In this article, Yan St-Pierre offers an overview how COVID-19 is perceived as both validation & opportunity for ideological & religious terrorist organisations & extremists, and how the current situation will likely nudge borderline terrorists to act.
As U.S. President Trump visits El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio after a series of fatal mass shootings, the many are talking about the threat of white nationalism.
Matthew Lee, slow journalist with Delayed Gratification, interviewed Yan St-Pierre on the mass shootings in Christchurch, committed by a far right extremist.
The assassination of German politician Walter Lübcke, allegedly by a far right extremist, surprised many German politicians, who appear to have suddenly become aware of the threat far right terrorism represents. Yan St-Pierre discusses, why the climate of fear and extremism has been decades in the making. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0)
