InDefence

[7] Both scholarship and literature has discussed how the "we are not terrorists" campaign was not a declaration of Icelandic solidarity with the many people around the world oppressed by the so-called "War on Terror" of the first decade of the twenty-first century, but implicitly rather a bid to situate Icelanders and Britons as people who ought to be standing in solidarity against the spectre of the Islamist terrorist.

[8] Corresponding, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl's novel Illska comments that um allt land, uppí á jöklum og úti á sjó, stillti fólk sér upp með letruð spjöld og lét taka myndir: “Mr.

The role of InDefence in the political ascendancy of Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson has been linked to the post-Crash turn of the Icelandic Progressive Party towards populism.

[11] Notable members included the academic and novelist Eiríkur Bergmann and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson.

Sigmundur Davíð's rise to political importance was significantly boosted by the InDefence campaign, and he later became Iceland's prime minister.

A satirical photograph supposedly showing an "Icelandic terrorist". During the Icesave dispute , the United Kingdom was accused of using anti-terrorism legislation to freeze the assets of Icelandic bank Landsbanki . Thousands of photographs similar to this one were prepared for the protest site indefence.is.