Mark Juergensmeyer on Religion Dispatches browse some of Anders Behring Breivik 1500 pages of “manifesto” seems to be an incoherent document which outlined its plans Breivik for a coming war between the Europeans just one hand, and multiculturalists, and Muslims in the other:

Is it a religious vision, and I am wrong in calling a terrorist Breivik Christian? It is true that McVeigh and Breivik, however, was much more worried about politics, race and history on the Scriptures and religious beliefs, with Breivik will even write that “Just as you is a Christian, agnostic or atheist Christian (an atheist who wants to preserve at least the basics of the European Christian heritage (Christian holidays, Christmas and Easter)). “

But the same can be said of Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and many other Islamic militants. Bin Laden was a businessman and engineer, Zawahiri was a doctor, nor the theologians and clergy. His writings show that they were much more interested in Islamic history that theology or Scripture, and imagined themselves as recreating the glorious moments in Islamic history in their own wars imagined. Significantly, Breivik written admiringly Al-Qaeda, as if to create a Christian version of their religious leaders.

If Bin Laden is an Islamic terrorist, Breivik and McVeigh are safer than Christians. Breivik fascinated with the Crusades, and the thought of being a member of the Knights Templar, the crusading army of a thousand years ago. But the thought of cosmic war, time is suspended, and the story is beyond the activists to imagine herself playing a sacred drama of the timeless roles. And ‘tragic that these fantasies are played in real-time religious, stable, and the cruel consequences.

I guess religion is used as a marker to give a cultural sense of identity. Breivik was not really interested in the content of Christianity, just use it as a good label to unite Europe against the hordes of Islam.

Spencer Ackerman has also picked up on the similarities between Islamic terrorists and Breivik:

Anyone who has seen and heard some of the decade, bin Laden and Zawahiri notices notice familiar themes.

The elites have betrayed and brainwashed believers. Like how Osama bin Laden orchestrated by the decline of the Middle East, Breivik believes Europe’s cultural decay is not responsible for the “authentic” Euro. Because of decades of betrayal by their leaders.

Multiculturalism and “cultural Marxism” is to do what Breivik tailism East with the West do to bin Laden: to give every man with a sense of victimization and galvanizing beseigement. Moreover, writing elites outside the sphere of authenticity, which provides a way for their audience to spend their loyalty to the “strong horse” – and also a way to justify killing their targets.

Destroy the renegade regime. The apostate regime will collapse because of its inability to withstand attacks by believers in principle. For bin Laden, the believer is the real Muslims, the forefront of an Islamic revival. In Breivik, it is the “cultural Marxists” and their media sycophants who have been attacked (!) European Nationalists since the fall of the Third Reich.

Note the key point for both the supremacy of Islam and Islamophobia, the most important thing is winning the battle with the rebels. It is no coincidence that Al-Qaeda kills orders of magnitude more than the Muslims in the West. It is no coincidence that Norway Breivik white target instead of many Muslim immigrants stir anger. Therefore, the complaint was declared a pretext. “Before we begin our crusade,” Breivik said: “We must fulfill our duty to tithe cultural Marxism”

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