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The Left Distorts Breivik's Mental World
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Immediately after Anders Behring Breivik
committed his terrorist atrocity in Norway a year ago today, killing 77, the Center
for American Progress, a $38
million-a-year liberal think tank, rushed out (under its ThinkProgress
imprint) a graphic
that helpfully pointed out how often Breivik had cited 11 of what it called
"right-wing pundits and organizations" in his manifesto, 2083 —
A European Declaration of Independence.
CAP's research, which was much cited and had
vast influence on the reporting of Breivik's mental formation, would lead one
to believe that Breivik's sources of information came exclusively from those
"right-wing pundits and organizations." Not so. Although I noted
a year ago the essential deceit of this characterization, the full
picture became apparent only later, thanks to a complete concordance created
by Steven Emerson's Investigative Project on Terrorism of the over 1,600
personal names in 2083.
IPT's research
establishes that, yes, Breivik certainly did mention conservatives, but he
also mentioned about as many liberals and leftists, not to speak of
Christians and Muslims, historical figures and writers. With IPT's
authorization, I am posting the 84 names mentioned ten or more times in 2083.
(The discrepancy between CAP's and IPT's numbers results from their differing
methodologies.)
IPT's list of 84 top mentions includes a very
wide range of figures.
Comments:
(1) I count 13 critics of Islam or Islamism
and 11 Muslims among the 84 top names mentioned by Breivik. Pretty much a
draw, no?
(2) As for Breivik agreeing with those
critics: hardly. As I showed
last July, he intentionally sought to damage and delegitimize anyone who
rejects his violent ways.
(3) The Center for American Progress
distorted Breivik's mind by listing only conservatives – hardly a shock given
CAP's history
of shoddy work.
(4) Concerning all those progressive
eminentoes: after Max
Blumenthal recently lambasted me in The Nation, a Leftist
magazine, for being mentioned by Breivik, I wrote a letter to its editors:
"Were the Nation to boycott this posse of Marxists, leftists, and
their protégés, its pages would stand quite empty."
(5) I am the 9th most commonly mentioned
person, bizarrely finding myself right after Islam's prophet Muhammad, tied
with Dutch politician Geert Wilders & Osama bin Laden, immediately ahead
of Karl Marx.
(July 22, 2012)
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