Thursday, 29 December 2022

Right Wing Terrorism

The Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) have said in its annual report that the threat posed by the right wing is steadily increasing and has been since 2017 and they have more people on the MI5 radar than ever.
The Counter Terrorism Prevent scheme, introduced after Islamic Terrorist attacks, is now predominantly focused on far-right extremism so the obvious question is what happened around 2017 which led to the right-wing becoming such a destructive force.
It is clear that hateful far-right sentiments are rising across the world but it is over the last decade that right wing dogma surged and in the UK we can put that firmly in the camp of the Brexit vote which made immigration one of its main planks and was a reason cited by many the reason why they voted for Brexit.   
People like Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and his government used words like 'immigrant invasion' to stir up ill-feelings and the usually subdued right wing found  allies in the seat of power and were emboldened to bring their racist rhetoric to the fore.
In America, an already racist nation, Donald Trump never even tried to hide his racist tendencies and the American right rose to his immoral utterances and the nation is dangerously split down ideological lines while in other places like Brazil, Israel, Poland and Hungary extreme right wing xenophobic leaders spit out their poison to oppress and present 'others' as somehow lesser human beings.
On the extreme end of the right-wing ideological chart is Fascism and that is where many of the right-wing are heading although many will disagree because of the connotation of previous Fascist states which caused so much death and destruction in the last century.
That's not to say that there is not left wing terrorism, the extreme end of the left wing ideological chart is Communism and that has been responsible for tens of millions of deaths itself so there should be no finger pointing but i don't know anyone advocating Communism on the left, there energy seems to be on making society fairer for all and that is the difference.
The left wants a cleaner less polluted world, equality and a fairer society while the right seem to be advocating for a society which seems some members of it oppressed, the poorest in society denigrated and the harsh inequality to remain and they seem to have found leaders who want the same selfish things.
The right's views have always been abhorrent and ill-thought out but as the likes of Trump, Bolsonaro and Johnson are taken out of politics, their dangerously misconceived views have lit a bonfire which we are now struggling to put out.  

1 comment:

Falling on a bruise said...

The UK Counter Terrorism Prevent scheme doesn't mention left wing terror threats in America.