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Lesbian Couple Charged With Staging Hate Crime

A lesbian couple who claimed they were victims of a hate crime have been arrested... more

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Teens Set Kid on Fire for Being 'White Boy'

A 13-year-old boy who police say was doused with gasoline and lit on fire last week... more

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Florida man allegedly beaten by black men shouting 'Trayvon'

Police in Gainesville, Florida, are investigating what they believe to be a... more

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Tulsa Rampage! Is it way too early to call this a hate crime?

Two white men are arrested in the shooting deaths of three black people in Oklahoma... more

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Sanford cop's son assaults homeless man, not arrested

until this video came out, and made national news. This was a year ago, by the way.... more

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'Good Christian Bitches' - A Hate Crime Against Christians?

Nearly 60 nations are governed by the Jewish Anti-Defamation League’s hate crime... more

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Westboro Baptist Church at it Again

I have never been much to "hate" anyone it is not in my nature or demographics but i can say regarding this group of people i do hate what they are about. I do not hate them as individuals or people but the mentality they live is really vain towards anyone.

It led me to ponder what exactly are they trying to accomplish since nearly 80% of people with there head screwed on correctly disagrees with the beliefs and structure they have, is it some form of bad publicity to gain attention for there church? Is it some sort of marketing angle to people who are anti this and anti that so they get more followers?

I have seen groups who protest against things but they are "at least professional" about how they protest and or nature of the cause, as for these people they will protest, picket and disrupt everything does not even matter about what they are protesting about. Why would anyone protest a funeral?

I am gay and i can see them protesting like a pride parade secluded into there own little barricaded area and ranting and raving, that is always going to be around that will never change and frankly 100% of people at pride parades or at festivals is just going to snap photos with them, and or ignore them and some will have counter protests against them but really it is not being effective in regards to counter protests since you are just letting them "win" they are bugging your mentality and ego, no one really wins when it comes to protesters, or it would depend on the protest itself on the nature of the case.

I was reading over a couple news articles about how they wanted to picket the deaths of the students at that school in ohio and also the tornado victims in the midwest. That is where i cannot fathom or come to the conclusion on why? Just to come hold up some signs that say god hates fags, or god kill more or other discriminatory signs that are just pointless at a funeral.

I am all for freedom of religion and i feel it should be looked at as a "luxury" especially in the world we live in. Freedom of Religion and also Freedom of speech should come with some guidelines i think. Technically they are committing a hate crime in regards to demographics, lifestyles and also protesting funerals. They should be on the FBI radar for hate groups and shut down. There funding should be pulled and also they should go to jail or prison due to the nature of this group and the hate against everything. Its not about freedom of speech or freedom of religion anyone can get a 501(c)3 and register as a non profit church or organization but that does not really count the motives on what they are really doing.

Lets put this into prospective it would be like when african americans went through slavery and also had no civil rights back in the days. Someone could create a non profit church and picket black people, god hates blacks or anything else to that nature does not matter the race, color, creed or demographics they just hate everyone.

I think they should be charged with being a hate group, go to prison and also church status be revoked and if they are getting federal or state funding it should be removed as well.I have never been much to "hate" anyone it is not in my nature or... more

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Lesbians Assault Gay Man, Get Hate Crime Charges

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GOP TEA PARTY's New Target (demonizing) The Girl Scouts of America.

I guess it's the GIRL in "Girl Scouts" that is behind this new GOP... more

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Teen Pleads Guilty to Killing Gay Teen | Sentenced to 21 Years

Los Angeles Times... . In plea deal, youth gets 21 years for killing gay teen... more

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Transgender Murder: 498 Years Ago This Month

On this month, 498 years ago: Vasco discovered that the village of Quarequa was... more

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"Reverse Racism": A Sad Misnomer for a Tragic Mississippi Murder

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Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S.

The man accused of the killing spree in Norway was deeply influenced by a small group of American bloggers and writers who have warned for years about the threat from Islam, lacing his 1,500-page manifesto with quotations from them, as well as copying multiple passages from the tract of the Unabomber.

In the document he posted online, Anders Behring Breivik, who is accused of bombing government buildings and killing scores of young people at a Labor Party camp, showed that he had closely followed the acrimonious American debate over Islam.

His manifesto, which denounced Norwegian politicians as failing to defend the country from Islamic influence, quoted Robert Spencer, who operates the Jihad Watch Web site, 64 times, and cited other Western writers who shared his view that Muslim immigrants pose a grave danger to Western culture.

More broadly, the mass killings in Norway, with their echo of the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by an antigovernment militant, have focused new attention around the world on the subculture of anti-Muslim bloggers and right-wing activists and renewed a debate over the focus of counterterrorism efforts.

In the United States, critics have asserted that the intense spotlight on the threat from Islamic militants has unfairly vilified Muslim Americans while dangerously playing down the threat of attacks from other domestic radicals. The author of a 2009 Department of Homeland Security report on right-wing extremism withdrawn by the department after criticism from conservatives repeated on Sunday his claim that the department had tilted too heavily toward the threat from Islamic militants.

The revelations about Mr. Breivik’s American influences exploded on the blogs over the weekend, putting Mr. Spencer and other self-described “counterjihad” activists on the defensive, as their critics suggested that their portrayal of Islam as a threat to the West indirectly fostered the crimes in Norway.

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The Silence In Oslo - Aftermath Of Terrorism - July 25th | Newstalgia

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Norway Shooting and Bomb Attack Leaves at Least 92 Dead

The Norwegian man charged Saturday with a pair of attacks in Oslo that killed at least 92 people left behind a detailed manifesto outlining his preparations and calling for a Christian war to defend Europe against the threat of Muslim domination, according to Norwegian and American officials familiar with the investigation.

As stunned Norwegians grappled with the deadliest attack in the country since World War II, a portrait began to emerge of the suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, 32. The police identified him as a right-wing fundamentalist Christian, while acquaintances described him as a gun-loving Norwegian obsessed with what he saw as the threats of multiculturalism and Muslim immigration.

“We are not sure whether he was alone or had help,” a police official, Roger Andresen, said at a televised news conference. “What we know is that he is right wing and a Christian fundamentalist.”

In the 1,500-page manifesto, posted on the Web hours before the attacks, Mr. Breivik recorded a day-by-day diary of months of planning for the attacks, and claimed to be part of a small group that intended to “seize political and military control of Western European countries and implement a cultural conservative political agenda.”

He predicted a conflagration that would kill or injure more than a million people, adding, “The time for dialogue is over. We gave peace a chance. The time for armed resistance has come.”

The manifesto was signed Andrew Berwick, an Anglicized version of his name. A former American government official briefed on the case said investigators believed the manifesto was Mr. Breivik’s work.

The manifesto, entitled “2083: A European Declaration of Independence,” equates liberalism and multiculturalism with “cultural Marxism,” which the document says is destroying European Christian civilization.

The document also describes a secret meeting in London in April 2002 to reconstitute the Knights Templar, a Crusader military order. It says the meeting was attended by nine representatives of eight European countries, evidently including Mr. Breivik, with an additional three members unable to attend, including a “European-American.”

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From the Community: Flooding in Nebraska, drought in Africa and hate crimes

We're taking a look at some of the most popular stories from the Current community, and we've rounded up some highlights to share. Check them out and add your two cents:
Officials Monitoring Rising Floodwaters at Nebraska Nuclear PlantsSubmitted by EthicalVegan
With floodwaters in the midwest rising, officials say that two Nebraska nuclear power plants have protected critical equipment from the floods.

The utility has set up a "flood rumor control" page to reassure the public that there has been no release of radioactivity from the plant. An electrical fire June 7 did knock out cooling to its spent fuel storage pool for about 90 minutes, but the coolant water did not reach a boiling point before backup pumps went into service, it said.

East Africa: Severe drought due to climate change killing animals and a way of lifeSubmitted by JanforGore
The increased frequency of droughts in East Africa is producing devastating consequences.

East Africans are no strangers to drought conditions. Traditionally, the rains here have failed around once a decade, giving communities time to build up emergency stocks and to restore the condition of their livestock on the good years. But for the past decade, droughts have been coming more regularly.
The people here reckon the rains fail one year in every two now; consecutive failings, like this one, have the potential to totally destroy the herds upon which they rely.
With their prime assets gone, they lose both their source of food, and their sole source of income. Their nomadic lifestyle prevents them from growing crops; the animals they graze are their only means to survive. Now it appears that climate change is robbing them of that livelihood.

6 NYC teens charged with murder as hate crimeSubmitted by KB723
Six New York City teens have been charged with murder as a hate crime after the beating and stomping of an 18-year-old man they assumed was gay.

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said Thursday the defendants were each charged in a 21-count indictment that includes second-degree murder as a hate crime. Brown said the charges were upgraded after new evidence from witnesses.

Join the discussion -- or head over to the News group for more popular stories from the community.We're taking a look at some of the most popular stories from the... more

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Gay Bowler Beaten - Assault At the Alley | Gay Blog, Gay Friendly, Gay News

more hate in the world.. will it ever end?

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Defending the Rights of the LGBTQ Community

The Department of Justice’s Office of Victims of Crime has released a grant... more

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McDonalds Employees Encourage and Videotape the Beating of a Trans Woman in Their Franchise

You’re working the night shift at McDonald's handing out hamburgers. A... more

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11-Year-Old Arrested For Threatening His Own Bullies | Gay Blog Unicorn Booty: Gay Friendly Beyond

this kinda shit happens every day.. lets make it stop.

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