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FRONTLINE NEWS—
– Reports, News Flashes, and Commentary from Various Conflict Zones Around the Globe
=BY= Jesse Lenehan
Image from Getty Images via Sean Gallup
Right wing violence is far more dangerous than Islamist terrorism, despite what the hype of governments and media suggest.
The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism investigated terrorist acts in 30 European states between the 2000 and 2014.
The researchers expected to find that a majority of those responsible were motivated by religion. In fact, their investigation, Countering lone actor terrorism, found religiously driven acts accounted for only a handful of fatalities. Right wing terrorists were much more lethal, accounting for nearly half of all deaths.
The Guardian quoted co-author Melanie Smith on this: “It became clear that actually the vast majority [of resources] were going to looking for religiously inspired terrorists … which kind of made sense to us because that’s what we were expecting too, but that’s not the case”.
Islamophobic prejudices explain the distorted coverage and focus.
Focused on the violent edge, the report acknowledges that this fringe is connected to much bigger right wing groups. Pegida in Germany, UKIP in Britain, the Front National in France and similar groups in Sweden and the Netherlands are all associated with right wing terrorists. At the very least they provide “moral oxygen” to the terrorists with hateful demonstrations and vicious rhetoric.
Nationalist, anti-immigrant and Islamophobic sentiments drive the far right. These ideas are familiar to governments happy to scapegoat asylum seekers and demonise Muslims.
“The most frequent targets were civilians”, the report says, “in particular ethnic and religious minorities, asylum seekers and immigrants. A large majority of religious targets were Muslim”.
Germany alone recorded over 220 attacks on refugee homes in 2015. Far from bearing responsibility for violence, Muslims and asylum seekers are the targets.
Source: Red Flag
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1 comment
The right wing has its roots in christianity… Islamophobia has its roots in Christianity. Islam poses a threat to christian hegemony… so it must be vilified and destroyed…. & in fact anyone that does not tow the christian line is viewed as a threat. Mutual co-existence is almost possible.
The following are examples of a more enlightened approach to co-existiing with Islam:
A Muslim woman, Aaliya Mir, Education Officer is in charge of research and rescue for the Indian organization Wildlife SOS, India:
http://wildlifesos.org/blog/wildlife-sos-participates-in-asian-waterbird-census-2015-and-world-wetland-day/
A leading bollywood muslim icon, Aamir Khan spoke to the press about Jain values of Ahimsa and Anekantevad (non-violence and coexistence of different views)… The influence of Ahimsa has had a positive effect, not possible with christianity. Either you worship Jesus or you don’t… there are no subtleties:
Bollywood star Aamir Khan praised Jain philosophy,
especially ahimsa and anakantevad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyZjj4ZTjZ4
The most brilliant Indian saroditst (stringed instrument) is Amjad Ali Khan, a muslim who regularly works for inter-communal cooperation and an end to violence between different religions. He is a product of ahimsa and the Indian music community, where muslim and indian musicians excel equally… both sing and play the spiritual music of each others gods… with joy and reverence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DPrKw3PvmE
Christianity is brittle and largely intolerant… always seeking to convert and dominate… We need a new ethic if we are to end right wing phobias of: islam, sikhism, hinduism, judaism, indigenous peoples and of ahimsa, in the never ending quest to subdue all other religions and cultures for power and wealth.
Perhaps right wing extremists don’t all directly reference christianity or carry christian banners as they spew their violence, but most were reared with a christian up bringing and learned all the phobias and scapegoating to which christianity is so prone.
Furthermore the Christian left insists on the teachings of Jesus to bring peace and justice…. as they ignore the underlying reality of christianity – which by its very nature is founded on exclusivity.