You may know that Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz has sued the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for putting him on its “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists” along with Ayaan Hirsi Ali. That suit is still in progress, but his (and Hirsi Ali’s) inclusion is palpable nonsense. Nawaz is a Muslim heads a reformist organization, and both he and Hirsi Ali are Muslim reformers (see Hirsi Ali’s last book, Heretic, a blueprint for reforming Islam).
But you may not know that Nawaz also sued Thomson Reuters World-Check, which describes itself as “a highly structured database of intelligence on heightened risk individuals and organizations.” That organization desginated Nawaz as a “terrorist” despite the fact that, as head of the think tank Quilliam, he spends much of his time fighting terrorism and trying to create a more moderate version of Islam.
As the Clarion Project reports today (they did…
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