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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bangstad, Sindre, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Zed Books, 2014.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
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.