More news about the Baldurshof: Third Hof of the Asatru Folk Assembly setting up in Murdock, Minnesota.
In Whites-only pagan group comes to Murdock, Mark Wasson reports:
The Asatru Folk Assembly recently bought property in western Minnesota as a base of operations for its members. The group uses nordic imagery and mythos to recruit white people to become members. While they say they are not racist, the group's leader, Matthew Flavel, spoke at a 2018 event that also celebrated what would have been the 100th birthday of George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party. Flavel described Asatru Folk Assembly as a "white man's religion" and later wrote that it was a "fantastic event" and that he met some "great people" there.
A small group of pagan white supremacists recently bought property in western Minnesota in an effort to spread their ideology and give members a more solid base of operation in the region.
The purchase of the former Calvary Lutheran Church in Murdock, originally reported by the blog Bluestem Prairie, is the third purchase by the Asatru Folk Assembly, also known as the AFA, with other properties in North Carolina and California, according to the group's website.
The Murdock City Council, on the advice of the city attorney, is not commenting on the group other than they’re aware of the purchase and that the property is zoned for residential, according to Murdock City Clerk Kim Diederich.
“He is just advising us to not comment about any of it right now as we do not know a lot about the group and really what they can do with the property as it is in a residential zone so he doesn’t want us to say anything out of context until we all learn more about them and their intentions,” Diederich wrote in an email.
A handful of people in Murdock, a Swift County town of fewer than 300, told the West Central Tribune they weren’t comfortable talking about the group because they also did not know enough about them. . . .
Read the rest at the Forum Communications newspaper.
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Photo: The former Lutheran Church, now zoned residential, in Murdock, Minnesota, that's being converted for use by the Asatru Folk Assembly. Via the AFA.
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