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'''Cathy Hinners''' (born 1960) is an American [[blogger]] and former [[Albany, New York]] intelligence police officer who currently lives in [[Tennessee]], where she runs the [[anti-Muslim]] blog ''Daily Roll Call''.<ref name="splc">{{cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2015/women-against-islam|title=Women Against Islam|work=Intelligence Report|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|first1=Mark|last1=Potok|first2=Janet|last2=Smith|date=June 10, 2015}}</ref><ref name="timesgazette"/><ref name="macon">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/463557637|title=Hinners speaks at Macon County Republicans' Reagan Day Dinner|first=Craig|last=Harris|work=Macon County Times|date=March 29, 2018|page=A1}}</ref> She has been named one of the twelve most "hard-lined, anti-Muslim" women in America by the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]].<ref name="splc"/><ref name="timesgazette"/>

Hinners later moved to [[Spring Hill, Tennessee]],<ref name="splc"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.williamsonherald.com/news/wcs-board-member-receives-death-threats-over-islam-comment/article_c4c7f902-830d-11e5-82f4-2b37892f9aad.html|title=WCS board member receives death threats over Islam comment|first=Angie|last=Mayes|work=Williamson Herald|date=November 4, 2015}}</ref> where she runs the blog ''Daily Roll Call'', which is devoted to "exploring and exposing Islam in America,"<ref name="wapo">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/among-republicans-polls-show-fear-of-islam-is-always-on-high-simmer/2015/10/01/1b60b29c-66bf-11e5-9223-70cb36460919_story.html|title=Among Republicans, polls show, fear of Islam is always on 'high simmer'|first=Neely|last=Tucker|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=October 1, 2015}}</ref> and functions as a group of retired law enforcement and military personnel who actively investigate and vet tips given by concerned citizens.<ref name="timesgazette"/> In 2012, she took part in stirring up the controversy against the [[Islamic Center of Murfreesboro]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/480936711|title=For opponents of Islam, fight goes beyond mosque|first=Bob|last=Smietana|work=Livingston County Daily Press and Argus|page=11A|agency=Gannett News Service|date=August 10, 2012}}</ref>

She has also aligned herself with other anti-Muslim groups such as [[Brigitte Gabriel]]'s [[ACT for America]] and the Tennessee Freedom Coalition.<ref name="splc"/> At a [[Values Voter Summit]], she has said that "the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] has taken hold in Tennessee,"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/09/27/values-voter-summit-day-2-recap-anti-muslim-rhetoric-dominates-discussion|title=Values Voter Summit Day 2 Recap: Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Dominates The Discussion|date=September 28, 2015|work=Southern Poverty Law Center}}</ref> and that "in the time of [[Muhammad]], mosques were centers for military activity."<ref name="wapo"/> On the air, sheShe has said that Muslims "follow the Prophet Muhammad, they are violent, they do assault women and use women as slaves, and they do have pedophilia that runs in their bloodstream."<ref name="buzzfeed">{{cite news|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidnoriega/muslims-used-to-love-living-in-tennessee-now-its-a-nightmare|title=Muslims Used To Love Living In Tennessee — Now It's A Nightmare|first=David|last=Noriega|work=BuzzFeed News|date=April 4, 2016}}</ref> She has also spoken at a Tennessee [[Eagle Forum]] conference, where she has said that Islamists and leftists are "working toward the same goal of dismantling and destroying the U.S. state by state," and that interfaith dialogue is "deliberately blurring distinctions between Islam and Christianity."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://tennesseestar.com/news/islam-the-main-topic-at-tennessee-eagle-forum-conference-saturday/wwilson/2017/10/08/|title=Islam the Main Topic at Tennessee Eagle Forum Conference Saturday|first=Wendy|last=Wilson|work=The Tennessee Star|date=October 8, 2017}}</ref> Additionally, she has claimed that [[Common Core]] is a "secretly Muslim-backed plot to indoctrinate American school children."<ref name="wapo"/>

Hinners has also been said to "peddle white nationalist conspiracy theories."<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CP-uEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT197|page=197|chapter=Islamophobia: Supplement for Anti-Black Racism and Policing|first=Stephen|last=Sheehi|title=The Routledge History of Police Brutality in America|editor-first=Thomas|editor-last=Aiello|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2023|isbn=9781000852684}}</ref> In response to the 2014 [[Ferguson unrest]], she identified the [[Council on American–Islamic Relations]] (CAIR) as "a 'Muslim terrorist organization' and alleged that CAIR was using civil unrest following the [[Killing of Michael Brown|death of Michael Brown]] to 'revert those disgruntled blacks to Islam'."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7p7pDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA95|page=95|title=Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions|first=Megan|last=Goodwin|publisher=Rutgers University Press|year=2020|isbn=9781978807808}}</ref> She has also criticized the [[University of Tennessee at Martin]]'s Civil Rights Conference for being a way for "young black activists" beingto be "recruited by Communists, Socialists and Islamists."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/details/ThePacer20170223/page/n1/mode/2up?q=%22cathy+hinners%22|title=Civil Rights Conference to bring Martin together, not divide|work=The Pacer|publisher=University of Tennessee at Martin|date=February 23, 2017|page=2}}</ref>

Hinners also travels throughout the country speaking on alleged terrorist organizations' infiltration,<ref name="macon"/> and regularly appears on [[Michael DelGiorno]]'s radio show on [[Nashville]]'s Super Talk 99.7 each Monday, as well as with Scott Adams Show on Red State Radio, and the Melody Burns show.<ref name="timesgazette"/> Republican Tennessee House Majority Floor Leader [[Sheila Butt]] has posted in support of Hinners on [[Facebook]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/rep-sheila-butt-says-we-need-an-naawp/article_fce06e6a-eeef-5871-a51d-3c4e9ee5ed5b.html|title= Rep. Sheila Butt Says We Need an NAAWP |first=Andres|last=Zelinski|date=February 25, 2015|work=Nashville Scene}}</ref>