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Take It Down: Maryland and Our Responsibility to Protest Nazi Symbols of Racist Hate

It is the position of the volunteer human rights group Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L) that the growing national commitment to eliminate symbols of white supremacist hatred in public areas, must include the Confederate Flag and monument, as well as the racist symbols of Nazism and Adolf Hitler.

While patriotic Americans across this nation are turning their back on the white supremacy symbol of hatred, racism, and slavery of the Confederate flag, you would imagine more of the American people have developed a determination to stand up against such symbols of hate. The “normalization” of the racist image of that universal monster against humanity, Adolf Hitler, is a disgrace and a racist attack on the human rights of all human beings – of every religion, every race, and every identity group. We must Never Forget.

You would think that the message “Take It Down” is being heard by many of the white Americans in this nation.

Yet less than 20 miles from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, a Maryland suburb’s theater group has decided that this is the best time to do a production of the musical “The Producers,” described by the Washington Post with a headline “Hitler musical caper rides again in the ‘The Producers’ at Olney.”

Hitler… musical… caper….?
The obscenity of the words together is beyond description.
But that’s the Washington Post entertainment section, even in 2015. The argument rationalizing such obscenity as entertainment cannot outweigh our concerns for the future and our responsibility to defy the legacy of racist hatred that Adolf Hitler has left.

Washington Post describes Maryland Theater showing "Hitler musical caper" (Screenshot: Washington Post) — Washington Post describes Olney Theatre Center in Maryland showing “Hitler musical caper” (Screenshot: Washington Post)

Olney-Theatre-Mocks — Olney Theatre Center Refers to its “Hitler Musical” on Twitter

While our nation is under attack by white supremacist terrorists from Confederates and their Nazi allies, the Olney Theatre Center (OTC) in Olney, Maryland suburbs of Washington DC has decided now is a good time to have a “satire” with the hate symbol of Adolf Hitler, and a musical number to Adolf Hitler. The Olney Theatre Center board president, attorney Jennifer Kneeland, defends this “Hitler musical caper,” because she states to us that this is “a satire,” which “has been well-received by our community and praised.”

The concept that the hate image of Adolf Hitler and his swastika is somehow less offensive than the despicable Confederate flag demonstrates the failure of Americans to understand the history behind the monster Hitler and his disciples’ twisted involvement with the white supremacy movement around the world and (as we have seen from recent terrorist attacks) within the United States.

It is a repugnant idea that we should need to remind any Americans of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi “racially superior” crimes against humanity in the olocaust murder of 6 million Jews, 2 million non-Jewish Ukrainians, another 9 million Russian soldiers killed, 11.7 non-Jewish Russian and Russian territory citizens, (a total estimated 26 million killed in former Soviet nations), the Nazi killing of many others: non-Jewish women, other Europeans, gays, disabled, children, people of African descent, and numerous others. Within the United States of America, 400,000 soldiers died fighting Hitler and his Axis powers. In the former Soviet countries, He stands alone as one of the most notorious symbols of racial hatred not only in the past century, but in all of human history, as truly an ENEMY OF MANKIND. But the most important fact remains, Nazi murders continue in the United States of America and around the world today.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights created in December 10, 1948, after the atrocities of Hitler and his Nazi acknowledges to the WORLD that”disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind.”

Americans would certainly like to believe that the violence and crimes of the Nazi ideology died with the Mass Murderer Hitler and the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, a war where over 400,000 American soldiers gave their lives – nearly the same amount of American patriotic soldiers who died in the fight a century earlier against the Confederate forces of slavery. Many from American families fought and died to fight against the mass-murderer Adolf Hitler as well as the criminal Confederate forces of slavery.

These Americans were not just inconvenienced. They did not just lose some money. They paid the ultimate sacrifice – willing and knowingly – to defy such forces and symbols of racist hatred, mass-murder, and violence. Is our weakness how we honor their sacrifices?

B'nai B'rith International Understands that We Must Defy Symbols of Racist Hate — B’nai B’rith International Understands that We Must Defy Symbols of Racist Hate

The cruel reality has been for many years, that the Nazi ideology continues to attack and spread in this and other nations, and its criminals of hatred continue to take the lives of Americans. In league with their Confederate white supremacist brethren, it now takes on a heightened threat to African-Americans in this nation.

Nazi terrorism in the United States and around the world has grown as “normalization” of such Nazi images of racist hate continue to grow and become “acceptable.” Unlike 1968, this is not a few Nazi extremist, but using the Internet, Nazi extremist gangs are becoming a growing global network of Nazi hatred and racist violence, including regular murder and torture. “The Producers” fails to recognize that while audiences laugh at the idea of past Nazis, present day Nazi commit regular acts of terrorism: synagogues are attacked, churches are attacked, African-Americans are killed, children are murdered, women are killed, and gay men are being kidnapped, raped, and killed by Nazi terrorists. These Nazi terrorists are enabled to recruit others in such ideologies of hate, aided in part by the “normalization” of such symbols of hatred.

Our nation saw such a terrorist attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2009. I know that this particularly well, because I had been assisted by the only victim of that terrorist attack, an African-American man from Maryland named Stephen Tyrone Johns.

I had the opportunity to assist in April 2009 at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) reading of the names of those who were killed in Adolf Hitler’s crimes against humanity. This is done on Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) in the Hall of Remembrance with an eternal flame which flickers to remember those who Adolf Hitler had murdered. On the wall is a quote from Deuteronomy, which I have mentioned before, “I call heaven and Earth to witness this day; I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse, choose life – that you and your offspring shall live.”

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum - "Choose Life" — U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum – “Choose Life”

When we choose racism and when we decide that it is not “our responsibility” to challenge racism that we WITNESS, we don’t “choose life,” but we abandon our moral accountability for life not just for others, but also for ourselves.

As I am not Jewish, I thought I might felt awkward in my role to help in the reading of the names, but it was clear that the readers shared our conviction that such CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY should never be forgotten, and people read the names from all races, religions, ethnic groups. I could see the compassion in the hearts of a young Asian girl who teared, and an African-American girl whose tears ran down her face as she REMEMBERED – NEVER AGAIN.

Genocide is an open wound on the human soul, and only our joint determination to defy such criminals and those who would trivialize their crimes will allow the wound to begin to heal.

Leaving the museum, I was helped out by a young African-American man who was a security guard, Maryland’s Stephen Tyrone Johns.

We Remember June 10, 2009 Attack on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Photos: Left - AP, Right - USHMM) — Terrorist Attack on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Murder of Stephen Tyrone Johns (Photos: Left – AP, Right – USHMM)

I recognized his photograph in the news, two months later, when a white supremacist with the twisted hybrid of Confederate and Nazi ideologies named James Von Brunn attacked this USHMM in our nation’s capital. The terrorist Von Brunn murdered African-American security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns, whose only crime was to try to open the door for the man. His death managed to slow the terrorist enough to alert the other guards to stop the terrorist Von Brunn.

Nazi-Inspired Terrorist James Von Brunn Attacked U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was FULL of young schoolchildren, during Nazi white supremacist James Von Brunn’s terrorist attack. If he had not been stopped…

The whitestream media failed to call this the “terrorist attack” that it was. It is a source of never-ending shame to these great United States of America that when an African-American is killed, somehow our media can’t find its way to call that a “terrorist attack.” Days after the attack, Nazis and white supremacists were openly praising Von Brunn’s terrorism, and the story was readily forgotten by the local press. R.E.A.L. continued to report on this, while the local media moved on.

Maryland’s Stephen Tyrone Johns was buried in Maryland. His funeral was held at the Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in Fort Washington. Prior to the funeral, the church received threats from white supremacists, but Pastor Grainger Browning Jr. stood his ground in his eulogy to Stephen Johns.

Ebenezer AME Pastor Browning said that “the same hate that created slavery was the same hate that caused the Holocaust.”

It is the same hate and the same common enemy to the human race of every color and religion.

We have seen such Nazi-led and inspired terrorism in the United States over the past 20 years. In recent time, this included the Oklahoma City terrorist attack on April 19, 1995 (the day before Hitler’s birthday celebrated by such Nazi terrorists) on the Oklahoma City federal building by terrorist Timothy McVeigh. The terrorist was inspired by the Nazi Turner Diaries and his Nazi terrorist co-conspirators, who murdered 169 Americans including 19 babies and children killed in the day care center there.

Timothy McVeigh's Terrorist Attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Building — Timothy McVeigh’s Terrorist Attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Building

Nor would it be the last Nazi-inspired terror attack we would witness. R.E.A.L. reported that Stormfront member Daniel Cowart shot the windows out of a Tennessee church and with his Confederate terror co-conspirator Paul Schlesselman, he plotted the terrorist attack on another African-American church, planning to kill over 100 as well as assassinate Barack Obama. Their initial target was to kill 88 African-Americans. Why 88? The number “88” in white supremacist world stands for “HH,” or “Heil Hitler.”

Convicted Terrorist Daniel Cowart with Swastika Tattoo and Rifle (Photo: Inquister)

The terrorist was part of a combined Nazi-Confederate organization called the “Supreme White Alliance” (SWA), holding birthday parties and celebrations for Adolf Hitler, singing for Hitler. The number 88 is typically seen along with a reference to 14, or 14 words in the slogan of white supremacists, which was inspired by Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

Just Like Maryland Theater Sing for Hitler - Nazi White Supremacist Terrorist Daniel Cowart and White Supremacist Singing for Adolf Hitler (Source: SPLC) — Just Like Maryland Theater Singing for Hitler – Nazi White Supremacist Terrorist Daniel Cowart and White Supremacist Singing for Adolf Hitler (Source: SPLC)

We have seen other connections to terrorist attacks by Nazis in this country, linked to the white supremacist Stormfront group, including Wade Michael Page, and Stormfront members’ support for terrorist attacks on the U.S. Pentagon and an IRS building in Texas, as well as praise by Stormfront members for the terrorist attack by Dylann Roof. (The FBI is finally beginning to investigate this Stormfront organization.)

wade-page-600x400 — Stormfront Member and Terrorist Wade Michael Page Killed 6 Sikhs

In June 2015, we saw the terrorist attack by Dylann Roof killing 9 African-American Christian worshipers during a Bible Study meeting at the Emmanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. The whitestream media refers to it as a “shooting,” rather than a terrorist attack, but those with a conscience know exactly what it was.

Charleston White Supremacist Terrorist Dylann Roof Believed to be Part of Nazi Web Site

An analysis of the terrorist Dylann Roof’s “manifesto” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) shows that it is likely that the white supremacist terrorist Dylann Roof was a regular user named “Aryanblood1488” on the Nazi forum “The Daily Stormer.” Dylann Roof’s terrorist attack on the Emmanuel AME church left 9 dead during a prayer session; the killer murdered them simply because they were African-Americans.

The folly of tolerating or dismissing Adolf Hitler’s legacy of “racial purity” hate has led to yet more American deaths.

Once again, Maryland’s Ebenezer AME Pastor Grainger Browning Jr. was at a funeral for victims of a terrorist attack at the Charleston Emmanuel AME church, but this time it was for a fellow pastor and eight other African-American worshipers.

Just as Nazi Daniel Cowart attacked African-American churches and Dylann Roof’s recent terrorist attack on the Charleston African-American churches, so we have seen numerous other attacks on African-American churches, as well as synagogues, mosques, and diverse houses of worship. The same racist hatred follows in these attacks including a reported three arson attacks on African-American churches in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina, and suspected in South Carolina. 180 uncontrolled deliberate arson fires are set to destroy American houses of worship every year. The attacks on African-American churches may officially be viewed as “isolated incidents,” but we know better. We don’t need a court of law to know the truth.

ChurchFire — Racist Hatred and Terrorism Continues to Attack African-American Churches and Other Houses of Worship

No, racist hate is not “history.” It remains a near and present danger to the American people, their freedoms, and their lives.

Adolf Hitler is and has been a symbol of hatred not just to the Jews he targeted in his twisted Holocaust, but also to African-Americans and anyone who failed to meet his white supremacist “racial purity” terrorist model of seeking a twisted cause of “racial hygiene,” which continues today. Adolf Hitler, the swastika, and the Nazi ideology remains a symbol of global racist terrorism, in cases that we have repeatedly seen in the United States of America.

These despicable figures and symbols of Nazi racist hatred in public facilities is just as much a symbol of racist hatred as the Confederate flag in defense of white supremacy. The United States Department of Justice is responsible for enforcing the law to prevent racist from using methods of intimidation to people due to their race, religion, etc. in public facilities under the 1968 Civil Rights Act. This is described in federal law 18 U.S.C. § 245(b)(2), which includes public theaters and places of entertainment, as described in 18 U.S.C. § 245(b)(2)(f). We will actively call upon the Department of Justice to enforce this law.

We know too well here in Maryland about the terrorist hate and violence spawned Adolf Hitler’s Nazi ideology. Maryland citizens have paid the price with their lives by those inspired by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi ideology, such as Maryland terrorist James Von Brunn. Our citizens’ blood is on the mass-murdering hands of Adolf Hitler and his disciples of hate. Americans in Olney have faced threats from such Nazi racist disciples of the mass-murderer Adolf Hitler.

Maryland’s Stephen Johns will not be remembered by enough people as a courageous hero in African-American history; like all of us, he will be too quickly forgotten, even by his neighbors in Maryland, and those who should know better. But his sacrifice will not be forgotten here by those who are Responsible for Equality And Liberty. He will never be forgotten in our hearts and our prayers. The lesson to defy white supremacist Nazi terror in our midst will also never be forgotten.

R.E.A.L. Volunteers Remember the Terrorist Attack on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

After the attack on the Washington DC USHMM, the white supremacist hate group VDARE organization held a rally with Patrick Buchanan in McLean, Virginia. VDARE’s Peter Brimelow had praised Nazi terrorist James Von Brunn as an “intelligent man.” R.E.A.L. was there to protest VDARE in McLean, in Baltimore, and other locations. White supremacists then sought to have massive recruitment campaigns in our nation’s capital, and as history shows that did not happen. We challenge and defy such white supremacist across the nation and the world, as nothing less than an ideology of terrorism.

R.E.A.L.'s Jeffrey Imm urges passing motorists to let VDARE know how they feel about racism — R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm urges passing motorists to let VDARE know how they feel about racism

Responsible for Equality And Liberty also makes this promise. We will defend every city and every nation from these racist monsters, to the best of our volunteers’ ability. Patriotic Americans will defy racists and symbols of racism wherever they go.

But to those promoting racism and with the symbols of racist hatred, know this. You will not succeed in the Washington DC area without our DEFIANT PROTEST. There has been more than enough racist filth smeared on our nation’s capital in our life times. From Freedom Plaza outward, we will defy those with the ideology and symbols of racist hatred. The blood of Stephen Johns and the bullet holes in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was the moment we had to say ENOUGH.

Not here.

We will continue to defy white supremacist organizations and their ideology of racist hatred, and their enablers. Those promoting the symbols of racial hatred and violence will find the defenders of human rights and dignity are stubborn and persistent. After all, it is the least we can do.

In protection of Americans at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Stephen Johns gave his LIFE. Surely we can be inconvenienced. Surely we can find the time and the energy to defy Nazi white supremacist hatred. Surely we can find the room in our lives to tell those who think Adolf Hitler is a joke, how WRONG THEY ARE.

R.E.A.L.'s Jeffrey Imm at Protest in Front of Olney Theatre Center. Prior to Protest, theater called to police to try to stop protest — R.E.A.L.’s Jeffrey Imm at Protest in Front of Olney Theatre Center. Prior to Protest, theater called to police to try to stop protest

So to my fellow patriotic Americans and friends in human rights, Responsible for Equality And Liberty is inviting to join us in Maryland to protest the Nazi symbols which represent racist hatred. We contacted the Olney Theatre Center first; we pleaded with them to reconsider. They stand by their “comedy satire” on the racist mass-murderer Adolf Hitler, while the victims of the latest terror attack have just been buried, and burned down houses of worship are in ashes.

We urge you to contact the Olney Theatre Center and let them know you don’t think Adolf Hitler is “funny.” You can let them know on Twitter at @OlneyTheatre. You can see their postings of how they think Adolf Hitler is “funny,” and one actor thinks it is a joke to “see what the fuhrer is about.” This normalization of a racist, mass-murderer and a SYMBOL of Racism is what we must REJECT.

Some of those publicly “favoriting” such mocking comments like “see what all the fuhrer is about” are conservative “Ace of Spades” blog writer Gabriel Malor (screenshot) and Brandon Ambrosino (screenshot). Baltimore dancer (who apparently works on this show) Brandon Ambrosino claims to write for the New York Times, Atlantic, Time, etc., but really does VOX blog articles. Brandon Ambrosino spent 30 minutes arguing with me at the July 11 protest claiming that when theater goers enjoy Racist Hate symbols like Hitler, we shouldn’t protest Hitler events. After all, he argued – if there are more people singing for Hitler than those protesting, shouldn’t those singing for Hitler be right? The efforts to “normalize” racist symbol Adolf Hitler are in direct contradiction to America’s rejection of the racist symbol of the Confederate Flag. Americans respecting human rights know the difference between RIGHT and WRONG.

We need you to urge them to end the scenes in the Olney Theatre presentation about Adolf Hitler and the twisted “comedy” of “Springtime for Hitler.” They will tell you it is a satire. They will tell you it is their artistic freedom. They will get Mel Brooks and theater reviewers to defend how “funny” it is. Mr. Brooks, actors, and comedians have a right to their personal twisted sense of humor. But when symbols of racist hatred are displayed in public areas, mocking the tragedies the world has suffered, they need to take their sense of “humor” elsewhere.

TELL THEM “ENOUGH.”

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi swastika belong in the same trash can of history with the Confederate Flag and Confederate monuments.

Maryland, our nation, and the world has paid with enough blood, enough tears, and enough misery that we have a right to defend the human dignity of all those who have suffered in American and around the world from these racist mass-murderers and monsters, should not be trivialized and made into “comedy.” Enough.

TELL THEM “TAKE IT DOWN.”

R.E.A.L. urges you to contact the Olney Theatre Center’s Board President Jennifer Kneeland, Managing Director Deborah Ellinghaus, Artistic Director Jason Loewith, Director of Production Dennis A. Blackledge, and Public Relations Manager Heather Andrews, and let them know you reject symbols of racist hatred as “comedy.” Let them know you don’t find Adolf Hitler to be “entertaining.”

The Olney Theatre Center is located at: 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, MD 20832. It’s telephone number is: 301-924-4485, and the fax number is: 301-924-2654

Let actors Jason Graee and Michael Kostroff know that you just don’t think that the racist monster Adolf Hitler is “funny.”

To those of you in the Washington DC area, we will be holding public protests on the public street outside the Olney Theatre Center. For more information, contact us at usa@realcourage.org. We will keep the local police informed to ensure safety and protection. We held protests on July 11 and July 12. At our July 12 protest, theater goers screamed curse words from their automobiles. One theater goer came up to me and told me that he thought that the Holocaust “was funny.” I urge those who cannot protest to pray for these individuals.

As we MUST defy the Confederate Flag of white supremacy, racism, slavery, and hate, so we MUST also defy the symbols of racist Nazi ideology and the monster who inspired the death of so many Jews, so many people, so many children, so many families, and also certainly so many Americans – even in the Washington DC area, and continuing today.

We MUST DEFY this…. EVIL to all of humanity.

Behind the Eternal Flame in the Hall of Remembrance, it reads: “Only guard yourself and guard your soul carefully, lest you forget the thing your eyes saw, and lest these things depart your heart all the days of your life, and you shall make them known to your children to your children’s children.”

We will Never Forget, Maryland.

America, we must continue to work together for all people of all religions, all races, and all identity groups.

NEVER AGAIN.

That is why we MUST be Responsible for Equality And Liberty.

Pakistan: Minority Shiite Muslims and NGO Lead Shot by Terrorists

On July 6, 2015, two minority Shia Muslims were gunned down in the street in Quetta, Pakistan, in a continuing terrorist campaign to kill religious minorities. Police officer Ajab Khan Kakar stated: “It is a sectarian targeted killing.” The July 6 attacks included killing the two Shia Muslim men outside of a passport office, as well as police officer. The two Shia men were part of the Hazara community, which is a predominantly Shi’ite Muslim ethnic group.

July Attack in Quetta on Shia Muslims by Terrorist (Source: Reuters/Naseer Ahmed)

A second attack also happened on July 6. According Samaa News, “Hours later, a manager of local NGO was gunned down by unknown assailants outside his residence in Jinnah Town area of Quetta. The victim was identified as Abdul Rauf. Police said all the murders were result of ‘targeted attacks’.”

The attack on minority Muslim Shi’ite houses of worship and individuals has been continuing throughout this year, with over 100 killed this year. This has included a terrorist attack on Shia Muslim killing 45 on a bus in Karachi in May 2015, as well as killing 62 in a suicide bombing on a Shia Muslim mosque in January 2015. Minority Shi’ite Muslims comprise about 20 percent of the Pakistan population of 180 million.

Senior police officer Abdul Razzak Cheema stated that he blamed Muslim extremists for the attacks, saying the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi extremist group was possibly involved. He stated that “The boys, in their twenties, were killed in the shooting while their parents were wounded and a policeman who was passing by the site was also killed after he shot and wounded one attacker.”

Nazi War on Women

Nazi War on Women. The Adolf Hitler and the racist Nazi party killed millions of Jewish people in the Holocaust, including an estimated 2 million women and over 1.5 million children. In addition to the Nazi war on Jewish women, Adolf Hitler built a separate Nazi concentration camp designed specifically for non-Jewish women at Ravensbrück, which was situated about 50 miles north of Berlin. Approximately 130,000 women were sent to this women’s concentration camp, 50,000 of which were murdered (gassed, shot, starved), including 2,500 women killed in Hitler’s gas chambers in one weekend. As reported by Sarah Helm, the Nazi attack on women included every walk of life: doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes, members of the resistance. Women were worked to death, and those who became too ill were selected for extermination by being shot or sent to the gas chambers.

Prisoners at Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany stand near barbed wire in 1945 (Source: Daily Mail/ xXX) — Prisoners at Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany stand near barbed wire in 1945 (Source: Daily Mail/ Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

The Nazis conducted medical experiments, including testing new ways to kill women, freezing them to death in the snow, and letting dogs rip into the women. They sexually abused the women with rape and infected some women with bacteria to experiment on their bodies, including “syphilis being injected into the spinal cord.”

After Adolf Hitler, the Nazi terrorist war on women has continued, with Nazi violence against women around the world and throughout the United States, including the well-publicized rape attacks by Nazi Keith Luke in Massachusetts, Nazi rapist in Arlington, Virginia, and child molesters among Nazi leaders. The amoral Nazi ideology to prey on those they view as vulnerable leads them to such hate of women.

In 2014, the Nazi war on women included the killing of Terri
LaManno, a woman visiting to help care for her elderly mother in Kansas City. Terri was an occupational therapist at Children’s Center for the Visually Impaired (CCVI) for eight years. She was visiting her elderly mother at the Village Shalom as she did every Sunday. She left behind three children, after her murder by the Kansas City Nazi terrorist Frazier Cross Jr., who was shouting “Heil Hitler,” after he was arrested.

Kansas City: Terri LaManno Murdered in 2014 by Nazi who Shouted "Heil Hitler" — Kansas City: Terri LaManno Murdered in 2014 by Nazi who Shouted “Heil Hitler”

The Nazi war on women has included the murder of African-American women by Nazis in the United States, including the recent terror attack in Charleston, South Carolina where six African-American women were murdered by terrorist Dylann Roof (a poster with the Nazi Daily Stormer group).

Charleston Women Murdered by Nazi Dylann Roof

Nazi War on Homosexuals

Nazi War on Homosexuals. Adolf Hitler’s Nazis attacked homosexuals, using a special Gestapo branch to order police to develop “pink lists” on homosexuals all over Germany. The Nazis then arrested 100,000 homosexuals for imprisonment, and also sentenced gay men to Nazi concentration camps. The Nazi concentration camps identified prisoners wearing a pink triangular patch (rosa Winkel) on their uniforms. They were beaten, abused, tortured, killed, and their bodies were mutilated, including castration of hundreds.

Nazi Oppression of Homosexuals in Concentration Camps - Wore the Rosa Winkel (Pink Triangle) — Nazi Oppression of Homosexuals in Concentration Camps – Wore the Rosa Winkel (Pink Triangle)

At the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, Hitler’s Nazis performed medical experiments on homosexuals’ bodies as part of their monstrous torture on other human beings.

Nazi terrorism against homosexuals did not end with their idol Adolf Hitler.

Nazi terrorist groups continue to target and attack LGBT individuals and groups as part of the Nazi ideology. A Nazi terrorist group used a popular social network to lure in gay teenagers, then kidnap them, bully, and torture them, making videos of their humiliation to share on the public Internet. Threats and targeting of homosexuals by Nazi terror groups within the United States, Europe, and Russia remains a common theme within the goals of groups.

Nazis Kidnap Gay Teen, Choke, Brutalize (Source: Shoutlook)

Nazis Kidnap Gay Teen Beat with Bat - Feared Dead (Source: Shoutlook) — Nazis Kidnap Gay Teen Beat with Bat – Feared Dead (Source: Shoutlook)

Nazis Terrorists Attack Gay Man - Raped, Tortured (Source RFE/RL) — Nazis Terrorists Attack Gay Man – Raped, Tortured (Source RFE/RL)

Nazi War on Muslims

Nazi War on Muslims. As R.E.A.L. has repeatedly reported, Nazi individuals and groups targeted minority Muslims in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world. As reported recently in Arizona, mosque protesters included Nazis among armed protesters in the crowd.

In Tennessee, Nazi terrorists who were members of the “Aryan Alliance” firebombed the Islamic Center of Columbia, south of Nashville, after they painted Nazi swastikas on it; Michael Corey Golden got 14 years in prison, and his fellow Nazi terrorists were convicted and imprisoned.

Nazi Arson Attack on Tennessee Mosque - Burning it to the Ground — Nazi Arson Attack on Tennessee Mosque – Burning it to the Ground

Anti-Muslim extremists on Stormfront Nazi site regularly use racial supremacist ideology in their basis to call for ethnic cleansing of Muslims. In the United Kingdom, in March 2015, Nazi swastika flags were flown in the British streets of Newcastle as part of extremist anti-Muslim campaigns, and in Newcastle, Nazi swastikas were defacing mosques. In the United Kingdom, Nazi Ian Forman were jailed for 10 years in a twisted plot to blow up mosques across the Merseyside, UK area. Nazi Ian Forman spoke of his admiration of Adolf Hitler; the judge who convicted him stated that his activities “were a continuation of Nazi warfare.”

In Europe, this has included recent Nazi attacks and swastika defacing on Muslim mosques in Dormagen, Germany, in Leipzig, Germany, in Vienna, in Tyrol, Austria, in Stockholm, Sweden, in Provins, France (outside Paris), at a mosque construction site in Meaux, France. We have reported on similar Nazi group activities against mosques in Denmark and throughout Europe.

In Australia, Nazis have attack Muslim mosques in Perth, Australia; Nazi attacks on mosques have included the Nazi terror group C18 that fired gunshots into the dome roof of the Suleymaniye Mosque.

After the attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Muslim leader Asma Hanif stated “Someone who will demonstrate hate like this will do it in any community.” “Whether it was the Holocaust or slavery, the only reason it prevailed is because it was tolerated. We have the right and the authority to end it.”

Nazi War on Christians

Nazi War on Christians. Adolf Hitler’s white supremacist Nazis have often attacked Christians.

There were many extremists in Nazi Germany among Christians, including extremist in clergy who were part of the Nazi’s Anti-Semitic campaign. But the history of Nazi oppression of Christians is often forgotten both in history and in current day reality, especially when viewed in the historical light that the Nazi goal was to destroy Christianity. Hitler’s Nazis persecuted Christians who defied them and who stood for Christian values in Germany. Aggressive anti-Church radicals like Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler led a take over of churches in Germany (the Kirchenkampf), forcing them to reject any Christian values that the Nazi party would not accept. This led to struggles among both Protestant and the Roman Catholic Churches which were occupied by the Nazi racial supremacists. Jesuits were attacked and Catholic properties were taken over by the Nazis.

Clergymen were sent to concentration camps, and Nazi Himmler sought to end the “principle of Christian mercy” among the German people, which was part of a long-term goal to end Christianity in Nazi Germany. As part of war criminal trials, the United States Organization of Strategic Services (OSS) developed a document on “The Nazi Master Plan” to destroy Christianity in Germany. As Nazi Baldur von Shirach wrote “the destruction of Christianity was explicitly recognized as a purpose of the National Socialist movement.” Nearly 2000 Polish Christian clergy were sent to the Nazi concentration camps. The Jehovah Witness religious adherents were singled out for oppression and sent to concentration camps. The attack on Christians by the Nazis did not end with Adolf Hitler or WWII.

The continuing Nazi racist ideology remains focused on rejection and terrorism of Christianity around the world. In April 2015, this included a Nazi terrorist bombing at Orthodox parish of Saint Vladimir in Marzahn-Hellensdorf, near Berlin.

In the United States, this has included efforts by Nazi terrorists to attack African-American churches, such as Daniel Cowart’s attack in Tennessee and Dylann Roof’s attack in Charleston, where he murdered 9 African-Americans.

Convicted Terrorist Daniel Cowart with Swastika Tattoo - Attacking Christian Churches (Photo: Inquister) — Convicted Terrorist Daniel Cowart with Swastika Tattoo – Attacking Christian Churches
(Photo: Inquister)

In April 2014, a Nazi terrorist killed three Christians in Kansas City, who were preparing for a play, including a 14 year old boy, Reat Griffin Underwood (a Boy Scout), his grandfather, and another woman.

Christian and Boy Scout Reat Griffin Underwood Murdered in Nazi Terror Attack in United States in 2014

As R.E.A.L. has investigated in the USA, Nazi terrorists view the end of Christianity to be a priority for the goals. Therefore, Nazi terror attacks on Christian churches fits within their ideology. Stormfront Nazis post that their racial identity is their only religion. Christians have a particular responsibility both as victims and the historical responsibility of those extremists with white supremacists to protest and reject Nazi and Hitler.

Stormfront White Supremacists Support Confederate and Nazi Terrorists, including Stormfront Terrorists

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) has new information on the support of Confederate terrorism by Stormfront members; the Stormfront group was founded by former Confederate Alabama Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Don Black.

Members of the Confederate white supremacist Stormfront group have been praising Confederate terrorist Dylann Roof who murdered 9 people at the Emmanuel AME Church, and they now mock church burnings across the country. Terrorist Dylann Roof has had both support among members of the white supremacist community, as well as defense for his twisted ideology of racial hate among members of pro-Confederate groups such as Stormfront. Dylann Roof was known to be an active poster for the Daily Stormer website, providing streaming radio links to the Confederate white supremacist Stormfront’s radio program.

Former Ku Klux Klan Leader Don Black's Confederate Stormfront Group Members Praise Terrorism by Confederate Terrorist Dylann Roof - Killing 9 African-Americans — Former Ku Klux Klan Leader Don Black’s Confederate Stormfront Group Members Praise Terrorism by Confederate Terrorist Dylann Roof – Killing 9 African-Americans

R.E.A.L has reported on the Confederate Stormfront hate group for years, including its members’ ties to terrorism in the United States of America. Many of the Stormfront members have logos with Confederate flag symbols and imagery, with some identifying their locations as within the “Confederate States of America (C.S.A.)”. Terrorists attacking the United States of America have come from within the Confederate Stormfront group, including known active Stormfront members Daniel Cowart, Wade Michael Page, and Richard Poplawski. Stormfront members have also praised a rogue’s list of terrorists attacking America, including white supremacist Paul Schlesselmann, white supremacist James Von Brunn, as well as terrorists Joseph Stack and Joseph Patrick Bedell – both of which attacked U.S. federal government buildings.

Confederate Stormfront Members Support for White Supremacist Terrorists

The increasing support for terrorist figures among members in the Confederate white supremacist group has come within the past five years. We call for the U.S. federal government to treat this growing public support for terrorism with the same attention it would give any other group with members active and promoting terrorist attacks on this nation. While the Stormfront members comments are offensive (we never mention the worst), it is important for Americans to know what values such Confederate white supremacists espouse and why we must reject their symbols of hate and racism.

Stormfront members praised Confederate terrorist Dylann Roof as a “soldier,” “young warrior,” and the “warrior class” needed for their white supremacist cause, with “100% Truth in what he says,” and stating that “this is a racial war… for the future of our entire white race.” Another Stormfront member writes that “white supremacists sign up for military to train for race war.” Regarding Roof’s terror attack, a Confederate Stormfront member states: “if we will not defend our own White Children, then who will?” A Stormfront member writes: “we will never have peace as long as there are Africans among us.”

Stormfront members excited by Dylann Roof’s terrorist activity have called for a “race war,” calling for war on “hateful African savages,” and justifying Dylann Roof’s terrorist attack because “blacks are fighting a race war against innocent white folks,” and pleased “that a white boy fought back.” Regarding Dylann Roof’s terrorist attack, another Confederate Stormfront member praises it as “resistance,” stating that “Resistance is the key. Resistance at all levels.”

Stormfront-Terror-Hate-0028 — Confederate Stormfront Hate Posting

Another Stormfront member defended the idea of such a terrorist race war and asked, “How did Roof act any differently from how a government in the same situation would act in reply?”

Yet another Stormfront member writes “Dylann Roof is just going to be the first of many…there will be a new Dylann Roof every week.” Others praise him stating “Dylann Storm Roof is the man,” and “he is ahead of his time.”

Stormfront members ask “When will it be acceptable to fight back?,” defending Dylann Roof’s terrorist murders of African-Americans at the Emmanuel AME Church as “Sometimes in war there are casualties.”

Stormfront-Terror-Hate-0015 — Confederate Stormfront Hate Posting

Another Stormfront member stated “When they don’t allow people to speak their minds, they will sometimes speak with their hands.” A Stormfront member writes: “A black African is not a White Man, they are something else entire; pretending that ‘we are all the same’ is just a denial of reality.”

Stormfront members cheered on his attack because “the pot needed stirring” and that the response to his terrorism is “making our cause stronger.” Another Stormfront member praised the attack as inspiring recruitment for their racist cause, stating “I guarantee that we have gained a lot of attention from other White people who are fed up.”

Stormfront-Terror-Hate-0002 — Confederate Stormfront Hate Posting

Stormfront members also called for racists to go out and buy guns stating, “For White Nationalists owning a gun is more than a right. It’s a responsibility. If you don’t own one, now is the time, before prices go up and stock starts dwindling.” Stormfront members also state “anyone white who does not have a license to carry a handgun needs to get one.”

Stormfront members are particularly disappointed with women who denounced Dylann Roof’s terrorist activity, with one Stormfront member stating: “It shames me how many white people, in particular women, stand on the side of the liberal and betray their own race and their own heritage.”

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) has repeatedly reported on the history of the white supremacist, pro-Confederate Stormfront group and its support for terrorist actions against the United States of America. If such volunteer human rights activists can readily obtain such information, we urge those in our federal law enforcement and counterterrorism organizations to make statements on such support for terrorism in our country. We also urge the American and world media to identify such sources of terrorist support, and find impossible to that the world media does not have the resources to investigate and report on this human rights issue.

R.E.A.L. has reported on the history of Stormfront’s support for other terrorist individuals including Stormfront supporter Daniel Cowart, who along with fellow Confederate Paul Schlesselman attacked the Allen Baptist Church in Brownsville, Tennessee and also targeted an attack on 102 Christians in the Beech Grove Church of Christ in Tennessee, as a means of plotting mass-murder terrorism against African-American Christians. They also plotted an assassination plot against Barack Obama. As reported by CBS News, Stormfront forum writer and terrorist Daniel Cowart used the Confederate message board to get advice on guns and weapons.

R.E.A.L. has reported on Stormfront supporter and terrorist Wade Michael Page, who was not only a supporter of Stormfront, but also wore one of Stormfront’s “White Pride World Wide” shirts. Wade Michael Page committed terrorist murder of 6 Sikhs in Wisconsin. Terrorist Wade Michael Page was part of a Confederate musical band, End Apathy, which was promoted on Stormfront with Confederate imagery for performances in Richmond, Virginia and other locations in the South. His terrorist attack was repeatedly praised by members of the Stormfront forum who applauded his terrorist act stating“finally a man whos got some nerve,” with the Stormfront editor and chief of staff defending the terrorism as “they’re asking for it” and calling for action in the “out and out war of crime being waged against us by the negroes.”

R.E.A.L has also reported on Stormfront supporter and terrorist Richard Poplawski in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who used the Stormfront forum to praise white supremacy and attack racial minorities. On Stormfront, the white supremacist terrorist also bragged and talked about his automatic weapons, which he used in an attack to murder Pittsburgh police.

As R.E.A.L. has reported, the Confederate Stormfront site members also regularly praises and supports other terrorists.

Stormfront members praised terrorist James Von Brunn who attacked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, while wearing a “Confederate soldier’s long coat cap.” The terrorist James Von Brunn murdered an African-American security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Stephen Tyrone Johns. Stormfront members praised his terrorist attack, stating “if you’re white, act white,” and calling for whites to “hate with violent passion,” and other Stormfront members stating that the “ZOG” media would lie about his terror attack, viewing the white supremacist terrorist as a “martyr.”

james-vonn-brunn — Stormfront Members Praised Attack by White Supremacist Terrorist James Von Brunn who Murdered Stephen Tyrone Johns in Attack on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

In addition, Stormfront members praise other terrorists in their attacks on the United States of America, as part of their Confederate hatred against America.

This includes Stormfront members praise for white terrorist Joseph Stack’s airplane terrorist attack on an IRS building in Austin, Texas, which resulted in the death of an African-American veteran Vernon Hunter, who they were pleased to see murdered in the terrorist attack. Stormfront members praise for the terrorist attack included: “The Guy is a true HERO!!!”, “God bless him – a true hero”, “This was quite heroic”, “People are awakening. Whites shall be free again”, “White America needs a Joe Stack Commemoration Holiday!”, regarding the murder of Vernon Hunter in the terrorist attack “Just consider that an early retirement!”, and one Stormfront member urging violent individuals to “take it directly to the source in DC.” Stormfront members saw the terrorist act as a re-affirmation of their white supremacy, stating: “How many more will have to snap before the masses of White Americans wake up to our plight? How many more will have to make the ultimate sacrifice?”

Stormfront Members Praise Terrorist Attack on Austin, Texas IRS Office and Murder of African-American Vernon Hunter (Photo: Jana Birchum, Getty Images)

The Confederate Stormfront members also praised the terrorist attack on the U.S. Pentagon by Joseph Patrick Bedell, another white terrorist, who took automatic weapons to kill as many Americans as possible at the Pentagon. Stormfront members praised his terrorism, claiming that his attack was on the “ZOG” (Zionist Occupied Government), stating that they shared Bedell’s that the U.S. federal government was a “criminal conspiracy”, with Stormfront members stating they felt “a swift action by many would be ideal to take down the power structure” in America.

Confederate Stormfront Members Praised John Patrick Bedell's Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon ( Photo from Washoe County Jail (AP Photo/Washoe County jail via the Reno Gazette Journal) — Confederate Stormfront Members Praised John Patrick Bedell’s Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon ( Photo from Washoe County Jail (AP Photo/Washoe County jail via the Reno Gazette Journal)

Once again, this provides evidence of the open and public support for terrorist attacks by members of the Confederate Stormfront organization and other white supremacist and Confederate groups. Stormfront members have even voiced support for the 9/11 terrorist attacks against America.

The history of Confederate terrorism is not new, but we have seen it continue to grow over the past 10 years, and we believe it is the responsibility of human rights activists, American patriots, United States government leaders and counter-terrorists to challenge and defy such Confederate terrorists.

After the defeat of the pro-slavery Confederate army by American patriots in 1865, the Confederate activists continued their war against American human rights through a combination of terrorist insurgent and propaganda methods. The first of the Confederate terrorists was John Wilkes Booth who assassinated U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 at the Ford Theater. Since then, the United States has continued to face an ongoing terrorist challenge from Confederate terrorists throughout our history.

The First Confederate Terrorist Attack on America: the Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

American patriots have challenged the Confederate terrorist organization of the Ku Klux Klan since 1865, and we continue to do so again. The United States government created the Enforcement Act of 1871 (17 Stat. 13) to address the activities of the Confederate Ku Klux Klan terrorist organization, which has continued to plague this nation. The Confederate Ku Klux Klan terrorist organization has a long history of beatings, murders, lynchings, and bombings, including killing of civil rights leaders (with the cooperation of southern law enforcement), and infamous terrorist attacks on African-American houses of worship.

Among these horrific acts of terrorism by the Confederate Ku Klux Klan were the KKK bombing of the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama killing four African-American girls, and more recently the 1995 KKK burning of the Mount Zion AME church in Greeleyville, South Carolina, which recently burned down again on June 30, 2015 (reportedly due to lightning).

Confederate Ku Klux Klan Terrorists against African-American Churches and Their Victims - Children — Confederate Ku Klux Klan Terrorists against African-American Churches and Their Victims – Little Girls

The Stormfront group was created by Confederate Ku Klux Klan leader Don Black as a way to re-package the appearance of such white supremacism, and whose members have been proven to support Confederate terrorism. Stormfront lists and actively promotes such Confederate Ku Klux Klan organizations throughout the United States.

Confederate Ku Klux Klan Leader Don Black Sought to Re-Package KKK Message with "Stormfront" — Confederate Ku Klux Klan Leader Don Black Sought to Re-Package KKK Message with “Stormfront” Promoting Confederate Flag and History

In addition, we have reported on the praise by Confederate Stormfront members in the burning of African-American Christian Churches in the United States. Stormfront members finds the burning of American churches to be a source of great amusement to them; one Stormfront member writes “Burn Baby Burn,” regarding such churches while holding a Confederate flag.

Another Stormfront member mocks the destruction of a church (allegedly by lightning) that “Lightning is an ‘Act of God’, isn’t it?’. Other Stormfront members mock the arson and burning of African-American churches stating that “Obama probably just told them to burn down their own churches so he could funnel them money.” Stormfront members glamorize a box of matches on the racist website, writing “Unless they are used to set White people on fire, then it’s not a hate crime.”

Confederate Racist Website Stormfront Posts Image of Matches Regarding African-American Churches being Burned Down - Stating "Unless they are used to set white people on fire, then it's not a hate crime." — Confederate Racist Website Stormfront Posts Image of Matches Regarding African-American Churches being Burned Down – Stating “Unless they are used to set white people on fire, then it’s not a hate crime.”

The Confederate Stormfront group has been part of “white nationalist” rallies that it has in different parts of the nation, including previously in Washington DC. When Stormfront’s recruitment event for the Washington DC area was protested by the free speech of R.E.A.L. and other human rights groups, the Confederate extremist group threatened R.E.A.L.’s founder and his family. Stormfront posted images with machine guns calling attacks on those who protested the event, and other white supremacists groups threatened R.E.A.L.’s founder stating “I’d be surprised if someone didn’t decide to correct your behavior,” and that “when someone does declares war on us, it’s OK to fight back. With any and all means.”

Confederate Stormfront Group "Machine Gun" Threat at R.E.A.L.'s Free Speech to Reject White Supremacist Meetings — Confederate Stormfront Group “Machine Gun” Threat at R.E.A.L.’s Free Speech to Protest White Supremacist Recruitment Meetings

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)’s position remains constant and consistent: we support the Universal Human Rights of all people, including all of our fellow Americans. We do not believe a human rights campaign can be limited to any one part of the world, but we believe that our shared universal human rights must be protected for all people around the world, including minorities in the United States of America.

Furthermore, we do not believe that a campaign of merely passively calling for human rights and dignity in the face of human right threats is sufficient. We believe that to be RESPONSIBLE for equality and liberty – we must be active participants in a society which works to ensure such shared human rights, including rejecting and defying the forces of any extremist group which seeks to deny and degrade the human rights of our fellow human beings. Our challenge to Confederates and white supremacy in the United States is no different than our challenge to extremists attacking human rights anywhere in the world.

R.E.A.L. calls for the American people to reject and denounce the ongoing Confederate culture of white supremacy and its history of racism, slavery, and hate. R.E.A.L. calls for the American people to denounce and end the public honoring of any symbols or monuments to a Confederate culture of white supremacy, which has as its basis the rejection of equality, liberty, our shared universal human rights, and the truths that we hold self-evident as a nation, and as a human race. In a phrase, “Take It Down.”

Such determined stance in support of our human rights and dignity, and our rejection of the forces of racial hatred and violence is the obligation of all patriotic Americans.

Our support for our universal human rights is a fundamental basis for global trust, respect, and communications among all people, not only in the United States, but also around the world. We urge our fellow Americans and all those around the world to be Responsible for Equality And Liberty.

Orange Ribbon for Universal Human Rights - Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) — Orange Ribbon for Universal Human Rights – Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)

Nigeria – Boko Haram New Terrorism Kills 200, Attacks Mosques, Enslave Women,1.5 Million Displaced

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) condemns the latest terrorist attacks by the global terrorist organization Boko Haram, which has killed a reported 200 people in northeastern Nigeria state of Borno. This has included terrorist attacks on several Islamic mosques in the Kukawa town with 97 men, women, and children killed, as well as another 48 killed in two towns near the town of Monguno. AFP also reported terrorist attacks killing 50 in the village of Mussa, with the Boko Haram shooting villagers and burning their homes.

The recent attacks on mosques took place during the Islamic holiday of Ramadan, while people were praying. One news source stated “a witness called Kolo said they killed men and young boys in the mosques and then proceeded to burn the corpses they had killed. They then indiscriminately attacked women and children who were at home.”

Nigeria Mosques Attacked by Boko Haram Terrorist Group - Men and Boys Killed and Corpses Burned (Source: Reuters) — Nigeria Mosques Attacked by Boko Haram Terrorist Group – Men and Boys Killed and Corpses Burned (Source: Reuters)

World Bulletin reported that the Boko Haram terrorist attacks on mosques during Ramadan “occurred around sunset time as Muslims offered the Maghrib prayer just shortly after opening the day’s Ramadan fast Wednesday night. Abba Kyari, one of the hundreds of locals who fled to Maiduguri, capital city of Borno state, said that the attack took place when Muslims were praying.
‘Very few of us got away with slight injuries as we made away. But we cannot account for our family members now. The mosques are littered with corpses and our houses have been burnt,’ Kyari, who spoke in the local Hausa, said.”

AFP reported that Boko Haram terrorists were “gunning down worshippers at evening Ramadan prayers, shooting women in their homes, and dragging men from their beds in the dead of night.” AFP also reported that a young “female suicide bomber also killed 12 worshippers when she blew herself up in a mosque in Borno.”

The Boko Haram organization has also pledged its allegiance to the ISIS terrorist organization. The global terrorist organization Boko Haram is led by Abubakar Shekau, who was reportedly killed in the past, but apparently the military forces killed a double of him.

Boko Haram Terrorist Leader Pledges Allegiance to ISIS — Boko Haram Terrorist Abubakar Shekau Leader Pledges Allegiance to ISIS

The latest attacks in Borno are also the area where Boko Haram kidnapped 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in April 2014. As previously reported by R.E.A.L., the terrorist group has a pattern of kidnapping women as slaves, raped, or killed, including selling such women as slave “brides” to terrorists for $10 per human being.

Nigerian Girls Kidnapped and Enslaved by Global Terrorist Organization Boko Haram

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) also released a report in April 2015 detailing patterns of widespread atrocities by Boko Haram global terrorists in northeast Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger. The UN reported on “gruesome scenes of mass graves and further evident signs of slaughter by Boko Haram,” as well as Boko Haram murders of women “their so-called ‘wives’ – in fact women and girls held in slavery.”

Nigeria - Kano Mosque burning from Boko Haram Terrorist Attack - Nigeria Mosques Attacked by Boko Haram Terrorist Group - Men and Boys Killed and Corpses Burned — Nigeria – Kano Mosque attacked by Boko Haram Terrorists in November 2014 – Muslim worshippers gunned down by Boko Haram as they tried to flee

The UN report also stated that “Support was also needed to address the plight of 1.5 million internally displaced persons and 650,000 refugees. The international community should be concerned about the networks that Boko Haram had created with other international armed groups, such as with Al-Shabab and the Islamic State.”

Nigerians Flee Country from Boko Haram Terrorism (Source: UNCHR, Chad Red Cross, H. Abdoulaye)

Additional new reports to BBC from escaped Boko Haram captives have stated that some of the kidnapped girls have been brainwashed to perform fighting, beatings, and killings for the global terrorist group, including flogging young girls unable to recite the Qur’an. Miriam,” a former captive of a Boko Haram, also stated that some of the girls were forced to kill Christian men.

R.E.A.L. has previously reported on other terrorist attacks by Boko Haram in that area.

In January 2015, we reported that 135,000 have fled Nigeria due to terrorist attacks, with 10,000 killed in the past year.
In November 2014, we reported that an estimated 2,500 Christians had been killed with 100,000 Catholics displaced and over 50 churches destroyed.
In October 2014, we reported on 185 Christian churches which had been burned and destroyed after attacks by Boko Haram in Borno and Adamawa states.
In May 2014, we reported that 50 churches and 500 Christians were killed by the Boko Haram group.

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) supports the universal human rights of all people around the world, and we defy and oppose the efforts by terrorists and tyrants to seek to refuse such human rights, human dignity, as well as their violent efforts to rape, murder, destroy, and enslave. We call upon the Nigerian government to step up efforts to protect Nigerian people from such Boko Haram terrorism, and we call for the all of the world and governments to condemn the terrorist acts of Boko Haram.

African-American Christian Churches on Fire in USA – Terror-linked Groups Mock Attacks

Over the past week, after the Confederate terrorist attack on the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina, a series of predominantly African-American Christian churches have burned down. The volunteer human rights group Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) calls for U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey to immediately form an interstate task-force to investigate these church fires in connection with the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (18 U.S.C. § 245(b)(2)), and to use their authority to arrest the terrorists behind any arson attacks on houses of worship.

While the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) is leading this investigation from a technical perspective (identifying possible fire accelerant), we also need a coordinated, multi-region, federal law enforcement task force with a focus on Civil Rights Act crimes to play a central role in any investigation. While some of these church fires are being blamed on lightning and electrical failures, others are being viewed as deliberate arson. We believe that those familiar with Confederate terrorist tactics would recognize this as the signature of their past terrorist crimes against African-Americans.

Recent church burnings in the United States of America have included:

1. June 22, 2015 – Knoxville, Tennessee – College Hill Seventh-Day Adventist Church burned down – Cause: Arson – bags of dirt and bales of hay were left on fire outside the African-American church’s doors – and the hay was set on fire. The church van was also damaged by the fire. Status: Arson under investigation.

Knoxville Church Burned Down - Ruled Arson — Knoxville, Tennessee – College Hill Seventh-Day Adventist Church Burned Down – Ruled Arson

2. June 23, 2015 – Macon, Georgia – God’s Power Church of Christ burned down – Cause: Arson – the church was gutted by fire and destroyed. Status: Arson under investigation. While the authorities believe it was arson, WMAZ reports that “Macon-Bibb’s fire chief says he still believes that a church fire last week was not a hate crime.”

June 23, 2015 - Macon, Georgia - Church Burned Down — June 23, 2015 – Macon, Georgia – God’s Power Church of Christ Burned Down

3. June 24, 2015 – Charlotte, North Carolina –Briar Creek Road Baptist Church burned down – Cause: Evidence of Arson damaging a building which housed church classrooms. Status: Arson under investigation. While the authorities believe it was arson, they state there is “no evidence of a hate crime, said Charlotte Fire Department spokeswoman Cynthia Robbins Shah-Khan.”

June 24, 2015 - Charlotte, NC - Church Fired Ruled Arson - Briar Creek — June 24, 2015 – Charlotte, NC – Church Fired Ruled Arson – Briar Creek Road Baptist Church

4. June 24, 2015 – Memphis, Tennessee – predominantly white American Fruitland Presbyterian Church burned down – Cause: Tennessee local law enforcement and media reporting fire may be due to lighting, with BATF calling it an “isolated incident.”

June 23, 2015 - Fruitland Church Burned Down — June 23, 2015 – Memphis, Tennessee – Fruitland Presbyterian Church Burned Down

5. June 26, 2015 – Warrensville, South Carolina – Glover Grove Baptist Church burned down — Cause: Undetermined. WRDW reports that investigators have have “have not been able to determine a cause to that fire, or an exact origin.”

June 26, 2015 - Warrensville, SC - Glover Grove Church Burned Down — June 26, 2015 – Warrensville, SC – Glover Grove Baptist Church Burned Down

6. June 26, 2015 – Tallahassee, Florida – Greater Miracle Temple Apostolic Holiness Church burned down – Cause: Investigators say “lightning strike,” or fire due to “tree limb”

June 26, 2015 - Tallahassee, Florida - Greater Miracle Church Burned Down — June 26, 2015 – Tallahassee, Florida – Greater Miracle Church Burned Down

7. June 27, 2015 – Elyria, Ohio – College Heights Baptist Church burned down – Cause: Unknown, but Chronicle-Telegram states local fire officials ruled out arson

June 27, 2015 - Elyria, Ohio Church Burned Down — June 27, 2015 – Elyria, Ohio – College Heights Baptist Church Burned Down

8. June 30, 2015 – Greeleyville, South Carolina – Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church burned down – Cause: Investigators believe “lightning strike.” WCIV and WLTX report that investigators state the fire was not caused by arson. The Mount Zion AME Church which was previously burned down by members of the Confederate Ku Klux Klan terrorist group Christopher Cox and Timothy Welch in June 1995, 20 years ago, who doused the church’s pews and pulpit with accelerants before setting the century-old house of worship ablaze.

June 30, 2015 - South Carolina - Mount Zion AME Church Burned Down — June 30, 2015 – Greeleyville, South Carolina – Mount Zion AME Church Burned Down

KKK Confederate White Supremacists Cox and Welch - who Burned Down Mount Zion AME Church in 1995 — KKK Confederate White Supremacists Cox and Welch – who Burned Down Mount Zion AME Church in 1995

The history of white supremacist terrorism against churches and other houses of worship should deeply trouble all Americans and those concerned about such church fires. In any other nation in the world, if their were numerous cases of ARSON against a predominantly minority racial religious group in a week, after a terrorist attack on that house of worship, we would view this as an attack on our universal human rights — especially when a terrorist attacks and murders 9 people in such a house of worship the week before.

But these three recent cases of arson may be only the tip of the iceberg in terms of human rights atrocities by white supremacists and Confederates against American houses of worship. How many malicious and uncontrolled fires are we seeing at American religious institutions? The Washington Post reports statistics from the National Fire Protection Association that, “on average, between 2007 and 2011, roughly 180 intentional “not contained” fires per year — over 3 per week — spread and caused damage,” meaning they were “not contained” fires. These are deliberate acts to DESTROY houses of worship at 180 locations.

To ignore the links of terrorist individuals and groups to the destruction of these houses of worship is to ignore the obvious. Certainly, there are people who destroy houses of worship because they are deranged or for other reasons. But a deliberate attack to destroy a house of worship and terrorize a religious identity group is largely an act of terrorism. This is terrorism, regardless of your race, your religious identity, or your location in any part of the United States, and anywhere in the world. No one has a right to commit terrorism.

R.E.A.L. has previously posted about other attacks on American houses of worship, which we have seen too many times. This included attacks on houses of worship by Stormfront supporters and pro-Confederate terrorists Daniel Cowart and his partner Paul Schlesselman, who shot up the African-American Allen Baptist Church in Brownsville, Tennessee and also targeted an attack on 102 Christians in the Beech Grove Church of Christ in Tennessee; Cowart and Schesselman are currently in prison for their terrorism and terrorist plots. Stormfront members, stating they are part of the Confederate States of America (C.S.A.), defended Cowart and Schlesselman’s terrorism on churches, ending with quotes from the Confederate president Jefferson Davis, defending the cause of white supremacy. (The same Jefferson Davis you see highways named after and statutes defended in Richmond and other parts of the south.)

The pro-Confederate, white supremacist Stormfront organization (whose members have been repeatedly linked to terrorism) finds the burning of American churches to be a source of great amusement to them; one Stormfront member mocks the destruction of a church that “Lightning is an “Act of God”, isn’t it?”. This extremist group has members who laugh about the church fires. This includes Stormfront members who mock burning of African-American churches stating that “Obama probably just told them to burn down their own churches so he could funnel them money.” Stormfront members glamorize a box of matches on the racist website, writing “Unless they are used to set White people on fire, then it’s not a hate crime.”

We have reported on the praise by Confederate Stormfront members in the burning of African-American Christian Churches in the United States. Stormfront members finds the burning of American churches to be a source of great amusement to them; one Stormfront member writes “Burn Baby Burn,” regarding such churches while holding a Confederate flag.

Why do the Confederate racists mock such African-American church fires? Because they are convinced they can get AWAY with it, right in plain view of the public, and that the federal authorities will fail to act to stop such racist terrorism. They are convinced that the police in the South are more concerned about paint on the statue of Confederate traitors Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee than about protecting churches attended by African-Americans. So the Confederate racists at Stormfront post photos of matches and laugh about African-American churches burning down.

Yet our federal authorities with the resources of our nation cannot find “hate crime” motives in such contempt for African-Americans and churches across this nation. They need to find the aggressive motivation and organization of those who are determined to bring this to an end, and to publicly pursue such terrorists with the same vigor that other terrorists are pursued.

We would, of course, be rightly outraged at such a human rights crisis when it happens in Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, or any nation with minority houses of worship, which are attacked by terrorist individuals and groups. Human rights activists rightly call for that nation’s government to act to stop such human rights atrocities, in defiance of our universal human rights and the ICCPR. These human rights atrocities are not just a crime in those nations, they are also against INTERNATIONAL LAW.

Certainly, this must be the case in the United States of America as well.

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) calls for the voices of American human rights activists as well as worldwide human rights activists and the United Nations Human Rights Council for action. Given the continuing human rights violations against African-Americans in the United States of America, the failure of consistent application of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 regarding these violations, and a continuing state of intimidation against African-Americans by extremists, we call upon the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to monitor the human rights conditions in the United States of America — associated with institutional intimidation, oppression, and failure to protect houses of worship from acts of terrorism. We call upon the United Nations to monitor this human rights crisis, just as they would any other human rights crisis anywhere else in the world.

The United States government, and especially the state and local governments protecting Confederate white supremacist symbols, need to understand that, in addition to our law, there is international law and international standards, which we must abide to as global citizens.

The position of Responsible for Equality And Liberty on our shared universal human rights is that these rights must be consistent for all, everywhere, all the time. We urge an end to the hate and violence of the past. We call for patriotic Americans to defy those who seek to promote symbols of white supremacist hatred and slavery to degrade and intimidate others.

We urge the United States of America federal government to truly be aggressive and act to end these acts of racist terrorism against African-Americans and African-American churches. The promoters of white supremacist terrorism should not be able to making mocking threats with impunity. Our federal law enforcement needs to enforce the Civil Rights Act and end such threats against African-Americans and those who have fought for their freedoms.

Especially now, as we come on the eve of America’s independence day, defining values that we continue to seek, we call for American patriots to remember the words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

We need to continue to make the American idea and the words of our national declaration into a reality for all people, and be Responsible for Equality And Liberty.

Call for World and United Nations Action on Human Rights Violations against African-Americans

Based on the continuing terrorist attacks on African-American houses of worship and widespread institutional support within the United States of America by some states for symbols of white supremacist violence, the volunteer human rights group Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) calls for global voices of condemnation against such racist terrorism.

We call for the world community, international human rights groups, and the United Nations to actively condemn the recent spree of terrorist attacks on African-American churches resulting in murder and repeated arson, threats, and intimidation of African-Americans. We call for the global voices and those of the United Nations to speak out against the injustice of those extremists seeking to intimidate African-Americans’ freedoms, dignity, and human rights, through the use of violence, threats, and institutional symbols of hatred, slavery, and white supremacist intimidation.

As these attacks and contempt for human rights and dignity of African-Americans must not be acceptable anywhere in the world, so this must also not be acceptable anywhere in the United States of America.

As the American people have spoken out many times for human rights of people around the world, we now call for global voices to also speak out for the human rights of African-Americans and others oppressed by extremists as well as institutional forces in the United States of America.

We call for the voices of American human rights activists, worldwide human rights activists, and the United Nations Human Rights Council to call for human rights action within the United States of America. As the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has stated, “All victims of human rights abuses should be able to look to the Human Rights Council as a forum and a springboard for action.” This must include victims within the United States of America, as well as the rest of the world.

Those individuals and leaders within the United States government, and especially the state and local governments protecting Confederate white supremacist symbols, need to understand that, in addition to the United States law to be upheld, there is international law and international standards, which we must also abide to as global citizens.

Our universal human rights and international laws do not just apply to Africa, Asia, Middle East, South and Central America, Australia, and Europe. They also apply to North America, and certainly to the United States of America, as well as any other nation.

Our universal human rights apply equally to every person in every nation of the world. The law is the law – for everyone in every nation.

We call for this support based on the United States of America as a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It is the responsibility of all government agencies and individuals of the United States of America to abide by and to enforce its own laws as well as such global standards, including those rogue parts of the nation providing institutional promotion of white supremacy, in violation of national and international law. It is also the responsibility of the United Nations to use its offices to fulfill its charter in promoting and protecting human rights.

The continuing human rights violations against African-Americans in the United States of America, the failure of some members of the federal and state governments to apply the Civil Rights Act of 1968 regarding these violations, and a continuing state of intimidation against African-Americans by extremists, deserve the same attention of the world human human rights community and United Nations, as every other attack on our shared universal human rights.

We call upon the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to actively monitor this state of human rights violations in the United States of America, as part of its mission and mandate. “The mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is to work for the protection of all human rights for all people; to help empower people to realize their rights; and to assist those responsible for upholding such rights in ensuring that they are implemented.” The mandate of the OHCHR includes the priorities of “preventing human rights violations, securing respect for all human rights, promoting international cooperation to protect human rights.”

With our human rights group based in the United States, we call for U.N. assistance in the establishment of a specific international monitoring of this human rights crisis in the United States of America, and to provide global support for action to resolve this human rights crisis.

We call for such global human rights monitoring based on the associated institutional intimidation, oppression, and failure to protect houses of worship from acts of terrorism. We call upon the United Nations to monitor this human rights crisis, just as they would any other human rights crisis anywhere else in the world.

The position of Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) on our shared universal human rights is that these rights must be consistent for all, everywhere, all the time, around the world, including the United States of America. We urge the United States of America federal government to aggressively act to end these acts of white supremacist terrorism against African-Americans and African-American churches.

We make this request as a human rights volunteer activists, with a history of challenging such white supremacist extremist and terrorist behavior. We are more than an “interested party;” we have been an active campaigner for such human rights, and we have received threats from white supremacist groups as a result of our support for human rights.

We call for the world community and the United Nations to clearly state that such continued oppression of human rights and such terrorist acts are unacceptable, and will be monitored by the United Nations to make recommendations for the OHCHR to the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council.

We call for the all of the United States of America and the world community to be responsible for equality and liberty.

Founder,
Jeffrey Imm
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)