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18 Facts About Fjordman

1.

Jensen wrote anonymously as Fjordman starting in 2005, until he disclosed his identity in 2011.

2.

Fjordman has been active in the counter-jihad movement, which argues that multiculturalism, particularly Muslim mass immigration, poses an existential threat to Western civilization.

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Fjordman has promoted this belief in a self-published book titled Defeating Eurabia, and stated that "Islam, and all those who practice it, must be totally and physically removed from the entire Western world".

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In 2013, Fjordman was given financial support by the free speech organization Fritt Ord to write a book about the Breivik case.

5.

Fjordman is mainly associated with the blog Gates of Vienna.

6.

Fjordman wrote comments under full name in newspapers Aftenposten and Verdens Gang.

7.

Fjordman wrote on several blogs under the pseudonym "Norwegian kafir" in the early 2000s, but eventually took the pseudonym "Fjordman" in 2005.

8.

Fjordman blogged on his own web log in 2005, giving it up at the end of the year.

9.

Fjordman published a compilation of his articles in print via lulu.

10.

Norwegian historian Vidar Enebakk has criticised the way he thought Fjordman misused academic research for political purposes.

11.

Fjordman is an outspoken proponent of Bat Ye'or's conspiracy theory of "Eurabia", according to which Europe and the Arab states would join forces to make life impossible for Israel and Islamize the old continent.

12.

Fjordman argues that "White critics of mass immigration" are systematically demonized as racists and right-wing extremists.

13.

Fjordman argues that otherwise, Europeans would have to conclude that the governments have given up on their people, and that the laws and taxes which they impose on them are therefore illegitimate.

14.

In November 2015 Fjordman summarized his view of Islam as "a permanent world war":.

15.

Anders Behring Breivik, the far-right terrorist who committed the 2011 Norway attacks, frequently praised writings of Fjordman, citing him extensively in his manifesto.

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In particular, there is a 2008 article in the anti-Islamic blog The Brussels Journal where Fjordman focuses on a quote from Norwegian social anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

17.

Fjordman questioned whether he would ever return to blogging, citing his exhaustion from the time after the attacks.

18.

Fjordman in turn asked for donations from his supporters in what he dubbed a "Fjordman Relocation Fund".