Mirror, mirror
by digby
Talk about making the point for them:
Mr. Breivik frequently cited another blog, Atlas Shrugs, and recommended the Gates of Vienna among Web sites. Pamela Geller, an outspoken critic of Islam who runs Atlas Shrugs, wrote on her blog Sunday that any assertion that she or other antijihad writers bore any responsibility for Mr. Breivik’s actions was “ridiculous.”
“If anyone incited him to violence, it was Islamic supremacists,” she wrote.
Gosh, that almost sounds like justification to me.
Interestingly, according to some right wing observers, his manifesto, which identifies with Geller and her fellow violent obsessives by name, he’s actually a a jihadist himself:
This Norwegian terrorist was not a Christian or a conservative. He acted contrary to the teachings of the Bible and conservatives from Burke to Madison. He was instead a jihadist, blinded by an ideology who resorted to violence rather than engaging in a public debate of ideas. He was a coward who planted bombs and killed innocent people. For him, violence was the only answer. He claimed to be fighting jihadists…but he actually became one. He didn’t kill one islamist terrorist with his actions–only innocent Norwegians. Change the location, and he acted like so many jihadists in the Middle East. He became one of them.
I don’t suppose it’s even possible for the crusading right wingers who inspired this fellow to take a look in the mirror and wonder if that might be something they ought to think about themselves.
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