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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 3338 days ago
I have an issue in their recommendation to use the Southern Poverty Law Center as a source to find out extremists. The SPLC is not a neutral source. For example, it has listed Aayan Hirsi Ali and Masjid Nawaz as anti-Islam extremists. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/magazine/can-a-former-...

The SPLC is free to list whomever they want, but using their list to rank sites in Google search is very problematic.
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cholantesh 3338 days ago
Just read Maajid's section in SPLC's Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists[0]. This is ridiculous; tweeting out a picture of Muhammad is 'offensive' to many Muslims and is therefore 'extremism'? They must be totally unaware of the rich history of Persian and Ottoman devotional art which depicts Muhammad.

[0] - https://www.splcenter.org/20161025/journalists-manual-field-...

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