Fjordman concludes one essay by pointing out that at the same time universities in China, India, Korea, and other Asian countries graduate millions of “motivated engineers and scientists” annually, Western universities “. . . have been reduced to little hippie factories, teaching about the wickedness of the West and the blessings of barbarism.” He goes on to say that there is a strong tendency in Europe to vilify the United States and capitalism; that in school, we were taught about the evil consumer society and the socialistic propaganda focusing on solidarity, redistribution of wealth, and that it was good to sacrifice oneself for the “common good.” He says one might ask if the Marshall Plan for rebuilding Europe after World War II somehow created a simmering resentment toward the United States.
“This represents a serious challenge to the long-term economic competitiveness of Western nations,” Fjordman writes. “That’s bad, but it is the least of our worries. Far worse than failing to compete with non-Muslim Asians is failing to identify the threat from Islamic nations who want to subdue us and wipe out our entire civilization. That is a failure we quite simply cannot live with. And we probably won’t, unless we manage to deal with it.”
Breivik, of course, has a plan to “deal with it,” if we are to believe the manifesto. That plan is violence, murder, and the eradication of Islam from Europe.
ISLAM AND JIHAD
Breivik includes, in the first section of Book 1, something titled “Islam 101,” which he has plagiarized from Gregory M. Davis, as an attempt to help the public understand the truth about Islam and also to provide information for those who want to share the truth with others.
He explains that the term jihad translates as “struggle” and says that it does not mean holy war. He questions if struggle means “an inner, spiritual struggle against the passions, or an outward, physical struggle.” He then says that one must refer to the Koran and the Sunnah, which he has included references to.
“From those sources (see above) it is evident that a Muslim is required to struggle against a variety of things: laziness in prayer, neglecting to give zakat (alms), etc. But it is also plain that a Muslim is commanded to struggle in physical combat against the infidel as well. Muhammad’s impressive military career attests to the central role that military action plays in Islam.”
In a section of frequently asked questions about Islam, Breivik responds to the question of why Muslims are peaceful people if Islam is violent, by pointing out that many Christians do not practice what Christianity teaches either. “Just as it is often easier for a Christian to sit back, play holier-than-thou, or disdain others, so it is often easier for a Muslim to stay at home rather than embark on jihad. Hypocrites are everywhere.”
He further states that some people who don’t understand their own faith act outside of its prescribed boundaries. Because the Koran is frequently recited in Arabic, many Muslims did not understand it. He suggests that Muslims in Norway are more likely to be attracted by Western ways and less likely to act violently against the society to which they may have fled.
However, he warns, “. . . in any given social context, as Islam takes greater root—increasing numbers of followers, the construction of more mosques and ‘cultural centers,’ etc.—the greater the likelihood that some number of its adherents will take its violent precepts seriously. This is the problem that the West faces today.” He says many immigrants to Norway, Muslims included, have a hard time integrating. The new generation that is born in Norway, or the United States for that matter, find themselves torn between wanting to fit in with their wider group of peers and their families’ cultures and norms. Often, their parents win this struggle. As an example, many first-generation Muslim girls are not allowed to date Western men and are forced to marry within the Muslim community. Many are also sent back to their homeland to marry there.
Breivik concludes Book 1 by focusing on the Knights Templar. “I would strongly advice [sic] all Justiciar Knights to visit Valletta, Malta, and Jerusalem, Israel and to visit all the Knights Templar historical sites. There are various Templar buildings in several European countries; France, the UK, Portugal, Spain, Italy, etc.”
Breivik was fascinated with secret societies, and he still longed to be part of a group, of something important. In 2007, he managed, with the help of a relative, to become a member of Saint Olaf Lodge, a part of the Norwegian Order of Freemasons. He went through the numerous interviews and tests before finally being accepted with ease. He was good at “putting on the game face,” as he wrote, and making people believe he could fit in at first. Although he was still a member of this secret society when he went through with his massacre, he never managed to make any close connections in this group either. He never showed any interest in participating in the organization’s activities, nor did he hold any functions within the lodge, according to Ivar A. Skaar, Grand Master of the Norwegian Order. When Breivik distributed his manifesto on July 22, 2011, he issued photographs of himself wearing Masonic costumes and regalia.
Knights are common in the world of computer games, a world with which he is all too familiar. At the time he was writing this, Breivik appeared to be living partly in an imaginary world of war, online killings, secret societies, and medieval heroes.
BOOK 2
Book 2 in the manifesto is called “Europe Burning.” Breivik promises his readers that they will review and analyze the current problems Europe faces, as well as possible solutions for those problems.
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”—Aldous Huxley.
With this quote, he begins the section, describing the different parts of the ongoing civil war from 1950 to 2083, when he believes the war will come to an end and a new Europe will rise. The years 1950 to 1999 were the preface to the war—“the years of the dialogue,” as Breivik calls them. Phase I of the war started in 1999, when NATO attacked Serbia and invaded Kosovo. In his manifesto, Breivik claims that this was his turning point. But it is more likely that he borrowed this idea from the Serb called “The Dragon,” after listening to his stories in Liberia in 2002. According to Breivik, we’ll be in this phase until 2030. Phase I is, as explained in Book 2, the time for small attacks, such as what we experienced on July 22, 2011. Phase II, from 2030 to 2070, will be characterized by more resistance to the Islamization of Europe and, at the same time, more colonization of Europe by Muslims. Phase III of the war is the period in which the culturally conservative will stage a coup of Europe, execute all traitors, and deport all Muslims. This is where it becomes clear that Breivik wrote himself into becoming a murderer. He is no longer the “normal Norwegian boy.”
FJORDMAN LISTS “BIG LIES”
Another Fjordman piece discusses steps taken in schools, resulting in “. . . completely rewriting European history books to make them more Islam-friendly, and gradually silencing ‘Islamophobia’ as racism.”
As a solution, Fjordman proposed three possible approaches to teaching religion in schools. “1. Teach the traditional religions within a particular country, which in Europe means Christianity and Judaism. 2. Teach all the major world religions. 3. Leave religion out of the curriculum.”
He goes on to say that the European Union treats Islam as a traditional European religion, on a par with Christianity and Judaism. “This is a crucial component of Eurabian thinking and practice,” he writes. “Notice how EU authorities in this case directly interfered to force a once-independent nation state to include more teachings of Islam in its school curriculum in order to instill their children with a proper dose of Eurabian indoctrination. Notice also that they didn’t ask for more teaching of Buddhism or Hinduism. Only Islam is being pushed.”
Fjordman may have a point here. Germany and France have a large number of Muslim immigrants, and that has influenced their countries’ changing demographic, in the ways of culture and education. France, especially, has taken in many Muslims from the former French colonies. Because Germany and France are the two most powerful countries in the
European Union, they also have the most influence in this organization. Other authors, such as Bat Ye’or, have also written extensively about this.
In studying Fjordman’s articles, one can imagine Breivik, consciously or not, adopting the same structure. Both include long quotations and multiple sources, like college students writing their first research papers. Breivik’s role model, Kaczynski, was even more lengthy. It is difficult not to think of Kaczynski when reading Breivik’s manifesto.
In the piece on Eurabian indoctrination, Fjordman lists “some Big Lies.” They are:
“Diversity is always good;
“Multiculturalism is inevitable, as is continued EU integration;
“Those opposing it are ignorant racists standing against the tide of history;
“Muslim immigration is ‘good for the economy’ and is necessary for funding the welfare state in the future, despite the fact that it drains away enormous resources.”
We can sense the anger that lies behind these statements in Fjordman, as well as in Breivik. The Law of Jante and the government’s social-democratic politics have silenced the non-believers and made it almost impossible to express their views without being ridiculed and rejected, sometimes even violently. Fjordman goes on, calling Eurabia “one of the greatest betrayals in the history of Western civilization. But that does not mean that all EU federalists are evil.” And then he quotes Hugh Fitzgerald: “A whole class of people has gotten rich from Arab money and bribes; lawyers, public relations men, and diplomats, journalists, university teachers, and assorted officials.”
Yet others, Fjordman believes, “must have convinced themselves that what they were doing was for a just cause, if for no other reason than because human vanity demands that we justify our actions by covering them with a veneer of goodness.”
In yet another piece in this section, Fjordman explains, as his title clearly states, “Why the EU Needs to be Destroyed, and Soon.”
“I’m really worried about a complete collapse of the democratic system here,” he writes. “It has already been weakened by the EU, the UN, etc. for a long time, and now we also have direct physical threats by Muslims to freedom of speech. Ordinary Europeans are no longer in control of our own fates. Sweden has for instance in reality ceased being a democratic country, in my view. We need to recapture this, or Europe is finished.”
Fjordman’s frustrations against the EU, UN, and intergovernmental treaties that give up on our sovereign rights are shared by many, especially in the United States, because the treaties take precedence over local law, even the Constitution, in case of conflict.
Fjordman and Breivik aren’t the only ones sharing their frustrations and anger toward immigration and integration policies on the Internet. A great many writers, bloggers, and followers, not only in Europe but everywhere, share the same thoughts. Some of the Americans cited numerous times in Breivik’s manifesto are Robert Spencer, best-selling author and founder of Jihad Watch, as well as Pamela Geller and Bruce Bawer, who are also part of the contra-jihadist environment.
The manner in which multiculturalism is practiced in most countries assumes that all cultures are equal, when in fact they have very different beliefs regarding the value of human life. As Fjordman puts it: “Multiculturalism serves as a tool for ruling elites to fool people, to keep them from knowing that they have lost, or deliberately vacated, control over national borders. Leftists who dislike Western civilization use multiculturalism to undermine it, a hate ideology disguised as tolerance. Multiculturalism equals the unilateral destruction of Western culture, the only unilateral action the West is allowed to take, according to some.”
Multiculturalism and affirmative action actually create more discrimination because they make race an issue. If someone is given privileges for some reason other than merit, for example, anger and feelings of injustice can lead to racism.
Breivik’s Fjordman-fest continues with “The Failure of Western Feminism”: “As a Western man, I would be tempted to say that Western women have to some extent brought this upon themselves. They have been waging an ideological, psychological and economic war against European men for several generations now, believing that this would make you ‘free.’ The actual result is that you have less freedom of movement and security than ever, as a direct result of the immigrant policies supported by you and your buddies.”
Fjordman attacks everything from low birth rates to what he calls the “fatherless civilization,” and Breivik faithfully includes essay after rambling essay. Breivik must have felt at home in Fjordman’s writing, connected to someone he felt was of like mind and intelligence. After all, he had grown up fatherless, with a mother who could not take proper care of him and in a society that he felt had bullied him into a corner. He reached out to Fjordman numerous times via e-mail, attempting to connect with his hero.
An attempt in 2009 actually got a response, although certainly not the one Breivik was hoping for. He began his outreach with a compliment: “LOL@ your tourettes comment, insanely good :O”. Then he added an invitation and finished with a comment that probably earned him a response—that he was coming too close to disclosing Fjordman’s identity. “Hoping you come on Thursday (you should jump in your car from trondheimi:D) By the way, I chatted a lot with a FB [Facebook] friend, xxxxx, it turns out she was dating your best friend, xxxxx. Small world. . . . Add me on FB you slacker:D”
Although Breivik would not learn Fjordman’s name until the trial, he was reckless with the information he obtained, and his message in 2009 obviously hit a little too close to home and was enough to draw Fjordman’s attention. Fjordman responded with this: “I would appreciate if you say as little as possible about me publicly. I might go public one day with my full name, but I would like to wait a bit until I have finished what I’m writing on now. F.”
Then, in February 2010, one of Breivik’s messages again got Fjordman’s attention.
“Hey again Fjordman:-)
“Thought I would send you a couple of suggestions. I have approximately 5000 contacts on Facebook now, absolutely all the best (well connected) patriotically oriented in Europe (East/West), US, Canada, New Zealand, and Aussie, etc. (even South Africa). You will lose terrain if you do not use FB as all other European intellectuals do. I will happily share my two networks with you (I have two profiles). I could, for instance, give you the 200 absolutely best connected FB patriots in Europe and in the US. Many of these would, by the way, let you post your articles on their pages, myself included. You would hence reach up to 30,000 to 50,000 by simply posting on a few high quality profiles. In addition there are twenty-something FB groups that are worth mentioning. Many of the contacts I know reasonably well are running many of these groups and would with pleasure let you contribute. Just let me know :-)”
He follows the offer with a further attempt at bonding: “My compendium will be finished within a couple of weeks after three years of work. Will send you an electronic version when it’s done. You are going to like it;-) Have given up on dokument.no. Hans is censoring even the most moderate contributions that share your ideology :P Anders.” (Dokument.no is a Norwegian website and blog. At this time, Breivik had stopped posting on it.)
Fjordman wrote back almost within the hour, and again his message was one of rejection: “Thanks for the offer. But I am not planning on using FB directly at the moment. I will be writing on dokument.no for now, but so many of my comments have been censored that I might not bother for long. F.”
Once more, all that was left for Breivik to connect with was not the man, but the increasingly radical ideology.
ISLAM
Throughout the second book of the manifesto, we are warned about the dangers of Islamization.
Under the heading “Modern Jihad,” Breivik begins with these quotations:
Sura 9 Verse 29
Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger.
. . . and
fight against those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e., Islam) among the People of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah (Tax for Jews/Christians) with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.
Sura 9 Verse 5
Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them. . . .But if they repent and accept Islam . . . then leave their way free.
He lists a website that presents an overview of Jihadi terror acts since 2001. “Unfortunately, this is only the top [sic] of the iceberg,” he writes. “There are hundreds more attacks occurring every single day, across the world, which are not documented. This includes Europeans slain by Muslims living in Europe. There is no website as far as we know who catalogue these atrocities.”
Steven M. Kleinman is the Director of Strategic Research at The Soufan Group. Kleinman, a career intelligence officer, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, and a recognized subject-matter expert on human intelligence, counterterrorism, special operations, and strategic interrogation, with thirty years of operational and leadership experience across the globe, had this to say about Breivik’s claims:
“I suggest—based on my observation and interaction with both terrorists and counter terrorists—that there is no such thing as a ‘peaceful’ religion (or, for that matter, one that is not a peaceful religion). There are, however, both nonviolent and violent individuals who claim an affiliation with (or a faith in) a given religion. Certainly, contemporary terrorism is filled with examples of violent extremist groups with Islamic roots. Then again, the Ku Klux Klan is still active (on a very small scale) in the United States. Many of its followers are members of Christian congregations led by clergymen who offer extreme views of Christian theology that promote the eradication of certain ethnic groups (notably African Americans and Jews) as allowed (even required) by God.”
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