| Muslims and Islamophobia | |
| 27 Jul 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com | |
| Breivik's Demographic Warfare and the American Right's Demographic Winter | |
By Sarah Posner
In my previous post, I noted how Anders Breivik's "demographic warfare" appears to be informed by the American Christian right's hysteria over "demographic winter," citing the work of Kathryn Joyce.
A closer examination reveals another shared belief: the significance of the 1683 Battle of Vienna.
As Mark Juergensmeyer points out in his feature piece for Religious Despatches:
The title of Breivik’s manifesto, which was posted on the internet on that day, is "2083"—the date Breivik suggested would be the culmination of a 70-year war that began with his action. Yet 70 years from 2011 would be 2081; why did he date the final purge of Muslims from Norway to be two years later, in 2083? I found the answer on page 242 of Breivik’s manifesto, where he explains that on 1683 at the Battle of Vienna, the Ottoman Empire’s military was defeated in a protracted struggle, thereby insuring that most of Europe would not become part of the Muslim empire. The date in Breivik's title is the 400th anniversary of that decisive battle, and in Breivik's mind he was re-creating the historic efforts to save Europe from what he imagined to be the evils of Islam.
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