Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781783600083)

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 Ut ya, 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.

Author: Sindre Bangstad
ISBN-10: 178360008X
ISBN-13: 9781783600083
Publisher: Zed Books
Language: English
Published: 06/12/2014
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2014 pg. 96
New York Review of Books 03/05/2015 pg. 55