Terrorism Researchers: Remember Your Script Today

As the trial of Anders Breivik reaches a conclusion in Oslo, it is important that academics and analysts remember their script over the next few days.

Breivik's turn towards terrorism was influenced by racist and Islamophobic discourses. We must therefore counter these, in order to ensure no more Breivik's emerge. Jihadist actors like Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah are not influenced by discourses within Islam, and are certainly not religious actors. To counter such currents, we need to change our foreign policy and to fight racism.

As you were.

Comments

[james walsh]

poor parenting by the government me thinks.

[Internationalist]

This was a disgusting post even by your standards.

Breivik said today that he wanted to overcome an "invasion of Muslims".

So what "script" was there to "remember"? These were his own words.