Chapter
Terror unexpected: Oslo and Utøya, 22 July 2011
The 22/7 Commission report
Islamophobic discourse and Islamophobia’s mainstreaming
Norway and the rise of the far right
Fighting words, fighting deeds
What is a Muslim? Norwegian Muslims between categorization and self-identification
Muslims and everyday discrimination
Narratives of victimhood: the rise of Salafism in Norway
IslamNet: puritan-activist Salafis
The Prophet’s Ummah: angry brown men
A centre which cannot hold?
3 The Fear of Small Numbers: On Reading a Terrorist Tract
A declaration of independence
Behring Breivik’s main influences
‘Fjordman’s’ identity revealed
The properties of language
The construction of Islam and of Muslims
A pro-Zionist anti-Semite
Why social democrats, and not Muslims?
The Progress Party and the mainstreaming of Islamophobic discourse in Norway
The rhetoric intensifies: 2010 to 2011
The role of other parties
5 Dusklands: The Eurabia Genre
The letter to Lady Liberty
Connecting the US–Euro dots: Bruce Bawer
Introducing ‘Eurabia’ to Norwegian television viewers
Truth, lies and a documentary
Instrumentalizing white heat
The PP’s parliamentary motion on the hijab
Freedom of speech in the era of the internet
Norwegian conceptions of the public sphere
The first Commission on Freedom of Expression and The Dangerous Freedom of Expression, 1993
The Commission on Freedom of Expression, 1996–99
Habermas, rationality and modern public spheres