A coalition of 47 conservative leaders wrote an open letter to the mainstream media, warning them to be wary of the &#8220;hate maps&#8221; created by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a far-left advocacy group. 
The warning comes five years after SPLC placed the Family Research Center on one of its maps, leading to Floyd Corkins targeting the FRC staff in an attempted murder before being stopped by law enforcement. Corkins confessed to FBI agents that he used the &#8220;hate map&#8221; as inspiration for the crime. 
James Hodgkinson, who attempted to assassinate Republican lawmakers at a charity baseball game practice earlier this year, was connected to SPLC on social media.
The FBI had removed the SPLC from their &#8220;hate-watch&#8221; resource page in 2014, citing concerns with their organization.
When asked the purpose of Tuesday&#8217;s letter, FRC Senior Fellow for Regulatory Policy Chris Gacek explained to The Daily Wire, &#8220;I believe the 47 signers wanted to raise the concern that the SPLC is a partisan actor whose Hate Map these days often reflects its desire to defame its political opponents not cast light on organizations that are truly dangerous.&#8221;
When asked if the media would pay attention to it, he added, &#8220;Yes, they may not say so publicly, but we believe they will notice the broad array of signatories indicating that the media needs to pull back and re-think the way it covers certain political stories.&#8221;
The signers include President of the FRC Tony Perkins, Alliance Defending Freedom President and CEO Michael Farris, Director of Judicial Watch Robert Spencer, ACT For America Founder Brigitte Gabriel, Tea Party Patriots President Jenny Beth Martin, and a host of other conservatives wishing to represent their organizations to the mainstream media. 
The letter says in part:
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We are writing to you as individuals or as representatives of organizations who are deeply troubled by several recent examples of the media&#8217;s use of data from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The SPLC is a discredited, left-wing, political activist organization that seeks to silence its political opponents with a &#8216;hate group&#8217; label of its own invention and application that is not only false and defamatory, but that also endangers the lives of those targeted with it.
The fifth anniversary has just passed of the terrorist event for which the SPLC&#8217;s hate map and website were used to target its victims for political assassination. The following facts were established in the record of a federal court case. On August 15, 2012, Floyd Lee Corkins II entered the Family Research Council offices in Washington, D.C. and shot and badly wounded its building manager, Leo Johnson, who stopped his intended killing spree. According to his own statements to the FBI, Corkins intended to kill everyone in the building, and then go on to terrorize additional organizations.
We believe the media outlets that have cited the SPLC in recent days have not intended to target mainstream political groups for violent attack, but by recklessly linking the Charlottesville melee to the mainstream groups named on the SPLC website &#8212; those that advocate in the courts, the halls of Congress, and the press for the protection of conventional, Judeo-Christian values &#8212; we are left to wonder if another Floyd Lee Corkins will soon be incited to violence by this incendiary information.
That day, Corkins carried both the means to carry out this act of terrorism and a list of additional targets. The U.S. Attorney stated in federal court that Corkins targeted FRC and the additional targets by using the SPLC website&#8217;s &#8216;Hate Map.&#8217; On February 6, 2013, Corkins pleaded guilty to three felonies, and became the first person convicted of violating the District of Columbia&#8217;s Anti-Terrorism Act of 2002.
To associate public interest law firms and think tanks with neo-Nazis and the KKK is unconscionable, and it represents the height of irresponsible journalism to do so. All reputable news organizations should immediately stop using the SPLC descriptions of individuals and organizations based on the SPLC&#8217;s obvious political prejudices.
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You can read the full letter <a href="http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF17I05.pdf">here</a>.
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According to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2017/05/31/wonder-woman-officially-banned-in-lebanon/102348134/">U</a><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2017/05/31/wonder-woman-officially-banned-in-lebanon/102348134/">SA Today</a>, Lebanon has officially banned Wonder Woman from theaters. The reason? Gal Godot&#8217;s nationality and support for her homeland of Israel.
<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/lebanon-wants-to-ban-wonder-woman-because-of-its-israeli-star/">The Times of Israel</a> writes:
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Lebanese Minister of Economy and Trade Alain Hakim said that the country has put in place the necessary steps to prevent the movie from being shown in Lebanese theaters, the country&#8217;s National News Agency reported Monday.
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The Times of Israel also notes that an organization called &#8220;Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel-Lebanon&#8221; had been pushing to ban the Wonder Woman film.
Lebanon has long had in place a policy boycotting &#8220;Israeli products and [barring] Lebanese citizens from traveling or having contacts with Israelis.&#8221;
Beirut&#8217;s Grand Cinemas issued a tweet Wednesday:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WonderWoman?src=hash">#WonderWoman</a> has been banned in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Lebanon?src=hash">#Lebanon</a>.
&#8212; Grand Cinemas (@GCLebanon) <a href="https://twitter.com/GCLebanon/status/869921441839542272">May 31, 2017</a></blockquote>
Here&#8217;s what the issue boils down to &#8212; Gal Godot is an Israeli, who unabashedly supports her homeland. She&#8217;s a veteran, having served in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), and is a strong critic of Hamas, as well as other anti-Semitic groups.
During the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas, Godot posted the following to Facebook:
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Hezbollah, Lebanon&#8217;s very own Hamas, a heavily militarized Shiite Muslim political party, &#8220;holds 12 seats in the Parliament. Its political bloc, March 8, holds 57 of 128 seats, giving Hezbollah a substantial amount of influence inside the government,&#8221; writes Dana Ballout and Matt Bradley of <a href="https://blogs.wsj.com/briefly/2015/08/27/things-to-know-about-lebanons-government/?mg=id-wsj">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
Lebanese Muslims are trained from an early age to hate Israelis. Godot is an Israeli, and as such, they want Wonder Woman banned. It&#8217;s simple anti-Semitism, and it&#8217;s disgusting.
For a more direct perspective, I spoke with Brigitte Gabriel, president of <a href="http://www.actforamerica.org/">Act for America</a>, and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/They-Must-Be-Stopped-Radical-ebook/dp/B001F55A36/ref=pd_sim_351_1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=3M6D2EJFY6C1T1ERSWFS">They Must Be Stopped</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QTEA7Y/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1">Because They Hate</a>.
As a young girl, Brigitte Gabriel grew up as a Maronite Christian in a very different Lebanon than we know today; it was a vibrant democracy, known as &#8220;the Paris of the Middle East.&#8221;
With the rise of Islamo-fascism in Lebanon, everything changed. Gabriel spent seven years living out of a bomb-shelter with her parents as a brutal war raged just outside the door. Crawling on her stomach to avoid snipers while trying to reach fresh water, and later being targeted as a journalist working in Israel, Brigitte Gabriel knows first hand the evils of the anti-Semitic and anti-Christian Islamo-fascists who today wield tremendous power in her homeland.
When asked if the ban on Wonder Woman came as a shock to her, Gabriel responded: &#8220;It&#8217;s not surprising, but it is extremely disappointing.&#8221;
She proceeded to draw a direct line between the adult world in which these actions are taking place, and the way in which Lebanese children are being raised, saying: &#8220;If we want to show children that we want to work toward peace, then we need to start talking to the children, and behaving in a way that does not make them feel hatred toward an actress in a movie.&#8221;
Despite what some may believe, &#8220;this type of hateful rhetoric and animosity didn&#8217;t start today,&#8221; said Gabriel, who noted that while she is currently 52-years-old, &#8220;this was happening when I was a child. This is what I heard on the school playground; this is what I watched on television when I was growing up. It was a part of Lebanese society.&#8221;
The Muslim-majority nations of Egypt and Jordan are not banning Wonder Woman, stated Gabriel, which simply makes Lebanon&#8217;s behavior that much more striking.
&#8220;The fact that they want to ban the movie just because the actress is Israeli is so shameful, but maybe it earns them some stature or recognition,&#8221; Gabriel said. However, it simply displays more prominently the &#8220;hatred, animosity, and deep emotions that run in the culture against Israelis.&#8221;
&#8220;It is anti-Semitism in its basic form,&#8221; she added. &#8220;They call Israel the name of the devil. This is how children are raised. This level of hatred toward the Israelis, as if they don&#8217;t belong in the Middle East; they shouldn&#8217;t even exist.&#8221;
Gabriel reached back to the assassination of Lebanon&#8217;s President-elect Bashir Gemayel in 1982, who &#8220;wanted to sign a peace treaty with Israel.&#8221; She said that while Lebanese Christians wanted peace with Israel, the nation&#8217;s militant Muslims did not, and thus, he was targeted.
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/15/world/gemayel-of-lebanon-is-killed-in-bomb-blast-at-party-offices.html">The New York Times</a> writes about Gemayel&#8217;s murder:
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Mr. Gemayel, who had been the commander of the Christian militias, was elected President Aug. 23 at a special session of Parliament that was boycotted by many Moslem legislators. To them, many other Moslems and some Christian groups, he was an enemy and an agent of Israel&#8230;
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Gabriel&#8217;s mentioning of the assassination of Gemayel was to illustrate a very simple, but salient notion: &#8220;That&#8217;s the hatred that runs deep in the Islamic world,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Peace died with his death.&#8221;
What&#8217;s next for Lebanon, I asked, if they are so fervently anti-Israel that they have banned a blockbuster film just because it features an Israeli actress? Gabriel answered in a very measured way: &#8220;They believe that all Jews should be killed and thrown into the sea. This is what the Arabic Middle East holds dear inside its heart, inside its soul, and they will not rest until they drive every Jew out of the Middle East.&#8221;
Gabriel noted that while nations like Jordan and Egypt have made peace with Israel because they knew it was in their best interest to do so, Lebanon&#8217;s animus toward the middle eastern democracy is merely &#8220;the tip of the iceberg.&#8221; In a grave tone, she added: &#8220;The hatred runs so deep it is invisible, but you are seeing the tip of it.&#8221;
Then, with great candor, Gabriel asked: &#8220;Until the Arabic world stops their hatred toward the Jews, and their brainwashing of the next generation &#8212; that Jews and Israelis should be hated simply because they exist &#8212; how can we have peace?&#8221;
Speaking in more specific terms, I asked Gabriel what she would say to Gal Godot in the face of such discrimination, and she replied: &#8220;Stand strong, and thank you for serving the only free, democratic society in the Middle East, where people can be all they can be.&#8221; She made sure to add that &#8220;not all Lebanese are this way, and many look forward to the day when we can have peace between Lebanon and Israel.&#8221;
Gabriel concluded by saying: &#8220;I would love to meet Gal Godot, and even show up with her at the premier or elsewhere to make sure we send a message that it is time for peace and reconciliation, and enough hatred. I want to send a message on behalf of the many Lebanese who do not agree with the decision, yet are too afraid for their life to voice their opinion. On their behalf I would love to stand beside her and support her in her success, and encourage Lebanese worldwide to go see Wonder Woman.&#8221;
Wonder Woman opens June 2nd in the United States. Also check out Dave Rubin&#8217;s must-watch interview with Gabriel <a href="https://youtu.be/6qdPij_Fjt4">here</a>.

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Linda Sarsour, the executive director of the Arab American Association of New York who was co-chair of the Women&#8217;s March protesting against Donald Trump, <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour">calls herself</a> a &#8220;racial justice &amp; civil rights activist.&#8221;
Right.
Sarsour is the same woman who tweeted one of the most vile attacks on a woman in the history of Twitter in 2011, when she targeted the heroic and outspoken champion of Islamic women seeking freedom, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Hirsi Ali was forced to suffer female genital mutilation when she was five years old in Somalia. Sarsour tweeted this:
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After the 9/11 attacks, Hirsi Ali reexamined Islam, which she publicly renounced in 2002. She soon received death threats, but she countered by running for Parliament in the Netherlands in 2003, where she won a seat in the Dutch Parliament. The consistent death threats, especially the assassination of Theo Van Gogh, for whom she had written the script for Submission, forced her to go into hiding.
In 2006, she urged the prevention of Iran developing nuclear weapons. In 2015, she said of Islamic State, &#8220;It&#8217;s wrong for Western leaders like (former Prime Minister of Australia) Tony Abbott to say the actions of the Islamic State aren&#8217;t about religion. I want to say to him &#8216;please don&#8217;t say such things in public because it&#8217;s just not true.&#8217; You&#8217;re letting down all the individuals who are reformers within Islam who are asking the right questions that will ultimately bring about change.&#8221;
Christopher Hitchens called Hirsi Ali &#8220;the most important public intellectual probably ever to come out of Africa.&#8221; In 2008, she was awarded the Simone de Beauvoir Prize, an international human rights prize for women&#8217;s freedom.
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&#8220;I wish I could take their vaginas away.&#8221;
Women&#8217;s March Co-Chair Linda Sarsour, on Brigitte Gabriel and female genital mutilation survivor Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Of course Sarsour hates Hirsi Ali; Sarsour <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/21/womens-march-organizer-recently-met-ex-hamas-operative-has-family-ties-to-terror-group/">posed recently</a> with an accused financier for Hamas, the terrorist group. She has <a href="https://twitter.com/lsarsour/status/263651398250545152">tweeted</a>, &#8220;Nothing is creepier than Zionism.&#8221;
Conversely, Hirsi Ali has <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Books/Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali-on-Israel">stated</a>:
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The crisis of Dutch socialism can be sized up in its attitudes toward both Islam and Israel. It holds Israel to exceptionally high moral standards. The Israelis, however, will always do well, because they themselves set high standards for their actions. The standards for judging the Palestinians, however, are very low. Most outsiders remain silent on all the problems in their territories. That helps the Palestinians become even more corrupt than they already are. Those who live in the territories are not allowed to say anything about this because they risk being murdered by their own people.
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