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| The SDL leader (middle) with key EDL leaders including the leader (right) |
Nazi links and ideologies
In 2008, the SDL’s leader, Isak Nygren, attempted to join the neo-Nazi Nordiska Förbundet but then joined another group instead. It is reported that along with other remarks, he posted on an online forum that he is against ‘race mixing’.
The Stockholm Division of the SDL see him as a visionary and posted a photo of him alongside Nazi Germany’s propagandist Joseph Goebbels, declaring that Nygren is the ‘reincarnation’ of a ‘great man’.
Richard Abrams is another leading member of the SDL who is known to hold extremist views. It is reported that on his website, he wrote,
Quote: ‘Me and some friends are fighting a struggle; RECLAIM THE SWASTIKA!’Sick jokes
The SDL’s Stockholm Division posted a sick meme joke of Anders Breivik weeping, stating that the reason for his tears was that he ran out of bullets.
Links with other far-right groups and the Islamophobia network
The EDL and SDL both appeared side-by-side at the floppy ‘Counter-Jihad Initiative’ in Sweden (a targeting initiative in disguise), alongside other Defence Leagues.
We also saw familiar far-right faces at this event. This included fake Islamic scholar Robert Spencer who has been cited more than 50 times by the Norway bomber, and Pamela Geller, who received an extremist email on her website that remains uninvestigated.
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