From the AP News:

The group, which in the past has been accused of anti-Semitism and inflammatory, separatist rhetoric, issued a statement Monday after receiving inquiries from the AP and other news organizations…

They’re talking about the Nation of Islam, but it’d be an apt description of the Unification Church. However, AP descriptions of the Unification Church tend to look like this instead…

Started in 1999 by Korean-American evangelist Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace has founded chapters in 154 countries, encouraging peace recognizing the common points shared by religions…

…without even a mention that he owns the flagship Republican newspaper, the Washington Times. Mad world we live in.

Making it all a little madder is another strange partnership: Moon has funded Louie Farrakhan’s Million Family March. Other joint ventures between the Nation of Islam and the Unification Church have led to a lot of good write-ups of Moon in the Nation of Islam’s Final Call, now featuring descriptions of prominent Black Muslims hanging out with this suddenly strangely magnetic Moon fellow.