After all the speculation about different Islamic groups it finally emerged that the guy who pulled this one - Anders Breivik - was a white European. As he views became public, journos abroad have started building a strange case. They say that right wing parties or groups in Europe are not to blame for this attack.
The Atlantic has this observation:
Breivik may have come from the European anti-Muslim right wing, but he certainly does not represent it.
Behavior, ultimately, is a product of one's environment: ideas, yes, but also social pressure, family pressure, norms, constraints, inspirations, barriers, and expectations. Sometimes, these constraints push a man to do any number of heinous things. It doesn't excuse the man himself (at the end of the day, you always have the choice and the responsibility not to react to your circumstances violently), but it makes the question of "why" terribly difficult to understand. It is deeply complex.
WOW. I have never seen such clear lucid thinking coming out immediately after a terror attack. Take a look at these lines again:
Behavior, ultimately, is a product of one's environment: ideas, yes, but also social pressure, family pressure, norms, constraints, inspirations, barriers, and expectations. Sometimes, these constraints push a man to do any number of heinous things.
Funny that they never seem to think of these lines when there is a Islamic terror attack. Would the same reasons listed above not apply to them?
2 comments:
Agree with you totally!
With this logic, every terror attack can be justified!! Even that of 9/11! Were the men who crashed the aircrafts in the Twin Towers less desperate, dejected and frustrated than this one???
Did they have less problems, pressures and difficulties than him! The answer is obvious!
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