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David Myatt: Some Reflexions on Politics and A Fanatical Life

Extracts: As someone variously described - by assorted academics, authors, journalists, politicians, and others - as an extremist, a fanatic, a theoretician of terror, a neo-nazi thug, the man who shaped mind of a bomber, an example of the axis between right-wing extremists and Islamists, a man of extreme and calculated hatred, as someone at the forefront of extreme right-wing ideology in Britain since the mid-1960s, a ferocious Jihadi, and as an ardent defender of bin Laden, some personal reflexions on my forty years of extremism may be of interest to a few people, especially given that, as a result of experience, a pathei-mathos, I have come to reject racism, National- Socialism, hatred, and all forms of extremism, having developed a personal weltanschauung, a non-religious numinous way, centred around empathy, compassion, fairness, and love [...] Suffice to say that a decade of such travel [in Egypt] brought a feeling of familiarity and resonance with Egypt, its people, its culture, that land, and with the Islam that suffused it, so that when in the Summer of 1998 I seriously began to study Islam, to read Ahadith, Seerah, and the whole Quran, I had at least some context from prac

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