Day: July 25, 2011

 

Several things have crossed my mind beyond the obvious sorrow for the families of the victims.

Breivik, has been painted in the media as disturbed & deranged, some kind of a madman…

This may be true.

From his statements, it appears that he believes he’s a patriot, he was willing to risk his life and sink a substantial amount of cash into triggering a revolution. This guy is a true believer in his cause.

Setting off a bomb in the middle of a city and shooting young people at a youth retreat, were certainly the wrong things to do. But his actions do beg certain questions.

What factors push someone born and raised in a country most recently known for peace and inclusiveness to a place where they see these actions as not only rational, but also as their only choice?

That this person spent 8 or 9 years planning his actions suggests that he is anything but a madman. His planning and actions suggest a series of choices made by a cold rational mind not a deranged one.

His manifesto is pretty clear about what he sees as the ills in his country.

He speaks bluntly about Marxist influences and the damage he saw those influences doing to his homeland.

He speaks about the Islamic and multicultural  influences and how he perceived these factors and their implications, such as the erosion of native cultural identity.

Breivik also make points about the leftist politicians and how they ignore the the wishes of their constituents, continuing to allow mass importation of Islam into his beloved country.

His methods of highlighting what he saw as a problem are extreme, but perhaps his message should be examined independently of the actions.

This is apparently a view being echoed elsewhere too. There’s a article in the Christian Science Monitor that makes the case a more eloquently than I do.

I’m frankly surprised that this happened in Europe.

I’d really been expecting something like this in America first.

I’m not saying this man was right….

I’m pointing out that when any culture feels that their way of life is threatened they will fight.

That statement is true of any people and has been true for as long as humanity has been around.