State department says Nordic Resistance Movement, known as Swedish acronym NMR, poses threat to Americans
  • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The department said it made its finding based on the group’s history of violence rooted in “its openly racist, anti-immigrant, antisemitic, anti-LGBTQI+ platform”. The United States remains deeply concerned about the racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist threat worldwide and is committed to countering the transnational components of violent white supremacy,” a department statement said.

    • Zwad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      I understand why you’d instinctively mock people you dislike, but perpetuating a culture of body shaming helps no one in the end. There’s no need to convince yourself that everyone evil has to be ugly. There are plenty of great, nice people in the world who also happen to be very unattractive.

    • Godric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I really love the attitude, but use your eyes please.

      There’s a picture of a shameful of Neo-Nazis, and only 2 of them have beards.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    3 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The United States on Friday designated a Scandinavian neo-Nazi group and three of its leaders as terrorists, saying the Nordic Resistance Movement poses a threat to Americans.

    NMR, known by its Swedish acronym, is the largest neo-Nazi group in Sweden and has branches in Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland, where it has been banned since 2020.

    The state department added the movement and the leaders to its Specially Designated Global Terrorist list, meaning that any US-based assets will be frozen and they will be blocked from using the US financial system.

    The leaders being blacklisted, all Swedes, were the group’s chief, Fredrik Vejdeland, and two other senior figures, Pär Öberg and Leif Robert Eklund.

    Founded in 1997 in Sweden as the Swedish Resistance Movement, the group saw sister organizations spring up in other Nordic countries until they were united under NMR in 2016.

    After taking office in 2021, Joe Biden’s administration laid out a strategy to counter domestic terrorism that included identifying foreign groups that provide support.

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