Ku Klux Klan Says It Doesn’t Condone Tea Party or Koran Burning
A clear sign that perhaps you’ve gone off the deep end? When even the Ku Klux Klan tries to distance itself from your actions.
According to some little noticed 2010 press releases on the KKK’s main website, which turned up this week on Reddit, it seems as if America’s most famous hate group is actually very concerned about being mistakenly lumped in with other zealots on the right, including Koran-burning churches, the Westboro Baptists, and the Tea Party.
In one statement from August 2010, the Klan had this (shockingly reasonable thing) to say about Terry Jones, the Florida pastor whose Koran burning set off a massacre at a U.N. building in Afghanistan in early April this year:
There are without doubt Islamic sects that teach extreme views of Islam but, going down to their level of hatred by burning their books is a dangerous and ignorant way to confront their teachings. The flames made by such unholy fires never die out! The Ku Klux Klan, LLC. opposes this most un-American thinking and activity.
