Terrorism: July 2011 Archives
Anders Behring Breivik's terrorist attacks in Norway are bringing out the idiots. For example, from the (more-or-less) right, there's Cheradenine Zakalwe at Islam Versus Europe in a post titled "Why the Left Shouldn't Gloat about Anders Breivik":
Reading through Anders Behring Breivik's comments on the document.no website, it's clear that he was on the verge of giving up on democracy. ... That's what drove him to despair and to an act of apocalyptic violence. He felt there was a conspiracy among the media and political elite to suppress any derogatory information about Muslims or mass immigration. And, of course, he was right. ...
He was particularly struck by the Andrew Neather revelations about the Labour government's conspiracy to flood Britain with immigrants in order to "rub the right's nose in diversity." The left rubbed Breivik's nose in diversity and he rubbed theirs back in blood. Well done Neather. Well done Blair. Well done Rusbridger.
It is the left-wing that is responsible for this outrage, not the right-wing. This act of violence is the consequence of a deranged political elite attempting to demographic re-engineer an entire continent against the wishes of its people; exploiting imperfections in the democratic system so that the people are never allowed a real choice; passing laws to criminalise free speech so that honest discussion is scarcely possible any more; and a media conspiracy (embodied in laws or informal agreements like the NUJ Guidelines on Race Reporting) to systematically suppress information about the negative consequences mass third-world immigration, and particularly the Muslim component of it, is having on Europe.
Personally, I think responsibility for Anders Behring Breivik's actions begin and end with Anders Behring Breivik. I'm willing to change my mind if the ongoing investigation manages to link his actions to any other organizations. Right now, however, he's just a lone wacko.
To the idiots on the (more-or-less) left, that makes me part of the conspiracy, as illustrated by Roger Cohen in a New York Times op-ed title "Breivik and His Enablers":
LONDON -- On one level Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian responsible for the biggest massacre by a single gunman in modern times, is just a particularly murderous psychotic loner: the 32-year-old mama's boy with no contact with his father, obsessed by video games (Dragon Age II) as he preens himself ("There was a relatively hot girl on [sic] the restaurant today checking me out") and dedicates his time in asexual isolation to the cultivation of hatred and the assembly of a bomb from crushed aspirin and fertilizer.
No doubt, that is how Islamophobic right-wingers in Europe and the United States who share his views but not his methods will seek to portray Breivik.
We've seen the movie. When Jared Loughner shot Representative Gabrielle Giffords this year in Tuscon, Arizona -- after Sarah Palin placed rifle sights over Giffords' constituency and Giffords herself predicted that "there are consequences to that" -- the right went into overdrive to portray Loughner as a schizophrenic loner whose crazed universe owed nothing to those fanning hatred under the slogan of "Take America Back." (That non-specific taking-back would of course be from Muslims and the likes of the liberal and Jewish Giffords.)
Look, some people think Islam is a religion with a substantial history of violence and oppression. Others think this is yet another case of panic about immigration. Whatever the case, unless you can find an actual conspiracy -- people, organizations, plans, money, that sort of thing -- it's ludicrous to say that either side is responsible in any meaningful way for Breivik's crimes.
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