27 Jul, 2011
“Why Do We Harass Muslims But Not White, Nordic Males?”
This dispatch includes a collection of reports and commentaries from global media about the 22/7 Blond bin Laden terrorist attack in Norway. Let there be no mistake: Ten years after 9/11, the tables have turned. The “war on terror” has taken on new meaning. The Islamic world now has zero tolerance for being associated, by implication or otherwise, with any future references to the word “terror”. As a new world order dawns, the consequences of 22/7 are set to be as far-reaching as 9/11.
Travel Impact Newswire Executive Editor Imtiaz Muqbil is preparing a detailed report about this terrorist attack and its potential impact on global travel & tourism. Stay tuned.
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Glenn Greenwald: Why Do We Harass Muslims But Not White, Nordic Males?
The response to the Norway attacks shows that the world “terrorism” has no meaning — aside from when it’s used to bash Muslims.
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Christian Jihad? Why We Should Worry About Right-Wing Terror Attacks Like Norway’s in the US
There is a growing movement in America that equates godliness with hatred of our government — in fact, hatred of our country.
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10 of America’s Most Dangerous Hatemongers
July 21, 2011
The apparent recent surge in popular anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States has been driven by a surprisingly small and, for the most part, closely knit cadre of activists. Their influence extends far beyond their limited numbers, in part because of an amenable legion of right-wing media personalities — and lately, politicians like U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), who held controversial hearings into the radicalization of American Muslims this March —who are eager to promote them as impartial experts or grassroots leaders.
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http://www.alternet.org/rights/151738/10_of_america%27s_most_dangerous_hatemongers/
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If Bush or Giuliani Had Been Stoltenberg
By David Swanson
The murder spree in Norway was apparently the work of a Norwegian, not a group of foreigners, and for various other reasons the comparison is not exact. Nonetheless, it’s tempting to wonder how many people would still be alive today if George W. Bush or Rudy Giuliani had spoken after the 9-11 attacks as Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg just did.
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http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson250711.htm
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Oslo Massacre Exposes The Nexus of Islamophobia And Right-Wing Extremism
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali, CounterCurrents.org
While much remains to be learned about the attacks in Norway, it has exposed the dangerous nexus of Islamophobia, neoconservatism and right-wing Zionism, and what could happen when the wrong person subscribes to those toxic beliefs, Mondoweiss concludes
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http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali250711.htm
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They Don’t Have Terrorists in Norway?
By Farzana Versey
He is not called a terrorist, no blanket judgement yet. Even as radical, he has his reasons – he is anti-Islam. He wreaked this terrorist attack to draw world attention to the end of multiculturalism.
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http://www.countercurrents.org/versey250711.htm
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As The U.S Empire Spread Abroad, It Becomes A Police State At Home
By Sherwood Ross
As America’s empire spreads abroad, it becomes ever more the police state at home. The methods used for the suppression of foreigners by military force and violence are eventually mirrored in the “homeland.”
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http://www.countercurrents.org/ross250711.htm
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Norway: Killer’s manifesto analyses Spain and Israel
According to the Jerusalem Post, in 1,500 pages Breivik mentions Israel 359 times and “Jews” 324 times, He condemns Muslims, Marxism and multiculturalism, and espouses what the newspaper describes as “far-right Zionism.”
He also condemns the Western media that he believes unfairly focuses on the failings of Israel, saying “western journalists again and again systematically ignore serious Muslim attacks and rather focus on the Jews.”
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http://www.energypublisher.com/a/57576/Norway-Killers-manifesto-analyses-Spain-and-Israel
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Norway’s monster and THE question
It’s bad enough that Zionist propaganda has prevented a cure for the Israel-Palestine conflict, but if now that same propaganda is inspiring Europeans in Europe to slaughter their own, the future is very, very frightening.
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http://mycatbirdseat.com/2011/07/norway%E2%80%99s-monster-and-the-question/
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Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik’s fellow Zionist hatemongers
By Gilad Atzmon, 26 July 2011
Gilad Atzmon views an article by Zionist writer and former Trotskyite David Horowitz, written on the eve of the Utoeye Island massacre in Norway, “which could well have provided mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik with all the motivation he needed to commit his crime”.
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http://www.redress.cc/global/gatzmon20110726
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Norway supports Palestinian bid to seek statehood
OSLO — Norway, host of the 1993 Palestinian-Israeli peace accords, said on Monday it was “perfectly legitimate” for Palestinians to take their case for statehood to the United Nations for voting in September.
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CAIR: Anti-Islam Hate Group Leader Trains Va. Terror Task Force
WASHINGTON, July 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the FBI and Virginia’s Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force to explain why a leader of an anti-Islam hate group was invited to offer training to state and federal law enforcement officers.
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On Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and Other Jihadists
By Jeffrey Goldberg, Jul 25 2011
I’m away, and it’s hard to keep up with the news, but it seems as if my arch-nemesis Pamela Geller is in a bit of a pickle because she and her partner-in-Muslim-bashing, Robert Spencer, were favorites of the Norway killer.
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Norway: A Crime Against Humanity And Democracy
By Fredrik S. Heffermehl
JULY, 2011 (IPS) – The response to the recent atrocities in Norway cannot be more power-wielding and violence. Instead we must create a global culture of peace and non-violence, writes Fredrik S. Heffermehl, author of “The Nobel Peace Prize; What Nobel Really Wanted”, a Norwegian lawyer and board member of IALANA, the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms.
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http://ipsnews.net/newsTVE.asp?idnews=56624
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U.S. Islamophobes Distance Themselves from Norway Killings
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Jul 25, 2011 (IPS) – As Norway mourns the loss of at least 76 of its citizens in Friday’s bombing of government buildings in Oslo and mass shootings at a Labour Party youth camp, attention here has focused on the U.S. bloggers and groups whose Islamophobic message appears to have fuelled the alleged perpetrator’s murderous rage.
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http://ipsnews.net/newsTVE.asp?idnews=56618
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Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S.
By SCOTT SHANE, July 24, 2011
The man accused of the killing spree in Norway was deeply influenced by a small group of American bloggers and writers who have warned for years about the threat from Islam, lacing his 1,500-page manifesto with quotations from them, as well as copying multiple passages from the tract of the Unabomber.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html
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Norway Attacks Put Spotlight on Rise of Right-Wing Sentiment in Europe
BERLIN — The attacks in Oslo on Friday have riveted new attention on right-wing extremists not just in Norway but across Europe, where opposition to Muslim immigrants, globalization, the power of the European Union and the drive toward multiculturalism has proven a potent political force and, in a few cases, a spur to violence.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/world/europe/24europe.html?_r=1
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Indian PM Condemns “All Forms” Of Extremist Violence
The Prime Minister has condemned the Oslo violence saying that it was a grim reminder of the threat that extremist violence posed to open and democratic societies.
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http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=73464
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Christian Jihadi strikes Terror and shoots down Multiculturalism
by Abid Mustafa, July 26, 2011
“What the Norwegian massacre illustrates is that the preoccupation of mainstream society to stigmatize Muslims has provided ample opportunity for other marginalized groups to implant their terrorist ideas and attract new recruits to their detestable ideologies. One must wonder, how many other homegrown Christian jihadis lurk in European cities waiting to pounce against their governments and fellow citizens, whilst politicians struggle to replace multiculturalism with other fad ideas like assimilation, and integrations that will no doubt lead to the same result.”
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http://world.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/88257
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Europe crosses the threshold
No sooner had news of the terrorist blast that rocked the heart of the Norwegian capital Oslo and the carnage that took place on a nearby paradise island resort where a youth camp was being held reached media outlets than Western analysts and experts were quick to point the finger to Al-Qaeda and Muslim jihadists. It was a shameless and irresponsible act by pundits who have an enormous effect on public opinion.
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http://arabnews.com/opinion/columns/article478504.ece
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Norway: The Enemy Within
by: John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus | Op-Ed, 26 July 2011
Five years ago, writer Bruce Bawer published a screed against Islam, immigrants, and multiculturalism called While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within. An American living in Oslo, Bawer watched with distaste as the Scandinavia of his dreams became a very different reality. He has many ugly things to say about Muslims in the book, but he reserves his greatest scorn for average Europeans: “In the end, Europe’s enemy is not Islam or even radical Islam. Europe’s enemy is itself — its self-destructive passivity, its softness toward tyranny, its reflexive inclination to appease.”
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http://www.truth-out.org/norway-enemy-within/1311711085
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Seeing ‘Islamic Terror’ in Norway: Learning no lessons from Oklahoma City mistakes
On news of the first round of attacks–the bombs in Oslo–CNN’s Tom Lister (7/22/11) didn’t know who did it, but knew they were Muslims: “It could be a whole range of groups. But the point is that Al-Qaeda is not so much an organization now. It’s more a spirit for these people. It’s a mobilizing factor.” And he speculated confidently about their motives:
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Fundamentalism Kills
by: Chris Hedges, Truthdig | Op-Ed, Tuesday 26 July 2011
The gravest threat we face from terrorism, as the killings in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik underscore, comes not from the Islamic world but the radical Christian right and the secular fundamentalists who propagate the bigoted, hateful caricatures of observant Muslims and those defined as our internal enemies.
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http://www.truth-out.org/fundamentalism-kills/1311686025
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Norway Attacks and Europe’s Failed Immigration Policies
By William Pfaff, Jul 26, 2011
PARIS—Forty-three years ago the British politician and classicist Enoch Powell made an over-clever and overwrought speech to a Conservative Party gathering in Birmingham, England. In it he attacked the postwar policy of Britain, under both Labour and Conservative governments, of giving easy admission for British residence and citizenship to Commonwealth citizens.
His speech said such a policy would eventually provide Britain (and by extension, the other European countries) with unassimilable and racially or religiously separatist minorities that would eventually prove a source of social division and popular conflict, and, according to Powell, violence.
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/norway_attacks_and_europes_failed_immigration_policies_20110727/
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The Influence Industry of Rage
Assimilation is something the United States does as well as any country on Earth. Our proven ability to transform immigrants into Americans gives us a competitive advantage at a time when the populations of developed nations are aging rapidly.
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_influence_industry_of_rage_20110725/
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Muslim-Western Tensions Persist
Pew Research Center, July 21, 2011
Muslim and Western publics continue to see relations between them as generally bad, with both sides holding negative stereotypes of the other. Many in the West see Muslims as fanatical and violent, while few say Muslims are tolerant or respectful of women. Meanwhile, Muslims in the Middle East and Asia generally see Westerners as selfish, immoral and greedy – as well as violent and fanatical.
However, the latest Pew Global Attitudes survey finds somewhat of a thaw in the U.S. and Europe compared with five years ago. A greater percentage of Western publics now see relations between themselves and Muslims as generally good compared with 2006.
In contrast, Muslims in predominantly Muslim nations are as inclined to say relations are generally bad as they were five years ago. And, as in the past, Muslims express more unfavorable opinions about Christians than Americans or Europeans express about Muslims.
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http://pewglobal.org/2011/07/21/muslim-western-tensions-persist/
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