Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamaphobia Human Terror and the Weight of Words

In late July 2011, Norway was struck by the worst terror attack in its history. I what can only be called a killing spree, Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 people, bombing government building and an hour long shooting spree in a the island of Ut?ya. His actions were meant to mark the onset of an ethnic cleansing of Norway and Europe of Muslims, and the downfall of Europe's purportedly 'multiculturalist' elites.

Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamaphobia reveals how Breivik's beliefs were not simply the result of a deranged mind, but rather are the result of the political mainstreaming of pernicious racist and Islamaphobic discourses. These ideas, currently gaining common currency in many countries, threaten equal rights to dignity, citizenship and democratic participation for minorities throughout contemporary Europe.

An authoritative account of the Norwegian terror attacks and the neo-racist discourse that motivated it.