Neocon anti-Islamist rhetoric supplied ideological cover for Breivik’s massacre
Evidence
Building on Kramer’s early polemic that Middle East studies departments are wrong about US policy, these books attempted to spread the net more widely, condemning the Left as a whole, including the white Left, and constructing a conspiratorial alliance between Islamists and the Left. The Norwegian Breivik adopted this argument and turned it into the basis for the murder of teenagers at a camp run by the social-democratic Norwegian Labor Party. The neocons disavowed Breivik’s actions, yet their goal of silencing dissenting views and intimidating activists can be interpreted by those prone to violence like Breivik in these ways. The modus operandi of the neocons and the Islamophobia network is intimidation carried out through smear campaigns and harassment. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 677
Building on Kramer’s early polemic that Middle East studies departments are wrong about US policy, these books attempted to spread the net more widely, condemning the Left as a whole, including the white Left, and constructing a conspiratorial alliance between Islamists and the Left. The Norwegian Breivik adopted this argument and turned it into the basis for the murder of teenagers at a camp run by the social-democratic Norwegian Labor Party. The neocons disavowed Breivik’s actions, yet their goal of silencing dissenting views and intimidating activists can be interpreted by those prone to violence like Breivik in these ways. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 689
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s earlier kept note that ‘Breivik framed his violence as a crusade against demographic jihad’ — here Kumar links that explicitly to the neocon Islamist-Left conspiracy framing. — connects to: Anti-Islamist books framing a Left-Islamist conspiracy inspired Breivik’s massacre; US Islamophobes inspired the Norwegian terrorist Breivik through transatlantic networks — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 648; Breivik framed his violence as a crusade against demographic jihad. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 604 (+1 more)
- QUESTION: Tests my comparative thread: the mass-murder payoff here runs through a ‘Left is allied with Islamists’ frame. Would a state-socialist regime’s own anti-Muslim loop also fabricate a Left-Islamist conspiracy, or would it target different internal enemies?
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 677; Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 689
Broader Connections
- Anti-Islamist books framing a Left-Islamist conspiracy inspired Breivik’s massacre
#corroborates(0.95) - US Islamophobes inspired the Norwegian terrorist Breivik through transatlantic networks
#corroborates(0.92) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 648 - Breivik framed his violence as a crusade against demographic jihad.
#exemplifies(0.82) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 604 - Neoconservatives paired with Israel’s Likud to frame the terrorist as an enemy of civilization
#complicates(0.72)