Boogoose posted:

At the museum I work at, someone vandalised some displays in the Anglo Saxon gallery by putting a vinyl sticker over them that said in red capitals ANTI ENGLISH PROPOGANDA. The displays that they targeted were ones that had the temerity to state that English people aren't originally from England. Does anyone know if this is offically A Thing with nationalist groups, or just a lone racist howling into the void?

Mind Loving Owl posted:

Oh no you get that in most countries where the majority of the population descends from invasions that occurred an obscenely long time ago. Hell even in countries like America where white people have only been predominant for about three hundred years you'll find supremacists trying to claim their history in the land stretches farther back than the natives somehow. Because somehow being first would excuse all the terrible things they did and still do to those that came later in their hosed up pseudo history.

TheImmigrant posted:

Why does a fringe group of white-trash dead-enders get so much attention from pearl clutchers?

Mind Loving Owl posted:

Oh no you get that in most countries where the majority of the population descends from invasions that occurred an obscenely long time ago.

Ras Het posted:

Discounting immigrant societies like much of America and such, this is actually a really arbitrary thing that shouldn't be taken as gospel or w/e. Cos, like, if you speak in terms of genetics and such, it literally isn't true that "English people aren't originally from England" - if your ancestry in England extends to the 400s, it also extends beyond it, to the Celts, and on to the original inhabitants of post-glacial England. They didn't get massacred by the Anglo-Saxons, they just succumbed to the mores of the (presumably much smaller) group of invaders and everyone blended together. Obviously English language and most things about English culture aren't "from England" originally, but it's silly to speak of descent in such terms.

Party Boat posted:

I always understood that the sack was a singular entity, unless there's something I missed about ol' Enoch.

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Inside Thor Steinar: London outfitter to the extreme right

Thor Steinar, the favoured brand of hardline right wingers in Germany, has opened a shop in north London called the Viking Thor Shop - but locals may be unaware of its right-wing roots. The shop has been operating from Ballards Lane in North Finchley since late last month, bringing clothing heavily associated with European far-right street movements to the UK.

The owner told Channel 4 News that he is not linked to the far right in any way, and promised to have posts on the white power website Stormfront promoting his new shop removed. When contacted Thor Steinar head office said it had "no interest" in commenting on the new shop in the heart of a multicultural London community with a sizeable Jewish population.

The Thor Steinar brand has faced bans in the German Bundestag, in several football stadium and members of the far-right German National Democratic Party have been expelled from parliament for wearing the brand. Its clothes were banned outright in Germany in 2004 because of the logo's similarity to symbols worn by the Nazi SS – but the company has rebranded since then.

In March 2012 the label drew global controversy when the company opened a shop called Brevik in Saxony. It was accused of naming the store after far-right mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik. The brand claimed it was named in honour of the Norwegian town of Brevik in Oslo but later changed the name and removed the sign.

Above the door at the north London Viking store, an ambiguous Wolfsangel-style Nordic rune is proudly displayed. The company was launched in October 2002 and was initially based in Königs Wusterhausen, German. In 2009 it moved to Dubai – provoking outrage from some of its extreme right customers who threatened a boycott.

The arrival of the shop was welcomed by the white power website Stormfront, where users posted boasting that "London gets its first white nationalist clothing shop". A number of users pledged to visit the store. One poster responded: "I hate north London. It's full of Jews", while a number of users made comments about shooting Jewish people. Local Conservative MP Mike Freer told Channel 4 News; "I am in contact with the Community Security Trust and local groups to ascertain what can be done. However, at present the shop may be unwelcome, but doesn't yet appear to have acted illegally."

While the company claims it is not owned by the far right, reports in the German press have repeatedly indicated the clothing was created from the far-right scene in east Germany. The shop sells goods from jackets to t-shirts emblazoned with the brand's name and logo. One t-shirt reads "White shark", another shows a man holding an automatic weapon and reads "last man standing".

The clothes regularly feature Vikings and Nordic themes - mythology which plays a central role in the extreme right's racial purist views. The Norwegian government filed a complaint against the use of the national flag in February 2008. Thor Steinar shops in Germany have been repeatedly targeted by anti-fascist protests and repeatedly vandalised. Earlier this month in Hanover 350 protesters gathered outside a Thor Steinar store to protest against what they see as a "right wing lifestyle store".

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:

Everyone still hates the fascists http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/march-for-england-2014

East London Mosque posted:

Britain First, the fringe far-right, Muslim-hating group, made a second visit to the East London Mosque today (apparently an "invasion" which involved four people). They left pretty quickly, after a local Community Support Officer spotted their car on zig-zag traffic lines, and run a red light as they made their "getaway".

Britain First's previous visit, as part of their misnamed ‘Christian Patrol’, showed them bravely swigging lager and unfurling a banner on the street outside ... before again running off quickly.

Of course, members of the public are welcome to attend the mosque and, with a booking, take a tour of the facilities (perhaps Britain First had trouble writing down the number).

Britain First is, of course, a tiny hate group whose members were booted out of the far-right British National Party (BNP). The mother of murdered soldier Lee Rigby has recently asked Britain First leader Paul Golding (a former BNP councillor in Kent and the party's ex-publicity officer) to stop using her son's name -- something Golding has pointedly refused to do -- claiming she is, understandably, 'heartbroken' Golding also had to admit to Andrew Neil on the BBC's Daily Politics show that money his organisation claimed to be collecting for British soldiers was, in fact, going to the party itself.

The party has recently boasted of guarding UKIP venues, though as anti-fascist groups have noted, its leader Jim Dowson has strong links to Northern Ireland, where he has been involved in the 'flag protests' in Belfast, as well as having a long history in an anti-abortion extremism.

Radio Prune posted:

Someone shared this from Britain First on FB just ten minutes ago unironically



I just cant

Stottie Kyek posted:

Here's Nick Griffin with some NF friends. I guess the BNP have given up pretending they're not affiliated with them now.

http://www.demotix.com/photo/4766977/nick-griffin-bolton-oppose-new-mosques-farnworth

And the flag looks like a 4chan image macro.

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

Is the NF front usually that blatant, or is are the "14 Words" a less obvious red-flag in the UK than in the US?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:

lols http://www.eastlondonmosque.org.uk/news/britain-first-invasion-fail


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyCFV9F6oL0

Incoming Chinchilla posted:

I know the answer is "because they are idiots", but if these guys are serious about these issues why do they keep turning up to protests with cans of beer? Are they just there to have fun?

Incoming Chinchilla posted:

because they are idiots

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:

Incoming Chinchilla posted:

I know the answer is "because they are idiots", but if these guys are serious about these issues why do they keep turning up to protests with cans of beer? Are they just there to have fun?

crazyvanman posted:

Ddraig posted:

Ah yes, the Magnificent Seven: an American remake of the classic Japanese film Seven Samurai. Truly a bastion of British pride.

crazyvanman posted:

For anyone (probably most people) who didn't see, the 'South East Alliance' came to Cricklewood the other day. They're a splinter group of the EDL formed my Paul Podromou Pitt, formerly head of Essex EDL. They claimed to be protesting against a Muslim Brotherhood 'office' in Cricklewood (113 Cricklewood Broadway) which, as far as anyone (including the police) can tell is actually just...flats or something.

Still, the SEA were out in force and at one point even managed to reach double figures. With about 2-300 antifa it was a pretty straightforward day with the police preparing a little pen for the fascists to stand in, a good 50m down the road from the supposed terrorist HQ. Anyway the best thing about it, and the reason I'm posting it here, is purely for the hilarious write up it got on fash blogs, who have dubbed the day a victory because they actually got onto the right street.

They genuinely created this
By 'fought' they basically mean stood there and shouted, entirely drowned out by antifa chants. Although as for the chant 'alterta, alerta, antifascista'...'its foreign, so we havent got a clue what there saying, which makes the chant reduntant'

Anyway, it was refreshing, what with all the genuine concern about the rise of the far right in Europe, to see 'Seven English Arseholes' thoroughly outnumbered and humiliated by a mixture of locals and antifa. Chatting to one Greek guy there was quite amusing - this was his first UK antifa demo, and was quite a come down from fighting Golden Dawn. His basic response was '...is this it? are you joking?'

Radio Prune posted:

Someone shared this from Britain First on FB just ten minutes ago unironically



I just cant

Mind Loving Owl posted:

You know I'm disappointed in these English racists. They all seem to at least pay lip service to Christianity despite it being invented thousands of miles away, where's the Woden worship?