Community | August 04, 2011 | 14 comments

Meet the Right-Wing Hatemongers Who Inspired the Norway Killer

source: http://www.alternet.org/story/151881/meet_the_right-wing_hatemongers_who_inspired_the_norway...

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Why were America's Islamophobes able to avoid accountability for so long?

Few political terrorists in recent history took as much care to articulate their ideological influences and political views as Anders Behring Breivik did. The right-wing Norwegian Islamophobe who murdered 76 children and adults in Oslo and at a government-run youth camp spent months, if not years, preparing his 1,500 page manifesto.

Besides its length, one of the most remarkable aspects of the manifesto is the extent to which its European author quoted from the writings of figures from the American conservative movement. Though he referred heavily to his fellow Norwegian, the blogger Fjordman, it was Robert Spencer, the American Islamophobic pseudo-academic, who received the most references from Breivik -- 55 in all. Then there was Daniel Pipes, the Muslim-bashing American neoconservative who earned 18 citations from the terrorist. Other American anti-Muslim characters appear prominently in the manifesto, including the extremist blogger Pam Geller, who operates an Islamophobic organization in partnership with Spencer.

Breivik may have developed his destructive sensibility in the stark political environment of a European continent riveted by mass immigration from the Muslim world, but his conceptualization of the changes he was witnessing reflect the influence of a cadre of far-right bloggers and activists from across the Atlantic Ocean. He not only mimicked their terminology and emulated their language, he substantially adopted their political worldview. The profound impact of the American right's Islamophobic subculture on Breivik's thinking raises a question that has not been adequately explored: Where is the American version of Breivik and why has he not struck yet? Or has he?

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14 comments // Meet the Right-Wing Hatemongers Who Inspired the Norway Killer

  • rosyjane
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      rosyjane  

    • i just want to know if the brain wash was done through high tech gadgets and make the vitcims insane... and after that they stole everything that they have...

    • 10 months ago
  • freehit
  • gypsysailor
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      gypsysailor  

    • If this makes it out into the everyday news headlines stop, watch, and listen as the right wing, teabaggers, conservatives and evangelicals jump up and start waving the 1st Amendment and 2nd Amendment around.

    • 10 months ago
  • maasanova
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      maasanova  
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    • gypsysailor:

      http://undertheradarmedia.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/sunnorway.jpg

      I support both of the 1st and 2nd amendments. Restriction of free speech and taking away people's guns won't solve anything except for limit the opposition to the parasites who are running out country and that's why everytime there are one of these shoot-'em ups, the media screeches about ending free speech and gun rights.

      It may be irresponsible to say that Pamela Geller inspired Anders Behring Breivik to go on a murderous rampage, but you can say that they shared many of the same views, and there was most likely some association there.

      The problem not the necessarily the bloggers, the problem is the media who reports the news with an obvious bias, a lack of objectivity and a huge dose of fear.

      The media were blaming Muslims for the Oslo terror attack based on no other evidence other than a blogger named Will McCant's who claims that he read it on somewhere on a "jihadi" internet forum. He posted an that a Muslim group claimed responsibility.

      One must ask if why are big media outlets reporting on serious crimes based on random internet postings as if they were fact or that these jihadist forum are nothing but spooks posted shite and then running back and pointing the fingers at the people they want to blame.

    • 10 months ago
  • freecrack
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • freecrack:

      Literally, the only person in this thread who's even said or alluded to the word Zionist is you.

      The only time it appears in the article, at all, is when they were *quoting* Breivik.

      You're being ridiculously defensive here and, really, it only draws suspicion as to your own motives considering that you're defending the kind of people who support Breivik's ideas.

      But just to make you chew your own fat, I'm actually going to provide a quote from his manifesto.

      "Let us fight together with Israel, with our Zionist brothers against all anti-Zionists, against all cultural Marxists/multiculturalists."

      I hope you feel like an idiot now. Because you should.

    • 10 months ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • Saladin:

      not at all.my statement was an acknowledgement of the lack of zionism being presented.

      nothing more nothing less.
      id feel like an idiot if i read into things to rediculous degrees as you just did.

      i was just happy for once something crazy happened and it wasnt branded part of jews or muslims.

    • 10 months ago
  • Saladin
  • Saladin
  • maasanova
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      maasanova  
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    • http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/blogs/the-gaggle/2010/08/25/muslim-cab-dri...

      There have already been serveral notable attacks on innocent Muslims because of the post 9/11 and 7/7 media and Sharia Law hysteria.

      Remember the contrived Ground Zero Mosque controversy and the cab driver who got stabbed by his customer?

      And also let's not forget the FBI who has also been responsible for infiltrating mosques posing as extremist Muslims with the intent of entrapping otherwise innocent Muslim Americans.

      All of this is nonsense is because of the constant drumbeat of very dangerous propaganda emanating from both big media outlets, fringe bloggers and politicians like Rep. Peter King , Herman Cain and Michelle Bachmann.

    • 10 months ago
  • freecrack
  • jubal
  • Vierotchka
  • kennymotown
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      kennymotown  

    • Simple answer they have avoided prosecution because their Buddy's are in power, little do they know they will shortly be feeling very much pain!

    • 10 months ago
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