Sexual abuse
Several O9A texts promote rape and pedophilia as a way to transgress against civilized norms and in 2020, the UK authorities reported being “
concerned by the number of paedophiles associated with the O9A”. As of 2019, six neo-Nazi followers of O9A in the US and the UK have been convicted of sexual assault and posession of child abuse material.
However, the O9A’s encouragement of these activities, and the
infiltration of O9A ideology into online neo-Nazi spaces has been a
source of internal conflict among groups such as the now disbanded Atomwaffen Division (AWD). By 2018, the AWD’s ideology had become increasingly influenced by O9A beliefs under new leadership, with the group adding
two core O9A texts to its required reading list and engaging in more violence as its ideology became more extreme. Several members left AWD in protest against this and organizational splits occurred within the broader movement, with the British AWD affiliate “
System Resistance Network” splintering along a pro-O9A ideological faultline to form the more extreme Sonnenkrieg Division in 2018. Members of the group
openly celebrate rape, paedophilia and murder, and five individuals connected with the Sonnenkrieg Division have been convicted on terrorism charges in the UK since its formation in 2018.
Insight Roles
O9A followers are
encouraged to commit random acts of extreme violence, sexual assaults and the “culling” of human victims to accelerate the breakdown of the current Judeo-Christian Western system.
The adoption of “insight roles”, where O9A followers are encouraged to infiltrate organizations such as the police, military, political or religious groups for 6-18 months, is perceived as another way to destabilize the system, and a way O9A followers can
progress through the organization’s graded hierarchy system known as the “Seven Fold Way”.
Case Study: RAPEWAFFEN
In June 2020, a US Army private and O9A supporter was
convicted on terrorism charges, after it was found that he sent sensitive information about his military unit to O9A members, whom formed part of a group calling itself “RapeWaffen” on Telegram, in an attempt to facilitate a “mass casualty” attack.
RapeWaffen is one of the most explicitly O9A-affiliated channels on Telegram, and actively promotes “
white supremacy extremism, neo-Nazi Satanism, and rape against women” as a way to transgress against civilized norms and undermine society. In the same month (June 2020), another active member of the US military, Shandon Simpson, was found to have
participated in the RapeWaffen group.
A
study by HOPE not Hate reported that videos of women being subjected to sexual abuse, as well as videos of extreme violence and murder, were shared in private group chats related to the channel. According to the report, one post on the group read “by the Order of The 9 Angels [sic] I will do my best to fulfill the prophecy of the Rape War, heil Rape”, with the creator of the channel providing followers of the group with details of where to find victims and describing in other right-wing extremist Telegram groups his attempt to spread his ideas into other hate and terrorist groups.
