This evening, I had the occasion to speak briefly with Southern Poverty Law Center Senior Fellow Mark Potok. I’d reached out to Potok, who serves as editor-in-chief of the Center’s quarterly journal, the Intelligence Report, and its blog, entitled Hatewatch, as I hoped that he might be able to shed a little light on William […]
Tag Archives: Terry Jones
The Michigan/Florida white supremacy exchange
We’ve apparently got a racist exchange program going on with Florida. We’ve got Quran-burning pastor Terry Jones here in Michigan this week, on loan from the sunshine state, and, according to reports coming out of Florida, while Jones is here, they’ve got some of our neo-Nazis from Detroit coordinating activities in Sanford – the town […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, Michigan Also tagged book burning, Dearborn, Florida, George Zimmerman, Jeff Schoep, Nazi, New Black Panther Party, quran, race war, racism, Sanford, Trayvon Martin, white supremacist 11 Comments
Let’s burn all the holy books while we’re at it
I was going to join everyone else on the internet tonight and write about so-called Christian Terry Jones and his poorly thought-out plan to burn 200 copies of the Quran come Saturday, but it looks now as though it’s been called off, or at least momentarily postponed. Jones says he decided to pull the plug […]
Posted in Church and State, Civil Liberties, Religious Extremism Also tagged burn a Koran Day, Florida, ground zero mosque, Lou Reed, Park51, quran, religious freedom, Sharif El-Gamal, Susan Boyle 19 Comments