orwegian
mass killer Anders Behring Breivik hailed India’s Hindu nationalist
movement as a key ally in a global struggle to bring down democratic
regimes across the world.
‘2083: A European Declaration of Independence’ lays out
a road map for a future organisation, the Justiciar Knights, to wage a
campaign that will graduate from acts of terrorism to a global war
involving weapons of mass destruction – aimed at bringing down what
Breivik calls the “cultural Marxist” order.
India figures in a remarkable 102 pages of the sprawling
1,518-page manifesto. Breivik’s manifesto says his Justiciar Knights
“support the Sanatan Dharma movements and Indian nationalists in
general”. In Section 3.158 of the manifesto, he explains that Hindu
nationalists “are suffering from the same persecution by the Indian
cultural Marxists as their European cousins”.
“Appeasing Muslims”
The United Progressive Alliance government, he goes on,
“relies on appeasing Muslims and, very sadly, proselytising Christian
missionaries who illegally convert low-caste Hindus with lies and fear,
alongside communists who want total destruction of the Hindu faith and
culture”.
Even though Hindus who are living abroad “get an eagle’s
view of what’s happening in India, Indian Hindu residents don’t see it,
being in the scene”.
Breivik’s manifesto applauds Hindu groups who “do not
tolerate the current injustice and often riot and attack Muslims when
things get out of control” but says: “this behaviour is nonetheless
counterproductive”. “Instead of attacking the Muslims, they should
target the category A and B traitors in India and consolidate military
cells and actively seek the overthrow of the cultural Marxist
government.”
“It is essential that the European and Indian resistance
movements learn from each other and cooperate as much as possible,” he
concludes. “Our goals are more or less identical.”
List of websites
Breivik lists the websites of the Bharatiya Janata
Party, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the National Volunteers’
Organisation, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and the Vishwa
Hindu Parishad as resources for further information.
The manifesto pledges military support “to the
nationalists in the Indian civil war and in the deportation of all
Muslims from India”. This is part of a larger campaign to “overthrow all
western European multiculturalist governments” and evict “US military
personnel on European soil”. India is one of several countries –
including Russia, the Philippines, China and Thailand – where Breivik
hopes his successors will fight.
He uses the work of historians KS Lal and Shrinandan
Vyas to point to the threat posed by Islam to Europe, saying their work
has established that millions of Hindus were killed in a genocide during
1000-1525 AD. NS Rajaram, another historian, is quoted as saying India’s
“political class have been so debilitating that they continue to live in
a state of constant fear”.
Breivik’s manifesto envisages that this future
organisation would hand out a “multi-cultural force medal” which would
be awarded for “military cooperation with nationalist Hindu, Buddhist,
Jewish and/ or atheist forces (non-European) on Hindu, Buddhist or
Jewish territory. These efforts must be directed against jihadi or
cultural Marxist forces, personnel or interests”. The medals would
include a “Liberation of India Service Medal” which would be awarded for
“assisting Indian nationalist forces to drive out Islam from Indian
territory”.
Breivik’s Indian-made combat badges, revealed by The
Hindu as having been contracted to a workshop in Varanasi, were the
first in this series of battle decorations.
His manifesto acknowledges that lives will be lost in
the war and calls for the organisation to “provide and subsidise a
standard edition of the Justiciar Knight tombstone” for those who fell
in battle. Since a “European tombstone carver, preferably specialised in
traditional tombstone architecture, is likely to charge more than
5,000-10,000 euro in order to create the stone”, Breivik suggested that
“producers in low-cost countries should be contacted for the task of
creating one or multiple stones in the future”.
He acknowledged that this “might sound hypocritical
considering the fact that cultural conservatives in general oppose
Indian or Chinese membership in [the] WTO and the fact that we generally
prefer insourcing as many industries as possible. However, conserving
our funds is a central part of our struggle”.
Even though Breivik’s knights would fight shoulder to
shoulder with Hindu nationalists, his vision for their rights in a
post-revolutionary Europe is limited. The manifesto envisages the
creation of a “servant class” made up of non-Muslim individuals from
Bangladesh, Pakistan and India.
“During their stay,” the manifesto envisages, “they will
work 12 hours a day for the duration of their contracts (six or 12
months) and are then flown back to their homelands.” “These
individuals,” it goes on, “will live in segregated communities in
predefined areas of each major city.”