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    Far-right group offers cash to ‘useful idiots’ to attack mosques in UK

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    1. Wagamaga on

      Vandalism of mosques, schools and community centres in the UK has been driven by an online far-right channel recruiting for a wave of graffiti incidents.

      Extremism experts told The National that offers of £100 ($130) appeared on the Telegram messaging app to draw in people – described as “useful idiots” by campaign groups – who could prove they sprayed anti-Muslim graffiti on the buildings in London.

      The graffiti was found on seven buildings in the UK capital at the beginning of the year. At the time, the Metropolitan Police said it was investigating “a series of shocking hate crimes”.

      Tech Against Terrorism, a non-profit organisation which monitors online extremism, shared the name of the channel and its tactics with The National on condition the name was not revealed. The organisation is concerned that such exposure could trigger copycats.

      Tell Mama, which records anti-Muslim hate in the UK, has also encountered the group and shared similar material before a report it is due to publish next week.

    2. coffeewalnut08 on

      Imagine being anti-immigrant because you’re a “patriot for England”, then handing out money to fund mosque attacks instead of sending it to a homeless charity or foodbank or something. Or even a church.

    4. psioniclizard on

      Um they are just ordinary people asking questions and if you call them far-right it will hurt there feelings. We wouldn’t want that because we know how caring abd empathic they are.

    5. pajamakitten on

      The good news is that these useful idiots are idiots. That means they are likely to brag about their actions openly, making them easy to track down.

    6. Cynical_Classicist on

      And you know that you’ll get articles defending these people and treating them as heroes and blaming Muslims for getting attacked, with the writers invited onto QT for ‘debate’.