Breivik: Inspired by Al Qaeda?

The Danish psychologist Nicolai Sennels sends this brief examination of the real inspiration for last week’s massacre in Norway.


Breivik: Inspired by Al Qaeda, Not Gates of Vienna
by Nicolai Sennels

Anders Breivik, the accused Norwegian mass murderer, claims that he found inspiration for his massacre in blogs focusing on Islam and Muslim immigration.

He did not. Breivik found inspiration in his own wretched interpretation of these blogs’ messages. Contrary to the Quran, for example, these blogs promote democracy and human rights, not murder and violent world revolution.

Breivik’s true inspiration is clear to everyone: The Lashkar-e-Taiba attack in Mumbai and Al-Qaeda’s massacres around the world. No wonder that so many newspapers initially stated that Norway had been hit by Islamists. And no wonder that Islamists were the only ones to call the tragedy “good news”.

Breivik’s interpretation of the Islam-critical blogs that he mentions in his manifesto is just as subjective and just as much a misunderstanding as the democratic and peaceful Muslims’ interpretation of their own religion.


Nicolai Sennels is a psychologist and the author of “Among Criminal Muslims: A Psychologist’s experiences with the Copenhagen Municipality”.

Previous posts by or about Nicolai Sennels:

2010		Jan		6		The Eternal Victim
		Feb		19		Youths, Crime, and Islam
		Apr		11		The Stigmatization Fallacy
		May		8		Islam Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
		Jul		28		Nicolai Sennels: An Open Letter to David Cameron
		Aug		5		Rape by Proxy
				10		Islam and Inbreeding
		Dec		17		The Connection Between Muslim Inbreeding and Terrorism
2011		Jan		10		The Dhimmification of the Red Cross
				12		Was Muhammad a Gelotophobe?
				26		Food Crises are Caused by Overpopulation
		Feb		10		Send in the Midwives!
				23		Western Quran Schools Are “Terrorist Factories”
		Mar		22		Why Multiculture Will Always Fail
				26		What is Islamization?
		Apr		3		The Psychopath’s Argument: Free Speech Kills People
		May		3		Islam’s Nancy Boys: The Psychological Background
				25		Arab Drought: Oil for Water
				28		Lean to the Left
		Jun		2		Freedom is Slavery
				11		Shame: Muslim culture's armour. Weapon? Humour.