Unlike the likes of Gaffney and Geller, he doesn’t espouse the view that Islam itself is a problem; unlike (Hirsi) Ali, who now describes herself as an atheist, Nawaz identifies as a Muslim....
...“I’m the one who’s a Muslim in this!” he said. “I’m listed there with people such as Pam Geller? It’s unbelievable.” He pointed out that he does things like appear in an Intelligence Squared debate arguing for the proposition—against Ali, in fact—that Islam is a religion of peace. (“I lost the vote,” he said, with a tinge of bitterness.) He has also won praise for battling Islamophobes in the press....
....One thing that seemed to particularly irk Nawaz was the fact that the report came from SPLC. While the group is controversial—and particularly loathed on the American right—Nawaz’s objection was that he has known and respected their work for years. “It lends the wingnuts a level of credibility,” he said....
...But what makes Nawaz’s appearance on the list so peculiar is that he and SPLC share the goal of fighting back against unfair targeting of Muslims. If even natural-seeming allies are preoccupied fighting each other about tactics, what hope is there prevailing in the fight against real bigots?
As to SPLC's charge...
Nawaz disputes the claim. Quilliam says the list in question was an appendix to a larger report, and simply a list of British Muslim organizations; in fact, he says, the point was to say that such groups should be legal, even if they were extremist, so long as they were not violent. “It wasn’t a terror list,” Nawaz said. “We were saying, don’t ban these groups. We’ve gone through the looking glass. It’s the direct opposite of my life’s work.” He pointed to an exchange on the floor of Parliament, in which then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown cited him in defense of the notion that Islamist parties such as Hizb ut-Tahrir, with which Nawaz was affiliated in his radical days, ought not to be illegal:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/10/maajid-nawaz-splc-anti-muslim-extremist/505685/
You clearly don't know what bigotry and racism are when you accuse liberal Muslim reformers like Nawaz based on the flimsiest of weak evidence, yet spew regressive bigotry from Mondoweiss - a website that advocates & supports Hamas "resistance" (terror attacks on Jews), and promotes outright vile racists like Alison Weir, Paul Larudee, & Gilad Atzmon as well as Jews = Khazars bigotry.
You really have no foot to stand on WRT charges of racism.
Once you finally free yourself from the BDS movement, Mondoweiss, etc... you can be taken more seriously. You got close once by trying to distance yourself from that nastiness but they symbolize all you believe on I/P. You can't cut yourself free.
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