If Breivik is insane, then his insanity lies in taking fully to heart the widely fluctuating language of right wing Islamophobes who perceive an existential threat to our freedom and life, a Manichean vision of an uncompromising evil fighting a good that has to be equally unsparing in warfare.
Ludger Viefhues-Bailey
Ludger Viefhues-Bailey is Distinguished Professor Philosophy, Gender, and Culture and Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY. He is co-chair of the Philosophy of Religion section of the American Academy of Religion and the author of, most recently, Between a Man and a Woman? Making Sense of Christian Opposition to Same-Sex Love (Columbia University Press, 2010). Currently, Viefhues-Bailey works on a project entitled No Separation: How Religion Makes the A neutral term used to describe someone or something, such as in law, as non-religious in character. Learn more State (Columbia University Press, forthcoming).
