Peder Jensen

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Peder Nøstvold 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.

Background

According to the

Jensen has a masters degree in culture and technology from the University of Oslo, and has studied Arabic at the University of Bergen and the American University in Cairo. In his master's dissertation he wrote about censorship and blogging in Iran.[1]

Affiliations

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 referred to Jensen as his biggest inspiration, cited 40 of his articles 111 times in his extremist manifesto and exchanged many emails with him between 2009-2010.[1]

Views

Oslo attacks and alleged contrition

Following the Oslo attacks when Jensen's identity was revealed he was quick to distance himself from Breivik and claim that he was 'horrified' by the attacks. But no such contrition is evident in the writings as he live blogged the event for the far-right Gates of Vienna website. Indeed, as the attacks began, Jensen was blaming the victims, describing the Workers' Youth League (AUF), many of whose members were killed by Anders Breivik, as "an anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian crowd of young Socialists" and the Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg as a "pathetic sucker for Islam".[3][4]

External Resources

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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, Verdans Gang, 5 August 2011.
  2. Andrew Bostom, Fjordman, Fairness, and the Brevik Mass Murderer, Andrewbostom.org, 5 August 2011
  3. Baron Bodissey, Terror Attack in Central Oslo, Gates of Vienna, 22 July 2011
  4. Anders Giæver, "Fjordmann lar masken falle", Verdans Gang, 5 August 2011