Anyone think the AP would term the guy an Islamic extremist or left wing extremist if he was?
The 32-year-old suspected of massacring at least 80 young people at a summer camp and setting off a bomb in downtown Oslo that killed at least seven is a mystery to investigators: a right-winger with anti-Muslim views but no known links to hardcore extremists.
Public broadcaster NRK and several other Norwegian media identified the suspected attacker as Anders Behring Breivik, a blond and blue-eyed Norwegian who expressed right-wing and anti-Muslim views on the Internet. Police have the suspect in custody.
You know why he is a right wing extremist? He owns several guns and belongs to gun clubs! I suspect that, like with wacko Jared Loughner, we’ll find out that Breivik held a smattering of leanings from all sides of the political aisle. Basically, nuts. But, they still try to make this about the right wing
(A police official) said the attacks appeared to be the work of a lone madman, without links to any international terrorist networks. The attack “is probably more Norway’s Oklahoma City than it is Norway’s World Trade Center,” he said referring to the 1995 attack on a federal building in Oklahoma City by domestic terrorists.
Despite the fact that the Oklahoma City bombers had way more in common with the left than the right. CBS gleefully entitles their article Police: Norway suspect a right-wing extremist
Norwegian media reported that the suspect belonged to an extreme right wing group, calling himself a “nationalist,” and had at least a Glock pistol and machine gun registered in his name. He allegedly ran a company, GeoFarm, involved in farming “vegetables, melons, roots and tubers,” and would have had access to chemical fertilizers used in bomb-making.
Wait, isn’t it a main tenant of nationalism that the State is of primary importance? Then there is the part about collective identities which are socially constructed? And that everyone should hold the same ideas, and brooks no dissent? Sounds rather leftist to me.
This guy wants to speak, and it will be interesting to hear what he has to say as to his motives and beliefs.
