The question may be America centric, and I admittedly don't know whether European white nationalists tend to be Protestant or Catholic, but it strikes me that the Ku Klux Klan are playing around with Christian Crusader imagery right? I mean they refer to themselves as knights.

I've been doing some reading tonight trying to disentangle all the historical threads and it's very convoluted and confusing - it seems like the Freemasons are supposed to be the heirs to the Knights Templar but the Freemasons are typically Protestant, so why was it not a bigger problem for them to start adopting Catholic iconography?

And of course in the last 5 years or so the "unite the right" movement has gone buckwild appropriating all sorts of medieval Crusader iconography- is this just a screen for contemporary white nationalism to use Crusader imagery and then claim that it can't possibly be white nationalism because the KKK hated Catholics?

Definitely seems that more modern organizations that have claimed affinity with the Knights Templar are racist organizations so maybe anti-Catholicism is specific to the KKK and not necessarily a part of white native as such?

Any insights would be appreciated thanks!