How the Southern Poverty Law Center Faked an Islamophobia Crisis

How the Southern Poverty Law Center Faked an Islamophobia Crisis Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage Magazine Look out!  It’s another fake Islamophobia crisis.  “Huge Growth in Anti-Muslim Hate Groups During 2016: SPLC Report,” wails NBC News. “Watchdog: Number of anti-Muslim hate groups tripled since 2015,” FOX News bleats. ABC News vomits up this word salad. “Trump cited in report finding increase in US hate groups for 2nd year in a row.” The SPLC stands for the Southern Poverty Law Center: an organization with slightly less credibility than Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, and without the academic degree in greasepaint. And you won’t believe the shameless way the SPLC faked its latest Islamophobia crisis. The Southern Poverty Law Center’s latest “hate group” sightings claims that the “number of anti-Muslim hate groups increased almost three-fold in 2016.”  That’s a lot of folds. And there is both bad news and good news from its “Year in Hate and Extremism.”  First the good news. Read the entire story here. SHARE Our "America First" Petition