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TODAY marks a change in the US presidency. One that has been wracked by contention and controversy. There was a time whenever a new American leader took office, one of the most pressing concerns faced was keeping the country safe from Islamist-inspired extremism and terrorism. Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State (IS) group and other related terror organisations were the focus of attention. Today, it’s not as if such threats have vanished, far from it, but it speaks volumes that as Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, security officials have another clear and present danger to contend with.
The Capitol Riot Is Inspiring Far-Right Groups Around the World
The storming of Congress could have scary global consequences if the U.S. doesn’t act quickly to hold rioters accountable.
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Watching armed neo-Nazis and other extremists violently storm the Capitol building on Wednesday, my first thoughts weren’t of reaction in Washington D.C. Instead, I wondered who was watching in Belgrade, Bratislava, and Budapest.
Many, in the past few days, have compared the sacking of the Capitol to events Americans unthinkingly associate with faraway countries with inferior democratic values. I thought of these places for a different reason: because I knew that neo-Nazis and white supremacists waiting in the wings around the globe would see the events in Washington as proof that they, too, could violently seize power when the time came. Wednesday showed them that their fantasies of waging a race war were within reach.