{"id":67182,"date":"2018-06-19T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67182"},"modified":"2018-06-18T21:19:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T02:19:04","slug":"more-faster-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67182","title":{"rendered":"More, Faster!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/splc-pays-dollar33-million-settlement-to-counter-extremism-group-it-called-anti-muslim\">loses a $3 million defamation suit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, has apologized for including the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism group, and its founder, Maajid Nawaz, in its Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists. \u201cMr. Nawaz and Quilliam have made valuable and important contributions to public discourse, including by promoting pluralism and condemning both anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamist extremism,&#8221; the SPLC wrote in a statement. The SPLC will also pay a $3.375 million settlement to Quilliam that will be used to fight \u201canti-Muslim bigotry and Islamist extremism,\u201d according to a Quilliam press release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But&#8230;what made the SPLC refer to them as a &#8220;hate group?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe were able to fight back against the Regressive Left and show them that moderate Muslims will not be silenced,\u201d Nawaz said in the release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aaaah.\u00a0 It all makes sense now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center loses a $3 million defamation suit: The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, has apologized for including the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism group, and its founder, Maajid Nawaz, in its Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists. \u201cMr. Nawaz and Quilliam have made valuable and important contributions to public discourse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67182","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=67182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67187,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67182\/revisions\/67187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}