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- He was conservative.
- He was Christian.
- He was an avid shooter.
- He hated Muslims.
- He frequented right-wing websites.
The fact that Breivik chose the internet to disseminate his ideology is important.
His journey to terrorism was forged within a network of blogs where violence is glorified and multiculturalism despised, along with those who embrace it.
The internet is extremely effective at formulating extremist ideals; killing for him was not so strange, it was about killing people who were not like him, who shared different values.
He considered himself a new type of elite warrior.
But what of the now infamous reconstituted Knights Templar movement mentioned in the manifesto, which held its inaugural meeting in London in 2002, and of which Breivik said he was a founding member?
The Knights Templar, with its Christian fundamentalist overtones, is described by Breivik as having a pan-European constituency. Of nine founders, two were English, one was French, one a German, one a Dutchman, one a Greek, one a Russian, one a Norwegian and a Serb. The main initiator was apparently the Serb.
Following the devastation wreaked by Breivik, it was a week of intensive damage limitation for the anti-Islam populists of Europe. Alarmed they might be tarred by association with the Utøya massacre, the New Populists, usually if inaccurately dubbed neo-fascist or extreme right, have been in a hurry to disavow the Norwegian mass murderer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/30/norway-attacks-anders-behring-breivik
Just as some here have been desperately trying to pretend that they share none of Breivik's beliefs..
