Pat Robertson blames atheists for the shooting at Sikh temple, but authorities identify him as a Skinhead

Pat Robertson blamed atheists for Sunday’s shooting at the Sikh temple on The 700 Club today, calling them satanic people who hate God and saying, “They’re angry with the world, angry with themselves, angry with society and they take it out on innocent people who are worshiping God.”

He then continues to suggest that Christians talk about God’s love; in the hopes, it will have an impact to stop violence, when news sources never stated what the shooter's religious beliefs were, except to say they believe he was affiliated with a white supremacist group called the Skinheads.

Police identified the shooter as Wade Michael Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran, who allegedly belonged to a white supremacist group.  Southern Poverty Law Center stated that Page belonged to a Skinhead band, called End Apathy.

Wade Michael Page was a member of two racist skinhead bands –– End Apathy and Definite Hate, a band whose album “Violent Victory” featured a gruesome drawing of a disembodied white arm punching a black man in the face. In the drawing, the fist is tattooed with the letters “HFFH,” the acronym for the phrase “Hammerskins Forever, Forever Hammerskins.”

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According to Southern Poverty Law Center one of the Skinheads terms is Rahowa, which is "Short for "racial holy war," a slogan that originated with the neo-Nazi Church of the Creator; also the name of a defunct racist band."

Part of the evidence of officials believing the shooters actions were a hate crime were the suspect’s tattoos.

Page wrote frequently on white supremacist websites, describing himself as a member of the "Hammerskins Nation," a skinhead group rooted in Texas that has offshoots in Australia and Canada, according to the SITE Monitoring Service, a Maryland-based private intelligence firm that searches the Internet for terrorist and other extremist activity.

Mriana

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  • Deborah_B

    With the religious right, it's sort of like a coin flip with every single tragedy — heads for atheists, tails for gays. The real creative ones add abortion and Darwin's theory of evolution to the mix.

    • http://www.houseofbetazed.com Mriana

      The thing is, if they actually did their research, they might find the truth or at least reality. Obviously Page wasn't an atheist. He believed in some deity, but not necessarily Robertson's deity. Many white supremacists base their hatred of those different then them on the Bible, often using the Tower of Babylon story, in which God separated various people, among other Biblical stories and verses, but of course, like my mother, Robertson would not call them Xians. Interesting how Xian extremists do not consider other Xian extremists Xians, esp when they preach a different message of hate.

      • Rob

        Like your mother?? What's with that?

        • http://www.houseofbetazed.com Mriana

          My mother is a Xian that can be just as nutty as Pat Robertson and is always saying this group or that group is not Xian. That's what is with that, but I still love and care about and for her. Other than that, I have no idea what you mean.

      • Chris

        Marina Its the tower off Babel…Babylon was a City…your mixing your bible up

        • http://www.houseofbetazed.com Mriana

          And you ended your sentence with a preposition. The sentence should read, "your mixing up your Bible". Let's not get technical over such little things.

  • Mailey

    The answer: Outlaw Tattoo's, Outlaw Rock music, do not support these things that kill, be an investigator and get rid of any extremest authorities, turn off the T.V. and do not listen to Pat robertson's and btw can you give me the name of your authorities so I can do my own investigation?

    • http://www.houseofbetazed.com Mriana

      Follow the links I put in the article and you will have a good start.

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