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5 Things Media Get Wrong About White Supremacist Hate

Jeremy Christian, 35, stabbed three people and killed two of them after they came to the defense of two teens in Portland, Oregon.

People demonstrate outside the White House against the lynching of black people in 1946.

A conservative protester yells during competing demonstrations in Portland, Oregon, on June 4, 2017.
It’s not rare, it’s not fringe - and it’s terrorism more often than you think.
06/09/2017 Updated June 9, 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/media-white-supremacist-hate_us_593850d5e4b0b13f2c66667a [with embedded video, and comments]


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Mediocre human calls black patrons in Starbucks “slaves” before punching a homeless man

June 9, 2017
A very fragile human ruined everyone’s day with his racist rant inside of a Chicago Starbucks and subsequent assault of an elderly passerby.
A now viral video shows 23-year-old William Boucher inside of a Starbucks calling the black patrons “slaves,” reports ABC7 [ http://abc7chicago.com/news/man-charged-after-altercation-outside-starbucks-in-chicagos-loop/2069968/ ].
Starbucks employees and bystanders attempted to get him out of the store as he shouted derogatory statements such as, “Get on all fours right now! Get on all fours! Do not walk off on two legs!”
Once outside, Boucher spit on two different black individuals and punched a 59-year-old man who was simply walking by. The man, presumed to be homeless, was later taken the hospital to be treated for an eye injury, reports PIX11 [ http://pix11.com/2017/06/09/caught-on-video-man-goes-on-racist-rant-at-chicago-starbucks-spits-and-punches-victims/ ].
Witnesses tackled Boucher until police arrived. He was later charged with three misdemeanor counts of battery.
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http://rare.us/rare-news/caught-on-video/mediocre-human-calls-black-patrons-in-starbucks-slaves-before-punching-a-homeless-man/ [with a non-YouTube version of the first YouTube embedded], https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caMtCuHLnXg [with comments], https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRlSLLzd5JY [with comments]


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Kansas Man Indicted for Hate Crime

Purinton appears in court on March 9, 2017.
Adam Purinton could face the death penalty or life in prison for a February 22 shooting, which killed one Indian immigrant and wounded another.
Jun 9, 2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/06/kansas-adam-purinton-indicted-hate-crime-killing-two-indian-immigrants/529905/ [with comments]


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Soul survivor: Hiw Alok Madasani is picking up the pieces three months after Kansas bar attack
Updated June 10, 2017
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/nris-in-news/soul-survivor-how-alok-madasani-is-picking-up-the-pieces-three-months-after-kansas-bar-attack/articleshow/59087987.cms [no comments yet]


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Las Vegas Man Accused of Death Threats to Lawyers Suing Fox News

A Las Vegas man threatened to kill a prominent N.Y. lawyer representing plaintiffs in a discrimination lawsuit against Fox News Channel.
[ http://canivatimes.com/las-vegas-man-cuffed-for-alleged-threats-to-blow-up-nyc-law-firm ]
JUNE 9, 2017
A computer repairman from Las Vegas was charged on Friday in Manhattan with threatening to kill New York lawyers who have filed an anti-discrimination suit on behalf of 11 black employees at Fox News, the police and prosecutors said.
The repairman, Joseph D. Amico, 46, was arraigned in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on three counts of making terrorist threats and one count of aggravated harassment, a day after being extradited from Nevada. Justice Laura Ward ordered him held until a bail hearing on Monday.
On April 26, Mr. Amico made several calls to Wigdor L.L.P., the firm representing the Fox News employees. He threatened to blow up the firm’s Fifth Avenue office and to shoot its partners for pursuing the suit against Fox News, lacing his comments with derogatory comments about blacks, Lt. Paul Ng, a spokesman for the New York Police Department, said.
The calls started shortly after the lawyers, Douglas H. Wigdor and Jeanne M. Christensen, appeared with the plaintiffs in a televised news conference announcing a class-action tort [ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/business/media/fox-news-racial-discrimination-lawsuit.html ], alleging that Fox News executives tolerated “abhorrent, intolerable, unlawful and hostile racial discrimination” in the workplace.
The lawsuit contends that Fox News employees repeatedly complained about racial discrimination to executives but that no action was taken. A separate lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan made similar claims. Fox News has denied the allegations.
The broadcast of the news conference infuriated Mr. Amico, the police said. In one telephone conversation with Mr. Wigdor, he threatened to kill the lawyer and his family for supporting black plaintiffs and used a racial slur to describe them. “I was disturbed and shocked and very worried,” Mr. Wigdor said in an interview on Friday. “I took this explicit death threat very seriously.”
New York detectives located Mr. Amico using telephone records. On May 10, two detectives traveled to Las Vegas and tried to take Mr. Amico into custody at his house.
But Mr. Amico, who the police said has a lengthy arrest record in both Nevada and New York, barricaded himself inside and refused to come out. A tense standoff ensued [ http://www.ktnv.com/news/man-wanted-in-new-york-leads-to-hours-long-las-vegas-standoff ]. Fearing Mr. Amico might be armed, Las Vegas officers with assault rifles surrounded the single-family home on Flagler Street.
Five hours later, the SWAT team entered the house and found Mr. Amico in an attic, Officer Michael Rodriguez, a spokesman for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, said.
Mr. Amico’s lawyer, Todd Spodek, said his client would fight the charges. “Words can be misinterpreted,” he said outside court. “And in this political climate people are so worked up about the issues that it’s very easy for words to be misunderstood and hysteria to take place.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/business/media/las-vegas-fox-news.html


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Greg Gianforte to plead guilty for assaulting Guardian reporter

Greg Gianforte was charged following an altercation on the eve of a special election to fill Montana’s sole seat in the US House of Representatives.
Congressman-elect will appear in court Monday over misdemeanor charge
Announcement comes day after he reached settlement with Ben Jacobs
9 June 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/09/greg-gianforte-guilty-plea-assault-ben-jacobs-montana


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ACT for America Stages Marches Against ‘Sharia Law’ Nationwide, Arrests Made
Jun 10 2017
Demonstrations against Islamic law led to arrests, tense confrontations and physical fights in some U.S. cities Saturday amid several rallies sponsored by ACT for America, which the Southern Poverty Law Center [ https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/act-america ] designates as an anti-Muslim hate group.
The "March Against Sharia" was scheduled to take place in more than 20 cities, including New York, Dallas and Atlanta, and was projected to be ACT for America's largest protest against Islam.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/anti-muslim-act-america-stage-marches-against-sharia-law-nationwide-n767386 [with embedded videos]


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Anti-sharia demonstrators hold rallies in cities across the country
June 10, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/anti-sharia-marches-planned-for-numerous-cities-across-the-country-saturday/2017/06/10/40faf61e-4d6f-11e7-a186-60c031eab644_story.html [with embedded video, and (already approaching 5,000) comments]


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There Have Been Anti-Muslim Marches — And Counter-Protests — Around The US

A protester holds a sign during an anti-Sharia rally in Seattle, Washington.

Counter-protesters in Manhattan on Saturday.

Brigitte Gabriel at the White House.
Demonstrations were planned in 28 cities in 21 states across the country.
June 10, 2017
https://www.buzzfeed.com/talalansari/act-marches-anti-sharia [with embedded video, and comments]


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Counter-Protests Outnumber Anti-Muslim Marches in Several Cities Across U.S.
June 10 2017
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/06/10/counter_protests_outnumber_anti_muslim_marches_in_several_cities_across.html [with comments]


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Anti-Sharia rallies this weekend worry Muslim leaders

June 10, 2017
http://pppfocus.com/2017/06/10/anti-sharia-rallies-this-weekend-worry-muslim-leaders/ [no comments yet], https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTm6T22L6Dc [embedded; with comments]


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Anti-Sharia Rallies Are Dangerous for America

06/09/2017
Just two weeks after a white supremacist went on an anti-Muslim tirade in Portland that ended with him stabbing three men in the neck, anti-Muslim hate rallies are being organized in over 25 cities across the country this Saturday, June 10th. All are organized by ACT for America, an organization designated as both a hate group [ https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2017/active-hate-groups-2016 ] and an extremist group [ https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/groups ] by the Southern Poverty Law Center. At a time when many ask why there is an alarming rise of hate crimes [ https://csbs.csusb.edu/sites/default/files/Special%20Status%20Report%20Metro%20Areas%202017%20Final%20Draft%2032417.pdf ] in the United States, such rallies continue to fan the flames of hatred and mistrust that give fertile soil to hate crimes and violence.
Dubbed as “Anti Sharia Rallies,” tomorrow’s events are very clearly anti-Islam and anti-Muslim - based on the words of the event organizers themselves. Do not be mistaken into thinking this is about freedoms or human rights; rather, it is a calculated effort by ACT for America to manufacture division and hatred between Americans. The Founder of this group, Brigitte Gabriel, has explicitly stated [ https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/act-america ] that any “practicing Muslim … who goes to mosque and prays every Friday, who prays five times a day — this practicing Muslim, who believes in the teachings of the Koran, cannot be a loyal citizen of the United States.”
This is not a fight against terrorism. This is a coordinated effort to vilify and demonize Muslims and their faith to pit Americans against one another. Gabriel has confirmed this time and again, stating that terrorists are simply “doing exactly what the Koran teaches,” alleging that Islam’s holy scripture mandates a “sacred obligation” to impose Islam on the entire world by force. She has defined “authentic Islam” as an “ ideology of bigotry and intolerance” that preaches “violence and the slaughter of thousands.” When explaining the roots of terrorism, she has concluded: “It’s not radical Islam. It’s what Islam is at its core.”
This group wants nothing more than for Americans to turn on each other – specifically against Muslim Americans. Although only 38% of Americans know a Muslim [ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/17/how-many-people-of-different-faiths-do-you-know/ ] themselves, this organization wants to destroy any trust Americans have in Muslim Americans. It is for this reason that Gabriel said: “Our enemies are the neighbors next door, the doctors practicing in our hospitals, and the workers who share our lunch break.” That’s right – she alleges that every Muslim American living in your midst is your enemy.
This is reminiscent of the hateful rhetoric of Nazi Germany. This is not what America stands for. This is not the America I was born and raised in and love with all my heart. As Americans, we need to resist and push back against such hate-filled rhetoric that aims to strip people of their humanity. Do not get sucked into this group’s crusade against tolerance, cooperation and peace.
If you are truly concerned about the systems of government in countries like Saudi Arabia, Sudan or Afghanistan, know that so am I and countless other Muslims. But going to an anti-Sharia rally and listening to those who don’t even know what the Arabic word Sharia means will not fix the problem. You have in me and millions of other Muslims willing partners to call-out the barbaric policies and practices of various countries and to protect our homelands from such depravity. The solution is to work together, not against one another. Far from finding any solution, tomorrow’s rallies perpetuate the problem.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anti-sharia-rallies-are-dangerous-for-america_us_593b1503e4b014ae8c69e056 [no comments yet]


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