London Times reports:
— “Baghdad was struck by a wave of co-ordinated bombings yesterday, killing 69 Shia Muslims as they left Friday prayers and marking a bloody blow for extremism in the chaotic wake of an election.”
— “A car bomb and two other bombs in Sadr City, the vast Shia suburb of Baghdad, claimed 39 lives, and another two blasts struck the Chalabi mosque and a mosque in the Ameen district.”
— “Al-Qaeda’s offshoot in Iraq were blamed for the attack by officials and local people in Sadr City. They are the likely culprits behind a series of large-scale, co-ordinated bombings on embassies, apartment buildings and restaurants since the March 7 elections.”
Iraq: Shiite Muslim Victims after Religious Extremist Bomb Attack (Photo: London Time/Alice Fordham)
White supremacist, Neo-Nazi Jonathan Edward Stone sentenced to 4 years in prison for role in February 2008 firebombing of Islamic Center of Columbia in Maury county.
White Supremacist, Nazi Johnathan Edward Stone Gets 4 Years in Prison for Firebombing Mosque in Tennessee
Earlier in April 2010, Richard Barrett was promoted by a Stormfront forum member praising Richard Barrett’s “victories.”
After Richard Barrett’s murder on April 22, 2010, the tone on the Stormfront web page changed, with both conspiracy theories being promoted, and mocking attacks on Richard Barrett.
Once again, we see the legacy of contempt that promoting a lifetime of hate will yield.
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We support our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge Nazi, white supremacist, racial supremacist, and those who promote violence and hate to release the burden of the hate and violence from their hearts, and to rejoin the family of humanity in support of our universal human rights. We condemn all those who seek violence and murder is the path to advancing any cause.
— Clarion Ledger: Man arrested in Richard Barrett homicide
— Clarion Ledger reports: “state inmate on supervised release is facing a murder charge in the slaying of white supremacist Richard Barrett, 67, whose burned and stabbed body was discovered in his Pearl-area home.”
— “Vincent McGee, 23, who lives with his parents on the same street as Barrett, was arrested around 5 p.m. Thursday at his sister’s home in Pearl, Sheriff Ronnie Pennington said.”
— “While McGee is African American, authorities have not said Barrett’s racial beliefs were a motive in his slaying.”
— “McGee had performed yard work for Barrett, Pennington said.”
— “McGee had served five years of a six-year sentence for simple assault on a police officer and grand larceny when he was released on probation in February from the State Penitentiary at Parchman.”
— “A photo on his Facebook page shows off numerous tattoos associated with the Vice Lords street gang.”
WLBT: “Who was Richard Barrett?”
— WLBT reports: “He was a New York City native and Vietnam War veteran who moved to Mississippi in 1966. A lawyer and author, Barrett soon began traveling around the country promoting racist ideology through a white supremacist group called the Nationalist Movement.”
— “Barrett ran for governor in 1979 and for U.S. Congress in 1984, a loser in both races. He advocated the resettlement of Jews and Mexicans contending that non-whites, especially blacks, were inferior. ”
— “Barrett also launched a movement to support Byron de la Beckwith who was convicted in 1994 for the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. Barrett’s demand that then Governor Kirk Fordice pardon Beckwith, fell on deaf ears.”
— “In 2004, he spearheaded a failed effort to place a booth at the Mississippi State Fair to feature reputed Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen. Killen was eventually convicted of manslaughter in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia, Mississippi.”
— “In 2008, Barrett claimed his Nationalist Movement had members in 36 states, but he wouldn’t say how many members there were.”
— “The white supremacist once described himself as “a man whose name will be written in lightning across the pages of American history.” Now, Richard Barrett’s name is written in headlines as a murder victim.”
Mississippi: White Supremacist Richard Barrett (Photo: WJTV)
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) condemn the murder of Richard Barrett, and hope that the guilty individual is brought to justice.
We support our unqualified, universal human rights for all. We urge Nazi, white supremacist, racial supremacist, and those who promote violence and hate to release the burden of the hate and violence from their hearts, and to rejoin the family of humanity in support of our universal human rights. We condemn all those who seek violence and murder is the path to advancing any cause.
Louisiana: Oil Rig Explosion Cheered On by Westboro Baptist Church Hate Group (Photo: U.S. Coast Guard)
After the tragic accident, the Westboro Baptist Church hate group, however, cheered the accident, stating on their blog that:
— “THANK GOD OIL RIG EXPLODED IN GULF OF MEXICO – 12 MISSING; 15 INJURED!”
— “The oil rigs of Louisiana are filthy, especially the conduct of the brutes on board. At their hand the SCOTUS had to address same-sex sexual harassment. Voodoo+doomed-america’s-‘Christianity’=wallowing overpaid thugs drilling oil for your slovenly lifestyle.”
— “Tuesday (4/20) an oil rig explosion left 12 missing and 15 seriously injured. The US Coast Guard is on the scene with cutters and rescue planes. Your Coast Guard efforts are in vain! GodSmack!”
Saudi cleric fired for advocating mixing of sexes
— AP: “The head of Saudi Arabia’s powerful religious police has fired the chief of the Mecca branch for advocating the mixing of the sexes, an official from the force said Tuesday.”
— “Ahmed bin Qassim al-Ghamidi’s suggestion in a newspaper interview this week that men and women should be left to mingle freely directly clashed with a central preoccupation of the force.”
Saudi Gazette – April 6, 2010: “Segregation of sexes: Hai’a chief stands by his comment”
— “Ahmed Qassim Al-Ghamdi, the head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai’a) in Makkah, has said he will not go back on his previous comments on the segregation of the sexes, and described opposition to his views from within his own organization as disgruntled individuals trying to ‘get their own back’.”
— “With a notable security presence and an audience of both sexes, Al-Ghamdi addressed the Taif Literary Club Sunday on a series of sensitive topics, although questions put to him concerning his views on segregation were blocked by the chairman and any attempt to broach the subject from other angles was quickly put paid to.”
— “Al-Ghamdi said, however, that the policy was not of his making.”
— “‘I didn’t ask the club to bar the subject or any questions on it from discussion,” Al-Ghamdi told Okaz. ‘You can write in the newspaper from my own mouth that I still hold to the view I expressed on ikhtilat, and I won’t go back on it, and I’ll continue to repeat what I wrote.'”
— “In an interview reported by Saudi Gazette last December Al-Ghamdi spoke at length on the subject of the mixing of sexes – “ikhtilat” – in which he described it in the current usage as ‘a recent adoption unknown to the early people of knowledge’.”
— “‘Mixing used to be part of normal life for the Ummah and its societies,’ he said, adding that the word ‘in its contemporary meaning has entered customary jurisprudential terminology from outside’.”
— “‘Those who prohibit ikhtilat cling to weak ahadith, while the correct ahadith prove that mixing is permissible, contrary to what they claim,’ Al-Ghamdi said.”
— “The Sheikh revealed, however, that among those who opposed his views were some Hai’a officials who he had previously ‘punished for administrative irregularities’.”
— “‘Their response was a form of vengeance. They were trying to stir trouble and get their own back,’ he said, believing them to have seen the interview as a ‘provocation’ and a chance to take revenge for being punished. “Some of them were extremists in thought, something which we won’t accept in the Hai’a,” he said.” December 11, 2009 – Saudi Gazette: Hai’a chief: Kaust an ‘extraordinary move and huge accomplishment’ — “The head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Makkah has added his voice of support to the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Kaust) and addressed the issue of “ikhtilat” – the mixing of the sexes – that has prompted numerous scholars and commentators to speak out in recent months.”
— “‘The term ‘ikhtilat’ in this usage is a recent adoption that was unknown to the early people of knowledge,’ Sheikh Ahmed Al-Ghamdi said in a lengthy interview with Okaz.”
— “‘Mixing was part of normal life for the Ummah and its societies.'”
— “‘The word in its contemporary meaning has entered customary jurisprudential terminology from outside,’ Al-Ghamdi said.”
— “‘Those who prohibit the mixing of the genders actually live it in their real lives, which is an objectionable contradiction, as every fair-minded Muslim should follow Shariah judgments without excess or negligence,’ Al-Ghamdi said.”
— “‘In many Muslim houses – even those of Muslims who say mixing is haram – you can find female servants working around unrelated males,’ he said.”
In Dove World Outreach’s April 21 article, they defended the Westboro Baptist Church hate group’s practice of protesting at American soldiers funerals. In addition, the Dove World Outreach article states that “We have also learned that when you speak out about what God hates, you will be hated. We do not agree with all of Westboro’s methods, but we admire their determination to find radical ways to preach the truth of the Bible, as we do.”
