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British Telegraph had as a headline on Monday that “Norway lost its innocence,” while the American media already deemed the attack as a “Norwegian Oklahoma,” that is a domestic terror attack without any connection to the international terror organizations.
As Norwegians are mourning and burying their dead, many of the them young people who are exercising their citizen right to political association, and were promising that the response to these attacks will be “more openness, more multiculturalism,” more peace and more understanding, the man who is responsible for their deaths said that by killing his country fellows he was in fact defending Norway, and that the killings were necessary.
Most of the people have already deemed he who is now in solitary confinement for 40 days awaiting his trial, to the counts of which he already pleaded not guilty, as a “monster,” and his doing a “monstrosity.”
But as he explained the reason behind his acts questions are beginning to pop up as to his motivations and his capacity to carry out such a deadly attack.
Who is actually Anders Behring Breivik, who single-handedly planned the bombing of the building where the Prime Minister of Norway works, and after succeeding in doing so, still single-handedly was able to go on the island where the young members of the Labor Party were discussing politics, and, posing as a police officer, promised to defend them against the terrorists, and then killed many of them in cold blood?
How is it possible that one man can produce so much damage walking free with ammunition through a civilized country, and shoot at random at a population that was more accustomed to seeing their monarchs walking down the streets than fierce terrorists?
Soon after he was apprehended, Breivik became one of the most seen faces in the world (it is hard to say that he was in any way popular, it is difficult to be after you shoot more than 80 defenseless people and blow up buildings where other people work).
He alluded that his “work” was carried out in cooperation with two other cells, but the police was unable to confirm yet what kind of cells are those.
Investigations into his personal life reveals that he was a good student, that he went to Commerce School in Oslo, that he was a successful entrepreneur who became millionaire at the age of 24. He served in the military, and lived with his mother in a farmhouse outside the capital.
At a first glimpse, he seems a successful business man, with a life many people only dream of. What brought him to the dark side, and what inspired his idea of killing so many people?
He is believed to be a right-wing extremist, he was a member of the Progress Party from 1999 to 2006, but then quit because he did not think they were radical enough for his taste.
Admirer of the Nazi leader Hitler, and of other right-wing parties in Europe that derive their teachings from Hitler’s, Breivik had a clear tendency to oppose both Marxism, and Islamic immigration in Europe.
The most unsettling thing about him is that he fancied himself some sort of crusader of yore, which drew upon him the label of “Christian fundamentalist,” a designation with which no Christian in the world could agree, provided that the religion of Christ is the religion of love, not of murder.
Days before his killing spree, he published on the Internet a 1,500-page book called “2083: A European Declaration of Independence.”
As strange as it may sound for a man who belongs to the far-right, which is by definition an anti-Freemason ideology, the book Breivik compiled is said to have been distributed to all his contacts on Facebook with a dedication in which he calls himself: “Justiciar Knight Commander, Knights Templar Europe, Knights Templar Norway.”
These designations could indicate that Breivik was the member of some Freemasonic order. Some say he was the member of the Norwegian Freemason Order called Saint Olaus.
He wanted to walk the courtroom in an uniform that is said to have been one of this order and placed upon his manifesto the Templar cross.
Now, is he, as Telegraph suggests, a member of an organization that attempts to revive the ancient Knights Templar order, that was related to the Catholic church of the Middle Ages, or is he a member of the Freemasonry? Or both?
At the 92nd page of his manifesto, Breivik speaks of the crusaders as the Christians who advocate the way of life based on fighting the Muslims, and on waging “holy wars” against those who are non-believers.
His references are very interesting since on the same page he refers to the event that separated the Eastern Christianity from the one in the West as “The Great Schism,” given that in the Western historiography this expression is reserved only for the schisms between popes in the Middle Ages, during the “papal captivity.” That is an indication that the book in not written entirely by himself, but rather compiled from various sources.
Wikipedia presents the Knights Templar as both the knights of yore, who went to Crusades in the Middle Ages, and as a freemasonic lodge where those who adhere must profess the belief in the Christian teachings, unlike other lodges where the belief of the member was irrelevant.
The title of the order is The United, Religious, Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple and of St. John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta. The same source says that the Knights Templar freemasons are derived from the famous knights that were protecting the pilgrims towards the holy places of Jerusalem, in the Middle Ages.
Breivik appears in a picture that has already circulated the globe in his Freemason regalia, even though his book he states that he belonged to an organization called Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici, which is the exact denomination of the ancient Knights Templar.
In the page dedicated to him by the Wikipedia it is said that he was a Freemason, and that he had Freemasonry tagged as interests on the Facebook page.
Wikipedia shows in support of the allegation a reference from Reuters, according to which the spokesman for the Progress Party, where Breivik was a member, said that he was also a freemason.
There is also a communiqué of the Norwegian Order of the Freemasons, in which the organization expresses compassion and care for the tragic events that befell Norway, and the fact that Breivik was expelled from the Norwegian Order of Freemasons, thus the order showing that the acts he carried out were incompatible with what the Order stands for.
The leader of the order said the organization he led was building its activity on Christian principles and humanism, and that the police will receive all cooperation from the members. He added that the order had not been having to close ties with him.
But, in his manifesto, Breivik says he wanted to reform the “Knights Templar Europe,” which is known to be a far-right organization, founded in 2002, in London.
So, it is possible that while being a Freemason of the order of Saint Olaus, he drew these designations he signed his work with, “Judicial Knight Templar,” and “Knight Templar Norway,” from this pan-European far-right organization, to which he also belonged, and who has nothing to do with the Freemasonic lodge that expelled him.
It is safe to conclude that he was a Freemason, but not a Templar one, since the presentation of the Saint Olaus order says that in 1782, the rectified rite was introduced in Denmark and Norway, which was under the French Freemasonry’s influence, and who had removed the legend about the Knights Templar from its teachings.
Then, while being a Freemason for the Saint Olaus order in Norway (not so present in the life of the lodges, as the leader of it said in the statement), he was also committed to the ideas of fighting the Islam, multiculturalism, and political correctness, embraced by the “Knight Templar Europe,” the organization activating in London and probably in other European countries, and which came under police scrutiny at the order of British PM David Cameron soon after the killing spree. It is also safe to assume that he drew his plan to create a war in Europe against Islam from this far-right organization.
Truth is that the man is a sum of paradoxes (to say the least, since his lawyer already declared him insane in order to keep him out of jail), given that while being a member of a Nazi-like far-right organization, he also expresses his respect for Israel, which would make him the sole such far-righter in Europe, and would also show he understand little of the history of the ancient Knights Templar.
No matter what his affiliation to such organizations were, what is clear is that he is not speaking in the name of Christian faith or Christian people, be they Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic or Protestant, when he thinks he can bring back to life the times of the Crusades, when many people lost their lives both on Christian side and the Muslim, not to count the Jewish, in the name of Cross and in order to foster the domination ambitions of the spiritual leaders of the West at that time.
For that reason, the label “Christian fundamentalist” cannot be associated with Christian believers, or with the Christian church, let alone with Christian teaching or with Christ himself.
It is very much unlikely that such acts can find support even in the most radical anti-Islamic and anti-Socialist circles of society.
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