While the leftist and Islamic supremacist ghouls rush to portray Norway mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik as a Christian and even as an anti-jihadist, the unanswered questions multiply. Why did a jihad group take credit for the atrocities, and then retract? And who altered the murderer’s Facebook page? Yesterday, at the time that his name was released, his Facebook page looked like this (hat tip Vivien for the screenshot):
But shortly thereafter, this screenshot started circulating, of an altered Facebook page on which Breivik identified himself as a Christian and a conservative: (screenshot hat tip Vivien)
Did he have two different Facebook pages, one in Norwegian and one in English, and he only identified himself as a Christian and a conservative on the English one? Or did he pause from his murder spree to add “Christian” and “conservative” to his Facebook profile? Or maybe the whole page is a fake, as has been reported here.
I suppose it’s a question of who you trust for an honest screen shot: Pamela Geller’s website, or a website such as Public Intelligence. Public Intelligence has posted their screen capture here: Mirror of Utøya Gunman Anders Behring Breivik’s Facebook Page and Photo Gallery
They have also posted this:
Utøya Gunman Anders Behring Breivik Video Manifesto “2083 – A European Declaration of Independence”
Genuine? The soundtrack does seem to reflect Breivik’s musical tastes, if the YouTube music links on his Facebook site are any indication. Your guess is as good as mine.
This is a link to the written document itself, published under the pseudonym “Andrew Berwick”. Note that this is on Google Docs and is a lengthy document–a bit over 1500 pages.
Here’s a New York Times page concerning the origin of the video and written document.
Genuine? Again, your guess is as good as mine.
Wow!
News to me.
I caught this from one of the ”Google caches”
So, Friday near midnight Greenwich Mean Time he was not listing himself as a Christian OR as political conservative.
He was IN Custody by the time that Google cache was made.
Then later it changed to add his religion and political leaning?
Probably not by his hand.
That doesn’t mean he isn’t both a Christian and a political conservative it just means somebody else added those things to his FB profile.
I’m sure we will be learning all about this guy over the next few days and weeks.
Jared Loughner sure turned out to be different from early press reports.
As to Greg’s web site and it’s Anders Behring Breivik as Christian/political conservative FB and ”reportedly” Anders Behring Breivik manifesto:
I wonder why Anders Behring Breivik, who was supposedly into his race’s ”purity” would have put together an manifesto in ENGLISH?
I guess he was trying to find allies in the UK?/
Too bad the print is so small as to not be able to show that those are the CHANGED FB pages.
The manifesto (page 1) claims to have been written by him IN London.
Yet there is no shred of evidence he lived in London, only that he wrote to some UK’ers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/23/anders-behring-breivik-norway-attacks
@Nan G, #2:
I imagine because he was hoping to address a wide European audience. English would be the language of choice for that purpose. The world’s lingua franca is no longer French. From a cursory examination of the document it seems that Breivik is a highly intelligent person. (So, of course, is Ted Kaczynski; so was Timothy McVeigh.)
The timing of changes to Breivik’s Facebook page might indicate something more worrisome than an effort to spin things. It might indicate more than one person was involved on some level. I’m not totally comfortable with an assumption that something like this was pulled off with no one else being aware of it.