Almost eight years since the Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, killed 77 people on July 22, 2011, his ideas and methods inspire right wing extremists in Europe and beyond. Despite the difference in length, there are several similar themes and ideas that run through the manifestos of Christchurch terrorist Tarrant and Behring Brevik.
“The Great Replacement”
Tarrant, a self-declared eco-fascist and white nationalist shares a similar core diagnosis of the world with Behring Breivik. In their narrative, Europe is already in the midst of a cultural and race war, with liberal authorities unwilling to protect racially pure citizens from dangerous non-white others. Liberal asylum, immigration and ¨melting pot¨ policies have led to the rapid mass arrival of Muslim migrants that threaten national identity, security and the European white race. The present societal order is furthermore decadent and corrupt and a violent civil war is needed in order to reinstall a racial order of things.
Propagating the Eurabia conspiracy theory of the Islamisation of Europe, they believe that Europe is already in the midst of a Muslim invasion. Migrants, in particular Muslim migrants, are framed as posing an existential threat to the survival of white populations, cultural heritage, security and western Christian civilization as a whole. National traitors are objects of blame for the takeover of Europe, and these categories can be filled with Muslim migrants, symbolically identified ‘politicians’, the ‘establishment’ or ordinary citizens who do not oppose these developments.
