Well, it’s official now: Fjordman will be among the “anti-Muslim extremists” called by Geir Lippestad, the defense lawyer for Anders Behring Breivik, to testify at his client’s trial in Oslo later this month. A number of non-Scandinavian media outlets, including The Washington Post, reported this fact today.Mr. Lippestad has also called on Mullah Krekar to testify, which is a clever stratagem, promoting as it does the “Fjordman, Mullah Krekar — same thing” meme.
In other news, a former nursing student returned to a classroom at Oikos University in Oakland and shot seven people to death, wounding several others. The gunman was apprehended by police not far away a short time after the shootings.
To see the headlines and the articles, open the full news post.
Thanks to CSP, Fjordman, Freedom Fighter, Frontinus, JD, JP, The Observer, Vlad Tepes, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.
Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.
Commenters are advised to leave their comments at this post (rather than with the news articles) so that they are more easily accessible.
Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.
2 comments:
"promoting as it does the “Fjordman, Mullah Krekar — same thing” meme."
No. That's not what the defense team wants. Fjordman and Krekar are being summoned to justify Breivik's idea of a civilizational struggle. Breivik wants to avoid being labeled as mad. He wants to portray his actions as justified. He wants (in his madness) to be acquitted.
He (or his lawyers) needs Fjordman and Krekar to confirm that 'yes, there is a battle between civilizations'. So what he did was right, so he can walk free. (Breivik's mad, you rembember?)
OR, Breivik wants to give both men an international platform on which to parse the true intent of Islam.
The problem is that Fjordman will NOT be free to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth - about the malicious intent of Islam BECAUSE Europe already operates under de facto Sharia Law where no one is allowed to 'disrespect' Islam without severe consequence - whether that consequence is being murdered by savages who now know your name and face or being prosecuted by the state for 'hating' savages who would murder you and the state that 'protects' savages from very warranted and overdue criticism.
Egghead
Post a Comment
All comments are subject to pre-approval by blog admins.
Gates of Vienna's rules about comments require that they be civil, temperate, on-topic, and show decorum. For more information, click here.
Users are asked to limit each comment to about 500 words. If you need to say more, leave a link to your own blog.
Also: long or off-topic comments may be posted on news feed threads.
To add a link in a comment, use this format:
<a href="http://mywebsite.com">My Title</a>
Please do not paste long URLs!
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.