{"id":60803,"date":"2016-11-03T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60803"},"modified":"2016-11-04T08:38:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T13:38:01","slug":"bearers-of-the-new-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60803","title":{"rendered":"Bearers Of The New Plague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If everybody they disagree with is a &#8220;hate group&#8221;\u00a0 \u2013 as the Southern poverty Law Center would have you believe \u2013 then the term &#8220;hate group&#8221; has completely lost in the meeting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/441671\/splc-anti-muslim-extremists-list-scholars-reformist-muslims-hirsi-ali-daniel-pipes\">They do, and it has<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Southern Poverty Law Center, which made its reputation tracking and cataloguing violent extremist groups, has set its sights on a new group of people who are neither violent nor extreme but who are in fact precisely the opposite of that: critics of the violence and extremism too often associated with Islam. The new SPLC blacklist includes: Daniel Pipes, holder of a Ph.D. in Islamic history from Harvard, a man who reads both modern and classical Arabic, who studied in Egypt, and who has taught at Harvard and the University of Chicago; Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a celebrated author, a former member of the Dutch parliament and crusader against female genital mutilation; Maajid Nawaz, a British Muslim reformist who was held as a political prisoner in Egypt; former Defense Department official Frank Gaffney; Radical Son author David Horowitz; attorney and free-speech advocate Robert Muise of the American Freedom Law Center; provocatrix Pamela Geller; former PLO member and Muslim reformist Walid Shoebat, among others<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Free speech itself is, apparently, hate.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, not the kind of free speech where you ho<a href=\"https:\/\/heatst.com\/culture-wars\/lena-dunham-wants-to-improve-men-by-making-white-straight-men-extinct\/\">pe straight white males go extinct<\/a>; that&#8217;s &#8220;robust interaction&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Note to liberals; go ahead. \u00a0Cite the SPLC in any debate with me. \u00a0 Then brace yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If everybody they disagree with is a &#8220;hate group&#8221;\u00a0 \u2013 as the Southern poverty Law Center would have you believe \u2013 then the term &#8220;hate group&#8221; has completely lost in the meeting. They do, and it has. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which made its reputation tracking and cataloguing violent extremist groups, has set its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60803"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60824,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60803\/revisions\/60824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}