Fjordman Unmasked

The Norwegian anti-Muslim blogger and major Breivik influence was Peder Jensen, who had studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo. Contrast his response to Breivik with the American right's:

The blogger said he had come forward to clear his name and would now go into hiding in fear of his safety. "I don't wish to be associated with Breivik and his horrible actions," he said.

Jensen ran his "Fjordman" blog for less than a year in 2005 but continued to write on other sites critical of Islam and has called the religion an "irrational cult based on fear". He said in a blog he has never called for violence and told VG he would never write under the "Fjordman" pen name again. "I have read about the unspeakable things Anders Behring Breivik did at Utoeya," he wrote in a blog posted on July 26. "Any person doing such a thing is a monster."

Ghaffar Hussein punctures the "Eurabia" myth that Fjordman helped propagate. Charles Cameron explains why it's important to look at Breivik's intellectual influences.