Norway massacre: Breivik manifesto attempts to woo India's Hindu nationalists Norway massacre suspect Anders Behring Breiviks

manifesto invites Jewish groups i n Israel, Buddhists in China, and Hindu nationalist groups in India to contain t he spread of Islam. Temp Headline Image This image shows Anders Behring Breivik from a manifesto attributed to him that was discovered Saturday, July 23. Breivik is a suspect in a bombing in Oslo and a shooting on a nearby island which occurred on Friday, July 22. (Scanpix/AP) By Ben Arnoldy, Staff writer posted July 25, 2011 at 2:50 pm EDT New Delhi The Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik writes in a manifesto that he acq uired some 8,000 e-mail addresses of cultural conservatives not just across Europe but North America, Australia, South Africa, Armenia, Israel, and India ensuring scrutiny of anti-Muslim groups far beyond Europe. Mr. Breiviks primary goal is to remove Muslims from Europe. But his manifesto inv ites the possibility for cooperation with Jewish groups in Israel, Buddhists in China, and Hindu nationalist groups in India to contain Islam. "It is essential that the European and Indian resistance movements learn from ea ch other and cooperate as much as possible. Our goals are more or less identical ," he wrote. In the case of India, there is significant overlap between Breiviks rhetoric and strains of Hindu nationalism or Hindutva on the question of coexistence with Mus lims. Human rights monitors have long decried such rhetoric in India for creatin g a milieu for communal violence, and the Norway incidents are prompting calls h ere to confront the issue. RELATED Man accused in Norway attacks acted with intent of terror

Like Europes mainstream right-wing parties, [Indias] BJP has condemned the terroris m of the right but not the thought system which drives it. Its refusal to engage in serious introspection, or even to unequivocally condemn Hindutva violence, h as been nothing short of disgraceful, writes senior journalist Praveen Swami in t odays edition of The Hindu. Liberal parties, including the Congress, have been equally evasive in their criti que of both Hindutva and Islamist terrorism, he adds. Last week, Breivik detonated a bomb in downtown Oslo and opened fire at a youth camp of the ruling political party, killing at least 76 people. He reportedly sa id in court today that the rampage was marketing for his manifesto, 2083: A Europea n Declaration of Independence. The manifesto Breiviks 1,500-page manifesto calls preserving traditional European culture by cu tting it off from immigration from the Muslim world. While he is against setting up a Christian theocracy, he envisions a revival of Christendom, where the chur ch helps unify Europeans around a shared cultural identity. In the manifesto, Breivik references India dozens of times. He included a five-p age paper written by a man named Shrinandan Vyas that argues the Muslim invaders committed a genocide of Hindus in the Hindu Kush region of present-day Afghanista n. Efforts to track down Mr. Vyas have failed.

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Invasions by Muslims into South Asia did include bloodshed, but use of the term g enocide is highly controversial. But for B.P. Singhal, a retired BJP member of Parliament and noted Hindutva writ er: There was a wholesale massacre. He goes on to cite dramatic drops in the Hindu populations in Pakistan and Bangl adesh since Partition of British India figures that Breivik also gives in his ma nifesto. Mr. Singhal and Breivik share a critical belief: Muslim majorities alwa ys subjugate religious minorities. I was with the shooter in his objective, but not in his method, says Singhal of Br eivik. If you want to attract the nations attention, surely you need to do somethi ng drastic and dramatic, but not killing people. But Singhal goes on to say that sometimes violence must be fought with violence. He says people upset by violent responses to Islam must "go one step more to fi nd why [Breiviks] violence came in. Why was that western Christian talking in bad terms about Islam? He says its because of violent verses in the Koran that contin ue to be preached in an intolerant way. Singhal said India and Norway should deny voting rights to foreigners or "foreig n religionists," meaning Muslims. That would solve the bane of democracy, says Sin ghal, where politicians who are strict with groups like Muslims are voted out. Breivik also proposed curbing voting rights within democracy, and both men view their ideological opponents in the media and universities as communists. Singhal has not corresponded with Breivik, nor does he see much need for allianc es to counter Islams spread: Every country will have to find its own solutions, he says. Knights Templar Its unclear as he interactions ozen regions in group, which he of yet who Breivik reached out to in India and what the depth of t was. His manifesto says he is among 12 knights fighting within a d Europe and the US, but not India. Its not known yet whether this calls the Knights Templar Europe, actually exists.

Breivik describes months of tedious work farming high quality e-mail addresses off the Internet by friending networks representing all spheres of cultural conserva tive thought on Facebook, then acquiring members e-mail addresses. The goal appear ed to be to generate a list to send his manifesto to just prior to his rampage. Officials in Indias Home Ministry would not comment on whether they are tracking down Breiviks e-mails to India. Mr. Swami, who has sources inside Indias intellige nce community, told the Monitor that India does not have the capacity to do thos e traces easily until Norway provides information from Breiviks computers. Ive been trying to ask around if anyone knows about a substantial correspondence o f any kind and havent come up with anything, says Swami. The Internet has made it easier for extremists to follow one another internation ally, he points out. But, historically, European and Indian far right groups hav e not worked with each other nor do they have much practical reason to cooperate now. I think irrespective of the Norwegian [attacks], the government needs to keep a m uch closer eye on the activities of the Hindu fundamentalist groups and crack do wn on hate speech whether its Hindu, Muslim, or otherwise, says Swami.