I agree that Breivik ought not to receive any more coverage than he's already gotten, but why is it that nothing I've read, anyway, has pointed out that he probably felt he had to do what he did precisely because his brand of anti-Islamism was being obviated? He had spent a decade of his life working on this, building up and steeping his hatred, but then, every day, on his tv and on his computer, he found, lo', Moslems wanting what he had--Audis, TVs, iPods, etc. etc. No wonder he had to act. Actions by Moslems across the Middle East were showing that they want his polo shirts, white weddings, photo technology, and so on.
It was now or never for that guy, b/c everything he had invested himself in was being disassembled by people infinitely more desperate and braver and more engaged and hopeful and determined than him, in Tunisia and Bahrain and Libya and Syria and Yemen and so on and so on. In his cartoon web getup, he could methodically shoot people he thought had something to do with Islamism; actual Moslems have been dying in the streets to get Breivik's polo shirts. It's up to the Arabs to decide what Arabs want, and it probably isn't just Coca-Cola and Budweiser, but if Arabs want to let women drive and participate in the modernization of their societies, and so forth, then so much the good.
Anyway, no-one has been making the point I'm making, that Breivik and his ilk had to act now, b/c otherwise they would have missed their chances. You can tell me what you think, if there's a you.
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