Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia

Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia
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Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages : 293
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ISBN-10 : 9781783600106
ISBN-13 : 1783600101
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Book Synopsis Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia by : Sindre Bangstad

Download or read book Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia written by Sindre Bangstad and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late July 2011, Norway was struck by the worst terror attacks in its history. In a fertilizer-bomb attack on Government Headquarters in Oslo and a one-hour-long shooting spree at the Labour Party Youth Camp at Utøya, seventy-seven people, mostly teenagers, were killed by Anders Behring Breivik. By targeting young future social democratic leaders, his actions were meant to lead to the downfall of Europe’s purportedly multiculturalist elites, thus removing an obstacle to his plans for an ethnic cleansing of Muslims from Europe. In this highly original work, leading Norwegian social anthropologist Sindre Bangstad reveals how Breivik's beliefs were not simply the result of a deranged mind, but rather they are the result of the political mainstreaming of pernicious racist and Islamophobic discourses. These ideas, currently gaining common currency, 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 them.


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