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Left-wing activist and Womans March organizer Linda Sarsour accused CNN anchor Jake Tapper of being a member of the alt-right, a small white nationalist faction on the far-right.

NEW YORK, NY APRIL 13: Activist Linda Sarsour speaks during a Women For Syria gathering at Union Square, April 13, 2017 in New York City. The group gathered to support and stand with the people of Syria and call for the United States to accept Syrian refugees. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Tapper called out Womens March and Sarsour after the organization expressed its support for convicted cop-killer and domestic terrorist Assata Shakur.Tapper also referenced ugly sentiments from Sarsour and recent anti-Semitic statements made by a Chicago-based LGBT activist group. (RELATED:Womens March Praises Cop-Killing Terrorist As Sign Of Resistance)

Sarsour responded by saying that Tapper has joined the ranks of the alt-right to target me online. (There is no evidence to suggest that Tapper is a member of the alt-right.) Welcome to the party, she added.

Sarsour challenged Tapper to please share evidence of her ugly sentiments.Unapologetically Muslim? Unapologetically Palestinian? Pro-immigrant? Pro-justice? she asked. Shame.

Tapper responded by pointing to comments Sarsour made about activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who frequently speaks out against radical Islam. Sarsour expressed her desire to take Alis vagina away, saying she doesnt deserve to be a woman. Ali is a survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM) and has spoken out against the brutal practice. (RELATED:Womens March Leader Once Threatened To Take Away Womens Vaginas)

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Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza also took issue with Tappers tweets, calling them intentionally inflammatory.

How about being part of a gang that kills a NJ State Trooper? Tapper responded. Is that considered inflammatory?

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Minister Lawrence Ware has served the Southern Baptist Convention for nearly 10 years. (Image courtesy of Oklahoma State University).

In a scathing open letter published in The New York Times this week, an African-American minister announced his departure from the Southern Baptist Convention over the churchs reluctance to denounce white supremacy and its outward support of President Donald Trump.

Lawrence Ware, who serves asco-director of the Center for Africana Studies at Oklahoma State University and has been an ordained minister at the convention for nearly a decade, renounced his denomination Tuesday, July 17, noting that while it wasnt an easy decision, it was a necessary one.

As a Black scholar of race and a minister whos committed to social justice, I can no longer be a part of an organization that is complicit in the disturbing rise of the so-called alt-right, whose members support the abhorrent policies of Donald Trump and whose troubling racial history and current actions reveal a deep commitment to white supremacy, Ware wrote.

He explained that his decision was ultimately spurred by an event earlier this year when a prominent Black pastor from Arlington, Texas, introduced a resolution at the groups annual convention denouncing the white supremacist and alt-right movements. Conference leaders initially refused to hear the resolution but later approved a revised version that excluded a denunciation of the curse of Ham theory and added details of all the good Southern Baptists have done for Black people and nonwhites.

Ware argued that the resolution shouldve been immediately adopted, but it wasnt.

A contingent of predominately white, old-guard members refused to take the resolution seriously, even while many Black and progressive clergy members advocated its adoption, he wrote. It wasnt until chaos ensued that a reworded resolution vowing to decry every form of racism, including alt-right white supremacy, as antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ was adopted.

Among other things, Ware highlighted the fact that over 70 percent of white evangelicals, many of whom are Southern Baptists, approve of President Trumps job performance. He also touched on the churchs history of pro-slavery attitudes and its outward support of segregation during the civil rights movement.

Though the church issued a formal apology for its support of slavery in 1995, Ware insisted that enough still hasnt been done to address the institution of white supremacy within the SBC. He then called out several churches for remaining silent about Trump and the rise of the alt-right while being hostile toward social justice movements like Black Lives Matter.

I love the church, but I love Black people more, Ware concluded. Black lives matter to me.I am not confident that they matter to the Southern Baptist Convention.

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Back in February, it looked like Milo Yiannopouloss career was toast. After winning fame on the strength of President Trumps campaign, the right-wing provocateur suffered a succession of setbacks after it was revealed that he once defended pederasty: He lost a book deal, a coveted speaking slot and his post at Breitbart News in one week. But as we hit the six-month mark of the Trump administration, Yiannopoulos has accomplished a quick comeback, once again commanding the attention of conservative fans and outraged foes.

Yiannopoulos re-emerged in May, when he slammed the singer Ariana Grande and headlined a protest against activist Linda Sarsours commencement address at CUNYs public health school. Sadly, Ariana Grande is too stupid to wise up and warn her European fans about the real threats to their freedom and their lives, the British-born Yiannopoulos wrote only a few hours after dozens of people had been killed in a terror attack at the pop stars concert in Manchester, England. He continued the broadsides at his New York speech against Sarsour later in the week; he spoke under a driving rain and denounced the Muslim civil rights leader as a Sharia-embracing, terrorist-embracing, Jew-hating ticking time-bomb of progressive horror.

Since then, Yiannopoulos has only garnered more attention, with the Independence Day release of his book Dangerous a title ripped from the visits he made to American college campuses as part of his self-declared Dangerous Faggot tour. Panned in numerous outlets, the book is divided into laundry list chapters about why various demographics hate him - including feminists, Black Lives Matter activists and the media. It also includes occasional discussions of Yiannopouloss sexual interest in black men, which he often invokes to dispel charges of racism. Nonetheless, the memoir has shot to the top of the Amazon best-seller list a definite sign that Yiannopouloss star continues to shine brightly. His achievement was made more impressive, given the fact that he self-published the memoir, following Simon & Schusters decision to dump his title in February.

When the pedophilia comments surfaced that, the chastened Yiannopoulos gave a formal press conference where he apologized for his actions and sought forgiveness. But now that hes back in the saddle again, the bomb-thrower isnt saving any of his firepower. Hes threatening to sue Simon & Schuster for canceling his book deal a threat that the imprint dismissed as a publicity stunt. He also hired dwarfs to don yarmulkes at a New York book launch party to mock Jewish right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro, an old rival from the days when both men worked at Breitbart.

Yiannopoulos is also getting support from some deep-pocketed people. According to leaked e-mails between Yiannopoulos and Breitbart News head Alex Marlow, it appears that hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter, Rebekah Mercer, helped finance Yiannopoulos after he left Breitbart and may have even helped him obtain a visa to remain in the United States. Rebekah Mercer loves Milo, said an unidentified source friendly with the family, which funded Trumps presidential campaign and set up the electoral data mining company Cambridge Analytica to back him. They always stood behind him, and their support never wavered.

As the summer continues, Yiannopouloss plans seem to be up in the air. Will he write another book, launch another hair-raising speaking tour, start his own media outlet, join an existing one? These are unknowns. But already hes done something impressive: Hes maintained and expanded his public profile after a scandal that may have felled longer-time celebrities. Whatever happens next, hes the master of the millennial internet culture that is his domain.

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Since the start what has become known as the Russian Election Meddling conspiracy, much of the mainstream media has reported that the goal of Russias meddling in the 2016 US election, was to disrupt American politics. While many within the mainstream media have run with this idea, one Russian-born former Israeli Parliament Official who has been studying Russian election meddling for the past two years, feels otherwise.

Shaul Vladimir Kabakchy, who formerly has worked in the Israeli Parliament, tells us that he learned a great deal about Russian communications while working in his position. While he agrees that Russia tried to influence American politics, what he doesnt agree onis the notion that their main goal was to simply disrupt our system of politics, regardless of who would become president.

First of all, in the course of the last two years, I have read on Russian social media websites thousands and thousands of 2016-election related posts, many of which were apparently belonging to the people who volunteered in a pro-Trump campaign spreading fake news and reaching out to the American voters, Kabakchy tells IR.net. I have never ever seen any single post referring to their motivation as willingness to disrupt the American political life. Most of the time their motivation was coming down to two Russian words; NASH TRUMP, meaning its our Trump, and that is what scares the hell out of the Alt-Right who doesnt want to have any association with the Kremlin.

Kabakchy doesnt believe that Russian leadership is stupid enough to have simply meddled with our election in order to discredit candidate Hillary Clinton, with the idea that Clinton would ultimately be elected President.

If the motivation behind the election meddling was to simply disrupt the American political system and the Kremlin was sure that Hillary would eventually come to power anyway, Kabakchy notes. Think about what the outcome would have been for them after she would have inevitably discovered the facts behind the Russian efforts. Does it make any sense? Does Russian leadership look that stupid to spit into their own drinking water, as the Russians often say?

Basically Kabakchy doesnt buy the idea that Russia would have simply been OK with Hillary becoming President, as if she had, she would have easily exposed everything the Russians had done. Instead Kabakchy focuses on the idea that this entire conspiracy is an Alt-Right movement, or as he puts it an Alt-Right Conspiracy.

The idea of a global Alt-Right conspiracy under the auspicious of Russia is presented in the books of Alexander Dugin, which is mandatory reading material for the Russian military academies, and that fact somehow is never mentioned in the American media, Kabakchy points out.

Alexander Dugin is one of the more well know political writers and philosophers in Russia. Many say that Dugin is Steve Bannons ideological soul mate. His ideas of government seems to fit perfectly in line with the ideas of Steve Bannon, who has tremendous influence over President Trump. While Russia doesnt necessarily care if they are associated with the Alt-Right or not, the Alt-Right prefers to be disassociated from Russia, even though this conspiracy has now linked the two in recorded history. Bannon and Trump would never admit that they believe Russias form of governing is suited for the US, and neither would the members of the Alt-Right in America.

So Kabackchys point appears to be one that blames the international Alt-Right for what we see going on in American politics. Trump being elected President was part of a great conspiracy by the international Alt-Right movement, one that Dugin plays a huge part in. It wasnt the goal of Russian meddling to simply disrupt the American political system, but rather to allow the Alt-Right movement to spread throughout the country, via electing a President who ran on Alt-Right ideologies. The conspiracy seems to be working, and the Alt-Right movement that Dugin and Bannon are so fond of is spreading its feet in American culture. The only problem for the Alt-Right though is the fact that most Americans are not buying the NASH TRUMPline.. but perhaps it could be Trumps 2020 campaign slogan.

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The resurgent far right movement, or the so-called alt right, is usually described as an American phenomenon, a blowback to the election of a black president that sprouted like a mole on the face of American popular consciousness, normalizing white supremacy and ushering President Trump into power.

But new militant far-right groups are sprouting up across the globe, in England, France, the Netherlands, Ukraine and, yes, even Canada.

Over the weekend, anti-fascists interrupted yet another right-wing rally, this time in Canada. The rally was held in solidarity with a group of military service members called the Halifax Five, who are also part of an alt-right fraternity called the Proud Boys. The five were suspended from the military for interrupting an indigenous ceremony in Halifax on Canada Day, and since then, Canadian media has been fixated on the Proud Boy phenomenon, comfortable identifying them as misogynists and white nationalists.

And though the Proud Boys are an American phenomenon, Canadian media, people and institutions have rapidly diagnosed and responded to their briefly emergent right-wing phenomenon, even as Americans still struggle with how to deal with the matter of homegrown racism on U.S. soil.

Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes has been protested at speaking events, leading to police scuffles and arrests.

Canada was almost entirely quiet about the Proud Boys until the indigenous ceremony on July 1. As dozens gathered and an indigenous woman shaved her head in mourning, a group of five Proud Boys wearing Fred Perry polos the aforementioned Halifax Five began singing God Save the Queen and heckling the indigenous about their citizenship status. Shortly after videos and articles started hitting the internet, the five were suspended from military service, and Canadas top general apologized to the indigenous community for the incident.

These disrespectful actions do not represent the Canadian Armed Forces members I serve as Minister of National Defense, Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan wrote in a statement on Facebook.

The Proud Boys are a self-described Western chauvinist group that functions like a fraternity for adult men, started by Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes, who is himself Canadian. Their core tenets include glorifying the entrepreneur and venerating the housewife. Theyre not explicitly racist in their core beliefs, and their members include people of color. Rather, theyre a neo-masculine traditionalist fraternity that cleaves to strict gender roles.

In the U.S., the Proud Boys have become one of the most reliably violent, disruptive groups on the far right. They have been arrested at fights in New York City and Boston, and were among those who stormed the stage at a controversial performance of Julius Caesar in New York City.

Still, the U.S. is torn in two over the alt right. Right-wing media runs constant coverage of anti-fascists with the intent on ginning up a left-wing terroristic threat against the alt rights free speech, while the academia and media fascination with the right has spent years trying to discern its roots and ideology, and determine the proper response to the movement.

But since Trumps election, Americans are learning to deal with emerging far right sentiment in their communities. In Albany, New York, two people associated with the Proud Boys were forced to resign from a tattoo parlor when the news of their affiliation with the group went public.

I hope that the Albany community will stand up behind the employers who are truly between a rock and a hard place and send the clear message that we will support them if they defend the safety of all of their clients and community, one local women wrote in to Albanys Times Union newspaper.

Perhaps such communities should look northward for inspiration.

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