KKK growing in strength, ADL reports [Sheet Happens]

YNet ^ | Feb. 6, 2007

[Alouette]

Ku Klux Klan experiences ‘surprising and troubling resurgence’ in US during the past year due to exploitation of hot issues such as immigration, gay marriage, urban crime, according to report

Ynetnews Published: 02.06.07, 12:37

The Ku Klux Klan has experienced "a surprising and troubling resurgence" in the United States during the past year, an Anti-Defamation League report revealed Tuesday.

According to the report, the white supremacy group has successfully exploited issues such as immigration, gay marriage and urban crime to draw in new members and accelerate activity.

The ADL monitors the activities of hate groups and reports developments to policy makers and law enforcement agencies. ADL Civil Rights Director Deborah M. Lauter pointed to immigration as the key issue stirring up racist sentiments in the United States.

"If any one single issue or trend can be credited with re-energizing the Klan, it is the debate over immigration in America," said Lauter.

"Klan groups have witnessed a surprising and troubling resurgence by exploiting fears of an immigration explosion, and the debate over immigration has, in turn, helped to fuel an increase in Klan activity, with new groups sprouting in parts of the country that have not seen much activity," she added.

A surge in clan activity was identified especially in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee Texas, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Nebraska, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

The increase in activity was characterized by growing membership, establishment of new groups, increased cooperation with neo-Nazi groups, and new publicity tactics including dispatching flyers, publication over the internet and the launch of an internet-base radio station.

Lauter also noted the changing nature of klan members.

"Although some Klansmen may still hold cross-burnings dressed in robes and hoods, today's young Klansmen are more likely to look virtually indistinguishable from racist skinheads or neo-Nazis," said Lauter.

"Today's Klansmen may be as likely to gather at white power music concerts or socialize at so-called 'unity rallies' with other white supremacists, as to participate in ritualistic cross burnings in the rural wilderness," she added.

[SuziQ]

Increase in membership, huh? They could increase by 100% and STILL wouldn't be great in number.

[Starter]

I'll see your Ramones and raise you a Camper von Beethoven:

Every day, I get up and pray to Jah
And he decreases the number of clocks by exactly one
Everybody's comin' home for lunch these days
Last night there were skinheads on my lawn

Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling

Some people say that bowling alleys have big lanes (have big lanes X 2)
Some people say that bowling alleys all look the same (all the same X 2)
There's not a line that goes here that rhymes with same (anything X 2)
Had a dream last night but i forgot what it was about (what it was X 2)

I had a dream last night about you, my friend
I had a dream--I wanted to sleep next to plastic
I had a dream--I wanted to lick your knees
I had a dream--it was about nothing

[Levante]

Remember how that klux bastard (Senator Tyrd) cried like a raped ape over President Bushs' "Mission Accomplished" speech?

[Riverman94610]

I hate to think I misunderstood your analysis.I apologize if the misinterpretation was mine.
The real enemy today is Islamic hate cults and their liberal enablers in Washington,Hollywood and Harvard.Patriotism has nothing to do with color as we can see by the significantly large minority of Hispanic names coming back in boxes from Iraq.

[hispanarepublicana]

Because non-whites and non-Christians are destroying the country. They don't belong here.

I belong here as much as the next guy, and I'm not apologizing for it. Neither, I suspect, would the 6 generations of HRs before me that were here, fought for first the Republic, and then in numerous wars for our country.

Further, the most "destructive" thing I do in terms of this country is drink out of styrofoam.

[SJackson]

Yes, and although their numbers are small, they shouldn't be ignored. They're anti-American at the core, and for the last few years ties have been building between Islamic terrorists and neo-nazi groups. Witness David Duke's [ A few old threads.

Al Qaeda`s Neo-Nazi Connections

Semi-News: Neo-Nazis Form Alliance with Islamists

What the neo-Nazi fanatic did next: switched to Islam

Boca Islamic group under scrutiny for Neo-Nazi ties

Neo-Nazis applaud Islamofascists

Islam's unholy alliance with neo-Nazis, leftists

Daniel Pipes: Canadian Islamists host a neo-Nazi

Red Jihad: Islam's unholy alliance with neo-Nazis, leftists

Radical Islam, Neo-Nazis Are Seen Sharing Hate Rhetoric

Black and Red Terrorist Internationals

CAIR Promotes and Hosts William W. Baker, Neo-Nazi

Al Qaeda Reaching Out To Non-Islamic Militant Groups 11

[SJackson]

I belong here as much as the next guy, and I'm not apologizing for it. Neither, I suspect, would the 6 generations of HRs before me that were here, fought for first the Republic, and then in numerous wars for our country.

Neither the Klan nor their allies would agree.

[SJackson]

Should have been Duke's popularity in the Arab world.

[hispanarepublicana]

Sometimes, not often, but sometimes I get the feeling it's not just the Klan.

[Eva]

Wasn't it the ADL complaints that were responsible for the gov't attack on David Koresh?

[SJackson]

Sometimes, not often, but sometimes I get the feeling it's not just the Klan.

They have their fellow travelers, and initially they present a muted message.

[Riverman94610]

I wonder how the Arabs who swoon over Duke and his set would feel if they knew one of the common terms for Arabs among Klan types is"sand niggers".

[TheSpottedOwl]

"Sheet happens". Hahaha, that's a good one! Seriously, they hate everybody. My mom remembers as a little girl, looking out her bedroom window at night, and seeing carloads of those varmints. This was in N. Dartmouth, MA, back when they had running boards on cars. Yep, they hate Irish Catholics too.

[Doogle]

I wonder what the press' real agenda with these diversion stories, making conservatives look bad?

....because if your not worrying about global warming,the KKK,social security,minimum wage,walmart,health care,seniors,hurricanes,tornado's,...you would actually have the time to look at rat candidates... CUT AND RUN..the we support the military lie unraveling,raising taxes,IMMIGRATION,socialized medicine,and a host of other things the dems want to screw up...so worry about the word "articulate" and how damaging it is...but don't look at what the rats want to the US.

[Zionist Conspirator]

The ADL's favorite "conservatives"--ones who are anti-Israel (the ADL's world would be a lot simpler if all conservatives were).

While the ADL is condemning "rightwing" white nationalism in the States, I invite them to condemn "leftwing" white nationalism in Quebec, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, and the Basque country. And if they have leftwing white nationalism in the Isle of Man, I expect them to condemn it there too!

[blaquebyrd]

"As long as the race baiters (Je$$ie, Al, Conyers, Waters, McKinney etc.etc) are around no black will be seen for WHO they are as opposed to what color they are."

The American Blacks fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan probably wouldn't agree with your asinine comment.

[dervish]

so true.

ADL is missing the picture. They need to look at the US campus leftists, and Europe where the Muslims and the left have allied raising the incidents of anti-Semitic violence to all time highs.

[AmericanVictory]

Which has been growing faster, the KKK or the Bloods and the Crips and their ilk? How accurate is the picture that's being painted? How has the growth rate of the KKK compared with that of Latino gangs, or violent Islamic radicals? Who speakds truthfully about these things?

[mac_truck]

When is the last time these pointy-headed morons managed to pull something off?

1995.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

A lot of racists have hijacked the illegal alien issue, and make those against illegal immigration seem racist, although only a few oppose illegal aliens on racial grounds.