It's comforting, perhaps, to dismiss Anders Behring Breivik as nothing more than a psychotic loner. That was the view of the Conservative London mayor, Boris Johnson, among others. The Norwegian mass killer's own lawyer has branded him "insane". It has the advantage of meaning no wider conclusions need to be drawn about the social context of the atrocity. Had he been a Muslim, as much of the weste

In the early hours of Friday's massacre in Oslo, the initial working assumption of news-watchers, journalists and bystanders was that this was likely the work of Islamic jihadists. That it was not took some time to trickle out: news reports published as late as Saturday included compiled condemnations of the attacks by Muslim leaders, and comparisons to other al-Qaida-type terrorist acts. That the

One of Silvio Berlusconi's former ministers has defended the thinking of the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik. Interviewed on a popular radio show, Francesco Speroni, a leading member of the Northern League, the junior partner in Berlusconi's conservative coalition, said: "Breivik's ideas are in defence of western civilisation." Speroni spoke as other right-wingers around Europe, inc

一度料理に使ってから水につけておいた豆苗が順調に成長してきたので、「猫に気づかれる前にもう一度収穫して、その後猫草代わりにくれてやろう」と思った矢先に発見されてしまいました。

気付くまで１５年「妻からＤＶを受けていた」。エスカレートする支配と暴力、絶望の日々　世間体で相談しづらい男性たちのＳＯＳ「ベッド脇にムカデの塊」「みそ汁に下剤」―

Following much of the media's initial "fact-free conjecture" about the origins of the atrocity in Norway, we have since had to reckon with Anders Behring Breivik's own account of his motivations put forward in his 1518-page manifesto entitled 2083: A European Declaration of Independence. Overlooked, however, in the focus on Islamism and Islamophobia's culpability for Breivik's pathology is the way

予想されたことではあるが、日本でもこういう論調が幅を利かせてるようだ。 ノルウェーでのテロ事件と日本 http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/5738369/ ブレイビグ容疑者が敵視したイスラムは、生活規範として信仰者の日常生活行動を規定する面がある。また、外国人移民が有する同郷・同民族などの連帯意識により、国家内に別の国家のような移民地域ができることがある。このため、EU諸国内では、オランダの自由党をはじめ右派政党の台頭が見られ始めている。ブレイビグ容疑者はこのような右派思想の活動家であり、犯行目的は移民排斥だとも伝えられている。 もちろん、その目的を爆弾テロと銃乱射という方法で追って達成できるわけではない。しかし、この衝撃的な事件によって、外国人移民問題が抱える（１）宗教と民主主義の関係、（２）多文化主義の矛盾など、問題の本質ともいえる要素につい

ノルウェーのテロ容疑者が、ムスリムへのヘイトにあふれた本やサイトにいれあげてたことが指摘されてる。Suspect admired bloggers who believe Europe is drowning in Muslims - CNN.com そいで、左派のThe Atlantic記者のジェフリー・ゴルドバーグ氏が、ヘイトスピーチを公表する論者は言葉を選ぶべきと言ったところ、日本語でもおなじみの意見が来たんだそうな。Pamela Geller's Right to Free Speech - The Atlantic A Goldblog reader writes: You write that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer should watch their words because their words might provoke v