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In His Firing from ACT for America, Roy White Continues Anti-Muslim Campaign With New Group
From the article:
Less than two months after his firing from ACT for America—the largest grassroots anti-Muslim organization in the country—Lt. Col. Roy White continues his demonization of Muslims under a new banner: The Patriots of San Antonio....
Whatever the name of White’s new organization may be, his speech in March clearly indicates that he intends to be even more radical than he was with his previous organization, which is quite disturbing considering the hateful rhetoric and actions ACT for America has pushed for the last decade. And if Wednesday’s invited guest speaker Amil Imani is any indication, White’s crusade against Islam shows no signs of letting up.
“What aspects of Islam do you find most problematic and disturbing?” Imani asked on a post to his website in 2013. “To answer this question properly, volumes can be written. Just a few keywords should cue you for now. Intolerance, fatalism, institutionalized slavery, injustice, jihadism, oppression of women and non-Muslims, celebration of death, lack of respect for individualism, rejection of freedom and democracy … ”
Whatever the name of White’s new organization may be, his speech in March clearly indicates that he intends to be even more radical than he was with his previous organization, which is quite disturbing considering the hateful rhetoric and actions ACT for America has pushed for the last decade. And if Wednesday’s invited guest speaker Amil Imani is any indication, White’s crusade against Islam shows no signs of letting up.
“What aspects of Islam do you find most problematic and disturbing?” Imani asked on a post to his website in 2013. “To answer this question properly, volumes can be written. Just a few keywords should cue you for now. Intolerance, fatalism, institutionalized slavery, injustice, jihadism, oppression of women and non-Muslims, celebration of death, lack of respect for individualism, rejection of freedom and democracy … ”
Beating the drum of intolerance. To read more:
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/04/11/his-firing-act-america-roy-white-continues-anti-muslim-campaign-new-group?utm_campaign=HW%20Newsletter%2004122017&utm_medium=email&utm_source=EOACLK
