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Publication Date: July 25, 2024
DOI:10.14738/assrj.117.17290.
Steinmetz, C. H. D. (2024). Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism with Roots in (Neo)Colonization. Advances in Social Sciences
Research Journal, 11(7). 109-145.
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Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism with Roots in
(Neo)Colonization
Carl H. D. Steinmetz
ABSTRACT
Many Western countries and their citizens react to right-wing extremism as if it
were a coup against the democratic rule of law. This article explores the reasons for
this. It does so as follow. First, by outlining what is meant by right-wing extremism.
But also, by addressing the theories that right-wing extremists use to support their
ideology of destruction and subversion. Second, this article examines the numbers
of right-wing extremists in Europe and in the European Parliament. In this
European Parliament, right-wing extremists have become a party that cannot be
ignored. In fact, even Hungary's far-right prime minister, Viktor Orbán, is now
taking over the EU presidency for six months. Third, this article addresses the threat
of right-wing extremist terrorism. This is done on the basis of a number of states
that oppress citizens in their own and neighboring countries, invoking the adage:
"one's own country and one's own people come first. Russia and Israel are the two
countries most often mentioned. Attention is also paid to individual Western far- right terrorists who target Muslims, sub-Saharan Africans, and the "leftist" elite.
Their far-right ideology is strongly discussed in this article. Fourth, we test the
hypothesis that the ancestors of right-wing extremists had their first experiences
with dismissing the other as inferior and inferior in the former Western colonies.
In doing so, we do not close our eyes to neocolonial behavior. The elaboration of
this hypothesis is that they treat immigrants, refugees and expatriates in the same
way as their ancestors did in the former colonies on the African, Asian and American
continents. Isolation, exploitation, enslavement, plundering, looting and torture, as
well as genocidal wars, were the order of the day. Epigenetics shows that the
distinction between genotype and phenotype is based on genotypic changes due to
phenotypic conditions. In short, poor living conditions due to institutional racism,
stress, pollution, overcrowding and deprivation lead to negative genetic changes.
The victims of epigenetic transformation are mainly immigrants, refugees and
expatriates in Western countries and the original populations in the former
Western colonies. Finally, this article shows that it is a significant number of
immigrants, refugees, and expatriates who are told by right-wing extremists that
they are not welcome in their continent, country, province, neighborhood, and
street. With God's evidence, this article shows that human beings were not created
to fight each other with fire and sword.
Keywords: Right-wing extremism, European Elections, Terrorisme, (Neo)colonization,
Epigenetics
INTRODUCTION
Until recently, the focus in Europe has been on jihadism (waging a "holy war") and terrorist
attacks. This so-called nexus was fueled by the European exodus to Syria. Politicians were at
their wit's end. The supposed causes of jihadism and terrorist attacks, such as the lack of a safe
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educational climate in schools and social institutions due to everyday and institutional racism,
turned out to be only tentatively true. The same is true of a possible link to psychiatric disorders
(Steinmetz, 2021, B).
An inconclusive application of preventing a terrorist attack in the Netherlands was the
approach to the extended family of women because the narrative for the terrorist was that of a
top 600 criminal (Steinmetz, 2021, A). The top 600 criminals were supported by an approach
that was ineffective (Beijersbergen et al. 2023).
Meanwhile, the focus has shifted to right-wing extremism and the breakdown of the rule of law.
Famous examples include the Trump supporters who attempted to occupy the Capitol in the
United States on January 6, 20211, and the German AfD2, which wants to turn Germany into an
authoritarian state similar to the Russian model.
“On the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress was meeting to certify the results of
the 2020 presidential election, a violent and heavily armed mob of supporters of
outgoing President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol. While lawmakers and
staff were shepherded to secure locations or barricaded behind doors, the rioters
pushed past severely outnumbered Capitol Police officers, breaking windows and
vandalizing offices, many with disturbingly violent intentions toward members of
Congress and Vice President Mike Pence for their having refused to succumb to
Trump’s attempts to overturn the election in his favor. Five people were killed,
including one Capitol Police officer who was beaten by rioters (American Oversight,
September 26, 2023, see note 1).”
Figure 1: Trump All Dares His Supporters to Attack the US Capitol Again
(source: https://ap.lc/AzemA)
1 https://www.americanoversight.org/investigation/the-january-6-attack-on-the-u-s-capitol
2 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/17/afd-plans-to-turn-germany-into-authoritarian-state-vice- chancellor-warns
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Europe also takes a sharp turn toward right-wing extremism in 2024, in line with the
development outlined above.
“Violent right-wing extremism (VRWE) are acts of individuals or groups who use,
incite, threaten with, legitimize or support violence and hatred to further their
political or ideological goals, motivated by ideologies based on the rejection of
democratic order and values as well as of fundamental rights, and centered on
exclusionary nationalism, racism, xenophobia and/or related intolerance (EU,
2021).”
A major Western right-wing ideology is the so-called repopulation theory.
"At a symposium for the volume The Politics of Replacement, edited by University of
Amsterdam scholar Sarah Bracke (2023), the term was defined as follows:
"Repopulation theory is the idea that one's 'own' (white) people and one's 'own'
(white) culture are being displaced by those who are considered 'foreign'.
Proponents of population theory believe that there is a plan to replace the white
population of Europe with non-Western migrants and refugees, and that this is
being systematically organized by so-called 'elites (Funnekoter, 2024)'".
To undo the fertility of people of color in U.S. states with many Afro-Americans undetected, the
well-known Netflix film "The Designated Survivor3" dismantles a terrorist attack by a South
African white man using a bioweapon.
In public debate, but also among scholars, right-wing extremism is often associated
with behavioral characteristics, such as politically motivated violence. The concept
right-wing extremism applies to parties, movements, websites, and individual
activists and intellectuals. Arguably, (neo)Nazism and (neo)fascism are the two
most prominent forms of right-wing extremism. Some scholars argue that the more
recent counter-jihad movement is right-wing extremist. The term is controversial,
partly because very few political parties, groups, or activists use it to describe their
own position, and partly because it is associated with attitudes and actions that are
either illegal and/or highly stigmatized (Jupskås, et al. 2023)”
Right-wing extremism is back on the scene.
“What is most striking is that far-right voters across Europe are united by one issue:
immigration. Their opposition to immigration distinguishes them from other voters
in every European country. In virtually every European country, far-right voters are
more likely to say that immigration is bad for the economy and that immigrants
make their country a worse place to live. "Opinion on migration is the most
important predictor of voting for the far right," said Matthijs Rooduijn, associate
professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam (NRC, Loon, van et al.
20244)”.
3 https://www.netflix.com/watch/80133832?trackId=255824129
4 https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/05/31/rechts-lijkt-steeds-meer-op-gemiddeld-a4200592