Immigration anxiety must be openly discussed

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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