Christian fundamentalism as dangerous as Muslim fundamentalism

Anders Behring Breivik the man who killed76 people in two terror attacks did not bring the carnage of one fanatically driven man, because everything seemed neatly planned and he claims to have worked alongside “two more” terror cells.

Friday’s atrocities seem to have been of secondary importance to Breivik. The slaughter was a kind of terrorist PR. That is how his rejected request for an open trial should be viewed: a failed attempt to reach a global audience with violent anti-Muslim propaganda. In fact, as claimed in his manifesto: “A trial is an excellent opportunity and a well-suited arena the Justiciar Knight can use to publicly renounce the authority of the EUSSR/USASSR hegemony and the specific cultural Marxist/multi-culturalist regime.”
He published a 12-minute video and 1,516 page manifesto, “2083: A European Declaration of Independence” which contains a terrorist’s DIY kit – how to build bombs, operate weapons and so on.

Islam in New Zealand book launch, 2007. Young boy holds book. - Image via Wikipedia

In most cultures and religions, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, we are able to find people who think to be holier than the founder of that religion or who have grown and become increasingly dedicated to preserving their religious tradition. They do not always keep to the rules and regulations or to the teachings of the original originator of that religion. Some consider for example that the vast majority of Muslim fundamentalists are pious individuals who strictly follow the teachings of Mohammed, promote regular attendance at mosques, and promote the reading of the Qur’an. But I would more see groups that misuse the Quran and their power over other people who do not know enough what is really written in those scriptures. That is also what we see by a lot of fundamentalist Christians where we can a.o. find doom preachers who say a lot of awful things about others, use just a few Bible quotes out of context, but never do read a Bible chapter.

We can question when certain religions or people make a choice to limit others in their functions and well-being. Those persons who uniformly place a high priority on doctrinal conformity, with such force that it takes higher priority than love, compassion and service should also be questioned. Everybody who notices that a certain individual or group is going onto the road of preaching hate and behaving in a separate doctrinal seriousness, that love, service and compassion seem scarcely to even be a part of their thinking, should ring the alarm. When people start to claim that they are right to the exclusion of others, even all others, and that they, and they alone offer the path to salvation, others should know that there is something ‘itchy’. It goes totally wrong when exclusion is brought in against others even by wishing them serious difficulties or even death. An example is the attempt, by some Christian fundamentalist groups to shut down, by force, abortion clinics that are operating in accordance with the law. Some have gone so far as to threaten and intimidate employees, and even murder doctors working there. They justify their murder against the so called injustice of murdering the foetus.

Power, vanity, but also the possibility to let others think for you attracts people to a seemingly secure base of law and order. A fundamentalist need not think deeply about doctrine or be highly educated in it. As one Mormon leader once said to an audience of university students, “Don’t think for yourself. The thinking has already been done.” By most fundamentalist religions there is the thinking that God needs them, as if god could not do it on His own. God, whose measure is not ours,  does not need humans to fulfil His plan. But those extremists even think Gods Plan cannot come to fulfilment without their action. They are such pretentious people that they think they are the only ones who can help God and that they are better than all the rest of humankind.

Anders Breivik also thought it necessary to be a crusader for God. He felt guilty if he would not take action against all those who refused to keep to a pure race of Christian people. According to himself he was a laid-back type and quite tolerant on most issues. But due to the fact that he had been exposed to decades of multicultural indoctrination, he felt a need to emphasise that he was not in fact a racist and never has been. He had a Nordic ideal, and for at least nine years, he meticulously crafted his plan to root out anyone different from him. His beliefs recall neo-Nazi politics that continue to linger throughout Europe, freshened with a new, 21st century toxicity.

We always have to remember how many Scandinavians collaborated with the Nazis and how we still can find many strong extremist groups over there. For some of them it is a sort of religion and a lot of what they do is accepted as the good thing to do for the cause.

The Norwegian who killed so many Norwegians has his name Breivik from Behring a pre-Christian Germanic name derived from Behr, the Germanic word for bear (or “those who are protected by the bear”). The world now needed to be protected by him.

For Breivik his government and the Nordic media capitulated to Islam years ago, after the Rushdie incident. Since then it has snowballed according to him. “Thousands of Muslims stream in each year through the asylum, institutions or family connections in Norway.” He said.

Being questioned: “If you were to use a word for the ideology or movement that you represent, what would it be?” He says: “Cultural conservatism, or a nationalist/conservative orientation known as the Vienna school of thought. As for the political movement, I would describe it as a national resistance movement, an indigenous-rights movement or even a right-revolutionary movement.”

For him his homeland had abandoned the thru Nordic spirit and taken on a cultural Marxists attitude. This treason could not be pardoned and the country needed a reprimand. But Breivik says, against all odds, if they gave up on multiculturalism tomorrow, if they stopped all Muslim immigration and started the deportation of all Muslims, he would forgive them for their past crimes. If they refuse to surrender until 2020, there will be no turning back and he talks than about a “We “will eventually wipe out every single one of them. Though he says he does not hate Muslims at all. He acknowledges that there are magnificent Muslim individuals in Europe. In fact, he has had several Muslim friends over the years, some who he still respects.

“Aber” This does not mean that he will accept an Islamic presence in Europe. Muslim individuals who are not assimilated 100% by 2020 he saw being deported as soon as he and others could have managed to seize power.

The strange thing is that he considers it to be a force of love. But that is just what fundamentalists give their way of doing so, having the excuse that they are driven by their love for the pure culture and in this instance Europe, European culture and Europeans.

We do have to be careful how we want to look at extremism and fundamentalism. When the media thought that the perpetrator had to be a Muslim extremist, the discussion focused on Islam. As soon as it turned out that the perpetrator was likely a Christian extremist, talk about religion vanished and was replaced with wild speculations about mental illness.

But not only is there the danger of Muslim fundamentalists, the growing number of Christian fundamentalists groups is something we have to take care of.

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