If there’s one thing white supremacists, white nationalists, alt-righters, and neo-Nazis universally love, it’s Vikings. They freaking worship Vikings, fetishize them, and cannot get enough of all things Viking. To them, Vikings symbolize racial purity and taking what you want by violence. Nazi websites such as The Daily Stormer are fond of using imagery which evokes Viking history and Norse mythology.
But what if some Vikings were (gasp!) Muslims?
Researchers at Upsala University announced Friday that some Vikings were buried in Sweden with cloth inscribed with the name “Allah,” the Muslim word for God, and this may suggest that as they roamed the world, Vikings came into contact with people of the Muslim faith and some may have also converted to Islam.
Cue hysterical freak-out by right-wingers on Twitter:
NO women Vikings. NO Vikings Muslim. Not innocent tabloid. IS propaganda to rewrite history #BoycottMetroAdvertisershttps://t.co/gmgtdctO9f
— Von Sheep (@vonsheep) October 13, 2017
Viking raids a Middle Eastern trader & thinks this is cool cloth. Gets buried with it. Now Vikings are Muslim? https://t.co/QCIrar4ny2 ??
— RightTrak (@RightTrak) October 13, 2017
https://t.co/Q0LHQMLO8a "BBC Trying to Spin Viking Plunder Find Into a Narrative of Muslim Vikings. No Doubt a Pretext to a False History …
— ??ChristianPatriot (@SavetheUSNation) October 13, 2017
NO – AGAIN .. NO -Were Vikings Muslim? New research finds 'Allah' woven into burial clothes https://t.co/Znj3nPZ0a9 via @MetroUK
— ❌Peeking thru the Weeds❌ (@hotjetset) October 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/De_Pluribus_Unu/status/918822394072059904
Bull article. The part about Muslim theological influences on Vikings was especially hilarius. Al-Valhallah…
— History Twerp (@History_Twerp) October 13, 2017
And plenty of others were delighted to see the Viking worshipers get a nice dose of historical karma:
https://twitter.com/MartinBelam/status/918786716789563393
https://twitter.com/squarelyrooted/status/918780109171183616
https://twitter.com/spurlunk/status/918844367376437248
https://twitter.com/JohnEGlover/status/918760815280513024
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