Well, shit. Killer of MP, Jo Cox, had longstanding ties to U.S. neo-Nazi Group

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1. "Cox had been a strong advocate of an inclusive and multicultural Britain amid a wave of hostility

toward immigrants that is helping to fuel the anti-E.U. campaign."

Officials have not commented on a possible motive for the killing. But British media organizations including the Guardian, the BBC and Sky News quoted witnesses as saying that the assailant shouted “Britain first!” during and after the attack.

Britain First is the name of a far-right group that stages provocative anti-Muslim demonstrations. After Thursday's attack, the organization posted a statement on its website denying involvement and saying it “would never encourage behavior of this sort.”

People from around the world on Thursday and Friday paid tribute to the 41-year-old Cox, a politician from the center-left Labour party who was widely-respected across the political spectrum for her fierce advocacy on behalf of Syrian war victims and who campaigned to allow 3,000 child refugees to resettle in Britain. Before her election to Parliament last year, Cox had a career in humanitarian work. In Parliament, Cox had been outspoken about the need to do more to protect civilians in Syria, and had argued in the House of Commons for Britain to accept 3,000 child refugees.

“Jo believed in a better world and she fought for it every day of her life with an energy, and a zest for life that would exhaust most people,” he (her husband) wrote. “She would have wanted two things above all else to happen now, one that our precious children are bathed in love and two, that we all unite to fight against the hatred that killed her. Hate doesn’t have a creed, race or religion, it is poisonous.”

It sounds like the world lost a true liberal at the hands of a right wing nationalist.