### here

Posts Tagged ‘Neo-Nazi’

« Older Entries

John Yates: Britain faces a neo-Nazi terror threat

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Neo-Nazi terror is a serious threat John Yates, assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, told MPs that Britain faces an increasing threat from neo-Nazi extremists operating as “lone wolves”.

Mr Yates warned of right-wing extremists operating alone, without an organisational network. He told the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee: “What we have seen in recent years is a growth around some far-right extremism movements.”

Mr Yates, responding to a question from David Winnick, a Labour MP who asked him about racist and fascist groups who turned to violence, said the police were seeing the emergence of “the lone wolf”. “That is something we take extremely seriously and we make sure we balance our resources to deal with that threat.”

Tags: , ,
Posted in News, Stolen Valour News | 136 Comments »

The threat of neo-fascist violence

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Neo-Nazi violence poses a threat to domestic security

We have already written about the threat posed by neo-fascist violence in Britain, but in today’s Independent Johann Hari has written this piece about why he believes that neo-Nazi violence is just as much as a threat as Jihadism.

Hari writes: “The campaign I am talking about is not being planned by jihadis or fringe Irish nationalists but by white “neo-Nazis” who want to murder Asians, black people, Jews and gays in the bizarre belief it will trigger a ‘race war’.” 

He believes that the recent case of Neil Lewington proves how the threat is just as serious as Al-Qaeda and that the police should be monitoring white communities just as much as Muslim ones.

Concluding, Hari says: “We need to prepare ourselves now: the next person to bomb Britain might not look like Mohammed Sidiq Khan – he might look like me.” 

Hari is perhaps over stating it a bit. Intelligence experts such as Europol believe, quite rightly, that the greatest threat to domestic security is Islamism. Last year, despite the fact that he UK doesn’t release a detailed break down of arrests, there were a total of 187 Islamists arrested compared to zero for ”far-right” groups through out the whole of Europe (see Europol report for 2009).

Moreover, Hari is assuming that all Muslims are non-white. But what about deep rooted Caucasian Muslim communities such as in Bosnia – where Osama Bin Laden launched a Jihad during the 1990s?  And what about converts such as Sulyman (Simon) Keeler? Having attended an Al-Muhajiroun rally in July, I noticed plenty of white converts among the crowds.

There is, however, a serious point that Hari misses, and which we highlighted a few months ago. Groups such as the BNP have the potential to act as a “conveyor belt” to violence. This does not mean that we believe the BNP are a terrorist organisation (in the same way Hizb-ut-Tahrir are not a terrorist group). But it does mean they provide disgruntled members of British society with an ideological framework that can give violent extremists the justification to carry acts of violence (just as HT has done with some of its radicalized followers).  

What do you think? Should the UK security services consider neo-Nazi violence as a serious threat?

Tags: ,
Posted in News | 25 Comments »

Thursday BNP News round up

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

BNP Assembly Member Richard Barnbrook faces a 6 month ban

Richard Barnbrook

Richard Barnbrook faces 6 month ban for lying

Today the BNP’s Richard Barnbrook, Barking and Dagenham, is facing a six month ban for making up murder statistics.

After the BNP London Assembly Member made his claims through YouTube, the Metropolitan Police had discovered that there was no basis of truth as “there had been no murders or serious incidents in the time period cited”.

An independent investigation found that Barnbrook’s comments on YouTube about non-existent murders had showed “wilful disregard for the truth”.

Barnbrook’s disciplinary hearing was scheduled for July but was delayed when he claimed stress-related illness and was signed off work for two weeks.

We believe that Barnbrook’s case is a classic example of how the BNP will often lie and exploit the genuine fears of residents living in troubled areas for political gain. We think that the BNP would best serve the communities they represent if they were to actively promote social cohesion instead of division and fear.

“BNP politician Richard Barnbrook faces ban after ‘making up murders’” – The Times

BNP Midlands leader spoke at Neo-Nazi rally

BNP neo-Nazi rallyOn 12th September 2009, Mike Bell, secretary of the BNP’s West Midlands region, attended the Fest der Völker (Festival of Nations) in Pössneck, Germany, with three other BNPactivists. They included Dave and Nina Brown from Nottinghamshire, who were taking time out from campaigning for a Broxtowe District Council by-election on 24 September, where Dave Brown was the BNP candidate.

Leading neo-Nazis from across Europe spoke alongside BNP activists Bell and Brown at the racist rally. They included violent neo-Nazis from Sweden’s National Socialist Front, Germany’s National Democratic Party, Hungary’s Jobbik and other nationalist hot spots in Austria, Bulgaria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. 

Despite Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons ( a former and dedicated member of Britain’s National Socialist Movement)claiming to the likes of Andrew Marr and Adam Boulton that their admiration for Adolf Hitler and Nazis are behind them, the BNPstill contain members such as Bell and Brown who continue to fraternize with neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers and other violent extremists.

Midlands BNP officer speaks at German neo-Nazi rally – Lancaster Unity

Serbian Gay Pride event cancelled after neo-Nazi threats

A Serbian church defaced by Serbian neo-Nazis

A Serbian Gay Pride event was called off after violent threats were made against participants.

Members of of the violent ultra-nationalist groups 1389 (named for the year when Serbia lost to the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Kosovo) and Obraz (the Serbian word for face) had been ratcheting up the temperature prior to the event by briefing the media.

Mladen Obradovic, a leader of Obraz, said: “Everyone knows what will happen if they go ahead with that parade of shame, and the responsibility for that will be of those who organized it. They cannot expect to poke their finger in the eye of our nation and go unpunished.” 

There are no known links between the BNPand Obraz and 1389. However, this is an example of the effects that racist and intolerantorganisations can have once they have managed to worm their way into the fabric of society. With the incremental rise of the BNP, we have to ask ourselves if this sort of nasty behaviour is what we want for Britain (a country where we take extreme pride in the values of fairness, tolerance and respect for one another).

Serbia scraps Gay Pride in Belgrade amid threats – TIME

Tags: , , ,
Posted in News | 22 Comments »

« Older Entries