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| Born | (1975-06-11) June 11, 1975 (age 49) |
| Pen name | Fjordman |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Alma mater | University of Oslo |
Peder Are Nøstvold Jensen (born 11 June 1975) is a Norwegian far-right Islamophobic blogger and conspiracy theorist who uses the pseudonym Fjordman. He has been active in the "counterjihad" movement, which argues that multiculturalism, particularly Muslim immigration, poses a threat to Western civilization. The Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik quoted him extensively in his manifesto. According to The Independent, Jensen "has written numerous screeds accusing Muslims of secretly planning to take over Europe." Among other things, he has argued that all Muslims should be deported from Europe and promoted the "Eurabia" conspiracy theory.
Early life, education and work
Peder Nøstvold Jensen grew up in Ålesund, in what he describes as a "Socialist Left-family", and was for a short period in his youth a member of Socialist Youth, the party's youth organisation. According to document.no, his father was a long-time activist in the Workers' Communist Party.
He studied Arabic at the University of Bergen and at American University in Cairo. According to himself, the turning point in Jensen's life came when he was a student in Cairo during the 9/11 attacks. According to Jensen, "Western media claimed no Arabs were happy about the attacks. This is not true. Some of my neighbors celebrated the event with a spontaneous cake party, and felt what had happened was great." After returning home, Jensen began writing commentaries to Norway's leading newspapers, but claims his controversial opinions were not published by the mainstream media. After having a number of articles rejected, he decided to start his own blog instead, using the alias "Fjordman".
Jensen was an observer for the Norwegian ministry of foreign affairs and part of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron from early 2002 until mid 2003.
According to Verdens Gang, Jensen also has a master's degree in culture and technology from the University of Oslo. His master thesis, published in 2004, had the title Blogging Iran – A Case Study of Iranian English Language Weblogs.
The first known public writings from from Jensen appear in Norwegian newspaper VG, and in regional paper Sunnmørsposten in 2000. In his first two known articles Jensen criticizes feminism, an topic he sometimes writes about later under the nicknames Norwegian Kafir and Fjordman.
Later he`s active as an online commenter with anti-islamic comments in various norwegian online papers, but stops posting as Jensen to blog as Fjordman, after a harsh comment from Anders Gjæver of newspaper VG.
The Fjordman writings
Fjordman blogged on his own web log in 2005, giving it up at the end of the year. Since then, he has "guested" in other blogs such as Brussels Journal, Gates of Vienna and Islam-watch.org. Fjordman published a compilation of his articles in print via lulu.com in November 2008. Ole Jørgen Anfindsen, writer and editor at Honestthinking.org, has said of Fjordman that "for six to seven years has been a phenomenon on the internet," and considers him "world famous in the sense that his articles have received millions of hits on the internet, and that thousands of people read him regularly." Fjordman himself estimates that he has published "between one and two million words" under the pseudonym Fjordman on the Internet, and notes that in addition to sensitive and controversial topics, he also writes about subjects ranging "from astrophysics to the history of chocolate and beer." He denies that he is an "extremist", and sees himself simply as having "a strong dedication to truth."
His articles are widely quoted in various blogs and right-wing sites critical of Islam, such as Global Politician, FrontPageMag, Jihad Watch, Brussels Journal, Faith Freedom International, Little Green Footballs, Free Republic and Daily Pundit among others, and quite often printed verbatim.
He has also been cited in books and articles as a representative of anti-Islamic viewpoints. He contributed an appendix to the 2010 book by Ole Jørgen Anfindsen, Selvmordsparadigmet – hvordan politisk korrekthet ødelegger samfunnet (lit. "The Suicide Paradigm – how political correctness destroys society").
The 2011 attacks
Shortly after the bombing of Oslo, Fjordman asked his regular readers at the Gates of Vienna blog to remember that Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian prime minister, was as much a "pathetic sucker for islam as it is humanly possible to be". When the shooting at Utøya became known a few hours later, Fjordman described the AUF youngsters under attack as a «gang of antiisraeli, propalestine youth-socialists».
Anders Behring Breivik, the man accused in the 2011 Norway attacks, frequently praised writings of Fjordman, citing him "extensively" in his manifesto and naming him as his favourite author with similar views.
In response to learning the identity of the terrorist, Fjordman strongly distanced himself from Breivik, whom he referred to as a "violent psychopath", and said he "intensely dislike" the fact that he was cited by Breivik. The police confiscated his PC and questioned him, saying they wanted to "investigate how might have influenced the charged man". In the weeks following the terrorist attacks, there was intense speculation regarding his identity, until he revealed his identity in a newspaper interview.
Views
Fjordman's topics include Islam and democracy, multiculturalism, the European Union and Western culture. He is an outspoken proponent of Bat Yeor's Eurabia theory and wrote an essay titled "The Eurabia Code" supporting it, in which he says that "he 'Jewish threat' in the 1930s was entirely fictional, whereas the 'Islamic threat' now is very real." his book compiling his articles is titled Defeating Eurabia. The Norwegian News Agency has stated that Fjordman " considered a very central far-right and anti-Islamic voice in Europe." Andrew Brown characterises him as " Islamophobe who has for years been predicting civil war between Muslims and their neighbours".
Fjordman was a major ideological inspiration of the massmurdered , and a few hours after the shooting of the peacefull children and youth from the moderate social democratic youth organization was known, he called them "a gang of anti-Israeli and pro-Palenistian youth-socialists". When disclosed as Anders Nøstvold Jensen Fjordman condemmed Breivik strongly in public
Fjordman believes that the Western governments promoting the influx of non-white immigrants are demonstrating "white masochism", and that white people have the right to maintain:
a place of our own where we can prosper, live in our own major cities without having to fear violence because of our race, and without being stripped of our heritage in order to placate people who moved to our countries of their own free will. We have the right to preserve our heritage and are under no obligation to commit collective suicide or serve as a dumping ground for other countries. It has nothing to do with animosity towards others.
He denies that this is a white supremacist view:
Guarding your identity is . . . a universal human trait, not a white trait. In fact, it is less pronounced among whites today than among anybody else. Only whites cling onto the idea of universalism, everybody else sticks with their own ethnic group. . . . It is not about white supremacy, . . . it is about equality. Whites are currently the only racial group specifically denied the opportunity to defend their countries and heritage. . . . The idea that every white person who desires self-determination and self-preservation is a racist, a white supremacist and a Nazi is nonsense and should flatly be rejected.
He argues that current policy is in fact tantamount to "reversed Nazism, since it is based on the assumption that whites should have fewer rights than others and can be colonized and ethnically cleansed with impunity".
Fjordman rejects accusations of racism:
I asked . . . whether it should be considered “racism” if native Swedes resist being turned into a minority in their own country, which they will become within a few decades if current levels of immigration continue.
According to him, "non-whites attacking whites" constitutes "the vast majority of racist violence in Western nations". He associates this with socialism. In his view, "he West did not win the Cold War. We haven't defeated Socialism," and "in Europe today, Marxists and Leftists of all kinds virtually control Western media and academia". The Western media treats Muslims who attack Western civilization with more lenience than whites who seek to defend themselves:
White critics of mass immigration are systematically demonized as racists, bigots, “right-wing extremists” or Fascists and Nazis. . . . Muslim groups who support terrorism and want to smash Western civilization are called moderates in Western media, yet we are labeled as extremists if we resist being turned into a minority in our own country.
Fjordman argues for the preservation of a native majority, including indigenous Europeans. In his 2007 essay "A European Declaration of Independence", he demands, among other things, an extremely restrictive immigration policy, the dissolution of the European Union and rejection of multiculturalism and says that otherwise, Europeans will have to conclude that the governments have given up on their people, and that the laws and taxes which they impose on them are therefore illegitimate.
Print publications
- Defeating Eurabia. Bj Books, 2008. ISBN 9781409247159
- Appendix in: Ole Jørgen Anfindsen. Selvmordsparadigmet: hvordan politisk korrekthet ødelegger samfunnet. Oslo: Koloritt, 2010. ISBN 9788292395790
Master's paper
See also
References
- Dagens Nyheter: Fjordman träder fram ur anonymiteten
- ^ Jerome Taylor. "Unmasked: the far-right blogger idolised by Breivik". The Independent. Retrieved 2011-08-06.
- Jamie Doward, Vicus Burger and James Burton. "EDL leader demanded debate on killing David Cameron and archbishop". The Guardian. Retrieved 2011-08-06.
- http://www.newsinenglish.no/2011/08/03/fear-of-foreigners-breeds-extremists/
- ^ Andrew Brown, "Anders Breivik is not Christian but anti-Islam: Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik's ideology is fuelled by a loathing of Muslims and 'Marxists', his writing spurred by conspiracy theories", Comment is Free, The Guardian blogs, 24 July 2011, retrieved 29 July 2011.
- ^ http://www.dagogtid.no/nyhet.cfm?nyhetid=2077
- ^ Astrid Meland, "Peder Nøstvold Jensen (36) står fram som Fjordman: Anders Behring Breiviks idologiske helt ble avhørt i går. I dag står han fram i VG", Dagbladet 5 August 2011, retrieved 5 August 2011 Template:No icon
- Morten Hopperstad & al. (August 5, 2011). "Breivik's political idol «Fjordman» emerges from anonymity". Verdens Gang.
- Dennis Ravndal, Morten Hopperstad, Marianne Vikås, Jarle Brenna, Rolf J. Widerøe og Gordon Andersen. "- «Fjordman» oppfordrer indirekte til vold ", VG 5 August 2011, retrieved 6 August 2011 Template:No icon
- http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/08/06/nyheter/utoya/internett/fjordman/17574687/
- http://www.vg.no/nyheter/meninger/artikkel.php?artid=10097208
- ^ "Vendepunktet kom da egyptiske naboer feiret 11/9". Verdens Gang. August 5, 2011. Template:No icon
- http://www.document.no/2009/12/suf_og_akp_40_ar_i_konstant_ba/
- "Peder Jensen er drapsmannens forbilde "Fjordman"". Verdens Gang. August 5, 2011. Template:No icon
- Fjordman var UD-observatør på Vestbredden
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- ^ Ingeborg Moe and Lars Martin Gimse, "Inspirert av anonym blogger: En anonym norsk blogger ser ut til å ha vært en viktig ideologisk inspirasjon for den nå terrorsiktede Anders Behring Breivik", Aftenposten 24 July 2011, updated 25 July 2011 Template:No icon
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- The Migration Flood , Fjordman article on Global Politician
- List of Fjordman articles, FrontPageMage
- Fjordman: Jihad and the Collapse of the Swedish Model, Fjordman article on Jihad Watch
- List of Fjordman articles, Brussels Journal
- List of Fjordman articles, Faith Freedom International
- Fjordman: Native Revolt, Fjordman article on Little Green Footballs
- Fjordman: Globaloney Comes To America, Fjordman article on Daily Pundit
- Matt Carr, "You are now entering Eurabia," Race & Class 48.1, July 2006, pp. 1–22 (Sage abstract): "These views can be found in dozens of websites, such as the far-right Norwegian website, 'The Fjordman.'"
- John M. Klein, Jr., "Eyes to See: The Foothold of Jihadi Underpinnings,", Master's thesis, (U.S.) Joint Forces Staff College, Joint Advanced Warfighting School, June 15, 2007, pp. 22, 25. (pdf)
- Robert Spencer, Religion of peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't, Washington, DC: Regnery, 2007, ISBN 9781596985155, p. 10.
- Robert A. Kahn, "Are Muslims the New Catholics? Europe's Headscarf Laws in Comparative Historical Perspective," University of St. Thomas Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-26 (September 2, 2008) (Social Sciences Research Network abstract).
- "Selvmordsparadigmet". Litteraturhuset (in Norwegian). Retrieved 1 September 2010.
- Anders Giæver, "Fjordmann lar masken falle", VG 5 August 2011, retrieved 5 August 2011 Template:No icon
- Abigail R. Esman, "What Really Lies Behind The Oslo Attacks – And Why It May Happen Again", blogs, Forbes.com, 2011-07-23
- Jamie Doward, Vicus Burger, James Burton, , guardian.co.uk, 2011-07-30
- Andrew Berwick, 2083 - A European Declaration of Independence 22 July 2011 (pdf)
- Gunnar Thorenfeldt, "Sier han har møtt Breiviks hemmelige norske idol: Amerikansk forfatter hevder han har hatt tett kontakt med den hemmelige bloggeren 'Fjordman'", Dagbladet 27 July 2011, retrieved 28 July 2011 Template:No icon
- Hopperstad/Vikås/Widerøe/Ravndal/Torgersen/Brenna/Andersen, "Breivik's political idol Fjordman emerges from anonymity", VG Nett, 5 August 2011, retrieved 5 August 2011
- Jegtvig/Skille/Sandvik/Andersen, "Fjordman avhørt i Oslo - Fjordman questioned in Oslo", Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, 4 August 2011, retrieved 4 August 2011 Template:No icon
- Morten Hopperstad , Marianne Vikås , Rolf J. Widerøe , Hans Henrik Torgersen , Jarle Brenna , Dennis Ravndal og Gordon Andersen "Her er drapsmannens forbilde «Fjordman» - Here is the murderer's icon 'Fjordman'", Verdens Gang, 5 August 2011, retrieved 5 August 2011 Template:No icon
- "The Eurabia Code", September–October 2006; see also the whole article in one page, in Fjordman, "Swedish Welfare State Collapses as Immigrants Wage War", Brussels Journal, 28 March 2006, reprinted in Defeating Eurabia.
- Tim Lister, "Suspect admired bloggers who believe Europe is drowning in Muslims", CNN.com 27 July 2011, retrieved 29 July 2011.
- "'Blogget, men er ikke Fjordman': Blogg-grunnleggeren som publiserte Anders Behring Breiviks innlegg, opplever det som belastende at han roste nettstedet" (Norwegian News Agency), Stavanger Aftenblad 23 July 2011, retrieved 28 July 2011 Template:No icon
- VG.nett, 5 August 2011, retrieved 7 August 2011,
- ^ "Age of White Masochism", Gates of Vienna 9 October 2007, retrieved 31 July 2011 Cite error: The named reference "Age of White Masochism" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- "My Farewell to Little Green Footballs", Gates of Vienna, 14 November 2007.
- Fjordman, "How the West Lost the Cold War", Brussels Journal, 25 August 2007.
- Fjordman, "The Cold War Never Ended", Brussels Journal 2 November 2009.
- "The White Race: Going Gently Into That Good Night", Global Politician 20 August 2007, retrieved 31 July 2011.
- Øyvind Strømmen, "Ingen einsam ulv: Utøyaterroristen er ikkje berre ein einsam fanatikar. Han er eit resultat av eit ideologisk bakteppe, noko hans eige manifest avslører", Bergens Tidende 26 July 2011, retrieved 29 July 2011 Template:No icon
External links
- Fjordman's blog (articles from 2005)
- The Fjordman Files archived at Chromatism.net, categorized by date
- The Fjordman Files archived at Martin Jay, Klein Verzet.com, categorized by subject
- Breivik's political idol «Fjordman» emerges from anonymity - I am Fjordman, says Peder Jensen
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