Andrew Bolt reminds us how we were chidden from wondering whether Nidal Malik Hassan’s Muslim faith had anything to do with him shouting “allah akhbar” before gunning down 13 of his Army comrades. Discussing the faith of New York’s Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad was also taboo. Because we oughtn’t jump to any conclusions without all of the facts being in.
But now the media has its blond terrorist, and the linkage of his “Christian” faith to his horrendous crimes – and his right wing politics – appears compulsory.
Except, as people who actually Christians know, the New Testament is entirely silent on the issue of slaughtering innocents. We are instead abjured to turn the other cheek.
Christ died for us, he didn’t kill. He didn’t conquer. He didn’t enslave, and he didn’t tax.
And it turns out that, having manfully muscled through Anders Behring Breivik’s 1,500-page manifesto, WorldNetDaily has determined that not only Breivik’s acts, but also his rationale – if such a term can be used for something so senseless – lack a certain fidelity with the Christian faith, as understood by the faithful:
Piecing together Breivik’s various posts on the Internet, many media reports have characterized the terrorist – who says he was upset over the multiculturalist policies stemming from Norway’s Labour Party – as a “right-wing, Christian fundamentalist.”
Yet, while McVeigh rejected God altogether, Breivik writes in his manifesto that he is not religious, has doubts about God’s existence, does not pray, but does assert the primacy of Europe’s “Christian culture” as well as his own pagan Nordic culture.
Breivik instead hails Charles Darwin, whose evolutionary theories stand in contrast to the claims of the Bible, and affirms: “As for the Church and science, it is essential that science takes an undisputed precedence over biblical teachings. Europe has always been the cradle of science, and it must always continue to be that way. Regarding my personal relationship with God, I guess I’m not an excessively religious man. I am first and foremost a man of logic. However, I am a supporter of a monocultural Christian Europe.”
The terrorist also candidly admits he finds no support within either the Catholic or Protestant churches for his violent ideas.
That’s because it isn’t in there.
To the left, the Islamist jihad is merely a nuisance, because it draws resources and attention away from treasured domestic social programs. The “Christian right” is the real enemy, because of its objectionable attachment to the traditional values that have guided our moral choices for two millenia and its belief in a higher power than government, which is the real heresy.
Therein, mes amis, lies all the difference in the narrative treatment.
Well the Christian Right has a lot of good company. Mark Steyn points out that the 1500 page screed by Mr. Breivik includes references to the following:
“The mass murderer Breivik published a 1,500-page “manifesto.” It quotes me, as well as several friends of NR — Theodore Dalrymple, Daniel Pipes, Roger Scruton, Melanie Phillips, Daniel Hannan (plus various pieces from NR by Rod Dreher and others) — and many other people, including Churchill, Gandhi, Orwell, Jefferson, John Locke, Edmund Burke, Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, not to mention the U.S. Declaration of Independence.* Those new “hate speech” codes the Left is already clamoring for might find it easier just to list the authors Europeans will still be allowed to read.”
I mean who knew that Locke, Burke, Churchill (well maybe Churchill when thinking about the Nazis) Jefferson, Mark Twain and George Orwell all advocated mass murder of Norwegian leftist party members? How did any of them know that there would be a Norwegian leftist party?
If you can’t trust Mark Twain, who can you trust?
LIke it or not, the Ledt is made up of the same type of People Stalin and Hitler used to gain power. It bothers them much to be classified with Hitler, But Stalin is OK, even though he made Hitler look like a piker by comparison. Socialism by any name is the same stuff and inspires the same thing.
We have already seen the practical effects of the left’s pavlovian and savage response. IMMEDIATELY it was announced that the individual was a native Norwegian than the rumor raced thru the internet that the blogger known as Fjordman, (who used to have his own blog and now posts at Gates of Vienna; and who has been an early TOTALLY UNREPENTANT Paul Revere on the dysfunctional inroads of Islam in Europe since 2004 and prior..) was the Oslo shooter. And the site @GOV was viciously attacked. Currently comments are closed over there because of it. The left didn’t wait a nano-second..
Can we move the libs over to Islamaland? I’m sure the DHS will now list all “right wing Christians” on their no-fly list and the guvmint will add that question to the gun sale application.
Sadly, it appears the DHS would probably just list ‘Christians’ and not bother with ‘right-wing’, as they would consider that redundant.
Better watch those Lutherans up there, Badger. You never can tell when they might go over the edge. Prolly oughta watch those Catholics too, while you’re at it.
Just left our favorite BBQ restaurant where the muted TV was playing CNN. Under the picture of a chattering Wolf Blitzer, (I sometimes wonder if that is his real name, but am not sufficiently interested to check it out), was the crawl with the term “Right Wing Christian Extremist!”
This was less than an hour ago. You would think they could get their story straight by now.
Once again affirming my issues with all things politically correct….it’s selectively applied.
I believe the guy left a 1600-or more page manifesto. Parts of it make sense, sort of. I think the Masons should be jinking and dodging, as he had himself photographed wearing a Masonic apron. Really, I’m kinda alright with that. If only he could have done it with a Lewis Gun…
Sorry, I like to tease Shriners and other Masons.
The anti-Christian bias is as old as Christianity itself. The same lies today are merely the recycled lies to discredit, malign and marginalize Christians as they were in the first three centuries A.D. in the Roman Empire, making it down right un-healthy to be one at that time. In the not-so-distant future, I personally believe that there will be many Christians standing in courtrooms in this country facing prison for holding and attempting to live out their Faith, particularly when it comes to issues counter to the homosexual agenda. It is already happening in Vermont.
Really appreciate this post, Lex. A succinct and to-the-point summary, juxtaposing the cases of Hassan, the Times Square bomber, (the Portland Oregon Christmas Tree lighting ceremony almost bombing), vs. this horrific shooting spree motivations is needed in the MSM. Sadly, we’ll never see it happen.
The NYT has already condemned the Christians in their headlines. Forbid the thought, however, that we should even think of calling the aforementioned as Muslim related tragedies. The out-and-out prejudice is obvious.
Thank you for calling it… the way it truly is!
What is wrong with these folks? Terrorism? How about pre-meditated murder?
While 21 years is the stiffest sentence a Norwegian judge can hand down, a special sentence can be given to prisoners deemed a danger to society who are locked up for 20-year sentences that can be renewed indefinitely
If anyone rated a death penalty, I would say this guy rates it. So he’s gonna get 3 hots and a cot for the rest of his life, maybe (assuming they remember to file the paperwork every 20 years)? I suppose they will let him continue to write and send out missives at their government’s expense too.
And that is specifically why we will NEVER allow the USA to become like Europe. We had to save the idjits from the Nazis as they sat by and watched Hitler run-up to overrunning Europe w/o taking action.
I am hopeful this silly b@stard will get what’s coming to him at some point….a case of cigs still should be enough of a bribe to one of his fellow inmates to do what is needed.
I love that I still have a £ in my pocket rather than a `you-row` (even though the bank is owned by the Spanish or the Chinese or WTF). I don’t discuss religeon in other peoples houses (or blogs). I’m a foreigner here, but then from where I sit, so are most of you guys, but I’m here `cos I like you. Reading Bolt’s post reminded me that our race once burned `witches`.
Hog, you may be a Brit, but you’re at home here and not a furiner. This place is more a matter of like minds than anything else, even though most of us served in the military, we do have a few who have not. We’ve even got an Oz Aviator that shows up now and again.
usually the dictum is “no religion and politics in the mess,” but then what would we talk about, or bang on each other about if we didn’t?
Cheers QM. What with 30 years of Irish Republican terrorism overshadowing my service, I seem to have spent more times sat in military mess halls than civvy police ones. One thing that taught me was to keep schtum, unless I knew wtf I was talking about – and even then to be careful about what I said
As a police officer I always saw myself as a civilian, even when in my tac kit and Mk 6 respirator I occasionally looked more like a paratrooper. Still happy to line up with my Uncle Sam and fight the flab of Europe! (I am a Brit, I am NOT European, Europe is over there 
Hog, this is the Internet. One is not required to know anything in order to sound off.
Hog, I’d never call you a European. If I committed such a Faux Pas I would fully expect you to hop the next jet to NC and teach me otherwise.
While I wouldn’t reject the visit, mind you, I’d prefer it were on friendlier terms
Besides, I live in Europe (Germany to be precise) and know the British to be a much different breed.
Wingnut = Wingnut, regardless of which side they sit on.
I think the underlying reason the media is making a big deal out of this nutter’s “Christian” leanings is the shock of it NOT being an Islamist pulling the trigger. Think about it, barring Ireland, damn near every bombing or mass shooting in the last decade in Europe was done by some jihadist. So folks are more than a little rattled that the blond haired, blue-eyed murderer looks just like the crazy man next door. Kind of ruins the social profiling too.
Did it ever occur to you that the Islamic invasion of a homogenious country like Norway, sponsored by their own gov’t, sent someone over the edge?
I certainly do not condon this killing but, I can understand how it would make someone with existing mental issues crazy.
Looking at his manifesto, Israel was regarded at a front line, holding Islam in check. The Norwegian murderer was obsessed with Lebanon. The reason he picked the youth camp was because the camp was conducting “Break Israel’s Boycott” games. He then carried out his evil plan.