Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia.
A provocative account of the Norwegian terror attacks, and the Islamophobic discourses that shaped Anders Breivik's beliefs.
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London :
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2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Front cover
- About the author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- In Memoriam
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Dedication
- 1 Human Terror
- Terror unexpected: Oslo and Utøya, 22 July 2011
- A terrorist among us
- Marketing terror
- Never again
- The 22/7 Commission report
- Islamophobic discourse and Islamophobia's mainstreaming
- Norway and the rise of the far right
- Freedom of expression
- Fighting words, fighting deeds
- The weight of words
- 2 Muslims in Norway
- What is a Muslim? Norwegian Muslims between categorization and self-identification
- Muslims and everyday discrimination
- Narratives of victimhood: the rise of Salafism in Norway
- IslamNet: puritan-activist Salafis
- The Prophet's Ummah: angry brown men
- A centre which cannot hold?
- 3 The Fear of Small Numbers: On Reading a Terrorist Tract
- A declaration of independence
- Propaganda by deed
- Behring Breivik's main influences
- 'Fjordman's' identity revealed
- The properties of language
- Political correctness
- Cultural Marxists
- The 'heroic' visionary
- Multiculturalism
- The question of racism
- The construction of Islam and of Muslims
- A pro-Zionist anti-Semite
- Why social democrats, and not Muslims?
- 4 Convergences
- The aftermath
- The Progress Party and the mainstreaming of Islamophobic discourse in Norway
- Islamization by stealth
- The rhetoric intensifies: 2010 to 2011
- The role of other parties
- The role of the media
- 5 Dusklands: The Eurabia Genre
- Introducing 'Eurabia'
- The letter to Lady Liberty
- Connecting the US-Euro dots: Bruce Bawer
- Introducing 'Eurabia' to Norwegian television viewers
- Truth, lies and a documentary
- The documentary
- Instrumentalizing white heat
- The PP's parliamentary motion on the hijab
- Conclusion
- 6 The Weight of Words
- Words and acts.
- Freedom of speech in the era of the internet
- Norwegian conceptions of the public sphere
- The first Commission on Freedom of Expression and The Dangerous Freedom of Expression, 1993
- The Commission on Freedom of Expression, 1996-99
- Habermas, rationality and modern public spheres
- Concluding credo
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Back cover.