RaHoWa

RaHoWa (also Rahowa or RAHOWA), short for Racial Holy War, is a white supremacist slogan and concept, coined by the American politician and writer Ben Klassen, the founder of the white supremacist religion Creativity and the associated Church of the Creator (COTC). In Klassen's ideology, the Racial Holy War is where whites fight and eliminate all non-white peoples, leading to total white domination of the globe. While similar ideas had been expressed by Klassen for years, the term RaHoWa first appeared in an article in the COTC's newspaper, Racial Loyalty, entitled: "Recognize Your Enemies! RAHOWA", in 1986. It was also the title of Klassen's 1987 book, RAHOWA! This Planet is All Ours. While initially only used by Creativity adherents, the slogan soon spread to others in the white supremacist and neo-Nazi movements, particularly with skinheads. Following Klassen's death and the resulting schisms, several successor movements to the COTC used RaHoWa as part of their names. The Anti-Defamation League lists the term in its hate symbol database as a hate acronym. The white power band RaHoWa, which was founded by COTC members and became one of the most popular white power bands, took their name from the slogan. Scholar Damon T. Berry argued that RaHoWa "has become ubiquitous in white-power circles in America and elsewhere", and that it is "one of the most significant white nationalist slogans shared across religious and organizational affiliations".