"Breivik quotes several statements I made in a paper to a conference in New Zealand in February 2006, titled The Adversary Culture: The Perverse Anti-Westernism of the Cultural Elite," Quadrant magazine editor Keith Windschuttle told The Australian newspaper.
The speech was delivered at the Summer Sounds Symposium, at Punga Cove in the Marlborough Sounds, on February 11, 2006.
The session was chaired by political commentator Matthew Hooton, who said he didn't recall details of the paper, but noted that "the Summer Sounds symposiums became a bit too right wing for my taste".
The symposiums were founded in 1997 by author Agnes-Mary (Amy) Brooke, and gatherings of academics, journalists, MPs, and business leaders were held annually in the Marlborough Sounds for a decade. The most recent was held near Nelson, in March last year.
Breivik is expected to face charges over the mass murder of mainly teenagers. He detonated a bomb in Oslo that killed eight people and gunned down at 68, mainly young people, at a holiday camp at the weekend.
He lifted extensive blocks of text from other writers to compile his European Declaration of Independence, and said of the historian: "Australian writer Keith Windschuttle, a former Marxist, is tired of that anti-Western slant that permeates academia".
Quotes he attributed to the Australian included:
"For the past three decades and more, many of the leading opinion makers in our universities, the media and the arts have regarded Western culture as, at best, something to be ashamed of, or at worst, something to be opposed.
"The scientific knowledge that the West has produced is simply one of many ways of knowing. Cultural relativism claims there are no absolute standards for assessing human culture. Hence all cultures should be regarded as equal, though different.
"The plea for acceptance and open-mindedness does not extend to Western culture itself, whose history is regarded as little more than a crime against the rest of humanity. The West cannot judge other cultures but must condemn its own."
Breivik said Windschuttle urged his audience to remember the unique elements of Western culture.
"The concepts of free enquiry and free expression and the right to criticise entrenched beliefs are things we take so much for granted they are almost part of the air we breathe," he quoted from the paper. "We need to recognise them as distinctly Western phenomena. They were never produced by Confucian or Hindu culture."
Without this concept there would have been no Copernicus, Galileo, Newton or Darwin.
Windschuttle told The Australian that this was a "truncated version" of his paper "but it is not inaccurate or misleading".
"I made every one of these statements and I still stand by them," he said.
"Having read them several times again, I am still at a complete loss to find any connection between them and the disgusting and cowardly actions of Breivik," he said.
Windschuttle said it would be a "disturbing accusation" if people though that he had ever used deliberately provocative language that might have caused Breivik to take up a rifle and shoot unarmed teenagers in cold blood.
But he noted that the manifesto also quoted several other Australians approvingly, including former prime minister John Howard, former Treasurer Peter Costello, and Catholic Cardinal George Pell.
