Leftist SPLC Names New Black Panther Malik Zulu Shabazz To Its List of Right-Wing Radicals…
Leftist SPLC Names New Black Panther Malik Zulu Shabazz To Its List of Right-Wing Radicals…
Wait, the New Black Panthers are right-wing?
30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right
The last decade has seen major changes in the American radical right.
What was once a world largely dominated by a few relatively
well-organized groups has become a scene populated by large numbers of
smaller, weaker groups, with only a handful led by the kind of
charismatic chieftains that characterized the 1990s. At the same time,
there has been explosive growth in several sectors of the radical right,
especially in the last few years, much of it driven by anger over the
diminishing white majority (the Census Bureau has predicted that
non-Hispanic whites will fall to less than 50% of the population by
2050) and the severe dislocations caused by a still-ailing economy. An
anti-Muslim movement, almost entirely ginned up by political
opportunists and hard-line Islamophobes, has grown enormously since
taking off in 2010, when reported anti-Muslim hate crimes went up by
50%. During the same time frame, a number of religious-right anti-gay
groups, enraged and on the defensive as swelling majorities of Americans
drop their opposition to same-sex marriage and other LGBT rights, have
grown extraordinarily vicious in their propaganda. Most dramatically,
so-called “Patriot” groups — which, unlike most hate groups, see the
federal government as their primary enemy — have grown explosively in
just the last three years, going from 149 groups in 2008 to 1,274 last
year. As a result of all these developments and others, a new crop of
leaders has come to the fore. Some are longtime activists of the radical
right, but others have become active only in recent years. What follows
is an alphabetized series of short profiles of key men and women
activists of the radical right — 30 to watch. [...]Malik Zulu Shabazz
Date of Birth: 1966
Groups: New Black Panther Party
Location: Washington, D.C.
Ideology: Black Separatist
Although he’s sometimes identified in the mainstream media as a mere
“legal adviser” or “community organizer,” Malik Shabazz is a racist
black nationalist with a long, well-documented history of violently
anti-Semitic remarks and accusations about the inherent evil of white
people. He is also particularly skilled at orchestrating provocative
protests. Ousted from the Nation of Islam after he became an
embarrassment even to that hard-line group, Shabazz went on to take up
the leadership of the New Black Panther Party.
