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Subject: Why Rightists Trust The Gatestone Institute For All Their Lies
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:06:12 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Is it also funded by kiddy porn?
Multiple viral anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim falsehoods originate from
Gatestone.
In 2011[34] and 2012,[15] Gatestone published articles claiming that
Europe had Muslim "no-go zones", falsely describing them variously as
"off-limits to non-Muslims"[15] and "microstates governed by Islamic
Sharia law".[34][7] The claim that there are areas in European cities
that are lawless and off limits to local police or governed by Sharia is
false.[15][34][7][17][20] Gatestone's claims were picked up by many
outlets, including FrontPageMag,[34] and The Washington Times.[7] The
idea of no-go zones originated from Daniel Pipes,[34] who later retracted
his claims.[15]
On November 18, 2016, Gatestone published an article that said the
British Press had been ordered to avoid reporting the Muslim identity of
terrorists by the European Union. Snopes rated the claim "false". Snopes
pointed out that the report only made a recommendation and it was issued
by the Council of Europe, not the European Union.[16] Gatestone
subsequently corrected the article and apologized for the error,[35]
before removing it entirely from its website.
In 2017, Gatestone falsely claimed that 500 churches closed and 423 new
mosques opened in London since 2001, and argued that London was being
islamized and turning into "Londonistan".[36][11] According to Snopes,
Gatestone used "shoddy research and cherry-picked data."[36]
Specifically, Gatestone only counted churches that closed but not
churches that opened; data for the period 20052012 alone show that 700
new churches opened in London.[36]
In 2017, Gatestone ran a story about high Muslim fertility rates,
headlined "Muslims Tell Europe: 'One Day This Will All Be Ours.'"
However, no Muslim said the quote in question. The quote came from a
French Catholic bishop who claimed that this was something that Muslims
had told him.[37] The misleadingly headlined article was widely
distributed on Facebook, and its claims were repeated by other
conservative websites.[37]
The Gatestone Institute published false articles during the 2017 German
federal election.[38] A Gatestone article, shared thousands of times on
social media, including by senior German far-right politicians, claimed
that vacant homes were being seized in Germany to provide housing
solutions for "hundreds of thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia, and
the Middle East."[14] The German fact-checker Correctiv.org found that
this was false; a single house was placed in temporary trusteeship, and
had nothing to do with refugees whatsoever.[14] Gatestone also cross-
posted a Daily Mail article, which, according to BuzzFeed News, "grossly
mischaracterized crime data" concerning crime by refugees in Germany.[39]