The attack on two mosques in Christchurch, with 49 deaths brings nationalists light on the movement of the white. Violent single-offender as 28-Year-old Brenton T. ensure that the global movement is gaining new adherents. Security experts see in white nationalism, therefore, as big a threat as militant Islam.

you are anti-Semitic or hostile to Islam, want to live in capitalism or in socialism: The ideas of the white people are not nationalists at all uniformly, a fixed guide structure there is. What connects you around the world, the rejection of immigration, the idea of a “European” Ideals, and Disseminating often violent threats on the Internet. The assassin of Christchurch had spoken in his 74-page Manifesto, he wanted to destroy the “immigration” and take revenge for attacks in Europe.

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networked “These people are afraid of the demographic change. You use the term “genocide of White people”,” says Brian Levin of the centre for extremism studies at California State University in San Bernardino. Experts agree that the white nationalists are a fragmented movement, which is connected to the Internet, however, from Europe and Russia to Canada and the USA. Radical right-wing web sites help to keep the continents in contact. After the attack in Christchurch was full of it on relevant Websites rapidly by reactions.

According to Levin white nationalism and right-wing extremism in the United States is currently “the greatest extremist threat”. For years, the U.S. has more attacks by white nationalists than from jihadis. Sophie Bjork-James, a Professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, the white nationalists, especially one that unites them: the fear that white might be Christians, a minority in the societies they dominate for centuries. From this notion out about the identitarian movement with roots in France.

“resistance without a leader”

attacks by individual perpetrators, as it is now in new Zealand to ensure that the movement of the white gets nationalists inlet. According to Bjork-James, such individual perpetrators are part of a global strategy: The movement understand itself as “resistance without a leader”, whose members attempted to goad each other deeds.

feed will receive the white nationalists also, thanks to the rise of a number of politicians who represent the extreme conservative positions and anti-immigration fight. Such as Marine Le Pen in France and Viktor Orban in Hungary, Vladimir Putin in Russia and Donald Trump in the United States. Trump had campaigned in his election program for stricter immigration rules and a mostly white electorate reached.

In the wind shadow of Trumps

Trump not fell to since his election, the President repeated the fact that he condemned right-wing violence – for example, after the March, white nationalists in the town of Charlottesville, in the case of the killed extreme a counter-protester. According to Bjork-James white see nationalists the U.S. President as “an incredible opportunity to widen her influence”. The assassin of Christchurch, described the Trump in his Manifesto as a Symbol of a “renewed white identity”.

Trump unleashed on Friday, a new Controversy, as he condemned the attack, but at the same time stated that he did not see the white nationalists as a growing threat: “I’m really not. I think this is a small group of people,” said the US President in front of journalists in the Oval Office. (nag/AFP)

Created: 16.03.2019, 13:26 PM