Saturday, July 23, 2011

Norway Addendum

[It] turns out that the alleged perpetrator wasn't from an international Muslim extremist group at all, but was rather a right-wing Norwegian nationalist with a history of anti-Muslim commentary and an affection for Muslim-hating blogs such as Pam Geller's Atlas Shrugged, Daniel Pipes, and Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch. Despite that, The New York Times is still working hard to pin some form of blame, even ultimate blame, on Muslim radicals (h/t sysprog):

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"If it does turn out to be someone with more political motivations, it shows these groups are learning from what they see from Al Qaeda," said Brian Fishman, a counterterrorism researcher at the New America Foundation in Washington.

Glenn Greenwald

Which is true, you know, because as is well known, even though it was years before 9/11, Timothy McVey learned from what he saw from al Qaeda.

To be entirely fair and accurate, in his original post yesterday, Greenwald also took on the tone, while not asserting the fact, that Islam extremism – or at least foreigners sympathetic to it – was likely responsible.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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