The Norway attacks killed 77 people and injured 319.
So far, all well and good.
The suspicious part of the ABC report was when the announcer made a point of saying that the Norway attacks were committed by a "self-confessed far-right wing extremist."
The convicted perpetrator of the Norway attacks was Anders Behring Breivik. Wikipedia describes him as having a "far-right militant ideology" which it describes as follows:
In it he lays out his worldview, which includes support for Islamophobia, Zionism.[26] anti-feminism,[30][31] It also expresses support for far-right groups such as the EDL[32] and paramilitaries such as the Scorpions.[33] It regards Islam and Marxism as the enemy, and argues for the violent annihilation of "Eurabia" and multiculturalism, and the deportation of all Muslims from Europe.[34] Breivik wrote that his main motive for the atrocities was to market this manifesto.[35]The question is: Why is this ideology right wing?
It seems to me that these types of nuts are so extreme that any reference to a standard political spectrum is useless and deceiving. Couldn't Breivik just as easily be described as far left?
In Wikipedia's listing of Far-right politics it says:
Proponents of horseshoe theory interpretation of the left-right spectrum identify the far-left and far-right as having more in common with each other as extremists than each have towards moderate centrists.[7]I tend to agree with horseshoe theory. Follow the link above for a more complete description of it.
So, was ABC's report biased? Or am I just being hypersensitive?
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