National Review publishes letter from Ctr American Progress re Islamphobic article by Horowitz

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The National Review Online printed a long and detailed response to a ridiculous column they published recently by Islamophobic bigots Robert Spencer and David Horowitz. Matt Duss of the Center for American Progress defends the Islamophobia report that Spencer and Horowitz tried in vain to attack.

(skip some comments, then here's an excerpt from the letter)

Engaging in exactly the sort of careless slander that our report examines, the authors then deride similar reports from what they refer to as “{Muslim} Brotherhood fronts like CAIR {the Council on American-Islamic Relations}, and jihadist apologists like the Southern Poverty Law Center.” Interestingly, they spare the Anti-Defamation League, which released a backgrounder earlier this year declaring that Spencer’s group, Stop Islamization of America, “promotes a conspiratorial anti-Muslim agenda under the guise of fighting radical Islam.”

Spencer’s group, the Anti-Defamation League wrote, “seeks to rouse public fears by consistently vilifying the Islamic faith and asserting the existence of an Islamic conspiracy to destroy ‘American’ values.” Should the Anti-Defamation League also be lumped with the “jihadist apologists”?

full: http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/10/21/nro-posts-rebuttal-of-spencer-horowitz/