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Later he was active as an online commenter with anti-Islamic comments in various Norwegian online papers, but stopped posting as Jensen to blog as Fjordman, after a harsh comment from Anders Gjæver of ''VG''. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vg.no/nyheter/meninger/artikkel.php?artid=10097208 |title=Fjordmann lar masken falle |publisher=Vg.no |date=5 August 2011 |accessdate=2011-08-08}}</ref>
Later he was active as an online commenter with anti-Islamic comments in various Norwegian online papers, but stopped posting as Jensen to blog as Fjordman, after a harsh comment from Anders Gjæver of ''VG''. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vg.no/nyheter/meninger/artikkel.php?artid=10097208 |title=Fjordmann lar masken falle |publisher=Vg.no |date=5 August 2011 |accessdate=2011-08-08}}</ref>


In 2011, until his identity as the blogger Fjordman was revealed, Jensen lived and worked at a daycenter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv2.no/nyheter/innenriks/tar-sterkt-avstand-fra-soennens-holdninger-3552472.html |title= Tar sterkt avstand fra sønnens holdninger |publisher=tv2 |date= |accessdate=2011-08-10}}</ref><ref>Dagbladet, paper edition, 08.06.2011</ref>
In 2011, until his identity as the blogger Fjordman was revealed, Jensen lived and worked at a daycenter for the [[Mental retardation|mentally retarded]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv2.no/nyheter/innenriks/tar-sterkt-avstand-fra-soennens-holdninger-3552472.html |title= Tar sterkt avstand fra sønnens holdninger |publisher=tv2 |date= |accessdate=2011-08-10}}</ref><ref>Dagbladet, paper edition, 08.06.2011</ref>


==The Fjordman writings==
==The Fjordman writings==

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Peder Are Nøstvold Jensen
Born (1975-06-11) 11 June 1975 (age 48)
Ålesund, Norway[1]
NationalityNorwegian
Other namesFjordman (pseudonym)
Alma materUniversity of Oslo, University of Bergen, American University in Cairo[1]

Peder Are Nøstvold Jensen (born 11 June 1975) is a Norwegian[2] far-right[3][4] anti-Islamic[5][6][7][8] blogger who uses the pseudonym Fjordman.[9][10] 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[11] quoted him extensively in his manifesto. According to The Independent, Jensen "has written numerous screeds accusing Muslims of secretly planning to take over Europe."[3] Notably, he has argued that all Muslims should be deported from Europe[8] and advocated the "Eurabia" conspiracy theory in a self-published book entitled Defeating Eurabia.[12][13][14] According to the NRK, Fjordman is "considered a 'hero' among the bloggers and debaters constituting the new far right."[15]

Early life, education and work

Peder 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.[16] According to document.no, his father was a long-time activist in the Workers' Communist Party.[17]

He studied Arabic at the University of Bergen and at American University in Cairo.[18] 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."[16] After returning home, Jensen began writing commentaries to Norway's leading newspapers, but claims his controversial opinions were not published by the mainstream media.[16] After having a number of articles rejected, he decided to start his own blog instead, using the alias "Fjordman".[16]

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.[19]

The first known public writings from Jensen appear in Norwegian newspaper VG, and in regional paper Sunnmørsposten in 2000.[20][21] In these articles, Jensen criticized feminism, a topic he sometimes wrote about later under the pen names Norwegian Kafir and Fjordman.

Later he was active as an online commenter with anti-Islamic comments in various Norwegian online papers, but stopped posting as Jensen to blog as Fjordman, after a harsh comment from Anders Gjæver of VG. [22]

In 2011, until his identity as the blogger Fjordman was revealed, Jensen lived and worked at a daycenter for the mentally retarded.[23][24]

The Fjordman writings

Fjordman blogged on his own web log in 2005, giving it up at the end of the year.[25] Since then, he has "guested" in other blogs such as Brussels Journal,[5] 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 [he] has been a phenomenon on the internet,"[26] 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."[27] Fjordman denies that he is an "extremist", and sees himself simply as having "a strong dedication to truth."[9][28]

The 2011 attacks

Shortly after the bombing of Oslo, Fjordman asked his regular readers at the Gates of Vienna blog to "remember" that Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg 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 anti-Israeli, pro-Palestine youth-socialists".[29]

Anders Behring Breivik, the man accused in the 2011 Norway attacks, frequently praised writings of Fjordman,[30] citing him "extensively" in his manifesto[31] and naming him as his favourite author with similar views.[26][28][32] Key similarities in Behring Breivik manifesto and in some of the Fjordman's texts is that political opponents are referred to as traitors, [33] and that it would be impossible to enter into any compromise with the "leftists".[34] Although Jensen did not directly encourage terrorism, freelance journalist and author Øyvind Strømmen has claimed that he advocates an ideology where violence is the next logical step.[35]

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[d]" the fact that he was cited by Breivik.[27][36] The police confiscated his PC and questioned him,[37] saying they wanted to "investigate how [he] might have influenced the charged man".[38] In the weeks following the terrorist attacks, there was intense speculation regarding his identity.

The week after the attacks Jensen reported to PST, the Norwegian internal security police. A few days later later he was called in for questioning, and agreed to have his premises searched. The same day he revealed his identity in an interview with the newspaper Verdens Gang,[9][39] and proclaimed that he would never again blog under the pseudonym Fjordman.

The next day he did blog under that name,[40] describing how he had felt abused when the police searched through his house, a treatment he viewed as "politically motivated".[41][42] Prior to the search Jensen hid his computer in a safety deposit box at the central station in Oslo.[43] According to the police he had not intended to provide the computer, but changed his mind when he understood that the police would ask for a court order if he refused.[44]

Views

Jensen has written negatively about multiculturalism, the European Union and Islam. He is an outspoken believer in Bat Ye'or's concept of a "Eurabia" plot, which according to Marján and Sapir is "based on an extremist-right conspiracy theory, according to which Europe and the Arab states would join forces to make life impossible for Israel and Islamize the old continent."[45] Jensen wrote an essay titled "The Eurabia Code" in support of the concept, in which he says that "[T]he 'Jewish threat' in the 1930s was entirely fictional, whereas the 'Islamic threat' now is very real."[46] his book compiling his articles is titled Defeating Eurabia.[47] The Norwegian News Agency has stated that "Fjordman" "[is] considered a very central far-right and anti-Islamic voice in Europe."[48] Andrew Brown characterises him as "[an] Islamophobe who has for years been predicting civil war between Muslims and their neighbours".[5] The researcher Terje Emberland at the Norwegian Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities states that "Fjordman"'s views are based on a conspiracy theory, and that "Islamophobes like Fjordman believe they have seen through an evil power that will throw Europe into a civil war. Therefore, they argue that all means must be used to save the Western culture; implicit in this is the threat of violence."[8]

As solution Jensen has proposed the removal of all muslims from Europe, if needed with force.[49]

Jensen believes that the Western governments promoting the influx of non-white immigrants are demonstrating "white masochism", and that white people have the right to "preserve [their] heritage" and be "under no obligation to commit collective suicide".[50] He denies that this is a white supremacist view, stating that "Whites ... are currently the only racial group specifically denied the opportunity to defend their countries and heritage."[50]

Jensen also rejects accusations of racism, stating that "non-whites attacking whites" constituted "the vast majority of racist violence in Western nations".[50] He argues that "in Europe today, Marxists and Leftists of all kinds virtually control Western media and academia",[51] and that "White critics of mass immigration" are systematically demonized as racists and right-wing extremists.[52]

Jensen argues for the preservation of a native majority, including indigenous Europeans, and demands an extremely restrictive immigration policy, the dissolution of the European Union and the "rejection of multiculturalism". He argues that otherwise, Europeans would 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.[53]

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  2. ^ Dagens Nyheter: Fjordman träder fram ur anonymiteten
  3. ^ a b Jerome Taylor. "Unmasked: the far-right blogger idolised by Breivik". The Independent. Retrieved 2011-08-06.
  4. ^ Jamie Doward, Vicus Burger and James Burton. "EDL leader demanded debate on killing David Cameron and archbishop". The Guardian. Retrieved 2011-08-06.;
    August 3, 2011 (2011-08-03). "'Fear of foreigners' breeds extremists". Newsinenglish.no. Retrieved 2011-08-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link);
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    "Højreekstremist skriver på dansk netside". Dr.dk. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
  5. ^ a b c 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.
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  34. ^ Can we co-exist with the left? - Europenews.dk
  35. ^ Dennis Ravndal, Morten Hopperstad, Marianne Vikås, Jarle Brenna, Rolf J. Widerøe og Gordon Andersen Fjordman oppfordrer indirekte til vold 2011-08-05
  36. ^ 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
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  43. ^ Jarle Brenna, Mona Grivi Norman, Marianne Vikås, Morten Hopperstad, Hans Henrik Torgersen og Rolf J. Widerøe "«Fjordman» fjernet pc-en før avhør", Verdens Gang, 7 August 2011, retrieved 7 August 2011 Template:No icon
  44. ^ "Gjemte pc-en før politiavhør ", Nettavisen, 7 August 2011, retrieved 7 August 2011 Template:No icon
  45. ^ Marján, Attila (2010). Europe's Destiny. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 161. ISBN 0801895472. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  46. ^ "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.
  47. ^ Tim Lister, "Suspect admired bloggers who believe Europe is drowning in Muslims", CNN.com 27 July 2011, retrieved 29 July 2011.
  48. ^ "'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
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  50. ^ a b c "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).
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  53. ^ 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

Print publications

  • Defeating Eurabia. Bj Books, 2008. ISBN 9781409247159
  • Appendix in: Ole Jørgen Anfindsen. Selvmordsparadigmet: hvordan politisk korrekthet ødelegger samfunnet. [The Suicide Paradigm: How Political Correctness Destroys Society.] Oslo: Koloritt, 2010. ISBN 9788292395790

External links

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