Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik's cultural references
Anders Behring Breivik
Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik writes in praise of numerous products, programmes and institutions he admires, from the Boy Scouts to Top Gear.
3:57PM BST 25 Jul 2011
Modern Warfare 2
Breivik listed his hobbies as "gaming (MMO or Modern Warfare 2)" and wrote that he used the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as training, recommending it as a preparation tool for those in countries where gun ownership was restricted. In an entry in February 2010 in his 'Knights Templar Log', he wrote:
I just bought Modern Warfare 2, the game. It is probably the best military simulator out there and it’s one of the hottest games this year. I played MW1 as well but I didn’t really like it as I’m generally more the fantasy RPG kind of person – Dragon Age Origins etc and not so much into first person shooters.
I see MW2 more as a part of my training-simulation than anything else. I’ve still learned to love it though and especially the multiplayer part is amazing. You can more or less completely simulate actual operations.
(p. 1418)
Philosophy and political writing
Brevik's list of favourite books (p. 1407) contains several of the most famous philosophical and political texts in history:
George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-Four, Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan, John Stuart Mill – On Liberty, John Locke – Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Adam Smith – The Wealth of Nations, Edmund Burke – Reflections on the Revolution in France, Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, William James – Pragmatism, Carl von Clausewitz – On War, Fjordman – Defeating Eurabia
Boy Scouts
Breivik says he agrees with the motto of the Boy Scouts, devised by Robert Baden-Powell: "Be Prepared". Breivik wrote:
The Boy Scouts motto is the right one. Make sure you are physically and mentally prepared before you set out and pack the appropriate gear for what you plan to do.
(p. 901)
Lacoste
Breivik lists the French company as his favourite clothing brand (p. 1406). He arrived for his court appearance wearing what appeared to be a red Lacoste sweater.
Top Gear
Breivik writes in praise of BBC television show Top Gear:
Jeremy Clarkson heads the program “Top Gear” at the BBC, one of the funniest shows on TV. Since it has absolutely nothing to do with politics or religion, only with cars, it is one of the very few programs at the Burka Broadcasting Corporation still worth seeing.
He goes on to quote at length from an article written by Jeremy Clarkson, entitled “we’ve been robbed of our Englishness," from Times Online, in which Clarkson writes: "This is the only country in the world where the national flag is deemed offensive."
Breivik says: "I have to disagree with Clarkson regarding the English national flag, though. Discrediting national flags as signs of “bigotry” is happening all over the Western world."
The Church
Breivik says he regards himself as 100% Christian, though he is critical of the Catholic and Protestant churches:
My parents, being rather secular wanted to give me the choice in regards to religion. At the age of 15 I chose to be baptised and confirmed in the Norwegian State Church. I consider myself to be 100% Christian. However, I strongly object to the current suicidal path of the Catholic Church but especially the Protestant Church.
(p. 1403)
Far Eastern political systems
In his Q&A section of his manifesto, Breivik answers as to which "current national political system" he admires the most. He writes:
I especially admire the Japanese, South Korean and Taiwanese system. These three countries reject multiculturalism outright and have instead focused on maintaining and protecting their monoculture.
Electronica and classical music
Breivik lists his favourite music as:
Vocal elektronika (vocal trance) but also classical music and pop. Armin van Buuren, John O'Callaghan, Marcus Shossow with vocals like Audrey Gallagher, Emma Hewitt, Sarah Howells, Sheryl Dean, Helene Bøksle, Saga etc. I also appreciate classical music. Opera: Wagner, Verdi, Mozart
Norway killer: Anders Behring Breivik was a 'mummy's boy'
Anders Behring Breivik with his half sister Elisabeth and his mother Wenche
Anders Behring Breivik had a privileged and international upbringing but nursed a deep resentment of his diplomat father, new details of his life reveal.
1:04PM BST 25 Jul 2011 The 32-year-old spent the first year of his life in London, where his father Jen Breivik was stationed at the Norwegian embassy.
The older Mr Breivik already had three children when he met Anders's mother, Wenche Behring. Their son was born in February 1979, but within a year they had split up with Anders and his mother returning to Oslo while his father stayed behind in London.
Mr Breivik soon married again and moved to Paris, where his young son would visit during school holidays. But as the years went progressed the visits became less frequent and by the time the teenager was 15, it seems they had lost contact altogether.
The absent father is a theme that Anders returned to repeatedly in his rambling 1,500 page manifesto.
"I have not spoken to my father since he isolated himself when I was 15 – he was not very happy about my graffiti phase from 13 to 16.
"He has four children but has cut contact with all of them. So it is pretty clear whose fault that was.
"I tried contacting him five years ago but he said he was not mentally prepared for a reunion."
Speaking outside his home in the south of France, Mr Breivik expressed his shock at the killings and how extreme his estranged son had become.
"I view this atrocity with absolute horror," he told reporters. This morning his house was being searched teams of French gendarmes.
Anders grew up sharing a rented flat with his mother, their relationship forced even closer after his older stepsister Elisabeth moved to California.
His diary reveals an oddly conflicted [view] of his mother – at once fond of her and furious at the liberal upbringing she gave him.
He wrote: "I do not approve of the super-liberal, matriarchal upbringing as it completely lacked discipline and has contributed to feminise me to a certain degree."
Anders appears to have had few relationships and records being teased by friends for living with his mother and not having a girlfriend.
His writing reveals an occasional puritanism, with entries criticising his sister for having too many sexual partners and describing his mother's new husband as a "primitive sexual beast".
Despite his apparent disgust, he repeatedly mentions the prospect of hiring prostitutes in the run-up to his mission
Of his stepmother Tove, he writes she was "very intelligent" but obviously a "traitor".
"Although I care for her a great deal, I wouldn’t hold it against the KT (Knights Templar) if she was executed during an attack," he wrote.
Norway Shooting Suspect Anders Breivik: Attacks Were 'Price of Their Treason'
Norway's twin terror attacks suspect Anders Behring Breivik, left, sits in an armored police vehicle after leaving the courthouse following a hearing in Oslo, July 25, 2011. (Jon-Are Berg-Jacobsen/Aftenposten/AP Photo)
By MIGUEL MARQUEZ (@miguelmarquez) and LEE FERRAN July 25, 2011
Anders Breivik made the statement in a closed court hearing today in which judge Kim Heger said he would be held without bond for eight weeks until his next court appearance, four of which in solitary confinement. Breivik told the court that he committed the crimes, but did not plead guilty, Heger said. He was, as he told the court, trying to save Norway and Europe from cultural Marxism and Muslimization.
Though Breivik previously told police he acted alone, today he also told the court there were two more "cells" in his "organization".
In a video posted online, Breivik uses comics and signs to illustrate his views against what he perceived as communism and anti-nationalism in the Labour party-led government. In a 1,500-page online manifesto, Breivik describes his contempt for the Muslim population in Oslo and mulls even deadlier attacks by Christian conservatives -- including one involving a weapon of mass destruction.
Heger had closed the hearing to the media after Breivik said that he planned to use his deadly attacks as "marketing" for his manifesto against multi-ethnicity. Breivik asked the judge to allow him to wear a uniform to the court but the request was denied.
Breivik, 32, was arrested Friday after allegedly shooting 68 people, many of them teenagers, at a Labour Party youth camp on an island outside Oslo. He is also accused of planting a bomb in Oslo that killed 8 others and blew out windows at a government building that included the prime minister's office just hours before. Police previously reported 86 people had been killed in the shooting and 7 more in the bombing.
Breivik's lawyer, Geir Lippestad, said Breivik believed his attack was "gruesome" but necessary to change Norwegian society.
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