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‘Islamophobic’ Bloggers, Scholars Blamed for Norway Outrage
Monday, July 25, 2011
By Patrick Goodenough
One of several photographs of self-confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik that appear on a 1,518-page manifesto he posted online hours before Friday’s attacks. (Image: Breivik manifesto)
(CNSNews.com) – As more details about Norwegian mass murder suspect Anders Behring Breivik emerged over the weekend, some prominent voices who warn about the dangers Islamist extremism poses to the West found themselves under fire.
Breivik has confessed to killing 93 people, mostly children, in Friday’s bombing and shooting rampage. He was described by a top Norwegian police officer as a “Christian fundamentalist.” He also has been identified as a freemason, and in online writings, he identified himself as a “Justiciar Knight Commander for Knights Templar Europe,” a reference to a medieval Catholic military order.
In a 1,518-page manifesto, which includes terrorist techniques and tactics and calls for mass executions of “traitors,” he rails against Muslim migration into Europe, “political correctness” and “multiculturalism,” and he takes aim at what he calls “cultural Marxists.”
The document, supposedly drafted over a nine-year period and posted hours before the attacks, also includes quotes from or references to a range of writers, “counter-jihad” bloggers, scholars and right-wing politicians.
They include Geert Wilders, the Dutch lawmaker acquitted last month of hate speech relating to his views on Islam; Islam expert and Middle East Forum director Daniel Pipes; and conservative bloggers associated with sites such as Jihad Watch, Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA), Brussels Journal and Gates of Vienna.
Those sites and individuals were quickly targeted for strong criticism, as some detractors sought to link them to the actions of the Norwegian.
In an opinion piece in Norway’s Aftenposten Sunday, a writer named Oyvind Power drew attention to the manifesto’s references to Islam scholar Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, historian and author Bat Ye’or, and a Norwegian “counter-jihad” blogger who writes on the Gates of Vienna blog under the name Fjordman.
Norwegians pay tribute to victims of the attacks before a memorial service at Oslo Cathedral on Sunday, July 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
“Anders Behring Breivik was inspired by an internet environment that calls itself ‘counter-jihadist,’” wrote Power, saying such groups had spread their opinions online for years, contributing to “radicalization.”
“People like Fjordman and [Atlas Shrugs blogger and SIOA anti-shari’a activist] Pamela Geller and the right wing blogosphere who spew apocalyptic rhetoric and refuse to denounce the extremists among them now have the very real blood of children on their hands,” wrote Charles Johnson on his blog, Little Green Footballs.
In an opinion piece on the al-Jazeera network’s Web site, a Palestinian journalist, Ahmed Moor pointed a finger at radio and television broadcaster Glenn Beck – who does not, apparently, feature in Breivik’s writings – suggesting that he is the conservative counterpart of Anwar al-Awlaki, the al-Qaeda propagandist.
“Anders Behring Breivik, Mohammed Atta and Baruch Goldstein are all cut from the same rotten cloth. Anwar Al-Awlaki and Glenn Beck – the peddlers of the faith – all share the same core afflictions,” Moor wrote. “All indications are that the hate-mongers – who are on the same side of this war, irrespective of religion – are winning in America.”
(Atta was the 9/11 ringleader; Goldstein was a Jewish doctor who in 1994 killed 29 Muslims in a mosque in Hebron.)
People light candles in memory of the victims of the attacks on Norway’s government headquarters and an island youth retreat, at Oslo Cathedral on Sunday, July 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Also on al-Jazeera, Dr. Robert Lambert, co-director of the European Muslim Research Centre at Britain’s University of Exeter, noted the references in Breivik’s manifesto to anti-“Islamification” groups.
“While we must await the outcome of police investigations and court proceedings before reaching any firm conclusions about Breivik’s motivation, it will nevertheless be instructive to begin an analysis of a violent extremist nationalist milieu in Europe and the U.S., and its dramatic shift towards anti-Muslim and Islamophobic thought since 9/11,” he wrote.
Some critics did not name names, merely blaming “Islamophobes” and raising concerns about “networks.”
“When we read of American Islamophobes, we must no longer deny the potential they have to undermine the societal values that we hold dear,” Religious Freedom USA co-director Joshua Stanton wrote in a Huffington Post article on the Norwegian massacre.
“Religious freedom is jeopardized when Muslims are singled out. But Islamophobes may come to threaten more than religious freedom – perhaps even our very security,” he argued.
British journalist and convert to Islam Yvonne Ridley told Iran’s IRNA news agency the attacks “could be the start of a terror campaign by rightwing fundamentalists” in Europe and the U.S.
“Just because the attacker is not olive or black skinned and does not follow the Muslim faith this does not make Friday’s horrific crime the actions of some recluse acting as a lone terrorist,” she said. “He had to have a network and support to plan and carry out such an atrocity.”
‘Absurd and offensive’
Some of the individuals in the spotlight responded.
Noting reports that Breivik sympathized with the views of his Party for Freedom (PVV), Wilders told Dutch media that the Norwegian was “a violent, sick psychopath” and said the PVV “hates everything that this man stands for and has done.”
“I have not yet had the time or energy to read his alleged manifesto, but it I hear he has posted quotes from my work,” Fjordman wrote on Gates of Vienna. “I dislike that in the extreme, but there is little else I can do about it. All of my writings are made available for free on the Internet.”
Fjordman noted that the manifesto also included references to the philosophers John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant and John Locke, adding, “I hope these writers will not be classified as ‘hate speech’ from now on.”
Spencer posted a statement on Jihad Watch on behalf of SIOA denouncing Breivik and calling for him to be punished to the full extent of the law.
“Attempts to link us to these murders on the basis of alleged postings by the murderer mentioning us are absurd and offensive,” it said. “Our work is and always has been wholly focused upon defending humane values and freedoms. There is no way that any sane person could possibly conclude that committing mass murder of children would advance the principles for which we stand.”
Geller, who is referred to just once by name in the lengthy manifesto, called it “almost inconceivable that one passing reference in a 1,516-page screed would be sufficient for the Islamic/leftist machine to assign blame to yours truly, and to those of us who are working diligently to educate the people. It’s extraordinary that this is being swallowed whole by the mainstream media.”
Pipes noted that Breivik was “the third terrorist” to be found to have read his material, the other two being the Pakistan-born U.S. national David Headley and the accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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DON’T STOP HERE AMERICA…….CONTINUE READING.
To deflect the spotlight OFF of HIM, Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs wrote (refer to above post)
“People like Fjordman and [Atlas Shrugs blogger and SIOA anti-shari’a activist] Pamela Geller and the right wing blogosphere who spew apocalyptic rhetoric and refuse to denounce the extremists among them now have the very real blood of children on their hands,” wrote Charles Johnson on his blog, Little Green Footballs.
YET…….Read at link below
Extraordinary deception
Excerpt:
We’re still waiting for the Department of Defense to speak to the religious motivation in the Fort Hood jihad. And yet here we are with a mass murderer who has been planning this for nine years, long before I ever heard of a blog, and who sought to use us, to use our work as a basis for his maniacal, homicidal rampage — and we are held responsible. Notice that no attention is being paid to last week’s jihad attack in Mumbai. Is it because it’s Islam, and the media is Sharia-compliant? Is it because it’s brown people? Are we going to go there? That’s what the left would say if conservatives were not paying sufficient attention to murders in a non-Western country.
There is only a single and insignificant reference to me in Breivik’s manifesto. The 55 references to Spencer are mostly quotes from Muslim scriptures. But Breivik cites LGF [Little Green Footballs] numerous times, in a very different way. He includes a long diatribe against Charles Johnson, whom he clearly admired until he felt betrayed enough to snap. The killer speaks about Charles Johnson obsessively and wrings his hands about Johnson’s turn to the left. Could this perhaps have been the provocation? Could this have been what caused him to snap?
Breivik also refers favorably to Obama. Does that make the president culpable as well?
This whole exercise is ridiculous. Anders Behring Breivik is responsible for his actions. If anyone incited him to violence, it was Islamic supremacists. If anything incited him to violence, it was the Euro-Med policy.
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Norway Massacre Suspect Patronized Prostitutes; Says Liberal Mom Helped ‘Feminize’ Him
By Scott Baker
July 25, 2011
***Excerpted***
Part of Breivik’s manifesto was taken almost word for word from the first few pages of the anti-technology manifesto written by “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, who is in federal prison for mail bombs that killed three people and injured 23 others across the U.S. from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Breivik did not cite Kaczynski, though he did for many other people whose writings he used.
Breivik changed a Kaczynski screed on leftism and what he considered to be leftists’ “feelings of inferiority” — mainly by substituting the words “multiculturalism” or “cultural Marxism” for “leftism.”
For instance, Kaczynski wrote: “One of the most widespread manifestations of the craziness of our world is leftism, so a discussion of the psychology of leftism can serve as an introduction to the discussion of the problems of modern society in general.”
Breivik’s manifesto reads: “One of the most widespread manifestations of the craziness of our world is multiculturalism, so a discussion of the psychology of multiculturalists can serve as an introduction to the discussion of the problems of Western Europe in general.”
Breivik called his upbringing in a middle-class home in Oslo privileged even though his parents divorced when he was 1 and he lost contact with his father in his teens. His parents split when the family lived in London, where his father, Jens Breivik, was a diplomat at the Norwegian Embassy in London. A spokesman for the embassy, Stein Iversen, confirmed that Jens Breivik was employed at the embassy in the late 1970s, but wouldn’t discuss his relationship with the Oslo suspect.
Breivik said both parents supported Norway’s center-left Labor Party, which he viewed as infiltrated by Marxists.
His mother won a custody battle, but Breivik said he regularly visited his father and his new wife in France, where they lived, until his father cut off contact when Breivik was 15. The father told Norwegian newspaper VG that they lost touch in 1995, but that it was his son who wanted to cut off contact.
“We’ve never lived together, but we had some contact in his childhood,” the older Breivik, who VG said is now retired in France, was quoted as saying. “When he was young he was an ordinary boy, but reclusive. He wasn’t interested in politics at the time.”
He learned about Breivik’s massacre on the Internet. “I was reading online newspapers and then I suddenly saw his name and picture on the net,” he told VG. “It was a shock to find out. I haven’t gotten over it yet.”
Breivik’s mother lives in an ivy-covered brick apartment building in western Oslo, currently protected by police. Neighbors said they hadn’t seen her since a few days before the shooting. Police said they‘ve spoken to her and that she didn’t know of her son’s plans.
In his manifesto, Breivik said he had no negative experiences from his childhood, though he had issues with his mother being a “moderate feminist.”
“I do not approve of the super-liberal, matriarchal upbringing though as it completely lacked discipline and has contributed to feminize me to a certain degree,” he said.
But Breivik claims he never lacked courage: “If anyone threatened me or my friends, regardless if we were at a disadvantage, we would rather face our foes than submit and lose face.” He said that attitude was atypical among ethnic Norwegians, who had a tendency to “sissy out.”
In Internet postings attributed to Breivik on Norwegian websites, he blamed Europe’s left-wing parties for destroying the continent’s Christian heritage by allowing mass immigration of Muslims.
He said he came in contact with like-minded individuals across Europe, and together they formed a military order inspired by the Knights Templar crusaders. Their goal was to seize power in Europe by 2083 in a string of coups d’etat. Norwegian police couldn’t say whether the group existed.
Two European security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the investigation said they were familiar with increased Internet chatter from individuals claiming they belonged to a group called the new Knights Templar.
Breivik said he also tried to get engaged in domestic politics, in the Progress Party, an a populist opposition party which calls for stricter immigration controls. He claims he was a popular party member who almost got elected to the Oslo City Council seven years ago.
“That’s just something he imagined,” said Joeran Kallmyr, whom Breivik described as his “rival” in the party.
Breivik attended only five or six party meetings during those two years and left the party quietly, said Kallmyr, now a vice mayor of Oslo.
“He was very quiet, almost shy. He seemed like a well-educated man. He was very well dressed and very polite. He wore a tie all the time,” Kallmyr said. “I couldn’t see any signs that he was coming apart.”
Kallmyr said he only had one conversation with Breivik, a forgettable chat about Breivik’s business. According to Breivik’s manifesto, he was the director of Anders Behring Breivik ENK at the time, a business he describes as a “front” and a “milking cow” to finance “resistance/liberation related military operations.”
He describes elsewhere in the document how he used his own companies to secure bank loans and credit to fund his attack.
Breivik, who detailed his preparations for the attacks in eerie detail, also anticipated the hostility he would face, even from his friends and family, if he survived his “mission” and was brought to trial.
Jack Levin, a professor at Northeastern University who has written a number of books on mass murderers, said that part could be part of the motivation for the manifesto.
“He talks about visiting prostitutes and taking steroids. Why would he say such negative things about himself? I think what he’s doing is — this humanizes him,” Levin said. “He‘s trying to tell people he’s not a monster, that he’s a person with frailties and weaknesses like everybody else. It makes the killer look like a victim rather than a villain.”
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