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A Nazi-satanist cult is fuelling far-right groups – overlooked by the UK authorities
March 04, 2020
I have been an anti-fascist campaigner for over 30 years, and thought I had seen it all. I fought against the National Front in the late Eighties, Combat 18 in the Nineties, the BNP in the noughties and then the English Defence League (EDL) in the 2010s. But as we enter a new decade, the threat from the far right has become more dangerous than ever.
As anti-extremism campaigners, we've been investigating the most extreme ideological group I've ever seen and have released our findings in our latest report. It is called the Order of Nine Angles (O9A), a British neo-Nazi satanist group that encourages extreme violence among its followers to destabilise society, and overthrow what it sees as Jewish control of global culture and economics.
As the BBC reports, we are calling for it to be banned by the Home Office, and the Home Affairs select committee chair Yvette Cooper MP has urged the Home Secretary to "immediately" refer it to the government's proscription review group, commenting:
"The evidence they have uncovered about the far-right terror group Order of Nine Angles is deeply disturbing and the Home Secretary should immediately refer it to the Government’s Proscription Review Group. The combination of Nazi-Satanism, extreme violence and sexual abuse makes it particularly troubling and action needs to be taken to prevent them grooming and radicalising other people."
The Jewish Labour Movement, and multiple MPs – including shadow Cabinet Office minister Stephanie Peacock and shadow policing minister Louise Haigh – have also called on the group to be outlawed.
Although we are seeing a period of decline in the traditional organised far right in this country, globally the far right is on the ascendency. Across Europe, far-right political parties have made headway, and even so far as into government.
Violent groups like C18 have had to be banned in several countries, and as the children born in the digital era hit adulthood, the world of far-right activism has splintered into many different scenes from the alt right to the misogynistic manosphere to anti-Semitic conspiracy circles.
As the battle has shifted online, explicit white supremacist ideology has been subsumed by a wider but more nebulous war – over identity and culture. As a result, the boundaries between far-right ideas and the mainstream debate have become increasingly blurred.
Yet at the same time as the digital sphere has replaced an older threat, it has created a new one: extreme far-right terror. Across the world, far-right terror has surged – from Hanau, to Halle to Christchurch – as a digital culture of peer-to-peer radicalisation has created a self-directed international “community” dedicated to the planning, preparing and promoting of white supremacist inspired murder.