Asatru Klangwerke symbol
By Betsy Woodruff
The FBI arrested two young men in Virginia on Tuesday for planning to
start a race war by burning churches. But the Norse-inspired white
supremacist cults they belonged to are all the rage in parts of Southern
Virginia.
Viking-inspired white supremacists trying to terrorize black Christians in the South: not as rare as you think.
News broke yesterday
that the FBI arrested two young men under the suspicion that they were
planning to start a race war by bombing black churches in their home
state of Virginia. The men, Robert Doyle and Ronald Chaney, allegedly
ascribe to an Icelandic pagan faith called Asatru that has a
disturbingly large following among white supremacists.
The faith
itself doesn’t seek to endorse or promulgate racist or anti-Semitic
views. But you could be forgiven for thinking it does, given its strange
appeal to Nazis and other sundry bigots.
Asatru is a pagan religion that draws on Norse mythology. It is related to Odinism, according the Southern Poverty Law Center,
and some use the terms interchangeably. Its defenders say the religion
itself isn’t inherently bigoted. But many white supremacists find it
appealing because, unlike Christianity, it isn’t influenced by Judaism.
If you think the KKK is soft on the Jews because it’s
Christian-friendly, Asatru might be for you.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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