crap. I hope God will yet intervene and give us some relief from the demons that never rest. God we are too ignorant to do anything good. Please help our desperate plight. In Jesus I pray.
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P C, we are ALL praying, okay? You are not alone. There’s a reason for all this. The reason is that all these groups, protesters, unions, leftists, etc., etc., etc., all see a weak man in the White House, and they are ALL trying to wear down the conservative right-wingers because they lost a LOT of ground in the 2010 midterms. Their mentality is that the squeaking wheel gets the oil. Remember what Glenn Beck said? They are DELIBERATELY trying to wear us down, to make us say, “STOP! STOP ALREADY!!!”
Their problem is that they have found that our Red, White, and Blue Colors don’t run!
Do you think those bast**ds in Wisconsin actually ENJOYED all that racket? No. Noise is being used as a tool. “Hate” is being used as a tool. “Racism” is being used as a tool. “Nudging” is being used as a tool. What they are trying to do is gain ground.
You have to understand that they will call names, shout obscenities, carry obscene signs, blow horns, chant, bang on drums, and whatever else they can think of, all to intimidate.
DON’T YOU CAVE ON US, YOU HEAR ME? You have a nation filled with people who are standing beside you and growing just as weary. But, just Wisconsin‘s Governor Scott Walker isn’t caving, we are not, either. We have God on our side! Remember that. Our Father is a King.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 11:00pm@Snow -
Report Post »In Bush’s words, “If you are not with us, you are against us.”
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 11:05pm@Showtime and PC be…
We all are doing something right for the Almighty is indeed with us; the gates and forces of hell itself have been unleashed upon us, and are making every effort to stop us. The fact we are winning, in all areas, for they have not been able to beat us, as the Lord Himself is with us…so how can they stop Him and His people carrying out His will on the earth in these times.
Report Post »Deutscher
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 11:09pm@SHOWTIME
All religious people think they have god on their side, yet sometimes they win and sometimes they lose. I get nervous when Muslims or Christians claim a special knowledge of or dispensation from god.
Report Post »FatherOf2FromNJ
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:16amIS stoning hateful, as long as they don’t (gasp) utter a gender, handicap, racial, or sexual oriented slur. Hate crimes are thought crimes so I guess using the reasoning presented in this report stoning someone to death for being homosexual is far more acceptable then saying something that may make them feel bad. Also not to drop the race card on the table but this report seems to only focus on groups they would consider part of the majority and since middle easterners are a “protected minority” they can’t be called on their actions because that would make you a racist islamophobe.
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 1:28amSo, a religious group can’t be considered a hate group, then what the heck was all that garbage about Mormon’s being so full of hate that we make gay people kill themselves? I would usually call bull on something like this, but the SPLC is just a bad joke whose punchline I can’t find.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 9:23amThanks SHOWTIME
Report Post »I needed that response you gave to PCBEDAMNED
I feel like we are outnumbered. The democrats progressive caucus has 83 members- and yet most older dems dont know what a progressive is.However when they do realize, some leave the party, others embrace it. The irony of embracing Muslim groups by a party that always boasted freedom is so insane. The Muslims are the Mother of all Hate groups and the dems call conservatives the haters. The state of our Nation has changed me forever. I am disgusted with anyone and anything on the left. I have found my religion and am clinging to my guns .
kindling
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 9:20pmGod is not going to stop bad people from doing what they do, He is going to watch and see what good people do in response. It is like children born handicapped, the test is not how that child lives his/her life, it is how those assigned to care for them do. Life is a test and the thing I struggle most with is that the horrid people I watch everyday; my brothers and sisters around the world, are supposed to be the good ones, or the ones that choose God’s plan. Boy oh boy, I’d hate to see the ones that choose Lucifer’s plan. Poor God, having to watch his children causing unspeakable pain on one another.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 9:51pmEven Better, True Headline, “Mercury Radio Arts’ Alcoholic, Drug Addict Chief Predicts ‘Civil Unrest Like America Has Never Seen Before’ and that He is ‘Trying to Save Us’”. I will mock, in a funny, throaty voice, anyone who dares question that statement of fact.
Showtime
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:44pmAnd, if anybody “has to go,” I hope you are the first!
Report Post »Tnredneck
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:49pmI question your so called facts. In fact you are a liar and I say that in an even deeper throaty voice. Hey broker 101, I have gone back to some of your previous blogs and it seems that beck is mopping the floor with you. Do you even watch? Go back to the basement and change your diaper. You are stinking up the place.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 10:49pmBroker0101, do you just not understand what is happening, or are you just filled with hatred for conservatives who are trying to restore America’s strength, honor, and economy? I honestly (Girl Scout’s Honor) do not understand why your are not screaming at the top of your lungs for this Communist in the White House to stop weakening America and turning EVERYBODY into slaves.
That’s what we will be, you know. And the old will go first because we are useless for their purpose (work). You won’t gain anything because what you gain, everybody else gains, too. If that’s not social INjustice, what the hell IS?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 11:02pmBroker 0101, I shall put it simply…you are no longer worth the time to comment upon, having already made up your mind on all manner of things not in the limited view of your cast iron beliefs.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 11:28pmRequest to Blaze admins :
Report Post »Plz provide an “ignore” button
ishka4me
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 11:37pmthe progessives give muslim a pass on gay issues? well do muslims give gays a pass on the not being stoned to death issue?
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 11:39pmbroker 101 is a paid progressive troll, to sit in conservative rooms and start screaming, kind of like the paid nuts in wisconsin. it is his job.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 11:56pm“I will mock, in a funny, throaty voice, anyone who dares question that statement of fact.”
Broker, nobody cares what you think or what you say anymore. We have come to know the kind of person you are and most of us have concluded that you are the most untalented and arrogant
posters here on The Blaze. Actually, if you weren’t such a little girl, you could pass as a Charlie Sheen clone.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if you became our Charlie mascot?!
http://www.americasteapartynews.com
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:19amI know…I ALWAYS seem to be off topic…okay!
BUT…
OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL
1st call for impeachment by member of Congress
‘Absolutely,’ Trent Franks tells blog, citing abandonment of DOMA law
Read more: 1st call for impeachment by member of Congress http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=270077#ixzz1FVj1ZTVB
Report Post »randy
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:26amWhy do you people even bother with this BROKER idiot?
Report Post »Just ignore her. She feeds off your responses.
hifi74
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 12:57amHeeeeeeyyyyyy, someone let Broker out of his padded room again. Someone get the leash back on him and get him back to his room.
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 1:14amThe Progressives will have to find out the hard way. Guess they didn’t get the memo outlining the fact that the Muslims are order to lie to the infidels. As such, they will partner with anyone willing to help them promote their agenda. Once Sharia has been implemented and in the Muslims are in control, the Progressive will be the first to get a nice clean haircut even with the shoulders. Surprise…surprise.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 1:50am@AZ Debi ~
Wowzers!
Obama’s bridge is
falling down
falling down
falling down -
Obama’s bridge is
falling down
Our fair Liberty Lady!
Take the keys and
lock him up—
He’s fixing to get his butt IMPEACHED! There are enough Republicans to get it done, too!
Report Post »captaincrunch
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 4:42amThe gays and lesbians dont realize that if Islam (shiriah law) took over that they would all be sent off to a FEMA camp (death camp) and euthanized.
History has a bad habit of repeating itself.
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 9:16am@broker0101 – not only is it ridiculous but making themselves look like a pure fool because only fool is blind enough to make a statement that is not only ludicrous but transparent in its deceitfulness. I know of no one with an IQ higher than 2 1/2 that could even begin to believe their own hatred of this country and all the good that it stands for is believable or anywhere in the realm of sanity. Anyone that makes a statement like this acts so innocent and like they believe it but it is only a weak attempt to cover up the FACT of their vitriol and hatred. Actually you did show one positive aspect in your statement and that aspect is your transparency of actual open hatred, so I will give you this. At least your transparency is more open than the false transparency of your freedom hater pals like Obama and the rest of your (and his) communistic cronies. Just remember in the end the truth will come out and be recognized as the truth and then it will be delightful when you and your comrades will be standing there with your vitriolic hatred showing openly on your faces.
Report Post »Itchee Dryback
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 10:42ambroker0101
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 9:51pm
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You’re silly.
Report Post »Biminy
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 1:03pmI was going to say something but nevermind. You are just a jacka$$……
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