Thread by @NafeezAhmed

🧵If you want to understand Britain's worst racist riots in living memory, this thread breaks down my @BylineTimes investigation revealing how US dark money, alt tech, Farage friends and a Russian-linked Trump insurrectionist sparked the violence /1 bylinetimes.com/2024/08/08/exp…

Hard to know where to begin with a tangled web such as this, but let's start with a fellow called Morten Messerschmidt. He is now the leader of the far-right Danish People's Party /2

In 2002, Messerschmidt was convicted in Denmark of racial hatred for promoting the idea that rapes were increasing due to the existence of "multi-ethnic society". Thus began his career of race-bating culminating in the riots that paralysed Britain. /3 uniavisen.dk/en/right-wing-…

In Nov 2009 Messerschmidt was interviewed by a fellow Danish People's Party politician, and this is where things get wild. He advocated a version of the Great Replacement theory, claiming that "Arabs" were "replacing" Europeans /4

He warned that Europe would be overcome by Muslim riots which would turn into "insurgencies" demanding "Shariah". The only solution was for Europeans to "throw off the tyranny" like how we repelled "the Turks at the Gates of Vienna" /5

Nigel Farage took a liking to Morten Messerschmidt. They decided to work together in the European Parliament. Messerschmidt joined his Europeans for Freedom and Democracy group, and they collaborated until 2014 - when he left to work under the UK Conservative led ECR /6

In 2012, Farage promoted on Facebook Messerschmidt's film, "Promises and Lies", which.... contained many lies about the EU (such as that 80% of Denmark's laws are controlled by the EU, or that the Turkish Muslims were about to swamp the Danish job market) /7

In 2015, Tommy Robinson teamed up with far-right activist Anne Marie Waters to plan an exhibition of Muhammad cartoons to provoke protests and riots that would lead to civil war in Britain between Muslims and non-Muslims. @hopenothate revealed that Tommy Robinson thought of "simultaneous demonstrations in areas of high Muslim density in towns and cities across the UK" so that "police would be too stretched to cope and at least one of the demos would lead to a riot" /8 bylinetimes.com/2024/08/08/exp…

In 2021, Farage praised European race war fantasist and Great Replacement advocate Morten Messerschmidt in a fawning video message and urged DPP members to elect him as their leader /9

That year, Tommy Robinson lost a High Court case in which Jamal Hijazi, a Syrian refugee schoolboy suffering racist attacks, sued him for defamation. He was ordered not to repeat the libels against Hijazi, then a child - or face prison. So he made a film called "Silenced" /10

"Silenced" is concocted from interviews with Bailey McLaren, who had racially assaulted Hijazi. The court had rejected his claims and proven Hijazi's. The film is so 'credible' that Robinson got conspiracy loon Alex Jones to (unlawfully) leak the trailer on Infowars /11

The same year, Tommy Robinson went to Moscow and St Petersburg where he met extensively with key Russian disinformation operatives /12

https://x.com/rwdburley/status/1820076473627140101

In 2023 on Aprils fools (the irony was lost on them), European race war fantasist Morten Messerschmidt hosted the launch and world premiere of Robinson's film "Silenced" in the Danish Parliament. Robinson spoke at the event /13

https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1801202089965600952

Shortly after, the film was "leaked" and published on Rumble - the far-right alt-tech website which broadcasts Russian state propaganda into the West, and which is co-owned by Peter Thiel and Trumps VP nominee JD Vance. The Rumble page offered a link to a fundraising campaign on GiveSendGo, another alt-tech site which raised money for 6 January insurrectionists, Nazis and extremists, such as the white nationalist terrorist group the Proud Boys /14

The Robinson fundraising campaign on GiveSendGo was run by Patrick Byrne. During the riots, Robinson tweeted to his benefactor that he was reading his book, and got a grateful reply, "Another satisfied customer" /15

Patrick Byrne is an American multimillionaire and Trump ally who participated in the 6 January insurrection, funds election denial conspiracy theories - and during Britain's racist riots tweeted avidly in support of them /16

Byrne is also intimately connected to a Russian intelligence asset who attempted to get the Trump campaign to establish a communication backchannel to Russia, and worked closely with fellow insurrectionist Gen Michael Flynn, who also has Russia ties /17 bylinetimes.com/2024/08/08/exp…

Of course, Elon Musk then systematically boosted viewings of Tommy Robinson's film on X to 33 million, and views of his posts to 1.2 billion. Musk also revealed that he agreed with Messerschmidt and Robinson that "civil war is inevitable" in Europe. /18 bylinetimes.com/2024/08/08/exp…

The British racist riots were enabled and sparked by a global far-right ecosystem which has been operating at the heart of power for the last decade or more. This is an infrastructure, and it holds democracy in contempt - as statements by Trump, Vance, Thiel and Musk brazenly reveal. It will be challenging to determine the extent to which they were planned and organised, but what's undeniable is that once sparked, they were pushed on by the orchestration of disinformation by key nodes in this global infrastructure. Tommy Robinson was at the epicentre. But he and his disinformation were empowered and amplified by the individuals and platforms exposed here, on the back of a decade of hateful race-baiting by mainstream institutions and media in a climate of worsening austerity. It's not just the rioters that need to be prosecuted. It's the platforms and funders and ideologues that weaponised them. ENDS