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WARNING: THIS REPORT CONTAINS RACIST, ISLAMOPHOBIC AND MISOGYNISTIC CONTENT
A far right group has been condemned for targeting young men after one of its teenage activists posted racist, misogynistic and Islamophobic messages on social media.
The schoolboy - who we are not naming - is a card-carrying member of the Homeland Party.
In one video, the teenager said he has "always been disgusted by mixed race couples and race mixing in general" and claimed white women's attraction to Black or Asian men is "wrong for them and stems from porn addiction and promiscuity".
The 16-year-old also called for pro-immigration politicians to be jailed and in a post on social media, he said that "the idea that we fought the Nazis in an ideological war is extremely damaging and must be refuted".
He also claimed to have been interviewed by a teacher over his political views, suggesting it was at the behest of counter terrorism officers.
The Scottish Greens said the teenager's comments - some of which were posted after he joined Homeland - are "shocking" and it was "deeply troubling to see someone so young sharing such poison and hatred". The party accused "hate groups like Homeland" of targeting "young and disenfranchised people," particularly "boys and young men".
The anti-racism charity Hope not hate claimed Homeland is "leading young men, some of them teenagers, down a dark path, doing potentially irreparable damage to their futures in the process". An expert on the 'manosphere' said "unregulated social media" plays a "big part" in the radicalisation of young men.
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The Homeland Party -which offered to coach the teenager in debating skills last September when he was 15 years old - confirmed he was a party member and described him as a "true son of Scotland who is doing his community proud". It added: "We won't throw such young people under the bus for things they've said or done online before they joined us - even when we strongly disagree with them."
Homeland is a far right political party founded by a Scot called Kenny Smith from the Isle of Lewis, who was a candidate for the British National Party, which was condemned for its racism. Smith started Homeland in 2023 after breaking away from another far right group called Patriotic Alternative.
One branch organiser for the party has claimed that roughly 70 per cent of Homeland's members are under 30.
Homeland's Scottish teenage activist became a member of the party in January and supports the mass deportation of immigrants. His political posts date back to when he was 15 years old.
He said in a video that some women are addicted to porn and constantly search for "extreme" sex including "sleeping with a bunch of men", and that "the next thing is eventually gonna be black man." Women enjoy this because it is "perverse" and "kind of dirty", he added.
Referring to an event last month at his school when staff and pupils were encouraged to try on hijabs to celebrate 'World Hijab Day', the 16-year-old wrote on his social media account: "At the same time in England, a school boy was stabbed to death by a foreigner. And just to add salt to the wound, now the Labour government is set on creating a council to 'tackle Islamophobia'. I'm disgusted at the current political and educational system in Britain."
The youth wrote "yawn" in response to prime minister Keir Starmer who said antisemitism is "hatred", and claimed that "our ancestors didn't fight the Nazis so we could get invaded by foreigners and Muslims from the third world instead".
After posting an image of a shanty town alongside a cathedral, he wrote: "The people who built this …are not going to benefit or enrich the culture of a people who built this ."
He also said politics needs to get a "lot nastier" and urged "British people" to "come out fighting". He added: "The only way out of our corrupt political system and to stop the heinous crimes being committed ...
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