[quote][I]WorldNetDaily[/I] columnist David Solway believes that progressives are the ones that really should be held responsible for the terrorist attacks in Norway…which targeted progressives. Like the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer, who said that the right-wing terrorist’s political outlook was “[URL="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-norway-terrorists-manifesto-accurate"]accurate[/URL]” but strongly disagreed with his violent methods, Solway [URL="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=327237"]argues[/URL] that more people will take up Anders Behring Breivik’s staunchly anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and illiberal views because of progressives’ support for diversity and immigrant rights:
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The consequence should have been entirely predictable. In failing to meet the threat of cultural subversion, the European left has facilitated the emergence of the illiberal and xenophobic branch of the far right. For as violence begins to move in from the car-burning and no-go Muslim enclaves in the margins toward the city center, as Shariah courts begin to pepper the landscape, as in the U.K., as Muslim immigrants continue to swell the welfare rolls, as rape statistics skyrocket and honor killings multiply, and as the authorities prove themselves increasingly helpless and vacillating – or even worse, as colluding – the reactionary and militant right will earn more and more legitimacy among the masses. The anemic lack of both fortitude and foresight among the political classes can only energize the factions of militant, far-right extremism.
The same applies to the Islamophilic and ever-compliant media, operating in tandem with a complacent political establishment. Their reluctance to honestly analyze the explosive matrix of a worsening situation, heaping the blame on straw men like the Christian right or conservative political figures rather than isolating the real cause of their distress, namely, the leftist collaboration with a clamorous Islamic demographic gradually infiltrating our democratic nations, will infallibly result in a growing army of Anders Behring Breiviks and in more Norways to come.
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Most of us would surely agree that terror is not an acceptable answer to terror. The problem is that a soft response to an undeniable menace will often generate a hard response – and just as often an irrational one. As we have seen in Norway, vigilantism can take strange forms. The aggrieved are as likely to strike at their own countrymen whom they regard as traitors or dupes and who embrace a sedative political philosophy resulting in the loss of national identity and the steady advance of alien cultural norms and practices.
I believe that [Bruce] Thornton, for all his astuteness, is quite wrong when he writes that "[t]his is not to suggest that anything is responsible for the Oslo bombing other than the actions of the bomber." In today's politically correct world, such disclaimers are perhaps understandable to avoid charges of insensitivity or racism. Nonetheless, it needs to be said that the Norwegian authorities and a fellow-traveling electorate are profoundly complicit in creating a situation that must inevitably culminate in violence. If the political climate does not change to favor the ascension of the moderate right, the tragedy that unfolded in Norway will spread to other European countries in the course of time. The simple truth is that there can be no solution to the dilemma unless we first recognize that the responsibility for this deteriorating state of affairs lies chiefly with the intellectuals, journalists and governing elites of the multicultural left who have brought it to pass.[/quote]
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[url]http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wnd-blames-progressives-norway-attacks[/url]
Wish we still had the :bang: emote...
:bang:
The source doesn't seem to be directly blaming them. The article is saying that the Progressives failed in their goals and as a result the Right Wing is getting increasingly angry and more extreme, the result of the extremism being the attacks.
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;31417752]Wish we still had the :bang: emote...
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Just link to the picture instead.
If we had just shot all the muslims we wouldn't have had the people who didn't shoot the muslims get shot for not shooting the muslims.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;31417874]The source doesn't seem to be directly blaming them. The article is saying that the Progressives failed in their goals and as a result the Right Wing is getting increasingly angry and more extreme, the result of the extremism being the attacks.[/QUOTE]
thats like saying that progressivism is to blame for all the tea party
sure you can link conservatives angry over progressivism(and what they perceive as progressivism) to starting the tea party, but the progressive movement isnt to blame, its the people who decide to act
if you want to link things that have indirect cause and effect then you could say neville chamberlain is to blame for the holocaust, or even more indirectly, the french and british after ww1 were to blame for the holocaust.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;31418237]thats like saying that progressivism is to blame for all the tea party
sure you can link conservatives angry over progressivism(and what they perceive as progressivism) to starting the tea party, but the progressive movement isnt to blame, its the people who decide to act
if you want to link things that have indirect cause and effect then you could say neville chamberlain is to blame for the holocaust, or even more indirectly, the french and british after ww1 were to blame for the holocaust.[/QUOTE]
It's not that they are getting angry at them simply for their idealology or such, the article seems to be saying that they were angry at failing to achieve the goals that were promised. (For example immigration could be not handled very well by the left, and the right could get angry at this.)
I don't think anyone else is to be blamed other than Anders Breivik
The media is always looking for some political group to blame, be it the rights or the lefts, thats how it'll always be after tradgedies like this one.
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