I first read, via Sam Harris' Twitter, about the Southern Poverty Law Center’s labelling of Maajid Nawaz as an "anti-Muslim extremist".
This is complete nonsense. Maajid speaks for moderation in Islam, having once been jailed for his own Islamist extremism.
SPLC's listing of Aayan Hirsi Ali is also nonsense. I've read all her books and articles. She is a powerful voice for women's rights in Islam.
I read SPLC's write ups on these two, and found them mean-spirited and tendentious. Clearly dishonest. I was going to do a point-by-point rebuttal, but now don't need to as it's been done by Amjad Khan here: SEDAA gets stuck into SPLC.
SPLC is a hard-Left outfit. On this issue of critics of the ideology of Islam it can safely be ignored. It is Hard-Left biased.
Note that SPLC list "hate groups", but not a single one is Islamist or jihadist…. As if!
