No room for hate
Far-right group use divisions to spread hate message
BREXIT itself was and is a divisive enough issue but there is growing evidence of the hard right trying to turn it into a breeding ground for extremism.
Posing as a soft, identity politics nationalism, the fascists are organising across Europe under the sinister cover of GI movement.
They claim to be non-violent but preach hatred. They claim to be intellectuals but are thugs. They claim to be brave but are cowards who have to hide their true beliefs because they know how unacceptable they are.
These fringe organisations have to be taken seriously, have to be challenged and have to be kept in check wherever they appear.
The virus of hate they wish to spread must not be allowed to contaminate politics.
A FAR-RIGHT hate group are using Brexit fears to spread their racist message.
Members of Generation Identity Alba/Scotland (GI) were spotted at a pro-Brexit rally organised by right-wing extremist Tommy Robinson.
The group are trying to BY STEPHEN STEWART s.stewart@dailyrecord.co.uk capitalise on tensions over Brexit by spewing propaganda that white Scots are threatened by immigration and “Islamisation”.
Members of the European branch of the group were recently filmed carrying out attacks on young Arabs, including a teenage girl, and making Nazi salutes in France.
Speaking about their presence at the Brexit march in London last week, one GI marcher said: “We went down there because we want a real Brexit where we are out of Europe. This is about looking after our own people.”
A spokesman for Show Racism the Red Card Scotland said: “Generation Identity have been active in Europe for some time and are a far-right, white nationalist movement. They are anti-migrant and anti-Muslim.”
GI claim to be non-violent and democratic. They previously said their principles were aimed at “defending our ethnocultural identity but also rejecting old ideologies of racism and extremism”.