Tuesday, July 26, 2011

So, Frisk the Norwegians and Moslems?

The left seems to be making a lot of the fact that the Norwegian mass murderer is a self-proclaimed Christian.

Not that the left gives jihadis that benefit of the doubt when they claim they are true Moslems. No, in that case they aren't "true" Moslems at all. And I think there is some truth to that, although with thinner evidence than the same conclusion applied to modern Christian mass murderers.

So unless the left wants to conclude that being a Christian led President Obama to bomb Libya (or will the left embrace "birtherism" to help that along?), the left might want to tone down the clinging to Thor and guns stuff unless they want the logical conclusion to be that we profile Norwegians and Moslems at airport security checkpoints.

I guess that's about all I have to add to this. This is a domestic tragedy and my sympathies are all I can really report on.

Unless further arrests show the killer cooperated or had contacts with Moslem jihadis, already clearly angry with Norway. Then we can start the whole "significant operational links" argument in the snow, I guess.

Oh, I guess the killer does have one major thing in common with jihadis. Like jihadis who kill mostly other Moslems in their war on the West, the Norwegian killer murdered his own kind rather than target actual Moslems who apparently inspired his rage. So there you go.

UPDATE: Related thoughts from Delingpole.