US Islamophobes inspired the Norwegian terrorist Breivik through transatlantic networks

Evidence

Sociologist David Miller’s non-profit organization, Public Interest Investigations, posted a report on its Spinwatch website in 2019 on the global counterjihad movement and its sources of funding. The Spinwatch report states that “the US counterjihad movement has been critical to facilitating the flows of ideas, people and money into Europe via its transatlantic network.” The Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik, who killed seventyseven people in a bombing and mass shooting in 2011, cited several prominent US Islamophobes in his manifesto. Co-founder of Stop Islamization of America with Geller, Robert Spencer, led the pack, receiving 162 mentions in the racist diatribe. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 648

Categorization

• SHARE: The 162-mentions detail about Robert Spencer in Breivik’s manifesto is exactly the sort of concrete datum a friend who follows far-right movements would appreciate.
• XREF: connects to: Neocon anti-Islamist rhetoric supplied ideological cover for Breivik’s massacre — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 677; A US-based transatlantic counter-jihad network exports Islamophobia to Europe; A transnational counter-jihad network moves ideas, people, and money between the US and Europe — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 648 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• A US-based transatlantic counter-jihad network exports Islamophobia to Europe #corroborates (0.95)
• A transnational counter-jihad network moves ideas, people, and money between the US and Europe #corroborates (0.92) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 648
• Breivik’s ideas drew directly on US anti-Muslim activists. #corroborates (0.90) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 605
• Islamophobia became a globally networked condition spread across states #corroborates (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 37
• Neocon smear campaigns have inspired copycat violence by figures like Breivik #corroborates (0.78)
• Anti-Islamist books framing a Left-Islamist conspiracy inspired Breivik’s massacre #corroborates (0.75)
• Christchurch and Norway shooters were linked through shared online extremist culture #complicates (0.72) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 58