From: reykja@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Reykja Sigurdsson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Return of the Thing from Swamp Valley
Date: 3 Oct 92 06:36:48 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA

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> >Like other right-wing extremists, he pulls religion into the debate.
> >He calls himself a true Christian and uses a long series of Bible
> >verses pulled out of context to support his position.

       I would be willing to bet that he is one of the "Identity" branch
of christians. 

> 
>  American racists do this too.  The really weird thing is that
>  Christianity was *founded* by a band of exactly the sort of 
>  swarthy, Mediterranean types that Myrdal wants to keep out of
>  Norway!   I mean, to be consistent he ought to be doing his stuff
>  in the name of some ancient pre-Christian Nordic religion or 
>  something.

       That is a misconception. Asatru and other Nordic religions *do not*
have any racist intent. Identity Christians, on the other hand, believe
they (not Jews) are the true Israelites, therefore the only ones worthy
of notice from Jehovah. 

       Indentity theology claims that all but the true Israelites (read:
White people -- preferably of Nordic or Germanic background) are the 
children of Satan. They openly refer to other races as "mud people". 

> 
>  Look, I don't really care what immigration policies Northern
>  Europe establishes.  Their current policies were formed when 
>  labor was in short supply and/or many of the people in these
>  nations would not do the sort of manual labor that they expect
>  the guest workers to do.  Many of these countries have far more
>  liberal immigration policies than the US -- returning the Haitians
>  the way we did would not have happened under Germany's current
>  laws, for instance.    But I am concerned with the increasingly
>  racist nature of these movements both in Europe and the US.  This
>  is too small a world to have such attitudes.

       Until the economy improves all over the world, it will continue. 
When there are too few resources and too many people, we will automatically
stratify. What is a more obvious basis than skin-color? 

       I agree that it is an awful way of thinking (in the US, it is 
institutionalized racism) and certainly is something we should be able
to move beyond. But, then, as long as there is this rampant authoritarian  
capitalism, we will just see more and more of it -- ad infinitum! 

      The guys in Norway are also tied in with LePen in France and Pamyat
in the former Soviet Union. Those creeps are everywhere.   



//reykja sigurdsson

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> >Arendal: Dagbladet today can confirm that Norwegian racists have been
> >at the race riots in both England and Germany.  Their goal: to build
> >up a "network" of European racists, and learn from the actions of
> >foreign Neo-Nazis.
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>  And the rest of the world will learn something too, preferably while we
>  can still nip it in the bud.
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> >Myrdal's work with building a racist network in Europe has already
> >come a long way.  He has already made permanent contact with
> >supporters in Denmark and Sweden.  Now he is trying to do the same in
> >the rest of Europe.
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> ---peter
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