Soldiers of Odin: patrols take to the streets

[Jumi]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-finland-idUSKCN0UR20G20160113

Wearing black jackets adorned with a symbol of a Viking and the Finnish flag, the "Soldiers of Odin" have surfaced as self-proclaimed patriots patrolling the streets to protect native Finns from immigrants, worrying the government and police.

Events similar to Cologne particularly against women and girls have caused a resurgence for the far right. Where will it lead?

 

[Quintessence]

Truly, my first thought here is "some idiot is inevitably going to conflate this group with Nordic-inspired contemporary Paganisms like Heathenism and Asatrú," and then "these ain't no soldiers of Odin."

 

[Jumi]

Yeah and Odin was not known to be a god in the Finnish native religion before Christianity. It's a wonder how they came up with the name.

 

[Nietzsche]

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Odin's children are all mixed-race. The Norse, and the Vikings that came from them, were all massively cosmopolitan. For shame.

 

[kiwimac]

I thought Ukko and Ilmarinen were the 'big cheeses'in Finnish Gods?

 

[vaguelyhumanoid]

Oh golly, yet more racists polluting the Nordic custom with their garbage fvcking ideology. Maybe the "best" part of this is that Finnish culture is not traditionally Germanic or even Indo-European, in fact completely unrelated to the other Nordic countries. These would-be nationalists know nothing of their own heritage and instead bear the name of their foreign conquerors' chief god. Needless to say, I would not show frið to any heathen who supported chumps like these guys.

 

[Jumi]

Yep. These guys don't seem to know about their own heritage. Choosing an English name for their group and a Viking god just seems something they did to be cool.

They are patrolling places like this.

 

[Flankerl]

You people realise that Finland has a ethnic Swedish minority which is also the biggest minority in the country, right?

Just sayin'.

 

[Jumi]

You people realise that Finland has a ethnic Swedish minority which is also the biggest minority in the country, right?

Where this group was founded 0,1% of population are Swedish speaking. The group and supporters are most likely all not Finn-Swedes. Finn-Swedes tend to be liberal and pro-immigration.