Sorry to burst your bubble, but anti-Islamic vigilantes simply attack Muslims and mosques.

Yet Breivik attacked not one Islamic target; he attacked 'liberal' and 'left wing' targets- twice. What does that tell you?

Well let me tell you instead; it suggests that Breviek had been caught up in a gigantic 'left/right divide' where the evil (Norwegian) Labor Party is in fact a great force of marxist fanatics trying to destroy his country and preferred (conservative) way of life.

You know- the same kind of blinkered mindset you see a lot of on these forums- from both 'sides'.

"Islamophobia" would barely factor into the greater part of Breveik's anxieties- and these kinds of anxieties are pedaled to gullible audiences worldwide to believe that the stakes of two political parties with similar policies except a few regarding the Middle East, are as high as preventing the next Nazi uprising.

It's worth remembering that Breivik, on the one hand, and al Qaida, on the other, are both prepared to use the most evil methods to exterminate innocent people, and that each of them extend their hatred towards Marxists, liberals and democrats.

So fundamentalists on both sides, in a sense, go beyond their 'briefs' to attack what they both see as the middle ground, the portion of humanity beyond their nominal target groups, to what they both perceive as threats to their vile ideologies: human equality, and everybody's rights to freedom and democracy.

In this sense, they are not all that different from each other - both ultimately supporting totalitarian philosophies, using terror as their major weapon, and thereby excluding themselves from common humanity.

Not Islamophobia, it's islamic fanaticism that's at the core of the situation.

"Facists locking arms against Globalisation." Is this double speak? The Globalists are the ones wanting the wars of imperialism.They want the Islamic oil/gas.My view is that the globalialists are the facists.

People like Anders Breivik are easily manipulated into a particular agenda.He is sounding like a false flag fruit loop.

Sigh

Here we go again.

>>Global Islamophobia differs from older forms of racism…>>

At this point I stopped reading.

Mr. Morgan,

Expressions of contempt or scorn for a belief system or ideology is NOT, repeat, NOT, racism. The fact that a belief system is labelled a “religion” should not exempt it from critique, analysis, attack, contempt, satire and scorn in a SECULAR democracy.

Yes, some people attack Islam to disguise their racism.

And some people attack Israel to disguise their hatred for Jews.

But does that mean either Islam or Israel should be exempt from (verbal) attack?

Mr. Morgan, these are not intended as rhetorical questions. I hope you will answer.

Are anti-Catholic views also a “form of racism?”

If not, why not?

I have emailed Dr. Morgan the text of my post above.

Let's see if we get a reply.