Posted on 07/25/2011 2:56:27 PM PDT by IbJensen
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.
“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.”
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.
“As this triad suggests, an author has no control over who reads him and what possible role his writings may have in shaping the mind of a terrorist,” said Pipes, repeating an earlier assurance that “the Middle East Forum and I do not inadvertently provide guidance to terrorists.”
Did I miss something on the news because I did not hear that this was an attack on Muslims or Islam and no reports of Muslims being killed. It appeared it was an attack on a liberal country that has allowed Muslims into their country to set up their Shari'a laws and this extremist did not like it and wanted the government to pay dearly for it. Now if it had been a muslim extremist blowing up a mosque full of other extremist promoting jihad then I for one would not would not have cared one bit but innocent people died in this senseless attack and they did not deserve to die like they did. This sick individual should have a rope put around his neck and hung at dawn.
Islam ignoramus Pres. GW Bush fell for the con that Islam is a "religion of peace", not understanding that that applies only when the world accepts its peace terms of total Muslim control. Until then Allah commands Muslims to wage endless war until he gets what he wants. The so-called Muslim extremists differ with the so-called moderates only about tactics and timing, not the ultimate goal, which starts with the extermination of the Jewish state of Israel and its non-Muslim govt. in the heart of the Muslim "Ummah" or Borg Hive.
crackdown on thoughtcrimes imminent?
There was a good article by Bruce Bawer (who lives in Norway) in the WSJ today, saying that Breivik’s atrocities were a major set-back in the cause of the European fight against the Islamic takeover. He said that it will no longer be able to rationally discuss what is a real, objective problem without somebody bringing up Oslo.
Breivik apparently had no objection to Islam, he just didn’t want immigrant Muslims in his country, but like the racial purist he was, thought that they should all be back in their homelands in the Middle East. He also felt that Jews should be in Israel.
That said, I think Islam should be expelled from all countries because it is a rival political system that is trying to take over native political systems. It is NOT a religion. It’s a theocratic cult whose members have the duty to wage “jihad’ and take over any culture in which they find themselves.
I don’t object to Muslims because they’re African, Middle Eastern or whatever; I object to them because they are adherents of an insane theocratic political cult that wants to take over my country and every other country in the world. African, SE Asian or Middle Eastern Christians (and even Hindus and Buddhists, since they aren’t followers of a political cult) are fine, but no Muslims from anywhere should be permitted to enter the US or Europe without a loyalty oath and a formal renunciation of “jihad.”
‘Islamophobic’ Bloggers, Scholars Blamed for Norway Outrage
Oh, well who are they going to blame for these outrages.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Must be the joooooooz fault.
But wait. There’s more.
In 2007 Islam and Judaism’s holiest holidays overlapped for 10 days. Muslims racked up 397 dead bodies in 94 terror attacks across 10 countries during this time... while Jews worked on their 159th Nobel Prize.
The genocidal Mohammedan savages were the FIRST to take credit for the attacks in Norway.
Now that they learn the attacker hates them, they’re crying in their hookahs.
Surely NO ONE takes that as a serious source!
> but no Muslims from anywhere should be permitted to enter the US or Europe
You should have stopped there.
When you added this ...
> without a loyalty oath and a formal renunciation of “jihad.”
... it must’ve been because you forgot that Mohammedans must lie to infidels so they can more easily infiltrate and kill them.
Let them try. A manman's act of murderous insanity is no justification for criminalizing thought.
Video it and threaten to release the video to their mullahs...
Seriously, though, I think if Islam were treated as a rival political system that was a threat to the US, we could deal with it much better. Its claim to be a “religion” throws everything off under our system.
While it is true that they take credit for earthquakes and hurricanes, I also read that something about the attack appeared on a jihadist website about three days prior to the attack.
Breivik thought he could work with the Muslims if he could prove he was as bloodthirsty as they were. His theory was that this would convince them to get all their people together in the ME, and then everybody would live happily ever after. In his "manifesto," he mentioned contacting them, and I think he probably did have some Islamic contacts (as did Timothy McVeigh).
That said, did you read that he showed up at his hearing today wearing a black uniform with skull patches on the shoulders? Does anybody know where this uniform came from? Didn't the Serbian or German "elite corps" wear something like this?
Yes, he was described that way by one police officer two days ago, but I have yet to see any evidence for the "fundamentalist" part. How many fundamentalist Christian freemasons are there, and how many fundamentalist Christians claim in their manifesto that science should always trump religion?
I guess Cheetos Johnson forgot that Fjordman, Geller and Spencer were all once heavy contributors to his blog and their viewpoints haven't changed, even though Johnson's become a convenient libturd. He's nothing more than a smear merchant.
Isn’t a “phobia” an “irrational” fear?
Fearing Islamists is rational.
An overt thought crime crackdown (more than they already do in Norway) would do a lot to push the shooter’s cause.
Also, if the socialists follow Obammy’s example and start treating all the “blond haired, blue eyed” people of Norway as “domestic terrorist” suspects and have pervert agents stick their hands in everyone’s pants...
The Left bettter not get their heads too big lest they transform themselves from soft gloved “victims” to to aggressive monsters. They are only a step away from dropping the mask.
Al-Taqiya.
Leftists and Islamists are what they are - vultures drenched in blood, picking through the bodies of these massacred children for any scrap they can use to further their agenda. They will use and abuse anything, no matter how horrific, in their unending question for rule, power, and domination.
They want so badly to say it, they want their right-wing opposition rounded up, put in camps, and executed. Irony and hypocrisy so thick you couldn’t get thru it with a bunker buster bomb. The hatred and lust for control pulsates from their very being.
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