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The Nuclear Card

Frank Gaffney Accuses the SPLC of Endorsing ‘Anti-Semitism and Hatemongering’

Posted on 21 August 2012 by Emperor

Frank Gaffney

Frank Gaffney

This is what happens when you call out Islamophobes on their anti-Muslim hate, you get labeled an “Anti-Semite.”

Frank Gaffney Accuses the SPLC of Endorsing ‘Anti-Semitism and Hatemongering’

by Brian Tarshman (RightWingWatch)

Anti-Muslim activist and conspiracy theorist Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy is joining other conservatives in blasting the Southern Poverty Law Center, and last week on Secure Freedom Radio told CSP’s Fred Grandy that the group is “in the service of people who are really the perpetrators of the worst of the anti-Semitism and hatemongering” by opposing anti-gay and anti-Muslim hate groups. Grandy even said that the group is a “decidedly an anti-Semitic organization” because it calls out the extremist views of Daniel Pipes and David Horowitz.

Listen:

Grandy: The Southern Poverty Law Center, which at least generations ago had a very pristine reputation when we were still fighting the civil rights battle, but now they’ve sunk to a new low and of course one of their partners in this effort right now is the Muslim Public Affairs Council with whom they have conspired to create what is not just I think a coalition of hate crimes centered on organizations like the Family Research Center [sic] because of their support of traditional marriage but this has now become decidedly an anti-Semitic organization as well, tearing into Daniel Pipes at the Middle Eastern Forum or David Horowitz at his Freedom Center and of course we’re part of that mix as well. Interestingly enough Frank, when they were having this conversation on the phone, this conference call about hate crimes the night after the shooting at the Family Research Center [sic] no mention of that hate crime was even brought up.

Gaffney: This is a really extraordinary thing, as you say the Southern Poverty Law Center has fallen dramatically from its past and is now in the service of people who are really the perpetrators of the worst of the anti-Semitism and hatemongering and so on.

Today in the Washington Times, Gaffney said that “the SPLC is hanging out with today’s counterpart to the KKK and the pre-eminent threat to civil rights” and aiding the advancement of Sharia law. “If you lawfully object to, say, the erosion of traditional marriage or open borders, you stand to be condemned by the SPLC as a hater,” Gaffney said. “It seems that if you are militantly in favor of the radical homosexual agenda or racist groups such as La Raza, however, you get a pass from that organization.”

Last week’s near-massacre at the Family Research Council (FRC) put into sharp relief a curious fact: The people most aggressively denouncing others for their “hatemongering” sure are engaging in a lot of it themselves, with dangerous and potentially lethal repercussions.

Take, for example, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Back in the heyday of the civil rights movement, the SPLC helped counter the Ku Klux Klan and other racists and anti-Semites. At the moment, though, the SPLC is hanging out with today’s counterpart to the KKK and the pre-eminent threat to civil rights — especially those of women — in America: Islamists bent on insinuating here their anti-constitutional, misogynistic and supremacist doctrine known as Shariah.

A case in point occurred Wednesday night, just hours after a gunman named Floyd Lee Corkins entered the headquarters of the FRC. Mr. Corkins apparently was bent on killing as many of the center’s employees as possible, perhaps because of the social conservative group’s listing (along with this columnist and a number of others) earlier this year by the SPLC as among the worst hate groups and bigots in America.

It turns out that, as with the Family Research Council, what seems to qualify one for smearing by the Southern Poverty Law Center is disagreement with its political agenda. If you lawfully object to, say, the erosion of traditional marriage or open borders, you stand to be condemned by the SPLC as a hater. It seems that if you are militantly in favor of the radical homosexual agenda or racist groups such as La Raza, however, you get a pass from that organization.

  • Isa

    This is the tactic of projection. If you have something vile and hateful to say, and you know that most people are opposed to vile and hateful things, you accuse your *opponents* of being vile and hateful, thereby shifting the focus from yourself to your opponents – even though you, yourself, are okay with vile and hateful things. This then turns reality on its head and makes it seem like your vile and hateful remarks are actually good and true remarks, while your opponents are the evil and bad people.

    Take the following article, “‘Anti-Fascism’ is the New Fascism”, for example.
    http://www.cesc.net/radicalweb/scholars/rankin/ar2.html

    The Orwellian title alone is mind-boggling. But this quote from it demonstrates the inversion of reality this tactic creates.

    “Like evangelicals, anti-fascists seek to liberate by a combination of moral pressure and legal force. Anti-fascism is, however, a radical secular ideology that allows no possibility of repentance or absolution. The evangelical Protestants who joined temperance or anti-vice campaigns were often oppressive and insensitive, but their zeal was frequently held in check by a concern for individual souls. Anti-fascists, by contrast, have no such concerns. They seek to save communities, by changing their collective consciousness or forcing them to conform. Their ideology allows for no concern for individuals, except for attack or denunciation. This contempt for the individual, the white, male worker in particular, allows the anti-fascist to reconcile two contradictory demands – for civil disobedience (including violence) and for the massive extension of state power.”

    So, you see, Anti-Fascism is the “real” fascism because it has “contempt” for the “white male worker.” And what was the full name of the Nazi Party in Germany? The Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party. And who was eligible to be a member of said Party? “White/Aryan” people, with an emphasis on males; hence, a “white male worker.” But the way this article is worded, it depicts the anti-fascists of being the real mean guys, while simultaneously depicting “white male workers” of somehow being the *victims* of said anti-fascism. And if anti-fascists are the bad guys, then the good guys are whom? Fascists, perhaps?

    This explains why anyone who defends Arabs, Palestinians, and/or Muslims are decried as “anti-Semites” by this Islamophobic campaign. Considering that Arabs are Semites themselves, it is absurd that they could be anti-Semites on a technical basis alone. But part of the campaign is to depict only Jews as being Semites, therefore only hatred against Jews as Antisemitic. But as already stated, this is factually untrue. So what they really mean is that anyone who defends Arabs, Palestinians, and/or Muslims are anti-Jewish. But then that would mean any Jewish person who rises to said defensive, is anti-Self or anti-their-own-Person. Another illogical fallacy.

    Furthermore, as has been demonstrated on this site time and again, much of the “Old Right” who was publicly virulently anti-Jewish in the past, has “toned down” or otherwise replaced their rhetoric with anti-Muslim diatribes. They still hate Jews, but they realize it is easier to transfer everything they hate about Jews onto Muslims due to the political climate of the country, while still getting their point across. And it works, frighteningly so. While most Americans would think it absurd that the Jews were planning to take over America because Butterball sold a few Kosher turkeys, or if Campbells made some Kosher soup, by replacing the word “Jew” with “Muslim”, the script is flipped and many people don’t think the rhetoric is that horrible. If there is another holocaust (and I pray that it never, ever happens) in the West, this time as the Final Solution for Muslims, perhaps people will be more sensitive to Islamophobia, just as they are sensitive to Antisemitism and immediately recognize it for what it is, without making excuses for it.

  • DrM

    Gaffnay’s “mental illness” is Zionism.

  • khushboo

    These nuts will do anything for money. There’s a word for that.

  • Citizen

    Let this man destroy his own reputation. There was a time when I thought he had a degree of scholarship. But that was a long time ago, back in the 1980s. But it is clear now that he doesn’t. The stuff he is made of is pretty simple: Muslim hatred and Islam hatred.

  • NurAlia

    As more and more truth comes out about political Zionism, the more rediculous people like Frank Gaffney sound.

    Mr Gaffney and other loons are using the ‘easy target’ strategy (which happen to be Muslims) to protect political Zionism from being exposed as a parasite.

    People are, more and more, as they read, hear, and watch the truth unfold, and have more access to it, can recall it if they need, and have more opinions and voices added to the mix, beginning to seperate political Zionism from Israel (the state) and Jews.

    Hating Muslims and Islam is simply another stradegy to hold the bunker mindset that the people of Israel have, and the mindless drone support, to hold on to the ideology of Zionism as something good.

    However, the truth is winning, and Gaffney and his minions are losing the war of ideas…because today, you can only lie to those who want to be lied to.

  • Daniel

    I seriously wonder how someone like Frank Gaffney can be so incredibly out of touch with reality. As I said before, I strongly suspect that he has some form of mental illness. If so, he deserves my pity; but to the non-mentally ill who believe his troubled fantasies, they deserve my contempt.

  • http://www.wmonline.com BuddhaShrink

    Frank Gaffney, in referring to the SPLC as anti-Semitic, has a problem: The Anti-Defamation League also thinks that Frank Gaffney is a Loon.

    Regarding why the SPLC designates some groups as hate groups and some extremists like Frank Gaffney as dangerous: Today’s Huffingpost.com has a worthwhile blog to read: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelango-signorile/tony-perkins-family-research-council_b_1806481.html

  • mindy1

    I wonder if the people who spout off such things know how they sound.

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