Breivik: Pathetic Excuse

Anders Behring Breivik Dept: Why has this pathetic excuse for a man, who boasted of spending an entire year playing video games in his mother's basement before carrying out the worst massacre in his country's history, been granted a platform from which to grandiosely expound his lunatic theories before a global audience?, according to Montreal Gazette. In the aftermath of Breivik's massacre off 77 innocents last July, most of them teenagers, there was intense debate about whether western Christians should be made to "own" Breivik, in the same way Middle Eastern or south Asian Muslims are often exhorted to "own" Islamism - that is, assume some internal responsibility. The consensus among pundits and politicos of the Christian Far Right was, no way, no-how: Breivik's not ours. This reaction is understandable, as is the similar tendency among even very conservative Muslims to disavow any connection to bin Laden or to his extremism and at first view, the trial of 33-year-old Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is a shameful grotesquerie. At the very least, he should be locked away in a hole far from the light of day, as was done to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the planner of 9/11. And yet, some good may come from the Breivik trial, expected to last 10 weeks. For it has early and obviously become impossible, as the court patiently allows the killer his self-aggrandizing disquisitions, to explain him away as an isolated madman who acted outside any political context. A lone gunman Breivik may have been. A narcissistic sociopath with illusions of grandeur? Certainly. But his writings and statements make clear that he is no more insane than Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, or Osama bin Laden could be considered insane. Therefore, he cannot be viewed in isolation. Breivik is a mass murderer with explicitly political ends - a Christian-European mirror image, by his own deliberate design, of al-Qaida's Islamist murderers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.