The first thought of many when they heard anout the atrocities in Morway was that it was the work of Al Queda, or some other brand of Islamic extremists. It turns out however, that the perpetrator was an extremist of rge european far right described by police as a "christian fundamentalist".
In reality, the the difference between the islamic fundamenyalists and the type of far right extremists who carry out these sort of atrocities are not that great. Both are extreme examples of attempys to reject the modern world and to return to some mythical golden age. The islamic fundamentalists want to reestablish the caliphate that dominated the Muslim world in the period after the death of rge prophey Mohammed and extend it world wide whilst the european far right want to re establish nation states of pure celts and Aryans, nations that in reality, never existed outside the imaginations of the racist cranks who created much of the inrellectual basis for 19th century europwan imperialism. Both sets of extremists hate the most visible signs of ever more rapid globalisation ny resorting to ever more violent and destructive acts.
We, in Britain, have seen both the destructive acts of boyth Islamic fundamentalism and the fringes of the Far Right. Before 7/7 there was David Copeland and over the years many other plots by people with connections to the Far Right have been n uncovered. The only way to isolate and demobilise both sets of extremists is to isolate and defeat the idealogies that underpin them.
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