Was the right-wing Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik a fan of best-selling author and provocateur Thilo Sarrazin? Much is still not known about the man, but there was this report in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern News:
Nach Angaben einer norwegischen Tageszeitung vertrat der Mann auf seiner Facebook-Seite rechtsextreme Ansichten, allerdings wurde dieses Profil gelöscht. Anders Behring B. ist Mitglied einer norwegischen Freimaurer-Loge und offenbar ein Fan der Thesen von Thilo Sarrazin. Unter verschiedenen Pseudonymen soll er in diversen deutschen Blogs zum Thema Sarrazin gepostet und sie befürwortet haben. Nicht wenige deutsche Blogger haben B. in seinen extremen Ansichten bestärkt und motiviert: Man dürfe nicht nur diskutieren, sondern müsse Zeichen setzen. Darunter auch Kommentare wie: „tue es doch endlich“ oder „es wird Zeit“.
(According to a daily newspaper in Norway the man was espousing right-wing extremist views on his Facebook page, but this profile was deleted. Anders Behring B. is a member of a Norwegian Freemason Lodge and evidently a fan of the ideas os THilo Sarrazin. Using various psydonymens he allegedly posted comments on German blogs concerning Sarrazin and iwas a supporter. Several German bloggers encouraged Breivik and his extreme views: one shouldn't just discuss, one needs to act. Other comments like "just do it finally" or "the time is now".)
To be fair to Sarrazin, Breivik never mentions Sarrazin once in his 1500-page manifesto 2083 A European Declaration of Independence (Warning! pdf). However, the piece echoes many of the sentiments of Sarrazin's Deutschland schafft sich ab (Germany Abolishes Itsefl) . In fact, Breivik could have entitled his work Norwegen schafft sich ab since, like Sarrazin, he believes that "political correctness" among the European nations have enabled Muslim immigrants to grow, out-reproduce their German or Norwegian counterparts, and exert influence – subverting Western Civilization and Germany's Leitkultur (guiding culture). And large chunks of 2083 sound very much like the books of Henryk Broder, Udo Ulfkotte and Necla Kelek in the relentless attack on multiculturalism:
We must destroy multiculturalism; deconstruct it, delegitimise it, and acknowledge it as the Utopian self-destructive fantasy that it is. All cultures are not equivalent. Some cultures are better than others, and some are our enemies and some our friends. This is reasonable, rational thinking. The foundational concept of multiculturalism is that all cultures are of equal value and worth. This is inclusiveness, tolerance, and “niceness” taken to the extreme. This is anti-intellectualism and irrational thinking that will result in the entire loss of our civilisations. Multiculturalism must be destroyed and swept into the dustbin of absurdity where it belongs. (Breivik p.402)
We can read stuff like this every day in Junge Freiheit and on other right-wing sites. Or in books like Hurra wir kapituliern or Vorsicht Bürgerkrieg! Anders Behring Breivik took the hate expressed in these books seriously and decided to act.
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There we go! 🙂
David seriously, you are aware of the fact that Free Masons were just as persecuted in the Third Reich as were fundamentalist Christians – two affiliations our mass murderer shared?
To call him far right therefore is funny.
To discredit books like Sarrazin’s because he liked them is not.
As if he took anything at heart by killing countless people… get a grip.
Zyme – I have skimmed his 1400 page manifesto and I have to agree with the conservative columnist Ross Douthat that Breivik is a “right-wing monster”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/opinion/25douthat.html?_r=1&hp
His actions were dictated by right-wing ideology. To be sure, most of his ideas came from American hate-mongers like Robert Spencer and Mark Steyn (although he does mention Henryk Broder a dozen times).
Sarrazin shares the blame – even though he is nowhere mentioned in the manifesto. But Sarrazin made palatable the profoundly racist notion that Muslims in Europe are genetically inferior. It is only a small step from that to thinking that Muslims belong to a sub-human category and must be contained, expelled, and finally eliminated.
I monitor the right-wing Web site Alternative Right, and the comments are euphoric concerning Breivik’s murderous rampage. Here, for example:
“Those teenagers were the future MPs, voters and supporters of the Labour Party, the party that destroyed Norway and opened the gates to the african and muslim hordes. They went to that camp to have fun and to be further indoctrinated into self-hate, marxism, feminism and multiculturalism.
I don’t know what was the exact motivation behind the attack but the results are clear. The future leadership of the Labour Party of Norway is decapitated. Moreover the Norwegian elites got a very effective message. They thought their children would live safe in all white neighboorhoods without mixing with the third world invaders. Whilst the children of the average Norwegians must live in ghetto areas and with the fear of gangbanging blacks and jihadist muslims. Apparently Breivik proved that in multiethnic societies none is ever safe.
I know my comment is very harsh and my apologies if I offended the WASP sensibilities of the readers, but I cannot feel sorry for the children of those who have been crafting the doom of Europe for so long.”
@David
“Oriana Fallaci or Gisele Littman and Anders Behring Breivik: From Theory to Practice?”
Oriana Fallaci (29 June 1929[1] – 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career.
After September 11, 2001, beginning with “The Rage and the Pride”, Fallaci wrote three books critical of Islamic extremists and Islam in general, and in both writing and interviews warned that Europe was too tolerant of Muslims. She wrote that “sons of Allah breed like rats” and in a Wall Street Journal interview in 2005, said that Europe was no longer Europe but “Eurabia”. “The Rage and The Pride” and “The Force of Reason” both became best-sellers.
On 30 November 2005 in New York, Fallaci received the Annie Taylor Award for courage from the Center for the Study of Popular Culture. She was honored for the “heroism and the values” that rendered her “a symbol of the fight against Islamic fascism and a knight of the freedom of humankind.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriana_Fallaci
Bat Ye’or (Hebrew: בת יאור, meaning “daughter of the Nile”); a pseudonym of Gisèle Littman, née Orebi, an Egyptian-born British writer and political commentator, who writes about the history of non-Muslims in the Middle East, and in particular the history of Christian and Jewish dhimmis living under Islamic governments.
She is the author of eight books, including Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis (2005), Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide (2001), The Decline of Eastern Christianity: From Jihad to Dhimmitude (1996), and The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam (1985).
She has provided briefings to the United Nations and the U.S. Congress and has given talks at major universities such as Georgetown, Brown, Yale, Brandeis, and Columbia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Ye'or
@Mibelz
So what? Does the fact that Oriana Fallaci and Gisele Littman wrote books and received honors somehow justify Breivik’s actions?
@David
Of course not! My answer is to your provocative title and some comments. It was Prof. Samuel Huntington who wrote about the problem (“The Clash of Civilization”). He was more realistic than Francis Fukuyama (“The End of History and the Last Man”) in the 90s. Oriana Fallaci and Gisele Littmann followed him.
You have written: “In fact, Breivik could have entitled his work “Norwegen schafft sich ab” since, like Sarrazin (…)”.
It was not Thilo Sarrazin, but Angela Merkel, who said the so-called “multikulti” concept – where people would “live side-by-side” happily – did not work, and immigrants needed to do more to integrate – including learning German.
Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have “utterly failed”, Chancellor Angela Merkel says.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11559451
I think it is impossible to create a multicultural society from scratch. You allow it, you have it, you accept it, you tolerate its aspects – or you don’t. Once the government promotes a monocultural society again, the gates are opened to intolerance and repression of minorities again.
“immigrants needed to do more to integrate”
The point is, for Breivik, Sarrazin, Broder, Spencer, etc. immigrants can never do enough to integrate, short of changing their racial identity. They will forever be the “other” and therefore inferior – and therefore must be eliminated.
David, you are one of the few who have understood the danger of resurgent fascism in Europe. Even I thought you might be exaggerating. But now I can see that you were right.
Some days later …
I agree to most of the sentences of your article, David. Yet, it is difficult to say who influenced whom and yet again, I see a link between statements of politicians and authors regarding “multi-kulti” and Breivik’s killings.
I live in Germany and I believe that if the social tensions will get more than now, and they will do, no-one can say who will be the next scapegoat. Muslims are within the Top3, so to speak. Unemployed people as well – both groups have about 4-7 mio. “members” in Germany.
I think it will be interesting to see how Politicians will change their language when they talk about “multi-kulti” in future. Europe is still a bit under shock after Oslo.
And in the end it is about people themselves to make a change, Muslims, Christians or whoever. I think, that integration itself was an illusion to achieve from the very beginning. I appreciate if “migrants” speak German and I sometimes wonder how poor some people’s German is after 10, 20 years, but well … learning proper German is even difficult for 80% of the Germans 😉
And above all it is in their own interest to learn a language ‘cos it makes life easier for them. And I don’t believe that you can force people to see their own benefits, they can only realise it themselves.