White jihad

White jihad is a form of fused extremism exemplified by cases of white supremacist activists drawing on jihadism, methods, narratives and propaganda to promote their violent ideals and perpetrate terrorist attacks. According to academics Ariel Koch, Karine Nahon and Assaf Moghadam, white jihad represents a "clear and present danger". They trace the historical roots of white jihad to the relationship between Nazi dictator leader Adolf Hitler and Palestinian imam Amin al-Husseini during World War II, and to the ideals of racial separation shared between neo-Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell and Black Muslim leader Malcolm X. White supremacism and jihadism converge on antisemitism, anti-Americanism, and opposition to liberal democracy and adopt similar propaganda narratives. Jihad and Islamist terrorism are romanticized by some white supremacist activists, while the Islamogram online jihadist community adopts propaganda elements from neo-Nazism and the alt-right. During the 2010s, methods of attack generally associated with jihadist terrorism began to be praised and adopted by white supremacists, such as suicide attacks and car-ramming attacks. For example, a member of neo-Nazi group Aryan Strikeforce planned a suicide attack against anti-fascists, while a French Generation Identity member evoked the idea of using his car to carry out a jihadist-style attack. A growing adoption of the notion of the martyr also made its appearance among white supremacists, with neo-fascist accelerationists openly promoting the idea of "saints", analogous to the notion of the martyr in jihadism. == White sharia ==

Analogous to jihadists calling for sharia law, white supremacists call for "white sharia". == Groups which promote white jihad ==

. During the 2000s, the neo-Nazi organization Aryan Nations expressed its support for jihadist terrorism and it also called for an "Aryan jihad" against the "Judaic tyrannical system". Since 2015, neo-Nazi terror groups National Action and Atomwaffen Division have promoted white jihad by adopting symbols, terminology and methods from Islamist extremism. National Action is linked to violent attack motivated by white jihad, such as the brutal attack on a Sikh man in 2015 in the United Kingdom. In France, influenced by the propaganda of Atomwaffen Division and al-Qaeda, two radicalized youths oscillating between jihadism and neo-Nazism have planned attacks between 2020 and 2021, until their arrest. In the United States, an individual active on platforms linked to the Islamic State and to white supremacism planned attacks in 2017. According to an article which was published in the Belgian daily newspaper L-Post, one of the most important groups which advocates white jihad is Feuerkrieg, which was founded in 2020 by an Estonian minor. In 2021, a British minor member of this group was arrested for a terrorist offence, thus, he was the youngest person to have been arrested for this offence in the United Kingdom. According to Il Giornale the Italian neo-Nazi "Nuovo Ordine Sociale-Sole Nero" was connected to jihadi terrorists. Allegedly a man from Bologna volunteered to fight in the Palestinian group Lions' Den and returned to Italy, and a Palestinian PLO member Zyad Abu Saleh built explosives for the group. The Order of Nine Angles (O9A) is a Satanist neo-Nazi group which has played an important role in the promotion of the idea of white jihad. Its supposed ideologue David Myatt attempted to synthesize far-right ideas with Islam, calling for a jihad against Jews and Americans. However, according to academic Jacob Christiansen Senholt, for Myatt, neo-Nazi and Islamist ideologies are only a way of subverting radical activists to serve his Satanist agenda. In June 2020, an American soldier was charged with passing sensitive information to an O9A-inspired group, with the aim of passing it to members of Hurras al-Din. Atomwaffen Division itself was inspired by O9A. == See also ==