The Heritage Front
An alliance between White racists and an Arab leader seems a
strange confederation. However, according to Warren Kinsella in
his book Unholy Alliances, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi has
forged alliances with both extremist right-wing and left-wing
groups from Europe, the United States, and Canada. These groups
include the PLO, the IRA, the Nation of Islam, the American
Indian Movement, and members of
Don Andrews'
Nationalist Party
of Canada. While their political beliefs often clash, many of
Qadhafi's extremist associates subscribe to the basic tenets
of anti-Semitism. These include virulent opposition to the
existence of the State of Israel, a belief in an international
Jewish conspiracy, and a skepticism regarding, if not an
outright denial of, the Holocaust.
Because of the
Nationalist Party's positive stance toward the
Arab world, in 1987 some Nationalist Party members were invited
to a 4-day "peace conference" in Tripoli, organized by Qadhafi.
The NPOC received a grant from Qadhafi at that time. In
September 1989, 16 Nationalist Party members, (including Nicola
Polinuk and
Wolfgang Droege, as well as two other present
Heritage Front members, James Dawson and Peter Mitrevski) were
invited to a celebration marking Qadhafi's 20-year reign. The
idea for the formation of the
Heritage Front apparently came
about on this trip. According to one source,
Droege himself has
been part of 4 trips to Libya since 1987. In Unholy Alliances,
Don Andrews was quoted as saying that the Libyans paid for the
Nationalist Party's plane tickets, feasted them while in Libya,
and has given the Party small interest-free loans.
While it would appear strange that Muammar Qadhafi would enlist
the support of White supremacists and neo-Nazis, upon further
examination, the reasoning becomes clear. For a modest amount of
money, members of far-right groups can be used as willing
mercenaries who will fight for Qadhafi's Third Position, an
ideology which is anti-capitalist, anti-communist, and anti-
lsrael. Qadhafi also strongly believes in separating the races
of the world, a stance which has been taken by many White
supremacist groups, including
Droege's. In a January 1988
speech to members of the American Indian Movement, Qadhafi spoke
of the creation of separate "states" in North America for
different races. This idea of segregation, along with the
anti-capitalist, anti-communist, anti-lsrael Third Position
stance, is far from alien to the
Heritage Front. The possibility
of a link between Qadhafi and Droege, and thus between Libya and
the
Heritage Front, should not be underplayed.
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