Aryan Nations

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Aryan Nations ( German : Aryan Nations ) is a US-based organization that represents racist and anti-Semitic positions.

history

Aryan Nations was founded in the 1970s as the political arm of the White Identity Church of Jesus Christ Christian . One of their goals is to found a state in which the so-called white race should set the tone ( white supremacy ). For a long time it was headed by Pastor Richard Butler , whose ideology combined neo-Nazi ideas with ideas of the Christian identity movement . Since the 1990s, the organization has been weakened by divisions, leadership disputes and long prison sentences from members.

Until 2001 Aryan Nations maintained a protected by armed guards and dogs terrain in Hayden Lake ( Kootenai County , Idaho ). There the organization held annual congresses, concerts with right-wing rock such as the band Bound for Glory , which is related to the Hammerskin and Combat 18 network . There was also an “academy” for young people. In addition, she offered paramilitary training. After drunken security guards from the Aryan Nations stopped a car near the site in 1998 and threatened and beat the occupants with weapons, the organization had to give up the site.

The organization maintains contacts with the Militia of Montana and with groups such as the White Aryan Resistance and Posse Comitatus . There were also connections to the right-wing terrorist German action groups .

Terrorist activity

Aryan Nations has been classified as a terrorist suspect by the FBI . In addition to members of the Ku Klux Klan and the National Alliance , members of the Aryan Nations were among the founders of the right-wing terrorist group The Order . In 1998, Buford Furrow, a member of Aryan Nations, opened fire with a submachine gun on a Jewish community center in Los Angeles, injuring five people. While on the run, he shot and killed Joseph Ileto, a Filipino-American . Furrow later said that with his act he wanted to set a signal for the killing of Jews. In 2005 the organization announced that it would seek contacts with Al Qaeda .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruce Hoffman: When the Lights Go Out, and Never Come Back On: Nuclear Terrorism in America. Diane Publishing, Upland 1987, p. 29.
  2. ↑ Statement ( Memento of August 12, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) by FBI Director Louis Freeh of May 10, 2001.
  3. ^ Henry Schuster: To Unholy Alliance: Aryan Nation Leader Reaches Out to al Qaeda . CNN.com, March 29, 2005. Retrieved August 3, 2012.