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TERRORISM: THE RITUAL OF THE DEVIL

tics of these groups which define themselves as neo-Nazis are the way
that, just like the Ku Klux Klan, they maintain the superiority of the
white race and attack foreigners and those living in poorer areas.
Neo-Nazi movements have grown increasingly powerful over the
last 10 years, and their sphere of influence has widened considerably.
Their members now number around 70,000. The neo-Nazis have set
themselves various targets in different countries. According to one

study, Turks in Germany, Gypsies in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech
Republic, Asians in Great Britain, North Africans in France and
Northeasterners in Brazil, are among their slated victims. The neo-
Nazis' distinguishing characteristics are violence, hatred, intimidation,
the use of threat and destruction.
According to official German figures, in 1997 alone there were
10,037 incidents linked to racism and xenophobia. The figure for 2000
was more than 10,000. In Britain, there were 10,982 racism-linked inci-
dents between April and September alone. More than half of these

crimes consisted of threats, menaces and intimidation. The rest were
made up of murders, assaults, vandalism of homes and businesses, etc.
Louis Beam and William Pierce, extreme right-wing American ide-
ologues, share a very important place in the neo-Nazi movement that
developed during the 1990s. The concepts of "leaderless resistance"
and "white revolution" put forward by these men have now come to
dominate the thought of the neo-Nazi movement. At the root of vari-

ous acts of terror, such as bombings, looting, and the destruction of
workplaces in numerous countries of the world, can continually be
found their concept of "leaderless resistance." According to their idea,
neo-Nazi actions aught to be carried out on either an individual basis
or else by very small gangs.
The books Hunter and The Turner Diaries by William Pierce are re-
garded as the principle inspiration behind neo-Nazi terror. The pam-