Norway Terror Shines Spotlight on Right-Wing Online Networks

[The Straight Story]

Norway Terror Shines Spotlight on Right-Wing Online Networks

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian man who admits to killing 77 people last month, allegedly contributed to a range of online neo-Nazi, nationalist and anti-Islam forums. Now the European Union’s criminal intelligence agency, Europol, is launching a special investigation into non-Islamist extremism in Scandinavia.

Ideas spreading through Internet

Reginald Peters runs the online blog of the anti-Islam group, the English Defence League, and posts on its forums.

He says the Internet is a good way to spread his ideas. "We no longer really communicate by letter, by concrete mail as such. So this is the only way for people to communicate with other people who agree with them or if they don’t agree with them," Peters said.

The English Defence League stages street protests against what it calls the Islamification of Britain.

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