Good thing that's cleared up. I mean we wouldn't want to unfairly malign the Nazis.
Just to be clear, he wasn’t a Neo-Nazi. He was a self proclaimed Christian Crusader who, spurred by the anti-Muslim screeds of Pamela Gellar and Robert Spencer (whom he cited 160 times in his manifesto), murdered 70 children in order to stop the Islamization of Norwayhttps://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1050843045048930304 …
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I think the point is that it’s easy to lump all of these people into “new nazis” and it makes it sound like nazis are the only ones who believe these things. It’s easier to dismiss it if it’s “just those evil nazis” than if we call it Christian Terrorism.
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Fair enough, that is a valid point.
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1. So, because he "did the salute and everything" Chris is wrong? I disagree. Here's why: "He" is an anti-islamist Christian terrorist. He isn't a white supremacist. In Germany, there's an unspoken rule: The name Hitler is not to be uttered. His Nazi party was evil incarnate.
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You’re dead wrong. In Germany they call neo-Nazis just that: neo-Nazis.
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I said they don't say Hitler's name. I said that in my opinion, neo-nazis with tiki torches, anti-Islamic Christian terrorist and the Nazis who murdered 6 million Jews are 3 separate entities of evil. Read my tweets again, this time without assuming I'm defending neo-nazis.
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It's a little complicated; while imprisoned, he did declare himself a Nazi (see https://www.thelocal.no/20160316/mass-murderer-breivik-testifies-on-prison-torture …), but he does not appear to have been one at the time of the attacks--simply an anti-Muslim extremist. It is also inaccurate, as some have done, to call him "alt right."
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If you really want to understand Breviek, read his manifesto first. Then read
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I've read his manifesto. Doing so is, well, let's call it a chore. I'm not sure I would suggest anybody read its 1,500 or so pages.
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Yes, he skips around a lot and mixes ideologies. You can see he was even a bit confused as to who his “ego” was. That’s the point of reading it
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but he gave a Nazi salute in court?
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This is a genuine question - are "neo-nazi" and "Christian crusader" mutually exclusive terms? I mean... he could be both, no?
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Yeah....I think I’m gonna stick with Neo-Nazi herepic.twitter.com/OdeSdXdlWH
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Nothing in the manifesto he wrote mentions Nazis or Nazi ideology. After being apprehended he did adopt a “neo-Nazi” platform but it’s hard to dispute his own words. Let’s just call this what it is.
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Yes, his manifesto did mention Nazi ideology. He references Cultural Marxism, a conspiracy theory that originated in Nazi Germany as Cultural Bolshevism. Hitler himself wrote about it in Mein Kampf. The idea is the Jews secretly control the USSR and undermine German culture.
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