America’s Breivik Complex: State terror and the Islamophobic right

[no_hypocrisy]

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Breivik may have developed his destructive sensibility in the stark political environment of a European continent riveted by mass immigration from the Muslim world, but his conceptualization of the changes he was witnessing reflect the influence of a cadre of far-right bloggers and activists from across the Atlantic Ocean. He not only mimicked their terminology and emulated their language, he substantially adopted their political worldview. The profound impact of the American right’s Islamophobic subculture on Breivik’s thinking raises a question that has not been adequately explored: Where is the American version of Breivik and why has he not struck yet? Or has he?

Many of the American writers who influenced Breivik spent years churning out calls for the mass murder of Muslims, Palestinians and their left-wing Western supporters. But the sort of terrorism these US-based rightists incited for was not the style the Norwegian killer would eventually adopt. Instead of Breivik’s renegade free-booting, they preferred the “shock and awe” brand of state terror perfected by Western armies against the brown hordes threatening to impose Sharia law on the people in Peoria. This kind of violence provides a righteous satisfaction so powerful it can be experienced from thousands of miles away.

And so most American Islamophobes simply sit back from the comfort of their homes and cheer as American and Israeli troops — and their remote-controlled aerial drones — leave a trail of charred bodies from Waziristan to Gaza City. Only a select group of able-bodied Islamophobes are willing to suit up in a uniform and rush to the front lines of the clash of civilizations. There, they have discovered that they can mow down Muslim non-combatants without much fear of legal consequences, and that when they return, they will be celebrated as the elite Crusader-warriors of the new Islamophobic right — a few particularly violent figures have been rewarded with seats in Congress. Given the variety of culturally acceptable, officially approved outlets for venting violent anti-Muslim resentment, there is little reason for any American to follow in Breivik’s path of infamy.

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http://maxblumenthal.com/2011/08/americas-breivik-complex-how-state-terror-electrifies-the-islamophobic-right/

[Ian David]

1. The Outsiders (The Rise of 'Isolated Incidents' of Right-Wing Violence)

The Outsiders (The Rise of 'Isolated Incidents' of Right-Wing Violence)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x606317

[PATRICK]

2. Right wing thugs

have been, long before Arabs even set foot outside the desert, the favored tools of wealth and power organizations. Ideology and terrorism rarely and reluctantly make headlines nor are they seen as a threat until long after a bloody collapse like that of Hitler and Mussolini. Then there constant existence is not pursued in the victor countries.

Enter the bogeymen in the closet. Anarchists. Communists. ALL the blame for any of the perpetual right wing extremist pastimes and social repression of corrupt states is passed on to these enemies. The current sucker role is played by all Muslims. Wow, billions of scattered DIFFERENT people who have been cultivated to supply a reverse version of right wing thuggery as viewed outside Islamic culture and the same serendipitous right wing mischief within their own states being boiled in oil. They even play off against the Jews in any way that serves the same old plutocrat goals, many of them more contradictory than the Western MSM allows for Muslims.

What was the narrative when the terrorist turned out NOT to be a Muslim? Most of what I heard here(reluctant listener to NPR on occasion) somehow never stopped the momentum of trying to upbuild the "War on Terror" crap.

Any casual reader or viewer of films knows full well about right wing mischief, collusion, criminal extremists in Scandinavia. Networks of the criminal right have taken advantage of various types of cross border smuggling and crime, assassinations and on the respectable political front have as in the rest of the world resurged in the midst of supposedly untouchable social progress. Like all those nukes we never talk about, an Armageddon in our pocket, that the t=right wing could Nazify any society back into a horror show never makes the news. Not neo-Nazis, not the Klan. Not Tim McVeigh or Breivik, not the fact that the worst Muslim terror organizations derive from oligarch funding or directly from Western machinations. Norway differs from us in that the population and the state has bno official hate bogeyman and can treat all monsters for what they are.

Because the news is owned by the same people who find all RW extremists useful, de natura.

[JAnthony]

3. Certainly worth a full read, Thanks for the article and link! n/t K+R

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[reprehensor]

5. More on Islamophobia

"Islamophobia and the "War on Terror": the Continuing Pretext for U.S. Imperial Conquest"
http://911blogger.com/news/2008-06-29/islamophobia-and-war-terror-continuing-pretext-us-imperial-conquest