David Myatt

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:BLP primary sources Template:Infobox person David Wulstan MyattTemplate:Efn (born 1950), also known by the pseudonym Abdulaziz ibn Myatt al-Qari,<ref>R. Heickerö: Cyber Terrorism: Electronic Jihad, Strategic Analysis (Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses), Volume 38, Issue 4, p.561. Taylor & Francis, 2014.</ref> is a British writer, religious leader, far-right and former Islamist militant,<ref name="Satanism-Introduction"/><ref name="Goodrick-Clarke"/><ref name="Introvigne 2016"/> most notable for allegedly being the political and religious leader of the White nationalist theistic Satanist organization Order of Nine Angles (ONA) from 1974 onwards.<ref name="Satanism-Introduction"/><ref name="Goodrick-Clarke"/><ref name="Introvigne 2016"/> He is also the founder of Numinous Way.<ref name=Langenohl>Langenohl, Andreas Langenohl & Westphal, Kirsten. (eds.) "Comparing and Inter-Relating the European Union and the Russian Federation", Zentrum für internationale Entwicklungs- und Umweltforschung der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, November 2006, p.84.</ref><ref name=Michael147>Michael, George. (2006) The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right. University Press of Kansas, p. 142ff.</ref><ref name=Bartoszewicz>Monika Bartoszewicz: Controversies Of Conversions: The Potential Terrorist Threat of European Converts to Islam, PhD thesis, University of St Andrews (School of International Relations), 2012, p.71.</ref> He is a former Muslim.<ref name="Bartoszewicz" />

Early lifeEdit

David Wulstan Myatt grew up in Tanganyika, now part of Tanzania, where his father worked as a civil servant for the British government, and later in the Far East, where he studied martial arts.<ref name=Michael142/> He moved to England in 1967 to complete his schooling. He is reported to live in the Midlands.<ref>Sunday Mercury, July 9, 2000</ref><ref>Sunday Mercury, February 16, 2003</ref>

According to Jeffrey Kaplan, Myatt has undertaken "a global odyssey which took him on extended stays in the Middle East and East Asia, accompanied by studies of religions ranging from Christianity to Islam in the Western tradition and Taoism and Buddhism in the Eastern path. In the course of this Siddhartha-like search for truth, Myatt sampled the life of the monastery in both its Christian and Buddhist forms."<ref name=autogenerated8>Kaplan, Jeffrey (2000). Encyclopedia of white power: a sourcebook on the radical racist right. Rowman & Littlefield, p. 216ff; p.512f</ref>

Beliefs and careerEdit

Political scientist George Michael writes that Myatt has "arguably done more than any other theorist to develop a synthesis of the extreme right and Islam,"<ref name=Michael142>Michael, George. (2006) The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right. University Press of Kansas, p. 142.</ref> and is "arguably England's principal proponent of contemporary neo-Nazi ideology and theoretician of revolution."<ref>Michael, George. The New Media and the Rise of Exhortatory Terrorism. Strategic Studies Quarterly (USAF), Volume 7 Issue 1, Spring 2013.</ref>

He described Myatt as an "intriguing theorist"<ref name=Michael142/> whose "Faustian quests"<ref name=Michael142/> involved studying Taoism and spending time in a Buddhist and later a Christian monastery,<ref name=Michael43>Michael, George. (2006) The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right. University Press of Kansas, p. 143.</ref> and allegedly involved exploring the occult, and Paganism and what Michael calls "quasi-Satanic" secret societies, while remaining a committed National Socialist.<ref name=Michael43/>

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At a 2003 UNESCO conference in Paris, which concerned the growth of antisemitism, Response, the magazine of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre reported that Myatt had been described as "the leading hardline Nazi intellectual in Britain since the 1960s [...] has converted to Islam, praises bin Laden and al Qaeda, calls the 9/11 attacks 'acts of heroism,' and urges the killing of Jews. Myatt, under the name Abdul Aziz Ibn Myatt supports suicide missions and urges young Muslims to take up Jihad. Observers warn that Myatt is a dangerous man..."<ref>Simon Wiesenthal Center: Response, Summer 2003, Vol 24, #2</ref>

This view of Myatt as a radical Muslim, or Jihadi,<ref>Myatt was described by author Martin Amis as "a fierce Jihadi". The Second Plane. Jonathan Cape, 2008, p.157</ref> is supported by Professor Robert S. Wistrich, who writes that Myatt, when a Muslim, was a staunch advocate of "Jihad, suicide missions and killing Jews..." and also "an ardent defender of bin Laden".<ref>Wistrich, Robert S, A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad, Random House, 2010. Template:ISBN</ref> One of Myatt's writings justifying suicide attacks was, for several years, on the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (the military wing) section of the Hamas website.<ref>Durham, Martin. White Rage: The Extreme Right and American Politics. Routledge, 2007, p.113</ref>

In addition to writing about Islam and National Socialism, Myatt has translated works by Sophocles,<ref name=Walton>J. Michael Walton: Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp.206, 221, 227</ref><ref>Morawetz, Thomas (1996) Empathy and Judgment, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities: Vol. 8, Issue 2, p.526</ref> Sappho,<ref name=Canedo>Gary Daher Canedo: Safo y Catulo: poesía amorosa de la antigüedad, Universidad Nur, 2005.</ref> Aeschylus,<ref name=autogenerated6>J. Michael Walton: Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp.206</ref><ref>Bethany Rainsberg: Rewriting the Greeks: The Translations, Adaptations, Distant Relatives and Productions of Aeschylus' Tragedies, Ohio State University, 2010, p.176f.</ref> and Homer.<ref>Smith, S: Epic Logos, in Globalisation and its discontents, Boydell & Brewer, 2006</ref> He has also developed a mystical philosophy which he calls The Numinous Way<ref>Senholt, Jacob C: Political Esotericism & the convergence of Radical Islam, Satanism and National Socialism in the Order of the Nine Angles. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Conference: Satanism in the Modern World, November 2009. [1]Template:Dead link</ref> and invented a three-dimensional board-game, the Star Game.<ref>Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke: Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press, 2002. p.219. Template:ISBN</ref>

Alleged involvement with occultismEdit

Myatt is alleged to have been the founder of the occult group the Order of Nine Angles (ONA/O9A) or to have taken it over,<ref name="blacksun">Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. Black Sun, NYU Press, 2002, p. 218.</ref> written the publicly available teachings of the ONA under the pseudonym Anton Long,<ref name="ryan1">Ryan, Nick. Into a World of Hate. Routledge, 2003, p. 54.</ref> with his role being "paramount to the whole creation and existence of the ONA". According to scholar Jacob C. Senholt, "ONA-inspired activities, led by protagonist David Myatt, managed to enter the scene of grand politics and the global 'War On Terror', because of several foiled terror plots in Europe that can be linked to Myatt's writings".<ref name="Senholt_identities">Senholt, Jacob. Secret Identities in The Sinister Tradition, in Per Faxneld and Jesper Petersen (eds), The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity. Oxford University Press, 2012. Template:ISBN</ref>

David Myatt has always denied such allegations about involvement with the ONA.<ref name="ryan2">Ryan, Nick. Into a World of Hate. Routledge, 2003, p. 53.</ref>

George Sieg expressed doubts regarding Myatt being Long, writing that he considered it to be "implausible and untenable based on the extent of variance in writing style, personality, and tone" between Myatt and Long's writings.<ref>Sieg, George. Angular Momentum: From Traditional to Progressive Satanism in the Order of Nine Angles. International Journal for the Study of New Religions, volume 4, number 2. 2013. p.257.</ref> Jeffrey Kaplan also suggested that Myatt and Long are separate people,<ref>Kaplan, Jeffrey. Religiosity and the Radical Right: Toward the Creation of a New Ethnic Identity, in Jeffrey Kaplan and Tore Bjørgo (editors), Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture. Northeastern University Press. 1998. p.115. Template:ISBN. Kaplan additionally states that the individual who used the pseudonym Anton Long was a friend of Myatt's in the 1970s and 1980s.</ref> as did the religious studies scholar Connell R. Monette who wrote that it was quite possible that 'Anton Long' was a pseudonym used by multiple individuals over the last 30 years.<ref>Monette, Connell. Mysticism in the 21st Century. 2013. Sirius Academic Press. p.92. Template:ISBN</ref>

Order of Nine AnglesEdit

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The Order of Nine Angles (ONA) originally was a Wiccan organization founded during the 1960s.<ref name="Satanism-Introduction"/><ref name="Goodrick-Clarke"/><ref name="Introvigne 2016"/> In 1974, it became a theistic Satanist organization once the leadership was allegedly taken over by David Myatt, previously known under the pseudonym of Anton Long,<ref name="Introvigne 2016"/> a former bodyguard and supporter of the British Neo-Nazi leader Colin Jordan.<ref name="Goodrick-Clarke"/><ref name="Introvigne 2016"/> In 1998, Myatt converted to radical Islam while continuing to lead the Order of Nine Angles. In 2010, he repudiated the Islamic religion and publicly declared to have renounced all forms of extremism.<ref name="Introvigne 2016"/> The Order of Nine Angles identify as theistic Satanists and affirm to practice "traditional Satanism".<ref name="Satanism-Introduction"/>

The doctrine of the Order of Nine Angles is complex and multifaceted.<ref name="Introvigne 2016"/> Sociologist of religion Massimo Introvigne defined it as "a synthesis of three different currents: hermetic, pagan, and Satanist".<ref name="Introvigne 2016"/> The medievalist and professor of Religious studies Connell Monette dismissed the Satanic features of the ONA as "cosmetic" and contended that "its core mythos and cosmology are genuinely hermetic".<ref name="Introvigne 2016"/> According to the scholar of Western esotericism Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, "the ONA celebrated the dark, destructive side of life through anti-Christian, elitist, and Social Darwinist doctrines", together with the organization's implicit ties to Neo-Nazism and the appraisal of National Socialism.<ref name="Goodrick-Clarke"/>

The Order of Nine Angles believe that the seven planets and their satellites are connected to the "Dark Gods". Satan is considered to be one of two "actual entities", the other one being Baphomet, with Satan conceived as male and Baphomet as female.<ref name="Introvigne 2016"/> The organization became controversial and was mentioned in the press and books because of their promotion of human sacrifice.<ref name="Lewis 2001">Template:Cite book</ref> Since the 2010s, the political ideology and religious worldview of the Order of Nine Angles have increasingly influenced militant neo-fascist and Neo-Nazi insurgent groups associated with right-wing extremist and White supremacist international networks,<ref name="Upchurch 2021">Template:Cite journal</ref> most notably the Iron March forum.<ref name="Upchurch 2021"/>

Myatt is regarded as an "example of the axis between right-wing extremists and Islamists".<ref name="Michael147"/><ref name=Weitzman>Mark Weitzman: Antisemitismus und Holocaust-Leugnung: Permanente Elemente des globalen Rechtsextremismus, in Thomas Greven: Globalisierter Rechtsextremismus? Die extremistische Rechte in der Ära der Globalisierung. 1 Auflage. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften/GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden 2006, Template:ISBN, pp.61-64.</ref> He has been described as an "extremely violent, intelligent, dark, and complex individual";<ref>Raine, Susan. The Devil's Party (Book review). Religion, Volume 44, Issue 3, July 2014, pp. 529-533.</ref> as a martial arts expert;<ref name=Observer/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} The Independent, Sunday 1 February 1998</ref> as one of the more interesting figures on the British neo-Nazi scene since the 1970s,<ref name=Observer>"Right here, right now", The Observer, February 9, 2003</ref><ref name=Soltysiak>Arkadiusz Sołtysiak. Neopogaństwo i neonazizm: Kilka słów o ideologiach Davida Myatta i Varga Vikernesa. Antropologia Religii. Wybór esejów. Tom IV, (2010), s. 173-182</ref><ref>Agnieszka Pufelska: Der Faschismusbegiiff in Osteuropa nach 1945 in Die Dynamik der europäischen Rechten Geschichte, Kontinuitäten und Wandel. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010. Template:ISBN</ref><ref name=Kaplan>Jeffrey Kaplan (ed.). David Wulstan Myatt. In: Encyclopedia of White Power. A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA 2000, p. 216ff; p.514f</ref> and as a key Al-Qaeda propagandist.<ref>"Far right hate is spiralling out of control", The Independent, February 18, 2019.</ref> According to Daniel Koehler of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, Myatt "is a complex persona who defies simple answers to the question of why he changed groups and milieus so often and so fundamentally. It is also obvious, that during large parts of his life, Myatt was driven by a search for meaning and purpose."<ref name=koehler162>Koehler, Daniel. From Traitor to Zealot: Exploring the Phenomenon of Side-Switching in Extremism and Terrorism. Cambridge University Press, 2021. p. 162. Template:ISBN</ref>

Before his conversion to Islam in 1998,<ref name=autogenerated2>Michael, George. (2006) The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right. University Press of Kansas, p. 147.</ref><ref name=Global>Greven, Thomas (ed) (2006) Globalisierter Rechtsextremismus? Rechtsextremismus in der Ära der Globalisierung. VS Verlag, p.62</ref><ref name=times2006>Woolcock, Nicola & Kennedy, Dominic. "What the neo-Nazi fanatic did next: switched to Islam", The Times, April 24, 2006.</ref> Myatt was the first leader of the British National Socialist Movement (NSM).<ref name="Langenohl"/><ref name="panorama">BBC Panorama, June 30, 2000.</ref> He was identified by The Observer, as the "ideological heavyweight" behind Combat 18.<ref name=Observer/>

Myatt came to public attention in 1999, a year after his Islamic conversion, when a pamphlet he allegedly wrote many years earlier, A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution, described as a "detailed step-by-step guide for terrorist insurrection",<ref name="cyberspace">Whine, Michael. Cyberspace: A New Medium for Communication, Command and Control by Extremists, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Volume 22, Issue 3. Taylor & Francis. 1999.</ref> was said to have inspired David Copeland, who left nailbombs in areas frequented by London's black, South Asian, and gay communities.<ref name="panorama2">"Panorama Special: The Nailbomber", BBC, June 30, 2000.</ref> Three people died and 129 were injured in the explosions, several of them losing limbs. It has also been suggested that Myatt's A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution might have influenced the German National Socialist Underground.<ref>Daniel Koehler: The German National Socialist Underground (NSU), in Jackson, Paul and Shekhovtsov, Anton (editors): The Post-War Anglo-American Far Right: A Special Relationship of Hate. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. pp. 134-135. Template:ISBN</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2021 The Counter Extremism Project listed Myatt as one of the world's 20 most dangerous extremists.<ref>The Top 20 Most Dangerous Extremists", Jan, 2021</ref>

Political activismEdit

Template:Neo-Nazism sidebar Myatt joined Colin Jordan's British Movement, a neo-Nazi group, in 1968, where he sometimes acted as Jordan's bodyguard at meetings and rallies.<ref>Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. "Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism", NYU Press, 2000, p.215</ref> Myatt later became the Leeds Branch Secretary and a member of British Movement's National Council.<ref>Jackson, Paul. Colin Jordan and Britain's Neo-Nazi Movement, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016, p.174. Template:ISBN</ref> From the 1970s until the 1990s, he remained involved with paramilitary and neo-Nazi organisations such as Column 88 and Combat 18.<ref>Goodrick-Clark, N. (2001) pp.215-217 Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. (chapter 11 in particular)</ref><ref>Lowles, N. (2001) White Riot: The Violent Story of Combat 18. Milo Books, England; this edition 2003</ref> He was imprisoned twice for violent offences in connection with his political activism.<ref name=Michael142/>

Myatt was the founder and first leader of the National Socialist Movement<ref name=autogenerated4>Arkadiusz Sołtysiak. Neopogaństwo i neonazizm: Kilka słów o ideologiach Davida Myatta i Varga Vikernesa. Antropologia Religii. Wybór esejów. Tom IV, (2010), s. 173-182</ref><ref>Goodrick-Clark, N. (2001) p.50 Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity</ref> of which David Copeland was a member.

Myatt co-founded, with Eddy Morrison, the neo-Nazi organization the NDFM (National Democratic Freedom Movement), which was active in Leeds, England, in the early 1970s.<ref>Goodrick-Clark, N. (2001) p.217 Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity</ref> Of the NDFM, John Tyndall wrote in a polemic against NDFM co-founder Eddy Morrison: "The National Democratic Freedom Movement made little attempt to engage in serious politics but concentrated its activities mainly upon acts of violence against its opponents. [...] Before very long the NDFM had degenerated into nothing more than a criminal gang."<ref>Spearhead. April, 1983</ref><ref> See also David Myatt and the Occult-Fascist Axis, in the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight, No. 241 (July 1995), pp.6–7, where it is stated that NDFM members, including Myatt, were involved in a series of violent attacks on coloured people and left-wingers.</ref>

Myatt founded the neo-Nazi Reichsfolk group.<ref name=autogenerated7>Jeffrey Kaplan (ed.). David Wulstan Myatt. In: Encyclopedia of White Power. A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA 2000, p. 216ff; p.512f</ref><ref name=Taguieff>Taguieff, Pierre-André. (2004). Prêcheurs de haine. Traversée de la judéophobie planétaire, Paris, Mille et une Nuits, "Essai", pp. 788-789</ref> The Reichsfolk organization "aimed to create a new Aryan elite, The Legion of Adolf Hitler, and so prepare the way for a golden age in place of 'the disgusting, decadent present with its dishonourable values and dis-honourable weak individuals'".<ref>Goodrick-Clark, N. (2002) p.223. Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press. Template:ISBN</ref>

It is alleged that in the early 1980s Myatt tried to establish a Nazi-occultist commune in Shropshire.<ref name="Observer"/> The project was advertised in Colin Jordan's Gothic Ripples newsletter,<ref>Searchlight, #104 (February 1984) and #106 (April 1984(</ref> with Goodrick-Clark writing that "after marrying and settling in Church Stretton in Shropshire, [Myatt] attempted in 1983 to set up a rural commune within the framework of Colin Jordan's Vanguard Project for neo-nazi utopias publicized in Gothic Ripples".<ref>Goodrick-Clark, N. (2002) p.222. Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press. Template:ISBN</ref>

Michael writes that Myatt took over the leadership of Combat 18 in 1998, when Charlie Sargent, the previous leader, was jailed for murder.<ref name=Michael142/>

Alleged influence on David CopelandEdit

In November 1997, Myatt allegedly posted a racist and anti-Semitic pamphlet he had written called Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution on a website based in British Columbia, Canada by Bernard Klatt. The pamphlet included chapter titles such as "Assassination", "Terror Bombing", and "Racial War".<ref name="Vacca, John R 2005, p.420">Vacca, John R. "Computer Forensics: Computer Crime Scene Investigation", Charles River Media, 2005, p.420 Template:ISBN</ref> According to Michael Whine of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, "[t]he contents provided a detailed step-by-step guide for terrorist insurrection with advice on assassination targets, rationale for bombing and sabotage campaigns, and rules of engagement."<ref name="cyberspace"/>

In February 1998, detectives from S012 Scotland Yard raided Myatt's home in Worcestershire and removed his computers and files. He was arrested on suspicion of incitement to murder and incitement to racial hatred.<ref name="cyberspace"/> The case later dropped, after a three-year investigation, because the evidence supplied by the Canadian authorities was not enough to secure a conviction.<ref name="Vacca, John R 2005, p.420"/>

In 1999, a copy of the Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution pamphlet was discovered by police in the flat of David Copeland,<ref name=copsey>Copsey, Nigel & Worley, Matthew (2017). Tomorrow Belongs to Us: The British Far Right since 1967. Routledge, 2017, Template:ISBN, p.156.</ref> the London nailbomber – who was also a member of Myatt's National Socialist Movement – which allegedly influenced him to plant homemade bombs targeting immigrants in Brixton, Brick Lane, and inside the Admiral Duncan pub on Old Compton Street in London, frequented by the black, Asian, and gay communities respectively.<ref name=autogenerated3>Mark Weitzman: Antisemitismus und Holocaust-Leugnung: Permanente Elemente des globalen Rechtsextremismus, in Thomas Greven: Globalisierter Rechtsextremismus? Die extremistische Rechte in der Ära der Globalisierung. 1 Auflage. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften/GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden 2006, Template:ISBN, pp.61-64.</ref> Friends John Light, Nick Moore, and Andrea Dykes and her unborn child died in the Admiral Duncan pub. Copeland told police he had been trying to spark a "racial war."<ref name="panorama"/>

Following the conviction of Copeland for murder on 30 June 2000, after a trial at the Old Bailey, one newspaper wrote of Myatt: "This is the man who shaped mind of a bomber; Cycling the lanes around Malvern, the mentor who drove David Copeland to kill [...] Riding a bicycle around his Worcestershire home town sporting a wizard-like beard and quirky dress-sense, the former monk could easily pass as a country eccentric or off-beat intellectual. But behind David Myatt's studious exterior lies a more sinister character that has been at the forefront of extreme right-wing ideology in Britain since the mid-1960s."<ref>Sunday Mercury, July 9, 2000</ref>

According to the BBC's Panorama, in 1998 when Myatt was leader of the NSM, he called for "the creation of racial terror with bombs".<ref name="panorama" /> Myatt is also quoted by Searchlight as having stated that "[t]he primary duty of all National Socialists is to change the world. National Socialism means revolution: the overthrow of the existing System and its replacement with a National-Socialist society. Revolution means struggle: it means war. It means certain tactics have to be employed, and a great revolutionary movement organised which is primarily composed of those prepared to fight, prepared to get their hands dirty and perhaps spill some blood".<ref name=search2000/>

Conversion to IslamEdit

Myatt converted to Islam in 1998. He told Professor George Michael that his decision to convert began when he took a job on a farm in England. He was working long hours in the fields and felt an affinity with nature, concluding that the sense of harmony he felt had not come about by chance. He told Michael that he was impressed by the militancy of Islamist groups, and believed that he shared common enemies with Islam, namely "the capitalist-consumer West and international finance."<ref name=Michael144>Michael, George. (2006) The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right. University Press of Kansas, p. 144.</ref>

While initially some critics, specifically the anti-fascist Searchlight organization, suggested that Myatt's conversion "may be just a political ploy to advance his own failing anti-establishment agenda",<ref name="icbirmingham_midland">Template:Cite news</ref> it is now generally accepted that his conversion was genuine.<ref name=Covenant>Miller, Rory (2007). British Anti-Zionism Then and Now. Covenant, Volume 1, Issue 2 (April 2007 / Iyar 5767), Herzliya, Israel.</ref><ref name=NATO>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=Steyn>Steyn, Mark (2006). American Alone, Regnery Publishing, USA, p.92. Template:ISBN</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=Amis>Amis, Martin. The Second Plane. Jonathan Cape, 2008, p.157</ref><ref>Alexandre Del Valle - The Reds, The Browns and the Greens or The Convergence of Totalitarianisms Template:Webarchive</ref><ref>http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/images/stories/pdfs/unlocking_al_qaeda.pdf Template:Dead link</ref>

As a Muslim, he travelled and spoke in several Arab countries,<ref name=Dienel>Mark Weitzmann, Anti-Semitism and Terrorism, in Dienel, Hans-Liudger (ed), Terrorism and the Internet: Threats, Target Groups, Deradicalisation Strategies. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, vol. 67. IOS Press, 2010. pp.16-17. Template:ISBN</ref> and wrote one of the most detailed defences in the English language of Islamic suicide attacks.<ref name=autogenerated5>Mark Weitzmann, Anti-Semitism and Terrorism, in Dienel, Hans-Liudger (ed), Terrorism and the Internet: Threats, Target Groups, Deradicalisation Strategies. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, vol. 67. IOS Press, 2010. pp.16-17. Template:ISBN</ref> He expressed support for the Taliban,<ref name=Michael147/> and referred to the Holocaust as a "hoax".<ref name=times2006/> An April 2005 NATO workshop heard that Myatt had called on "all enemies of the Zionists to embrace the Jihad" against Jews and the United States.<ref name="ict_middleeast">Karmon, Ely. "The Middle East, Iran, Palestine: Arenas for Radical and Anti-Globalization Groups Activity" Template:Webarchive.</ref>

According to an article in The Times published on 24 April 2006, Myatt then believed that: "The pure authentic Islam of the revival, which recognises practical jihad as a duty, is the only force that is capable of fighting and destroying the dishonour, the arrogance, the materialism of the West ... For the West, nothing is sacred, except perhaps Zionists, Zionism, the hoax of the so-called Holocaust, and the idols which the West and its lackeys worship, or pretend to worship, such as democracy... Jihad is our duty. If nationalists, or some of them, desire to aid us, to help us, they can do the right thing, the honourable thing, and convert, revert, to Islam — accepting the superiority of Islam over and above each and every way of the West."<ref name=times2006/>

Departure from IslamEdit

In 2010, Myatt publicly announced that he had rejected both Islam<ref>Roger Griffin: Terrorist's Creed: Fanatical Violence and the Human Need for Meaning, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, p.152. Template:ISBN</ref> and extremism.<ref name="Gartenstein-Ross">Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Madeleine Blackman (2019). Fluidity of the Fringes: Prior Extremist Involvement as a Radicalization Pathway. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. Taylor & Francis. [2]</ref>

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ReferencesEdit

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Barnett, Antony. "Right here, right now", The Observer, February 9, 2003
BBC Panorama. "The Nailbomber", broadcast June 30, 2000
BBC Panorama. "The Nailbomber" transcript
Gary Daher Canedo: Safo y Catulo: poesía amorosa de la antigüedad, Universidad Nur, 2005
Goodrick-Clark, N. (2001) Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. Template:ISBN
Karmon, Ely. "Arenas for Radical and Anti-Globalization Groups Activity" Template:Webarchive, NATO Workshop On Terrorism and Communications, Slovakia, April 2005
Lowles, N. (2001) White Riot: The Violent Story of Combat 18. Milo Books, England; this edition 2003 Template:ISBN
Michael, George. (2006) The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right. University Press of Kansas
Tel Aviv University. "Anti-Semitism Worldwide 1998/9 United Kingdom", retrieved August 17, 2005
Woolcock, Nicola & and Kennedy, Dominic. "What the Neo Nazi Fanatic Did Next: Switched to Islam" The Times April 24, 2006

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