- Elabora una tormenta de ideas en clase para discutir, sobre la base de sus conocimientos previos o mediante la obtención de información de las noticias de la época, las motivaciones que estaban tras este ataque terrorista
- ¿Qué tipo de personas y fenómenos eran los objetivos de la acción de Breivik?
- En qué la literatura se basó Breivik para construir su pensamiento?
- ¿Qué lugar ocupa el cristianismo en su pensamiento?
- ¿Por qué Breivik atacó a símbolos de poder como las oficinas gubernamentales y un campamento político?
- ¿Ha habido acciones violentas contra las diferentes comunidades religiosas / étnicas en tu país? Busca información sobre la motivación detrás de estos actos, y en qué medida está involucrada la idea y el miedo al "otro".
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5. Cultural Fundamentalism against Islam and multiculturalism
Anders Behring Breivik, a man of Novergian origin, who planned and made terroristic attacks on Oslo and in the island of Utøya in Norway in 2011.
First a car bomb exploded a short distance from a building complex that housed numerous government offices, including those of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg in Oslo. Stoltenberg was unharmed in the explosion. One hour and a half after the bomb detonated in Oslo, Breivik shoots people with an automatic rifle and a pistol in a youth camp hosted by the Norwegian Labour Party in the island of Utøya. Most people were teenagers.
Breivik's thought was of extreme-right wing nature and was against multiculturalism and Islamic immigration in Norway, in fact he was active on neo-Nazi and anti-Islamic Web sites. Before terrorist attacking he wrote the treaty that was filled with anti-Islamiclanguage and imagery evoking the Crusades and the Templar religious military order.
Besides, he spent several years amassing funds to finance what he called his “martyrdom operation”. Stating that the Labour Party had failed to prevent the “cultural Marxism” (multiculturalism) and a “Muslim takeover,” Breivik sought to precipitate an armed revolt. His attack on the Labour Party youth camp was designed to limit the party’s ability to recruit in the future. He intended to target former Labour Prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, who delivered a speech at Utøya just hours before the massacre.
Breivik developed his thought in the treaty referring literature about clash of civilizations, Muslims seen as conquerors of Europe (Eurabia) and multiculturalism as a threat to Occident or Christian culture. In sum, it is a literature aimed to demonize the "Other". At any rate, it is very difficult to consider this event based on a form of Christian Fundamentalism. In fact, in his “2083: A European Declaration of Independence” , Christianity is explicitly conceived as a something that can provide identity, moral basis and mythical imaginery (such as "Crusades" or "Templar Knight") for Europe against the Muslim threat, but not a theocratic guidance. Therefore his thought can be categorized as a form of Cultural Fundamentalism, based on the belief of a homogenous, a-historical European culture, that must be defended at all cost.
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5. El fundamentalismo cultural contra el islam y el multiculturalismo
Anders Behring Breivik planeó y realizó ataques terroristas en Oslo y en la isla de Utoya en Noruega en 2011. Sus ataques terroristas mataron a 77 personas, la mayoría de ellos adolescentes que participaban en el campamento juvenil del Partido Laborista.
Dos imágenes sobre el fundamentalismo terrorista en Noruega
Anders Behring Breivik
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Edificio destruido
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks#mediaviewer/File:Regjeringsbygget_22.7.2011.jpg
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