Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Mass-killer Breivik Rails at 'Racist' Slur on Sanity

THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: NORWEGIAN self-confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has told a court that questioning his mental health amounted to ''racism'' aimed at delegitimising his extreme anti-Islamic views.

Breivik, who confessed to killing 77 people last year in shooting and bombing attacks, said had he been a ''bearded jihadist'', his mental health would not be questioned.

''If I had been a bearded jihadist, there would not have been a forensic psychiatric report at all,'' he said. ''But since I am a militant nationalist, I am subjected to gross racism. They are trying to delegitimise everything I stand for.''

Breivik, 33, maintains he is sane and wants to be either acquitted or handed the death penalty for killing eight people in a bombing attack outside government headquarters in Oslo and shooting dead 69 in a rampage on an island outside the capital.

Breivik said he targeted the youth summer camp run by the ruling Labour Party on Utoya island because of its pro-immigration policies, which he said are a threat to Norway. » | Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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