February 14, 2008

Hatewatch for week ending February 16th 2008

Holocaust Center Cancels Anti-Muslim Lecture Organized By Hate Group
The Holocaust Memorial Center canceled a Feb. 26 lecture sponsored by the Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, which the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as a hate group...

Three Men Arrested In Mosque Firebombing
Federal authorities arrested three men, including one who said he was part of the extremist Christian Identity movement, for allegedly firebombing a storefront mosque...

Neo-Nazi Confesses To Desecrating Jewish Graves
National Socialist Movement member Mariusz Wdziekonski, 21, told police that he painted swastikas and slurs including "Aryan Power" on 57 headstones in a Jewish cemetery because he wanted to impress other neo-Nazis...

White Supremacist Sentenced To 17 Years For Assaults
Timothy Michael Caban, 40, pleaded guilty to committing battery with serious bodily injury for beating a black man and a man Caban thought was gay in two separate attacks, leaving one victim brain damaged for life...

Rash Of Hate Crimes Afflicts Seattle Neighborhood
Deputy King County prosecutor Mike Hogan said a spate of crimes targeting gay men in a traditionally gay Seattle neighborhood represents the highest level of hate crimes he's dealt with in 20 years as a prosecutor...

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