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Wednesday 14 December 2011

Norwegian Woodheads

There's a new article in an apparently influential Norwegian academic journal that makes some bizarre claims about the linkages of the mass murderer Breivik. Here's the English-language abstract:

'The terrorist attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011 were first described as an al-Qaeda operation. When Anders Behring Breivik was arrested and we were able to look at his video and read his manifesto, it became clear that he was inspired by Jewish-Christian anti-jihadist writers, the very individuals that had pointed to al-Qaeda in the first place. Some critics argued that Breivik had been used by Israeli forces with an interest in changing Norway’s policy towards Palestine, as if Breivik had copied the Israeli bombing of the British headquarters in Jerusalem in 1946, on the very anniversary of that attack. However, inspiration and interests are not enough. One also has to look at Breivik’s contacts that supposedly financed him and initiated him into his crusading «Knights Templar» order. Breivik himself points to Serbian crusaders, while others points to an East-European military mafia. The two converge, however, into one network that is surprisingly close to Saudi and Chechen intelligence and to the very Islamists that Breivik detests, as though Breivik’s Knights Templar were the mirror image of al-Qaeda.'
Read more here
Hat tip: K.S.

7 comments:

  1. Thanks for that. The Norwegian intelligentsia is among the most singular in thought there is in the West. The need to have consensus leads to a lack of discourse, and this is seen in the quality of work and views.

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  2. As a follow up, there was a critical response to the article, which is summarized in English here:

    http://www.israelwhat.com/2011/12/13/peace-researcher-exposed-prio-researcher-tunander-suggests-israel-involved-in-227/

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  3. You're well and truly on the ball, oldschool!
    Many thanks.

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  4. And more from Norway, that likes to lecture others about morality:

    http://www.israelwhat.com/2011/12/13/state-sanctioned-anti-israelism/

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  5. Thanks again!

    Incidentally, I'll be travelling over the next day or two and seeing a computer only sporadically, so any comments will be tardily posted. Apologies in advance.

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  6. And once again when a Nordic country expels, imprisons, enslaves and exterminates its Jews the liberals will stare at their shoes, cough a bit and say they're disappointed.

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  7. Good way of putting it, Trudy...

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