Hailey Branson-Potts is not a real journalist; she works for the fake news site known as the Los Angeles Times. That’s why she doesn’t tell you that CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) A California chapter distributed a poster telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI, and a Florida chapter distributed pamphlets with the same message. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates.

Branson-Potts doesn’t think it fit to print that the Hamas-linked CAIR operative she relies on in this story, Hussam Ayloush, recently called for the overthrow of the U.S. government.

Nor does fake journalist Hailey Branson-Potts tell you that CAIR and other Muslims have on many occasions not hesitated to stoop even to fabricating “hate crimes,” including attacks on mosques. She doesn’t explore the possibility that this letter is more faked hate fabricated by Muslims to tar Trump, even though there are precedents. This letter simply doesn’t ring true for a variety of reasons: one is that the claim that Muslims are the new Jews, targeted by the same irrational hatred that led to the Nazi genocide of the Jews, is a talking point of Leftist pundits — the sort of thing that would be in the mind of a Leftist or Islamic supremacist hoaxer when reaching for some way to smear Trump and portray Muslims as victims. Also, calling Muslim men “dogs” is suspicious: to call someone a dog is a grave insult in Islamic culture, but not so common among non-Muslim Americans: a loutish American man might call a woman he finds unattractive a “dog,” although even that is passé now; but a non-Muslim genocidal yahoo calling Muslim men “dogs”? It doesn’t ring true. But Branson-Potts (and, in her defense, every other establishment propaganda media journalist) doesn’t even explore the possibility that the letter is a hoax.

Fake journalist Branson-Potts likewise omits the fact that the SPLC tars any group that dissents from its extreme political agenda as a “hate group.” Significantly, although it lists hundreds of groups as “hate groups,” it includes not a single Islamic jihad group on this list. And its “hate group” designation against the Family Research Council led one of its followers to storm the FRC offices with a gun, determined to murder the chief of the FRC. This shows that these kinds of charges shouldn’t be thrown around frivolously, as tools to demonize and marginalize those whose politics the SPLC dislikes. But that is exactly what they do. Its hard-Left leanings are well known and well documented. This Weekly Standard article sums up much of what is wrong with the SPLC.

“Letters threatening genocide against Muslims and praising Trump sent to multiple California mosques,” by Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, November 26, 2016 (thanks to Darcy):