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The Canadian House of Commons has voted in favour of classing far-right group the Proud Boys as a White supremacist terrorist organisation. Lawmakers voted unanimously to pass legislation following the deadly siege of the US Capitol building earlier this month. The proposal was introduced on Monday, January 25, by Canadian Parliament member Jagmeet Singh, who called on the government to ‘use all of available tools to address the proliferation of White supremacists and hate groups, starting with the immediate designating the Proud Boys as a terrorist entity’. It must now be approved by the national leadership before it can become law. ‘It’s now on Justin Trudeau and his liberal government to do the right thing and follow through on the unanimous will of the Parliament. I hope he does, millions of Canadians do too,’ Singh tweeted, before urging his followers to ‘keep the pressure on’ by adding their names to a petition. The Proud Boys, who have become increasingly prominent in recent months, describe themselves as ‘western chauvinists’ who adhere to ‘anti-White guilt’ philosophy, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, via Newsweek.

via unilad: Proud Boys Unanimously Voted As White Supremacist Terrorist Group By Canadian Lawmakers

Als es auf den Querdenken-Demonstrationen 2020 teilweise gewalttätig wurde, mischten auch rechtsextreme Fußball-Hooligans und Kampfsportler ganz vorne mit. Szenekenner hatten das schon damals beobachtet, jetzt hat es auch die Bundesregierung offiziell bestätigt. Große Menschenmengen, ein unübersichtliches Teilnehmerfeld – und zu erwartende gewalttätige Auseinandersetzungen mit der Polizei oder politisch Andersdenkenden: Diese Melange hat die sogenannten Anti-Corona-Politik-Demonstrationen in Leipzig, Berlin oder Dresden „besonders attraktiv“ für Rechtsextremisten aus dem Fußballhooligan- und Kampfsport-Milieu gemacht. Das geht aus einer Antwort der Bundesregierung auf eine kleine Anfrage der oppositionellen Grünen-Bundestagsfraktion hervor, die dem Deutschlandfunk bereits vor Veröffentlichung vorliegt. Demnach wusste die Bundesregierung auch, dass die Szenen im Vorfeld über soziale Medien und Messenger-Dienste zur Demo-Teilnahme mobilisiert hatten. Für Irene Mihalic, innenpolitische Sprecherin der Grünen im Bundestag, ist klar: „Wenn solche Gruppen gezielt zu solchen Anti-Corona-Maßnahmen-Demos aufrufen, dass es dann im Wesentlichen darum geht, bei einer Konfrontation mit anderen Gruppen eben auch Gewalt auszuüben oder bei einer Konfrontation mit der Polizei sich Kämpfe zu liefern und damit auch Teile der Anti-Corona-Bewegung auch für eigene Zwecke zu vereinnahmen.“
Zunehmende Gewaltkompetenz. Dazu passt: Laut Bundesregierung habe sich die Gewaltkompetenz von Rechtsextremisten in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich erhöht – vor allem durch den seit 2017 in der Szene immer populärer gewordenen Kampfsport, der vermehrt auch rechtsextreme Hooligans anzieht. Nicht nur die Schnittmengen zwischen ihnen und rechtsextremen Kampfsportlern seien dadurch gewachsen, sondern auch der Grad der Professionalisierung sowie die Anzahl von Neugründungen regionaler, neonazistischer Kampfsportgruppen – und damit auch die Gefährdungslage. Diese Entwicklung, so heißt es zur Überraschung von Grünen-Politikerin Irene Mihalic weiter, werde bereits seit geraumer Zeit mit „hoher Priorität“ bearbeitet:

via deutschlandfunk: Querdenker-Demos„Besonders attraktiv“ für rechtsextreme Hooligans

n April 2009, federal intelligence officials issued a prescient warning to police departments around the country. “Right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat,” experts in the Department of Homeland Security wrote. “These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the capabilities of extremists — including lone wolves or small terrorist cells — to carry out violence.” It was one of DHS’ most explicit mentions of homegrown terrorists since 9/11, one with a direct connection to the military. But the call to action was effectively buried after powerful Republican politicians and their allies in the right-wing media launched broadsides against President Barack Obama’s administration and Democrats, alleging that they had disrespected the men and women in the U.S. military while attempting to surveil and silence conservatives. The blowback shifted the debate away from how to actually address the threat and into another partisan public spectacle. While the federal government, including the FBI, continued gathering intelligence, the episode turned the topic of right-wing extremism into political poison, according to former senior officials at the Department of Homeland Security, hobbling any serious public discussion about how to deal with this emerging threat. The officials said the agency disbanded the unit that wrote the report and failed to adequately focus on white supremacy and domestic terrorism for years afterwards. During Donald Trump’s tenure as president, his rhetoric and refusal to clearly denounce white supremacists and other hate groups only encouraged what the analysts had warned about 12 years ago, experts say. Then, in one of his final acts in office, Trump repeatedly lied that the election had been stolen from him, inciting thousands of supporters to march on the Capitol to prevent the results from being certified. Five people died in the ensuing riot, including a police officer.
It was an embarrassment for federal intelligence officials who failed to prevent violence that had been telegraphed online for months ahead of time. The aftermath has brought renewed national attention to the threat of right-wing extremism and crystallized the warnings in DHS’ 2009 intelligence report — including the explicit concerns about veterans.

via usatoday: A 2009 warning about right-wing extremism was engulfed by politics. There are signs it’s happening again.