Anders Breivik

If Anders Behring Breivik isn’t a Christian terrorist, then the same can be said of Osama bin Laden and many other Islamist activists—whose writings show that they were much more interested in Islamic history than theology or scripture and imagined themselves as re-creating glorious moments in Islamic history in their own imagined wars.

Breivik’s racism is different from others that came before. It’s belonging to a generic European Christianity that makes you good, and your opposition to Islam that makes you smart.

If Breivik is insane, then his insanity lies in taking fully to heart the widely fluctuating language of right wing Islamophobes who perceive an existential threat to our freedom and life, a Manichean vision of an uncompromising evil fighting a good that has to be equally unsparing in warfare.

Norway shooter wrote that feminists emasculate men and give Muslims a demographic advantage by controlling their reproductive lives.

The killer sought common cause with Hindus, Buddhists and others.

Islamphobic activist rages against the “über-left, Islamic media machine.”

Multiculturalists, “political correctness,” and “cultural Marxists” are the enemy.

An overview.

“He may be right,” suggests possibility of cosmic, civil war.

“Fundamentalist” doesn’t accurately describe him.