Canadians noted in Norway attacker's manifesto
Several Canadians were stunned Monday at learning the suspect in the bombing and shootings in Norway last week had referenced them in his lengthy diatribe against Muslims, Marxists and multiculturalism. One of them, a science student, said he was dismayed to find himself quoted in Anders Behring Breivik's 1,518-page manifesto "2083," which makes more than 40 mostly passing references to Canada and Canadians.
Breivik quotes from various newspaper articles that suggest a presence of radical and dangerous Islamists in Canada. He refers to a 1998 court ruling against Mark Harding to support his view that Canadian hate-speech laws have been used to silence critics of Islam. Harding was convicted after handing out pamphlets in Toronto that said Muslims in Canada were the same as those who committed atrocities abroad.
"Harding's case demonstrates that it is now a criminal act in several Western nations to tell the truth about the dangers posed by Muslim immigration," Breivik writes.
Salim Mansur, an associate political science professor at London's University of Western Ontario, said he was appalled to learn Breivik had used some of his writings in his manifesto to advance the notion Islam and democracy were incompatible. Mansur, a Muslim opposed to Islamist violence who himself has been the target of radical Muslims, said Breivik and others like him engage in reading to "fuel their own pathology" and further their misguided causes, not to further genuine learning or debate.
In other parts of the manifesto — published on numerous websites — Breivik refers to Canada's low birth rate and somewhat lax sexual morality as part of his tirade against the "global cultural Marxist Mafia" and the multiculturalism he blames for many of the world's evils.
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