Norwegian Killer Linked to Tea Party

<table celladding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://libcom.org/files/images/blog/norway.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://libcom.org/files/images/blog/norway.jpg" t$="true" width="144" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Suspected mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik&nbsp;&nbsp; </td></tr></tbody></table>The&nbsp;suspected killer of 91 Norwegians on Friday, many of whom were attending a youth camp on an island off the coast of Oslo,&nbsp;has now been identified as&nbsp;32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik.&nbsp;&nbsp; Before the Norwegian's&nbsp;arrest, FOX News&nbsp;guest host <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201107230001">Laura Ingraham</a> asserted that it&nbsp;"appears to be the work, once again, of Muslim extremists."&nbsp;&nbsp;Building on&nbsp;FOX News' framing of the event,&nbsp;Tea Party leaders in the U.S. were also&nbsp;quick to blame this mass murder on&nbsp;Islamic terrorists.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a closure_uid_80ff4r="576" closure_uid_rc7eut="691" href="http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/future-to-come-in-america">"The Future to Come in America, Norway and Peaceful Muslims of OBAMA</a>," published on the <a closure_uid_god9jy="561" closure_uid_rc7eut="707" href="http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/future-to-come-in-america">Teaparty.org website</a>&nbsp;even claimed that the perpetrator had ties to al-Qaeda.&nbsp; But now that the Internet rants of the&nbsp;suspect,&nbsp;have been&nbsp;translated from Norwegian to English, a&nbsp;different picture is emerging.&nbsp;<a name='more'></a>
&nbsp;Breivik&nbsp;is an Islamophobic Christian fundamentalist, who&nbsp;began publishing&nbsp;his&nbsp;extremist beliefs on the&nbsp;website of Tennessee Tea Party official Pamela Geller, after her return&nbsp;from a trip to Oslo.&nbsp; Former British Ambassador Craig Murray explores the connection <a href="http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/07/norwegian-killer-linked-to-tea-party-and-edl/">here.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;Before going rogue, Brievik was a member of the youth movement of&nbsp;the Norway Progress Party or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Party_(Norway)">Fremskritt<wbr>­spartiet</a>.&nbsp; Over the past year, the Progress Party had created&nbsp;ties with the U.S. Tea Party, on&nbsp;ideological grounds, seeing the American group as being in the ascendancy.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Norwegian media has chronicled these growing ties on several occasions:&nbsp;&nbsp;<ol><li id="cite_note-157"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Party_(Norway)#cite_ref-157">^</a></b> <span class="citation news">Magnus, Gunnar (24 April 2010). <a class="external text" href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/politikk/partiene/fremskrittspartiet/article3621303.ece" rel="nofollow">"Tea Party-misjonær tente Frps landsmøte"</a> (in Norwegian). <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftenposten" title="Aftenposten">Aftenposten</a></i><span class="printonly">. <a class="external free" href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/politikk/partiene/fremskrittspartiet/article3621303.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/politikk/partiene/fremskrittspartiet/article3621303.ece</a></span><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 27 August 2010</span>.</span><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=Tea+Party-misjon%C3%A6r+tente+Frps+landsm%C3%B8te&amp;rft.jtitle=%5B%5BAftenposten%5D%5D&amp;rft.aulast=Magnus&amp;rft.aufirst=Gunnar&amp;rft.au=Magnus%2C%26%2332%3BGunnar&amp;rft.date=24+April+2010&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aftenposten.no%2Fnyheter%2Firiks%2Fpolitikk%2Fpartiene%2Ffremskrittspartiet%2Farticle3621303.ece&amp;rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Progress_Party_(Norway)"><span style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span></span></li><li id="cite_note-158"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Party_(Norway)#cite_ref-158">^</a></b> <span class="citation news">Lepperød, Trond (24 April 2010). <a class="external text" href="http://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/article2890499.ece" rel="nofollow">"Her henter Frp inspirasjon"</a> (in Norwegian). <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettavisen" title="Nettavisen">Nettavisen</a></i><span class="printonly">. <a class="external free" href="http://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/article2890499.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/article2890499.ece</a></span><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 27 August 2010</span>.</span><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=Her+henter+Frp+inspirasjon&amp;rft.jtitle=%5B%5BNettavisen%5D%5D&amp;rft.aulast=Lepper%C3%B8d&amp;rft.aufirst=Trond&amp;rft.au=Lepper%C3%B8d%2C%26%2332%3BTrond&amp;rft.date=24+April+2010&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nettavisen.no%2Fnyheter%2Farticle2890499.ece&amp;rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Progress_Party_(Norway)"><span style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span></span></li><li id="cite_note-159"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Party_(Norway)#cite_ref-159">^</a></b> <span class="citation web"><a class="external text" href="http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/226873/" rel="nofollow">"Lørdagsrevyen"</a> (in Norwegian). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation">Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation</a>. 28 August 2010<span class="printonly">. <a class="external free" href="http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/226873/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/226873/</a></span><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 29 August 2010</span>.</span></li></ol>div>

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