Heidi Beirich
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Pam Geller Announces New International Anti-Muslim Effort
0Anti-Muslim zealot Pam Geller announced this week the formation of a new international organization, Stop the Islamization of Nations (SION), for which she will serve as executive director. This “new global force” will merge the work of the two major anti-Muslim groups in the U.S. and Europe – Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA), run [...]
Prominent White Nationalist Louis Andrews Has Died
0Louis R. Andrews, most recently the chairman of the white nationalist outfit National Policy Institute (NPI), died on Dec. 30, according to a tweet put out by his book-selling business Washington Summit Publishers. Andrews has long been involved in the white nationalist movement, having run the hate website Stalking the Wild Taboo for years in [...]
Arrested Georgia Militiaman Also Neo-Confederate Activist
0Emory Dan Roberts, 67, who was one of four militia members arrested yesterday in a wide-ranging terrorism plot, was also a neo-Confederate activist who has rubbed elbows with hate group leaders.
In 2003, Roberts helped organize a protest in Toccoa, Ga., against attempts to change the Georgia state flag, which at that time featured the Confederate [...]
Extremists of Many Stripes Gather at Values Voter Summit 2011
0The anti-gay hate group Family Research Council (FRC) brought quite a collection of extremists to Washington, D.C., for its Values Voter Summit 2011 (VVS). According to the FRC, the event, which is being held today and tomorrow at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, has an attendance of some 3,000. It’s co-sponsored by organizations, like the American [...]
FAIR Chairman Sings Praises of Racist Founder John Tanton
0In its September newsletter, the chairman of the board of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), Roy Porter, wrote a glowing paean to the group’s racist founder, John Tanton, in advance of FAIR’s Oct. 1 tribute to “John and his legacy.” Tanton played a critical role in the creation of several powerhouse anti-immigrant groups [...]
News Roundup for September 7, 2011
0Judge Jeffrey A. Manning added an 85- to 190-year prison sentence to the three death sentences Richard Poplawski received for the shooting deaths of three Pittsburgh, Pa., police officers in 2009. The extra term would keep Poplawski behind bars should his death sentences be commuted or overturned. The extra sentence was for Poplawski’s 25 non-murder [...]
Georgia Governor Appoints Hate Group Leader to Immigration Board
0Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal today appointed a longtime leader in an anti-immigrant hate group to serve on a new state panel charged with enforcing the state’s harsh new immigration law.
Phil Kent was among those named by Deal to a new Immigration Enforcement Review Board. Created as part of Georgia’s punishing new anti-immigrant law — the [...]
FrontPage Magazine Compares Liberal Think Tank to Nazis
0FrontPage Magazine’s Daniel Greenfield reacted with total hysteria today to a report on anti-Muslim activists, “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in the United States,” that was released by the Center for American Progress (CAP) last week. Greenfield alleges that the report, which named FrontPage Magazine and its head David Horowitz as key [...]
News Roundup for July 29, 2011
0A Mississippi man has been convicted in the 2010 murder of a white supremacist leader. Vincent McGee was charged with capital murder in the death of Richard Barrett, the founder of the neo-Nazi Nationalist Movement. McGee claimed that Barrett made sexual advanced towards him, while the prosecution claims the motive was robbery.
A plea deal has [...]
Pat Buchanan Says Oslo Shooter’s Views “May Be Right”
0One-time presidential candidate and conservative television commentator Pat Buchanan, who is promoted as one of the faces of MSNBC, has somehow been able to say and do the kinds of outrageous things that more often than not get people booted out of mainstream venues. His latest outrage was published on Monday, a column in which [...]