Al-Qaeda's Christian mirror by Pepe Escobar

[Jefferson23]

Imagine if Anders Behring Breivik, the 32-year-old pale, blond, blue-eyed, 100% Norwegian, gun-crazy ultra right-wing Christian fundamentalist responsible for the car bombing in Oslo and the meticulous targeted assassinations at the island of Utoya that killed 93 people, was a Muslim immigrant.

One does not even have to imagine it - as the concentric Western circles of the Islamophobia industry immediately attributed the massacre in Norway to "al-Qaeda", until facts got in the way.

Wait a minute. "Targeted assassinations?" It had to cross the killer's mind that if the Barack Obama administration could do it - in AfPak, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, all in the name of Western civilization - there's nothing to prevent a cool Scandinavian from exercising the same rights on his own soil.

The overlapping strands of al-Qaeda ideology can be examined in detail in volumes such as Al-Qaeda in Its Own Words, edited by Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli, and published in English by Harvard University Press. Lone Breivik also concocted his own hefty, 1,500-page hate manifesto <1>, titled 2083: A European Declaration of Independence, where he equally thrashes liberalism, multiculturalism and "cultural Marxism", which are allegedly destroying European Christian civilization.

As much as al-Qaeda - under the ideological guidance of now leader Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri - embarked on defensive (and occasionally offensive) jihad against Christians and Jews, Breivik calls for no less than a Christian jihad to defend Europe from yet another Muslim invasion.

in full: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MG26Dj04.html

[pscot]

1. I think Mr. Escobar

May have a squirrel living in his attic.

[Jefferson23]

2. You don't say how so. Please enlighten Mr Escobar with an explanation

and I'll pass it on to him by e-mail for you.

[pscot]

3. While Mr. Escobar often sees things

the Western media fail to notice, he has a detectable anti-Western bias. This particular article reminded me of the sort of pop-psycho-political analysis that followed the Gaby Giffords shooting. I just think Escobar has to be taken with a grain of salt.

[Jefferson23]

4. Ok. Escobar does write with an irreverent attitude, but he does not

fail to point to the why one should take the Western media with a grain of salt. Referring to that as an
anti Western bias is inaccurate imo.

Thanks for the response.