Perry says the difficult part of fighting the appropriation of medieval imagery by white supremacists is knowing exactly when a trivial meme will turn violent - as it did in the recent Planned Parenthood incident. According to Perry, the manifesto released by the Christchurch mosque suspect quoted a version of Pope Urban II's sermon from the First Crusade, which culminated in the battle cries of "Deus vult." The use of medievalism in far-right propaganda has spread like wildfire, manifesting in memes, jokes in chat rooms like 8Chan, and occasionally violence. While it gained popularity among fans of a video game called "Crusader Kings," it has also become a rallying cry for far-right extremism, and can often be found in the chat rooms of Reddit and 4Chan - both online hotbeds for white supremacist views.
It originated as a medieval battle cry and was used in the First Crusade, one of a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims in western Asia and Europe. If you've never heard the phrase "Deus vult," that's not surprising. Federal prosecutors charged Gulick on Monday with three criminal complaints related to arson, vandalism, and possession of an unregistered destructive device. But the remnants of the man's vandalism remained - the Latin phrase " Deus vult," which translates to "God wills it," was left scrawled on the clinic's facade.įBI agents quickly identified an 18-year-old suspect, James Gulick, by the car used to flee the scene and Gulick's social-media posts expressing far-right extremist vernacular and antiabortion sentiment, according to a press release from the US Attorney's Office for the District of Delaware. While the Molotov cocktail exploded in the building, it soon self-extinguished. According to court documents and video surveillance, the person spray-painted the front porch of the health clinic with the words of a medieval battle cry and threw an incendiary device through the window of the building.
Early last Friday, a young man arrived outside a Planned Parenthood facility in Newark, Delaware, intending to vandalize it.
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