Extremist groups have been sending out messages encouraging supporters to go out and infect 'enemies'. FMTNews Militant
IS and related groups are seeking to recoup ground in Iraq, Syria and the Sahel.
He told Reuters he would shortly circulate a paper to member states setting out a list of concerns – including reports that far-right groups have been sending out messages online encouraging supporters to go out and infect “enemies”. Iraq is a particular worry as it struggles to form a government after the appointment of a third prime minister-designate, and as oil prices – its main source of income – collapse on the back of the pandemic.
Of note globally, he said, was a surge in far-right activity online, with websites including 4Chan and messaging apps such as Telegram being used to propagate hatred against Jews, Muslims, migrants and others who are often scapegoated at a time of crisis and are now being wrongly blamed for the pandemic.
“What is likely to happen is just a growing rise of right-wing violent extremism … They are using Covid a lot to promote their cause. That is certainly an issue that needs to be at the top of the agenda of governments.”
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