Posted under Culture War & Immigration & Political Correctness
Here is what the AP says about the Norwegian shooter:
He regularly posted on a Norwegian right-wing site called Document.no in 2009 and 2010, the editor of the site Hans Rustad said.
“He writes mostly about what Americans call the cultural war; focused on immigration, demography, identity, and politics in the broader sense,” Rustad wrote on the site on Saturday.
“His main enemy is not Muslims, but multiculturalists and what he calls cultural marxists.”
Get ready for the onslaught that is sure to come. You watch. We will be told that even mild views such as opposition to multiculturalism and Cultural Marxism are dangerous extremism, so to prove how magnanimous we are and to establish our anti-racist bona fides Western nations should throw open our doors to even more immigration.
Bede on 23 Jul 2011 at 5:06 pm #
My thoughts exactly.
If he is truly an ethnic nationalist as the media want to portray him, then killing his own people would be the last thing in the world one would expect. I wonder whether he’s a mentally disturbed Jared Lee Loughner type, whom the anti-Western media are using to smear pro-Norwegian groups.
Bede on 23 Jul 2011 at 5:07 pm #
This event is the dream event of the anti-Western left. They will milk it for all it’s worth.
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Matt Weber on 23 Jul 2011 at 5:35 pm #
“We will be told that even mild views such as opposition to multiculturalism and Cultural Marxism are dangerous extremism”
We’re already told this. The thing we will be told now is that the SPLC is right and the biggest terrorism threat is from right wing extremists.
RonL on 23 Jul 2011 at 6:01 pm #
His twitter account and Facebook account were created on 7/17 and 7/18. People call him a fundamentalist Christian, despite his being a Freemason. As for being a nationalist, Breivik’s facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002651290254 now mysteriously taken down) listing his favorite author as John Stuart Mill. Either this is a poorly done false flag or we have an insane fool who doesn’t understand ideologies and doesn’t get that right-wing terrorism helps the left.
Kirt Higdon on 23 Jul 2011 at 7:58 pm #
False flag or not, the thing I find most incredible is that he did it by himself. The multiple attacks have the tactical signature of Al Qaeda or related Islamic groups. We’ve seen that in the US, Africa, Spain, Britain, and several times in India. Even McVeigh had a few accomplices and that was just a one bomb, one location op. This operation was multiple bombs, multiple guns, multiple locations – and all planned and executed by one man?????!!!!! In theory it’s possible and I have seen it in movies, but in real life??? I think there is much more to this than just one lone berserker, nationalist or not.
RedPhillips on 24 Jul 2011 at 5:01 am #
“In theory it’s possible and I have seen it in movies, but in real life??? I think there is much more to this than just one lone berserker, nationalist or not.”
Be careful Kirt. You are straying dangerously close to conspiracy territory, and you wouldn’t want that.
I mean I know how you feel about that crazy talk that some guy might have falsified his narrative and now has cover it up (whoever heard of such outlandish nonsense), so I know you wouldn’t want anything tinged with conspiracy tainting you.
Kirt Higdon on 24 Jul 2011 at 5:19 am #
As I’ve said before, Red, I’m a firm believer in conspiracies – just not in all conspiracies. Conspiracies should make a certain amount of sense and a good conspiracy theory will explain the available facts without going wildly beyond them. McVeigh had accomplices – hence was a member of a conspiracy. That he was an agent or patsy of Saddam Hussein’s intelligence service – and there is an entire book which alleges that – doesn’t make much sense. That Breivik had help, based on the observation that the operation was way too complex for one man to plan and carry out alone, makes sense. That the whole thing was a grand Masonic plot, based on a photo of Breivik in a Masonic uniform, would not make much sense.
Kirt Higdon on 25 Jul 2011 at 10:40 pm #
“Get ready for the Onslaught.” Or not.
There has been some nasty sniping and that will continue from time to time, but I don’t see an onslaught. I’m basing this on an unscientific personal survey made this morning – 40 minutes of surfing the news channels, both cable and network. Apparently the biggest story in the US right now is the death of Amy Winehouse, closely followed by the continuing “debt crisis”. Breivik and the Norway massacres are a distant third, except on Fox news where they were not in the top five, indeed not mentioned at all.
Sometimes we like to exaggerate our own importance and a real onslaught would provide a lot of self-esteem boosting validation, but the purpose of the war on terror hysteria is not to provide an excuse to further marginalize an already impotent right, but to provide an excuse to bomb, invade and occupy other countries. Responding to a Norwegian massacre of Norwegians by bombing, invading and occupying Norway just wouldn’t fly – even if they do have some offshore oil.
I imagine the Washington warmongers of both parties are grinding their teeth in fury that the Breivik affair wasn’t a combined operation of Hezbollah and Hamas, backed by Syria and Iran. Had it been, you would have then seen a real onslaught.
RonL on 25 Jul 2011 at 11:14 pm #
I don’t believe that there will be much of an impact in America, largely because fwe political leaders are talking about Islam. The same cannot be said for Europe. I fully expect the security services go after any group or website ever visited by Breivik, and for the press to try to crucify every right-wing party they can.
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Kirt Higdon on 27 Jul 2011 at 4:56 am #
Ron, no doubt you’re right about lack of American reaction. This story has already almost disappeared from TV news coverage, driven out by the “debt crisis” and Obama’s “give me the money and nobody gets hurt” speech. In addition Americans have little interest in foreign countries and Norway is not on anyone’s radar.
We’ll see about European reaction. The Norwegians themselves seem to be taking this remarkably well. They’re not forgiving at this point, nor should they be given Breivik’s lack of repentance. But they are not especially vengeful and certainly not hysterical. American gay anti-Islamic activist-in-exile Bruce Bawer lives in Oslo and to his chagrin, was quoted extensively by Breivik. Let’s see if he gets any flack from the Norwegians. Egyptian Jewish emigre Gisele Littman (Bat Ye’or) now living in Switzerland was also often quoted by Breivik. Let’s see if she runs into any problems.
The English government has promised to pursue anti-Islamists but if they are looking to crucify the BNP or the EDL, they’ll have to find some very small crosses.