[Serious] Far-Right Extremism Is a Global Problem

[Deesse23]

Well, the prick who shot up the mosques here in NZ is Australian.  And there is a movement in both NZ and Oz of white supremacists, though they're not as prominant as they are elsewhere.

Doesnt sound like its a particularly big problem.

I think there is a problem with right-wing extremism in many Western countries, and it has, for the most part, been ignored because everyone was focussed on Islamic extremism.

Yes, but these right wingers dont have the same goal, unlike islamist extremists. The right wingers have common foes (other races, anyone not being part of the in-group, etc), yet they would, and have, fight each other, since lots of nationalism is involved. French and german right wingers may agree that syrian refugees should be flat out rejected from european borders, but without this common foe they would point towards each other being opponents having to be fought.

The focus has shifted to these extremists more and more recently, but I don't think we can drop the ball on Islamic and other extremist groups.

Yep, and thats exactly what our forum islamist is trying here. The whole thread is whataboutism with regard to (violent) islamism, which is a global problem.

I have no problems disussing the problem of the "new/alt right", but certainly not with someone who is doing this only to distract from another problem: Islamism, which really is a global problem unlike the new right, which is not globally united. Its only united in its hate for out-group foes, hatred for "others". As soon as those are gone, the other right wing nationalists are the "others" who need to be fought.