[sagar]

A couple of years back, I used to frequent Yahoo's religion chatrooms. Astaru types I came across were white Northern Europeans(descendents of Vikings, Norse, etc) and had a very mystic world view. The uber Aryan and Amazonian types who yearned for the long lost Nordic glory days.

Most were definitely ticked off about Christianity, which they saw as an alien Middle Eastern("semitic") import in otherwise fine and pure Nordic religion and society. The lost glory of Nordic spiritualism was the primary theme around.

They were primarily intolerant towards the semitic cultures... to them, Christianity, Islam and Judaism are one and the same... though animosity towards non-Nordic ethnic/racial groups were minimal or hidden. Interestingly, most of them seemed more anti-Christian and anti-Islamic than anti-Jewish.

[orionblamblam]

> most of them seemed more anti-Christian and anti-Islamic than anti-Jewish.

This makes a measure of sense:

1) The Christians wiped out heathens in large number back in the day. Look up Charlemagne's "Bloody Verdict of Verden" where he reportedly killed thousands of Saxon heathens for refusing to convert. Scandinavia was converted top-down at the point of a sword. This tends to annoy people, and when it comes to religion, annoyances seem to last. Witness how many Christians are still cheesed of at the Jews for "killing Jesus."

2) Interactions between the Norse and the Muslims happened, but there's little record of any real conflict. On the other hand, islam *today* poses a serious threat to heathens and pagan. Telling an Asatruar or an Odinist that his choice is either conversion or death is a good way to get popped in the nose.

3) Jews: except for the whackos, modern Asatru has nothign much to say one way or the other about Jews, anymore than about Buddhists. They pose no threat, and never did.

The Odinists who hate the Jews are really just carrying over Christian anti-semitism into a wholly different religion. This ain't new... witness all the non-Christian things that got imported into Christianity.