Mark Potok
Mark Potok
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What we are seeing is there is a lot of anger out there about the failure of the government to resolve the immigration crisis.
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The people blocking buses in Murrieta, California, didn't come from radical groups, they were everyday Americans who were perfectly willing to frighten those children
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I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.
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I don't mean to diminish their activities. They've caused huge property damage and there is very little question they will kill someone these days.
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I don't think there's anything thus far to suggest a hate crime.
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I don't see any evidence that these fires are hate crimes. Anti-Christian crimes are exceedingly rare in the South. It's more likely to be teenagers or a mentally ill person.
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I don't see any evidence that these fires are hate crimes.
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The notion of radical Islamists from abroad actually getting together with American neo-Nazis I think is an absolutely frightening one, ... It's just that so far we really have no evidence at all to suggest this is any kind of real collaboration.
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It's very likely they didn't have direct or public connections to hate groups. It's very likely this was a troubled young man who was attracted to images of power.
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From the beginning, Phelps' group has been the single most vicious anti-gay group in America, bar none.
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meeting with extremist anti-government groups and inoculating them against anthrax.