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Matthew Hoy
By Matthew Hoy on April 10, 2002

Told you so! As reported on OpinionJournal.com's "Best of the Web Today," the Southern Poverty Law Center says that Muslim extremists are finding common cause with their brothers-in-arms -- the Ku Klux Klan.

The peculiar bond between white nationalist groups and certain Muslim extremists derives in part from a shared set of enemies Jews, the United States, race-mixing, ethnic diversity. It is also very much a function of the shared belief that they must shield their own peoples from the corrupting influence of foreign cultures and the homogenizing juggernaut of globalization. Both sets of groups also have a penchant for far-flung conspiracy theories that caricature Jewish power. . . .

Over the years, these contacts between Nazis and Muslim nationalists developed into dangerous networks that have been implicated in a number of bloody terrorist attacks in Europe and the Middle East. Wealthy Arab regimes have financed extremists in Europe and the United States, just as Western neo-Nazis have helped to build Holocaust denial machinery in the Arab world. In the 1970s, Saudi Arabia hired an American neo-Nazi as a lobbyist in the United States. In the 1980s, U.S. neo-Nazi strategist Louis Beam openly called for a linkup of America's far right with the "liberation movements" of Libya, Syria, Iran and Palestine.

Well, scroll back down to Saturday, and you'll find this little piece of wisdom.

I also fear that if the Muslim community continues to praise terrorism. If it continues to support suicide bombers. If it continues to teach its children hatred. It will soon find itself shunned from the majority of American society much like the Ku Klux Klan. This kind of vicious hatred only serves to marginalize the Muslim community.

Of course, what passes for Muslim extremists nowadays? Well, Ibrahim Hooper of the "mainstream" Council on American-Islamic Relations is considered by many to be representative of many of the Muslims in the United States. How does he react to reports that Saudi Arabia has set aside $50 million for the families of suicide bombers?

According to Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Washington-based Council on American Islamic Relations, the Islamic faith enjoins Muslims to take care of widows and especially orphans. The families of suicide bombers are just as needy as those killed by military attacks, he said.

"They want to make it sound like (all the money is for) the families of suicide bombers," Hooper told United Press International.

American Muslims need to denounce suicide bombings as a bargaining tool in the Middle East. They aren't doing it, and their refusal is not conducive to goodwill toward Muslims here in the United States.

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