The Blue Eyes of Terror

from Consortium News:



The Blue Eyes of Terror
July 26, 2011

On Friday, as news spread of the ghastly terror attacks in Norway, U.S. cable news outlets jumped to the conclusion that Muslims must have done it. Many talking heads were stunned to learn that the confessed killer was a blond, blue-eyed Christian terrorist, as Danny Schechter reports.

By Danny Schechter


Move over Osama bin Laden — even as I know you already have in the physical sense — because you now have an emulator who borrows your tactics and inverts your ideology.

Anders Behring Breivik is Norway’s candidate for the new world’s top living evil-doer and terror supremo having admitted to killing at least 76 people, many of them at a youth summer camp, and blowing up buildings in Oslo.

While bin Laden castigated Western Crusaders, Breivik salutes these Christian warriors in a 1,518-page manifesto of madness. And his lawyer has rationalized his murder spree in a way similar to how some justified Al Qaeda’s actions as defending Islam.

The two are almost carbon copies. The Norwegian posted videos on YouTube while bin Laden relied on TV communiqués. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2011/07/26/the-blue-eyes-of-terror/

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