'To me, the best way to use these white supremacists' money is to invest it in organizations and projects dedicated to countering and eradicating their hateful ideology,' writes DeanObeidallah for CNNOpinion
Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program"The Dean Obeidallah Show" and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @DeanObeidallah. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN.
There was something surreal about reading an article that stated in black and white that I was an"ISIS terrorist" -- the"mastermind" of a May 2017 terrorist attack in Manchester, England, at an Ariana Grande concert that left 22 innocent people dead.
But it wasn't a dream. It was a nightmare that started when Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, wrote and published that article on his website on June 1, 2017. The Daily Stormer was named after a Nazi publication Adolf Hitler used to help get his message out to the masses, titled Der Stürmer. Anglin's website, like the original, is filled with vile anti-Semitic and racist articles that are popular with white supremacists.
Where do first amendment rights end online? 03:06What led to Anglin smearing me as a terrorist? Simple: I had written an article a day before that was critical of Donald Trump titled,"Will Donald Trump Ever Say the Words 'White Supremacist Terrorism?'" My article was published May 31, 2017, months before the infamous white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, and detailed a spike in violence in the early part of 2017 by self-avowed white supremacists.
Dean Obeidallah: He makes fun of Muslims 01:04Anglin's false claim that I was a terrorist was especially painful, given that I have long used my platform -- first as a comedian and then in the media as a writer and host on SiriusXM radio -- to dispel negative stereotypes about Muslims. Anglin's smear went to the very heart of all I had worked to dispel as an activist.
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