Vanaf 2012 attention was mainly focused on Westerners who joined massively with jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq. Much less attention was paid to another conflict: the war in eastern Ukraine. According to the Americans, the attraction fits in with the worldwide advance of right-wing extremism. Gijs Weijenberg and Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn zoom in on – and identified – Dutch travelers.
Last week, the NCTV warned of the radicalization of the extreme right and virus madmen. Particular attention was drawn to the role of the "ultra-conservative" publisher the Blue Tiger.. What kind of club is the Blue Tiger?
Publisher De Blauwe Tijger is mentioned in the Terrorism Threat Assessment. What kind of company is that?
Between the privacy activists, Hooligans and conspiracy theorists also turn up people associated with radical right-wing organizations at Virus Truth demonstrations. What make the coronasceptic ideas interesting for the ultra-right, vice versa?
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, social unrest has become more visible, both on the street and on social media. Conspiracy theories are spreading quickly.
In a report on terrorism, terrorist Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg warns against the “ultra-conservative” publisher De Blauwe Tijger in Groningen. Driving force Tom Zwitser behind that publisher calls that Thursday "very intimidating."
Conservative thought once stood for skeptical thinking about the human condition, for the realization that existence can only be regulated to a limited extent. So why are conservatives now selling their souls to the fires of the radical right?
In the past few months, the virus madmen have been on the rise. Their demonstrations come in rapid succession and their claims are getting more absurd by the day. Despite this, the far-right disinformation campaigns seem to be having an effect.
The government is out 200.000 corona kill, the Groningen YouTuber Tom Zwitser poses in a video on his YouTube channel. "Nonsense and fake news", RIVM judges. Scientist Alexander Pleijter is also fierce: ,,Absurd. I fell straight back. ”
Conservative philosopher and publisher Tom Zwitser reaches thousands of viewers with online talk shows and newsreels. Who is he? "His book leaves a headstrong, see a closed world view. ”
The reactionary Catholic Robert Lemm (74) inspired Thierry Baudet. But politically he expects very little. Rather, he focuses the gaze upwards, to heaven. "Humanity is wrong.’
Christian conservatism. Forum for Democracy (FVD) Baudet has been under a "boreal and religious side", states co-founder Henk Otten, last week put the party. Established that FVD has attractive aspects of the Christian Right, which also concerned about the decline of Christian values. Is it an alliance between FVD and SGP?
Right Sensible Catholics who oppose the secularization of Netherlands, find an ally in the 'cultural Christians' Forum for Democracy. The common enemies: Islamization, mass immigration and climate hysteria.
Catholic activists who have joined in Civitas Christiana manifest themselves in a wide range, of mosque attendance by students to abortion. "The Netherlands is at war", says President Hugo Bos.
A new glossy to counteract "all those didactic pieces from the progressive liberal bubble '
In a debate in center Amsterdam is organizing Paul Cliteur van Forum voor Democratie a debate in collaboration with a foundation. The theme is "Muslim extremism"And they use the book"Why do they actually hate usFrom publishing house De Blauwe Tijger as a coat rack. De moderator is Geerten Waling and people like Frits Bolkestein en Wim van Rooy are participants. Wim van Rooy advocates discrimination against Muslims. From the audience argues the former PVV-employee Bernadette de Wit for to decimate the number of Muslims to 1 a 2% Muslims by country.
The extremist landscape in the Netherlands has developed strongly in recent years. Where in the public image the emphasis has long been on jihadism, other forms of extremism have come to the fore in recent years. Since the outbreak of the corona pandemic in 2019 the increasing hardening and division of the social and political debate are visible. Anti-government sentiments are more explicitly expressed publicly, for example in relation to the corona- and nitrogen policy. Moreover, more people seem to radicalize online under the influence of conspiracy theorists and/or radicals- and far-right groups.
More and more openly
Over the past few decades, it has become radical online- and extreme right-wing landscape has taken off. In addition, racist and dehumanizing statements are no longer only made under a pseudonym in a corner of the internet on a web forum like Stormfront., but increasingly openly shared on social media. This fact sheet has been prepared to gain more insight into this online world and its significance for the offline world. The online world fulfills various functions in this regard: recruiting, generate attention, mobiliseren, spread ideology, finding like-minded people, ideological justification, trolling and doxing, undermining social cohesion and government and entertainment. Although the online range of known physical (offline) radically- and extreme right-wing groups is relatively small and the threat of violence has been low for years, is there a continuation of a previously observed "threatening culture". Racist and dehumanizing messages are not distributed from major channels, but rather shared bottom-up by a network of individual users. These increased racist comments and hate speech contribute to further polarization and undermining of social cohesion, especially when it comes to dehumanization and increasing hostility towards groups with a migrant background. The online landscape is constantly changing. The information in the fact sheet is a snapshot of September 2020. We update this fact sheet periodically.
The possibility that an extreme right-wing loner in the Netherlands exhibits copycat behavior following an attack such as in Christchurch (maart 2019), is conceivable. The Dutch extreme right-wing landscape is usually not violent, marginal, fragmented and lacking appealing leaders. Online is right-wing extremist activity. Moreover, there are people who are from a right-wing extremist, but also from identitaire- and anti-government corner, sometimes (online) threatening violence. This has not yet become concrete anywhere.