How The SPLC Has Aligned Itself With The Infidel-Murdering Jihadists
The Southern Poverty Law Center, has declared as "anti-Muslim" the Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz -- along with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Robert Spencer, and others.

It seems to be out of self-interest -- as in, how will they keep the funding coming that pays their salaries and keeps the lights on, in light of how white supremacist groups aren't the threat that they used to be.

Nawaz writes at The Daily Beast:

To be able to successfully do what I care deeply about -- working toward the emancipation of my Muslim communities from the oppressive yoke of theocrats -- it is crucial that reforming liberal Muslims like me are not smeared as "anti-Muslim." After all, it is in the theocrats' interests to have us labeled so. It is only they who argue that any internal criticism is but heresy. In a Muslim version of the Inquisition, the punishments meted out by these jihadists to Muslims they accuse of "heresy" are by now so well known that they require no introduction.

Another set that benefits from the smear that reforming liberal Muslims are "not Muslim enough" are the often xenophobic, sometimes racist, but always anti-Muslim, bigots. By advocating that every Muslim is a jihadist in waiting, and must be expelled from the West, these bigots suppport the very religious segregation that Islamist theocrats call for.
ISIS has called this "eliminating the gray zone." We reforming liberal Muslims and ex-Muslims who sit between Muslim and anti-Muslim bigots disrupt the narrative of both these extremes. It is no surprise then that as well as being attacked by Islamists, I have been labelled a closet jihadist by people like Glenn Beck on Fox News, and on various other anti-Muslim online platforms. Imagine for a moment how besieged we reformers feel.

Anti-Muslim extremists often complain that there are no "moderate Muslims" challenging extremism. Then liberal reform Muslims and ex-Muslims stepped up to this challenge, only to be labelled as "anti-Muslim" extremists by those we had hoped were our allies, and who we now call the regressive-left. They are those who talk of progressive values: feminism, gay rights and free speech, and who criticise Christian fundamentalists within their own communities. A long time ago, we liberal reform Muslims had high hopes for this group. Just as they challenge the conservatives of their own "Bible belt" we thought they would support our challenge against our very own "Qur'an Belt." How wrong we were.

Too many on the left not only abandoned us, but took to openly attacking us for advocating these very same progressive values among our own -- extremely socially conservative -- communities. Ironically, my life epitomises every one of the grievances the regressive left pays lip service to when refusing to entertain rational conversation around Islam. I have faced violent neo-Nazi racist hammer and machete attacks. I am a jailed survivor of the War-on-Terror torture era in Egypt.

Unlike many of these first world keyboard virtue-signallers, I can instinctively identify genuine anti-Muslim bigotry and discrimination. This bigotry must be challenged, alongside the bigotry peddled by Muslim theocrats.

It's bitter irony that they're attacking this guy and the rest:

I say to the Southern Poverty Law Center: You were supposed to stand up for us, not intimidate us. Just imagine how ex-Muslim Islam-critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali must feel to be included in your list of "anti-Muslim" extremists. Her friend Theo Van Gogh was murdered on the streets of Amsterdam in 2004. And back then there was another list pinned to Theo's corpse with a knife: it too named Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

As Robert Spencer put it in a tweet: "No set of ideas, religious or not, should be immune from criticism, & criticism is not 'hate.'"