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Monday May 18, 2009

RNB Roundup:

RNB’s Religion News Roundup: faith healing; Buddhists and money; Rumsfeld and the Bible…

In today’s RNB Religion News Roundup we’ve got items about religious radio/tv programming, the Grand Prix Priest does Britain’s Got Talent, and human rights abuser Donald Rumsfeld quoting the Bible.

Imagine playing John Lennon’s anti-religious Imagine at church…

And then there’s a Catholic spokesman whose quotes newspapers have to —- out.
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Monday January 26, 2009

RNB Roundup:

RNB Roundup: a compendium of religion news stories

A roundup of religion news stories, including: • Town kicks out Scientology front group • Turns out Harry Potter is a ‘Zionist plot’ • ‘Prosperity Gospel’ feels runs into financial turbulence • Some Church of England schools cater almost exclusively to Muslim pupils • Sufi Muslims considered valuable allies in the fight against extremism • Angels call for witches’ pardons • Gay students at BYU still struggle for acceptance • Vatican rehabilitates Holocaust denier • Outrage at busty Virgin Mary fashion models — and more…
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Tuesday January 20, 2009

Hate Groups:

English-first backer tied to alleged hate groups

The man who founded the Virginia nonprofit paying for the push to make English Nashville’s official language also is behind several organizations that have been labeled hate groups.

Dr. John H. Tanton, a retired eye surgeon, started both ProEnglish and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

The Southern Poverty Law Center identified FAIR as a hate group last winter based on its acceptance of $1.2 million from a white supremacist organization, employees’ ties to other such groups and a history of “anti-Latino and anti-Catholic attitudes.”
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Monday December 29, 2008

Hate Groups:

Hate group’s website uses Martin Luther King name to attack him

Type the name â€œMartin Luther Kingâ€ into the popular Google Internet search engine, and find a surprise: among the expected university and newspaper links, one site â€” the third highest ranked link â€” stands out.

It attacks the personal life of the slain civil rights leader and, by extension, the movement of nonviolence he championed. It rehashes allegations of plagiarism and adultery and accuses King of fraud, claiming he was not a â€œlegitimate reverendâ€ or â€œbonafide Ph.D.â€

The site is run by a white supremacist group called Stormfront, described by one watchdog organization as the largest â€œhate groupâ€ online
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Wednesday November 26, 2008

Hate Groups:

Hate incidents in U.S. surge

Barely three weeks after Americans elected their first black president amid a wave of interracial good feeling, a spasm of noose hangings, racist graffiti, vandalism and death threats is convulsing dozens of towns across the country as white extremists lash out at the new political order.

Even more ominously, America’s most potent symbol of racial hatred – the Ku Klux Klan – has begun to reassert itself, emerging from decades of disorganization and obscurity in a spate of recent violence. [video]
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Sunday November 16, 2008

Hate Groups:

Jury awards $2.5 million to teen beaten by Klan members

A jury awarded $2.5 million in damages on Friday to a Kentucky teenager who was severely beaten by members of a Ku Klux Klan group because they mistakenly thought he was an illegal Latino immigrant, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.

The verdict included $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages against “Imperial Wizard” Ron Edwards.

The law center said before the verdict that a large damage award could break the Klan group, allowing the teen and the law center to seize the group’s assets, including its headquarters, a 15-acre compound in Dawson Springs, Kentucky. [video]
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Wednesday November 12, 2008

Hate Groups:

Eight arrested in KKK-related killing, police say

Eight people were arrested Tuesday, one on a charge of murder, in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman at a remote Louisiana campsite during what police say was an initiation ceremony for the Ku Klux Klan.

The group’s leader, identified as Chuck Foster, 44, was charged with second-degree murder. The others were charged with lesser crimes related to trying to conceal the killing, Bonnett said.
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Tuesday April 15, 2008

Hate Groups:

New Hampshire branch of KKK has disbanded

There’s never been any indication, however, that the branch, listed in Winchester, ever engaged in activities commonly associated with the white supremacist group.
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Tuesday March 11, 2008

Hate Groups:

Black pastor fights KKK store in building he claims to own

A black civil rights activist is fighting to close a store that sells KKK robes and T-shirts emblazoned with racial slurs. David Kennedy is confident he can make it happen. After all, he says he owns the building.
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Tuesday January 29, 2008

Hate Groups:

Ex-white supremacist claims harassment

Former white supremacist Joseph Bednarsky is accusing a white pride group in Massachusetts of harassment because it is allegedly posting his personal information on the Internet.
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Sunday August 26, 2007

Hate Groups:

Ex-Klansman Is Sentenced to Life for Killings in 1964

James Ford Seale, a reputed member of the Ku Klux Klan, was sentenced today to three life terms in prison for his role in the abduction and murder of two black teenagers in Mississippi in 1964.
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Wednesday June 13, 2007

Hate Groups:

Evidence of KKK presence in Vermont disputed

An organization that tracks the Ku Klux Klan claims the hate group has an active chapter in Rutland, Vermont. Nobody in Rutland, though, seems to have heard anything about it.
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Thursday April 12, 2007

Hate Groups:

Cincinnati man in Klan lawsuit

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which waged a 20-year campaign against hate groups by suing them in court for money damages, is turning its legal firepower against violence directed at immigrants.
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Wednesday April 4, 2007

Hate Groups:

KKK leader resigns and bans local KKK

“If you are thinking of joining a group like the Ku Klux Klan or one like it, please think about it before doing so,” he said. “Don’t make the same mistake that I made and waste half your life on a cause that is going nowhere.”
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Monday March 26, 2007

Hate Groups:

KKK on the rise?

After a static period, the Ku Klux Klan is growing rapidly, fueled by job losses, urban crime, gay marriage and illegal immigration from Mexico, a civil rights organization and a Klan leader say.
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Monday March 12, 2007

Hate Groups:

Students’ Attorney Tied to Racist Groups

An attorney for two teens who are demanding that Burleson High School drop its ban on their Confederate flag purses has a professional and personal background intertwined with some of the nation’s most notorious white supremacist groups.
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Thursday February 15, 2007

Hate Groups:

Neo-Nazi rally was organized by FBI informant

A paid FBI informant was the man behind a neo-Nazi march through the streets of Parramore that stirred up anxiety in Orlando’s black community and fears of racial unrest that triggered a major police mobilization.
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Monday February 12, 2007

Hate Groups: Scientology:

Klan Buster still active at 90

Stetson Kennedy still gets threatening phone calls, six decades after he gained fame for infiltrating and exposing the Ku Klux Klan and other domestic hate groups.
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Wednesday December 6, 2006

Jews for Jesus:

Comedian Jackie Mason drops lawsuit against Jews for Jesus missionary group

Comedian Jackie Mason made a cameo appearance in federal court, accepting an apology from the missionary group Jews for Jesus in return for dropping a lawsuit in which he claimed the group damaged him by using his name and likeness in a pamphlet.
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Sunday September 10, 2006

Hate Groups:

Newspaper sues KKK over hate leaflets

GREENSBORO — Tired of hate mail on your lawn, wrapped in the Rhinoceros Times? The Rhino sure is. The weekly newspaper filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan alleging the group engages in “unfair and deceptive” trade practices by rolling racist leaflets within the conservative tabloid and throwing them on lawns. By distributing [...]
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Sunday August 27, 2006

Hate Groups:

Former supremacist to speak on civil rights

Civil rights activist’s events lead up to Klan rally Sunday Aug 27, 2006 — Floyd Cochran expects to be tired by the end of this week. The former white supremacist, now a civil rights activist, will speak at several Gettysburg-area locations and schools this week before the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan rolls into town [...]
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Friday June 9, 2006

Religious Merchandising:

Jesus Loves A Machine Gun

It’s the new ‘Left Behind’ video game, where you maim and murder and hate, all in God’s name. Praise! Are you a true believer? Do you just know deep down in your black Wal-Mart socks that every word of the Bible is the absolute literal truth and nothing dare be doubted and anyone who thinks that [...]
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Thursday February 16, 2006

Hate Groups:

Number of hate groups grow; Cults continue in Colorado

In recent years, the number of destructive cults and hate groups in the United States has grown rapidly, and northern Colorado isn’t immune to the effects. Hal Mansfield, director of the Religious Movement Resource Center, 1105 W. Myrtle St., defines a cult as a group that’s a little strange or different from the mainstream. He notes [...]
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Tuesday January 3, 2006

Fraternite of Notre Dame:

Police Seek Motive Behind Graffiti at Sect Home

Senseless Attack or Sinister Act? Vandals spray-painted an odd combination of symbols at the home of a small religious sect in rural Marengo this weekend, leaving its members, their neighbors and police to wonder if it was the work of pranksters or someone more sinister. It’s unclear why symbols for Satan and the Ku Klux Klan [...]
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Saturday October 1, 2005

Christianity:

Klansman goes from hate to love

How do you go from being the imperial wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan to preaching about love? You have to fall off your horse, said Johnny Lee Clary, who made the transformation. Clary, an ordained minister who now travels the globe talking about his conversion to Christianity and speaking out against hate [...]
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