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Let’s see if we can figure out who’s ultimately responsible for this:
Using a knife and a handgun, Jameela Cecila Barnette, 53, assaulted an officer from the department’s Precinct 3 who had knocked on her apartment door after responding to an alarm, Cobb Police spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce said. Despite receiving injuries to his arm, Pierce said the officer, who is not being identified at this time, fired his service weapon to stop the assault.
On her blog, Pam Geller notes that the suspect had not only threatened her, but also U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-New York), and New York state Sen. Greg Ball, who had investigated Muslim influence on domestic terrorists.
What Geller overlooked, though, is how much Jameela Barnette may have been influenced by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s slander against Geller and her Stop Islamization of America organization. According to the SPLC, Pam Geller is an “Islamophobe” and “professional Muslim hater”, and the organization Geller and Robert Spencer founded is a “hate group.”
It seems easy to conclude that Jameela Barnette would see anyone who questioned the role of Islam in domestic terror as an enemy motivated only by “hate.”
After all, when nutcase Jared Loughner killed six people at a Tucson, Arizona, political rally, the SPLC didn’t hesitate to conclude Loughner had acted on the “antigovernment paranoia” caused by conservatives who opposed Obama’s leftist agenda.
So it seems fair to me to condemn the SPLC by the same standards it condemns others.
Richard Keefe on 27 Dec 2011 at 7:16 pm #
An excellent question. The SPLC has taken more than a third of a BILLION tax-free donor-dollars since 2002 by convincing its mostly elderly donor base that “right-wing hate groups” lurk behind every rock and tree. They should be held liable when their spurious rhetoric inflames their followers to violence.
http://wp.me/pCLYZ-82
Ironically, the SPLC has actually determined that the largest single category of “hate group” in the US, according to their own numbers, are “Black Separatists.” These groups outnumber both the KKK and “racist skinheads, respectively, on the SPLC’s “Hate Map” fund-raising tool.
http://wp.me/pCLYZ-8S
These Black Separatist groups, according to the SPLC, are comprised almost entirely of chapters of the Nation of Islam… Black Muslims.
The SPLC predicted this kind of violence but did nothing to prevent it.
RonL on 27 Dec 2011 at 7:55 pm #
I’ve come across Jameela in the comments at Frontpagemagazine. She didn’t need to read any $PLC report.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 27 Dec 2011 at 8:02 pm #
RonL,
Probably not. But my point is that the left, and the SPLC in particular, are so quick to blame conservatives for the violence of nutcases, that it seems only appropriate to apply that standard to them.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 28 Dec 2011 at 2:39 pm #
Richard Keefe,
Great comment. Yes, isn’t it odd that Hatewatch features the motto, “Keeping an eye on the radical right”?
roho on 28 Dec 2011 at 4:37 pm #
Not just some, but ALL FOREIGN AID to the middleast should end with a warning not to call us if they can’t play nice with each other.
tribe.net: conservativetimes.org on 31 Dec 2011 at 4:20 pm #
Muslim who threatened Pam Geller killed in attack on police officer…
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