Names of medieval Serbian, Hungarian and Bulgarian knights were scrawled on the magazines of a rifle belonging to the suspected attacker behind New Zealand's worst-ever mass shooting.
For the extreme right to prevail again in Europe, extremists would have to distance themselves from old-school Nazi ideology, he said. The new identity, he added, was partly imported from Serbia.
For centuries, Balkan kings, rulers and later leaders of nation states have presented themselves as “the defenders of Europe against the onslaught of Islam," according to Florian Bieber, professor of southeast European studies at the University of Graz in Austria. This “complete mischaracterization” of events “resonated with far-right groups across the world, including those who radicalized to commit acts of terrorism,” Bieber said.Those that monitor hate speech on the internet had expressed their concern that right-wing extremism was spreading globally online.
Hungary's autocratic leader Viktor Orban has evoked anti-Islamic imagery to justify policies such as closing borders to asylum-seekers many of whom are fleeing conflict and persecution — recalling the myths that have enervated right-wing extremists. In 2017, Hungary granted asylum to 106 refugees, according to the European Council on Refugees and Exiles — a tiny fraction of claims being granted elsewhere in the European Union.
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