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Do you think that Breivik was influenced by writers like Geller? do you believe that an appropriate response to that influence is self-censorship as obliquely urged by Goldberg?
What is the proper response to psychotic killers with political agendas? How do you think that Norway will respond (in terms of freedom of speech issues)?
Breivik points to a piece written by Pamela Geller in Atlas Shrugs in July 2009. "The Muslims have taken to rampaging, destroying and setting alight the streets of France. The media has abetted the fifth column with cowardly silence," she writes.
Geller has been prominent in opposition to the building of a mosque near Ground Zero in New York.
She notes there is just one reference to her in Breivik's purported 1,500-page manifesto, and ridicules the notion that she could have influenced his behavior.
"Anders Behring Breivik is responsible for his actions," she writes. But she adds: "If anyone incited him to violence, it was Islamic supremacists. If anything incited him to violence, it was the Euro-Med policy," a reference to immigration to Europe from North Africa.
Geller also complains, in a posting Tuesday, about "More expected grotesque exploitation and opportunism from Muslim Brotherhood groups in America" of the Oslo attack.
But to her long-time adversary Jeffrey Goldberg at the Atlantic magazine, Geller and others of like mind clearly influenced Breivik: "Free speech means free speech. But she should be aware now that violent people look to her for guidance, and she should write with that in mind."
Do you think that Breivik was influenced by writers like Geller? do you believe that an appropriate response to that influence is self-censorship as obliquely urged by Goldberg?
What is the proper response to psychotic killers with political agendas? How do you think that Norway will respond (in terms of freedom of speech issues)?