From Huffington Post:

But at Arlington last Monday, one group of demonstrators came out to counter-protest the WBC, catching national media attention as they handed out American flags to passersby and denounced the WBC’s actions.

They were members of the KKK, the most well-known hate group in American history.

Dennis LaBonte, a self-identified “Imperial Wizard” of the KKK who was present at the counter-protests, told CNN that he is not a “hate-monger” and it’s an “absolute shame” that the WBC pickets at military funerals. A CNN video of the proceedings went viral, leaving many to wonder: what exactly is going on here? Since when does the KKK protest against other hate groups?

“Maybe [Lebonte] was on the way to a peace gardening party and got confused,” Alexandra Petri wrote in the Washington Post after seeing the video. “There must be some reason, because protesting against hatred seems wildly out of character. Maybe they’re going through some sort of midlife crisis.”

What makes this so strange is that this isn’t the first time the Klan leadership has come out against what it calls “hate.” Here is a story about their repudiating Terry Jones’ burning of the Koran:

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.

If the Ku Klux Klan is trying to rebrand itself (just saying that sentence is beyond strange), what on earth is it trying to rebrand itself as? An anti-hate group that just happens to have a history in which terrorizing minorities was their literal motus operandi?

Very strange.