SPLC Ignores Muslim Anti-Semitism, Warns About Danger to Muslims From Holocaust Denial

Article author: 
Tyler O'Neil
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PJ Media
Article date: 
26 July 2018
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National News
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islam
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On Saturday, the left-wing smear organization the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) attacked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for suggesting that some forms of Holocaust denial could be acceptable on Facebook. Tragically, the left-wing group did not mention a key source of Holocaust denial: anti-Israel sentiment, and anti-Semitism among Muslims. Instead, the SPLC expressed fear that Holocaust denial might hurt American Muslims.
 
While Nazis were the first to start crafting lies rejecting the reality of the Holocaust, Holocaust denial is most mainstream among Muslims in the Middle East. A 2014 survey by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found that 63 percent of people in the Middle East and North Africa said the Holocaust was "a myth or an exaggeration. A full 65 percent said "Jews are responsible for most of the world's wars." A whopping 74 percent of those in the Middle East and North Africa harbored anti-Semitic views....
 
The SPLC sacrificed quite a good deal of its credibility on anti-Muslim issues when it branded Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz an "anti-Islamic extremist," listing among other issues his visit to a strip club on his bachelor party. Last month, the group settled Nawaz's lawsuit by paying $3 million, but it did not reconsider branding a great deal of mainstream organizations "hate groups." At least one of these hate groups — the Family Research Council — experienced a terrorist attack due to this designation.
 
Muslims in America do indeed face prejudice, but an article about Holocaust denial should not reference anti-Muslim prejudice twice as much as anti-Semitism.
 
In any attack on Holocaust denial, activists should acknowledge the fact that it is most mainstream in the Muslim Middle East, thanks at least in part to anti-Zionist sentiments. For the SPLC to not only omit this fact, but to suggest that Holocaust denial harms Muslims as it harms Jews, is misleading and reckless.
 

 

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