Norway deserves Anders Breivik says french writer

[Alex Linder]

French Essayist Blames Multiculturalism for Breivik’s Killing Spree

New essays by French author Richard Millet, which say Anders Behring Breivik's Norwegian massacre was the result of immigration and multiculturalism, have caused an uproar in France

By Bruce Crumley | August 28, 2012 | 1231

Richard Millet is an accomplished figure in French literature. His book Le Sentiment du Langue (The Feeling of Language) won the Académie Française’s 1994 essay award. His work as an editor for celebrated publisher Gallimard, meanwhile, helped produce two recent Prix Goncourt winners — including the 2006 novel Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones) by American author Jonathan Littell. Now, however, Millet is getting attention of an entirely different kind with a new work attacking immigration and multiculturalism, and describing the acts of convicted Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik as “formal perfection … in their literary dimension.”

That bookish qualifier, says newsweekly L’Express in its critique of Millet’s new essay, “Éloge Littéraire d’Anders Breivik” (Literary Elegy of Anders Breivik), is a “gratuitous facade” for an otherwise “vindictive text” and thesis. Indeed, though Millet states he does not approve of Breivik’s murderous actions on July 22, 2011 that left 77 people dead, he does write the slaughter was “without doubt what Norway deserved.” That is wonderful he will say this publicly. The reason? Norway, Millet contends, allowed immigration, multiculturalism and the domination of foreign customs, language and religion to become such dominant influences that a self-designated defender of traditional society felt compelled to take decisive action.

“Multiculturalism, as it has been imported from the United States, is the worst thing possible for Europe … and creates a mosaic of ghettoes in which the [host] nation no longer exists,” Millet told France Info radio on Aug. 27. “Breivik, I believe, perceived that and responded to that question with the most monstrous reply.”

Little wonder that such views — published just as Breivik was being sentenced Aug. 24 — have sparked controversy in France. As word of Millet’s writing spreads, so too may the objections it has inspired.

If so, that may only serve to reinforce Millet’s accusations that most of Europe — and indeed the West — is dominated by the same attitudes that motivated Breivik’s attack. Breivik, Millet writes, is “an exemplary product of Western decadence” and a “child of the ideologico-racial fracture that extra-European immigration has introduced in Europe.” Because he sees the resulting “loss of national identity” and “Islamization of Europe” decaying “Christian roots” everywhere, Millet appears to believe acts similar to Breivik’s may be replicated outside Norway as well.

“Within this decadence, Breivik is without doubt what Norway deserved, and what awaits our societies that won’t stop blinding themselves in denial,” Millet writes in “Éloge Littéraire d’Anders Breivik,” one of three essays published under the collective title Langue Fantôme (Ghost Language) on Aug. 24 by publisher Éditions Pierre-Guillaume de Roux. “European nations are dissolving socially at the same time as they’re losing their Christian essence in favor of general relativism.”

After the disclaimer in which he insists he does “not approve of the acts committed by Breivik,” Millet admits being “struck by their ‘formal perfection’ and ‘literary dimension.’” But unimpressed critics contend Millet’s artistic conceit and florid prose rationalizing Breivik’s acts are little more than an apology advancing extreme-right doctrine. In its Aug. 27 review, the daily Le Monde points to his accompanying essay, “De l’Antiracisme Comme Terreur Littéraire” (Antiracism as Literary Terror) as reflecting Millet and his conservative worldview:

The man hates a lot, and [does so] in a refined style that’s sometimes obscure. But it’s sufficiently clear for the objects of his malice to distinctly appear: social democracy (and democracy, full stop), extra-European immigration, the remainders of Marxism and their supposed corollaries of ignorance, political correctness and the weakening of language. All of that is leading to the crumbling of Europe — a decomposing continent where “a civil war is under way.”

Though such views are regularly championed by the extreme right, their association with Breivik’s massacre is something leaders like Marine Le Pen of France’s National Front party have assiduously avoided. Indeed, Le Pen has attacked efforts to explain or justify Breivik’s killing spree as a consequence of extreme-right views put into action. Given the enduring taboo of seeking to explain Breivik’s acts as anything short of madness, Millet’s essay may not only lead Le Pen to deny any ties to the author or his work — but may also force the venerable Gallimard to do likewise.

Though the famous Paris publisher has no involvement with or responsibility for Millet’s controversial essays, it’s nevertheless coming under pressure to sever its relationship with a man airing such controversial views. On Monday, francophone Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun called Millet’s essay a “ridiculous, useless and, above all, disgusting provocation.” Ben Jelloun told France Info that Gallimard, publisher of Ben Jelloun’s books, had to realize Millet “can’t be part of this organization and, elsewhere, propose such horrible things.”

Author Annie Ernaux agreed, telling Le Monde on Monday that Millet’s writing represents “a dangerous political act” by a Gallimard employee that “engages the responsibility of the company.” She said “a collective reaction from all Gallimard writers” to force action on Millet’s case is now under consideration.

But even as he echoed the “indignation over such cretinous and notorious statements,” Gallimard author Jean-Marie Laclavetine nevertheless told France Info that people protesting Millet’s essays must “be careful about [becoming] thought police”

“Everyone has the right to think as he wishes and write what he wants,” Laclavetine said. “I think it would be very bad for Gallimard to fire him. I too wish Richard didn’t think what he thinks and wrote what he wrote, but that’s his right.”

Neither the controversy surrounding his essays nor calls for his ouster from Gallimard seem to bother Millet. Indeed, the man who described Breivik’s 77 victims as “mixed-raced, globalized, uncultivated, social-democrat petit bourgeois,” appears to take a certain pride in the anger and consternation his essays have provoked.

“I’m one of the most hated French authors,” he told France Info on Monday. “It’s an interesting position that makes me an exceptional being.”

Given his previous accomplishments as an editor, Millet could have made that literary boast before publishing his essays. Now that they’re out, he can add peerless polemicist — and possibly leading ideologue — of Europe’s extreme right to that list of distinctions.


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Bravo Monsieur Richard Millet! Bravo!!

You're absolutely right.. Thank you for speaking the truth about Europe.
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Heterotic

What he wrote is absolutely correct, though he did it in an insensitive manner. Multi-culturalism is a disease eating away at the West.
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bcfred

Disagree completely - multiculturalism without expectation of assimilation is what drives the perpetuation of immigrant slums in France, not the simple arrival of those immigrants. The American ideal of multiculturalism invites people to celebrate their heritages while striving to become part of broader society, the result being that within a generation or two the only noticeable difference is skin hue.
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garreth33

I agree that ghetto-ization is not healthy. Sometimes it is not by choice- consider some of the neighborhoods in places like Dorchester, Harlem etc. Here people have been locked in a cycle of poverty for generations. They are not recent immigrants.

North American multiculturalism does invite people to celebrate their heritages but society also changes with each wave of immigration. Consider the Protestants, then the Irish, Italians, Jews. Currently moslems are at the bottom rung. With each cycle there is angst and hatred.

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Octavion

The only problem with Islam is there is no reciprocity. Americans of every other race may tolerate them (eventually) but they will not tolerate anyone other than members of their own Islamic ideology.
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FactorrX

Replying to Octavion.... If you really studied Islam you know that they accept any other religion as well as their own. They regard and accept J.C, Moses, David and lots of others as prophets and they wrote of them in Quran. It is just the extremists that see that the other nonbelievers or believers of other religions should be destroyed or whatever. If you really looked it up, Being a muslim is being nice to others. There are many extremists but they represent Islam very incorrect and the U.S media just likes to show the bad side.... If you...
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Replying to Octavion.... If you really studied Islam you know that they accept any other religion as well as their own. They regard and accept J.C, Moses, David and lots of others as prophets and they wrote of them in Quran. It is just the extremists that see that the other nonbelievers or believers of other religions should be destroyed or whatever. If you really looked it up, Being a muslim is being nice to others. There are many extremists but they represent Islam very incorrect and the U.S media just likes to show the bad side.... If you...
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worleyeoe

Um, bro, in case you haven't looked around lately, a lot of the people who move to the U.S. legally and illegally do not aspire to your "so called" vision of American multiculturalism. Just because we think that is the way it's supposed to be doesn't mean that it becomes reality.

One can make the very strong argument that multiculturalism is at the very root of America's current divisiveness: blacks against whites, whites against Hispanics, Hispanics against blacks - oh, and the 99% vs. the 1%.

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rdl114

And your source for this brainless conclusion is what? African Americans have been here since European settlement began. It has been white racism against them that caused divides, not some phony multiculturalism charge. Black culture is "our" culture as much as classical learning, Bach, Beethoven, Tolstoy, Hemingway and so forth. Just the mere fact that you see African-American culture as separate tells volumes about your own racism. Without some of the more reviled "others" that we have included in our society - among them African Americans, Jews, Italians, Asians, and now Hispanics - America would be so much less...
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worleyeoe

So you think that a "mixing of the pot" so to speak is better than having one type of thing (i.e., race) in the pot? Are you for real? Can you not see how elementary the whole idea that multiculturalism causes more good than good really is? If not how is it that countries like Norway, Sweden, Japan, and China, all of which are highly single races, perform so well in education? Likewise, do you honestly think America would be as divisive as it is today, if she were 99% Ango-Saxon?
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WomaninCT

rdl114: Essentially, white Christian social and cultural norms are often violent, debased, and exclusionary.

What?!?!?!? Christianity originated from the Middle East where Jesus was from so white Christians are relatively new. What the heck are you talking about?
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morn0

all the indigent white thrash in us will probably not be deported back to europe, and they are a bunch of christians
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There is no ideal of multiculturalism in America. Where in the world did you come up with that? What you describe is a utopian dream without any basis in anthropology or psychology.

When you become an "African- American" , "Mexican- American" or "State your origin here-American" you become not an American, but something else. You are the something else and identify with the something else first and foremost. America be damned because you hold no allegiance to the secondary position holder.

You can continue to lie to yourself, but Richard Millet is right. Many do not want...
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My point is that while what you say may be true of first-generation immigrants, whether for language reasons, fear of an unfamiliar society, etc., but the next generation almost always begins to reject its parents' culture and assimilate as Americans. How surprised were you the first time you heard Bobby Jindal speak? He looks 100% Asian Indian but sounds like a Cajun (well, moderately) and obviously has a mind of his own. This isn't me making things up, there are innumerable socioligical studies charting that exact trajectory. And as I note, THAT is the problem in many European nations...
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rdl114

The intermingled societies of the West - Europe, North and South America, Australia, and the westernized societies of Asia (Japan, S. Korea) and Africa are scarcely under threat. In fact, the domination economically, militarily and culturally by the West is breathtaking in its expansiveness. Anyone who can't see the enormity of the domination is either a fool, a racist, or in denial for some twisted reason. decline? 78% of the world pie with 20% of the population? Give it up already.
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Baramos x

I could say the same thing about white supremacy...
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Too bad you can't write in English.
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Too bad you can't write in English. You have not assimilated quite right.
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[Alex Linder]

The strange praise "literary" for Anders Breivik

By Camille Poirier and Laurent Martinet (LEXPRESS.fr),
published on 24/08/2012 15:30, updated on 29/08/2012 at 11:40

On 22 July 2011, the Norwegian Anders Breivik killed eight people in a bomb attack against the seat of government in Oslo and 69 others, mostly teenagers, in a shootout against a summer camp of the Labour Youth on island of Utøya. In his eyes, the victims advocated multiculturalism. Convicted of terrorist acts, the right-wing extremist was sentenced this Friday, August 24 to 21 years in prison.

Multiculturalism, it is also the target of Richard Millet, essayist, polemicist, defender of Christian identity and publisher Gallimard, which publishes editions of Pierre Guillaume Roux an indecent Praise literary Anders Breivik. "European nations disintegrate socially along with their Christian essence is lost in favor of general relativism," he writes. In his essay, he denounced in turn the "loss of national identity" Western states "Islamisation of Europe" and the weakening of its "Christian roots".
"Perfection formal" massacre

"I do not condone the acts of Breivik July 22, 2011," Millet defends in the first lines of the text, without quite convincing. "Yet it is these acts that I will discuss, struck by their formal perfection, therefore, in a certain way, [...] their literary dimension, perfection, as evil, always more or less to with literature. " Skillful oratorical, as it strives after giving necessity these acts, using literature as a graceful screen.
"Breivik is probably deserved that Norway"

Over a vindictive text, Millet Breivik defines as "an exemplary product of Western decadence," a "child of the ideological divide that racial non-European immigration was introduced in Europe." His crime is explained by the loss of hope and national identity in the West. "Breivik is probably deserved that Norway and what awaits our companies continue to be blind to deny themselves better." The already violent argument "the perfection of writing an assault rifle," Millet and password to social explanation, without assuming the political justification provided. But it is an apology aesthetic crime.
Breivik responsible

According to Millet, the act of Anders Breivik should not be reduced to a fit of madness. "The declared insane, it's an opportunity especially not true open debate on the Islamic presence, for example.'s Face it In," he pleads in an exclusive interview ActuaLitté. This Friday, the Norwegian judges were indeed recognized Anders Breivik guilty and responsible for its 77 murders.

Richard Millet including editor Jonathan Littell, author of Kindly, choking back the massacres committed during the Second World War by other assassins, German and Ukrainian those. Richard Millet justify it "literary" their crimes by the fact that we had not opened earlier debates on the real "Jewish presence", the "Einsatzgruppen" the "product of Western decadence"? Other than he did. In terms eerily similar.

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http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre...k_1152445.html

[tom harris]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-deserves.html Anders Breivik is 'without doubt what Norway deserves': French writer causes storm of controversy after praising mass murderer's manifesto

Richard Millet says he has read all 1,500 pages of Breivik’s online manifesto
Mass murderer Breivik was last week sentenced to 21 years in prison for killing 77 people

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 10:52 GMT, 30 August 2012 | UPDATED: 12:16 GMT, 30 August 2012

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French writer Richard Millet sparked controversy for claiming Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, whom he described as 'without doubt what Norway deserves'

French writer Richard Millet sparked controversy for claiming Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, whom he described as 'without doubt what Norway deserves'

A French author has sparked controversy after saying that Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is 'without doubt what Norway deserves'.

Richard Millet, who says he has read all 1,500 pages of Breivik’s online manifesto in which the Norwegian lays out his world view, insists that he does not approve of the gunman’s crimes.

However, the respected writer and editor praised Breivik’s writing and cry of hatred for social democracy, immigration and multi-culturalism.

'Breivik is without doubt what Norway deserves,' wrote Millet in an 18-page pamphlet.

He is 'as much a child of a broken family as of an ideological and racial fracture caused by immigration from outside Europe over the last 20 years', added Millet, who has edited several award-winning books in France.

His writing about Breivik has sparked consternation in the literary circles, with one author Annie Ernaux calling the text 'a politically dangerous act'.

Another author Tahar Ben Jelloun said: 'He has lost his head.'

Others were less critical.

'He is still my editor,' said Alexis Jenni. 'I don’t want to take any public position on the subject. Millet believes only in literature.

'He is someone who writes marvellously well. His questionable ideas do not reduce his literary qualities,' he argued.

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I wish he'd got 21 years for each of his 77 victims: Mother of teenager slain by Breivik attacks sentence that could see him free in a decade

Breivik was last week sentenced to 21 years in prison for killing 77 people in a bomb attack and deadly shooting rampage that shook Norway.

In a manifesto he published online before the attacks, Breivik wrote that 'patriotic resistance fighters' should use trials 'as a platform to further our cause'.
Richard Millet, a respected French writer, has claimed mass killer Anders Breivik was 'without doubt what Norway deserves'

The respected French writer has claimed mass killer Anders Breivik (pictured) was 'without doubt what Norway deserves'
Carnage: The aftermath of the Oslo car bomb planted by mass killer Breivik

Carnage: The aftermath of the Oslo car bomb planted by mass killer Breivik
Oslo bomb
Oslo bomb

Blast: The bomb at the high-rise government building left scores injured last year

He claimed to be part of a secret organisation modelled on the medieval Christian military order the Knights Templar, which aimed to purge Europe of Muslim influence.

Police found no trace of the organisation, however, and said he acted alone.

The document laid out a blueprint for a multi-phase 'revolution', targeting left-leaning political elites he accused of destroying their own societies by admitting large numbers of immigrants, especially from Muslim countries.

The document spelt out Breivik's extreme nationalist philosophy as well as his methods. It described how he bought guns, tons of fertiliser and other bomb components, hid collections of weapons and evaded police suspicion in the run-up to the attacks.

CCTV: Surveillance footage shows Anders Behring Breivik, dressed in police uniform and carrying a pistol, as he walks away from a car after placing a bomb in Oslo last year

CCTV: Surveillance footage shows Breivik, dressed in police uniform and carrying a pistol, as he walks away from a car after placing a bomb in Oslo last year
Force: This photo shows members of the Norwegian Special Forces land by boat on the shore of the island of Utoya during Breivik's shooting spree

Force: This photo shows members of the Norwegian Special Forces land by boat on the shore of the island of Utoya during Breivik's shooting spree

Before the killings, Breivik spent much of his time absorbed in online gaming, mostly playing the World of Warcraft series.

He was a high school dropout and, the court heard, made money by forging diplomas and certificates under the company name Diplom Service, which folded in 2006.

He released a YouTube video six hours before the attacks calling for conservatives to 'embrace martyrdom'.

It included pictures of him wearing a wetsuit and pointing an automatic weapon.

In a text with the video he detailed his plans for the attacks, writing that he would 'dress up as a police officer', adding that it would 'be awesome as people will be astonished'.
Chilling: Anders Behring Breivik walks with a gun in hand among bodies on Utoeya island July 22, last year

Chilling: Breivik walks with a gun among the bodies strewn around Utoya island during his rampage last July
Teenagers on the Norwegian holiday island of Utoya had to 'swim for their lives' and hide in trees when the gunman fired indiscriminately at them

Terror: Teenagers on the Norwegian holiday island of Utoya had to 'swim for their lives' and hide in trees when Breivik fired indiscriminately at them

In the wake of the attacks, anxious to prove he was not insane, Breivik called right-wing extremists and radical Islamists to give their public support for his view of clashing civilizations.

It was widely reported that he had made postings on British nationalist websites.

But Norwegian authorities said there was no evidence of links to the English far-right.

Breivik derided a jail term as 'pathetic', and said acquittal or execution were the only reasonable outcomes, although the country does not have the death penalty.
TIMELINE OF A MASSACRE: THE DEADLY EVENTS OF JULY 22, 2011

Breivik's rampage began when eight people were killed after his car bomb exploded at the high-rise Norwegian government headquarters in Oslo at 3.26pm.

It left a dust-clogged square covered in twisted metal and shattered glass.

Police described it as an 'Oklahoma city-type' bombing, perpetrated by a home-grown assailant and using the same mix of fertiliser and fuel that blew up a building in the U.S. in 1995.

The bomb was packed into a panel truck outside the building. An agricultural supplier said Breivik bought six tonnes of fertiliser in the weeks before the explosion.

But as police battled to deal with the effects of the bomb, a much more deadly attack was about to begin 20 miles north-west of the capital.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz252D41IJ4

[Sam Fisher]

Good to see some Euros aren't completely inundated with the multikult. The more writers who say Breivik was right, the more people will come to accept the hard truth of the whole matter.

[Alex Linder]

harris banned for repeatedly posting stuff already posted, starting duplicate threads, not explaining what's in the link, misspelling and then insulting someone who points it out. go be an illiterate, ignorant hothead somewhere else.

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Originally Posted by Alex Linder

harris banned for repeatedly posting stuff already posted, starting duplicate threads, not explaining what's in the link, misspelling and then insulting someone who points it out. go be an illiterate, ignorant hothead somewhere else.

Not that I'm after anyone in particular but moderation is what WN needs, now.

[James Hawthorne]

“Within this decadence, Breivik is without doubt what Norway deserved, and what awaits our societies that won’t stop blinding themselves in denial,”

True words, I hope more White people understand this in the years ahead.

[N.B. Forrest]

“I’m one of the most hated French authors,” he told France Info on Monday. “It’s an interesting position that makes me an exceptional being.”

No backtracking, no cringing apology. He's got brass balls, that's for sure.