Can it credibly be said that George W. Bush and U.S. neoconservatives are partly responsible for the emergence of Norwegian terrorist and mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik? According to columnist K. Selim of Algeria’s Le Quotidien d’Oran, Western media has been careful not to draw the right conclusions about where a man like Breivik really came from.
For Algeria’s Le Quotidien d’Oran, K. Selim writes in part:
The profile of the criminal who plunged Norway into mourning really troubles the conformist press. On an initial impulse, Western media naturally preferred the jihadist route, the exclusive channel of terrorism since September 11, 2001. Since the publication of the mass murderer’s photo along with details from the Oslo police about the character of this “native-born” Norwegian, there has been some palpable discomfort.
Even so, material abounds on a character who has posted a text of over a thousand pages on the Web. Certainly an Islamophobe and a fundamentalist Christian, too; but also, as he has said several times, a militant shock Zionist. And it is really at these levels that the portrait of Anders Behring Breivik poses a problem for the anti-Arab columnists who are legion among the media commissariat of Western thought.
This terrorist took care to hammer home his pro-Israel and anti-Muslim political commitment, ensuring, by acting it out, that this nauseating operational and ideological synthesis is constantly broadcast by the various constituents of neoconservative propaganda. Breivik is truly the fruit of the supremacist and racist speech of George W. Bush and his epigones in Tel-Aviv and Europe.
It is this direct relationship between state terrorism, built on a representation of the world defined by the so-called war of civilizations, and the actions of this militant fanatic, that the sanctioned press is trying to cover up. It’s not a question of absolving any terrorism whatsoever or of lapsing into the essentialism so characteristic of neoconservatives. It is neither a Christian nor specifically Scandinavian. Indeed, this criminal fits perfectly into a clearly identified political continuum.
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