Few Americans defended Mel Gibson's drunken rant about the evils of the Jews. But radical traditionalist Catholics did. A three-year investigation of this subculture by the Intelligence Report has found that these Catholic extremists, including the Gibsons, may well represent the largest population of anti-Semites in the United States. Organized into a network of more than a dozen organizations, scores of websites and several extremist churches and monasteries, radical traditionalists in the U.S. are preaching anti-Semitism to as many as 100,000 followers. A few, such as the lawyer for Terri Schiavo's family, Christopher Ferrara, are even movers and shakers in important right-wing Republican circles.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Anti-Semitic Catholics
The Southern Poverty Law Center has a new report out on a Catholic "sect" which is extremely anti-Semitic. Mel Gibson is affiliated with this group of wing-nuts who also want to return to the Latin Mass, etc. The 6 page report can be found at http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=719. A selection from it follows:
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