Norway attacks

Turkish president warns European leaders over their role in extremism

by News Sources 09.09.2011

Today’s Zaman reports: Turkish President Abdullah Gül has called on European leaders to stick to values such as democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights, which originated from the continent of Europe, as he warned that populist tendencies among European leaders towards migration triggered the radicalization of immigrant societies. Delivering a speech [...]

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Breivik embodies the intersection between rightist populism and liberal political correctness

by News Sources 08.08.2011

The philosopher, Slavoj Žižek, writes: In Anders Behring Breivik’s ideological self-justification as well as in reactions to his murderous act there are things that should make us think. The manifesto of this Christian “Marxist hunter” who killed more than 70 people in Norway is precisely not a case of a deranged man’s rambling; it is [...]

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Breivik’s guru comes out of hiding, briefly

by Paul Woodward 08.05.2011

Peder Jensen, the 36-year-old Norwegian blogger, who until now has only been publicly known as “Fjordman“, was cited in terrorist Anders Behring Breivik’s manifesto 111 times. The blogger has just given his first and only interview with the Norwegian tabloid, VG, after having been questioned for hours by Norwegian police. He says he is now [...]

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Where is the American version of Breivik and why has he not struck yet? Or has he?

by News Sources 08.03.2011

Max Blumenthal writes: 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 [...]

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Islamophobia, Zionism and the Norway massacre

by News Sources 08.02.2011

In a Washington Post op-ed, Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League compared the Islamophobia that led Anders Behring Breivik to massacre 77 innocent people in Norway to the anti-Semitism that resulted in the Holocaust. Ali Abunimah welcomes the fact that Foxman is echoing what he and many others have pointed out in recent [...]

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Pamela Geller condemns victims of terrorism in Norway

by Paul Woodward 08.01.2011

Anyone can denounce violence. Ku Klux Klan leaders and all sorts of other hatemongers are well practiced in making pro forma statements about being law-abiding, peace-loving Americans. So when Pamela Geller says “I abhor violence” but then goes on to describe the victims of Anders Behring Breivik’s shooting rampage as members of an “indoctrination camp” [...]

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Norway attacks: How far right views created Anders Behring Breivik

by News Sources 08.01.2011

The Guardian reports: The fact that Breivik chose the internet to disseminate his ideology is important. His journey to terrorism was forged within a network of blogs where violence is glorified and multiculturalism despised, along with those who embrace it. One expert in European rightwing extremism, Andrea Mammone of Kingston University London, says the content [...]

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On Norway’s emotional maturity

by News Sources 07.31.2011

As Norway has demonstrated this week, anger is often nothing more than the inability to experience grief and acknowledge loss. Knut Olav Amas writes: Exactly a week has passed since the twin terror attacks on Norway. As of this writing, the death toll stands at seventy-seven, and more than thirty people, mostly young, are still [...]

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Pamela Geller’s ties to violence in Norway

by Paul Woodward 07.30.2011

Charles Johnson reveals: In June 2007, “counter-jihad” blogger Pamela Geller posted the following Email from Norway, from a reader who sounds a lot like the Oslo terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik. Geller’s post began: I am running an email I received from an Atlas reader in Norway. It is devastating in its matter-of-factness. [The email begins] [...]

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Seeds of terror in Norway

by News Sources 07.28.2011

Andrew Gumbel writes: America’s violent far right would have no difficulty recognizing the tell-tale signatures of Friday’s killing spree in Norway — and not just because they would see the confessed perpetrator, Anders Behring Breivik, as an ideological soul mate who, like their own heroes, thought he could trigger a white-supremacist revolution with bombs and [...]

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An un-American response to the Oslo attack

by News Sources 07.28.2011

Glenn Greenwald writes: Over the last decade, virtually every Terrorist plot aimed at the U.S. — whether successful or failed — has provoked greater security and surveillance measures.  Within a matter of mere weeks, the 9/11 attacks infamously spawned a vast new surveillance statute (the Patriot Act), a secretly implemented warrantless eavesdropping program in violation of [...]

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Ex-Berlusconi minister defends Anders Behring Breivik

by News Sources 07.27.2011

The Guardian reports: One of Silvio Berlusconi’s former ministers has defended the thinking of the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik. Interviewed on a popular radio show, Francesco Speroni, a leading member of the Northern League, the junior partner in Berlusconi’s conservative coalition, said: “Breivik’s ideas are in defence of western civilisation.” Speroni spoke as [...]

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Crime and punishment

by Paul Woodward 07.27.2011

Reading Anders Behring Breivik’s account of his preparations for his July 22 attacks in Oslo and Utøya evokes a certain dread at the sight of such a deliberate effort to cause carnage. Breivik expresses no doubt about what he is doing other than the fear that he might run out of funds and be unable [...]

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Why Norway terror accused Breivik says he loves Israel

by News Sources 07.27.2011

Tony Karon writes: There was a time when a blond, blue-eyed nationalist looking to violently rid Europe of its “alien” immigrant population could be reliably assumed to hate Jews. It’s no longer quite that simple. Anders Behring Breivik insists, in his rambling 1,500-page manifesto released on the day of his confessed rampage that killed 76 [...]

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Norwegians still see the occupation as reason for attacks on Israel

by News Sources 07.27.2011

In the Hebrew daily, Ma’ariv, Norway’s ambassador to Israel, Svein Sevje, was interviewed on Tuesday and asked whether the attacks in Oslo and Utøya carried out by Anders Behring Breivik, will alter Norwegians’ perception of Palestinian attacks on Israel. Q: Has this caused you to undertake some soul-searching? Has it changed Norway’s and its citizens’ [...]

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Norway believes democracy is the best way of challenging terrorism

by Paul Woodward 07.27.2011

Just imagine if these words had come out of George Bush’s mouth after 9/11: “The American response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation.” The Guardian reports: The Norwegian prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, says his country will “not be intimidated or threatened” by Friday’s terror attacks, which left 76 people dead. [...]

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Norway gunman a frightening reminder of radical right terrorist threat in the US

by News Sources 07.26.2011

At the Southern Poverty Law Center, Heidi Beirich writes about the ideological trends in the United States that parallel those articulated by Anders Behring Breivik, who rails against cultural Marxism in his manifesto. Fears of “cultural Marxism” have a long pedigree in this country. It’s a conspiratorial kind of “political correctness” on steroids — a [...]

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The Anders Behring Breivik interview

by Paul Woodward 07.26.2011

Anders Behring Breivik’s attorney, Geir Lippestad, says his client appears to be insane. Whether this is what Lippestad actually believes or whether he is simply laying the groundwork for an insanity defense, is unclear. But the idea that only a madman could do what Breivik did, is an idea with dangerous and popular appeal. We [...]

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Norway killer had extensive links to English Defence League

by News Sources 07.25.2011

The Daily Telegraph reports: Anders Behring Breivik had extensive links to the far-Right English Defence League, senior members of the group have admitted. Breivik was understood to have met leaders of the EDL in March last year when he came to London for the visit of Geert Wilders, the Dutch Right-wing politician. Daryl Hobson, who [...]

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Glenn Beck compares Norway victims to Hitler Youth

by News Sources 07.25.2011

The Los Angeles Times reports: Glenn Beck, who in June aired his final cable tv show on Fox News, is still on the radio and has found a new way to get his name into the headlines around the globe. Instead of calling the president of the United States a racist, Beck focused on the [...]

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Anders Behring Breivik: Tunnel vision in an online world

by News Sources 07.25.2011

Thomas Hylland Eriksen writes: Anders Behring Breivik’s world view seems to have been shaped by online fantasy games and the anti-Islamist blogosphere – a recipe for national fragmentation. There is a reason why the Norwegian police have not been overly concerned with rightwing extremism in recent years. It is plainly not very visible. An estimated [...]

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Some Israelis think Norway got what it deserved

by News Sources 07.25.2011

At The Forward, J J Goldberg reports: The Norway massacre has touched off a nasty war of words on the Israeli Internet over the meaning of the event and its implications for Israel. And I do mean nasty: Judging by the comments sections on the main Hebrew websites, the main questions under debate seem to [...]

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Did Anders Behring Breivik act alone? — Updated

by Paul Woodward 07.25.2011

(Update below.) In his manifesto, 2083 A European Declaration of Independence, Anders Behring Breivik — who will soon go on trial for murdering at least 93 fellow Norwegians — writes: Solo-cell systems in combination with martyrdom is the most efficient and deadly form of modern warfare. This strategy was adapted by Jihadist groups. And now [...]

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Norway killings put U.S. extremists in spotlight

by News Sources 07.24.2011

The New York Times reports: The man accused of the killing spree in Norway was deeply influenced by a small group of American bloggers and writers who have warned for years about the threat from Islam, lacing his 1,500-page manifesto with quotations from them, as well as copying multiple passages from the tract of the [...]

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