The Muslim conspiracy theory and the Oslo massacre
@article{Fekete2012TheMC, title={The Muslim conspiracy theory and the Oslo massacre}, author={Liz Fekete}, journal={Race \& Class}, year={2012}, volume={53}, pages={30 - 47} }
Anders Behring Breivik, perpetrator of the Norwegian massacre, was motivated by a belief in a Muslim conspiracy to take over Europe. Extreme and aberrant his actions were, but, explains the author, elements of this conspiracy theory are held and circulated in Europe today across a broad political spectrum, with internet-focused counter-jihadist activists at one end and neoconservative and cultural conservative columnists, commentators and politicians at the other. The political fallout from the…
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