Protestant supremacists who hate Catholics? Try the Ku Klux Klan

THE analogy drawn between Nazism and unionism by Fr Alec Reid is inaccurate only on the basis of scale.

Protestant supremacists who hate Catholics? Try the Ku Klux Klan
Mon, 24 Oct, 2005 - 01:00

The hatred which the Third Reich displayed towards Jews, homosexuals and others is not dissimilar to the hatred displayed by elements of unionism towards Catholics.

Perhaps a more relevant comparison could be drawn between unionism and the Ku Klux Klan. Both groups are Protestant supremacists and virulently anti-Catholic and racist.

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