The spokesperson added: "We keep the list of proscribed organisations under review. Counter-terrorism police have previously spoken about the increasing amount of work relating to "niche ideologies" such as violent Satanism. Neo-Nazi group to be banned under terror laws. A year-old boy who cited the group as an influence was jailed this year for planning a terror attack. Image source, Reuters. Yvette Cooper says the ONA's activities are "particularly troubling".
Related Topics. Neo-Nazism Racism Counter-terrorism. Published 24 February The case "should be a wake-up call to the authorities," said a spokesman for Hope Not Hate, a British anti-racism and anti-fascism advocacy group that has been calling to have the Order of Nine Angles proscribed under terrorism laws in the United Kingdom. The Home Office, the British government department that handles domestic policy, currently does not name the O9A in its list of banned terrorist organizations.
Anyone who joins or invites support for listed organizations can face criminal charges. The Home Office would not comment on whether specific groups are being considered for a ban, a spokesperson said Tuesday. A group can be banned under the U. The O9A was probably established in the s and centered on an ideology of white supremacy and anti-Semitism that demands society to be overthrown by violence, and encourages its followers to engage in extreme violence such as murder and rape, according to Hope Not Hate.
The scope of its membership and influence is unclear, according to Flashpoint Intelligence, a global security firm and NBC News consultant. A Flashpoint analyst who asked not to be named for security reasons said that for comparison, even at its peak in popularity, Atomwaffen Division , one of the most infamous far-right networks to emerge in recent years, likely did not exceed 80 full-fledged members.
While the O9A used to share its propaganda through books written by its members, more recently it has used the internet and social media to reach more people, said Patrik Hermansson, a researcher on far-right extremism for Hope Not Hate. Its members — who are predominantly young men — aim to share the vilest, most extreme messages and images of hate, according to Hermansson.
By using platforms including the messaging app Telegram and, to a lesser extent, Instagram, the O9A is reaching younger men, including teens, in countries around the world, he said. In November, the trial of the youngest person in Britain to be convicted of plotting a terror attack at the age of 14, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was revealed to have been influenced by the O9A and other far-right groups. The O9A doesn't have a classic organizational structure with a leader and set members, Hermansson explained.
Instead, it consists of an array of smaller chapters while the administrators behind larger chat forums and social media accounts appear to switch hands frequently. They've not left the kind of footprint that other organizations do," McGregor said. But there have been several cases in recent years of far-right extremists arrested by police who were discovered to have O9A materials in their homes, McGregor added.
The ideologies of O9A may also be influencing other far-right groups , including the U. O9A's infiltration of Atomwaffen Division in led to the splintering of the group with some members going on to establish new organizations, according to Flashpoint analysts.
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