Christchurch: the myth of The lone Wolf

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The terrorist attack of Christchurch has been carried out according to the current state of the investigation, a single offender. To refer to him as a “lone Wolf”, belies the breeding ground of right-wing terror.

The Norwegian Terrorist Anders Breivik is regarded as a prototype of the lone terrorist wolves. 22. In July 2011 he murdered 77 people. “Europe is becoming more and more familiar with attacks by extremists, but Breivik’s actions made him the most lethal attacker from the lone Wolf type (“deadliest lone wolf attacker”) in the history of the continent,” wrote the U.S. magazine Newsweek in April 2016, about Breivik.

The alleged perpetrator of Christchurch, which was only a few hours after the terrorist attack on the two mosques for the first Time as a lone Wolf, revered in the Norwegian deep.

“No group action ordered me to”

The investigations are at an early stage. At the present time is not yet even clear whether the author of the terror accused, Brenton Terrant the 74-page ‘Manifesto’ itself, he gave just before the fact on social media and via Email to the office of the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern sent. It says: “I am not a direct member of an organization or group, although I have donated to many of the nationalist groups, and even more in contact. (…) No group action told me to, this is a decision I have taken.”

At the same time, the author emphasizes: “The total number of people in these organisations is million, the total number of groups of thousands.” The one who presents himself consciously as a single offender, apparently, but as part of a larger movement. A lone Wolf?

In the darkest hours, we are looking for people safety. There is a contactor gives us distance, if we call a terrorist who has committed an unimaginable and inhumane crime, as a lone Wolf than a pack animal, leaving his pack to execute his cruelty.

Anders Behring Breivik is considered to be the prototype of the lone wolf

The responsibility of the ideological hinterland

“The idea that terrorists operate alone, it allows us to solve the connection between an act of violence and its ideological Hinterland,” the British Journalist Jason Burke in the Guardian of 30. March 2017 on the point. Burke has written several books on the IS-Terror and Al-Qaeda. The theory of the lone Wolf encourages the human desire and the idea that “the responsibility for the violent extremism of an Individual rests solely with the Individual.”

The terrorists of the Modern age may not belong to in any case, a terrorist group that is clearly identified as Al-Qaeda, the self-proclaimed Islamic state or the so-called national socialist underground (NSU). However, their radicalisation in the social climate in which they live. The Internet and social media allow terrorists today an unprecedented global networking, and dissemination – to the Live-Stream of your Tat on Facebook.

Terrorists are products of their time. As a global societal Trend has established itself in the past few years, a rise of intolerance, fueled by a policy that is becoming increasingly populist. This yearning polarized for simple answers. Different and Foreign ways of thinking to the enemy. The extremism is being established in the midst of society, is strengthened by the digitalization of human life.

The social component of the terrorism

Real relationships are replaced by virtual ones. But also virtual contacts have real consequences. David Sonboly, the on 22. July 2016 murdered in a Munich shopping centre, nine people moved intensively in a virtual, alien enemy networks. As of the date of his deed Sonboly deliberately chose the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attack by Anders Breivik. Virtually, there was praise from like-minded people. Also jihadist bombers who struck in Europe, as alleged IS a single perpetrator had immediately prior to their acts of virtual contacts IS members in Syria and in Iraq. As Anis Amri, the assassin from the Berlin Breitscheidplatz.

“Terrorism is not something you do by yourself, but very social,” writes Guardian Journalist Jason Burke. “People are interested in ideas, ideologies, and activities, also for dire, because other people are interested in them.” It comes to be known and imitators inspire.

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A bloodbath, the new Zealand will change

The Australian Brenton should be Terrant actually the author of the 74-page paper, which appeared in connection with the terrorist attack of Christchurch, and then he relates it explicitly to Breivik and to the American Dylann Roof, of the on 17. June 2015, nine African Americans in a Church in Charleston, Breivik shot and killed: “I have read the writings of Dylan Roof, and many other, but truly inspired me ( … ).”

Breivik showed in the courtroom the Hitler-greeting, Terrant molded in his first appearance in court on Saturday, the thumb and the index finger of his right Hand to the circle and spread the other three fingers – a common sign among white right-wing extremists.

Breivik and Terrant had demonstrable contact with other extreme Right-wing In the country and abroad. The Real and the virtual. Brenton Terrant has travelled a lot in Europe, too. On his now deleted Facebook profile, he shared rather extreme ideas and articles on the extreme right of Europe, including at least a report from the Deutsche Welle about extreme right-wing soldiers in the Bundeswehr, which are apparently brothers in the spirit.

Breivik and Terrant see himself as a modern Crusader in the fight for the preservation and the purity of a allegedly threatened the white, European race. Both consider mainly Muslims, perceived as “invaders”, the pursuit of world domination.

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