The original Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was founded on December 24, 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee by some former officers of the Confederate Army. Its name came from the Greek word for circle: kuklos. But by the early 1870’s, the KKK had largely faded away.
The rebirth of the KKK happened in 1915 at the hands of William J. Simmons. Simmons had been born in 1880 and grew up on his father’s farm in Central Alabama. He later said that his father “was an officer of the old Klan in Alabama back in the 60’s”; Simmons also said that he “was always fascinated by Klan stories.”[1]
William Simmons enlisted in the United States Army and fought in the 1898 Spanish-American war. He returned to civilian life and became a circuit minister for the Methodist Church South. In 1912, the Alabama Methodist Conference denied him a pulpit and he returned to the secular world. He soon began a successful career with the Woodmen of the World, a fraternal organization that sold life insurance, annuities, and other investment products. This career led him to Atlanta, Georgia.
In 1915, while recovering from an automobile accident, Simmons completed the formulation for the rebirth of the KKK. On the night of November 25, 1915, Simmons and a group of men climbed to the top of Stone Mountain, located outside Atlanta. They took with them a large wooden cross that had been soaked in kerosene. Simmons lit the cross and became the Imperial Wizard of the new KKK.
One of those present that night provided this description of the event:
The ceremony began around an altar made of stones brought by each clansman [sic]. On this altar was erected the fiery cross in the halo of whose light the men with uncovered heads assumed the oath of the klan and upon bended knees were dedicated with pure water to the service of country, homes and humanity. On the altar were placed a silk flag of the United States that was carried in the Battle of Buena Vista in the Mexican war, a copy of the Bible, the Constitution of the United States, the Declaration of Independence and the constitution and laws of the clan [sic].[2]
Simmons would later have this to say about that night:
The angels that have anxiously watched the reformation from its beginnings…must have hovered about Stone Mountain and shouted hosannas to the highest heavens.”[3]
The KKK was not only reborn under Simmons, but there were some interesting aspects of this new KKK that seem to indicate that Simmons had been influenced to varying degrees by Islam.
Both are led by a Prophet
Islam considers Muhammad to be the final prophet of Allah, whose status as a prophet began in 610 AD when he claimed he had received his first “revelation” from Allah while he was in the Cave of Hira outside of Mecca.
Simmons made a similar claim in terms of receiving a revelation. Here is how he briefly explained his revelation:
On horseback in their white robes they rode across the wall in front of me. As the picture faded out I got down on my knees and swore that I would found a fraternal organization that would be a memorial to the Ku Klux Klan.[4]
It was later written that:
In discussing his life with his friends, and when in a reminiscent mood, Colonel Simmons expresses his belief that it may be possible that a higher power took him from the four distinct phases of activity into which he had previously entered, and finally forced him into his present work as head of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan…[5]
And at one time Simmons had even described himself as
He who traversed the Realm of the Unknown, wrested the solemn secret from the grasp of night and became Sovereign Master of the great lost mystery.[6]
And in explaining his position as Imperial Wizard, he wrote that in this position he was
The Emperor of the Invisible Empire; a wise man; a wonder-worker, having power to charm and control…[7]
In a 1925 article, in a section titled “The Preacher Becomes Prophet,” Frank Bohn provided this assessment of Simmons:
Rev. Simmons must be placed with that prophetic group of American religionists which has probably given our country, during the past century, more ardent exponents of new and startling religious ideas…[8]
And later in that same article, Bohn referred to Simmons as “our prophet” and presented a more colorful description of Simmons’ “revelation”:
One day, about ten years ago, our prophet was seated on a bench outside the door of his cottage. Without premonition of any sort he suddenly beheld a vision. What he saw on that occasion was not to be quickly forgotten. The sky was overhung with light mackerel clouds, showing the deep blue beyond. Suddenly, to the eye of the seer, the clouds reshaped themselves and moved rapidly across the sky. Their aspect now presented the form of a vast army of warriors, superbly mounted and robed and hooded in white. Their steeds were garmented in similar fashion. It was the Ku Klux Klan, reborn and re-animated by a high and holy purpose, returning to save America from “un-American elements”; to save the white man’s civilization around the whole world from being undermined and finally dominated by the various colored and heathen races.[9]
Both have Sacred Books: Koran/Kloran
It is widely understood that the sacred book of Islam is the Koran (this is the spelling of that book that was especially common in the 19th Century[10]). Simmons created a “sacred book” for the KKK that he named the Kloran. In his “Imperial Decree” at the front of the Kloran, Simmons wrote:
The Kloran is “THE book” of the Invisible Empire, and is therefore a sacred book with our citizens and its contents MUST be rigidly safeguarded and its teachings honestly respected. The book or any part of it MUST not be kept or carried where any person of the “alien” world may chance to become acquainted with its sacred contents as such.[11]
So Simmons ordered that the Kloran must be protected from allowing any person who was not a member of the KKK to learn about its contents.
We find a similar order from Muhammad:
It has been narrated on the authority of ‘Abdullah b. ‘Umar that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used to forbid that one who travels to the land of the enemy taking the Qur’an (with him) lest it should fall into the hands of the enemy.[12]
There is an irony in Simmons’ Imperial Decree. In 1916-1917 Simmons applied for copyright protection of the Kloran and sent two copies of the Kloran to the United States Registrar of Copyrights. As a result, the Kloran became available to anyone in the public reading room of the Library of Congress, and newspaper reporters eventually started writing about the contents of the Kloran.
Both have pilgrimages
In Islam there are two different pilgrimages made to Mecca. The first is the Hajj, which is one of the Five Pillars of Islam and is required for Muslims to make at least once in a lifetime. The other pilgrimage is the Umrah, which is recommended, but not obligatory.
Simmons established a pilgrimage for Klan members, and even likened it to the Hajj or Umrah. He wrote that once a year Klan members from all over the country make “a pilgrimage to Stone Mountain”:[13]
To this mountain boulder of solid granite the Klan resorts for comradeship and consecration. The pilgrimage is not unlike that conjectured by a noble and worthy order which takes it initiates to the far East, travels them through the unmarked desert, over blistering sands, and under a sky of brass, while the breath of the winds is like that of a furnace, scorching the weary pilgrims as step by step they fight on to the Mecca.[14]
Why is the pilgrimage to Stone Mountain similar to travelling over “blistering sands” and enduring “winds like that of a furnace”? Simmons gave this description of the mountain:
It is a huge boulder compacted into solid granite and thrown up, ages ago, by some terrific convulsion. The stone is three miles in circumference and something more than a mile in altitude by the trail leading to its summit. Its frowning and forbidding front is scant of foliage. Soil which the winds have brought and deposited in its crevices and on its craggy sides has no deepness. Adventurous shrubs and trees that have sprung up from time to time have been beaten back by sun and storm because they had no anchorage in the earth. To this mountain boulder of solid granite the Klan resorts for comradeship and consecration.[15]
Both have unique calendars
The Muslim calendar is lunar-based. The first year of the Muslim calendar began in 622 AD, the year the small Muslim community emigrated from Mecca to Medina; this emigration was known as the Hijrah. Instead of using “AD,” the Muslim calendar in English uses “AH” which stands for the Latin term Anno Hegirae (Year of the Hijrah).
Simmons took a similar approach to creating a specific KKK calendar using the term “Anno Klan” or “AK,” the “year of the clan.”[16] The first year of this Klan calendar started with the founding of the KKK in 1865. For example, Simmons’ Imperial Decree in 1916 ended with:
…this the 26th day of June, Anno Domini Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen, Anno Klan L.[17]
This dating system was also used by Simmons later in a 1922 edition of the Constitution and Bylaws of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan:
This the 29th day of November, Anno Domini, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-two, Anno Klan LVI.[18]
Both have successors to the leader: Caliph/Klaliff
Caliph comes from the Arabic word Khaliffah, and it means successor; in Islam it originally referred to the first four successors to Muhammad: Abu Bakr, ‘Umar, ‘Uthman, and Ali.
Simmons wrote that in the KKK the Klaliff is a “vice-president” and considered a “successor in office.”[19] The “Imperial Klaliff” would temporarily take over as leader of the entire KKK should the Imperial Wizard die or step down.[20]
Both prohibit innovation
In his 1916 Imperial Decree Simmons wrote, with regard to the Kloran, that “No innovation will be tolerated.”[21]
Similarly, Muhammad had also prohibited innovation; he said:
The most truthful speech is Allah’s Speech, and the best guidance is the guidance of Muhammad. The worst matters are the newly invented (in religion), every newly invented matter is an innovation, and every innovation is a heresy, and every heresy is in the Fire.[22]
And
Narrated ‘Aishah: Allah’s Messenger said, “If somebody innovates something which is not present in our religion (of Islamic Monotheism), then that thing will be rejected.[23]
The Star and Crescent
The star and crescent symbol has been used by different cultures over many thousand years. This symbol first became affiliated with Islam during the Ottoman Empire. There are conflicting reports about why and when this symbol was adopted by the Ottomans, with some claiming that it was a symbol used by the Turks long before converting to Islam (largely in the 10th and 11th Centuries), and others claiming that it was adopted by the Ottomans shortly before or at the time of the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 AD.[24]
The star and crescent symbol appeared to play a role in both the original KKK and in the rebirth of the KKK.
For example, in 1866 Klansman J. Brunson posed for a photograph in which he was wearing a red and white robe and hood; on the left front of his robe was a crescent above a five-pointed star.[25]
With the rebirth of the KKK, Simmons talked about the “Ku Klux Spirit” which he claimed had fostered freedom and fought tyranny. He talked about an organization that “was one of the first recorded manifestations of the ‘Ku Klux Spirit’”:
Before the great Persian Empire was created there was an organization formed for the purpose of enforcing justice. It worked secretly, and it was impelled by the intolerable conditions surrounding conduct of the courts to reverse numerous decisions in which there was open and brazen miscarriage of justice. Its emblem was the star and crescent —symbolic of the sovereignty of justice.[26]
Given the vagueness of Simmons’ description of this “organization,” and the somewhat ubiquitous historical occurrence of the star and crescent symbol, it is hard to determine to which organization Simmons was referring. But given the other similarities mentioned above, it should not be surprising that Simmons spoke highly of the star and crescent.
Conclusion
The Ku Klux Klan is often considered to be the quintessential white supremacist organization. It is somewhat ironic then that such an organization has some interesting connections to the “noble and worthy order” of Islam.
Dr. Stephen M. Kirby is the author of five books about Islam. His latest book is The Lure of Fantasy Islam: Exposing the Myths and Myth Makers.
[1] David M. Chalmers, Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan, 3rd Edition (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987), p. 28.
[2] “Ku Klux Klan seen in Georgia,” Natchez News-Democrat, November 30, 1915, p. 1. The Battle of Buena Vista was fought in February 1847 when an American force under the command of General Zachary Taylor was surrounded by a Mexican force three times its size; the Mexicans were led by General Santa Ana. Relying heavily on artillery support, the Americans were able to drive off the Mexican force.
[3] DeNeen L. Brown, “The preacher who used Christianity to revive the Ku Klux Klan,” The Washington Post, April 8, 2018; accessible at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/04/08/the-preacher-who-used-christianity-to-revive-the-ku-klux-klan/?utm_term=.11ea97a6c2f7.
[4] Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan, p. 28.
[5] Winfield Jones, Story of the Ku Klux Klan (American Newspaper Syndicate: Washington DC, 1921), p. 61.
[6] Charles O. Jackson, “William J. Simmons: A Career In Ku Kluxism,” The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 4 (December, 1966), pp. 363-364.
[7] Kloran, p. 53. Copies of the Kloran can be purchased at various online sites. A copy is also available at http://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/WiscKKK/RiverFalls/KlanEphem/reference/wi.klanephem.i0004.pdf.
[8] Frank Bohn, “The Ku Klux Klan Interpreted,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 4, January 1925, p. 393.
[9] “The Ku Klux Klan Interpreted,” pp. 394-395.
[10] In the 19th Century the transliteration of Islam’s sacred book was spelled Koran; see Mohammed Amin, Koran, Qur’an or Quran and Moslem or Muslim?, October 24, 2017; accessible at https://www.mohammedamin.com/Community_issues/Koran-or-Quran.html.
[11] Kloran, p. 5.
[12] Abu’l Hussain ‘Asakir-ud-Din Muslim bin Hajjaj al-Qushayri al-Naisaburi, Sahih Muslim, trans. ‘Abdul Hamid Siddiqi (New Delhi, India: Adam Publishers and Distributors, 2008), Vol. 6, No. 1869R1, p. 270.
[13] William Joseph Simmons, The Klan Unmasked, (Atlanta: Wm. E. Thompson Publishing Company, 1923), p. 97.
[14] The Klan Unmasked, p. 98.
[15] The Klan Unmasked, pp. 97-98.
[16] Kloran, p. 53.
[17] Kloran, p. 6. The original KKK was founded on December 24, 1865, so Simmons was writing in the 50th year of the Klan’s existence and used the Roman Numeral “L,” meaning 50: AK L.
[18] Constitution and Bylaws of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, p. 6, accessible at https://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/constitutionlawsknights.pdf.
[19] Kloran, pp. 4 and 53.
[20] Constitution and Bylaws of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, p. 25.
[21] Kloran, p. 5.
[22] Abu al-Fida’ ‘Imad Ad-Din Isma’il bin ‘Umar bin Kathir al-Qurashi Al-Busrawi, Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged), abr. Shaykh Safiur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, trans. Jalal Abualrub, et al. (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2000), Vol. 2, p. 588.
[23] Muhammad bin Ismail bin Al-Mughirah al-Bukhari, Sahih Al-Bukhari, trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 1997), Vol. 3, Book 53, No. 2697, p. 505.
[24] E.g.: 1) Origin of the Star and Crescent!, July 8, 2016, accessible at http://www.ascertainthetruth.com/att/index.php/al-islam/answering-the-critics/1521-origin-of-the-star-and-crescent; 2) History of the Star and Crescent, June 22, 2017, accessible at https://steemit.com/history/@mand/history-of-the-star-and-crescent; 3) A History of the Crescent Moon in Islam, September 12, 2018, accessible at https://www.thoughtco.com/the-crescent-moon-a-symbol-of-islam-2004351; and 4) History of Jihad against the Turks (650 – 1050), accessible at http://www.historyofjihad.org/turkey.html.
[25] Rare Ku Klux Klan KKK Original Robe Postcard; accessible at
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/51542744_rare-ku-klux-klan-kkk-original-robe-postcard. This picture can also be found at Old Post Cards Ku Klux Klan of Giles County (https://gilestn.genealogyvillage.com/postcard/kkk01.htm#robe), and The University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries, Original Ku Klux Costume (https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/volvoices%3A3866).
[26] Story of the Ku Klux Klan, p. 65.
Krishna says
Christianity played more role in formation of kkk
CogitoErgoSum says
How so? Could you please explain?
Krishna says
I know KKK wasn’t real Christianity but KKK did use some Christian teachings to justify their racism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/04/08/the-preacher-who-used-christianity-to-revive-the-ku-klux-klan/
Raja says
Krishna, With all due respect to you the word Christianity is not found in the Bible nor was it ever used by Christ. On the contrary, Christ famously set the rules for the separation of state and the Church through a parable Some evil / pathetically ill-informed people coined the idea of Church’s authority over all men including the state, the fruit of which has produced a pope who is still into constant realpolitik.
eduardo odraude says
The question raised by Krishna’s comment is whether the formation of the KKK has any connection with Christ’s teachings and if so, was that connection deeper than the connection between Islamic teachings and the KKK.
Christ’s teachings clearly have no relationship to the teachings of the KKK, except perhaps for entirely superficial aspects. For one thing, Christ made religion transcend ties of blood or race, and rejected earthly power and authority. The KKK obviously sought to impose authority by force and violence. In that respect, the KKK is clearly in tune with the religion of Islam.
gravenimage says
True, Eduardo.
jule says
Thanks for the obvious reminder.
Dan M says
ah….no.
But nice try. In fact it was the Christians that were the abolitionists, and who ended slavery.
Not to mention the fact that you won’t find anything in Christianity that supports what the KKK did.
I think you meant to say the Democrat party.
strats4ever says
“I think you meant to say the Democrat party.”
Exactly, the rebirth of the KKK was due to a DemocRAT president showing clan propaganda (ie. Birth of a Nation – formerly The Clansman) at the White House – first movie shown.
Prior to that the clan was dead and a local phenomenon. Wilson revived it and it to spread from sea to sea.
jule says
Confederats made the Klan.
jule says
Re-Read his article. I Thank this site for clearing up the identity of KKKlan (Kloran) and its similarity to Islam. Neither belong in USA as neither follow our Bill of Rights or Constitution. Same with nazigroups who persecute and want to segregate just as Islam does. They are all in the same bag of anti-freedom and Universal Human Rights. (someone needs to explain this to splc And aclu….I always wondered why they pretend not to understand. Is it donors? money? infiltration?
Krishna says
I read the article
What I came to say is apart from Islam even KKK had some Christian influence and misused Christianity for creating racial identity
gravenimage says
Christianity does not teach racism, though of course some Christians have been racist.
And most of the Klan’s African American victims were also Christian.
Fran says
Not true.. Even if you want to believe that, it was the People who claim to be Christians and still worship in paganism.. In other words.. Those against Christianity and mock Jesus can all be called KKK
eduardo odraude says
Wow. Did not know this about the link between the KKK and Islam. The strongest points Kirby makes seem to be the KKK’s “Kloran” and “Klaliff.”
Obviously, Islam and the KKK are different in important ways. But the connection Kirby points out does exemplify how violent authoritarians feel attracted to Islam. Hitler was another example of an admirer of Islam’s authoritarian and warlike qualities.
gravenimage says
+1
eduardo odraude says
Even if one supposes that all religions are pure tissues of fantasy, a religious paradigm, depending on its content, may lead to open societies, or to authoritarian societies.
Here’s an example (many more key differences exist) of the contrast between Islam and Christianity on this score. Muhammad and Allah threaten hell for innovation, but John 14:12 shows Jesus saying others will come who will do greater works than he has done:
Compare that with John 14:12:
There are various other reasons that, even if all religions are pure fantasy, Islam leads to closed societies, while Christianity and the other major religions lead to or are far more compatible with open societies.
gravenimage says
+1
Elisha says
John 14:12 is a reference to the future indwelling of the Holy Spirit, after Pentecost.
https://biblehub.com/commentaries/john/14-12.htm
To illustrate this, we, for instance, have the advantage of using a computer to do calculations way faster than Isaac Newton did 300 years ago. It is the power to do spiritual works.
There is only one truth and that is what Jesus Christ revealed as God in the flesh. To know this merely requires courage and humility, ie a sincere desire in one’s heart:
“And you will seek Me and find Me, when you SEARCH for Me WITH ALL YOUR HEART.” – Jeremiah 29:13
“The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
I, the Lord, SEARCH THE HEART,
I test the mind,
Even to give every man according to his ways,
According to the fruit of his doings … O Lord, the hope of Israel,
All who forsake You shall be ashamed.
Those who depart from Me
Shall be written in the earth,
Because they have forsaken the Lord,
The fountain of living waters.” – Jeremiah 17:9-10,13
The Lord is near to all who call upon Him,
To all who CALL UPON HIM IN TRUTH. – Psalm 145:18
But He gives more grace. Therefore He says:
“God RESISTS THE PROUD,
But GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.” – James 4:6
But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, BECAUSE THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED. – 1 Corinthians 2:10-14
Please consider:
https://bibleevidences.com/science/
https://creation.com/the-creation-answers-book-index
http://www.jasonlisle.com/about-lisle/
Chris Coppenbarger says
There’s also similar comparisons between the Mormon church and Islam. Also a fascinating study.
eduardo odraude says
No doubt. But the Mormons make excellent citizens of an open, free society. They do not seek to impose an authoritarian system. Thus in the most essential matters, Mormonism is quite distinct from Islam.
Chris Coppenbarger says
Are you sure about that? Why did they seek to establish their own “nation” in the 1800’s? Why did they commit terrorist tactics in the early days? They have a founder who had “dreams” and “visions” and wrote down a book from a set of golden tablets that are in whatever their version of “heaven” is. You might want to a little more research on Mormonism before stating how “different” they are from Islam. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were very violent leaders.
StellaSaidSo says
And the practice of polygamy continues in some Mormon communities.
gravenimage says
The Mormons make good citizens–*now*. But early on they not only engaged in polygamy and child marriage but also murdered apostates.
And founder Joseph Smith said he would “be a second Mohammed to this generation”.
Mainstream Mormons no longer practice polygamy–but some ugly fringe sects not recognized by the main church continue to do so.
eduardo odraude says
Do any of you think that Islam could integrate itself cooperatively into an open, free society as easily as Mormonism did?
No? I didn’t think so.
It’s fine to criticize Mormonism or any religion. But the big picture should be kept in view. Mormonism adapted to freedom relatively quickly and easily because it has far more freedom-supportive strands within its traditions than does Islam. I don’t see Islam having that capacity, because Islam is totalitarian to the core.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Eduardo and thebigW.
Indiana Tom says
It was the Ku Klux Klan, reborn and re-animated by a high and holy purpose, returning to save America from “un-American elements”; to save the white man’s civilization around the whole world from being undermined and finally dominated by the various colored and heathen races.[9]
Sounds more like Mormonism to me. Analyzing the Mormon beliefs. one finds that the more sinful the race, the darker they become. If dark skinned savages repent and read the Book of Mormon, Pearl of Great Price and the Doctrine and Covenants; they become white and delightsome.
Yeah, my cousin converted to Mormonism which is a very racist religion.
cornelius says
An article like this only feeds the arguments of our enemies….that we are right-wing, conspiracy nuts. Islam has enough factual pathologies for us to use in properly repudiating it..
eduardo odraude says
If the article is read as drawing a very direct line between Islam and the KKK, then I agree with you. But if the article is read as showing merely that the founder of the KKK took some of his inspiration from Islamic methods, then I think the article is valid and useful. I did not know that the KKK had a “Kloran” and a “Klailiff”. One should not exaggerate the significance of that, but it is relevant.
CogitoErgoSum says
So you are in agreement with Krishna that the KKK has more in common with Christianity than Islam. I’m wondering why Simmons called his book the “Kloran” and not the “Klible” or where did he come up with the office of “Klaliff” instead of “Kling” or “Klince?” Could the Klan that was resurrected under Simmons in 1915 have been re-formulated using a slightly different set of ideas and beliefs than those held by the original founders of the Klan in 1865? The first Grand Wizard of the Klan was Nathan Bedford Forrest who was given the title because he was also know as the “Wizard of the Saddle” during the Civil War. The Klan was originally intended to be primarily a military organization and not a religious sect. I don’t find that Forrest was a particularly religious man as a soldier but that Simmons was a frustrated Methodist minister who was something of an outcast when he left the military …… and he combined fighting with religion much as Muhammad did ……. but not as Christ did.
CogitoErgoSum says
BTW, the original KKK did not burn crosses. In fact, the act of burning a cross dates back to a far earlier time when it was used as a protest AGAINST those who venerated the cross.
gravenimage says
With respect, Cornelius, that the Klan was inspired at least in part by Islam is well-documented. Just their calling their book “the Kloran” is telling.
Renate says
The Quran must be the original fascist document. Hitler was attracted to it. Simmons was attracted to it. Islam and Nazism and KKK need to all be banned.
Jean Terry says
Both the KKK and the Muslim religion are masterminded by Satan, who wants to steal, kill and destroy.
FYI says
Kreepy… Kooky… Kreatures
Krazy.
Kriminy!
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Stephen m kirbi ,it is a lie, kkk as mithraist christian sect has no historical link with Islam in the same way Nazism and apartheidism as mithraist christian sects have no basis in Islam because racism is an abomination in Isam.
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Stephen m kirbi ,it is a lie, kkk as mithraist christian sect has no historical link with Islam in the same way Nazism and apartheidism as mithraist christian sects have no basis in Islam because racism is an abomination in Isam.
………………….
Simmons was clearly inspired by the horrors of Islam, especially in naming the Klan’s “holy book” the Kloran–obviously a reference to the Koran (Qur’an).
And Hitler likewise modeled the Holocaust on the Armenian Genocide in Turkey, even sneering, “Who now remembers the Armenians?”. He was also inspired by his close relation with the Mufti of Jerusalem.
In fact, Hitler is one of the very few Infidels that Muslims admire–and his book Mein Kampf is a perennial bestseller throughout the Muslim world, despite low levels of reading there.
As for racism having no basis in Islam, this is grimly laughable. The “Prophet” himself called Black Africans “raisin heads”, and deemed a Black African slave to be worth half of that of a non-Black.
And this is not just a thing of the past–just look at the oppression and murder of Blacks in Darfur by the “Arabs” in the north in Sudan–even though they are both Muslim.
And this goes beyond racial discrimination–apartheid is in fact the norm in most Muslim societies, as Infidels and other religious minorities are persecuted and murdered.
And more recently, we’ve seen Klansmen embracing Islam. This should not surprise.
CogitoErgoSum says
I had always thought it strange that a burning cross would be a symbol of the KKK but now it makes sense if rejecting the cross is part of your ideology. Muslim Klan members must take great joy in seeing a cross being burnt and then falling to the ground in ashes.
gravenimage says
CogitoErgoSum, the Klan claims that their inspiration was the Highland clans of Scotland. Of course, they burned poles to communicate about war and violent vendettas with distant clans across the glens long before they ever adopted Christianity.
Most infamously, the Klan burned crosses to intimidate–often African Americans, but sometimes Native Americans, Jews, or even members of the Klan they wanted to “discipline”.
This from Slate is pretty accurate:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/12/why-does-the-ku-klux-klan-burn-crosses.html
You are right that this is actually a very odd and disturbing thing for supposed Christians to do.
Indiana Tom says
When our GIs were fighting the Germans in North Africa, they would come upon all sorts of resplendent Nazi propaganda and pictures of Adolph Hitler. The Muslims just loved Hitler.
gravenimage says
True, Indiana Tom. And recently Muslims in North Africa desecrated Allied graves there.
eduardo odraude says
I recall some years ago reading news reports that Hitler’s Mein Kampf (which could be translated as My Struggle or My Jihad, was a best seller in Turkey and other parts of the Muslim world. Surprisingly large percentages of Muslims consider Jews apes and pigs or worse and feel affection for Hitler. Actually, it’s not surprising when one considers how much Jew-hatred there is in the Qur’an. I recall several decades ago I ran into some of this intense hatred in NYC. I went into some store, and there was a Muslim man in there who at one point asked me, with a disgusted look on his face, if I was Jewish. I informed him I’m half-Jewish (though some say there is no such category, I don’t care). Anyway, the look of disgust and contempt on the man’s face was disturbing. Yes, there are plenty of quasi-non-Muslim Muslims in the West who don’t hate Jews, in other words, Muslims who are not especially religious and who have grown up in a Western setting. But Muslim leadership, even in the West, seems to be extraordinarily anti-Semitic, while sometimes seeking to hide it, especially in the US, where Muslims remain a minority.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Liar Gravenimage, Stephen kirbi himself stated that kkk came from mithraist bible the book of genocide and ethnic cleansing, Likewise Nazism and apartheidism as carried out in Europe and erasing the original inhabitants of Americas by white mithraist christians pursuant to Samuel 15:3 and other verses of genocide and ethnic cleansing. so, you have own these sects, you cannot shift them to Islam to launder filthy mithraist christianity. The holy Prophet Muhammad said “laisa Minna man daa ilal asbiyya (he is not one of us muslims who advocates for racism) “.In another Hadith the holy Prophet Muhammad made it clear that Arabs are not superior to non-Arabs or whites superior to blacks and vice versa. As ignorant fools you have misconceived the Hadith where Prophet Muhammad was emphasising the duty of Muslims tò obey their leader even if he is a slave pointing at a black slave with raisenhead infront of him, not that all blacks have raisenhead. Ignorant liars!!
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Liar Gravenimage, Stephen kirbi himself stated that kkk came from mithraist bible the book of genocide and ethnic cleansing, likewise Nazism and apartheidism, and churchmen carried it around the world in Europe,south Africa and erasing the original inhabitants of Americas by white mithraist christians. So, you have to own them, you cannot shift them to Islam to launder filthy mithraist christianity. The holy Prophet Muhammad said “laisa Minna man daa ilal asbiyya (he is not one of us muslims who advocates for racism) “.In another Hadith the holy Prophet Muhammad made it clear that Arabs are not superior to non-Arabs or whites superior to blacks and vice versa. you ignorant liars have misconceived the Hadith where Prophet Muhammad was emphasising the duty of Muslims tò obey their leader even if he is a slave pointing at a black slave with raisenhead infront of him, not that all blacks have raisenhead. Fools!!
gravenimage says
The vile Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Liar Gravenimage, Stephen kirbi himself stated that kkk came from mithraist bible the book of genocide and ethnic cleansing,
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Actually, Stephen Kirby (not “kirbi”) said no such thing. The only reference to the Bible at all is that Simmons had a copy of that book at the refounding of the Klan. He also had a flag from the Mexican war and a copy of the “Kloran”.
More:
Likewise Nazism and apartheidism as carried out in Europe and erasing the original inhabitants of Americas by white mithraist christians pursuant to Samuel 15:3 and other verses of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
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No Nazi has ever made reference to Samuel 15:3 that I have ever seen in years of study. Citations, please.
Hitler rejected Christianity, characterizing it as “weak and flabby”, and he expressed his admiration for Islam as a martial creed. he thought that if Islam has conquered Europe that Islamized Germans, not ‘held back’ by Christianity, would then have dominated Europe.
Moreover, as I have noted, many Muslims *adore* Hitler and Mein Kampf, and vow to finish the Holocaust.
Ibrahim itace muhammed has himself said how much he looks forward to personally taking part in the genocide of the Jews.
More:
so, you have own these sects, you cannot shift them to Islam to launder filthy mithraist christianity.
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No one has said that the Klan and the Nazis are Muslim–but both were in part *inspired* by the savagery of Islam, and neither of them exhibit Christian values.
More:
The holy Prophet Muhammad said “laisa Minna man daa ilal asbiyya (he is not one of us muslims who advocates for racism) “.
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I’ve tried searching for this saying both in English and Arabic, and can *find nothing*–nor have I ever found anything in the Qur’an, Hadith, or Sira along these lines. Citations, please.
More:
In another Hadith the holy Prophet Muhammad made it clear that Arabs are not superior to non-Arabs or whites superior to blacks and vice versa.
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What Hadith would that be? Again, citations.
More:
As ignorant fools you have misconceived the Hadith where Prophet Muhammad was emphasising the duty of Muslims tò obey their leader even if he is a slave pointing at a black slave with raisenhead infront of him, not that all blacks have raisenhead. Ignorant liars!!
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No, slaves are not leaders in Islam–this is quite false. Ibrahim itace muhammed has advocated enslaving Infidels here many times before, though.
Here is the Hadith:
Narrated Anas:
The Prophet said, “Listen and obey (your chief) even if an Ethiopian whose head is like a raisin were made your chief.”
–Sahih Bukhari, Book 11, Volume 1, Number 662
This is clearly a reference to Muhammed saying that Black people have heads like raisins.
And then Ibrahim itace muhammed just spams his vicious and dishonest post again. He always does this when he is particularly disturbed–as when Infidels find out about the barbarism of Islam.
Papa Whiskey says
But by the early 1870’s, the KKK had largely faded away.
Ku Kluxery did not “fade away” in the 19th century — it was ruthlessly suppressed by President U.S. Grant, as related in Chapter 32 of the latter’s biography by Ron Chernow.
gravenimage says
Papa Whiskey, I don’t believe that the vicious Klan is actually a good thing.
StellaSaidSo says
I don’t believe that Papa Whiskey said that the Klan was ‘a good thing’. He is quite correct – after the Civil War, President Ulysses Grant ruthlessly suppressed the Klan, to the immense joy of the freed slaves, and the immense fury of the Democrat party. It was several decades before the hooded ones regained any influence.
Indiana Tom says
Had others followed through on Grant’s actions the Civil Rights Movement would have occured in the 1870s through the 1880s. Grant attempted to do more for the Black Community than about anyone else did in history including the Civil Rights Activists of the 1960s. Had Grant been successful, people would carry signs of Grant versus MLK.
Just A Concerned Citizen says
(Papa Whiskey) EXCELLENT point, sir.
mortimer says
So the KKK uses Islam as its model of organization.
gravenimage says
Islam and the Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan
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Great article, Mr. Kirby.
I have also cited this many times–including the “Kloran”.
nicholas tesdorf says
This was a very interesting comparison of two rather noxious religious-political movements, the KKK and Islam, particularly the revelation of terms like ‘Koran’ and ‘Kloran’, ‘Kaliff; and ‘Klaliff, and the existence of parallel calendars and pilgrimages.
Emilie Green says
“The Emperor of the Invisible Empire in the Realm of the Unknown; a wise man; a wonder-worker, having power to charm and control”
Wow.
The warehouse where them thar good ole boys dun stored the White Lightening dun got plain cleaned out for someone to have come up with that one.
Wellington says
The KKK is rather like the Nazi Party, not only because of the overall iniquity of both, but, specifically, because each of these organizations have muddled views when examining their main “principles.”
Nazism is a mish-mash of both leftist and rightist ideas, as revealed by their 1920 25-point program, which indeed has several socialist-like ideas, for instance Point 14, which mentions profit sharing between employer and employee. But, respecting Nazi points which had a socialistic bend, virtually all such points were ignored by Hitler after the Night of the Long Knives (June 30th, 1934) when the socialistic elements in the Nazi Party (e.g., Ernst Rohm) were brutally done away with, whereby, thereafter and henceforth, German industrialists who were skeptical of Hitler chiefly, though not solely, because of the socialistic elements in the 1920 Nazi program made a “deal” with Adolf whereby such businessmen could make profits galore, which they did and which was completely antithetical to any socialist thinking. This is why all those who continue to insist that Nazism was a leftist phenomenon are egregiously, terribly and even stupidly wrong. After June of 1934, Nazism was entirely a Far Right movement. Amazing that more people don’t get this even to this day.
As for the KKK, same thing, to wit, when you have a mish-mash, highly prejudiced, organization to begin with, any theory is possible, including the absurdity that the KKK, far-right Christian organization which it is, which is to say it is an organization which is a betrayal of true Christianity, will produce any coherent doctrine. It won’t. Just like Nazism, variations on stupid and even contradictory themes should be allowed for where the KKK is concerned.
Indiana Tom says
Remember it was the National Socialist Party.
Before that….
In 1919, he joined the German Workers’ Party (DAP), the precursor of the NSDAP, and was appointed leader of the NSDAP in 1921.
Wellington says
Your point being, Indiana Tom?
Here again is my overall thrust and I wish by now all would get this: Nazism was an extremely goofy ideology. This is why it incorporated both left-wing elements (e.g., the “socialism” part in its very name) with right-wing elements (e.g., the “national” part in its name—nationalism being something that Blanc, Marx, Engels and other socialists saw as just another leftover of the capitalist class which used patriotism to a nation as yet another way of fooling the “working class”).
To be even clearer, and I have tried at JW over the years, really tried to point this out about Nazism, after the Night of the Long Knives (June of 1934) when Hitler got rid of any left-wing elements left in his party, Nazism was pure right-wing. My God, how many times do I have to bring this up so that contemporary folks, not schooled in the details of the muddled ideology which was Nazism, finally get this?
If I come across as frustrated, I most certainly am. Nazism, muddle which it was (and please forget its damn name—NSDAP, which is a technicality and no more) after 1934 was an entirely right-wing movement (and this why German businessmen made huge profits henceforth and when have businessmen in any true left-wing government, examples being Lenin’s Russia or Castro’s Cuba, made huge profits?—hell, they were just lucky to stay alive let alone making profits). Put another way, if Nazism after June of 1934 was not Far Right, what the hell has been?
Arthur says
Wellington,
I would be curious for your recommended reading list of the history of Nazism. As someone without a lot of free time, reading to understand a subject in some depth can be frustrating if the sources one starts with are found out to be either badly biased or incompetent. So, I’d be interested in your recommendations.
Wellington says
Arthur: Of course, any bibliography of Nazism would be beyond extensive. But may I recommend, in no particular order of importance, five “must” volumes, the last two of which are reference works. They are 1) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William Shirer—a true masterpiece; 2) Hitler: A Study in Tyranny by Alan Bullock, still considered by many to be the finest biography of Hitler in any language even though it was written in English and first published in the early 1950’s; 3) Inside The Third Reich by Albert Speer (written in German but very effectively translated into English by Richard and Clara Winston); 4) The Penguin Dictionary Of The Third Reich; 5) The Oxford Companion To World War II (a must for anyone truly interested in all aspects of the greatest war in history and which has much detail on Nazism and so many other matters German).
This would be just a start, but I think a good one. Hope I have been of some help and hope you are doing well.
gravenimage says
Thank you for this list.
Indiana Tom says
Your point being, Indiana Tom?
That you don’t know dick about Nazism.
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Lie-Exposing-Roots-American/dp/1621573486/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1539725346&sr=1-1&keywords=the+big+lie+dinesh+d%27souza&dpID=51455wzUswL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch
Arthur says
Much appreciated, Wellington!
gravenimage says
Indiana Tom, Wellington knows a great deal about Nazism.
As for D’Souza’s book, while the hard Left does indeed use Fascist tactics, they are actually more inspired by Communism than by the Nazis.
gravenimage says
Good analysis, Wellington.
And both the Klan and Nazism had strong quasi-occult aspects to them–as so many irrational creeds do.
eduardo odraude says
I suppose dictatorship tends to depend on irrational dogmas, since the latter claim immunity to questioning, dialog, pluralism, and freedom.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Eduardo.
Wellington says
Indiana Tom: I will match my knowledge of Nazism against D’Souza anytime. FYI, D’Souza to this day still maintains that Islam is not the problem but rather the moral descent of the West is. Now, while there has certainly been moral descent in the West over the past half century or so, for D’Souza to think but for this moral descent all would be fine and good with the Islamic world is stupid in the extreme and D’Souza has shown no evidence of altering this silly idea of his.
You wish to buttress your defense of what you think Nazism really is on D’Souza? Well, be my guest. And, as I already have mentioned, and will mention again, until the Night of the Long Knives when leftist elements of Nazism were eliminated (e.g., Ernst Rohm), Nazism had both leftist and rightist elements in it. After June 30th of 1934, i.e., the Night of the Long Knives, the leftist elements were done away with and were no more.
Also, if one is foolishly going to argue that Nazism was a solely leftist phenomenon throughout its history and to its end in 1945 (something I think erroneous in the extreme), then please, you or anyone, tell me of a Far Right totalitarian regime? Please read what I have already written and, if you do so carefully, you will not conclude, as D’Souza foolishly has, that Nazism throughout its existence was only Far Left. Do so.
Wellington says
This will be my third attempt to answer your 5:27 P.M. post, not your 5:30 P.M. post which did successfully register here at JW.
The Far Left and Far Right have many things in common, a hostility to liberty being one of them, but the Far Left from the mid-nineteenth century onwards has been anti-capitalistic and anti-patriotism (the Communist Manifesto serves as a classic example of these twin hostilities).
By contrast, the Far Right is intensely nationalistic and, while often engaging in crony capitalism, is not hostile to capitalism per se. This is why when a Far Right regime ends it is far easier to bring back the economy of the polity in question than when a Far Left regime ends. Think Chile v. Cuba.
Old Fat Bald Socially Inept Ron says
It’s amazing that we seek to find coincidences linking Islam to the Klan, but refuse to acknowledge similar, if not identical abhorrent divine instructions shared in the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran.
We are all aware and critical of Islam’s Quran calling for the death penalty by stoning for those who leave Islam, however these same sentiments and draconian punishments are also clearly written in the holy books of Jews and Christians.
Judaism employed heavy handed penalties for sinners, Christianity offered more forgiving less deadly reforms, then Islam came and restored Judaism’s harsh punishment style and plagiarized much of their doctrine.
eduardo odraude says
OFBSIR,
With respect, you are fudging key distinctions between religions. Assume for a moment, for the sake of discussion, that all religions are pure tissues of fantasy. Nevertheless, the Islamic paradigm leads to an authoritarian social outcome. Christianity and Judaism do not, because of the different content of their teachings. The central figure of the New Testament said to “give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, to God the things that are God’s,” and also “My kingdom is not of this world.” The result was that from the very beginning of Christianity, if in a confused or unclear way, Christians recognized that there were supposed to be two realms, the realm of Caesar and the realm of religion. Because the distinction was not clear, over the centuries the power of government sometimes took over the domain of religion, and sometimes the reverse, religious authorities took over aspects of governing power. But there was always at least a latent recognition within the Christian world that there were to be two distinct domains. That recognition led eventually to increasing clarity about the division and to the First Amendment of the US Constitution. By contrast, Muhammad became Caesar, or at any rate the ruler of a theocratic state. So Islamic doctrine recognizes no distinction between religion and state and indeed promulgates Islamic religious law as the law that should rule the whole earth.
Another example: In the Judeo-Christian tradition, human beings are conceived as sons and daughters of God, and God is conceived as a father. Therefore human beings, after their fashion are to imitate God’s divine creativity. Whereas in Islam the Qur’an explicitly states that God has no children and is not a father. Muslims are only Allah’s servants or slaves. As Daniel Boorstin pointed out decades ago, this and other factors in Islamic paradigm make human creativity “rash and dangerous for Muslims.”
Islam is a totalitarian system. Christianity and Judaism (even if they should turn out to be false doctrines), are not totalitarian. The violence in Islamic doctrine is bound up with a plan for world domination under Islamic law. The violence in the Old Testament, even if it should be judged appalling, is not bound up with any plan for world domination.
So your fudging of the differences between religions (even if all religions are judged false), is an error, a very common error that hinders the resistance to Islam.
gravenimage says
+1
Wellington says
+2
gravenimage says
Actually, Old Fat Bald Socially Inept Ron, the Jews had famously long abandoned stoning by the time the vicious “Prophet” Muhammed came along and grimly revived it:
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar: The Jews came to Allah’s Apostle and told him that a man and a woman from amongst them had committed illegal sexual intercourse. Allah’s Apostle said to them, “What do you find in the Torah (old Testament) about the legal punishment of Ar-Rajm (stoning)?” They replied, (But) we announce their crime and lash them.” Abdullah bin Salam said, “You are telling a lie; Torah contains the order of Rajm.” They brought and opened the Torah and one of them solaced his hand on the Verse of Rajm and read the verses preceding and following it. Abdullah bin Salam said to him, “Lift your hand.” When he lifted his hand, the Verse of Rajm was written there. They said, “Muhammad has told the truth; the Torah has the Verse of Rajm. The Prophet then gave the order that both of them should be stoned to death. ‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar said, “I saw the man leaning over the woman to shelter her from the stones.”
–Sahih Bukhari 4:56:829
(By the way, the last line of this Hadith contains the *only* example of compassion I have found in any Islamic text–and it is the compassion of one victim of Islam for another).
And Christians *never* practiced stoning. The story of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery is well-known, where he tells the crowd, “let him who is without sin cast the first stone”, then lets her go and tells her to sin no more.
Arthur says
It does seem that sociopaths tend think alike.
RichardL says
I thought the photo was a fake. Kloran is too funny. Klo means loo or toilet in German and I personally think it was divine intervention that made the Klan name their founding document after the toilet.
And one more time: I love the commentators here dearly but this Catholic or Mormon bashing is annoying. United we stand, divided we fall.
gravenimage says
No, It’s the real thing, Richard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloran
And I agree with you–we all need to stand together against the threat of Islam.
beep beep says
Good arguments …
But ..the Jews are the victims .
Let’s not forget that .
gravenimage says
The Klan has indeed targeted Jews. What are you trying to say?
Terra Nova says
The KKK felt that the white race was superior to any other races, especially against black people and Jews. I lived in the USA for 12 years 1972 on.
And one day, a MD came to live with his family on our street. They were a black family, everybody was in uproar, because now the prices of the houses would go down, etc. They were the only black people.
But after one day, at night there was a big cross burning on his lawn. With a big note that they had to leave. I came from Europe and never even though or had to think about racisme.
But the doctor refused to move, and put an advertisement in the paper, that he was staying and not going anywhere, which was brave, but the night after the advertisement people (I don’t have the slightest idea who committed that atrocious deed, they burned his house completely down.When I said that that was horrible, people started to tell me, that I coming from Europe had no idea how black people were. But that was the KKK. How it ended I don’t know, because a week later I had to move back to Europe.
But that is what you get when one race or religion feels superior to the other and that is what Hitler felt
and the muslims and the KKK and more organisations, To think that way always brings war in some way.
eduardo odraude says
Terra Nova, can you better pinpoint the date and location of that house burning of the black doctor?
gravenimage says
Yes, I’d like to see more information on this, as well.
Sam says
I like Ibrahim Itace Muhammad because he is either a fool or he is humoring us. He writes” Stephen kirbi himself stated that kkk came from mithraist bible the book of genocide and ethnic cleansing…” If there is empirical evidence for Bible being mythical then Ibrahim what is your conclusion of the Qur’an? With all that is going around Islam and association of God’s will with violence Ibrahim, you have not arrived at the association of the Qur’an with the Mithraist Bible but that Qur’an a compendium of eclectic stories is sourced from the apocryphal Bible. The Night of Power of the Prophet is basically a period covering the Christian Dark Ages… and this was the light of Muhammad (P.b.u.h). Moreover, the Pristine Arabic the language of the Qur’an is synthesis of loan words ranging from Syriac, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Latin, Persian…Is it not any wonder that the analogy of the KKK and Islam is now juxtaposed as empirical evidence? P.B.U.H
david hennrich says
This article is nonsense. Read page 25 and 26. http://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/WiscKKK/RiverFalls/KlanEphem/reference/wi.klanephem.i0004.pdf
gravenimage says
The reference on page 25 about the Christian religion in no way negates many aspects of the Ku Klux Klan being inspired by Islam.
Tom says
No matter how it was influenced, the last thing we need now is yet another radical, murdering organization.
We have enough on our hands now with Islam, Antifa, and Black Lives Matter, along with the radical left wing in our education and political systems.
An ultra right wing movement like the KKK will only serve to grow even more left wing radicalism.
We, the silent majority of common sense citizens, will beat all comers from the left and Islam. We just have to get off our asses and get motivated.
gravenimage says
Luckily, the Klan is largely discredited. Even in the South it has little following at this point.
duh swami says
In 1870, a branch of the Dem KKK called the ‘Red Shirts’, massacred 300 blacks in Vicksburg Mississippi…
DirkaDirka says
In the early 1900s the KKK had several million members. It has now died down and is kept as a mostly underground movement that will not die. Let us all pray that the same will happen with islam (intentionally left uncapitalized).
gravenimage says
+1
Garfield says
I try not to capitalize islam either. It is not holy and deserves no reverance whatsoever. Zero.
Garfield says
The goal here is to get the vile reality of Islam and it’s supremacist evil out into the light
Bringing up Christianity or other religions (islam is not “another RELIGION” by the way…it is a death cult) doesn’t help.
Infighting and preaching to the choir doesn’t do much either. So who can you FORWARD this information to? Your local paper and school board? City council? Find relevant articles, find groups that need to get this information and politely share it!!!
Sepp says
Careful and precise research into the KKK of the 1920s in many locations (towns, counties, states) will reveal that a large number of KKK members were also members of Masonic lodges.
Wellington says
All right. I’m going to give it one more try since my last FIVE posts didn’t register. The Far Right and Far Left have much in common, a hostility to freedom certainly being one of them, but the Far Right is intensely nationalistic (which Nazism surely was) and not opposed to capitalistic profits (which the Far Left most surely is). Nazism after 1934 exhibited both of these tendencies of the Far Right and one knows this or should know it. And, once again, if Nazi Germany after 1934 was not Far Right, please tell me of a Far Right regime and how it differed from Nazi Germany after the Night of the Long Knives (June 1934).
Smart guy says
The Klan to day is connected to the Christian Identity movement. The race war that they are fighting comes from the Bible, from the garden of Eden. In the prophecy given by God it says Gen 3-15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed, it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Some consider this prophecy to be a war between good and evil but the Identity movement considers it to be a race war. British Israelitism is connected to the Identity movement the song Jerusalem was built on England’s green and pleasant land was written by a British Identity member. The Identity magazine is written by the British Nationalist party. They and today’s Klan are 100% opposed to Islam. Any connection to Islam by the Klan in the past is in the long forgotten past. Today a cross lighting is used to illuminate the symbol of their faith. It is no longer used to show their hatred of Christianity. Instead they might play the “Old Rugged Cross” while lighting a cross.
gravenimage says
British Israelitism is connected to the Identity movement the song Jerusalem was built on England’s green and pleasant land was written by a British Identity member.
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I’m not going to wade through the rest of this now, but “Jerusalem” was written by William Blake. Far from being a racist, Blake was *against* racism and was also an abolitionist.
jule says
The klan is racist. Real Christians are not. I can’t believe some of the ideas people can make up to try to justify their bad motives.