The Structure of a Right-Wing Group: The Soldiers of Odin

Abstract

This article describes and analyses the Soldiers of Odin’s leaderless resistance strategy in its own extreme right arguments. It was evaluated the Soldiers of Odin into strategy of leaderless resistance according to its ideological and radical milieu Islamophobia in Finland and migration problem and forms and relations of activity political parties -Ture Finns and extremist right wing formations . For each category, important contacts are described in terms of the penetrate abroad of Soldiers of Odin’s leaderless resistance perception, and the establishment of transnational organization branches of Soldiers of Odin. The article concludes that although so far the Soldiers of Odin is evolving to a radical violence movement, it will be involved in the mass conflicts, which is between migrants and extremist right groups

Keywords

• Extremist Right,Soldiers of Odin,Anti-Immigration,Leaderless Resistance,Radicalization

Bir Aşırı Sağ Örgütün Yapısı: Soldiers Of Odin

Abstract

Bu makale, Soldiers of Odin’in sahip olduğu aşırı sağ görüşün lidersiz direniş stratejisini açıklar ve analiz eder. Soldiers of Odin, lidersiz direniş stratejisi çerçevesinde ideolojik ve radikal çevresi Finlandiya’da İslamofobi ve Göçmen Sorunu faaliyet ve ilişkilerine siyasi partiler -Gerçek Finliler Partisi- ve aşırı sağ oluşumlar göre değerlendirildi. Her bir kategori Soldier of Odin’in lidersiz direniş algısının ulus aşırı nüfus ettiği kolları ile olan bağlantılarının tanımlanması noktasında önemlidir. Makale Soldier Of Odin’in göçmenler ve aşırı sağ gruplar arasında yaşanacak toplu çatışmalar noktasında bir radikal şiddet hareketi olarak evirildiği ile sonuçlanıyor

Keywords

• Aşırı Sağ, Soldiers of Odin, Göçmen Karşıtlığı, Lidersiz Direniş, Radikalleşme.

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