If you think the left is twisting Norway’s tragedy, check out the neo-Nazis

So is Anders Breivik mad, or just right-wing? His lawyer has decided to go with the former, presumably on the basis that the Norwegian courts will look more kindly upon someone who is doolally than on someone who is a shade to the right of centre. He is probably right about this. There is a (usually) unspoken subtext within the liberal media here that the two are in any case synonymous, an elision between these two states of mind, right-wing and doolally. This was borne aloft on the palpable triumphalism that it wasn’t a Muslim wot done it, as we all thought; quite the reverse, it was instead one of you lot who always thinks it is Muslims, one of you Islamophobes, with your irrational fears about Muslims. The subtext being that while machine-gunning lots of kids and raving on about the Knights Templar may be conventionally mad, it is in fact only a brief hop and a skip from holding the view that multiculturalism has failed and that Islam is a threat to western society.