Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S.

[Jacaylbaro]

FROM NEW YORK TIMES

 

 

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 Unabomber.

 

In the document he posted online, Anders Behring Breivik, who is accused of bombing government buildings and killing scores of young people at a Labor Party camp, showed that he had closely followed the acrimonious American debate over Islam.

 

His manifesto, which denounced Norwegian politicians as failing to defend the country from Islamic influence, quoted Robert Spencer, who operates the Jihad Watch Web site, 64 times, and cited other Western writers who shared his view that Muslim immigrants pose a grave danger to Western culture.

[nuune]

Bacaac ku dheh, they can't call him a terrorist, they can't call him a murderer, illeen Norway waa Dulli, he is the right-wing, waa gun-man, hadana waa mental beyba leeyihiin, every Weatern Media are waiting for an opportunity to come like this terrorist confessing he acted on behalf of some Muslim groups, then we will have an explosion of abuse of the word terrorist all of a sudden.

 

if it was some Muslim guy who did, do you think he will be brought to court the next day as this man was given the chance, waxan baad leedihiin waa duni, war duni dhaqaaqdey weeye oo hallaawdey waa hore, salaamusaar madaalillaah

[Valenteenah.]

As the media discovers more about the man behind the Norway attacks, connections to outspoken US Islamophobes are found.

Jim Lobe

Last Modified: 26 Jul 2011 13:51

Anti-Muslim sentiment has become more and more outspoken across the West - especially since they gained a powerful platform through the Tea Party and other far-right groups

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As Norway mourns the loss of at least 76 of its citizens in Friday's bombing of government buildings in Oslo and mass shootings at a Labour Party youth camp, attention here has focused on the US bloggers and groups whose Islamophobic message appears to have fuelled the alleged perpetrator's murderous rage.

 

Their identity was established through the online publication by the alleged terrorist, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, of a 1,500-page manifesto entitled "2083: A European Declaration of Independence" purportedly authored by an "Andrew Berwick".

 

All belong to what Toby Archer, a researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, referred to as a "transatlantic movement that often calls itself 'the counter-jihad'" in an article published Monday by foreignpolicy.com.

 

"As his writings indicate, Breivik is clearly a product of this predominantly web-based community of anti-Muslim, anti-government and anti-immigration bloggers, writers and activists," according to Archer.

 

He also noted that, in contrast to the traditional European right, this network tends to be philo-Semitic and supports the most extreme right-wing parties in Israel.

 

Particularly striking is the overlap between the US members of this network - all of whom are identified with the neo-conservative movement - with the leaders of last year's controversial campaign to prevent the construction of a Muslim community centre near the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan, the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque".

 

The same bloggers and groups also actively promoted "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West", a film produced by the Clarion Fund, an apparent front for the far-right Israeli group Aish Hatorah, that compares the threat posed by radical Islam to that of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

 

Some 28 million DVD copies of the video were distributed to households in key swing states on the eve of the 2008 president elections in an apparent effort to sway voters against Barack Obama.

 

At one point in his manifesto, Breivik referred readers to YouTube segments of all 10 parts of "Obsession".

 

Among other sources cited by the manifesto, the "Jihad Watch" blog and its author, Robert Spencer, is cited no less than 162 times, while Daniel Pipes and his Middle East Forum (MEF) gets 16 mentions, according to a tally by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank here.

 

Another blogger, Pamela Geller, and her "Atlas Shrugs" blog is cited 12 times in the manifesto, while the Center for Security Policy (CSP), its president, Frank Gaffney, and CSP's senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs, Caroline Glick, appear a total of eight times.

 

All of them have sought to distance themselves both from Breivik and Friday's terrorist acts since his identity first became known Saturday, and have furiously protested suggestions in the media that they bore any responsibility for what took place in Norway Friday.

 

Geller, who co-authored a book with Spencer last year that accused President Barack Obama of waging "war on America" (and for which the former US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, wrote the foreword), called a front-page New York Times article that noted the couple's frequent citations by Breivik "outrageous".

 

"It's like equating Charles Manson, who heard in the lyrics of [beatles song] Helter Skelter a calling for the Manson murders," she wrote on her atlasshrugs.com blog. "It's like blaming the Beatles. It's patently ridiculous."

 

Citing the same Beatles-Charles Manson analogy, Spencer also expressed outrage on his jihadwatch.org blog both at Breivik's alleged acts and the suggestion that he may have been responsible in some way for them.

 

Although he was only mentioned once in the manifesto, David Horowitz, whose David Horowitz Freedom Center, according to Politico, provided some US $920,000 to Jihad Watch in the latter part of the last decade, also defended Spencer on the far-right FrontPage website.

 

Most of that money was donated by the Fairbrook Foundation, which is run by Aubry and Joyce Chernick and which has funded other Islamophobic groups, including Pipes' MEF, Gaffney's CSP, and Aish Hatorah, as well as the far-right Zionist Organisation of America (ZOA), according to 2009 tax records. Indeed, many of the same funders - many of them right-wing Jews - have provided support to such Islamophobic organisations in recent years.

 

"Robert Spencer has never supported a terrorist act," wrote Horowitz on FrontPage Monday. "His crime in the eyes of the left is to have told the truth about Islamic fanatics beginning with the Islamic prophet who called for the extermination of the Jews."

 

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These people should answer for their hate-mongering.

[Baashi]

I don’t watch that much TV but I would blve it if folks tell me pundits and other talking heads masquerading as objective journalist refrained from using “Christian terrorism” or “Lutheran terrorist”. Producers and editors would immediately edit these out from the script. Media bias against Muslims and Islamic faith knows no bound.

[Gheelle.T]

Check O'Reilly's spin here:

 

Bill O'Reilly sternly criticized the media for describing Anders Behring-Breivik, the man who has admitted to committing the mass killings in Norway, as a Christian, saying that such a thing was "impossible."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/26/bill-oreilly-media-breivik-christian_n_909498.html

[Jacaylbaro]

^ ^ .... Crazy world

[Nabad_dadaye]

waxaani waligood baa lagu yaqiinay , aaway xuquuqda dadkii la laayay ,aaway caradoodii ,inta ugu badan een aragno waa ayagoo ubaxyo wato ,tacsi gaagaabeey ayey hayaan , dadkastoo la laayo hadii marmarsiiyo loo suubiyo , waxey tageysaa in qaar badan oo xag jir ah ey sidaan oo kale suubiyaan si eey usoo shaac baxaan ,koleyba qiil lagu difaaco looma weynahayee .

islaam naceeb aad ufara badan ayey maalmahan kuwa xagjirka wadaan maadaama eeysan dinta islaamka waxba ka ogeyn ayey sidaa u dhaqmayaan balse hadey diinta islaamka ka maada ahaan u baran lahaayeen waxaanoo kale ma suubiyeen .

muslimiintana marwalboo la cadaadiyo ama naceeyb loo muujiyo iimaan ayeeyba ka qaadaan oo xitaa kuwii dhunsanaa wadada saxan ayey qaadayaan.

Allah wuxu suuratu towba ku leeyahay ''waxey dooni gaaladu iney ku dumiyaan nuurka Eebe afkooda Eebana wuu diidi dhameystirka nuurka mooyee haba nacaan gaaladuye'' ch 9 v 32

[Som@li]

With all the hatred going on, It is a matter of time before similar attacks happen on Mosque!

[Taleexi]

I guess I'm weird figure but I see positive thing coming from all these media distortion, libel and fabrications against muslims.