The extremist groups hated Charlie Kirk. They use his death to radicalize others

For years, extremist groupsWhite nationalists and militia Like proud boys and guards for Oath Charlie Kirk Not like their ally, but like their enemy.

Though Kirk belittled Trans people, Muslimsunmarried wivesand many minorities and advocated America with Christianity in center every aspect of life, he was in their viewModerate. For somehis apartment Support to the Government of Israel He made Kirk aim, not my friend.

But in the immediate after Kirk was fatally shot While speaking at a milestone in the United States on Wednesday, Utah, the same groups quickly framed the incident as an attack on one of his own, shows Kirk’s death as part of what they see as a current war against white, Christian men. The same groups were relatively calm on Friday after the police announced that they were arrested 22-year-old from Utah For a murder that did not have obvious connections to the left.

These groups, of which are relatively dormant from mass arrest about attacks 6. January, they used the spill of grief around Kirk’s death as a lightning bolt, signal they need to mobilize and take. Many of them, including proud boys and stores for oaths, used Kirk’s death as a tool for employment and radicalization to convince his supporters to take extreme view of the world.

“Nothing can stop what comes”, “Rian Sanchez, leader of the extreme right national network, who was caught on the video giving the Nazi greeting During the last year’s conservative political action conference, she wrote on their telegram channel. “We are mobilizing young nationalists to defend our community against radical left – we need your help!”

Appeals seem to be at least a bit of work: Sanchez’s post is accompanied by a screenshot showing a $ 1,000 donation that has received on a Christian platform for a multitude of variety that is emitted.

“This is the beginning of the movement that can define our nation,” the donor wrote on the site. “Use it for good and clean the land of these crazy ideologies.”

Another donor, who called a “white nationalist”, commented, “It’s time to go back our country back guys. Outside!”

Sanchez, acolit of distant right influence on Nick Fuentes, but mobilized. Video from Vigil for Kirk that Sanchez promoted himself on Huntington’s beach, California, on Wednesday shows a group of men who sing: “White man is backbred.” He shared another picture of himself speaking on Vigil on his telegram channel, with description: “Death left.”

Video singing on Huntington Beach has been shared in many other extremist groups, including an anti-communist combat HK channel on telegram, which is a hub to strengthen anti-Semitic, racist and anti-lgbtk rhetoric from groups, including Active Clubs and the National Legal.