Klan group makes home in Kentucky

Klan group makes home in Kentucky
Little money, few active members, but its influence can’t be ignored. Along a Hopkins County back road dotted with sagging mobile homes and pine forests is a 28-acre compound that is headquarters to the second-largest Ku Klux Klan group in the United States. The entrance to The Imperial Klans of America is marked by a high gate, and Klansmen wearing fatigues and holstered pistols stop visitors at the fence. Klan, Nazi and Confederate flags fly nearby. Ronald Edwards, the 47-year-old founder and leader of the Klan group that has at least 23 chapters in 17 states, waits inside an adjacent guard shack decorated with a sign that denigrates African Americans. He’s the target of a pending Southern Poverty Law Center suit that seeks damages for a 2006 assault by two IKA members of a Hispanic teenager in Meade County.

Reading ‘Mein Kampf’ in Cairo

Reading ‘Mein Kampf’ in Cairo | Jerusalem Post
Hitler’s Mein Kampf is on sale in Cairo, both in well-known bookstores and on the streets around Midan Tahrir, the city’s chaotic main square. The Arabic translation sits beside the reams of religious books, as well as works on Saddam Hussein, al-Qaida in Iraq mastermind Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, and Osama bin Laden (Bin Laden… America’s Bogeyman). Originally published in Lebanon in 1963 according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), and reprinted in 1995, Mein Kampf, which is transliterated as Kifahi (and not jihadi as Victor Davis Hanson claims in the National Review Online), is reportedly also widely available in Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. (…) Hitler’s popularity, according to Mohammad, had nothing to do with Hitler’s “torturing the Jews or something,” since Egyptians do not believe in the Holocaust - sure, many people were killed and tortured and assassinated in World War II, and sure there were war crimes, but that’s what happens in war, and it isn’tany different from what happened to Muslims in Sarajevo. THIS ABSOLUTION of Nazi guilt, though, doesn’t seem to fit with another common theme in the Arab press - accusing Israel of being a “second Nazi state.” In major bookstores in Talaat Harb Square downtown, one sees books equating the Star of David with the swastika.

Racist Hispanic gangs targeting African Americans for ethnic cleansing

Racist Hispanic gangs targeting African Americans for ethnic cleansing | Progressive U
Ascending the steep steps that lead from the street to the scene of her son’s murder, 47-year-old Louisa Prudhomme is charged by Doberman Pinscher. Prudhomme reaches over a gate and gives the guard dog a rough pat on the head. “Sam doesn’t seem to remember me,” she says. What Prudhomme will never forget is that just past the snarling Doberman is the apartment on a hill where six years ago her 21-year-old son Anthony was shot in the face with a .25-caliber semi-automatic while lying on a futon she had purchased for him from IKEA. He died wearing a shirt that read, “Keep the Peace.” Anthony Prudhomme was slain by members of the Avenues, a Latino street gang. (…) Prudhomme was murdered because he identified himself as black (he was in fact mixed-race) in a neighborhood occupied by one of the many Latino street gangs in Los Angeles County. Incredibly, even though these gangs are fundamentally criminal enterprises interested mainly in money, gang experts inside and outside the government say that they are now engaged in a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” — racial terror that is directed solely at African Americans.

Italian right marches to tell Prodi Go Home!

Italian right marches to tell Prodi Go Home! | U.S. | Reuters
Tens of thousands of Italian conservatives protested in the ancient Roman Forum on Saturday against the centre-left government of Romano Prodi, among them a few hundred black-shirted right-wingers giving the Nazi salute. Gianfranco Fini, leader of the National Alliance which is one of the biggest parties in the centre-right opposition, told the rally he believed the days of Prime Minister Prodi’s 17-month-old government were numbered. “I don’t think it will be long now,” said Fini, who in his youth was a leader of the neo-Fascist movement inherited from wartime dictator Benito Mussolini but now defines his AN as a mainstream European conservative party.