- Menez une discussion collective en classe pour discuter, sur la base de vos connaissances antérieures ou trouvées dans la presse, les motivations qui sont derrière les attaques terroristes.
- Quels genres de personnes et de phénomènes étaient les cibles visées par l’action de Breivik ?
- Sur quel type de littérature Breivik a-t-il construit ses idées ?
- Quelle est la place du christianisme dans sa pensée ?
- Pourquoi Breivik a-t-il attaqué des symboles du pouvoir comme des bureaux du gouvernement et un camp politique ?
- Y a-t-il eu déjà des actions violentes contre des communautés religieuses ou ethniques dans votre pays ? Cherchez des informations sur les motivations qui sous-tendent ces actes et sur la façon dont joue la peur de l’« Autre ».
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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. Le fondamentalisme culturel contre l’islam et contre le multiculturalisme
Anders Behring Breivik a planifié et effectué des attaques terroristes à Oslo et dans l’île d’Utøya en Norvège en 2011. . Ses attaques terroristes ont tué 77 personnes, pour la plupart des adolescents qui participaient à un camp de jeunes du parti travailliste
Deux images sur le fondamentalisme terroriste en Norvège
Anders Behring Breivik
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Breivik#mediaviewer/File:Anders_Breivik.jpg (07/08/2014) CC BY 2.0
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks#mediaviewer/File:Regjeringsbygget_22.7.2011.jpg
(07/08/2014) CC BY 2.0