Most of Florida's Anti-Muslim Hate Groups Are in Palm Beach, Experts Find

[TexasTowelie]

Fueled in part by President Donald Trump's flame-throwing speeches, the number of hate groups in the United States rose for the second year in a row, according to a new analysis released last week by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

Perhaps unsurprising in Trump's America, anti-Muslim groups lead the pack, nearly tripling from 2015 to 2016. Across the nation, there are now more than 100 such groups, many of whom operate under the guise of concern over "national security."

A number of those groups have roots right here in Florida. In fact, three of the state's four anti-Muslim organizations as identified by the SPLC are based in Palm Beach County, home to Trump's "Winter White House," Mar-a-Lago. They include:

Lake Worth's the United West, a group founded by occasional Breitbart contributor Tom Trento, who co-authored the book Shariah: The Threat to America.

Boca Raton's Citizens for National Security, whose founder, Bill Paxton, once told New Times Broward-Palm Beach that Muslims "are out to kill us" and "to sabotage our miserable nation."

The Palm Beach chapter of Act for America, created by right-wing author Brigitte Gabriel, who has called Gold Star father Khizr Khan a liar and once declared that "every practicing Muslim is a radical Muslim."

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