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Monday December 28, 2009

Hate Groups:

US Neo-Nazi Lure Youth with Free Music Downloads

American neo-Nazis are using deceptive free music downloads to lure youth and college students into anti-Semitism, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of the B’Nai Brith organization. It said the new tactics specifically target high school and college students through advertisements in school newspapers.

Israel’s Arutz Sheva reports that a man who operates a racist web site tricked school papers “by changing his site when he placed ads offering music by independent artists, but after the ads were published, he returned the site to its usual white supremacist format.”
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Tuesday April 7, 2009

RNB Roundup:

Religion News Roundup: “I’m perfect, You’re Doomed,” Elves, the Shroud of Turin, and cult killer art

Today’s Religion News Roundup includes stories about elves, a ship operated by a religious sect, mosques facing the wrong direction, and mosques possibly spied upon by the FBI.

Also: “I’m Perfect, You’re Doomed.” Yes, it’s about Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Further, the definitive book on the Columbine High School massacre. Germany’s main Neo-Nazi party faces collapse, and according to the Vatican the Knights Templar hid the Shroud of Turin.
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Thursday April 2, 2009

RNB Roundup:

Religion News Roundup: Messianic cult + atomic bomb: no good; vampire stands trial; 666 license plate…

Today’s Religion News Roundup: • Why the word should worry about Iran • A 666 license plate exchange • What could be worse than the Taliban? • Law aimed at hate group used to silence veteran instead

Also: • Germany bans Neo-Nazi youth organization, and • Jews in Brooklyn take the Amish on a walking tour…
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Thursday March 5, 2009

Hate Groups:

Germany Launches Massive Crackdown on Neo-Nazi Music

Police raided apartments and offices throughout Germany in the biggest-ever action aimed at stamping out the radical-right music scene.

Authorities searched more than 200 locations on Wednesday, March 4, confiscating 45,000 CDs, more than 170 computers and some 70 weapons.
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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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Thursday January 15, 2009

Hate Groups:

Young ‘Adolf Hitler’ and Two Sisters Removed From Home

Heath Campbell, left, with his wife Deborah and son Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler Campbell and his sisters, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, were taken from their Holland Township, N.J., home on Friday by the state’s Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS), Sgt. John Harris of the Holland Township Police Department told FOXNews.com.

New Jersey officials said Wednesday that it is not just a matter of names. “DYFS would never remove a child simply based on that child’s name,” Bernyk said.
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Saturday January 3, 2009

Hate Groups:

Neo-Nazi Violence: German Mayor in Hiding after Far-Right Threat

The mayor of a small town in eastern Germany has gone into hiding after a threat on his life appeared on a far-right Web site. The case follows the knife attack by a suspected neo-Nazi this month, generating fears that the far-right scene is becoming more violent.

Recent figures show that the number of far-right crimes committed in the first 10 months of 2008 exceeded the total for the whole of last year.
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Tuesday December 16, 2008

Hate Groups:

Germany arrests two in suspected neo-Nazi stabbing

German police have arrested two suspects over the stabbing of a German police chief and are investigating several other people active in the neo-Nazi scene, prosecutors said on Monday.

Alois Mannichl, 52, police chief in the southern city of Passau, was seriously injured when he was stabbed in front of his home on Saturday. Police said the attacker made threats with language used by far-right supporters.
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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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Thursday November 6, 2008

Hate Groups:

White supremacists target middle America

So-called ‘white supremacy’ hate groups in the USA are changing their marketing tactics in an attempt to broaden their appeal.

The hate groups are on the rise as they market themselves to middle America, according to leaders of the groups and organizations that monitor them.

The renewed activity includes a boom on the Internet.
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Wednesday October 22, 2008

Hate Groups:

Neo-Nazi charged with posting data on juror in the case of hate criminal Matthew Hale

‘White supremacists’ are, well, white. However, in word and deed they always demonstrate that they are far from ’supreme.’

Case in point: Neo-Nazi William A White is going to stand trial on charges that he allegedly threatened a Chicago jury foreman in the 2004 case of Matthew Hale, a hate criminal who was convicted of soliciting the murder of a federal judge.
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Monday October 6, 2008

Anti-Semitism • Hate Groups:

US financial crisis causes spike in online anti-Semitism: monitor

The US financial crisis has provoked an outpouring of anti-Semitism on the Internet, with Jews being blamed for the debacle on Wall Street, a monitoring group said on Thursday.

Blogs devoted to conspiracy theories as well as white supremacist and neo-Nazi websites have sought to exploit events on Wall Street and the subprime crisis to support their agendas, ADL said.
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Friday July 11, 2008

Hate Groups:

Czech Neo-Nazis hijack pro-tolerance campaign

Campaigners in the Czech Republic are using the internet to combat the rise in racism in the country. But neo-Nazi groups are finding crafty ways of spreading their ideas. [video]
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Tuesday June 10, 2008

Hate Groups:

Children seized over neo-Nazi allegations

Canada: A Manitoba court is hearing a custody case in which child welfare authorities have seized two youngsters from a Winnipeg home over fears their father, an alleged neo-Nazi, was filling their heads and marking their bodies with messages of hate.
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Tuesday May 20, 2008

Hate Groups:

Neo-Nazi hotline created in Germany

Germany has created a neo-Nazi hotline and website for parents worried that their children are falling in with far-Right extremists.
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Friday February 22, 2008

Hate Groups:

White supremacist murders wife, then commits suicide

James Leshkevich was perhaps best known for his white separatist activities, including his affiliation with the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi organization.
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Friday February 1, 2008

Hate Groups:

Czech court overturns ban on neo-Nazi march

A Czech court Friday overturned the ban on a neo- Nazi march that organizers had originally planned to lead past a synagogue in the city of Plzen a day after the 66th anniversary of the first transport of Plzen Jews to a concentration camp.
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Monday January 14, 2008

Hate Groups:

Germany: Concert by neo-Nazi band shut down

German riot police battled with neo-Nazis holding an illegal rock concert in a disused brewery, police said.
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Saturday December 8, 2007

Hate Groups:

Germany: Dismay over Release of Extremist Attackers

The trial of four neo-Nazis charged with attacking a group of actors took an unexpected turn on Wednesday, when a district court in Germany released them from custody on the basis of insufficient evidence.
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Saturday November 24, 2007

Hate Groups:

Neo-Nazis carve swastika on girl’s skin

Neo-Nazis carved a swastika into a 17-year-old girl’s hip in eastern Germany after she came to the aid of an immigrant girl they were pushing around.
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Tuesday November 13, 2007

Hate Groups:

ADL conference explores cyberhate

Dozens of experts from Israel and the United States joined Marcus for the first ADL conference on “Hate and the Internet” that was held in Israel Monday. While experts explored the various definitions of hate speech, and how it manifested itself online, the focus of the conference was what should be done to stop “cyberhate.”
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Hate Groups:

Neo-Nazi voices are drowned out

The neo-Nazis, holding aloft banners saying “We honour the Fallen of the Wehrmacht”, were confronted by massive pictures of emaciated Jewish prisoners draped over Grafenberg’s 15th-century facades. A few of the marchers flinched. Most turned their heads away or just smiled.
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Monday October 29, 2007

Hate Groups:

Fighting back against rising neo-Nazi violence

As reports of attacks by extremist gangs dramatically increase in Germany, one town finds a creative way to keep the far right out.
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Wednesday October 3, 2007

Hate Groups • Religious Insanity:

Neo-Nazi teen: Ashkenazim an inferior race

Religious teen arrested for spraying swastikas on Haifa synagogue collected Nazi items and was motivated by hate for religious Ashkenazi Jews.
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Tuesday September 11, 2007

Hate Groups:

More neo-Nazis still lurking, Israeli police say

Police posit that a neo-Nazi cell uncovered last weekend in Petah Tikva is not the last anti-Semitic gang in the area.
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