De
terreuraanslag tegen 2 moskeeën in Christchruch (Nieuw-Zeeland) werd
door witte nationalisten gepleegd. Volgens Paul J. Becker en Art
Jipson is het witte nationalisme dat tot deze en andere
terreuraanslagen tegen moslims heeft geleid, een product van de VS.
De terrorist die in Christchurch schoot, ziet de witte nationalisten
(fascisten) in de VS dan ook als groot voorbeeld....
Trump
stelde eerder dat het nationalisme geen grote problemen oplevert*,
echter de uitkomsten van een onderzoek door de Universiteit van
Chicago en de VN laten het tegenovergestelde zien.....
Het
geweld van witte nationalisten, wat mij betreft in veel gevallen
niets anders dan fascisme, neemt toe in het westen. Niet vreemd als
je ziet dat deze nationalisten de xenofobie die leeft bij een fiks deel van de diverse westerse bevolkingen en de bij deze groepen gekweekte anti-immigratie gevoelens voeden met haat- en angstzaaierij tegen/voor vreemdelingen, of die haat- en angstzaaierij nu tegen/voor hun geloof, huidskleur, of land van
oorsprong wordt gevoerd......
Over
fascisme gesproken: ook in de EU wordt deze 'ideologie' steeds groter
en het is niet ondenkbaar dat fascisten binnen afzienbare tijd (10 tot 20 jaar) zelfs
de grootste fractie in het EU parlement zullen vormen........
Het
volgende artikel werd eerder gepubliceerd op The Conversation en werd
door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media (de tweede foto komt van The Conversation):
Born in the USA, White Nationalism is Now a Global Terror Threat
March
29, 2019 at 8:52 am
Written
by The
Conversation
(CONVERSATION) — The
recent massacre of 50
Muslim worshippers at two mosques in
Christchurch, New Zealand is the latest confirmation that white
supremacy is a danger
to democratic societies across the globe.
Despite
President Donald Trump’s suggestion that white
nationalist terrorism is not a major problem,
recent data from the United
Nations, University
of Chicago and
other sources show the opposite.
As
more people embrace
a xenophobic and anti-immigrant worldview,
it is fueling hostility and violence toward those deemed “outsiders”
– whether because of their religion, skin color or national origin.
Transnational violence
Most
of the Western world –
from Switzerland and Germany to the United
States, Scandinavia and New
Zealand –
has witnessed a potent
nationalist strain infecting
society in recent years.
Driven
by fear over the loss of white primacy, white
nationalists believe
that white identity should be the organizing principle of Western
society.
“Every
people in the world can have their own country except white people,”
the American
Freedom Party’s William Daniel Johnson told
the Chicago Sun Times after the New Zealand attack. “We should have
white ethno-states.”
In
researching our upcoming book on extremism –
our joint area of academic
expertise –
we found that hate crimes have risen alongside the global spread of
white nationalism. Racist attacks on refugees,
immigrants, Muslims and Jews are
increasing worldwide at an alarming rate.
Scholars
studying the internationalization of hate crimes call this dangerous
phenomenon “violent
transnationalism.”
Polish
right-wing nationalists at a rally in Lodz, Sept. 12,
2015. Reuters/Marcin
Stepien/Agencja Gazeta
In
Europe, white violence appears to have been triggered by
the sudden increase, in 2015, of refugees fleeing war in Syria and
elsewhere in the Middle East.
Ultra-nationalists
across the continent – including politicians at
the highest
rungs of power –
used the influx as evidence of
the imminent “cultural
genocide”
of white people.
White nationalism is a US export
This
disturbing international trend, in its modern incarnation, was born
in the United States.
Since
the 1970s, a small, vocal cadre of American white supremacists have
sought to export
their ideology of hate.
Avowed racists like Ku
Klux Klan wizard David Duke,
Aryan Nations founder Richard
Butler and
extremist author William
Pierce believe
the white race is under
attack worldwide by
a cultural invasion of immigrants and people of color.
The
United States is diversifying, but it remains 77
percent white.
White supremacists, however, have long contended that the
country’s demographic
changes will lead
to an extermination of the white race and culture.
The
“alt-right”
– an umbrella term describing modern online white supremacist
movement – uses the same language. And it has expanded this
20th-century xenophobic worldview to portray refugees, Muslims and
progressives as a threat, too.
Alt-right
leaders like Richard Spencer, extremist
Jared Taylor and
the Neo-Nazi Daily Stormer editor Andrew
Anglin also use
social media to share
their ideology and recruit members across
borders.
They
have found a
global audience of
white supremacists who, in turn, have also used
the internet to
share their ideas, encourage violence and broadcast
their hate crimes worldwide.
“The
hatred that led to violence in Pittsburgh and Charlottesville is
finding new adherents around the world,” Jonathan
Greenblatt of
the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a civil liberties watchdog, told USA
Today after the New Zealand attack.
“Indeed,
it appears that this attack was not just focused on New Zealand; it
was intended to have a global impact.”
Rising racist violence
We
know the alleged New Zealand mosque shooter’s hatred of Muslims was
inspired by American white nationalism – he said
so on Twitter.
His
online “manifesto” includes references to cultural conflicts that
the author believed would eventually lead the United States to
separate along ethnic, political and racial lines.
The
alleged attacker also wrote that he
supports President Donald Trump“as
a symbol of renewed white identity.”
Trump
and other right-wing politicians like French presidential
candidate Marine Le Pen and Dutch
opposition leader Geert Wilders have blamed the
very real problems of modern life – growing economic instability,
rising inequality and industrial
decay –
on immigrants and people of color.
That
narrative has added further hostility into the existing undercurrent
of intolerance in increasingly multicultural societies like the
United States.
Hate
crimes against Muslims, immigrants and people of color have been on
the rise in the U.S. since 2014.
In
2015, the Southern
Poverty Law Center documented 892 hate crimes.
The next year, it counted 917 hate crimes. In 2017 – the year Trump
took office stoking nationalist sentiment with promises to
build walls, deport Mexicans and ban Muslims –
the U.S. saw 954 white supremacist attacks.
One
of them was a violent clash between counterprotesters and white
nationalists over the removal of a confederate
statue in Charlottesville,
Virginia. The 2017 “Unite the Right” rally, which killed one
person and injured dozens, amplified the ideas of modern white
nationalists nationally
and worldwide.
Last
year, white nationalists killed at least 50 people in the United
States. Their victims included 11
worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue, two
elderly black shoppers in a Kroger parking lot in
Kentucky and two
women practicing yoga in Florida.
The
years 2015, 2016 and 2018 were the United States’ deadliest years
for extremist
violence since 1970,
according to the Anti-Defamation League.
All
perpetrators of deadly extremist
violence in the U.S. in 2018 had
links to white nationalist groups. That made 2018 “a particularly
active year for right-wing extremist murders,” the Anti-Defamation
League says.
Nationalist
terror is a danger to the domestic security of the United States and,
evidence shows, a global terror threat that endangers the very nature
of global democratic society.
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*
Niet zo vreemd dat Trump het nationalisme niet als een bedreiging
ziet, immers hij is zelf een nationalist en gezien veel van zijn
uitlatingen, zoals zijn haat- en angstzaaien tegen/voor vluchtelingen en de woorden van waardering die hij uitspreekt voor
figuren als Bolsonaro, de fascistische president van Brazilië, kan je
ook Trump als fascistisch aanduiden......
Zie ook:
'Christchurch terreuraanslag: de normalisatie van anti-moslim terreur en westerse oorlogsvoering in moslimlanden'
'Christchurch terreuraanslag: maatschappij niet gebaat bij censuur op fascisme'
'Christ Church >> fascistische terreuraanslag >> 49 doden......'
Thierry Baudet (FVD) ging ook na de terreuraanslag gisteren door met verkiezingscampagne' (met een verwijzing naar de aanslag in Christchurch)
Zie ook:
'Christchurch terreuraanslag: de normalisatie van anti-moslim terreur en westerse oorlogsvoering in moslimlanden'
'Christchurch terreuraanslag: maatschappij niet gebaat bij censuur op fascisme'
'Christ Church >> fascistische terreuraanslag >> 49 doden......'
Thierry Baudet (FVD) ging ook na de terreuraanslag gisteren door met verkiezingscampagne' (met een verwijzing naar de aanslag in Christchurch)
Het label SPLC direct onder dit bericht staat voor 'Southern Poverty Law Center'.
Tom Elliott
