Spin: Apple pulls white power music from iTunes store.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Bosnian woman who claimed she was assaulted by black men in hate crime charged with fabricating story.

The Daily Beast: ‘III Percenter’ militia mom accused of murdering her ex-husband, stepdaughter.

Media Matters: Family Research Council’s Craig James isn’t sure if gay people should be executed.

Fox13 (Salt Lake City): Mysterious ‘tent city’ springing up in FLDS towns with wall and ‘no trespassing’ signs.

AlterNet: How economic inequality and institutionalized racism are linked to police killings.

Raw Story: Ohio couple says racist bullying made adopted Chinese daughter kill herself.

It was a moment of remembrance for the racist right.

Last week, about three dozen racists gathered on Whidbey Island, Wash., to mark the 30^th anniversary of the death of Robert J. Mathews, who founded a band of white supremacist terrorists intent on starting a race war called The Order. Members of The Order had fled to the island after a gun battle days earlier with FBI agents at a motel in Portland, Ore.

At the cabin, Mathews refused to surrender to the FBI, which later fired flares into the building to force him out. Matthews refused to leave, and died in an inferno when the cabin caught fire.

Because of Mathews’ unwillingness to surrender, he is widely regarded now as a martyr for white nationalists and racists, who annually visit Whidbey Island as part of a pilgrimage of sorts. This year was no different, attracting racists mostly from the Northwest Hammerskins, considered one of the most violent skinhead groups in the country.

A photograph posted on a white supremacist blog honoring Mathews and other members of The Order showed almost three-dozen attendees, their faces pixelated, beneath a Hammerskins crossed-hammers logo. The photo included the caption: “December 8th 2014 – NWHS and friends at Whidbey Island for Martyrs Day! Robert J Mathews!”

In the spring of 1985, just a few months after Mathews’ death, several members of The Order were indicted in nearby Seattle on federal racketeering charges, covering murders, armed robberies, counterfeiting and other crimes  the neo-Nazi gang committed in its failed attempt to start a race war.

Salon: How Ferguson exposed the racial duplicity behind the Second Amendment crusade of gun rights advocates.

Reuters: Mississippi pastor trots out horse in wedding dress as a way to protest gay marriage.

NewNowNext: Chuck Norris appears to be lending his star appeal to anti-LGBT group, says marriage is only between man and woman.

Right Wing Watch: Gordon Klingenschmitt wants to push LGBT folks back into the closet.

Reporter-Telegram (Midland, TX): Man claiming to be Aryan Brotherhood member in jail for raping underage girls.

Think Progress: Virginia billboard promoting conversion therapy to remain in place, despite controversy.

The right wing has admitted to waging a war on the LGBT community.

That’s at least according to Craig James, assistant to Family Research Council (FRC) president Tony Perkins, who last week said on the group’s radio show that “gender identity has become the flashpoint” in the culture wars, and that the enemy was clear.

“That might be the next thing that we have to combat in this war that we’re on with the LGBT community and those who are challenging sexuality,” James said on the FRC’s radio program, Washington Watch.

At the time, James was speaking about transgender equality with Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at FRC who once advocated for the deportation of homosexuals from the United States, backpedaled from that claim a week later with a lukewarm apology, then doubled down in 2010 when he told Chris Matthews that “there would be a place for criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior.”

No real surprise, then, that James would make such a statement, since FRC openly holds the idea that “homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large, and can never be affirmed”—not to mention its a long history of demonizing LGBT people.

But what is surprising is the open admission of a war against a group of people that is maligned and subject to violence in many places around the world, including the United States, where transgender people, especially, experience high rates of discrimination and anti-LGBT violence.

Christopher Paul Mason. (Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.)

Police have arrested a 31-year-old white supremacist in connection with an ax murder last April of a fellow racist.

Christopher Paul Mason, of Phoenix, was arrested last Thursday. He is being held in lieu of $1 million bond on murder charges related to the death of Joshua Calkins, 35, also of Phoenix, The Arizona Republic reported.

The newspaper, citing court records, reported that both men were affiliated with an unidentified white supremacist prison gang.

Calkins’ body, wrapped in plastic, was dumped in an alley in northwest Phoenix and found later on April 16. His hands were tied behind his back, and bloody towels and bleach were discarded nearby, police said.

Calkins had extensive trauma and was nearly decapitated, leading a medical examiner to conclude he had been killed with an ax. “Interviews conducted in the coming months with more than 20 people would lead investigators to believe that the medical examiner’s guess was exactly right,” the Arizona newspaper reported.

Mason admitted to witnesses later interviewed by police that he had killed Calkins, saying, “I got him 13 times with an ax,” according to court records. Mason allegedly told some of the witnesses that he killed Calkins because he had robbed Mason’s former girlfriend at gunpoint.

In 2006, Mason pleaded guilty to forgery after attempting to cash a $700 stolen check to support his methamphetamine addiction.

Salon: Jerry Boykin says CIA interrogations weren’t torture, but IRS investigations are.

Al Jazeera America: Small Arkansas town tries to combat its reputation as a haven for white supremacists.

Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MI): Two Mississippi women plead guilty to hate crime charges in assaults on African Americans.

Raw Story: Protesters in ‘Black Lives Matter’ march confronted with racial slurs in Mississippi.

AlterNet: Kentucky finally shuts down government support for creationism museum.

Think Progress: Teen’s death, ruled a suicide by local police, now under FBI investigation as possible lynching.

Breitbart Unmasked: Tulsa store’s vending machine dispenses Nazi swastika rings to kids in black neighborhoods.

Right Wing Watch: Phyllis Schlafly warns that Central American immigrants will spread Ebola in the USA.

Three Phoenix-area rabbis were recently tricked into participating in the production of an anti-Semitic film by Steven Anderson, the Arizona pastor who has made headlines with his vitriolic rants about LGBT people and President Obama.

Anderson, whose Tempe-based Faith Temple Baptist Church is among the most hardcore anti-LGBT hate groups in the country, has attracted attention for his rants wishing death upon President Obama and gays and lesbians, as well as for declaring that birth control was turning American women into “whores.” At one point, Anderson was tasered at a checkpoint on the Mexico border while defying a patrolman’s orders. He recently made headlines by predicting that America could have an AIDS-free Christmas if all gays are killed, as the Bible demands.

But in recent months, Anderson’s ministry has also taken a decidedly anti-Semitic turn, as Stephen Lemons explored in a recent Phoenix New Times post.

Anderson has given sermons—preserved on YouTube—covering such subjects as “The Jews and Their Lies,” “Hebrew Roots Movement Exposed,” “The Jews Are Antichrists,” “Jews Worship a Different God Than Christians,” “The Jews Are the Racists,” and the ever-popular “The Jews Killed Jesus.”

Anderson and his cohort, Paul Wittenberger, are currently coproducing an anti-Semitic film titled Marching to Zion, described on YouTube as providing “Scriptural evidence that the Jews are no longer God’s chosen people.” It also purports to reveal that rabbinical Judaism’s Messiah is the Antichrist; among the “topics covered” are “Blasphemous teachings of the Talmud and Kabbalah,” “Modern DNA evidence of the Jews’ ancestry,” and “Proof that Christian Zionism is a modern phenomenon.”

Four Phoenix-area rabbis are interviewed for the film, which has prompted outrage in the Jewish community.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued a statement saying it was “deeply troubled by the upcoming release of a new ‘documentary’ geared toward Christian audiences that purportedly will focus on ‘the history of the Jews,’ but in fact will likely serve as a tool for denigrating Jews and Judaism.”

Anderson recently boasted during one of his Internet radio broadcasts how he came to include the four rabbis:

Well, here’s how I got the four rabbis to participate. I got a list of every rabbi in Arizona, and I think I got 41 rabbis. And I just figured, you know, if I contact enough rabbis, somebody’s going to agree to do it. And so I actually contacted all 41 of them, and I told them I was making a film about Judaism and the history of the nation of Israel, which is true, and I gave them a whole list of questions and those questions are the questions that I asked in the interview.

So they knew the questions they were being asked going in. I told them it was going to be about Judaism and the nation of Israel, but I didn’t tell them whether it was going to be positive or negative. Well, they just assume it’s going to be positive, because they assume that I’m going to be like the rest of evangelicals in Christianity and bow down to the chosen ones and worship them and say how great they are.

So basically, all four of them are going to hate this movie, of course, but it’s the truth, they’re false prophets and they deserve to be exposed and I didn’t lie to them, I mean, everything I told them was the truth.

According to the Jewish News, the rabbis who took part did not realize the nature of the production. Anderson allegedly described himself as “an interested layperson” making a documentary explaining elements of the Jewish faith.

Rabbi Irwin Wiener, one of the four Jewish interviewees, was outraged: “The subterfuge that he used to get these interviews from us is beyond belief.”

According to the report, Anderson had told the interviewees that he was making the documentary for the Public Broadcasting System. “When he used the words PBS to me, it sounded legitimate and I didn’t pursue it any further,” Wiener said.

Another interviewee, Orthodox Rabbi Reuven Mann, was blindsided by the discovery that he had been tricked, since he felt a responsibility to explain his faith to anyone interested. “I’m very open about this and I don’t suspect that anyone has any ulterior motives,” he said.

But Anderson was defensive in his Internet broadcast when his interlocutor about the rabbis—who in fact, was Stephen Lemons—pressed him on whether he had deceived his subjects, notably with the claim to be making a PBS documentary.

“Well, guess what, who is a liar but he that deny that Jesus is the Christ,” Anderson retorted. “He’s anti-Christ. So basically, if somebody is lying and saying that Jesus isn’t the messiah, it also does not surprise me that they would lie and say I was selling the film to PBS.”

Lemons then asked Anderson if he was being deceptive himself. “Ooh,” he said mockingly, “it’s possible that I could be lying too. It’s also possible that the Bible could be lying but guess what the Bible’s not lying and it’s the Jews that are lying.”

Anderson then hung up on Lemons, and continued with his anti-Semitic rant: “So obviously this is somebody who is calling in trying to defend the anti-Christ Jews and he’d rather listen to somebody who calls himself a rabbi and spits on the name of Jesus Christ and calls Jesus a bastard and his mother a whore, and he thinks I’m lying because I supposedly claimed I was selling the film to PBS? No I never said any such thing, and the lying Jewish rabbi that told you that made it up.”

Stormfront’s sociopathic obsession with mixed-race relationships presented itself with particular cruelty this week as posters commented on the horrific death of a Mississippi teenager.

Jessica Chambers, 19, was found walking away from her burning car in rural Panola County, Miss., on Saturday. With burns to over 98 percent of her body, she was barely able to speak and was airlifted to a Memphis hospital. She died hours later.

No arrests have been made. Although the U.S. Marshal’s service have added $10,000 to a reward for information leading to a suspect in the case, the creepier corners of the Internet’s white supremisphere have been buzzing all week with claims the murder victim was killed by her boyfriend, who is black.

And, they say, she deserved it.

In the last few days, some of the comments about Chambers on Stormfront, the Internet’s largest racist website, have been so horrible that moderators have had to delete entire threads on the forum. Perhaps even former Klansman and Stormfront founder Don Black can become a little image conscious when his members celebrate the burning death of a beautiful young white girl.

Nonetheless, Stormfront members have called the 19-year-old victim a “groid lover,” a “mud shark” and a “race traitor” who “suffered for her treason and died a horrible death.” But perhaps the ugliest pubic utterance on the racist forum came this morning from a poster going by the name “Reaper6Romeo,” who claims he was discharged from the US Army at Fort Hood in July. He wrote, “I wish I could have been there when this went down.  I would have loved to of [sic] roasted some marshmallows over her boon loving carcass.”

Another poster, using the name “Karl Stolz,” wrote, “The only disgusting part is from the losers who waste tears and sadness on a piece of trash that defiled itself with groids and deserved what it got; No, its not a bad thing and its not a concern, get over your feeble emotional christling like tenderness and accept the facts, when such scum dies its better that way.”

The term “Boon,” is skinhead street-slang for baboon, a common neo-Nazi pejorative for black people.

It should come as little surprise that the self-described former infantryman, “Reaper6Romeo,” may have trouble getting a date. In June, he wrote about being alone at a movie theater one afternoon and getting angry at a white woman who was at the matinee with a black man. He recalls: “After the movie I walked out into the corridor and saw them looking at some movie posters. I walked up to her and said in my most casual voice ‘excuse me miss, I hope your monkey gives you AIDS.’”

Right Wing Watch: ‘Hang him!’ demand anti-Obama protesters at rally for ‘Constitutional Sheriffs.’

AlterNet: Christian fundamentalist from Texas arrested in Israel, charged with plotting to bomb Muslim shrines.

Daily Beast: As Apple ditches ‘white power’ music from iTunes, online retailers such as Spotify become havens for hate.

USA Today: Vandals spray-paint ‘KKK’ on a third black church in rural Florida county.

One People’s Project: Richard Spencer’s right-hand man in Montana is a convicted felon working in Internet security.

KOMO News (Seattle): Muslim taxi driver recounts vicious hate-crime attack by man who called him a ‘terrorist.’

DiversityInc: How racism killed Eric Garner.

Matthew Fenner.

Five members of Word of Faith Fellowship (WOFF) in Spindale, North Carolina have been indicted on kidnapping and assault charges for allegedly attacking and beating a fellow church member, who is gay.

Matt Comer at QNotes reports that a grand jury on Tuesday indicted Justin Brocke Covington, Brooke McFadden Covington, Robert Louis Walker, Jr. and Adam Christopher Bartley on second-degree kidnapping and simple assault charges. Sarah Covington Anderson was also indicted on second-degree kidnapping, simple assault and assault by strangulation charges.

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