David Myatt has been described as a neo-nazi activist and thug, a theoretician of terror, a radical Islamist (supporter of bin Laden and the Taliban), a racketeer, and - according to Professor Jeffrey Kaplan - as having "undertaken a global odyssey which took him on extended stays in the Middle East and East Asia, accompanied by studies of religions ranging from Christianity to Islam in the Western tradition and Taoism and Buddhism in the Eastern path. In the course of this Siddhartha-like search for truth, Myatt sampled the life of the monastery in both its Christian and Buddhist forms."

Others – such as Professor George Michael and Goodricke-Clarke – have alleged that Myatt’s spiritual odyssey included exploring the occult, paganism, and "quasi-Satanic" secret societies and that Myatt founded, and led, the Left Hand Path occult group, the Order of Nine Angles. Myatt, however, has always denied having any practical involvement with occultism and Satanism.

Myatt has spent time in jail for violence, also founded and led two neo-nazi organizations – the NSM, and Reichsfolk – and was once arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, although all charges against him were later dropped due to "insufficient evidence".

Of Myatt the radical Islamist, Professor Robert S. Wistrich wrote that he "was a staunch advocate of Jihad, suicide missions and killing Jews [and] an ardent defender of bin Laden." At a NATO conference On Terrorism and Communications in April 2005, Myatt was described by Ely Karmon, a research scholar at The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, as having called on "all enemies of the Zionists to embrace the Jihad against Jews and the United States."

Of Myatt the theoretician of terror, Michael Whine of the Board of Deputies of British Jews wrote that the contents of one of the terrorist documents authored by Myatt "provided a detailed step-by-step guide for terrorist insurrection with advice on assassination targets, rationale for bombing and sabotage campaigns, and rules of engagement."

Myatt was also described, by one English newspaper, as "the man who shaped mind of a bomber; the mentor who drove David Copeland to kill [...] Behind David Myatt’s studious exterior lies a more sinister character that has been at the forefront of extreme right-wing ideology in Britain since the mid-1960s."

According to Myatt himself, his life has been one of experiental learning, culminating in him rejecting politics and conventional religion and developing his own mystical philosophy, which he calls both the Philosophy of The Numen and The Numinous Way, and which philosophy espouses the virtues of empathy and compassion.

Sources

Kaplan, Geoffrey. Encyclopedia of white power: a sourcebook on the radical racist right (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000) p.216

Michael, George. The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right. University Press of Kansas, 2006. p. 142ff.

Goodrick-Clark, N.  Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press, 2002.  Most of chapter 11 – Nazi Satanism – is devoted to Myatt.

Cyberspace: A New Medium for Communication, Command and Control by Extremists. 1999. Published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, RAND, and also by International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Herzliya.

Wistrich, Robert S. A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad, Random House, 2010

Ely Karmon. The Middle East, Iraq, Palestine - Arenas for Radical and Anti-Globalization Groups Activity. 2005

Myatt, David. Myngath – A Wyrdful Life. Thormynd Press, Seventh Edition, 2011.

A Brief Sketch

A controversial figure, now resident in the British Isles, David Myatt was born in 1950 and spent much of his childhood abroad, first in Tanzania, where his father worked for the British Government, and later in the Far East where Myatt began his training in Martial Arts. He returned to England in his mid-teens to complete his education. His political opinions were formed around this time and by his own admission he became involved with "extremist politics".

Despite the assumptions of various journalists, Myatt himself describes his childhood as an "extremely happy one, and I have many, many fond memories of those years."

He studied Physics at University but dropped-out to take up politics full-time. He described his role as that of a "revolutionary street-activist" and it was during this time - the early 1970's - that he was imprisoned twice for his violent political activism. One of these terms of imprisonment resulted from him leading a skinhead gang in a racial attack. During this period he was involved in many violent confrontations, believing, as he later said, that "violence purifies and makes the man." He helped found a small, violent, neo-nazi organization - the NDFM - which was active in Leeds, and regularly spoke at Public Meetings, several of which ended in massive brawls. He was then - and possibly still is - the only openly National Socialist since the time of Fascist leader Oswald Mosley to address a crowd at Speaker's Corner, Hyde Park, in London, a meeting which ended in the inevitable brawl, and the arrest of one NDFM steward for possessing an offensive weapon.

Regarding the NDFM, John Tyndall was later to write: " The National Democratic Freedom Movement made little attempt to engage in serious politics but concentrated its activities mainly upon acts of violence against its opponents.... Before very long the NDFM had degenerated into nothing more than a criminal gang." (Spearhead, April 1983)

Myatt himself, in his autobiography Myngath published in 2010, admits that while living in Leeds he did organize such a gang "whose aim was to liberate goods, fence them, and make some money with the initial intent of aiding our political struggle." He was to be imprisoned for leading this gang following his arrest during a raid by the Yorkshire Regional Crime Squad (later merged with other Regional Crime Squads to become the National Crime Squad whose remit was to deal with organised and major crimes).

Myatt was also, on a number of occasions, the bodyguard of Colin Jordan, one of the founders of the World Union of National Socialists, and original leader of British Movement of which Myatt was a member for many years. In addition, Myatt was recruited by the underground paramilitary group, Column 88 which - it has been alleged - was part of the European Gladio "stay-behind" network, set up, and trained by, Special Forces units (such as the British SAS) to conduct sabotage and assassinations in the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.(2)

It was also during his time in Leeds that he gained something of a reputation for being a "Satanist" as a result of an interview he allegedly gave to a reporter regarding his interest in, and youthful curiosity about, the Occult. Myatt then and subsequently claimed that he had been rather naive and trusting, had been "stitched up", and that the published article was sensationalist fiction, consisting of fabricated quotes, with the reporter breaking his pre-interview promise to show Myatt a draft of the article before it was published. The interview was not recorded, and the reporter was to die a year later, following a long illness. Myatt himself has always emphatically denied being or having been a Satanist, and repeatedly challenged his accusers to provide factual evidence for their allegations, something which they have so far failed to do.

        After several years of violent political activity, Myatt became disillusioned with the leadership of the various extreme Right-Wing organisations, and spent some time as a 'Gentleman of the Road' - a homeless wanderer, or vagabond. It was during this period that he wrote his first volume of poetry, which he, rather unsurprisingly, entitled Gentleman of the Roads. These wanderings may also have been prompted, in part, by a series of ultimately unhappy romantic liaisons, one of which led to the young woman in question moving abroad where she gave birth to Myatt's daughter.

Following this period as a vagabond, Myatt then traveled widely, and spent some time studying Buddhism, including a period living in a Buddhist monastery. Some time later he entered the novitiate of a Christian monastery where he stayed for nearly two years. While there, he undertook a serious and academic study of the Western Occult tradition and Gnosticism.

After several more years of travel and study, he, in the late 1970's, settled in the rural English county of Shropshire, married for the first time, taught Martial Arts to a few select individuals, began translating ancient Greek literature and published translations of Sappho, Aeschylus and Sophocles. In addition, he was an irregular contributor to John Tyndall's Spearhead magazine, using a variety of names, including his own, wrote several overtly National Socialist works, such as Vindex - The Destiny of the West, and published more poetry including his collection Pagan Poems. He also continued his travels, developing a particular affection for Egypt and its people, returning there on a regular basis. While in Shropshire, he attempted to set up a rural agricultural community composed of people who shared his belief in "the ideals of Blood and Soil." This did not succeed, due - according to Myatt - to a lack of commitment from those who had expressed interest in this National Socialist project, advertised in Colin Jordan's Gothic Ripples newsletter, and which project, despite later rumors circulated by Myatt's political opponents, was wholly unconnected with the Occult, Myatt by this time having penned his influential article Occultism and National-Socialism in which he denounced Occultism in general, writing that "National-Socialism and Occultism are fundamentally, and irretrievably, incompatible and opposed to each other".

It was also during his time in Shropshire that Myatt was questioned by the Police, and interviewed by several journalists (including reporters from ITV's World in Action), about the then unsolved murder, in Shropshire, of Hilda Murrell, with there being rumors of Myatt being employed as a deniable MI5 asset, having been recruited by them either during his time at University or during his time with Column 88.

According to someone who knew Myatt for many years, shortly before he moved to live and work near Malvern, Myatt destroyed his own copies of his poetry and denounced all his poems as "self-indulgent and decadent. The personal life is dead..." He declared an intention - in retrospect, somewhat presumptuous - of never desiring to write personal poetry again and expressed his own view on Poetry and Art in his essay, written at this time, A New And Numinous Art. This bonfire of his vanities may, or may not, have been the result of the death of his second wife, who died from cancer at the age of 39, his first marriage having failed after his wife ran off with a younger woman (who, incidentally, was the dedicatee of Myatt's translation of Sappho's poetry).
 

        In the early years of the 1990's, Myatt returned to the political fray "a harder and more determined man" according to one source (the British anti-fascist magazine Searchlight), and became involved with Combat 18.  It was during this period of his life - following his marriage to his third wife - that he wrote and published his voluminous writings about the philosophical, religious and ethical dimensions of National Socialism, and there was a rumor that, at this time, he received financial support from a former Officer of Hitler's SS and met, for the first time, the hero of his youth, Major General Otto Ernst Remer. It was also alleged that he set-up a world-wide underground "Occult-fascist Axis" linking groups in the United States, Europe, New Zealand and elsewhere. He also published several purely scientific works which, in his own words, aimed to create a new "organic science and technology" based on his idea of an acausal universe.

Following the arrest of the leader of Combat 18 - Paul "Charlie" Sargent - for murder, Combat 18 split into two feuding groups, with Myatt taking over the leadership of the loyalist Sargent faction and forming the political group, the National-Socialist Movement. Myatt was also arrested by the British Police following allegations of terrorist activities, racial hatred, and conspiracy to murder. These allegations related, in part, to clandestine groups, one of which was called "The White Wolves". The case against Myatt was later dropped - after a three year international investigation involving Interpol, the FBI and the Canadian Police - due to "insufficient evidence." Myatt was - after the London nail-bombings by David Copeland which killed three people and injured over a hundred, some seriously - also questioned by Police Officers from Scotland Yard's Anti-Terrorism branch, since it was alleged that a pamphlet he wrote, entitled A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution, described as a "detailed step-by-step guide for terrorist insurrection", was said to have inspired David Copeland, who also happened to be a member of Myatt's National-Socialist Movement. However, no charges were ever brought against Myatt in connection with either this pamphlet or those attacks.

A year after taking over the leadership of the loyalist faction of Combat 18, with Sargent convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, Myatt handed-over the leadership of this group to concentrate once more on what he then regarded as his "spiritual mission" and his aim of creating a pagan rural community where individuals could live in harmony with Nature. By this time he had created a new National Socialist organization, called Reichsfolk, whose aim was to "uphold and champion the Way of Life of National-Socialism, and so make known the Cause of Adolf Hitler; to champion and make known the unique Aryan Destiny of a Galactic Empire achieved through the exploration and colonization of Outer Space; and seek the creation of a European homeland where Aryan National-Socialists can live in freedom, among their own people, according to the noble principles of the National-Socialism."  He was at that time working on a farm and his writings extolled the virtues of manual labor and what he has called the new "cosmic ethics".

Myatt then confounded both his supporters and critics by converting to Islam, and began - several years before the September 11 attacks - to praise people such as Usama bin Laden. He also began promoting Jihad and Islamic terrorism, and allegedly undertook a series of travels in Islamic countries.

        Following this conversion to Islam, Myatt, using his Muslim names of Abdul Aziz, and Abdul-Aziz Ibn Myatt (sometimes spelt Abd al-Aziz ibn Myatt), wrote a vast amount of essays and articles about Islam - almost rivaling in quantity his previous voluminous writings on National Socialism - and in particular penned contentious items concerning and supporting suicide attacks (which he describes as martyrdom operations) as well as attacks on non-combatants. One of these articles, concerning such martyrdom operations, was, for several years, on the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (the military wing) section of the website of Hamas, whose members have killed hundreds of people in such "martyrdom operations". Another of his Islamist articles about the Islamic correctness of targeting non-combatants - entitled Al-Islam and The Question of Civilians - appeared on several Al-Qaeda sponsored websites, includes one devoted to Jihad in Somalia.
 

In the Fall of 2010, Myatt again confounded both his supporters and critics by announcing he had moved away from Islam to the mystical philosophy he had been developing for the past six years or so, describing this Numinous Way of his as an apolitical, non-religious, way of life based on empathy and compassion.

Light and Sinister Peregrinations
 

What is especially interesting about Myatt's life is that there are two, apparently mutually exclusive, versions. The brief sketch above is taken primarily from the "official" version which Myatt himself has propagated, such as in his Autobiographical Notes (in three parts), and in his autobiography, Myngath, with some information - especially about the gaps Myatt omits - supplied by anti-fascist organizations such as Searchlight. In this "official version" Myatt portrays himself - up until his conversion to Islam - as a life-long National Socialist undertaking a spiritual, philosophical and religious quest to find the meaning and purpose of our lives, and as a person committed to creating a revolution, by whatever means necessary, as the prelude to the emergence of Imperium which will create a new type of human society and a new, higher, type of human being. In this version, his Occult researches and involvement - which several authors and journalists have written about - are described as a means, tactics, to aid National Socialism, the destabilization of society, and the revolution which he considered necessary to achieve his National Socialist goals.

The other version of Myatt's life derives from such sources as Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's book Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity. This version - which does seem to be supported by organizations such as Searchlight - portrays Myatt as primarily a Satanist: the heir to an ancient and sinister tradition which tradition he has extensively added to and indeed transformed. That is, that he is "Anton Long" - the Grand Master of The Order of Nine Angles:

"But there was an even darker side to Myatt, hidden even from most of his close political friends. Myatt was a leading supporter of the Order of Nine Angles (ONA), a hardline Satanic church which he himself established in 1985. Espousing "traditional Satanism" and rituals involving human sacrifice, Myatt and the ONA are considered dangerous even by those within the Satanic fraternity." (Searchlight magazine, July 2000)

"Myatt rejects the quasi-religious organization and ceremonial antics of the Church of Satan, the Temple of Set and other satanic groups. He believes that traditional satanism goes far beyond the gratification of the pleasure-principle and involves the arduous achievement of self-mastery, self-overcoming in a Nietzschean sense, and ultimately cosmic wisdom. His conception of satanism is practical, with an emphasis on individual growth into realms of darkness and danger through practical acts of prowess, endurance and the risk of life." (Black Sun, p.218)

In this Occult version of his life, Myatt is portrayed as the Grand Master - the leader, if not the founder - of the secret, subversive and satanic Order of Nine Angles, and may, or may not, have performed rituals or acts involving human sacrifice, and may or may not have used violence, terrorism, political groups and individuals for sinister, or evil, ends. These sinister ends are said, by various writers and journalists who have written about Myatt, to include the creation - via a neo-nazi revolution - of a Galactic Imperium.

Admittedly, the Satanism of the Order of Nine Angles is very far removed from the current, popular, conception of Satanism, involving instead, as the ONA proclaims, a self-mastery and self-overcoming, and, according to Goodrick-Clarke, "the performance of acts that are generally regarded as forbidden, illegal and evil... Myatt derives the word 'evil' from the Gothic term 'ubils' meaning 'going beyond the due measure'....."

According to this Occult version, Myatt's conversion to Islam was only a public ruse, a sinister tactic, a Satanic rôle, used in further pursuit of his ultimately Occult, and Satanic, goals. These goals are primarily the creation of a new elite - the development of  "a higher, more evolved, human being" - and the destabilization and destruction of Western society, and its replacement by a new type of sinister order "suited to the warriors of this dark elite".

Which version of Myatt's life is correct? The "official, National Socialist, then Muslim, version" propagated by Myatt himself? Or the Occult version, propagated by others, which Occult version - it should be noted - is widely accepted among admirers and supporters of the ONA.

It seems, however, that, for the moment at least, we will all have to draw our own conclusions based on the little evidence we have. Personally, I believe this is what Myatt himself would wish, as a test for us and our honor, although I admit that sometimes I cannot quite escape the intuition that I can hear Myatt laughing.(4)

Following his involvement with Combat 18, Myatt converted to Islam and was believed to have begun a new life as a Muslim. Yet his political past was not forgotten by his former enemies.

The following quote is taken from an article, Cyberspace A New Medium for Communication, Command and Control by Extremists, by Michael Whine, and was posted, in April 1999 , on an Israeli counter-terrorist web-site.
 

"The Far Right has also used the Internet to post bomb-making manuals which are not otherwise available in Europe. The British neo-Nazi, David Myatt, of the National Socialist Movement posted his 'Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution' at the end of November 1997 at the website of Canadian Bernard Klatt in order to evade police scrutiny. The chapter headings included: Methods of Covert Direct Action, Escape and Evasion, Assassination, Terror Bombing, Sabotage, Racial War, How to Create a Revolutionary Situation, Direct Action Groups, etc. The contents provided a detailed step-by-step guide for terrorist insurrection with advice on assassination targets, rationale for bombing and sabotage campaigns, and rules of engagement. Although he may have committed no indictable offence in Canada, Klatt was forced to close down his site in April 1998. Myatt is currently the subject of a British criminal investigation for incitement to murder and to promote race hatred."

Not long after his conversion to Islam, Myatt allegedly returned to political activity following information published in newspapers and magazines, and broadcast on Television, by Journalists investigating the role he or his writings played in the "London nail bomb" attacks for which NSM member David Copeland was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Information at that time indicated that Myatt re-established The National-Socialist Movement on the basis of what has become known as "leaderless resistance". He was also alleged to be behind the distribution of an updated version of The Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution (renamed A Practical Guide to the Strategy and Tactics of Revolution) as well as other documents extolling the merits of leaderless resistance and calling for armed insurrection.

"David Myatt does not have the appearance of a Nazi ideologue. Now 49, and sporting a long ginger beard, Barbour jacket, cords and a tweed flat cap, he resembles an eccentric country gentleman out for a Sunday ramble. But Myatt is anything but the country squire, for beneath this seemingly innocuous exterior is a man of extreme and calculated hatred. Over the past ten years, Myatt has emerged as the most ideologically driven nazi in Britain, preaching race war and terrorism.

Active since the late 1960s, Myatt has been through the National Front, British Movement and National Democratic Freedom Movement and has even flirted with the British National Party. However, none gave him the racial war that he so desired. "For the Destiny of the Aryan to be fulfilled, there has to be a holy war against all those who oppose National Socialism", he once wrote.

He has long since turned his back on electoral politics, believing his "Aryan society" could only be brought about by force. "The primary duty of all National Socialists is to change the world. National Socialism means revolution: the overthrow of the existing System and its replacement with a National-Socialist society. Revolution means struggle: it means war. It means certain tactics have to be employed, and a great revolutionary movement organised which is primarily composed of those prepared to fight, prepared to get their hands dirty and perhaps spill some blood." (Searchlight magazine, July 2000 )

Myatt is believed to have been behind a 15-page document which called for race war, under the imprint White Wolves. While groups such as C18 had regularly advocated race war, the authors of this article seemed far more serious.

Claiming that every nation had the absolute right to defend itself, it argued "our main line of attack must be on the immigrants themselves, the Black and Asian ghettos. If this is done regularly, effectively and brutally, the aliens will respond by attacking Whites at random, forcing them off the fence and into self-defence. This will begin the spiral of violence which will force the Establishment's hand on the race issue.

" The British people will fight, but not if we offer them only the soft voting option. WE must point them in the right direction by taking the necessary action to start the spiral of violence which will ultimately include even the reluctant, forcing them to fight. The victory will come from them once they have no other option, but the initiative must come from us. There are a dozen Belfast's and a hundred Londonderry's in Britain today, they're just waiting for a spark ..."

The document concluded: "We do not believe that we alone can win the Race War, but we can start it!" (Searchlight, July 2000 .)

As for his involvement with Islam, Myatt's article Islam and National-Socialism  - written in the early days of his involvement with Islam - raises interesting questions. He seems, even then immediately after, or even before, his conversion to Islam, to have decided that an alliance between National Socialists and Muslims was a good idea.  According to Professor George Michael, in his book The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right (University Press of Kansas, 2006 ) Myatt "has arguably done more than any other theorist to develop a synthesis of the extreme right and Islam".

Thus, following his conversion, Myatt began to write a series of articles in which he attempted to portray National Socialism in a new, non-racist, way. That is, Myatt created, and assiduously propagated, what one source described as a "revisionist version" of National Socialism and which Myatt himself claimed was "genuine National-Socialism". Myatt's new vision of National Socialism is of an ethical - if not religious - way of life, based upon the ideal of personal honor. In one of these revisionist political articles - entitled Why National-Socialism Is Not Racist - he was critical of the very concept of racism and attempted to portray National Socialists as people who respected other races and their culture. Several other articles, by him, elaborated upon this idea of a tolerant National Socialism, for example his Honour, or Instinct? The Question of Racism and Tolerance.
 

Of especial interest, perhaps, in the context of Myatt's Islam, was his Foreseeing the Future  (notable because it was written some time before his conversion to Islam) in which he stated his belief that Islam could create the Galactic Empire he has always dreamed about:
 

I firmly believe that Islam has the potential to create not only a new civilization, governed according to reason, but also a new Empire which could take on and overthrow the established world-order dedicated as this world-order is to usury, decadence and a god-less materialism... I also believe that a new Islamic Empire could create the Galactic Empire, or at least lay the foundations of it. Perhaps the first human colonies on another world will have as their flag the Islamic crescent, a flag inscribed with the words, in Arabic, In the Name of Allah, The Compassionate, The Merciful.

Abdul-Aziz Ibn Myatt

Islam

It was in the Fall of 1998, that David Myatt walked into a Mosque in England and converted to Islam. Only a few months earlier Myatt had been the leader of the political wing of the violent neo-nazi group Combat 18 and had a history of nearly thirty years involvement in racist, extreme "right-wing" and neo-nazi groups. Myatt' s conversion, at that time, went almost unnoticed, and even when - just over a year later - he appeared on a BBC Panorama program about the racist bomber David Copeland, whose bombs killed three people and injured hundreds, Myatt was portrayed as the mentor of Copeland, as the man whose National Socialist and terrorist writings inspired and motivated Copeland. Other sources took up the story, accusing Myatt of being the "evil genius" behind Copeland's brief reign of terror, and explaining how Myatt was "Copeland's idol".

At the time of his conversion to Islam, Myatt himself was still on bail after his arrest, in the early Spring of 1998, by a Special Operations Unit of Scotland Yard, following allegations of conspiracy to murder, terrorist activities, and incitement to racial hatred. His arrest was part of an operation - codenamed Operation Periphery - to investigate the leaders of what became known as the loyalist faction of Combat 18, following the conviction of the founder of Combat 18, Charlie Sargent, for murder. Myatt himself had remained steadfastly loyal to Charlie Sargent, denouncing his trial, conviction and sentence of life imprisonment, and dismissing all allegations against Charlie as "dishonourable rumours and disinformation by ZOG and its lackeys and agents". This detailed investigation by the Police and the Security Services (MI5 and MI6) into Myatt's activities was to last over three years, and involved the FBI, Interpol, the Canadian Police, as well as other international law-enforcement and Security agencies, and, as part of this investigation British agents traveled overseas - to places such as Canada - to interview witnesses and to try to gather evidence. However, even after this intensive years-long investigation the British authorities failed to find sufficient evidence to mount a successful prosecution, and the case against Myatt was dropped.

Following his conversion to Islam, Myatt - for several years - outwardly appeared to live a dual existence, for he was writing articles about Islam and his own conversion, traveling to Muslim countries, attending Mosques, and participating in Islamic meetings with Muslims, while at the same time continuing to write about what he, at this time (1998-2001) called The Numinous Way of Folk Culture, a rather mystical, paganistic philosophy, which he had begun to develop, around 1997, and which he then described as "the essence of my evolutionary National-Socialism...".

In 2006, Myatt himself had this to say about such writings:

" I continued to write about National-Socialism and The Numinous Way, with a view to changing the attitude, of those who adhere to them, toward Islam and the Muslims, with a view to co-operation between various anti-Zionist factions, and with a view to making both of those Ways into ethical, honourable, systems so that such co-operation might occur. Also, for the first two years after my reversion I did continue to directly support a few groups which I regarded as honourable, in much the same way, I understand, that the Grand Mufti Muhammed Amin al-Husseini supported Hitler. Muhammed Amin al-Husseini, as a Muslim, was seeking allies in the fight against Zionism, but he never ceased to be a Muslim.

I did such things because I sincerely believed that it was important - and indeed vital - for as many people and groups as possible to fight in any way whatsoever the Zionist-Crusader alliance, and the so-called "New World Order" which this alliance is creating, and that this fight should be taken to the homelands of the West. I did this because I believed - and believe - that this alliance, and its lackeys and supporters, are dishonourable, and arrogant, and represent a profane, imperialist, materialistic, way of life which must be fought, since the adherents and supporters of this profane way of life trample upon and desecrate and are seeking to destroy, the numinous..." Islam, Honour and Duty

Myatt's voluminous writings about Islam - with titles such as Foreign Devils, Infidels, and Al-Islam and In Reply to Sheikh Salman bin Fahd al-Oadah - and his praise of both bin Laden and the Taliban, earned him something of a reputation as a Muslim extremist, and in April 2006  the respected newspaper, The Times (of London) published an article about Myatt under the general heading Muslim Extremists in Britain, and Myatt received a not entirely accurate mention at a UNESCO conference in Paris a few years ago which concerned the growth of anti-Semitism:

"David Myatt, the leading hardline Nazi intellectual in Britain since the 1960s and founder of the anti-Jewish and anti-Black terror group Combat 18,  has converted to Islam, praises bin Laden and al Qaeda, calls the 9/11 attacks  'acts of heroism,' and urges the killing of Jews. Myatt, under the name Abdul Aziz Ibn Myatt supports suicide missions and urges young Muslims to take up Jihad. Observers warn that Myatt is a dangerous man..."

 Le leader charismatique du mouvement néo-nazi anglais, David Myatt, devenu Abdul Aziz Ibn Myatt, appelle les nostalgiques de l'Axe et tous les ennemis des sionistes à embrasser comme lui le Djihad, la « vraie religion martiale » celle qui lutte le plus efficacement contre les Juifs et les Américains... Expert en arts martiaux et en actions commando, Myatt est l'auteur de plusieurs manuels de terrorisme...

In this Islamic version of his life, Myatt may have used subterfuge, deception, and mis-information to divert attention from himself and his activities, to possibly "confuse the enemy" and the authorities. This might explain some things about the writings - for instance, regarding The Numinous Way - attributed to him during the years he, as a Muslim, was striving for an alliance between radical Muslims and National Socialists; writings written in pursuit of such an alliance, in order to create the ideological foundations necessary; and writings which, most significantly, some people have claimed "prove" that Myatt's conversion to Islam is fraudulent. It is certainly possible that these many essays, about The Numinous Way and National Socialism, allegedly written after his conversion to Islam, were just one part of Myatt's overall and long term strategy to establish some ethical foundations for National Socialism, thus enabling practical co-operation between them, Muslims, and others opposed to the current governments of the West.(6)

            But is this one assumption too far? My own initial and personal view - which I explained elsewhere in essays such as the now-outdated David Myatt: A Sinister Life? - is that Myatt might well have been using radical Islam as a sinister tactic in order to further his hidden sinister aims of causing chaos and disruption, of inciting violence and terrorism, and of championing, in a practical way, the heretical. Why? Because such things aid what The Order of Nine Angles call The Sinister Dialectic:

"The sinister dialectic (often called the sinister dialectic of history) is the name given to Satanic strategy - which is to further our evolution in a sinister way by, for example, (a) the use of Black Magick/sinister presencings to change individuals/events on a significant scale over long periods of causal Time; (b) to gain control and influence; (c) the use of Satanic forms and magickal presencings to produce/provoke large scale changes over periods of causal Time; (d) to bring-into-being a New Aeon; (e) to cause and sow disruption and Chaos as a prelude to any or all or none of the foregoing." A Brief Order of Nine Angles Glossary, Version 1.07

 I find it particularly interesting, in respect of championing heresy, that, according to the ONA:

"What is not well understood even among some sinister Initiates, is that the promotion of radical Islam - against the Magian/New World Order/Nazarene ethos that now pervades and which is distorting evolution and ushering in a new tyranny - is akin to a sinister rite which presences certain acausal energies.

Thus, such promotion of and support for things and people considered by the neo-cons to be "evil" - such as bin Laden - is a new Black Mass appropriate to these times of ours. It is now a heresy in "the West".

The practical participation and encouragement of such things - directly contrary to the current status quo - is thus one valid personal Insight Role (for the really satanic, not the role-players) and a means of presencing genuine sinister energies: one aspect of a new five-dimensional presencing (or act of magick in Old Aeon speak) and thus an act of sinister magick appropriate to these causal times." Vindex, NS, Islam, Chaos and Magick: Toward A New Heresy  (A presentation given at an ONA Sunedrion in Oxford, around the time of the Spring Solstice 117 yf)

We Shall Not Cease From Exploration...

Did Myatt really convert to Islam? Was it - in the beginning, at least - a Satanic "Insight Role" of the kind described by the ONA? Part of a decades-long sinister strategy by a Master of The Left Hand Path? Or was it - as I myself now incline to believe and as Myatt's autobiography, Myngath, makes clear - just one more part of Myatt's life long, and Promethean, quest to experience and try to understand life, and to find "life's ultimate meaning and purpose"?

Most of Myatt's critics continue to propagate their assumption that underlying all of his activities these past thirty or more years is a sinister agenda - for, according to them, Myatt's life does seem inwardly consistent, since he has fanatically pursued his early stated goal of undermining and destroying, by any means possible, including revolution, terrorism, subversion, and political and religious fanaticism, what he called and still calls "The System" and the "New World Order" in order to further his dream of creating the foundations for a "Galactic Empire".

The people at the Searchlight organization have, in recent years, some things to say about Myatt:

"Myatt is an ethereal character. He is a dangerous man who has twice been jailed for his violent right-wing activities and who openly asked for blood to be spilled in the quest for white Aryan domination. We believe that despite his claims to be a devout Muslim he remains a deeply subversive intellectual and is still one of the most hardline Nazi intellectuals in Britain today. Myatt believes in the disruption of existing societies as a prelude to the creation of a new more warrior-like Aryan society which he calls the Galactic Empire." (Gerry Gable)

"Myatt has a long history of involvement with Nazi activity and anti-semitism. The fact that he has converted to Islam and allied himself with its extremist fringe is in line with the opportunist politics that have seen him dabble in Buddhism and Chinese Taoism in the past....I would advise all Muslims to have nothing to do with this man." (Michael Whine, Chairman of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.)

Other opponents of Myatt have been even more strident, one even directly accusing him of being "a fake Muslim" on a Muslim Internet forum where Myatt regularly posted. Interestingly, perhaps, several Muslims came to Myatt's defense, publicly accepting Myatt's conversion, and refuting the "fake Muslim" claim.(7)

In addition, some opponents of David Myatt - dubbed by Myatt supporters as the MOAC's (the Myatt-Obsessed-Anonymous-Cowards) - have taken, in the past four years, to flooding the Internet with anti-Myatt posts and blogs which attempt to both demean Myatt and, rather incongruously, portray him as a rabid terrorist-supporting Satanist intent on destroying Western society.

       As for Myatt himself, he has publicly (see my Appendix, below), returned to his much revised Numinous Way philosophy, which revised philosophy is now based on the ethical virtues of empathy, compassion and honor, and which thus rejects both racism and nationalism:

In addition, Myatt writes, in his The Culture of ἀρετή, Essays in Praise of πάθει μάθος - dated November 2010 - that:

" The essays in this collection – written over the past few years or so – are autobiographical in nature, and express, in essence, the raisons d’être behind my recent move away from the Way of Al-Islam and back to my own weltanschauung which I have termed both The Numinous Way and The Philosophy of The Numen."

The Sinister Influence of David Myatt

Myatt certainly has achieved a significant influence over the past two decades, and this seems to belie the journalistic claims of him being some kind of self-publicist who has a "delusional fantasy life". It is quite obvious that Myatt's influence extends into many realms including National Socialism, paganism (or "heathenism" as many of its proponents write), Black Metal music, Occultism (especially Satanism(8)), and, of course, Islam. Myatt - in one or more of his diverse personae - has influenced many individuals and groups. For instance, of his Combat 18 days a journalist wrote:

"[Myatt was the] mentor of the nail-bomber David Copeland. As former leader of the NSM David Myatt is the man who shaped the minds of at least 80 young men like Copeland, who was convicted of three nail bomb attacks in Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho in which three people died and over a hundred were injured. Myatt has been at the fore-front of extreme right-wing activity in Britain since the 1960s..."

Myatt has certainly changed the lives of thousands of individuals, often quite dramatically, through his writings, his quest, his example, and possibly by his promotion of, and recruitment for, terrorism.

Myatt's influence is still keenly felt within the world of radical "Right-Wing" and National Socialist politics. It is generally acknowledged, even by his enemies, that Myatt's political and religious writings about National Socialism have been, and still are, very influential, even given Myatt's recent Islamist articles denouncing racial separation (9). His "Right-Wing" articles have been translated into Swedish, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Norwegian, Polish, Finnish, Serbo-Croat, and other languages. Indeed, some people involved in the Right-Wing "movement" regard Myatt as one of the foremost writers for the cause of "white nationalism."

"It is my view that David Myatt is the most important thinker, and writer, for our Cause - for both National Socialism, and "White Nationalism" in general. His Cosmic Vision, his ethic of honour, his evolution of National Socialism, his clear and unequalled exposition of our Aryan values and Aryan Way of Life, and his The Numinous Way of Folk Culture, are in my view of vital importance for our people, our culture, our future. He has explained, in a rational way - using his concept of the acausal - the nature of the folk, and of folk homelands, as he has written at great length about the need for a practical revolution to create the free and Aryan societies we need. He has also written several practical guides to how such a revolution can be achieved. In addition, he has posited a new, ethical, rational, and evolutionary "religion" (or more correctly, a Way of Life) based on his concept of The Cosmic Being. The sheer depth and breadth of Myatt's work inspires admiration, for this work has been both theoretical, and practical." (The Radical Genius of David Myatt)

In the past few years - and particularly since the article about Myatt and his views concerning Islam in The Times - many neo-nazis, and "White nationalists" (as they style themselves), have taken to calling Myatt a traitor, or mad, or both, as many of these people have taken it upon themselves to reproduce the unproven Searchlight allegations of involvement with Satanism, perhaps hoping thereby to discredit the man, or, perhaps, casting around for anything to discredit a convert to that religion.

In the strange milieu of Black Metal music, and avant-garde electronic music, individuals and bands from across Europe, Russia and America play and record music inspired by the ONA's sinister philosophy, with the "cover notes" for their CD's - and their lyrics - often containing quotes from ONA literature. These bands include Hammemit, Voidloss, Bestia Centauri, Vendetta Blitz,  and Umbral Presence. More recently, the influence of the ONA - with its emphasis on dark, sinister, vampire-like female acausal entities such as Baphomet - is also beginning to be felt in underground parts of the urban Goth sub-culture, with a fine-art Polish book publisher, specializing in esoteric books, in 2009 released a collection of essays about this ONA "Baphomet".

        Certainly Myatt's greatest influence, at least to date, seems to be within the world of Satanism, and "The Left Hand Path" in general. The ONA - which many people have assumed Myatt created (or at least inherited) and leads or led - has profoundly changed, with its rational, practical approach - and its concept of Internal and Aeonic Magick, of sinister tribes - the perception of Satanism and the Left Hand Path, and its influence is now world-wide. At the time of writing the ONA is especially flourishing in Russia and America, and has groups, and individuals associated with it, in Canada, Europe, Russia, America, Australia, and New Zealand. Many of its works - mostly attributed to a certain "Anton Long" - have been translated into Russian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, and other languages.

Indeed, a California based Satanic group - the White Star Acception, with origins in American urban gang culture and apparently led by two young women, one of Khmer origin, and another a Latino - have published several articles praising Myatt and "his ONA", in one of which they write:

" With his Faustian Spirit, Myatt came and quietly set the proverbial cog wheel of progression in motion. It is too early for the rest of the species to recognize his genius, but as time passes and changes things, he will one day take his place among the great thinkers of our species. Whether it was for National-Socialism, his Numinous Way, or his Order of Nine Angles; he imbued the same Myattian ethos, concepts and vision into all his writings and institutions he fathered. Calling our eyes up towards the Cosmos to awaken us to our galactic destiny and providing us a means for striving for that distant dream." Toward the Numinous Dark, (Kayla, WSA352, dated May 21, 2009)

Furthermore, at an academic conference at a Norwegian University held on November, 2009 , and devoted to the topic of Satanism in the modern world, the ONA was the subject of two lectures, and mentioned in several others.

Thus, it could well be that Myatt's ultimate legacy will be an Occult one, with all his many and various peregrinations, experiences, involvements and roles, being understood in this light. This, in my considered view, may well be a correct assessment of Myatt's life, especially as, in a recent (2009 ) interview - with WSA352 - a certain Anton Long states:

Furthermore, according to one of Myatt's supporters:

How do you think he will be - or should be - regarded in a hundred years time?

As a genuine Mage - a Grand Master of the Left Hand Path - who has dared to genuinely defy and who has dared to undertake genuine diverse practical experiences and roles, lasting many years. He makes the charlatans - the Laveys, the Aquinos, the Crowleys - look like charlatans.

In respect of how others view Myatt, the following quotes about Myatt - culled from the Internet over the past seven years - are typical:

“ The more you read about [Myatt], the less you’ll be sure of, the more interesting he’ll become…. You’ll see why its relevant during your research. He’s something of an inspiration for me, although I was unaware of his work before I began mine.

A hint that will help you understand: his work with the order of nine angles is closer to the core than his work as a Muslim fundamentalist or a Nazi, but it is not the core. Look beyond, beyond the forms he uses. Look to how he manipulates those forms in order to achieve different ends.

He’s not a Satanist or a Nazi or a Muslim, essentially. Those are forms which he has, very effectively, manipulated to the extent that his individual agenda (wyrd) has become a permanent and self-propagating aspect of those subcultures. Modern national socialism and modern occultism, for example, have both been deeply influenced. Those may seem like backwaters– but they’re significant subcultures which have the power to affect society by their relationship to it, the degree to which they are in antipathy with other subcultures, and the way in which they attract and alter a certain kind of individual who is hugely influential upon society (the ”shaman”, the true priest, the poet). By altering those forms, he essentially alters the subtle structure of all society. Also consider that subcultures such as occultism significantly affect more mainstream media (because creators of such are often drawn to them in youth etc), and that by permanently influencing the nature of such a subculture, the media which determines the psychophysiological environment of all society can be altered.

The forms are not the message. Satanism is not the message. Nazism is not the message. Islam is not the message. They are manipulated to become vessels for Myatt’s agenda (the stars?). Believe me, you will find curious research on this fascinating.”

"I'm sure you've heard of other cases of "infiltrators" who external observers can't figure out what their aim is. David Myatt in Britain is famous for that--the "neo-Nazi" who set up a "Satanist" group known as the Order of Nine Angles, which espouses anti-NWO and racialist doctrines. Then he left all that behind and converted to Islam and praises bin Laden. Some say he really means it and is now a true Muslim. Others say this is all part of his right-wing, anti-NWO strategy. And yet others still claim that both Myatt's "neo-Nazi" incarnation as well as his Muslim incarnation are "insight roles" that help him probe the limits of darkness in the human experience as a Satanist. So which of the three is he really? Who knows?"

"Myatt is indeed a difficult one to fathom..."

"Myatt - intelligence agent, spy, converted muslim, combat 18 founder, mentor to the london nail bomber and leader of the satanist group order of nine angles."

[Myatt's] NSM was an MI5 sponsored organization.....the security services set up a dangerously provocative neo-nazi organisation, gave total control to David Myatt and David Myatt is still openly endorsing terrorism on the internet and nothing is being done to stop him....Why? David Myatt is employed by the Government.....Myatt's websites are now and always were, officially sponsored by the security services....."

" [Myatt's] a lunatic...His conversion to Islam was embarrassing too. Myatt now spends his time in mosques bowing to an Alien god... He's obviously lost it..."

" [Myatt] is mentally unbalanced, formally a Christian, Buddist.. now a Mudslum! lt people like him who will forever divorce the rest of us from the masses..."

"He [Myatt] is still a Muslim, and is a very dangerous individual. He posts under the name ibnmyatt on poisonous Islamic website[s]..."

"Lavey was a manipulator no doubt, and he did move many away from Christianity, but the darkness is lacking, Lavey himself can top Myatt in no way from what I read of them both. Lets see - circus trainer, photographer, and producer of a BS satanic group, vs the creator of the Sevenfold path, star-game, political evil genius, man of many roles and faces, who continues to this day to push the evolutionary limits and tread unknown territory. Lavey fooled no one, he was easy to read, showed his cards, and is know for what he was. Myatt still has the bored trying to figure out who he was, and probably will for some time." (From a debate comparing La Vey and Myatt.)

"I genuinely like Myatt. I see him in the same mold as Manson: a prophet of the Kali Yuga; a nihilistic visionary -- but with a grander vision than Manson's, and far more ruthless, fanatical and determined to see it come to fruition..."

"David Myatt - Nazi Satanist or Military intelligence?  Is David Myatt one of many ultra patriotic stooges creating politically useful armies for the global terror network?"

"I feel that Myatt designed this quasi-occult system in order to draw certain kinds of strong-Willed individuals to The Cause, much the same as W[hite] P[ower] music has greatly bolstered the ranks over the years. Myatt has been a "do-er" instead of a talker, and I believe he intends to get the job done by whatever means at his disposal. His gift is not so much his profound thinking (although some of his output is [that] indeed) but rather the emotional quality of his words, and the explosive personalities he is breeding."

"David Myatt is...an important person to mention as an example of the strange alignment of worldviews that permeates many of the the extremist ideologies of our day, whether it’s fascism, religious zealotry... David Myatt’s strange, violent hate-filled philosophy and path in life helps give us additional insight and perspective into the mind of someone like Osama bin Laden."

"David Myatt... has taken many forms, and I will give no further introduction to this man of changes, I will leave the judgment to you, the judgment of a man with visions and dreams, the judgment of a man that acted according to his will, and manifested his words in action, a man of progress. One of the few truly interesting men alive today, and one of the few who has a vision of the change needed to bring this world back on it's feet... Many things can be said about Mr. Myatt, but one thing is for sure, he is an utterly interesting and fascinating man."

"David is in ways like a modern day fairy tale himself (not only his life), but with more heart and less talking animals. It's hard not to be fascinated, to some extent inspired or at least affected in some way. Perhaps not always to the better. He's simply one of those men (As in mankind..) that stands out from the rest."

Concluding Remarks

"... the most important truth concerning human life. Which is that a shared, a loyal, love between two people is the most beautiful, the most numinous, the most valuable thing of all.

From all his peregrinations, adventures and involvements, Myatt has distilled some beautiful, some haunting, some pagan, some sad, some romantic - and many unusual - poems, and if he is to be remembered, it should, in my view, hopefully be for this poetry, his Greek translations, his new Numinous Way philosophy, and for his now neglected and underrated mystical letters and mystical writings rather than for his political and religious exploits, or his political, philosophical, Occult, or Islamist, writings.
 

JR Wright
Oxford
2010 AD

(1) Nick Ryan, Homeland: Into A World of Hate (Mainstream, 2003 )

(2) According to one source: "The persons involved in the secret armed cells conspiracy included George Kennedy Young, the ex-deputy director of the British intelligence service MI6... Ex-spymaster Young was for many years a key link man between the extreme-right of the Conservative Party and some of Britain's most dangerous and violent neo-nazis. The vehicle for this liaison, which included contact with individuals connected with the underground fascist elite paramilitary organisation, Column 88, was his own pressure group called Tory Action. David Muire, another former intelligence officer, was using British Movement members as couriers for British Intelligence..."

(3). Myatt's acausal is explained in Part One of The Physics of Acausal Energy and his essay Acausal Science . For the ONA use of this acausal idea, see, for example, the ONA book entitled "Naos: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Adept" and the ONA essay "Aeonic Magick: A Basic Introduction" by Anton Long, dated 1994 eh.

(4) There is also, now, the Islamist version of Myatt's life, evident in his Islamic writings and his recent essay From Neo-Nazi to Muslim.

In an article under the title Concerning Alleged Occult Involvement and The Dishonour of Some Journalists circulated by Reichsfolk in 2003, David Myatt wrote:

For instance, when six Police officers from S012 (Scotland Yard) raided and thoroughly searched my home in 1998 CE – arresting me and seizing my computers, my private correspondence and files – they found no evidence of such involvement, despite spending months forensically analysing my computers and over a year sifting through my private correspondence and files and interviewing witnesses [...]

All Searchlight has ever done is make unsubstantiated allegations or to simply lie, as Lowles did when he falsely claimed [see above] that I had admitted during an interview with him to being ‘Anton Long’. For this lie, I at the time first of all invited him to my home in order to discuss the matter, an invitation he did not reply to, and then challenged him to a duel with deadly weapons, which challenge he was too cowardly to accept and too dishonourable to issue a public apology in lieu of fighting such a duel.

One of the unsubstantiated allegations of the Searchlight crowd is that I was a friend of someone called Vik Norris – something they blandly stated in their alleged ‘expose’ of me, under the headline The Most Evil Nazi in Britain, in the April 1998 issue of Searchlight magazine (an issue now widely available in facsimile on the Internet). No evidence for this allegation was presented then, or subsequently – although their intent was obvious: smear by association, one of the many underhand tricks employed by dishonourable journalists.

Indeed, in typical tabloid dishonourable-journalist style, the article simply contains bland assertions by them about me and Satanism with no evidence presented to support such assertions. For example: (1) they propagandistically stated that the ONA was “formed by Myatt himself in the early 1980′s” but offer no proof for this claim of theirs; (2) they write about “Myatt and his satanic friends” yet never name these alleged ‘satanic’ friends or provide any proof of involvement by any of my friends with Satanism; (3) they claim that “within days of being investigated”, the ONA withdrew its material from the Internet and that I had shaved off my beard in an attempt to disguise myself, with yet again no evidence being provided for these allegations, which were patently untrue, as anyone could have verified at the time by searching the Internet, calling on me or asking those with whom I worked.

Unsurprisingly, over the years, many people over the years have – for personal or political reasons – referenced this Searchlight article as ‘proof’ of my alleged involvement, when anyone of any sagacity on reading that and similar articles about me can rationally deduce it and they are merely malicious propaganda designed to discredit, but worded in such a dishonourable way that even were one to sue the authors for libel in a British civil court (assuming one had the money to do so) there would be no guarantee of success – a legalistic tactic such dishonourable journalists often rely on when they peddle their lies and make their malicious accusations.

As for me, I have never bothered to have recourse to civil law, and established Courts, to sue those making libellous allegations about me quite simply because the only law I believe in and strive to uphold is the law of personal honour. Given that I have challenged two journalists, according to the law of personal honour, to a duel with deadly weapons for making such malicious allegations, and given that they did not have the honour to accept this challenge or issue an apology in lieu of fighting a duel, I consider my honour vindicated and their own dishonourable character proven.

Furthermore, what the manufacture, the publication, and the re-publication, of such allegations – and the lack of proof to substantiate them – reveal to me at least, is the personality of those manufacturing, publishing and repeating them. For such individuals reveal a personal or a political agenda: some motivation that makes them think and behave in a prejudiced and often hateful way, although of course they themselves often or almost always delude themselves or arrogantly believe, in their pursuit of their agenda (their ‘crusade’) they are doing something good, and that their methods, and their words, are somehow ‘justified’.

In addition, while the individuals manufacturing, publishing, and repeating, such allegations castigate the object of their allegations as a person ‘full of hate’ and/or as ‘intolerant’, it is they themselves who are the intolerant, hate-filled prejudiced ones.

For, in the interests of making or pursing some ‘story’, or in the interests of discrediting someone they have a prejudice against (because of assumed or real political/religious beliefs) or because of some innate, irrational, dislike of someone, such individuals have a profound disregard for truth, do not care about establishing the facts based on solid evidence, and reveal an astounding lack of empathy. For their assumptions about someone, and/or their prejudice about people who have certain political/beliefs, come before their humanity. They just do not see, or do not care about, the real human being behind the image they have manufactured of that human being. Instead, they neatly in their prejudice, see only some label they or others have assigned to that human being – labels such as ‘fascist’, or ‘nazi’, or ‘fanatic’ or ‘satanist’.

Not that, of course, those individuals manufacturing, publishing, and repeating, such allegations would admit this about themselves, even if they possessed the self-awareness to understand it."

(5) See, for example, his article Reflections on Islamic Travels, in which he recalls one incident: "So the conversation among us then turned to Jihad and there was a strong resentment among the Muslims gathered in that room directed at their own government for bowing down before Amerika and doing nothing to aid our brothers and sisters being humiliated by the kuffar. Every Amerikan killed in kuffar-occupied land was the cause of celebration among us - with a prayer of thanks being offered to Allah (SWT)."

(6) According to an article in The Times (of London) newspaper, published on April 24, 2006 ., Myatt now believes that: “The pure authentic Islam of the revival, which recognises practical jihad (holy war) as a duty, is the only force that is capable of fighting and destroying the dishonour, the arrogance, the materialism of the West . . . For the West, nothing is sacred, except perhaps Zionists, Zionism, the hoax of the so-called Holocaust, and the idols which the West and its lackeys worship, or pretend to worship, such as democracy."

(7) The thread appeared on the well-known Islamic Awakening forum and had the title: Omnipitus2006's obsession with Ibn Myatt.

(8) An interesting - if not entirely accurate - analysis of some parts of Myatt's Satanic influence is contained in the essay De mystieke vrienden van een spritueel blad by Pieter Zoomers, August 2003 . For an examination of the ONA belief in human sacrifice, see Anthropoetics (The Journal of Generative Anthropology) Volume IX, number 2 (Fall 2003/Winter 2004).

(9) These articles have appeared under the name Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt, and include Nationalism, Race, Culture and Islam.

Sources:

• Searchlight (UK magazine) January 1991 .
• Cosmic Reich - The Life and Thoughts of David Myatt. (Renaissance Press, New Zealand, 1995 .)
• Searchlight (UK magazine) April 1998 .
• Why I Am A National-Socialist. Autobiographical essay. Column 88 (UK magazine), #3, May 1998 .
• Independent on Sunday (UK Newspaper) 1^st February 1998 .
• Jeffrey Kaplan, "Religiosity and the Radical Right: Toward the Creation of a New Ethnic Identity," in Jeffrey Kaplan and Tore Bjørgo, eds., Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture (Northeastern University Press, 1998 ).
• E-text from Jeffrey Kaplan containing further biographical information on D. W. Myatt (supplied to me by someone describing himself as a "Myatt loyalist").
• Searchlight (UK magazine) July 2000 .
• Mr Evil: The Secret Life of Racist Pub Bomber David Copeland by Graeme McLagen and Nick Lowles (Blake Publications, England, July 2000 )
• The Way of Leaderless Resistance. Anonymous posting on Usenet forum alt.politics.nationalism.white
• Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), 9 July 2000
  
• A Practical Guide to the Strategy and Tactics of Revolution. Anonymous posting (in two parts) on Usenet forum alt.politics.nationalism.white.
• The Subversive Intellectual. E-text by JR Wright, March 2001 .
• Nature and Racism. Posting on Usenet forum alt.politics.nationalism.white, March 2001 .
• Palestine, Islam, The West, and the Zionist Quest for World Domination, Myatt article dated 1421AH
• The Crusader War Against Islam, Myatt article dated Rajab 1422 AH
• The War Between Imaan and Kufr, article dated Rajab 1422 AH, signed Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt
• Are Fidayee Attacks Lawful? Posting on Usenet forum soc.religion.islam. This article has been extensively revised, and re-issued, under the title Are Martyrdom Operations Lawful According to Quran and Sunnah?
• Private E-Mail from Myatt to JR Wright, dated 18 December 2001
  
• White Riot: The Violent Story of Combat 18 by Nick Lowles (Milo Books, England, 2001 )
• Myatt and Combat 18, Interview with Myatt by JRW, December 2001 .
• Esoteric Hitlerism: Idealism, the Third Reich and the Essence of National-Socialism. Posting on Usenet forum alt.politics.nationalism.white dated 6 July 2001 .
• Statement for Journalists, by David Myatt, dated Revised 23 Rabi Al-Thaani 1428 (First issued 16 Thul-Hujjah 1423)
• Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, (New York University Press, 2002 )
• Private E-Mail from Myatt to JR Wright, dated 15 February 2002 .
• Private E-Mail from Myatt to JR Wright, dated 23 March 2002 .
• Private (handwritten) letter from Myatt to JR Wright, dated Nearing the Winter Solstice (December 2002 ).
• Private E-Mail from Myatt to JR Wright, dated 26 December 2002 .
• Our Current Situation: Situation Report, Reichsfolk, dated 114yf
• Private (handwritten) letter from Myatt to JR Wright, dated Early February (postmarked 7 February 2003 ).
• The Just War. Article dated 1423AH signed Abdul Aziz.
• Our Moral Duty. Reichsfolk, dated 113yf. There are several versions of this article. The most recent ones - dated 114yf - have the title Revolution: Our Moral Duty.
• Private E-Mail from Myatt to JR Wright, dated 10 February 2003 .
• The Tyranny of the Kuffar. Item on Usenet forum soc.religion.islam. This article recently appeared, slightly amended,  on a fundamentalist Islamic Web-site under the title The Tughyan of the Kuffar.
• Item on Usenet forum soc.religion.islam dated 2002-09-19
• I Hear The Silence Say. Title, given by Myatt, to a handwritten letter addressed to JR Wright and dated Early February (2003 ).
• Homeland: Into A World of Hate, by Nick Ryan (Mainstream, 2003 ).
• Our Three Choices. Essay by David Myatt, dated JD 2452677.5214
• Muslims and National-Socialism. Article by David Myatt, dated 112yf
• The Complete Guide to the Aryan Way of Life. Essay by David Myatt, undated but c.1998 .
• Sunday Mercury (UK Newspaper) 16 February 2003 .
• So Here I Am Again, private (handwritten) letter from Myatt to JR Wright, postmarked 21 February 2003 .
• Private (handwritten) letter from Myatt to JR Wright, dated March 2002 .
• Private E-Mail from Myatt to JR Wright, dated March 1 2003 .
• Reflections on Islamic Travels. Article by Abdul Aziz, dated 2 Jumaada Al-Thaani 1424
• The National-Socialist Guide to Understanding Islam, six articles dated 114yf/1424 AH
• De mystieke vrienden van een spritueel blad by Pieter Zoomers, August 2003 . This article first appeared on a Dutch anti-fascist web-site.