Norway shooting: Glenn Beck compares dead teenagers to Hitler youth
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So let me understand this: A neoNazi right wing mentally challenged wing nut goes on rampage killing neoNazi holiday campers; but where is the part about the false flag attack orchestrated by the world banking community to start World War III .... Glenny babies efforts to troll for viewers is getting desperate.
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Norway shooting: Glenn Beck compares dead teenagers to Hitler youth
Glenn Beck, the leading Right-wing American broadcaster, has prompted outrage after comparing the teenage victims of the Utoya Island massacre to the Hitler Youth.
Beck said that the Labour party youth camp on the island, where 68 people were murdered, bore "disturbing" similarities to the Nazi party's notorious juvenile wing.
Beck, a multimillionaire darling of the Tea Party movement, said on his nationally-syndicated radio show: "There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler youth. I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing."
Torbjørn Eriksen, a former press secretary to Jens Stoltenberg, Norway's prime minister, described the comment as "a new low" for the broadcaster, who has frequently been forced to apologise for offensive remarks.
"Young political activists have gathered at Utoya for over 60 years to learn about and be part of democracy, the very opposite of what the Hitler Youth was about," he told The Daily Telegraph. "Glenn Beck's comments are ignorant, incorrect and extremely hurtful."
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, a Washington-based campaign group, said the remark by Beck, a free agent after being forced out of the Fox News channel earlier this year, was "absolutely disgusting".
Beck's controversial statements and conspiracy-filled rants have made him one of the most divisive figures in US politics and media in recent years.
Last year he said he regretted calling Barack Obama a "racist" with a "deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture". He later apologised for mocking Mr Obama's young daughter Malia.
In February he apologised to Reform Judaism, a group that campaigns for the modernisation of the Jewish faith, after comparing them to "radicalised Islam".
But he refused to apologise in May after mock-vomiting on his live TV show following a cancer-awareness advert starring a nude Meghan McCain, the daughter of Senator John McCain.
Beck said that Miss McMcCain, whose father survived cancer before running for the US presidency, should "wear a burka" because she was apparently unattractive.
Despite Beck expressing surprise that political movements would hold camps for children, followers of his 9/12 Project – which aims to "recapture the spirit of the day after America was attacked" – have this summer been doing just that.
Organisers of the "vacation liberty schools" in several states told the Daily Telegraph how they taught children as young as eight a Tea Party-endorsed curriculum spanning religion, economics and political principles.
Beck, a free agent after being forced out of the Fox News channel earlier this year
[Blunderov] Not even the despicable FAUX TV can tolerate him! What a maroon as WW might say.
More seriously, ISTM that Fortress Europe finds itself upon the horns of the dilemma of religious tolerance. How do you tolerate the intolerable? What to do if your own religion demands that you do so? In order to circumnavigate these shoals it might be possible to make laws about what religions might and might not expect to be able to practice, but this would undermine idigineous religion too. This sugests to me that the obvious answer is to tolerate no religions at all (except maybe for the puposes of massive taxation). Imagine a UN resolution equating religion with racism! That would cut the Gordian Knot right through IMO.
If we are to make sense of the horrific terror attack that shook Norway this past Friday, we must try to place it in the context of recent European politics. That context, in turn, points to one fact more than any other: over the last decade, Europeans have grown increasingly obsessed with the threat supposedly posed by foreigners, immigrants, and Muslims.
All over the continent, far-right parties have been celebrating remarkable successes. Establishment politicians, once keen to display their enlightened attitudes towards outsiders, have honed their populist rhetoric against foreigners. Books about the doom that would ensue if ethnic Europeans should become minorities in their own countries—like Germany Does Away with Itself, Thilo Sarrazin’s runaway success last year—have topped bestseller lists week in and week out.
Naturally, some commentators have expressed concern about these developments. But both in newsrooms and on the streets they mostly have been decried as fools whose obsession with multiculturalism is a naïve remnant of a more innocent era. Nothing wrong with their good intentions, Europeans of all nationalities and social strata intone, but they are sadly inapplicable to the 21st century, when islamofascism in general, and hordes of unwashed Muslims in particular, are threatening the European way of life.
Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted responsibility for the death of seventy six innocents, is undoubtedly a madman. But madmen can be spurred on by anything in their environment they are able to construe as legitimation or encouragement—and, in recent years, there was plenty of that to go around in Europe.
Beck, a free agent after being forced out of the Fox News channel earlier this year
[Blunderov] Not even the despicable FAUX TV can tolerate him! What a maroon as WW might say.
More seriously, ISTM that Fortress Europe finds itself upon the horns of the dilemma of religious tolerance. How do you tolerate the intolerable? What to do if your own religion demands that you do so? In order to circumnavigate these shoals it might be possible to make laws about what religions might and might not expect to be able to practice, but this would undermine idigineous religion too. This sugests to me that the obvious answer is to tolerate no religions at all (except maybe for the puposes of massive taxation). Imagine a UN resolution equating religion with racism! That would cut the Gordian Knot right through IMO.
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