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comment by iammyownrushmore

Not arguing for or against, but the SPLC does outline their reasons for his inclusion here.





OftenBen  ·  2596 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fine and dandy.

I don't think those reasons are reasonable, based on what I have learned of the man, his stated goals and stated means of achieving those goals.

Edit, for Q's sake. The SPLC cites his tweeting of a drawing of Muhammad as a reason to list him as an anti-muslim extremist.

They also accuse Ayaan Hirsi Ali of lying about experiencing religiously decreed female genital mutilation.

So, in this instance, fuck the SPLC.

iammyownrushmore  ·  2596 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't know enough about any of these people except for some of the more virulent members of the list to say much. While it seems like there's plenty of things to disagree with (namely the data collection opinion), calling him an extremist is definitely a stretch.

For clarification, in the thing I linked, the SPLC says

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born activist who says she endured female genital mutilation
(emphasis mine), is there anything the SPLC has said beyond that like a direct accusation? cause that would be horrendously fucked up, and they have no business policing bodies that way.