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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Thu Jul 30, 2015, 07:28 PM Jul 2015

The Little Fuehrer: A day in the life of a white nationalist leader

Al Jazeera

The Little Fuehrer: A day in the life of a white nationalist leader
http://alj.am/1U9CN9z

Matthew Heimbach is the leader and founder of the Traditionalist Youth Network, a nationalist high school and college organization that, according to its website, aims to speak against “the united voices of decadence, individualism, Marxism and modernity.” While the group claims to accept members from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds, he and his comrades have been called Nazi sympathizers and white supremacists. The Southern Poverty Law Center once labeled him the Little Fuehrer, a charge he found ridiculous because he is not a National Socialist. This, presumably, was why, when a white supremacist gunned down nine congregants in a historically black church in Charleston, the FBI called him.

Read more: ‘That’s when things got weird’
http://projects.aljazeera.com/2015/07/hate-groups/?utm_campaign=wklynewsletter073015&utm_medium=email&utm_source=editorialnewsletter

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The Little Fuehrer: A day in the life of a white nationalist leader (Original Post) Panich52 Jul 2015 OP

Ummmm...... HeiressofBickworth Jul 2015 #1

HeiressofBickworth

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1. Ummmm......

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Thu Jul 30, 2015, 08:38 PM

Jul 2015

"He says that he cares a great deal about the Syrian people and that he spent the better part of six months trying to find a way to go to Syria to fight on the side of President Bashar al-Assad, whom he calls a staunch defender of traditional, Christian values."

He apparently doesn't know that President Bashar is Moslem and uses the differences in religious factions to keep himself in power.

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