These awful cranks aren’t just a silly evangelical Facebook group, they’re a well funded and very politically connected hate group (but mostly mask on) that’s been around for easily 20 years here in the UK. I remembered them popping up all over the place in the late 2000s and 2010s especially and thought there was a documanetary about them at some point. I was right. It’s called “In Gods Name” and it’s a Channel 4 investigation from 2008. Here’s a Yewtube link
They put on an OK front despite some very silly ‘everything we don’t like is evil and the devil’s work’ rhetoric that rightly sounds unhinged. But they definitely were, or later became, well connected with some extremely mask-off fascist ‘Christian’ orgs, especially in Europe. I seem to remember a pretty close Geert Wilders connection as well as with other far right parties and groups through their connections in the Conservative and UKIP (Reform precursor) parties here in the UK.
The other prominant ghoul from that side of the political NGO-matrix I remember them counting as a member was Sam Solomon who is one of these ‘Christian convert from Islam’ grifters who spent decades writing deeply racist books about secret Islamic plots to infiltrate the ‘civilised white Western nations’ via immigration in order to take over via the weakness of liberalism paired with terrorism and institute sharia law and white genocide. Sam Solomon isn’t his realy name as far as I know and he definitely had all sorts of suspiciously pominant politic, media, and financial backing while he was doing his brown-washing schtick for actual Islamophobic neo-Nazi groups like 'Tommy Robinson’s EDL and PEGIDA in Europe.
It seems he’s far from the only one either, as I’ve just found this article from Hope Not Hate (they have their issues too, but they are good at tracking the far right players here in the UK) on the network of explicitly racist, far-right, anti-Muslim actors connected to Parliment a few years ago that was all but ignored by most of the press and politicians. You can read it here if you’re interested.
Fucking hell, Christian Concern.
These awful cranks aren’t just a silly evangelical Facebook group, they’re a well funded and very politically connected hate group (but mostly mask on) that’s been around for easily 20 years here in the UK. I remembered them popping up all over the place in the late 2000s and 2010s especially and thought there was a documanetary about them at some point. I was right. It’s called “In Gods Name” and it’s a Channel 4 investigation from 2008. Here’s a Yewtube link
They put on an OK front despite some very silly ‘everything we don’t like is evil and the devil’s work’ rhetoric that rightly sounds unhinged. But they definitely were, or later became, well connected with some extremely mask-off fascist ‘Christian’ orgs, especially in Europe. I seem to remember a pretty close Geert Wilders connection as well as with other far right parties and groups through their connections in the Conservative and UKIP (Reform precursor) parties here in the UK.
The other prominant ghoul from that side of the political NGO-matrix I remember them counting as a member was Sam Solomon who is one of these ‘Christian convert from Islam’ grifters who spent decades writing deeply racist books about secret Islamic plots to infiltrate the ‘civilised white Western nations’ via immigration in order to take over via the weakness of liberalism paired with terrorism and institute sharia law and white genocide. Sam Solomon isn’t his realy name as far as I know and he definitely had all sorts of suspiciously pominant politic, media, and financial backing while he was doing his brown-washing schtick for actual Islamophobic neo-Nazi groups like 'Tommy Robinson’s EDL and PEGIDA in Europe.
It seems he’s far from the only one either, as I’ve just found this article from Hope Not Hate (they have their issues too, but they are good at tracking the far right players here in the UK) on the network of explicitly racist, far-right, anti-Muslim actors connected to Parliment a few years ago that was all but ignored by most of the press and politicians. You can read it here if you’re interested.