Bomb and terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik (red top) leaves the courthouse in a police car in Oslo on July 25, 2011, after the hearing to decide his further detention. (Photo: Jon-Are Berg-Jacobsen / AFP / Getty Images)
There was a time when a blond, blue-eyed nationalist looking to violently rid Europe of its 'alien' immigrant population could be reliably assumed to hate Jews. It's no longer quite that simple.
Anders Behring Breivik insists, in his rambling 1,500-page manifesto released on the day of his confessed rampage that killed 76 Norwegians, that he's no Nazi, despite expressing some sympathy for what Hitler had been trying to achieve. Instead he styles himself a latter-day warrior of the Knights Templar, vanguard force of the medieaval Christian Crusades that briefly claimed the Holy Land for Christendom and made Jerusalem's streets run ankle deep with the blood of those they saw as usurpers. Even then, it's worth remembering that the blood spilled by the Crusaders was both Muslim and Jewish.
(PHOTOS: Explosion and Shooting Rock Norw"
There was a time when a blond, blue-eyed nationalist looking to violently rid Europe of its 'alien' immigrant population could be reliably assumed to hate Jews. It's no longer quite that simple.
Anders Behring Breivik insists, in his rambling 1,500-page manifesto released on the day of his confessed rampage that killed 76 Norwegians, that he's no Nazi, despite expressing some sympathy for what Hitler had been trying to achieve. Instead he styles himself a latter-day warrior of the Knights Templar, vanguard force of the medieaval Christian Crusades that briefly claimed the Holy Land for Christendom and made Jerusalem's streets run ankle deep with the blood of those they saw as usurpers. Even then, it's worth remembering that the blood spilled by the Crusaders was both Muslim and Jewish.
(PHOTOS: Explosion and Shooting Rock Norw"
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