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INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE AGAINST FUNDAMENTALISM Indian Rationalist Association P.O.Box 9110, New Delhi 110 091, India ALLIANCE BULLETIN-13, 14 June 1999 _______________________________________________________________________ Alliance Bulletins may be reproduced by recipients, if they wish. Please acknowledge the source while reproducing: "Alliance Against Fundamentalism Bulletin". ______________________________________________________________________ Report from Australia RACIST KU KLUX KLAN IN AUSTRALIA! --------------------------------- United States white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan, spearheaded by a member of the far-right One Nation Party, has branches in Australia. "Our aim is a white Australia, a fair Australia," said group leader Peter Coleman, saying some races were genetically programmed" to commit crimes. There is a Jew under every rock," he said, adding that homosexuals were "abnormal" and Aborigines "beyond help... the worst of the whites mixed in with the blacks." The Ku Klux Klan held views incompatible with Australian life and attempts by its members to enter Australia would be monitored closely, said immigration minister Philip Ruddock. His department would use its migrant alert list to identify visa applications from people it believed might be associated with the KKK, which has set up "Klaverns" in Australia's three eastern states. The KKK has been associated in the past with racial violence. The Sydney Morning Herald reported recently that the Imperial Klans of America had set up branches in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland with a growing membership base of about 70. Members met monthly, wearing traditional white hoods and robes. Preacher Barry E. Black, an imperial wizard in the United States has already announced that he would be visiting the branches in Australia soon to "wake up" white Australia. "I don't tell my enemies when I am going to be there but I'll be there," he said. In the past two years there have been a series of KKK style attacks on Aborigines, especially in north Queensland, although the police have consistently ruled out the presence of an organized Klan group. "Aborigines are the lowest form of human life on earth," declared a recent letter received by Aboriginal leaders in Mossman, west of northern coastal city of Cairns. The letter was signed KKK. There are reports of intimidation, assaults and even rape by men in white robes. The Ku Klux Klan is originally an American movement. In 1920s the KKK reached the height of its popularity when it had an estimated 4.5 million members. The present Klan membership in the United States is around 2,500 to 3,000. The Imperial Klans having branches established in Australia, are one of the 20 such groups in the United States. It is based in Kentucky and headed by Imperial Wizard Ron Edwards, who signs his letters "Yours for White Victory." KKK Grand Wizard Barry Black plans to visit Australia this year "to make white Australians proud of their heritage." Remember: GOLDEN JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS OF INDIAN RATIONALIST ASSOCIATION AND THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL RATIONALIST RATIONALIST CONFERENCE. 27-31 DECEMBER 1999: KERALA, SOUTH WESTERN COAST OF INDIA. Please note: The Conference will begin only on 27th (not 26th) REGISTRATION OPEN NOW. For more details: edamaruku@yahoo.com _______________________________________________________________________ Alliance Bulletin reaches a world wide community of concerned
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