Consequences of an attack
The bloody attacks in Oslo and Utøya have shaken Europe. The press praises Norway for its calm response to the drama and calls for greater awareness of the dangers of right-wing populism, as well as an open debate on integration.
Main focus of Tuesday, 17. April 2012
Anders Behring Breivik, who is accused of mass murder, pleaded not guilty at the start of his trial in Oslo on Monday, claiming he was ... » more
Anders Behring Breivik, who is accused of mass murder, pleaded not guilty at the start of his trial in Oslo on Monday, claiming he was acting in self-defence when he killed 77 people last July. Although the Norwegian constitutional state is duty bound to grant Breivik a fair hearing it must prevent him from using the trial as a political stage to spread his ideas, commentators write.
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Pražský deník - Czech Republic | Tuesday, 17. April 2012
For a democratic state it is no sign of weakness to give even someone who is clearly guilty of mass murder a trial, the liberal daily Pražský deník writes after the start of proceedings against Anders Behring Breivik: » more
For a democratic state it is no sign of weakness to give even someone who is clearly guilty of mass murder a trial, the liberal daily Pražský deník writes after the start of proceedings against Anders Behring Breivik: "Of course it seems completely absurd for a court to try someone who admits freely to having killed 77 people and shows not the slightest hint of remorse. The Norwegians made up their minds about this monster long ago. For them all that counts is that Breivik should remain behind bars. Nevertheless it is fundamental to a civilised legal system that the accused should be granted the right to defend himself. It may well be that dealing correctly with such a slaughterer highlights the weaknesses of the very system that he and others like him have attacked. But in fact democracy must be strong enough to deal even with such horrors in a routine, unbiased way."
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The Times - United Kingdom | Monday, 16. April 2012
Breivik's behaviour in the courtroom was provocative. He made aggressive gestures and showed no sign of remorse. The best course is to ignore his attempts at self-promotion, warns the conservative daily The Times: » more
Breivik's behaviour in the courtroom was provocative. He made aggressive gestures and showed no sign of remorse. The best course is to ignore his attempts at self-promotion, warns the conservative daily The Times: "Breivik would never gain public attention by normal political means for such poisonous sentiments. He must not get it by the expedient of mass murder. It would be an affront to the victims and a public danger in encouraging extremists with grievances to pursue them by similar means. There will be much soul-searching in Norway during this trial. The values of a distinctively tolerant society are vindicated in extending them to Breivik. But that is where obligations to him end."
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NRC Handelsblad - Netherlands | Monday, 16. April 2012
The trial against the presumed mass murderer Anders Breivik must not become a platform for spreading his ideas, warns the liberal daily NRC Handelsblad: » more
The trial against the presumed mass murderer Anders Breivik must not become a platform for spreading his ideas, warns the liberal daily NRC Handelsblad: "Above all, the question will be whether Breivik can use the court as a political and media stage. He feels no sense of remorse or empathy with his victims. He sees himself as a front-line soldier who killed dozens of social democratic youths out of 'self-defence' because they were in cahoots with Islam. ... The culprit will use the trial to further erode the legal system, no longer with weapons but with words. Breivik can spread the message of his war against Islam and multiculturalism in the hope that he will not remain a 'lone wolf', but will attract supporters to his crusade. This will demand the utmost from the judges, his lawyers, the next of kin, the politicians and the mass media. In Norway and internationally."
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Avvenire - Italy | Wednesday, 11. April 2012
A new psychiatric report presented on Tuesday concludes that the Norwegian attacker Anders Behring Breivik is not criminally insane, contradicting an earlier report. But no assessment can give a definitive answer, because heinous crimes always verge on pure insanity, writes the Catholic daily Avvenire before the start of Breivik's trial on April 16: » more
A new psychiatric report presented on Tuesday concludes that the Norwegian attacker Anders Behring Breivik is not criminally insane, contradicting an earlier report. But no assessment can give a definitive answer, because heinous crimes always verge on pure insanity, writes the Catholic daily Avvenire before the start of Breivik's trial on April 16: "Can someone who commits such an inhuman and condemnable crime really be declared of sound mind? ... No one pities Breivik. His attacks seem too perfectly planned, his lunatic motives too well thought-out. ... Nevertheless the dictates of humane behaviour tell us it is unjust to condemn someone who is not in full possession of his mental powers, and thus not fully responsible for his actions. This is a fine line, and external factors will always play a major part. Nevertheless we must not lose sight of the principle of humaneness."
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Aftonbladet - Sweden | Wednesday, 30. November 2011
The Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik has been declared insane in a psychiatric report presented on Tuesday. Breivik was in a "psychotic state" when he carried out the bomb attack and the massacre on the Island of Utøya that left a total of 77 dead, according to the report. But that changes nothing in the ideology behind the killing, the left-liberal tabloid Aftonbladet writes: » more
The Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik has been declared insane in a psychiatric report presented on Tuesday. Breivik was in a "psychotic state" when he carried out the bomb attack and the massacre on the Island of Utøya that left a total of 77 dead, according to the report. But that changes nothing in the ideology behind the killing, the left-liberal tabloid Aftonbladet writes: "No one believes that all those who are diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia want to kill Muslims and young social democrats. And no one believes that everyone who shares Breivik's world view suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. ... But Islamophobic hate ideology won't simply disappear just because Breivik will go to a hospital instead of a jail. This ideology existed before any shots were fired on Utøya, and it continues to exist. Our attention must not wane."
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Sme - Slovakia | Tuesday, 15. November 2011
The discovery of an extreme right-wing terrorist cell in the German city of Zwickau demonstrates that German society has underestimated the threat from the far right in recent years. Now the country is under shock, writes the liberal daily Sme: » more
The discovery of an extreme right-wing terrorist cell in the German city of Zwickau demonstrates that German society has underestimated the threat from the far right in recent years. Now the country is under shock, writes the liberal daily Sme: "When Anders Breivik set off bombs in Oslo and shot dozens of youngsters, German politicians and experts said right-wing extremism was under control in Germany. After September 11 the intelligence services concentrated on Islamic groups - with success. But now the Germans are stunned to find themselves facing a new form of Neonazi terror. ... The shock is all the greater because the authorities weren't able to uncover anything tangible for years, although the perpetrators were not altogether unknown to them. Now the country faces a debate on security and its relations with its Turkish community, which lost the most victims to the series of attacks. This debate could well be accompanied by diminished trust in politics and the state."
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Spiegel Online - Germany | Thursday, 4. August 2011
The new brand of terrorism like that in Norway was born through the Internet, which allows reality to be selectively reinterpreted by filtering information according to individual requirements, writes the blogger Sascha Lobo in his column for Spiegel Online: » more
The new brand of terrorism like that in Norway was born through the Internet, which allows reality to be selectively reinterpreted by filtering information according to individual requirements, writes the blogger Sascha Lobo in his column for Spiegel Online: "Search results on Google and news reports on the social networks are tailored to the needs of users. Facebook 'optimises' the information presented on the basis of presumed interest - and according to the social environment. The result is a seemingly universal but in fact highly individualised micro-sphere on the Internet. Dissenting opinions are nowhere to be found because they are hidden by algorithms. ... This reinterpretation of reality with digital means is not only the basis of web-based radicalism. It also engenders hermetic world views that are immune to all forms of criticism. In his manifesto Breivik arms himself against the accusation that he is a 'racist, facist Nazi monster'."
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La Vanguardia - Spain | Tuesday, 2. August 2011
Norway bid farewell to the victims of the Oslo and Utøya attacks with an hour of remembrance in parliament on Monday. The daily La Vanguardia is impressed with the tact and far-sightedness with which Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has dealt with the situation: » more
Norway bid farewell to the victims of the Oslo and Utøya attacks with an hour of remembrance in parliament on Monday. The daily La Vanguardia is impressed with the tact and far-sightedness with which Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has dealt with the situation: "The answer of the prime minister is 'to fight with the most powerful weapons in the world: with free speech and democracy we will resume our journey once more on July 22.' These are two concepts - plurality and respect for others - for fighting the criminal discourse of young Breivik. The ceremony in parliament was conducted with absolute calm and sobriety. ... Among the victims were two Muslims, Ismail and Bano, whom Stoltenberg paid tribute to in the Jamaat Mosque in Oslo. 'Ismail is Norwegian, Bano is Norwegian, I am Norwegian. We are Norwegians and I am proud of it', said the prime minister. Norway has had to go through a terrible test which it is completing with intelligence and far-sightedness by respecting everyone's beliefs. The political conflicts will resume, but the institutions have passed this test."
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De Volkskrant - Netherlands | Saturday, 30. July 2011
The attacks in Norway have triggered debates that reveal above all an unease with the aimless course Europe is taking, writes columnist Paul Brill in the left-liberal daily De Volkskrant: » more
The attacks in Norway have triggered debates that reveal above all an unease with the aimless course Europe is taking, writes columnist Paul Brill in the left-liberal daily De Volkskrant: "The unease can't be put down to the problems with Islam and immigration alone, although these are serious issues and can't simply be ignored. Even the euro crisis is just part of the explanation. What is pushing Europe off course more than anything else is the prevailing sense that it doesn't have control over the developments at the moment, that it has no control over its own destiny. This has little to do with Left or Right. ... It lacks above all solid leadership. ... It is being manipulated, not inspired. And the bland society in Brussels has no democratic legitimation that could bring about a breakthrough. Breivik's atricious act is a tragedy for the victims, their families, for Norway and for anyone who detests political violence. But no matter how much these murders cause us to exercise caution and reflect, in the end they remain an isolated event, an excess."
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Magyar Hírlap - Hungary | Tuesday, 26. July 2011
Following the attacks in Norway a debate has erupted about which ideology the suspected mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik espouses. It doesn't matter which ideology drove the attacker, the right-wing conservative daily Magyar Hírlap stresses: » more
Following the attacks in Norway a debate has erupted about which ideology the suspected mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik espouses. It doesn't matter which ideology drove the attacker, the right-wing conservative daily Magyar Hírlap stresses: "The Norweigan farmer Breivik killed 76 people. And behind this unspeakable horror another shimmers through: the debate about in the name of which ideology the atrocity was committed. The left-wing press writes about a right-wing radical, xenophobic attacker. The other side, the Right, on the other hand, see an anti-Islamic, Free Mason, Zionist murderer. And both sides see their fixed ideas confirmed, both sides are waving Breivik's mass murder around as if it were proof [of something]. ... My goodness, as if it matters! As if it ever mattered. As if it mattered one bit whether someone is killed for racist motives or on the basis of class warfare."
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De Volkskrant - Netherlands | Thursday, 28. July 2011
The Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders, who was named several times in the manifesto of the alleged killer in Norway Anders Breivik, has distanced himself from the attacks in Oslo and on Utøya. This is good but not enough, writes the left-liberal daily De Volkskrant: » more
The Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders, who was named several times in the manifesto of the alleged killer in Norway Anders Breivik, has distanced himself from the attacks in Oslo and on Utøya. This is good but not enough, writes the left-liberal daily De Volkskrant: "Freedom of expression is fortunately very strong in the Netherlands. But besides the legal limits there are also those dictated by a politician's sense of decency and responsibility. Anyone who talks of Islam as if it were a terrible natural disaster akin to a 'tsunami', who talks of 'multicultural elites waging a total war against their own peoples' runs the risk that some unthinking person will get the impression it's time for drastic measures against that Islam and these elites. ... Wilders does not share blame for the Norwegian drama. ... But he has an obligation to realise how many people hang on his every word. His words have a far-reaching impact. This entails great responsibility."
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România Liberă - Romania | Wednesday, 27. July 2011
After the attacks in Norway, society is focusing too much on the perpetrator and his motives, warns cultural journalist Christian Ghinea in the daily România Liberă: » more
After the attacks in Norway, society is focusing too much on the perpetrator and his motives, warns cultural journalist Christian Ghinea in the daily România Liberă: "This is precisely what the attacker wanted: that we should know who he is, where he comes from, what he thinks. He wanted to confuse us with his crazy ideas in the hope that many of us would take him seriously. It's human nature not to write off such a crime off as a mere coincidence. ... It's such a terrible thing that a person would shoot people at random on an island that we inevitably try to make sense of it. That we're talking about a psychopath here is not enough for us. We feel compelled to understand him. But we never will. It's an illusion, but we still feel the need to do it. However, by trying to we are doing exactly what the attacker wanted us to do. ... It's a dreadfully perfect vicious circle: we can only escape by trivialising the horror. ... But that would be inhuman. To remain human we must try to make sense of this atrocity. And psychopaths will profit from this attention in future: they know that we humans want to stay human."
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Frankfurter Rundschau - Germany | Tuesday, 26. July 2011
The suspected Norwegian attacker Anders Breivik is not a madman but a 20th century philosophical warrior who has arrived late, concludes historian Götz Aly in the left-liberal daily Frankfurter Rundschau: » more
The suspected Norwegian attacker Anders Breivik is not a madman but a 20th century philosophical warrior who has arrived late, concludes historian Götz Aly in the left-liberal daily Frankfurter Rundschau: "In totalitarian, one-dimensional philosophies, political utopias and pseudo-religions, the members of a particular group (a race, religion, class or people) are raised to the top of the human pyramid. The propagandists of such doctrines claimed that the group of supposedly superior people they wooed were homogeneous and therefore functioned harmoniously and were better than everyone else. The seductive rallying cry is: a high degree of internal homogeneity and complete isolation from the outside world. These 'superior' groups saw themselves as under threat from culturally 'inferior' enemies. ... A situation that justifies the use of all means. ... On Friday Breivik launched this - first - phase of what he sees as a battle to save a Christian, Islam-free and Marxism-free Europe."
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De Standaard - Belgium | Tuesday, 26. July 2011
It is dangerous for the conservatives to show any understanding for the attacker Anders Breivik, the Flemish daily De Standaard warns: » more
It is dangerous for the conservatives to show any understanding for the attacker Anders Breivik, the Flemish daily De Standaard warns: "Voices are emerging from the right-wing conservative corner that, while harshly condemning the violence, at the same time say it is impossible to hold an open debate about immigration and the Islamisation of Europe. They say nobody should be surprised if an individual draws extreme if reprehensible conclusions from this. This argumentation is both hypocritical and dangerous. Hypocritical, because it is only used with respect to a perpetrator who espouses a related ideology, while it is rejected if the perpetrator holds different views. And dangerous, because the assumption that violence, even if it is not tolerated, may be understood as the last resort for the repressed, undermines democratic society. Violence must always be condemned, by everyone in all circumstances without any qualification."
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Rzeczpospolita - Poland | Tuesday, 26. July 2011
The Norwegian authorities have classed the suspected attacker Anders Breivik as a Christian fundamentalist (this classification was not maintained by the Norwegian police later), editor's note, August 10, 2011), but the conservative daily Rzeczpospolita sees no similarities with Islamic terrorism: » more
The Norwegian authorities have classed the suspected attacker Anders Breivik as a Christian fundamentalist (this classification was not maintained by the Norwegian police later), editor's note, August 10, 2011), but the conservative daily Rzeczpospolita sees no similarities with Islamic terrorism: "Those who compare 'Christian fundamentalism' to 'Islamic fundamentalism' are committing a semantic abuse when they assert that both pose a fatal danger for Europe. Christianity does not tell its followers to kill and commit acts of terrorism against infidels - not even in its fundamental version. (Or is it fundamentalism to oppose same-sex marriage?) And neither Catholics nor Protestants preach hatred against Islam. There are, of course, exceptions - like the US Pastor Terry Jones, who has professed that the best method of defending the Christian faith is to burn the Koran. But people like Jones are ostracised and isolated by Christian politicians and journalists."
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung - Switzerland | Tuesday, 26. July 2011
As the search begins for the motives of the man who has confessed to the Oslo and Utøya attacks, the proximity of his ideas to those of right-wing populist parties is repeatedly being cited. That is a fallacy, however, the liberal-conservative daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung believes: » more
As the search begins for the motives of the man who has confessed to the Oslo and Utøya attacks, the proximity of his ideas to those of right-wing populist parties is repeatedly being cited. That is a fallacy, however, the liberal-conservative daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung believes: "Because our reason looks for patterns in an effort to understand, some people are connecting the mass murders in Norway with the rise of right-wing populism in the Nordic countries and its anti-Islamic watchwords. Yet isn't the attempt to explain things in this way almost akin to modern superstition. ... There is a gulf separating populism and extremism. It is therefore not surprising that Anders Behring Breivik turned away from the Norwegian Progress Party disappointed. Populist politics directed at the middle of society are always regarded by extremists as too tame and too willing to compromise. Ultimately what fanatics are interested in isn't politics - that serves simply as a cover - but the experience of violence. Perpetrating violent acts confers power and legitimises being a social misfit. Violent extremists see themselves as the chosen avantgarde who have the right to decide what is right for the masses even if this means death for the victims."
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Le Monde - France | Monday, 25. July 2011
Following the attacks in Oslo and on Utøya island the Norwegian government has announced its intention to promote more openness and democracy and is thus protecting its democratic values, the left-liberal daily Le Monde writes approvingly, and contrasts the Norwegian attitude with that of the United States, France and other European states: » more
Following the attacks in Oslo and on Utøya island the Norwegian government has announced its intention to promote more openness and democracy and is thus protecting its democratic values, the left-liberal daily Le Monde writes approvingly, and contrasts the Norwegian attitude with that of the United States, France and other European states: "There will be no special laws. [The Norwegians] are not trying to alleviate the country's pain by limiting democracy using the pretext of security. Criminal law is not being tightened up for short-term political purposes. Norway will remain a country of public freedom. The political elite in Oslo agrees that this is the attitude to adopt. It is the opposite of the way the United States behaved following 11 September 2001, the opposite of the view all too often espoused here that uses every bloody crime as a pretext for clamping down at the expense of freedom. In its tragedy Norway has remained true to itself. The country is reflecting, but it is not lying to itself, and is hence a model for our democracies."
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De Groene Amsterdammer - Netherlands | Monday, 25. July 2011
In the 'manifesto' he published on the Internet the confessed attacker Anders Behring Breivik describes himself as a modern-day Knight Templar in the battle against Islam and the elites, citing right-wing populists like Dutch politician Geert Wilders. These people are intellectual arsonists, writes the left-leaning weekly De Groene Amsterdammer: » more
In the 'manifesto' he published on the Internet the confessed attacker Anders Behring Breivik describes himself as a modern-day Knight Templar in the battle against Islam and the elites, citing right-wing populists like Dutch politician Geert Wilders. These people are intellectual arsonists, writes the left-leaning weekly De Groene Amsterdammer: "The leading European populists and Islam haters will probably try to depict him as an isolated madman. They will say that this was not what they meant when they talked of their 'total war'. Perhaps this is true. Perhaps a few of them will be prompted to reflect and realise that freedom of opinion is not a carte blanche for boundless hate fantasies, that words can weigh heavily and have political and moral consequences. But now the evil has been done. Europe's security forces must thoroughly clean out the right-wing extremist networks, and the voters must castigate the populists for the rubbish they talk, otherwise more such tragedies will happen."
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Dagens Nyheter - Sweden | Sunday, 24. July 2011
The massacre in Norway was an attack on our free, democratic society, writes the liberal daily Dagens Nyheter and calls on everyone to defend themselves: » more
The massacre in Norway was an attack on our free, democratic society, writes the liberal daily Dagens Nyheter and calls on everyone to defend themselves: "The man who spread fear and terror in Norway for several hours was driven by bitterness towards the open society. ... If we really want the terrorist in Norway to fail in his endeavour, we must do precisely what he is trying to prevent. We must become socially committed. If you have ever thought about joining a political organisation or about raising your voice on an issue you feel strongly about, then now is the time to do it. Hatred, extremism and intolerance are unusual organisms, because they breed best in a vacuum. The best way to kill them is with fresh oxygen, with arguments, open discourse, the free exchange of opinion. Terrorism's most important weapon is intimidation. ... If we want to stand up to it, we must come out of the background, raise our voices, state our opinion, argue tirelessly for openness, tolerance and freedom, and against threats, narrow-mindedness and xenophobia. We must not be afraid."
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Eesti Päevaleht - Estonia | Monday, 25. July 2011
The Norwegian attacker and his political declarations should not be given too much attention, warns the daily Eesti Päevaleht, if only because of possible imitators: » more
The Norwegian attacker and his political declarations should not be given too much attention, warns the daily Eesti Päevaleht, if only because of possible imitators: "Did the murderer of Norway achieve his goal? If he derives a perverse satisfaction from the sight of blood, that doesn't cast him as a hero behind bars. If he was looking to become famous and to secure the attention of the media, like the majority of school murderers before him, then one should note that this attention wanes quickly. And the quicker we forget the name of this person, the better. A murderer does not deserve to have his vanity pandered to. Hopefully we won't have to read the murderer's memoirs at some point in the future. He is a person trying to prove himself in his own invented world because he can't cope with the real world. The job of the media is to ensure that he doesn't become a model for some new monster."
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Hospodářské noviny - Czech Republic | Monday, 25. July 2011
The mass murders committed by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway are proof in the eyes of business paper Hospodářské noviny that Islamism is not the only danger: » more
The mass murders committed by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway are proof in the eyes of business paper Hospodářské noviny that Islamism is not the only danger: "Europe has been deprived of the common illusion that it only has to defend itself against external enemies, that it is only the Islamists who will stop at nothing to destroy our world. The suppressed reality that any kind of extremism is dangerous, irrespective of its religious, ethnic or national origin has hit us with brutal force. ... Breivik may have been a crazy loner but this kind of craziness doesn't come from nowhere. Everywhere in Europe right-wing extremists are on the advance, claiming to defend national values. For Europe this means two things: the security authorities must re-analyse the nature of the risk looming over us. And the political parties should be more aware of people's discontent with the European project and the multicultural society."
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Die Presse - Austria | Monday, 25. July 2011
The suspected attacker Anders Behring Breivik posted his 1,500-page manifesto outlining his racist convictions on the Internet. These statements are marked by the same unease about immigration and other cultures that underlies commentaries posted by other people on the web, the liberal conservative daily Die Presse notes: » more
The suspected attacker Anders Behring Breivik posted his 1,500-page manifesto outlining his racist convictions on the Internet. These statements are marked by the same unease about immigration and other cultures that underlies commentaries posted by other people on the web, the liberal conservative daily Die Presse notes: "Among those who give vent to their feelings [on the Internet] there are many who in the real world lead an honest, conventional existence. One should trust that violent excesses like those of Oslo and Utøya will provoke a certain degree of reflection. To denounce people who can't cope with the social changes that immigration and the removal of cultural boundaries involve as incendiaries of terror will not solve the problem. One can only go back to business as usual. But the issue at the top of the agenda should be how we can bring the debate about the chances and risks posed by our new social realities out of the aggressive anonymity of the virtual world and back into the realm of political discourse."
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