Far right blames BBC for ignoring Breivik’s beliefs

First theydismissed the Norway killer as a lonemadman, now they sayhe was disenfranchised

Anders Behring Breivik

More than a week after the Norway atrocities, European far-right parties and Islamophobic websites on both sides of the Atlantic have embarked on a new attempt to regain what they clearly regard as the lost moral high ground.

In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, the general tendency amongst these organisations and individuals was to dismiss Anders Breivik as a freakish aberration and a 'lone madman', in an attempt to deny any ideological or organisational connections to him.

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is a writer and broadcaster based in Derbyshire. He has reported on the Mafia wars in Sicily, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and human rights abuses in Central America. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir My Father's House (Penguin), about his childhood in the Caribbean, Unknown Soldiers: How Terrorism Transformed the Modern World (Profile Books) and The Infernal Machine (New Press), which takes an in-depth look at the way in which terrorism has evolved.