In the wake of the despicable terror attacks in Oslo, the predictable hate speeches against those who criticize Sweden’s immigration policy have already begun. I am not going to waste time on quoting them; let us just note that the hate mongers who are trying to capitalize on the Oslo massacre typically were very quick to say that the suicide bomber in Stockholm was a “mad loner” who did not represent Islam. When an equally “mad loner” strikes, who happens to be critical of immigration, then all of a sudden everyone who may have uttered a critical word of Sweden’s immigration policy is guilty by association.
The leftist hate mongers are also conspicuously silent on the arrests in Denmark of Islamists – Swedish residents, by the way – who planned a terror attack on a Danish newspaper.
Terrorism is terrorism, just as totalitarianism is totalitarianism. It does not matter who the Oslo madman was before he set off on a killing spree – as soon as he triggered that bomb he crossed the same line as the Islamists did on 9/11, or in Madrid 2004, or in London 2005. He turned people around him into instruments for an ideology. Just like the Islamists preach hatred by killing infidels, Anders Breivik preached hatred by killing people who were just as innocent as the victims in the World Trade Center in New York or on the commuter trains in Madrid.
And just like the jihadists in Iraq have used Islam as an excuse to kill innocent Iraqi children, Breivik used his nationalism as an excuse to wipe out the young lives of his fellow countrymen. If we, for a moment, elevate ourselves above the horror of terrorism, we may notice the irony in his: the jihadists who claim to fight for a pure Islamic state kill Muslim children in a Muslim country; Breivik, who apparently wanted to fight for a purely Norwegian Norway killed Norwegian children.
I should not have to point this out, but I will anyway: every life is sacrosanct. From the fetus in your wife’s womb to the old woman in a nursing home whose life is endangered by a government-run, cash-starved health care system. It does not matter if jihadists kill Muslims or Christians or whoever. They are savages all the same. This goes for Breivik as well: it does not matter who he assassinated: he is a lowlife terrorist whose future in eternal torment is the only appropriate punishment for his crimes.
Established Swedish media outlets have already begun exploiting the terror attacks in Oslo, and it is almost self-evident that Prime Minister Reinfeldt, one way or another, will associate the Swedish Democrats with this attack. Such is the political climate in Sweden. That is something Swedes will have to live with until they elect another parliamentary majority in 2014. What they will hopefully not have to live with is an escalation of politically driven crimes against Swedish Democrat politicians. In the shadows of the horrible events in Oslo, let us not forget the low-level, but relentless terrorism that leftist activists direct toward their political adversaries.
Let us not forget Swedish Democrat politicians who have been attacked in their homes, in public, when exercising their right to freedom of speech, etc. Let us not forget the bomb that the police found at a Swedish-Democrat rally in Sodertalje during the election campaign last year.
Again: terrorism is terrorism. When someone shows indifference toward other people’s lives in advancing his or her political agenda, he is a terrorist. Major Hasan, a psychologist in the U.S. Army, who killed 13 people on an army base in Texas in 2009, did so in the name of Islam. Anders Breivik killed people in the name of some anti-Islamic agenda. They are both terrorists and deserve to be treated accordingly.
You would hope that this common-sense logic is apparent and can be embraced by everyone. But we have yet to see the left step up to the plate. The Oslo attacks will provide a litmus test for them: are the leftist activists, who conduct a low-level political war against critics of Sweden’s immigration policy, willing to recognize that terrorists are always terrorists? Are they willing to agree that life is sacrosanct and no one should be sacrificed in the name of an ideology (or a religion)?
Sven R Larson, Ph.D.
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Intressant bakgrundsinformation är den nya undersökningen av den massiva antisemitismen i Norge, http://israelisverige.info/?p=8452
I hate to be a word police but the nut in US didn’t have the rank of general but major. Nor was he a physician but a psychologist and from what i understand not a very good one either. Last but not least, Nidal Hasan is spelled with just one s.
Correct. His business card also said on it SoA(SWT). SoA meaning “soldier of allah”. And that never raised any alarm bells with anyone in the US Army.
“When an equally “mad loner” strikes, who happens to be critical of immigration, then all of a sudden everyone who may have uttered a critical word of Sweden’s immigration policy is guilty by association.”
This is the most frustrating part of this whole scenario. I, in many ways, hold opinions wich are classified as “right winged” regarding the society (restricted immigration, a strong scepticism towards multiculturalism, pro western civilization and culture, I’m christian etc, although I politically consider myself a libertarian). This is the things that the media and the establishment has called “the right wing extreme”, “nationalism”, “nazism” etc. and wich has been blamed by guilt of association in context of the terrorist attentat. On the swedish internet site and debate space “Newsmill”, heavy defamations against these “anti-immigration”/”western culture”/”right wing”-views has been massively flowing and holded as guilty for the terrorism. And todays regular swedish news broadcast “Rapport” at prime time, spent most of their time discussing right wing-views in context of the terror and also fumbled a little into the subject of islamic terrorism wich the journalists completely undermined, it was so clear what the purpose of that side track discussion was: undermining threats from islamic extremists and blame “the right wing people” and party (SD) for the terror.
I really don’t want t sound like a silly martyr or something similar, but one feels very despised from society, and even from your friends. The general atmosphere in Sweden is that “right wing extremists” (wich I classifies as, due to my opposition towards todays immigration policy and the idea of multiculturalism) is evil and that a second Holocaust will appear if we don’t stop them and “their” party (SD, wich I by the way wouldn’t vote for because I don’t agree at all with their basic views on the economy, liberty, the welfare state etc). If media’s and the establishment’s hostility was aimed towards a real extreme ideology I would have respected it and I would have understand. But I’m not extreme in any way, and I don’t fully understand, so I want to question and share my point of view, wich I only have the courage to do under a pseudonym. That’s what’s really frustrates me… I know that I will be more despised by questioning and share my ideas, because the elite has already decided the official course and the public swallows it all too easy.
I’m sorry for my lack of capacity as regards the english language. Well written, Sven R Larson, hope you will continue to write about Sweden!
@Robin: Thanks for the corrections. I fired this one off from a motel after a long day of driving. I usually edit stuff before I send it off for publication, but between lack of time and the necessity to get this out, I chose the latter.
@JH: thanks for your support and your thoughtful comment. I appreciate it.
Last but not least, thanks to Cavatus for publishing this. It is a brave thing to do, given the repressive political climate in Sweden.
Robin! Thanks for the remarks. The blog post has been updated accordingly.
I suspect it will only be a matter of time before others follow the lead from this Norwegian example. The trial will be rather interesting, if he is allowed to speak freely.
I can’t confirm it yet but there are rumors it will be closed from public trial. If he’s a manchurian I would be surprised if they will even allow him to live that long. Remember Oswald. I have read un-confirmed rumors he got his military training by NATO. It seems to have been confirmed he was a low level freemason and that he was on steroids. His lack of empathy and cold-bloodedness could be because of the latter. However, the NATO-training and the freemason connection could very well suggest he was a victim of MK-Ultra.
So there’s a Jack Ruby out there with a bullet with his name on it?
Efterspelet till terrordåden i Norge följer förväntat mönster. Med utstuderad cynism utnyttjar etablissemanget i Sverige tragedin för att plocka politiska poäng och gör de mest groteska kopplingar i syfte att skuldbelägga Sverigedemokraterna. […]
http://allraunderdanigast.blogspot.com/2011/07/makten-och-propagandan.html
RS, 7/23/11 at 10:40 PM, the Islamic terrorist at Fort Hood, TX, aka Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was a Army PSYCHIATRIST at Fort Hood, TX, as well as, “an advisor in homeland security of Barack Obama´s transition team.”
http://www.conservapedia.com/Nidal_Malik_Hasan
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=115230
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I understand the Swedish establishment and police look the other when people like those at Utoya attack people they suspect of anit-immigration thoughts.
I am not shedding any tears for them or their parents.
Glenn Beck was correct in describing them as Nazi Youth.
However, perhaps that’s ironic, since Mr Beck himself is engaged in a correspondent right wing camp in America: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/23011/
The youths at the camp aren’t any violent extremists, but they’re certainly young people whom has been raised, to think a certain way, by society. So, considering the latter one might draw parallels between them and Nazi Youth
Kanske OT:
Evil Nazi News:
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2011/08/ludwig-f-clauss-racial-style-racial-character-part-i/
The Office of Racial Policy of the NSDAP(Das Rassenpolitische Amt der NSDAP)has printed pictures and plaques and has distributed them in German schools, where we read in large letters the following words: Each race in itself represents the highest value.
Good article! I think Hellsinki still has a chance to not fall in the same gategory as Oslo and Stockholm, neverthless east-Helsinki is lost, with massive somali population. Part of Finnish goverment would like to buy and then rent really expencive estates in better regions of Helsinki to refugees and immigrants “to prevent ghettos”. 31m2 estate can have price tag of 250.000€, think about what will cost a castle to those somalis, with 12 “children”.
Finland will tighten rules regarding “familymembers”, who allways come after the “kid”. I think the only way to get free from these parasites is to cut severely their wellfare and other support, then most of them would simply move to another coutry with more easy money.