It came to pass. Within three days of the attack, Wikipedia already noted that Brievik's code name in the allegedly restored knight Templar cell was "Sigurd Josalfari":"King Sigurd the Crusader." Other members of the organization also took names based on important Crusaders from their representative countries. The English Templar, for example, is code-named "Richard the Lionheart." There is skepticism that this group actually exists, but I suspect the intention was to put the idea out there, in the hopes that others would create it... As Europe's economy swirls into the abyss, as conditions grow more desperate, should we expect the rise of cells of radical Christian terrorists? The counterparts of groups like al Qaeda in every way except their religious affiliation? It seems like a scenario out of a dystopian graphic novel.
It came to pass. Within three days of the attack, Wikipedia already noted that Brievik's code name in the allegedly restored knight Templar cell was "Sigurd Josalfari":"King Sigurd the Crusader." Other members of the organization also took names based on important Crusaders from their representative countries. The English Templar, for example, is code-named "Richard the Lionheart." There is skepticism that this group actually exists, but I suspect the intention was to put the idea out there, in the hopes that others would create it... As Europe's economy swirls into the abyss, as conditions grow more desperate, should we expect the rise of cells of radical Christian terrorists? The counterparts of groups like al Qaeda in every way except their religious affiliation? It seems like a scenario out of a dystopian graphic novel.
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