Klan has a hooded view of its own history

I WAS amazed to read the comments of David Duke and Ray Larsen of the Ku Klux Klan concerning Justice Minister Michael McDowell’s efforts to “to protect the (Irish) people from immigrants” (Irish Examiner, July 15).

Surely they have misread their own history. The KKK is one of the most ferocious organisations opposed to immigration since the American civil war in the 1860s.

Some would like to think their opposition was limited to those from the southern hemisphere, but in fact they were also opposed to immigration of poor Europeans of any kind - including Irish immigrants.