{"id":63410,"date":"2022-03-03T13:46:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T11:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=63410"},"modified":"2022-03-03T13:46:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T11:46:27","slug":"europes-neo-nazis-head-to-ukraine-borders-to-make-refugees-lives-even-more-miserable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/europes-neo-nazis-head-to-ukraine-borders-to-make-refugees-lives-even-more-miserable\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s Neo Nazis head to Ukraine borders to make refugees&#8217; lives even more miserable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"63411\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/europes-neo-nazis-head-to-ukraine-borders-to-make-refugees-lives-even-more-miserable\/ukraine-russia-crisis-politics-parties\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NN.jpg?fit=1500%2C1000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1500,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;AFP\/Getty Images&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Delegates sing the Ukrainian national anthem during the first congress of the new political party \\&quot;National Corps\\&quot;, created from the members of \\&quot;Azov\\&quot; civil corps and veterans of \\&quot;Azov\\&quot; regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine and volunteers in Kiev on October 14, 2016.\\n292 delegates of the congress unanimously elected Andriy Biletsky, \\&quot;Azov\\&quot; movement leader, founder of \\&quot;Azov\\&quot; battallion and Ukrainian MP as a party leader. The party&#039;s statute is based on the ideology of Ukrainian nationalism, priority of national interests, Ukrainian language as the only state language, recognition of Russia as an enemy to Ukraine.  \/ AFP \/ GENYA SAVILOV        (Photo credit should read GENYA SAVILOV\/AFP\/Getty Images)&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;-62169984000&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;UKRAINE-RUSSIA-CRISIS-POLITICS-PARTIES&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"UKRAINE-RUSSIA-CRISIS-POLITICS-PARTIES\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Delegates sing the Ukrainian national anthem during the first congress of the new political party &amp;#8220;National Corps&amp;#8221;, created from the members of &amp;#8220;Azov&amp;#8221; civil corps and veterans of &amp;#8220;Azov&amp;#8221; regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine and volunteers in Kiev on October 14, 2016.&lt;br \/&gt;\n292 delegates of the congress unanimously elected Andriy Biletsky, &amp;#8220;Azov&amp;#8221; movement leader, founder of &amp;#8220;Azov&amp;#8221; battallion and Ukrainian MP as a party leader. The party&amp;#8217;s statute is based on the ideology of Ukrainian nationalism, priority of national interests, Ukrainian language as the only state language, recognition of Russia as an enemy to Ukraine.  \/ AFP \/ GENYA SAVILOV        (Photo credit should read GENYA SAVILOV\/AFP\/Getty Images)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NN.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-63411 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NN.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Annisa Essack<br \/>\n03:03:2022<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his speech on the eve of the attack on Ukraine, was the &#8220;demilitarisation and de-Nazification&#8221; of Ukraine, as well as bringing to justice those who committed numerous bloody crimes against civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Majed Abu Salama, journalist and scholar, spoke to Radio Islam International and said that a few parties in Ukraine ascribe to far-right ideologies. This increases as they believe this would make them closer to the Europeans. He added that the sentiments from many journalists who have provided racist commentaries prove this.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that many of those escaping Ukraine are forced to go to countries where the neo-Nazi groups are prevalent; thus, we see the attacks on the refugees. Most of the groups are blatant racists and Islamophobic, which now means that Muslims and people of colour are under attack a second time.<\/p>\n<p>A far-right neo-Nazi group, Azor has expanded to become part of the Ukrainian armed forces, thus being a street military and political party. Abu Salama calls them &#8220;ultra-nationalists&#8221; who harbour neo-Nazi and white supremacy ideology and have trained volunteers as gangs.<\/p>\n<p>He also spoke of another the neo-Nazi Socialist National Assembly of SNA group who engaged in Xenophobic activity mostly against the Roma people.<\/p>\n<p>These groups have become the so-called special forces fighting the Russians.<\/p>\n<p>[LISTEN] to the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2rn84syv\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Annisa Essack 03:03:2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his speech on the eve of the attack on Ukraine, was the &#8220;demilitarisation and de-Nazification&#8221; of Ukraine, as well as bringing to justice those who committed numerous bloody crimes against civilians. Majed Abu Salama, journalist and scholar, spoke to Radio Islam International and said that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,31,4997],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-podcasts","category-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NN.jpg?fit=1500%2C1000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-guK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 13:40:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}