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| − | [[Peder Jensen]] is a | + | [[Peder Jensen]] (born 11 June 1975, Ålesund, Norway) is a blogger who became prominent in the [[counterjihad]] movement under the pseudonym [[Fjordman]]. He announced in August 2011 he was abandoning the pseudonym, after his writings featured in the manifesto of the Utoya killer [[Anders Breivik]].<ref>Morten Hopperstad, Marianne Vikås, Rolf J. Widerøe, Dennis Ravndal, Hans Henrik Torgersen, Jarle Brenna and Gordon Andersen [http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/oslobomben/artikkel.php?artid=10089390 Breivik's political idol «Fjordman» emerges from anonymity], VG, 5 August 2011.</ref> He wrote 'The Fjordman Report' column for the far-right blog [[Gates of Vienna]]. |
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*[[Andrew Bostom]] has described Jensen as "my colleague, the perspicacious Norwegian essayist", and denounced the "hysterical, morally cretinous press and blogosphere" for compelling him to surrender his anonymity after the Oslo attacks.<ref>Andrew Bostom, [http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/08/05/fjordman-fairness-and-the-brevik-mass-murderer/ Fjordman, Fairness, and the Brevik Mass Murderer], ''Andrewbostom.org'', 5 August 2011</ref> | *[[Andrew Bostom]] has described Jensen as "my colleague, the perspicacious Norwegian essayist", and denounced the "hysterical, morally cretinous press and blogosphere" for compelling him to surrender his anonymity after the Oslo attacks.<ref>Andrew Bostom, [http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/08/05/fjordman-fairness-and-the-brevik-mass-murderer/ Fjordman, Fairness, and the Brevik Mass Murderer], ''Andrewbostom.org'', 5 August 2011</ref> | ||
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| + | *[[Anders Breivik]] cited Jensen's writings 111 times in his extremist manifesto.<ref>Morten Hopperstad, Marianne Vikås, Rolf J. Widerøe, Dennis Ravndal, Hans Henrik Torgersen, Jarle Brenna and Gordon Andersen [http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/oslobomben/artikkel.php?artid=10089390 Breivik's political idol «Fjordman» emerges from anonymity], VG, 5 August 2011.</ref> | ||
==Views== | ==Views== | ||
Revision as of 11:07, 13 September 2011
Peder Jensen (born 11 June 1975, Ålesund, Norway) is a blogger who became prominent in the counterjihad movement under the pseudonym Fjordman. He announced in August 2011 he was abandoning the pseudonym, after his writings featured in the manifesto of the Utoya killer Anders Breivik.[1] He wrote 'The Fjordman Report' column for the far-right blog Gates of Vienna.
Contents
Affiliations
- Gates of Vienna - contributor
- Jihadwatch.com - contributor
- Brussels Journal - contributor
Supporters and Admirers
- Andrew Bostom has described Jensen as "my colleague, the perspicacious Norwegian essayist", and denounced the "hysterical, morally cretinous press and blogosphere" for compelling him to surrender his anonymity after the Oslo attacks.[2]
- Anders Breivik cited Jensen's writings 111 times in his extremist manifesto.[3]
Views
On the Norwegian Government
Shortly after 2011 Norway attacks began, Jensen wrote at the Gates of Vienna blog describing the Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg as a "pathetic sucker for Islam" and the Workers' Youth League (AUF), many of those members were killed by Anders Breivik, as a "gang of anti-Israeli, pro-Palestine youth-socialists".[4]
External Resources
- Jerome Taylor, Unmasked: the far-right blogger idolised by Breivik, 6 August 2011.
Notes
- ↑ Morten Hopperstad, Marianne Vikås, Rolf J. Widerøe, Dennis Ravndal, Hans Henrik Torgersen, Jarle Brenna and Gordon Andersen Breivik's political idol «Fjordman» emerges from anonymity, VG, 5 August 2011.
- ↑ Andrew Bostom, Fjordman, Fairness, and the Brevik Mass Murderer, Andrewbostom.org, 5 August 2011
- ↑ Morten Hopperstad, Marianne Vikås, Rolf J. Widerøe, Dennis Ravndal, Hans Henrik Torgersen, Jarle Brenna and Gordon Andersen Breivik's political idol «Fjordman» emerges from anonymity, VG, 5 August 2011.
- ↑ Anders Giæver, "Fjordmann lar masken falle", Verdans Gang, 5 August 2011
