Extremists using COVID pandemic to polarise societies - Europol Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
THE NETHERLANDS: Violent extremists are abusing the coronavirus pandemic to polarise societies, spread hate propaganda and exacerbate mistrust in public institutions, Europol warned in a report on Tuesday.
Since Covid gripped the world in early 2020, there has been “a notable increase in intolerance of political opponents, while the number of individuals conducting verbal or physical violence is also increasing,” Europe’s policing agency said.
The rise of right-wing extremism is of special concern, the Hague-based Europol said, pointing to at least one failed right-wing extremist attack in Belgium linked to opposition to the government’s Covid-19 measures.
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A lesson on tolerance, from John Le Carre for France
With a new law to monitor Islamic separatism, France betrays an idea of citizenship and republican values that is deeply insular. Updated: December 25, 2020 4:19:26 pm
France President Emmanuel Macron
“Should we be free to burn Korans, mock the passionately held religions of others? Maybe we should – but should we also be surprised when the believers we have offended respond in fury? I couldn’t answer that question at the time and, with all good will, I still can’t. But I am a little proud, in retrospect, that I spoke against the easy trend, reckoning with the wrath of outraged western intellectuals, and suffering it in all its righteous glory. And if I met Salman [Rushdie] tomorrow? I would warmly shake the hand of a brilliant fellow writer.” – John Le Carre, 2012