Oh the drama! It’s just tearing the murderous Atomwaffen apart, which is not a bad thing in itself, but unfortunately, there are too many places for murderous nazis to go upon pronouncing Atomwaffen bad because satanists.
White nationalists are disavowing the murderous neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division—not because of the murder, but because the group can’t shake persistent rumors that it’s a gateway organization for a satanic cult.
Atomwaffen is an extremist group that received national attention after being implicated in five murders from May 2017 to January 2018. But even before the most recent slaying, Atomwaffen was under fire from others on the far right who claimed the group was actually a mouthpiece for the Order of Nine Angles, a satanic group that encourages members to infiltrate extremist political movements, whose members might be susceptible to conversion.
It doesn’t help that, until recently, Atomwaffen pushed the satanic group’s literature on one of its websites.
Atomwaffen claims to have been founded in 2013, although its membership surged after a deadly white nationalist demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, ProPublica previously reported. The group now has approximately 20 cells across the U.S., according to ProPublica.
The whole thing is a tangled mess, which confirms the impression that what murderous nazis are best at is infighting. Kelly Weill at The Daily Beast has the whole sordid story.
busterggi says
OM! Nazis being called Satanists!
Caine says
Busterggi:
I know! Worst thing ever, right? Nazi? Cool. Murderer? Cool. Satanist? No way, Man!
Raucous Indignation says
I have nothing constructive to add at this time.
Ice Swimmer says
And calling themselves Atomwaffen Division wasn’t bad enough?
Daz: Uffish, yet slightly frabjous says
I…
Um…
Nope. I got nothing.
chigau (違う) says
Well, it’s late.
jrkrideau says
These Atomwaffen idiots (Satanist and non-Satanists alike) sound so incredibly deluded that it’s like what I imagine a psychotic’s thought patterns look like. And, clearly, they are dangerous.
Still, every time I read about neo-Nazis I remember the real Nazis were such incompetent losers that the 1000 year Reich lasted 12 or 13 years, their leader committed suicide to avoid capture by the “sub-human” Slavs (aka the CCCP) and the allies hanged Nazi leaders and others for war crimes.
I guess it is murderous losers imitating murderous losers.