The thing that strikes me very often when discussing these kind of issues with Swedish Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna) (I’m Swedish) is that many of them lack the skill of criticising their own sources, the have a very hard time to admit faults, even minor ones, in their own party or the leaders of that party. Which in my mind resembles fundamentalism a lot, I took a course about fundamentalism at University and the thing that my professor talked about as the most apparent sign of fundamentalism is that you believe in an absolute truth, your way is correct and everyone else is wrong. You can definitely see this kind of behavior in Breivik, but what scares me is that you can also see it in a lot of the comments and posts on these anti-islamic blogs.

I enjoyed your article a lot, thank you for a good read.

Remember that Islamists have a tradition for violence, whereas all these bloggers are explicitly anti-violent. But when it comes to Breivik, I agree that he is a mirror image of Islamist terrorists. There’s the same conspiracy theories, the same fanaticism – even the same tendency to attack your “own” people instead of the supposed enemy.

Yes, for instance in the way many find excuses for Islamist movements and terrorism. And, a generation ago, there were the leftist terrorist groups and tyrant apologists of the 70s.

Yes, you’re mistaken.

I’m talking about the difference between saying “all Muslim immigration should stop because we’re unable to integrate them into our culture” and “our politicians are traitors who secretly conspire with Arab leaders to turn Europe in Eurabia, and the result will be a civil war with the Muslims”.

I’m not talking about bans. As far as I know, _nobody_ in Norway at the moment is talking about banning speech.

Yes. At the same time, he shared their worldview, a worldview where political opponents are labelled traitors, and there is an expectation of a coming civil war with the Muslims of Europe. I’m not blaming them, just pointing out a fact they should find deeply disturbing.

Yes, but they are dishonest when they pretend that the potential for violence is not implicit in their worldview. Fjordman, for instance, has questioned the legitimacy of our democratic system, because the political elites (the targets for the attack) prevent any meaningful opposition to their beliefs. Well, what does a people do when they live under an illegitimate political system?