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News Roundup for June 23, 2011
Posted By Hatewatch Staff On June 23, 2011 @ 2:58 pm In Anti-Muslim,Muslim Extremism,Racist Skinheads,White Supremacist | 2 Comments
A settlement has been reached [1] in a lawsuit over “blatantly racist and offensive” comments made by white Philadelphia officers on the popular police Internet forum Domelights.com. The settlement requires the city to hire an anti-discrimination consultant as well as enhance anti-discrimination training within the department.
Two New York men pleaded not guilty [2] to charges of attempting to blow up a Manhattan synagogue. The two men, both immigrants from North Africa, are accused of attempting to purchase weapons from undercover NYPD detectives and planned to carry out a bomb attack on an unnamed synagogue. The men are suspected of being lone wolves, with no connection to international terrorist groups.
A member of the white supremacist group Battalion 14 of North East White Pride was sentenced [3] to 30 months in prison Wednesday for attempting to sell guns to an associate of the Ku Klux Klan. William Bolton is the third man to be charged in the conspiracy to obtain weapons for other racist groups in order to raise the standing of the Connecticut gang in the white nationalist community.
Two Orange County skinheads have pleaded guilty [4] to a 2009 home invasion in which the two, and a third man, assaulted a female victim. The skinheads were sent to the house by another man who told them they would find $7,000 in cash as well as 50 pounds of marijuana.
The acquittal [5] of Dutch anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders today on hate speech charges has drawn widespread praise across the radical-right world, including commentators such as Robert Spencer [6], who praised the ruling as a “decisive defeat for the Islamic supremacist forces,” and Pamela Gellar [7], who described Wilders as “our proxy” as “the West is on trial.”
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[1] has been reached: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/124405178.html
[2] pleaded not guilty: http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2011/06/23/queens/qns_synagogue_plot_folo_20110623.txt
[3] was sentenced: http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/White-supremacists-associate-sentenced-to-30-1436303.php
[4] pleaded guilty: http://www.ocregister.com/news/years-305466-guilty-sawin.html
[5] acquittal: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/8594836/Geert-Wilders-delighted-after-being-cleared-of-hate-speech.html
[6] Robert Spencer: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/06/the-west-dodges-a-bullet-geert-wilders-acquitted-of-all-hate-charges.html
[7] Pamela Gellar: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/geert-wilders-verdict-not-guilty-all-counts-eureka.html
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2 Comments To "News Roundup for June 23, 2011"
#1 Comment By B.B. On June 23, 2011 @ 6:56 pm
Two New York men pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to blow up a Manhattan synagogue. The two men, both immigrants from North Africa, are accused of attempting to purchase weapons from undercover NYPD detectives and planned to carry out a bomb attack on an unnamed synagogue. The men are suspected of being lone wolves, with no connection to international terrorist groups.
Why would two North African immigrants want to blow up a synagogue? Are there any salient facts missing that could possibly help explain their motive?
#2 Comment By Tom Shelley On June 24, 2011 @ 11:52 am
In response to the first comment, Israel’s behavior probably is part of their motivation, but it doesn’t justify planning to attack a synagogue. That’s not just WRONG, it also does nothing to help the Palestinian cause and actually harms that cause.
Tom