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Their thuggishness may qualify them as a “hate group” (so says the Southern Poverty Law Center) or as “a strain of American right-wing extremism” (so says the Anti-Defamation League). They may hold misogynistic, Islamophobic, antisemitic, anti-immigrant, and white supremacist views. Some may be violent criminals. But do their actions warrant the label of terrorist entity?
Terrorism is a bit like pornography: hard to define, easy to recognize. The government’s list provides a sickening catalogue of indisputably terroristic violence. Since 2015, the Islamic State alone has coordinated six attacks in Paris (killing 120), bombings in Brussels (killing thirty-one), the Manchester Arena suicide bombing (killing twenty-two), and vehicular rammings in the UK and Spain (killing at least twenty-seven). Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in 2014, uses children as suicide bombers, and racked up approximately 850 deaths in 2017. The list includes dozens of these murderous outfits, ma
Using terrorist list to label white supremacists risks repeating errors of 9/11 era, civil rights groups say
Civil liberties advocates are urging the Canadian government to find a more transparent way of tackling white supremacy and neo-fascism after 13 groups including the Proud Boys were designated as terrorist entities last week.
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The federal government announced on Feb. 3 that it was adding 13 groups to its list of terrorist entities, including the neo-fascist Proud Boys. A majority of the groups on the list are Islamist extremists such as al-Qaeda.(Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
Canada declares far-right Proud Boys group a terrorist organisation
Designation allows Canadian authorities to seize property and bank assets of group members and make it a crime to knowingly provide assistance to them
Members of Proud Boys gather outside Harry s Bar during protest in Washington DC last December (AFP/File photo) By Published date: 3 February 2021 22:32 UTC | Last update: 2 months 1 week ago
Canada has officially labelled the far-right Proud Boys group as a terrorist organisation, adding it to a list with the likes of al-Qaeda, the Islamic State group and al-Shabab.
The designation, declared on Wednesday, is part of an effort to combat violent extremism in all forms , Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said in a news release.
Anti-hate and civil rights groups are cautiously relieved after the terrorist designation wasn’t expanded for the Proud Boys, which could’ve snarled Black Lives Matter, Indigenous land defenders or others.