Norwegian right-wing extremists decried the “Islamisation” of their country as they took the stand Tuesday in what Anders Behring Breivik’s defence hopes will help prove he was sane when he killed 77 people in Norway last year. The 31st day of Breivik’s trial was in large part dedicated to testimony from extremists, as the defence tries to prove the July 22 bloodbath was the result of ideological convictions shared by others, albeit a tiny minority, and not due to mental illness.
AFP: Witnesses at Breivik trial decry ‘Islamisation’
This “tiny minority” narrative is rather infuriating. Sure, only a tiny minority grab weapons and go around killing people; I’ll grant you that. But the ideology in question is not upheld by a minuscule group. It is pervasive, it is everywhere: from right wing politicians offering bounties for veiled Muslim women, to entire parties founded on those principles, to Black people being told they shouldn’t travel to certain parts of Europe for the Football Cup because their lives might be in danger, to non White children being placed in lower education paths than their capabilities would afford them.
Breivik is not part of a tiny minority. Breivik and those who think like him are the pus in the festering wound; the most visible symptom of an infection that is spread everywhere.
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