Anders Behring Breivik

Anders Behring Breivik in a freemason uniform

Anders Behring Breivik (b. 13 February 1979) is a Norwegian mass murderer and former Freemason. Sentenced for the 2011 Norway attacks that killed 77 people.

Life

Breivik was born in Oslo, Norway as son of Jens David Breivik (b. 1935), a civil economist, who worked as a diplomat for the Norwegian Embassy in London and later in Paris, and Wenche Elisabeth Behring (1946–2013), a nursing assistant. He has a maternal half-sister named Elisabeth, and three paternal half-siblings: Erik, Jan, and Nina. Breivik began his life in London until the age of one, when his parents divorced. His family name is Breivik, while Behring, his mother's maiden name, is his middle name and not part of the family name. In 2017, it was reported he had changed his legal name to Fjotolf Hansen.

2011 terror attacks

The first attack was a car bomb explosion in Oslo within Regjeringskvartalet, the executive government quarter of Norway, at 15:25:22 (CEST) on 22 July 2011. The bomb was placed inside a van next to the tower block housing the office of the then Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. The explosion killed eight people and injured at least 209 people.

The second attack occurred less than two hours later at a youth summer camp on the island of Utøya in Tyrifjorden, Buskerud. The camp was organised by the AUF, the youth wing of the ruling Norwegian Labour Party. Breivik, dressed in a homemade police uniform and showing false identification, took a ferry to the island and opened fire at the participants, methodically killing 69 and injuring 32 over more than an hour.

Manifesto

On the day of the attacks, Breivik emailed a compendium of texts entitled "2083: A European Declaration of Independence" to 1,003 addresses. In them, he stated his opposition to Islam and Cultural Marxism. The text called for the deportation of all Muslims from Europe, and Breivik wrote that his main motive for the attacks was to publicize his manifesto. He also expressed support for the anti-Islamization organisation English Defence League.

Freemason

At the time of the attacks, Breivik was a member of the Lodge of St. Olaf at the Three Columns in Oslo and had displayed photographs of himself in partial Masonic regalia on his Facebook profile. In interviews after the attacks, his lodge said it had only minimal contact with him, and that when made aware of Breivik's membership, Grand Master of the Norwegian Order of Freemasons, Ivar Skaar, issued an edict immediately excluding him from the fraternity based upon the acts he carried out and the values that appear to have motivated them. According to the Lodge records, Breivik took part in a total of four meetings between his initiation in February 2007 and his exclusion from the order. Jan Behring was a second cousin of Anders Behring Breivik's mother, and was Breivik's godfather (being invited by a member) in the Masonic lodge.

Mental health

Two different psychiatric evaluations reached different conclusions on whether Breivik was legally sane enough to be found guilty. Both stated that he had various mental disorders. The court (under immense pressure) decided to declare him legally sane and sentenced him to imprisonment.

Breivik has stated various widely different associations, motives, and views, which have changed over time and which in some cases have been found to be delusions/lies, and which may be dubiously described, for reason such as his mental disorders, attempts to gain publicity, and attempts by mass media to use him for guilt by association with a wide range of politically incorrect views.

In prison, Breivik has been stated to more recently have identified himself as a fascist and a "Nazi", which has been criticized due to his general incoherence and Breivik seemingly thinking that an ethnic nationalist and a "Nazi" is the same thing. The counterjihad blogger Fjordman has written that:

"So in Breivik’s mind, the clever way to strengthen nationalists is to murder children from their (and his) own nation and ethnic group. Is he crazy? Yes, that’s probably exactly what he is. Nuts. Clinically insane. My impression when reading this letter was not that Breivik is a Nazi. He's too incoherent to be taken seriously even as a neo-Nazi. My impression was that he is not receiving the anti-psychotic medications he so clearly needs. ABB first claimed that he was an anti-Nazi terrorist. Now, he’s suddenly a peaceful Nazi who wants non-violent "dialogue" with the media. Next month, he’ll be a smurf. The month after that, he may proclaim that he’s Kermit the Frog from The Muppet Show. He will say this partly because life in prison is boring and he craves personal attention, and partly because he might actually believe it. Perhaps he will design a new uniform for Commander Kermit of the Knights Templar?"

An often not mentioned aspect is the reactions of some Israelis to the crimes and Breivik's early claim to be a Zionist.

"There are even hints that some Israelis sympathize with Breivik. Wrote J.J. Goldberg in The Forward on Monday, “Judging by the comments sections on the main Hebrew websites, the main questions under debate seem to be whether Norwegians deserve any sympathy from Israelis given the country’s pro-Palestinian policies, whether the killer deserves any sympathy given his self-declared intention of fighting Islamic extremism and, perhaps ironically, whether calling attention to this debate is in itself an anti-Israel or anti-Semitic act.”"

Quotes

Whenever someone asks if I am a national socialist I am deeply offended. If there is one historical figure and past Germanic leader I hate it is Adolf Hitler... Thanks to his insane campaign and the subsequent genocide of the 6 million Jews, multiculturalism, the anti-European hate ideology was created. Multiculturalism would have never been implemented in Europe if it hadn’t been for NSDAPs reckless and unforgivable actions.

—Anders Behring Breivik, 2011

Jews that support multiculturalism today are as much of a threat to Israel and Zionism (Israeli nationalism) as they are to us. So let us fight together with Israel, with our Zionist brothers against all anti-Zionists, against all cultural Marxists/multiculturalists.

—Anders Behring Breivik, 2011

See also

• Race and crime: Mass shootings - Including on mass murderers wanting to become "celebrities" and the role of mass media.
• Hate crime: Terrorist statistics

External links

• Breivik’s Confession and the Media’s Silence
• Anders Behring Breivik on Hitler & the Jews
• The Neo-Conservative Rambo Anders Behring Breivik

Article archives

• The Occidental Observer: Anders Breivik