This is a hard post to write. It is really stream-of-conciousness, so bear with me.
It required a lot of looking at myself in the mirror, calling forth my Bloody Mary-esue demons to get a get a good look at them. I can’t say that by reading about Anders Breivik that I understand him better, but I understand myself a bit more.
Here’s this white dude, pissed off by a far-left leaning government is flinging open the country’s doors to violent interlopers that rape the locals. I get that. I mean, Canada hasn’t got it remotely as bad as Europe, and yet I totally get it.
As a citizen, you can vote till you’re blue in the face, but once the snowball of socialism gets rolling, it’s hard to stop it. I mean, 1939, anyone? So people get disgruntled. People get angry. Some get violent. Breivik did. How many rallies do you have to go to, how many crimes do you have to read about, how many letters do you have to write to your elected official, how many internet editorials before finally, one day, you take matters into your own hands?
So Breivik has now brought global attention to the fact that a lot Norwegians are pissed off about public policy. Of course, no official will publicly admit that they got the message – they can’t. They’re not allowed. I mean, I shouldn’t be writing that I get it, either. I’m supposed to make sympathetic and disappointed mouth noises about the state of some people’s minds. Bullshit.
With the exception of a body count, I am like this guy in almost every way. I listen to Geert Wilders and think, “Hey, he gets it!” I align myself with some (not all) of the policies of the English Defense League. I am pissed off beyond words about Islamic takeover of our lives, and how we’re supposed to kowtow to Muslim fanatics.
I haven’t killed anyone though. Not sure I have it in me. Maybe we all do – who knows?
And that’s where I start to get confused about this Anders fellow. Believe me, I understand the urge, but why – for fuck sake WHY??? – would you kill white kids? If your problem is with Muslim immigrants and Islamization of your country, I really don’t see how killing your fellow Teutons is a good outlet for your rage.
It blows my fucking mind how anyone could think killing his fellow countrymen would be a good way to cut down on the amount of foreigners in the country. It’s mathematically impossible! What were you thinking, you idiot? Here is a perfectly good opportunity – on a Friday, no less – to shoot up a mosque. To kill the enemy, not the neighbor’s kids. (And, irony of ironies, he shoots one Afghan kid at the camp – and the kid survives!)
The kids were at a socialist camp, much like Kraft durch Freude, and were likely to grow up to perpetuate the problems in the country. But those kids would not have grown up to rape your sister. They would not have grown up to bomb your trains. And now they can’t grow up at all. Over 80 innocent kids were murdered because this twat couldn’t accurately pinpoint who he was pissed off at.
Of course, the left and the media are thrilled to death (no pun intended) that they finally got a white terrorist. Especially one that claimed on the internet to be a right-wing Christian. Obviously that means that all right-wing Christians are terrorists, just like I claim that all Muslims are.
Ok, here’s the difference, for the deliberately obtuse (and those that read Dan Brown novels like they’re fact): When Muslim terrorists commit a heinous act, they scream Allahu Akbar! – God is great. Their terrorist organizations operate in the name of Allah. Everything they do is about their faith. Whereas when Anders Breivik started shooting, he did not do it in the name of God. He did not say he was killing for Christ. Neither did Timothy McVeigh – who openly eschewed religion, despite the best efforts of the media to say otherwise.
Anders Breivik killed for civilization. Timothy McVeigh killed out of hate. In fact, the only killer I can think of who murdered in the name of Christ was the guy who killed abortionist George Tiller. The difference, of course, is that Christianity abhors murder in all its facets, be it abortion or terror. You cannot, in the name of Christ, kill for Christ. Whereas Islamic doctrine is all about death. Kill for Allah. Kill if someone offends the Prophet. Kill if your family is dishonored. Islam is all the parts of the Bible we put past when we embraced the gospels of Christ. And then some!
I will accept that Breivik killed in the name of political ideology and frustration. But no matter what anyone says, he did not kill for his faith. And he killed the wrong people.
Like most people around the world, I am still trying to wrap my head around all this. And as I do, I am sharing this stream of consciousness with you all. I am saying out loud the things that are likely to get me tut-tutted by the masses – not that that ever stopped me before! So before you leave me platitudinous comments, or worse yet: profanity laced comments, please remember to go fuck yourselves because I really don’t care.
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Thank you my friend, for writing what I don’t have the guts (or the blog, any more!) to write. What a whole lot of us, I suspect, don’t have the guts to write. This is what I needed to read, because I was sure I wasn’t the only one thinking this way. It just doesn’t make sense at all to me. Does. Not. Compute.
I have found myself desperately looking around for GOOD NEWS or something to distract me from this since it happened, because it’s just too depressing, too confusing, too disturbing. (Thank you Netflix for the silly movies!) So fuck the tut-tutters, they’re all lying to themselves if they have anything tut-tutty to say.
Left-wingers and others who wish to get sanctimonious about this post or the fact that this mass murderer is a right-winger can go fuck themselves, seriously. We’ll compare body counts with the Left or Islamofascist terrorists any day.
God help the Norwegian people, they’re going to need it. It’s going to be tough healing after this.
Clearly, you do care; otherwise, you wouldn’t have written even a paragraph. Even more importantly, I agree with you. The killer gave a very clear message that has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with politics. Stupid, illogical to the point of having a macabre form of logic that cost the lives of numerous innocent people. All any of us can do is say a word of sympathy for the people having to handle the loss and go on.
A great post Wendy – I mean – GREAT!
// The difference, of course, is that Christianity abhors murder in all its facets, be it abortion or terror. You cannot, in the name of Christ, kill for Christ. //
You forget that he considers himself a Christian Crusader, that he wants to go back to a Europe of one true faith.
So you don’t have it in you. Better wait for the Children’s Crusade
I wouldn’t drink from your stream of consciousness.
Yeah this was a stupid post, I have no idea why one of my friends posted this on their facebook. Timothy McVeigh and Breivik both killed to ensure white supremacy, not exactly western civilization. Both had belonged to numerous white supremacist groups who advocate lone wolf terrorism – fantastic because it doesn’t implicate them directly.
On Christianity not being violent – hahahaha – It’s funny how Muslims and Christians who are psychotic siblings both claim that their “holy” books don’t advocate violence but are very much against the killings of innocent. Even the new testament has passages where Jesus advocates violence such as: “I say to you that to everyone who has, more shall be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away. As for my enemies who do not want me to reign over them, bring them here and kill them in my presence” (Luke 19:26-27).
“Do not think that I have come to send peace on Earth. I did not come to send peace, but a sword. I am sent to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law” (Matthew 10:34-35).
White Christian men commit much terror acts than muslims there: In 2006 there were 498 incidents in eleven EU countries in 2005 labelled as “terrorist attacks.” The Basque separatist group ETA committed the most (136 terrorist attacks) and was responsible for the only deadly attack, killing two in Madrid. The remaining 497 fortunately cost no human lives.” Muslims only carried out one out of the 498 terrorist attacks in the European Union in 2006. Full report Did you know that The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam a Hindu separatist group in Sri Lanka “had carried out more suicide bombings than any other organization on the face of the earth?
Before I continue what is this bullshit about muslims taking over the west. In all demographic studies muslims are predicted to remain a minority this century. But if the west wants to stop muslim nut jobs from committing terrosim, I have an idea – stop frigging occupying their countries you morally hypocritical idiots.
btw in case anyone thinks here I am muslim – hell no. I am an atheist who doesn’t have white denial and racial paranoia. We need to be just as vigilant of white supremacist groups as we are of muslim terrorists, ignoring to do so will just empower them. They’ve demonstrated they’ll kill innocent people regardless of race to ensure their ideology prevails. The west is more likely to be destroyed from within not from without.
I think you forgot about the hundreds of Americans who went to Iraq to kill because their President “had a conversation with God”.