How to defeat racism, prejudice and bigotry? Education for respect of all humans, for equal rights for everyone, for the intrinsic worth of each human, while challenging discrimination where it manifests is essential. Racism, prejudice and bigotry are political acts, defined by the relations of the individual to others. They are not religious beliefs conditioned by one’s relationship with the unknowable, to be tolerated lest our own beliefs not be tolerated. Free speech is limited in our own interests when the rights of others are infringed upon, for example with slander and incitement to crime, and in Australia, with racial vilification laws. Disparate beliefs are forged into a newspeak newculture. These syncretised beliefs are decoration and padding, obscuring an underlying drive for power. In a dark soil of forbearance and silent assent composted with racism, violence and hatred builds, fertilising the poisonous flower of fascism.
Racism, prejudice, bigotry, sexism and able-ism are diseases of the point of view, yet cannot be seen in isolation from the cultures in which they grow. To heal them, it is the whole community organism which must be treated.
The white supremacist attacks in Norway show how dangerous nationalist racism is and how racism, prejudice and bigotry are the common enemies of humanity. Breivik’s major hatreds were for multiculturalism, marxism and Islam, irrationalising that the pure culture, including Protestantism which he re-mythologises and syncretises with the Knights Templar myths, of Norway and Europe was being diluted with invading genes and ‘non-European’ culture, facilitated by the newspeak ‘culture marxists’. In fascist ‘blut und boden’ tradition, he formulates a glorious ‘pure’ past, all the better to point to a glorious purified future in an effort to incite populism to fuel his cause. For him, his targets represented the traitors within.
‘Instead, by choosing to attack a government building and a Labour Party summer school, Breivik is drawing attention to what many fringe nationalists see as the political failure of mainstream and left-wing politicians to confront the Muslim threat. So-called appeasers of the “Islamification of Europe” have become as hated as Muslim activists and therefore face the same kind of attacks.’
The pervasive global nature of white supremacism is demonstrated monotously – a political ‘cultural conservative’ massacred children from the Norwegian Labour Party and bombed the PM’s office, and the white media STILL doesn’t call it terrorism or neo-fascism, let alone both.
Other symptoms of fascism besides those mentioned above which Breivik’s pseudo-philosophy includes are sexism and machismo, attack of intellectuals, contempt for the weak and parliamentary democracy; violence, militarism (his Knights Templar schemata), censorship of opposing ideas, disagreement is treason, propaganda, social darwinism, expansionism (of his movement throughout Europe), indoctrination, strategic victimhood, a sense of besiegement, scapegoating and promotion of a cult of unity and heroism.
Respect to the people of Norway.
From the Prime Minister of Norway:
We must never cease to stand up for our values.
We have to show that our open society can pass this test, too,
And that the answer to violence is even more democracy,
even more humanity, but never naïveté.
@Dr_Ulrichsen Oslo Mayor Stang asked whether Oslo needs greater security – “I don’t think security can solve problems. We need to teach greater respect” #
Comment on islamophobic rightwing blog Jihadwatch: “OMG plz don’t tell me he’s one of us. This would deal a serious blow to our cause.”
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At Songwriter’s Songbook, Davic Rovics ruminates on the significance of the terrorict incident Massacre in Norway
Israelis Debate on the Web: Did Norway Get What It Deserved?
Some EDL vids extolling the Knights Templar – looks like the dragnet will be widening
http://www.youtube.com/wat?ch?v=2ek3IA8ARIw&feature=y?outu.be
http://www.youtube.com/wat?ch?v=GGyyBn3Lmjc&feature=y?outu.be
http://www.youtube.com/wat?ch?v=18PcaGQVtYM&feature=y?outu.be
And from the founder of the EDL in 2007 : Knights Templar – 21st Century Christian Crusaders
Loony rightwing interpretation : Whether He Knows It Or Not, Breivik Is A Member of al-Qaida
Loony rightwing racist commentator on the WSJ of all places which should be ashamed of itself giving oxygen to this drivel Inside the Mind of the Oslo Murderer
The Oslo massacre and violent video games: The Facts
I hope they throw the book at The Sun. Idiots.
left flank: Australia’s Islamophobes & right-wing ideologues praised in Breivik’s manifesto
Sick Zionists find way to damn Muslims and racial diversity in wake of Norwegian tragedy
Norway gunman claims a London connection and links to the EDL
Hitchens misses the point about Breivik’s fascist syncretisation of Freemasonry and the Knights Templar, and fails to note the fascist and anti-semitic nature of political zionism which he supports. Fascist doctrine chooses myths often from disparate sources, melds them into a new mythology, nostalgic for a glorious past & hoping through purification, for a glorious future. Political zionism, for example, uses Judaeic myth & pseudo-history, to promote its fallacious ‘historic’ entitlement to ‘all the Land of Israel’. This mechanism supports the racism inherent in political zionism and its fascistic drive for power and expansionism.
Don’t blame us! – Foust attempts to ‘normalise’ rightwing #racism, populism, ultranationalism and xenophobia
Nationalists pose bigger threat than al-Qaeda : Contrary to popular belief, most terrorist attacks in Europe are the work of extremist nationalists.
The rightwing ultra-nationalists are rabidly trying to cover up:
‘When you preach bigotry and fear on a daily basis, don’t be surprised when one of your followers takes the next logical step. But Robert Spencer has a reason to feign surprise and indignation over what his hatred has incited, as the link between his hate-writing and this act of terrorism becomes clear: Richard Silverstein notes that the right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik cited Robert Spencer 46 times in his manifesto.’
Norway gunman claims a London connection and links to the EDL
Faces of hatred: Norway mass killer’s life laid bare
Terrorism is not a Religion…it is not Islam
Norwegians Petition Media To Blackout Court Appearance Of Gunman Anders Breivik
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Media Reacts to News That Norwegian Terror Suspect Isn’t Muslim
Breivik’s posts on Document.no [Google translation]
Norway Attacks: Anders Behring Breivik Reported as Suspect
Police believe the 32-year-old, six-foot-plus Norwegian acted alone in the bombing of government offices in Oslo and an assault with firearms on a island youth camp less than a hour from the capital.
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Norwegian television said that Breivik belongs to right-wing circles in Oslo, and a Swedish newspaper has reported the Breivik has posted on right-wing forums in Norway.Norwegian media has linked Breivik to a Facebook account in which the poster described himself as a Christian conservative.
Anders Breivik, Norwegian Terror Suspect, Admirer of Israel, Avigdor Lieberman
Not long after the blast, the shooting rampage began on Utoya.
Media reports said the gunman, wearing a police uniform, beckoned bystanders over to him, on the pretense that he wanted to speak to them about security measures in the wake of the bombing in Oslo. He then opened fire.
Emilie Bersaas, 19, told Sky News that she heard shooting, saw people running and screaming, then ran herself to a building to take cover. She and a friend piled clothes and a mattress onto a desk and hid under it.
On his Facebook page, which appears to only have been started July 17, Breivik mostly posted music videos and said his interests include hunting and bodybuilding.
Under education, Breivik wrote he studied independently, noting he has “approximately 14,500 hours of study” equivalent to a bachelor of business administration and masters in history, as well as “3,000 hours of study in micro and macro finance, religion .”
His profile also says he’s a director at a company called Breivik Geofarm.
He lists himself as single and has five profile photos – four of which are headshots, and one of him at a wedding with two women, one of which is the bride.
A Twitter account is also being linked to Breivik, although there is just one tweet on July 17.
“One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests,” he wrote.
The television station TV 2 in Norway reported Breivik had right-wing extremist tendancies and had two guns registered under his name.
Anders Behring Breivik – Europe 4 Europeans
“The alleged offender is a member of the John lodge St. Olaus TD Three pillars of the Norwegian Masonic Order. He has 3 degree status, where the peak is ten degrees. – We have no way to express an opinion on individuals or incidents related to any members, said spokesman of the Norwegian Freemasons order Helge Qvigstad told Dagbladet.
Another stereotype by the media : ‘Breivik appears to evade the stereotype of being influenced by metal music.’
Perhaps today the neo-Nazis in Europe count Muslims among the problems that drive their madness. But to a large degree, these right wing extremist views shaped 20th century Europe. It’s time for a European reckoning of its own history of violence that has bled into the present in such painful ways.
How’s that again? Are the only terrorists in the world Muslim?
If so, what do we call a right-wing nationalist capable of planting major bombs and mowing down scores of people for the sake of the greater glory of his cause? If even a liberal newspaper like the Times can’t call this guy a terrorist, what does that say about the mindset of the western world?
The Fjordman Files
The Political Thinking of Anders Behring Breivik
How a clueless “terrorism expert” set media suspicion on Muslims after Oslo horror
Christian Jihad? Why We Should Worry About Right-Wing Terror Attacks Like Norway’s in the US
The Norway Attacks – Great cartoon
Fjordman Speaks Out on far right Gates of Vienna
Why did so many “experts” declare the Oslo attacks to be the work of Islamic terrorists?
Faces of hatred: Norway mass killer’s life laid bare
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The Anti-Boycott Act on Cynical Arab
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Phone tapping in Australia the highest in the world – ‘The number of phone-tappings is out of control in Australia’, but Israel might be higher
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