Fjordman

Fjordman is the pseudonym of Peder Are Nøstvold Jensen (born 11 June 1975), a Norwegian blogger. Under this assumed name, he wrote from 2003 Islamophobic article in right-wing blogs, where he described the immigration of people of Muslim faith in European countries as a threat to the western world and widespread assumptions about inevitable impending civil war in Europe. He became famous because of the 2011 terrorist attacks committed in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik, who in his pamphlet in 2083: more widely adopted texts of Fjordman A European Declaration of Independence. Jensen distanced himself three days after the attacks of Breivik and his actions.

Life

Education and work

Peder Are Nøstvold Jensen was born in 1975 and grew up in the coastal town of Ålesund in Møre og Romsdal on. He graduated from the University of Oslo from a study at the Center for Technology, Innovation and Culture ( TIK ). In his master thesis he dealt with the issues of censorship and blogging in Iran. Then he studied Arabic at the University of Bergen and at the American University in Cairo. By his own account he experienced as an eyewitness, as parts of the Egyptian people celebrated the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This experience had shocked him and his attitude to Islam changed radically.

His military service completed in Jensen Setermoen in the community Bardu (Northern Norway). Since then, he has claims to have no weapon more. He described himself as " not a good soldier."

Between early 2002 and mid-2003, Jensen worked on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as TIPH observers in Hebron in the West Bank. He told of having lived for several years in the Middle East. Recently (August 2011) was Jensen employee of a disability center in Oslo.

Activities as a blogger

Jensen's journalistic work began in 2003 with a contribution to the debate on Islam for the tabloid Verdens Gang. Since he was " censored " by the mainstream media felt by its own account, he began first under the name Norwegian kafir: blogging ( German Norwegian kaafir ). Under the pseudonym Fjordman Jensen ran his own blog in 2005; According to the website owner posted this to May 2007 over a million visitors access. He also wrote as a guest on other blog sites such as Brussels Journal or Gates of Vienna since 2005. In November 2008 he published a compilation of his articles as a book self-published. For years, published the Islamophobic Politically Incorrect Blog Posts Fjord Mans in German language. His articles have also frequently been cited by the operators of other politically right-wing blog sites, he was designated as a " Islam expert".

Anders Behring Breivik, the confessed assassin of the 2011 Norway, Fjord Mans praised settings and called him his " favorite writers ". In his manifesto 2083: A European Declaration of Independence, Breivik took over long passages in his writings. In one of the texts adopted by Fjordman, Breivik also a complete interview of the German Islam critic Henryk M. Broder is included. Fjordman took this in a guided via e- mail interview with Spiegel Online position and distanced himself from the attacks. Even compared to the Norwegian press, he described it as " extremely unpleasant " to have been described by Breivik as an idol. Breivik had expressed a desire to meet him in late 2009, which he was not interested. On 4 August 2011, the police in Oslo Jensen interrogated as a witness in connection with the Breivik attacks. On the same day he gave up his anonymity and known in an interview with the newspaper Verdens Gang to be the same as Fjordman. Jensen announced to stop writing after the attacks under this pseudonym and no longer appear in public for an indefinite period.

In October 2011, Jensen began to write again. Due to the measures provided for in the Norwegian press laws right of reply, he managed to publish articles in newspapers such as Verdens Gang, Aftenposten and Dagbladet. In November 2011 a selection of his texts appeared in German translation in book form. In January 2012, he gave an interview in which he, inter alia, explained why he decided to publish again: His next book, The Curious Civilization " What was true before Breivik, remains even after Breivik true.", will be released soon.

Policy status

Fjordman wrote about Islam, democracy, multiculturalism, the European Union and the Christian West. He's opponents socialist tendencies and a follower of the theories of Gisèle Littman, who has written several Islamophobic works under the pseudonym Bat Ye'or in which they prophesied a colonized by Muslims " Eurabia ". Fjordman solidarity with anti-Islamic movements in Germany as the right-wing party Pro Cologne.

He says that he belongs to no political party. In the elections to the Storting he had once chosen the Arbeiderpartiet, but later supported the Fremskrittspartiet, most recently in the parliamentary elections in 2009. Norwegian journalist Øyvind Strømmen arranged Fjord Mans ideology with reference to modern theories of fascism fascism to and gives concrete its assessment on the basis of fascism concept of Roger Griffin, "In short, Fjordman neatly fits the definition of, fascism '. He is a neo- fascist ideologist. "

Writings

• Fjordman: Europe defend. Ten texts. Edited by Martin Lichtmesz and Manfred Kleine- Hartlage, Edition Antaeus, Schnellroda 2011