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Originally Posted by joegrundman
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so were his victims jews or muslims or what?
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Probably all that, plus Christians and atheists. The point is: the summer camp on that isle was run by the socialist party of Norway, with meetings and discussions of socialist political issues. So sympathy for socialism probably is the primary characteristic all young people being there had in common.
However, I noted a probably unintended coincidence in German TV news early Saturday evening. In a broadcast from the scene, they interviewed 6 or 7 young people who escaped, but had been there. One was an obviously Scandianvian girl, white, blond. The others all where Arab/ME-looking people, definitely no Scandinavians. :D No joke, but true.
The attacker obviously had an evil but yet precisely functioning mind, his plan, although intended to cause terror, was well laid out and made sense - from his ice-cold point of view. First he distracted and bound the police by the bomb in Oslo, then struck at thereal primary target of his, the camp - on an isle where the police could not reach quickly, and his victims could not easily escape and were helpless prey to be hunted down in a small, limited environment, making the job all the easier for the hunter - and them all representing the future of the country, the socialist future of the party he probably has a strong dislike for, and that he probably also holds responsible for the migration policy of Norway that also sees substantial Muslim migration - with Islam being one of the things he expressed criticism for on his internet appearances.
In the way the android in Alien 1 says something like that he admired the conceptual clearity of the alien monster as an evolutionary design that represents a flawless predator that does not get hindred by any scruples of moral nature, one must admit that the plan of this assassin was brilliant, too, and unfortunately worked out to be almost perfect. This is no expression of admiration or smyptahy of mine - it is just an objective observation.
In the media here, they quoted from his internet appearances. Nothing of those quotes on German TV was explicitly Nazi-like, or hateful and irrational on Islam, but sounded quite determined, but sober, not that much different than what I criticise Islam for, what I say is even more aggressive than those quotes they showed. However, media here already link him not to the "right political" scene, which would be more precise maybe by those quotes they gave over here, but claim he had links to the "Nazi" scene. They also called him an Islam-hater, while the quotes they gave by him on that program were anything but hateful, just very critical of it in the same way like I am. When dealing with mass murderers and wanting to profile themn, such precision nevertheless is a necessity - clouding the murderer's psyche and intellect by labels that are politically opportune, does not help the cause of wanting to understand how his minds ticks. But you need to understand how he ticks if you want to increase chances, though in a theoretical understanding only, to prevent events like this horror now.
What also gets mentioned, is the idea that he represents a Christian fundamentalist sect or community or education. They did not give quotes so far (on German TV at last) that would inbdicate that, but it is possible that belief of a religious kind, or a cultural self-conception linked to that, indeed is part of the casue that made him tick out: his only one tweet-quote he left, is an indication for that, saying something like that one person with a strong belief is worth more than a 100,000 people with just ideas. Whether he meant "religious" belief or belief as a more general strong conviction, the Tweet-quote does not reveal.
Just some objective observations and emotionless thoughts of mine. Do not mistake them with any attempt of mine to relativise what he did. He is a monster - but an extremely intelligent one, in his way.
Also, very important: from a police-psychologist's point of view, he is no amok runner. Amok runners plan and execute their own killing in the end. It is reported he did not even attempt to not survive. This one is a guy with a mission that he plans to defend and justify. No amok run. The cold-blooded brilliance and precision by which he thought out and executed his plan, also speaks against the amok runner theory. If any psychological label is wanted, "psychopath" would meet several diagnostic key criterias like lacking empathy, lacking scruples to lie, betray and manipulate others (or to kill them), and rationalising the mistreaterment of the other for one's own interest. The own interest in this case would be the justification of his own cause.