David Myatt

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David Wulstan Myatt (born 1950) has been the author of numerous tracts advocating National-Socialism, radical Islam, and what he calls The Numinous Way of Folk Culture and Cosmic Ethics.

Contents

1 Early years

2 Religious and political involvement

Early years

Myatt grew up in Africa where his father was employed by the British Empire. He came to England in 1967 to complete his schooling. He studied physics, pursuing his lifelong interest in space exploration and colonization. He encountered and joined Colin Jordan's British Movement in 1969.

Religious and political involvement

Throughout the 70's, 80's and 90's, Myatt was involved with paramilitary and neo-nazi organizations such as Column 88 and Combat 18, and following his conversion to Islam in the late 1990's, he was active in trying to bring National Socialists and radical Muslims together to fight what he regarded as their 'common enemy', especially after the September 11 Terrorist Attacks.

Myatt was the founder and first leader of the National Socialist Movement and was regarded as the mentor of David Copeland.

Myatt also founded and led the neo-nazi Reichsfolk organization, which advocates a new racialist philosophy called The Numinous Way of Folk Culture.

Writings

In addition to his many writings concerning National Socialism, and The Numinous Way, Myatt has translated works by Sophocles, Sappho, Aeschylus and Homer, and written several collections of poems, and some science fiction stories.

Under his Muslim names of Abdul Aziz and Abdul-Aziz Ibn Myatt, he wrote many articles advocating Islamic fundamentalism and "Martyrdom Operations" (suicide attacks), and - according to his own published letters and articles - undertook a series of travels to Muslim countries where he promoted Jihad and openly supported Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.

Myatt is the author of several practical terrorist guides, one of which - A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution - is said to have inspired David Copeland.

Critics

Myatt has been accused - by political groups such as Searchlight_magazine - of being a satanist, and founder and leader of the Order of Nine Angles. However, Myatt has denied such accusations.

Organizations such as Searchlight magazine - and individuals opposed to the Islamist and neo-nazi views of Myatt - continue to dispute many of Myatt's claims, including the sincerity of his commitment to Islam. [1]

References

Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right, Edited by Jeffrey Kaplan (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc., 2000) pp.216ff; pp.235ff; pp.512ff
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity (Chap. 11 in particular) by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 2001, ISBN 0814731554
White Riot: The Violent Story of Combat 18 by Nick Lowles (Milo Books, England, 2001 AD)
Homeland: Into A World of Hate, by Nick Ryan (Mainstream, 2003 AD).